The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-07-14

tIle course OF ten days Success TO HIM, the
Arab would say, upon every spot where he may
pitch his tent.
OLYMPIC THEATEE.-This evening will be per
formed the thrilling drama entitled the Seaside
Story after which Miss Deering will appear in
one Of her graceful dances The entertainments of
the evening will conclude with the farce of the
6 Revolt Of the Workhouse."
o. Erastus Brooks, Esq, has retired from the
propreOrship and editorial chair of the Pittsburg
Gazette, and been succeeded by d. N. White, Esq,
its former editor.
~ The officers of the steamer California will
please accept our thanks for Mobile papers.
az Amount of receipts, for account of postage,
at the New Orleans PostofIice for the quarter
ending June 3Oth, 1913:
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w S. PARHAM-We perceive by a proclamation
of the Governor, in yesterday evenings Courier,
that Mr. Parham has resigned his seat in the Senate
A new election is ordered, TO fill the vacancy
o. The corner stone of a monument to the
memory of two of the sgners of the Declaration of
Independence, Lyman Hall and George Walton,
was laid in Augusta Ga, on the 4th inst The
Masons, Odd Fellows, and Sons of Temperance.
participated. The address was delivered by w T.
Gould, and spoken of as fine specimen of oraory.
OF The Baltimore Sun learns from its Washing
ton correspondent that General Pillow has been
acquitted of all the charges preferred against him.
The authority states that the Court of Inquiry
will shortly reassembe at Morristown, ~ j. for the
purpose of trying General Scott on the charges
brought against him by General Pillow
APPOINTMENTS. = Governor Thomas, Of Mary.
land, has appointed Mr.. VIM. Prick, Judge of the
Supreme Court Of that State, to supply the vacancy
created by the death of Judge Archer.
GLovEs-Of the 300 pairs of black gloves pro-
vided for members of the house of congress on the
occasion of Mr.. Adams funeral only thirty were
distributed, and the rest are missing! So says Mr..
Johnson, of Tennessee.
Thomas EwING.-Thomas Ewing, of Ohio has
come out in a powerful speech in favor of Gen.
Taylor at great ratification meeting in Lancaster.
The Iron TRADE.-We copied, says the Potts
vile Journal, small article last week from one of
our exchanges, and which had currency for some
tme to the effect that foreign railroad iron is now
delivered in New England at $50 per ton This is
mistake, and it is worthy of being Immediately
corrected.
English iron be purchased long credits, at
Addduty under the present Tariff .......... 90
transportation to this country, 90
And we find the whole cost. per ton, to $48 90
SAvANNAH-Her Exports. - There were exported
from Savannah, Ga, during the last month"; June
l,768525 pounds Upland, and 1917 $40 pounds Sea
Island cotton, in foreign vessels, and 400, 900
pounds Upland, and Is, 1879 pounds Sea island, in
American vessels making together 442, 374 pounds,
valued at S220,047, Of which $l25,96O was the
value of that exported in foreign, and S94,O87 of
thai exported in American.
CINCINNATI, July 5, u, M,-There is but little
business doing. Moderate sales of flour at previous
rates The grain market is without change. Sales
of whisky at l54 cents per gallon. Groceries are
without change. Provisions are without change,
and nominal. The river is falling.
The FIsHERIEs-Tt appears that the herring
fisheries are very productive, but in the neighbor-
hood of St Georges bay, salt is very scarce, and
great quantities of herrings are lost quantity of
salt in Halifax forcibly taken possession Of at
tended with much violence, for the use of the her
ring fisheries. The case is undergoing legal in
vesgation.- Boston Bee
THE Crops OF 0mo-The Ohio crops satisfy
the farmers, and that is saying great deal, con-
sidering what humanity is made Of, and how little
disposed to be satisfied with any thing.
49, L., H., G =, p,..o,, g.,
the six months ending July l. was $l4S, 747-insur-
anee, SIP, 451 Increase of loss over same months
in 1917, 81, 242-increase in insurance, Sl4,63l.
Loss of uninsured property six months last year,
S696S3; this year, S36,296.
EMIGRANTs-The number of emigrants who
arrived at New York, on the 3D., was 2,ll5, of
whom ], 2S9 were from Liverpool.
SPLENDID New yIADUcT.-We learn from the
Germantown Telegraph that the Reading Railroad
Company will, in short time, commence the con-
struchon of splendid stone viaduct over the
Schuylkill at the Falls, directly alongside of the
present handsome wooden structure, and also, that
II IS the determination of the company to substitute
stone viaduets or bridges for the present wooden
structures at all the principal points, and in course
of time at al the points.
o. That immense boa constructor at Salem
which 1t took l26 negroes to capture in Africa, the
Boston Post says, is not yet sold.
FATAL ACCIDENT.-As the train of cars from
Concord, NH, on the LIST inst, was approaching
the depot in Manchester the usual speed, younl
woman, who attempted to cross the track in from
of the engine, was knocked down and run over. b,
the train-the upper part of her head being cut Of
as with a knife She died instantly.
o. In Troy, NY, Alderman Lewis Fellows wa
shockingly wounded in the head by the Fevers
motion Of buzz saw.