The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-12
REHABILITATION. SIXTY EIGHT COUNTIES
THE ELECTIONS.

THE ELECTIONS.
FLORIDA We have returns from one more
county Franklin-which gives 20 democratic ma
iority. The whole democratic Legislative ticket is
elected In As, the democratic majority was =
wing log; democratic 1l3.
Baltimore, Oct. 7, 5 P. M.-The
returns of our State Election show large popular
gain for the wing ticket McCloud, the editor of
the Baltimore Republican, and the democratic can
didate, has been elected Sheriff of Baltimore co.
TENNESSEE. -,NashUille, Tenn, Oct 3. - The
Nashville Municipal Election has resulted in the
choice of a wing Mayor and wing Council.
DELAwARE.-W1l Wilmington, Oct. 3, P. M.-The
democratic majority in Wilmington is 80, and in
Christiana hundred the wing majority is l57.
o. Willis Hall, of New York, has written a
letter to the Clay wings of that city He refuses to
vote for Cen Taylor, and expresses his determine
ton to support Mr.. Van Buren,.
OF The Wisconsin Herald of Sept 9, contains
long report made by Legislative committee, in
favor of the total abolition of the laws for the col
lection of debts
o. Mr. Mitchell, the Irish Patriot, at Bermuda,
had been seriously ill, but was fast recovering.
% The venerable Samuel Brock, of Philadel-
phia, has presented valuable Neurological Cabi-
net, numbering seven hundred specimens, properly
classed and arranged, to Burlington N.J) College.
~ The steamship Washington, from New York
goth ut, passed on the 23d, in lat. 49, long 49,
o. Robert J. Walker, the Secretary of the Trea-
sury, returned to Washington on the Both ult His
baaItb roI7cb ip,Drovad
o. The names of Collins's new line of U. S.
mail steamers between NewYork and Liverpool
are to be the Atlantic Pacific, Arctic Adriatic and
Baltic The first two will be launched next month.
% The Pope, anxious to introduce religious
civilization into the east of Africa, has just APP
pointed vicar apostolic of Madagascar.
TEMPERANCE MovEMENT.-Both Houses of the
British Parliament, in answer to the numerous
petitions of Temperance Societies, have passed
bill prohibiting all sale of intoxicating liquors on
Sunday morning and forenoon.
RAILROADS LIABLE FOR DAMAGES BY FIRE
The Supreme Court of Northampton have given
Judgment in favor of the Springfield Mutual nsu-
rance Company against the Western Railroad, for
the amount of 1923 60, with $167 65 interest
| insurance company for the burning of house in
1845, which was set on fire by the locomotive of
the Western Railroad.
Hr The colored people in Philadelphia have
established cemetery for themselves.
SPEED.-Recently, in England, on the Great
Western Railroad, seventy seven miles were passed
over by an express train in seventy-eight minutes
and twenty nine seconds, including a stoppage of
five minutes and thrty-fve seconds. Fifty-three
miles of the journey were performed in forty-nine
minutes and thirteen seconds. The speed in some
cases was kept up at seventy, seventy-two, and
! seveuty-seven miles an hour.
PLAYING SoLDIER.-James Reilly has been
committed at Norfolk, Va, for falsely personating
Michael Cody, a returned volunteer, so as to de-
fraud him of bounty, etc
FATAL BoNFIRE.-Two young men named Ro-
bert and Andrew Harrison, at Bergen, N. j., well
coming a political procession from Jersey City on
the Both ult., set fire to a tar barrel. Andrew i'm
prudently pouring spirits of camphine on the flames,
his clothes were set fire to, and his brother in
deavoring to extinguish them, was so horribly
burned himself, that he died the same night The
other is not expected to recover.
Gs- Lieut. Col. P. ST. George Cooke, ID dra-
goons, has been assigned to the command of the
post at Carlisle, Pa, and in charge of the recruit
ing service in that quarter
Gs- Dysentery, which has for some months
ragged so in Lynn, Mass, continues without dimu-
milton. Some 200 persons in all, have died
A VILLAIN CAUGHT.-Joseph L. Chimes. the
married man who decoyed young factory girl at
New Bedford to lonely place and committed an
outrage upon her, we learn from the Warren (R. H.
Star, has been arrested and sent off to the place of
his crime, in irons. He represented he had been
sent for her by his brother, to whom she was to be
married.
% Another murder has occurred in New York
John Cassidy stabbed by 6 Dutch Charley,'' on
the Five Points, having died on the LIST instant.
CITY MoRTALITY.-Deaths in New York last
week 266. By consumption 81 dysentery 81
whooping- cough II; marasmus IA small pox Z.
Natives of the United States l54.
FoRGERY.-Lieut A. Brea, an officer of one OF
the late Kentucky regiments of volunteers has been
arrested at Cincinnati, charged with forging land
J warrants,