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Heavy Frosts and Great Damage 10 Fruits.
ST. LOUIS, No, April . The peach and
grape crop has been seriously damaged in
this section, owing to heavy fall of frost
last Saturday night. =, ..--.,,sgy
William Marsh, engineer of the steamer
Belle, of Alton, has been taken to New
Orleans, charged with the burning of the
Belle. h.sef = ~ ~. - ~ ,,,s.,r
LOUISVILLE E, KY, April 25.-This see
ton has been visited by heavy frost Ice
an-ineh thick. -Fhe fruit crop is seriously
damaged. -ue-.FYFew
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 25.-The Ava-
lqnche says the two negroes ehargedwith
destroying part and 'stealinga part Of the
papers from the Sheriff's Office, at Dres-
den, Mississippi, were hung by body of
masked men. efuFT -
NEW York, April 25.-Thee ,Sun says a
gigantic, fraud has, been discovered; and
asserts that Victor Place, late French Con-
sui, with one Hector Chanyiten and some
other prominent personages, made q large
amount of money illegally from the French
Government by exaetiony on commission
and overcharges on arms and provisions
purchased from this country. One opera
ton in beef alone, as said by the St1s net
ted nearly $1,000. The total contracts
amounted to over $4,000, 900, of which the
two per cent. commission levied SUM adds
from fifty to three hundred per cent. profit
as charged on large amount of guns pur-
chased of the United States Government,
and that profit of S250,090 was made on
thirty-fve batteries of Napoleon guns
alone. Place has been relieved by Nj.
Belloigue McBughas, late Consul at
Charleston. A committee of inquiry has
been ordered to investigate all the transac-
tiols.gyn % 31uoa 3.9l1oa6 , f'A't Is'A'4Sy
NEW YORK, April Pa special from
New Orleans at nine last night says: The
Bonnet Care crevasee is still extending,
and twelve miles of the Jackson railroad
have been been washed away. The Presi-
dent and engineer of the road viii set out
to-,ligflt Tor the scene of disaster.
1880, Il. M.-The engineer of the Bonnet
sends the following dispatch We have of
necessity abandoned the idea of closing
the crevasse, and are combining our efforts
to.cheeking its extension. am satisfied
our eXertions in this direction will be sue
cessful, and the further spread of this
dreadful calamity will be avoided. have
used our tug to assist some of the distressed
planters to remove their household afurnf-
ture. Two,other crevaSses, 0one lat Point
Monoire, west of Baton Rouge, and one on
the McDonough estate, below the city, are
reported, -, ...-,.F, I,,..s, 2
NEW YORK, April 25.- Barber, the al
legged fugitive forger, will be returned by
Prussia upon the Presidents extradition
warrant. "5-f ~ NJ"
Col. b. T. Morgan has been appointed
Assistant Postmaster here
The, agents of the Southern railroad lines
have received private dispatch from New
Orleans announcing that communication
with the North, by railroad, is temporari-
ly severed by the Bonnet Care crevasse.r
The embankment of the jackson Road for
fourteen miles, together with the telegraph
lines along the track, were entirely swept
away by the by the flood. The entire
country as far as. Lake aPontchartraina is
submerged. rf4- g-,- .-i,q ffs 3v -fss tlsfeiT
AT ii o'clock last night the crevasse was
about 900 feet wide About 5000 men,
including the railroad laborers, are at work
upon the entertainments, and hopes are en-
tertained that q further widening of the
breach may, be prevented. ~ HATTIE
Boston, April 25.-Debris found in the
bay indicates certainly that the bark, Mer-
down by an outward-bound vessel and
lost.
NEW, ORLEANS, April 25.AThere was o
heavy thunder storm yesterday A house
in ST. Cloud street was struck with light
ming, instantly killing Mrs. ,Gense and
seriously injuring Mrs. Helmke. = Il
The tug boats, Aspinwall and Admiral,
racing OH Tie TlNeF yeSUeTudy, ran lIllO u.
harbor police boat, Knocking it to pieces
and instantly killing officer Douglass.
Three other officers were saved by SWIM
ming ashore. -~9fRt -
The latest from the Bonnet Care Gre
vase reports the break in the levee one
hundred feet wide, but nothing official
has been received from that point
The water is this morning over the track
of the Jackson road between the thirteenth
and fourteenth mile posts, at Kennors.
Volunteers have turned out to throw up
works to stop the water from coming from
therear. gss &nTft tlssff" H9'FGs3 1T
Chief Engineer Thompson has Just re.
ceived official information that the Wal
lace crevasse, st. Johns, has been effectu-
ally stopped. -
AIoire and Where -crevasses have both
been closed. isoz f3e4 .5eH'ss 81
Men and material have gone to Me-
Doneugh crevasse. ,7s s1919s
Nothing has been received from Poverty
Point to-day. $500 .ssii1oa 5
Gen. Thompson asserts that there is no
danger of the city being oyerfiowed.
>. 5. Conant, whose Life of Henry j.
raymond will soon appear, is at present
Ine managing editor of Harper's Weekly.
George w. Curtis writes most of the editO-
rails, and the papers running through Har-
per's Bazaar entitled manners ON the
Road.p1 Mr. Curtis is hard worker II,
addition TO his other duties he has heen
reading the religious services for se5rraI
months in the Unitarian Church ON Staten,
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