The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-27


Among the migrating parties TO California, from
Kentucky. is one forming near Bloomfield, Nelson
county. under the name of % the California Emf
Grating Society," The society consists at present
of about thirty members, chiefly the heads OF fam
lies. II il made up of professional men, farmers
and mechanics, nearly all of them lapd propretors
and in independent circumstances. At the head
of the society is DR.. j. H. Bascom: brother Of Pres
ident Bascom of Pennsylvania University.
~ The St Louis New Era gives it as its opin-
ion that the man elected to the L. S. Senate from
Illinois will be in favor of the Jef1ersonian Ord-
nance of 1887.
DE- Farmers and Merchants broken bank notes
of Memphis selling there to the brokers at 10 to
20 cents on the dollar, for currency.
90 An outline of the constitution accepted by
the twenty-five Swiss Cantons which form the
Helveti Union, is given in the Deutsche ScitneH-
post, of New York Many of the principal art-
cles are formed upon the model of that of the
United States.
GmG GoNE-The Sherbrooke Gazette men
lions the disappearance from the township of Brad
ford, of young girl II years Of age. Her name is
Eliza Ann Gray.
JOnn Cau, the l6fTlIOIldl OON6TIlOI Vi " ls-
consin, and who has also been called to act as Gov
ernor of the Territory, left on the I'd for Mine
sofa He will visit st. Pauls, Saltwater, and the
other principal settlements, and remain long enough
to establish an Office and take ncpient steps neces-
sary to the organization of Territorial Government
Ir~The trial of Olcot, cashier of the Canal Bank,
New York, Oh an Indictment charging him with
embezzling S4,208 belonging TO the Ogdensburg
Bank, was commenced week before last
10 DOYLE, the Kentucky slave stealer, has been
sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years.
Another stampede of forty negroes who had been
furnished with free passes by white men, in Wood
ford county, Ky, has just been frustrated.
Drs- The boiler of the steamboat Experiment
ploded in terrific manner, near Philadelphia, on
the 10th inst, and, though surrounded by human
beings, not one was hurt.
~ IL appears that, within the last seven years,
no fewer than $4,000 persons have emigrated from
Great Britain-making nearly one-thirtieth OF the
whole number of the population.
o. -Four thousand paupers, boys and girls, will
this year be sent to Australia from Ireland, and ten
thousand from England.
Hg- A gentleman from California says he has
spent $4,000 in seeking gold, and he could find none
FIRE IN ALBANY.-The lumber yard of Clement
Warner was destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss
from $4,000 to $4,000.
~ The Trappists at Mount MeIleray are send
ing out deputation to establish branch of their
order at Kingston, Upper Canada.
grg- The Brooklyn Advertiser congratulates its
readers on the prospective achievement Of plan
for supplying Brooklyn with water at an expense of
one million of dollars, which will be nearly as
good as the Croton supply for New York, which
cost fourteen millions.
De- The road from Kalamazoo to Niles, Michi-
gan, is fifty miles in length, and is as substantial
structure as any in the United States, being laid
with the T rail- as is also the greater part of the
rest of the road. 1t has just been completed,
making a complete line from Detroit of 200 miles.
The distance was made on the ID in eight hours
Urs- Marble statues are to be placed in the inches
in front of the Catholic Church, on Congress street,
Cincinnati
90 The Philadelphia Republic says that TWEEN
tysix young ladies passed through that city lately
on their way West to engage in teaching. They
were under the charge of Ex-Governor Slade, OF
Vermont.
rs- A new hotel is being built in Paterson, NJ,
to be called " Congress Hall, and to cost $4,000
Several fine buildings going up in that place.
CHANGING THE BEARING YEAR OF APPLE
TREEs.-R. Manning, of Salem, by cutting of all
the blossoms from a Baldwin apple tree, in the
Spring of its bearing year, changed the fruitful
year TO the following season. The unfruitfu
seasons have become bearing years, and vice versa