The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-07-11

n sE9oEEP IMUHcrPALITY-R B. Sykes, III Bier Maior
j. Golding, James Dayem, Jack smith Judge ByTnes
HIP MuNICIPALITY--A. j. Guirot Stevenson ]. Ber
heVab Judge Canonge' Severe Witt G. w. Hardy.
Mr.. WEBsTER's PosITIoN.-E. R. Hoar, in a
speech at the Worcester Anti-Slavery Extension
Convention, said that he knew that Mr. Webster
gave his cordial sympathy and respect to all who
are in this movement, and that he has never aided
in the Taylor movement in any degree.
OPPOSITION TO CoNvENTIoNs.-Inm making some
disclosures as to its own and the barnburners' tao
tics, the New York Globe says: g National Con-
ventiOns have lost all moral force upon parties
There is just for the reputation by both par
Ties OF the action OF their respective conventions
, BAENBURNER CALcULA11oNs.-Th New York
Globe expresses the opinion that the South general
ly in the coming Presidential election will concen-
trate on Taylor, and the North, at least to great
extent do the same thing towards Mr.. Van Buren,.
The Post (of the same politics. also thinks that the
repugnance in the North to both Cass and Taylor
will concentrate the South upon the latter.
DELAWARE WINS STATE CONFERENCE.-The
wings of Delaware will hold their State Conven-
ton on the 26tth ult., at Lewistown.
MANCHESTER, ENG.)-According to a recent
report, the number Of persons wholly utof employ
ment in Manchester was STA The number work
ing full time was 30, I72-short time, 6675
0s~ mine of copper ore has been discovered in
Carlisle, Mass, near the road leading to Concord.
WESTERN SABBATH CoNYENTIoN.-Th West
em Sabbath Convention met at Xenia, Ohio, on
the Dist ult. The delegates numbered near 300
from various parts Of the country. P. B. Wilcox,
an old and distinguished lawyer of Ohio presided,
assisted by Governor Morrow and others as vice
presidents, and Rev. J. H. Trimble and others as
secretaries. A Western Sabbath Union was or
ganized, and measures taken to bring about pro-
per observance Of the Sabbath.
CENTENARY CHURcH-The Methodist Confer
ence have authorized the agents Of the book estab-
shment to toFeclOse a mortgage which they hold
against the Centenary Church. This mortgage is
heavy, and as it covers the full value of the pro-
perty, nearly so, its foreclosure will probably
settle the disputed claim. On the 9th ult coli
lection was taken up among the ministers to aid
Rev. Benjamin Griffin in sustaining the suit in re-
aton to that church, and also to aid in providing
for his support-Nea0 York Post
WEsLEYANIsM Us. CHAR rIsM.-A correspondent
of the Eastern Counties Herald, says that three
members Of the Wesleyan Society have been ex-
PEELED at Sourton, ip the for
becoming Chartists.
Gs- George w. Race, a notorious burglar and
incendiary, has been sentenced in Philadelphia to
twelve years confinement in the penitentiary. He
is young man, machinist and an able work
man. His career ofcrime began with roting at fires.
RoBBERY.-On the 29th ult. the counting room
of Messrs. A. d H. Jacobs, Boston, was forcibly
1,r;u of The
and large wallet containing notes and papers to
the value of $4,000 stolen from the safe
MIpsHIPMAN WHEELocK-Ths gentleman.
who committed suicide on the Coast of Africa, is
said BY his friends to have been insane for some
time previous to committing the rash act.
MADAME REsrE1L.-This notorious abortionist
has al length been transferred to Backwells Island,
New York, there to undergo her years imprson-
ment Meanwhile the poor girl whose health has
been forever destroyed by Restell's practice, still
fingers out a wretched existence.
8cs- The ticket-office of the Boston and Lowell
Railroad Company, at Boston, was entered on the
28th ult and robbed Of $3.50
FATAL AccIDENT-A few days ago some men
were engaged in raising the frame Of house near
Spring Water, Livingston county, N. Y, when
two boys began wrestling, and one, a son of a man
engaged in raising the frame, was thrown and kilt
ed. The father ofthe boy, shocked at the death of
his SON. let 90 his hold IF the frame, and others of
the party going to his assistance, the frame fell,
killing six persons on the spot
MURDER IN BosroN.-On the 18th ut, a colored
man, Thomas Harden, was stabbed to death, IN
Boston, by another colored man named Washing
ton Goode' The cause is supposed to have jeal-
ousy, as the parties had previously quarrelled about
girl. The murderer was arrested.
MuRDER.-We are informed that man by the
name Of Gibson entered the office of DIR. Samuel
L. Jones, in Hocl-house Prairie, between III and
II o'clock on Monday night last. DR.. Jones or
dered him out and followed him to the door, where
Gibson seized him by the collar and stabbed him IN
the abdomen with butcher knife, inhictlng NOR
tai wound some eight inches in length. Jones died
the next night He was a popular physician ana
a good citizen His melancholy fate Is generally
lamented Gibson hed.-St. Joseph (lIO.) AdUea-
twer 23d Ut
FRUfr-GRowERs' CoNvENTIoN-Thes. Han
cock noted fruit cutiyator, Of Burlington, n. j.,
proposes that a Convention of Fruit Growers meet
in NewYork the first week in October, when much
useful information, tending to correct and decide
opinions upon the subject of fruit culture, would be
elected
DRowNED-A man in Wendell, Mass, on the
26ih ult., bet gallon of rum that he would cross
Pqtnam's Pond on a rope, stretched across to sus-
tain derrick. When about half way over, he fell
into the pond and was drowned.
OF We understand that slave belonging to
Mr., Kennedy, who recently removed to Covington
from this city, revolted against his master, and af
Ter making some very severe threats, slope9 for the
woods. We have not heard that he had been APP
pretended.
FATAL LYNcHING.-Another murder was COM
mitted at the falls Of ST. Croix lately An Indian.
who killed Tornell and Mackeray, having &C.
knowledged his guilt, the people met, organized
Lynch Court, tried, sentenced and hanged him,