The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-08-04
Vera Cruz Correspondence.

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Editors Crescent Yesterday morning advees were re-
eeiye from the city of Mexico by private letters that Cen
Lombafdna had attacked the forces OF Paades N
uata and that in the attack Jaauta the noted padIe was
slain Although the papers of the latest date from Mexico
do not speak of the action lit is not improbable particularly
So when it known that the interior mail comes INTO Mexico
about p NJ and that the papers OF the day are gem
orally issued by NJ Ihave seen letters from the clty
and from well Informed men, too and both writers are sas
fed that the great guerieo The Congress and
Government are getting along smoothly and the friends Of
both sangune that the ship Of State will be safely eeTed
into the haven of quiet andprospeTity. CHAPARRAL'
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Correspondence of the Baltimore SUM-
PORTSMOUTH, July 25, 1913.
The steamer Mississippi, Capt. A. Slidell Mcken-
ze, from the Gulf, with Commodore Perry aboard,
arrived at the yard at half past 10 this morning.
She comes to have her boilers replaced with new
ones, to be made at the Gosport Works, an estab-
ishment now in successful operation.
Commandant Sloat paid the st. Louis, to-day, the
usual visit of inspection. This is indicative OF the
speedy departure of that vessel.
The boiler of the steamer Engineer, made at the
Gosport Iron Works, was placed on board yesterday
morning. The steamer Vixen, now at this yard, Is
to be turned over to the Coast Survey
OF Death to thieves" was written upon the
window-shutters by the insurgents, during the late
revolt in Paris. They respected scrupulously the
property of the people, and committed not one act
of robbery.
UMBRELLA Symptoms Of Insanity, or Old
fashioned Honesty.-A notice was postponed up at
the Post-ofce yesterday stating that Umbrella
had been tound, and that the could have the
same by calling at No. So Gravier street.
% The PupDet Show thinks it rather droll, that
people who get their bones broken by railway col
lisions, overturnings ETC., etc, are not content
without going to law for more Z" damages ~
BARBARoUs DECIsIoN.-Two BARRIERS at Phila-
delphia having been brought up for breach of the
Sabbath, the alderman decided that their work on
that day was one ofnecessity-cleanli beingan
important duty enIoined by society. We don't see
why they should be liable for shaving the customer
any more than the customer for shaving himself
nrs-A Paris Journal which stated that prisoner
under sentence of death had attempted suicide, first
by poison, and then by knife, added: Medical as
sistance being promptly administered, he IS now
OUT OF DANGER and WU tomorrow undergo the SEN
tence Of the hIO."
AMBAssADoR.-Anew Ambassador from France,
to the United States, NJ Guillaume Tell Poussin,
has just arrived with his family in this country.
o. The census of Springfield, NIass.,) as now
constituted, gives a population of 1928.
DEAD-James A. Coffin President of the Croton
Aqueduct Board, New York, died on the 23d ult
o. A Iaborer, in Milton, Mass, while raking
hay, was dangerously bitten by rattlesnake.
DEATHs.-Deaths in Boston week before last, II;
males 80, females 50, still-born4.
~" V. B. Palmer Agent for the Cities of Phia-
dsphia, NewYork Boston and Baltimore.
Ia" E. S. Grant travelling in the Northern Cities,
authorized any business for this office.