The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-31
TeIegraphed to the Daily Crescent.


TeIegraphed to the Daily Crescent. .
IBy Mail from MObilel
BALr1MoRE Oct. 26-The sales of Cotton at New York
to-day reach 1909 bales chiefly at $685. Fair louisiana
and Upland quoted at Ga Flour rather on the Decline with
light sales No alteration in the rates for Corn Wheat
Government Stocks advanced "a Ct. Both Sugar and Mo
lasses are dull.
Second Dispatch
BALTIMORE, Oct 27.-,rhe New York Cotton market i.
rather easier than yesterday. The business to-day mp
1000 bales OF Flour some 10 600 bbs sold chiefly S. %
bb Fully 600 bushels Corn sold at IS to 7c per busbe
Government Stocks down quarter per cent to-day
Sugar is dull with light sales.
Third Dispatch.
COLUMBUS. Oct 2s.-Northern mail 'arnved-no Of
Importance Ford undoubtedly elected. Charleston Courier
has Liverpool dates which you received last night New
York Money Market the 23dTreasuy Notes 1OS010375
Skies, loan 1910 lO45S Sterling 61a0s2l. Cleared
ship Ellen, from Boston ship Arkansas, from New York
Sales Cotton Charleston 25th 200 good middlng at so.
Photographed forthe Baltimore SUM-
CINCINNATI Oct. 22.-The clerk Of the Court
has issued certificates of election to two Wing rep
resentatives from the city of Cincinnati. There are
now in the district composed of the city and Hamil
ton county, seven delegates holding certificates OF
election, while five is the number entitled TO seals.
The seats of four Wings in the House will be con-
ted and the probability is that this branch OF
fhe Legislature will not organize and if it even
Goes much trouble will ensue.
BARBECUE AT WASHINGTON, Mrss.-The friends
Of Taylor and Fillmore are to make great demon
stration in the town of Washington, Mississippi on
Thursday, ID November A barbecue on a large
scale is to give eclat their political celebration
and ball in the College Refractory.
% Thaddeus Stevens is spoken of for the us.
Senate from Pennsylvania.
FATHER AND SoN.-Moses B. Corwin, the dem
ocrat, elected to Congress from the 4th district Of
Ohio, beat his father the wing candidate, full 300
% 1t is stated that the democrats of Pennsyl-
vania intend to contest the election for Governor,
the ground of the alleged frauds in Schuylkill
county
% George R. Parbut, Esq, editor of the Ge-
neva Gazette, is the Democratic candidate for Con-
gress in the Ontario and Livingston district Of New
York.
MAYOR OF WILMINGToN.-Wm, huntington, has
been elected Mayor Of Wilmington, Del.
% The steamer Hermann sailed on the goth
from New York for Bremen, via Southampton.
She took out SlI4,787 70 in Spanish dollars and
American halves-the whole of which goes to Ha-
vre with the exception of $4,000 which is des-
tined for Bremen.
G= Surgeon Gchrst, of the Navy, sailed in
the Cambria, as bearer of dispatches to England
and France.
CIvILIzATIoN-The Philadelphia Inquirer con
tains communication about poor woman of that
city, who supports sick husband and half iamsh-
ed infant, together with herself by earning only 81
oanfS mar dsyr of pOyariD0 nm
Gz~ About one half of the claims for bounty
lands have been presented at Washington.
% 1t is proposed to establish Public Library
in Boston, in connection with the Atheneum Ii
brary. 1t is proposed that an additional sum should
be raised within year, by the public, of twenty
five thousand dollars.
% An English Episcopate is to be established
at Victoria, Hong Kong.
FIRST ARRIVAL FROM CALIFORNIA - Ship
Barnstable, Captain Hatch, from San Francisco,
California, entered at the Customhouse at Boston,
the 18th inst, being the first vessel at that port
from that newly Americanized country. BY enter
ing cOastwise, the owners gain about S25, 900 in
duties on her cargo.
THE EMBEzzLEMENT CAsE.-The jury in the
case Of bank cashier Alcott, tried in Albany for
embezzlement, have been discharged. They stood
five for conviction to seven for acquittal.
BURTON AND THE REPoRTERs.-The difficulty
between Mr. Burton and the reporters at last ter
minated satisfactorily. To the committee appointed
TO wait Mr.. B. he expressed his regret that there
any cause for them to feel offended and promised
to expunge the Objectionable passages from the play
in question.
DEFICIT-It is now said that Mr.. Hammond is
a defaulter in the Dorchester and Milton Bank,
Massachusetts, to the amount of $4,000.
RAILROAD FARE REDUCED-On the LIST of No
vember, the fare on the railroads through from Al
bany, N. Y, to Buffalo, is to be SO Is, instead of
Sl2, heretofore. The running time TOO, has been
materially lesseped from the old rule of 25 hours
O1z- There was a smart snow at Rochester, New
York, on the 18th inst.
o. A real mermaid, it is said, has been added
to the curiostes of the Boston Museum. 1t is very
like half monkey and half Goldfish
REVERSING MATTERS. - The Cashier of the
Chester County pa Bank gives notice that none
of the old issues of that bank of a date prior to
1913 will be redeemed by the bank, unless satslac-
tory evidence is given that they are honestly held
This is reversing the order Of proof In other mat
tiers, and between individuals, the law presumes all
men innocent until they are proved guilty-but the
banks, of course, must have superior privileges.
-S%S
The COTTON CROP.-We have little to say rela-
tive to the condition and prospects Of this crop says
the Concordia Intellgencer of the 28th inst The
weather has continued favorable for saving it, in
most parts of this cotton region. We meet with
few who have been highly favored this year, and
who will make more cotton than they did last year.
But, with by far the greater number Of our planters
in Upper Louisiana and the river belt of Missis-
sippi, the reverse is the case. We have conversed
with gentlemen who have late information from
their plantations in Northern Mississippi and Ar