The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-18

A COOP JoKE.-A coach standing across path
way in Boston, two gentlemen coming up, reques-
ted the coachmah to move. He would not, and
lady q who had just aiighed, came to the door Of
the store in which she was and insolently told the
coachman not to stir. Thereupon the two gentle
men passed in at the one door of the coach and
at the other, to the extreme discomposure of another
lady who was inside the coach. Better STILL par
ty of sailors coming up, followed the gentlemen and
scrambled through the carriage after them.
o. Noah says that an invoice of segars has ar
rived in New York which sell at $1,000 per thou
sand-a dollar piece
o. Col. Manlius V. Thomson has been appoint
ed in Kentucky, wing eleetor for the State at
large in place of VIM. J. Graves, deceased.
~ The well known Mrs. G. B. Miller, distin-
gushed for years past for her fine cut tobacco
died in New York on the 9Th.
o. The Irish fund on hand in Philadelphia
amounts to 81 35l O4-independent of 81 900 trans
mitted to the New York Directory
% A Free Soil paper, entitled the Daily Re-
public, conducted by DIR. VIM Elder, made its ap-
pearance in Philadelphia ON the It'll.
o. The Norfolk Courier says that number o
young gentlemen Of that city, and the surrounding
country, are going to California.
o. The Pittsburg firemen's annual parade came
Of last Saturday, and proved to be splendid affair
o. Macready played Othello to the Desdemona
of Miss C. Wemyss in New York on the evening
Of the 9th. is said both acquitted themselves to
The unanimous approval of the audience
o. The Atlantic and Ohio Telegraph Company
has declared a dividend Of 665 cts per share.
FoG.-The fog was so thick at Philadelphia on
the 9TH, on the Delaware, that some of the steam
boats were two hours on the river between the
shores, trying TO find their places of destination.
Gs- Com F. Buchanan Is now in Norfolk to
select site for Zig clubhouse on the coast.
DE- Rev. Lyman Jewett was ordained at Boston
on Friday last, in Rowe street church, as Baptist
Missionary to India.
o. Hecker, the German patriot, was publicly
received at Tammany Hail. New York, on Satur
day night, 9TH inst, by his countrymen. He made
a lengthy speech.
o. The highly colored account of a man going
over Niagara Falls, lately, is doubted by many
notwithsta nding the supposed name of the indvd-
ual is since given.
CITY MoRTALITY.-The deaths in Philadelphia
week before last, were I32-adults 80, minors 81
BY consumption 10, drowned II, small pox 4, diar-
rhma T.
THANKsGWING.-Gov Briggs has appointed
Thursday, the 30th of November, for the observ-
ance Of thanksgiving in Massachusetts.
o. Weld & Co. have received the September
number of Blackwood's Magazine, and also the
August and September numbers Of HoIden's Dollar
Magazine. For both these works, and also other
periodicals, they are prepared to receive subscr-
bers.
o. A young man visiting managerie at Cleye-
land, Ohio, short time since, attempted to feed
Polar bear with some sugar candy. Bruin liked it
WE'LL that out Of gratitude, we suppose he bit the
feeders finger off and munched it with right good
will
MoRE FREE DEEDS IN BUFFALo.-Alexander
Fletcher, negro has been arrested for an attempt to
commit a rape on a white girl in q canal boat She
was bratally injured, but he was loiIed by the APP
proach Of a third person
IMPORTANT ARREsT-The two men arrested at
Paterson, n. j., on suspicion Of having robbed the
clerk of Messrs Drew, Robinson & Co. of S8OO0
have since been identified by the clerk, and COM
mitied to answer for the offence.
o. An iron suspension bridge has just been sent
up from New York to be placed over Buffalo Creek
and is a span Of 100 feet, the largest yet made I'M
der the new plan. 1t is estimated that three
thourand teams day will pass over the road
The structure will be one of the most ornamental
as we'll as useful.
o. The distance from the ground to the top of
the spire Of the Cathedral in Cincinnati, is to be
232 feet-the tallest steepe in the West.
H- A great sensation has been created among
the English population of Naples by the assassna-
ton of an English gentleman, Mr.. Robert White
lock Nichol, an artist.
% A Vienna correspondent says Ronge is
preaching his new doctrines here with undated
zeal and osight success his auditors in the Odeon
being every time he lectures Gig nine thousand"
o. Edmund Burke, formerly editor of the New
England Washingtonan, Boston, and an able tenn
perance advocate died on the 30th ult., at the In
sane Asylum, BiackwelTs Island, in the 9th year
Of his age. He had been insane for several months
o. The number of students who have entered
liiC 1l0S6u CItiSS Vi dle inns year, oouIlts 10
one hundred and six.
MARAcAIBo. = Important Meas Expected. "A
gentleman of Boston, the Traveller says, who re-
ceived his information from Mr.. Freeman U. S.
Consul at Venezuela states that the instructions of
General PaeZ TO the officers of his fleet previous to
their sailing TO attack Maracabo, were to storm the
town if possible, if not to set it on fire. The next
news by the bark J. A. Jesurun, at New York. will
be of an important character
o. At the & Cadets Fair, lately held in Gin