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

Buren, VIII poll 81 ,OOO votes IN pennsylvania. The
Republic also makes the following calculation of
the support the Buffalo ticket will receive in the
other States The highest probability exists that
New York, Massachusetts, Vermont and Wiscon-
sin will give their s. votes to Mr.. Van Buren,.
PI4vate letters from Ohio, written both by free
soifers and Taylor men, incline to the belief that
that State will cast her vote for him. An immense
vote will be given for him in Illinois and Indiana,
and very respectable one in Connecticut, Iowa
and Michigan. The most reasonable calculation
sends him into the House"
AN ELECTION INcIDENT.-In looking over the
election returns, says the Philadelphia Ledger, we
were struck by the fact that MAJ Charles j. Bidde,
and his brother Craig BiddIe, each received the
highest vote cast for members of Assembly, on the
democratic and wing tickets.
0ry Speaker Winthrop is again nominated for
Congress in the first district of Massachusetts, and
accepts. He had previously said he would retire
from public life at the end of his present term.
HARD TO BEAT.-The following appeared a few
days since in a Pennsylvania paper:
wayne township, Schuylkill county, against the
world. A Mrs. Dress, wife of Michael Dress, of
this township, was delivered of four children, two
girls and two boys three of them are living and
doing well. She is now the mother of "a children
The great increase in the population of Schuylkill
county is thus accounted for on natural principles.
o. The following gentlemen have been nomina-
ted by the Governor of Maine to be Judges of the
S. j. Court: Either Shepley, CHI J. S. J. c.; John
S. Tenney and Joseph Howard, Associates.
souTH CARoL1NA.-A few days ago the Charles
ton Courier published statement showing that
H. I
81 for Taylor, and % unpledged-per contra the
Mercury says: The returns from nearly the entire
State have been published, and where Taylor men
have been elected, they have been so designated.
We think we speak within bounds when we express
the opinion that of the hundred and sixty-eght
members Of our Legislature, not more than thirty
will vote for the Taylor electoral ticket, if indeed
such ticket is voted for at all
OF The wings of Harris county, Ga, are TO
give Mr.. Stephens public dinner the 2Sth
GREAT BARBECUE.-There was a democratic
barbecue at indianapolis, on the 4th inst, in honor
of the volunteers from Indiana, in the war with
Mexico. Amongst the military guests were Gen.
VIM. o. Butler, of Kentucky, Col Charles II.
Brough, of Ohio> and Colonels Lane, German,
Drake and Haddon.
Gzs- Alex. H. Wallis, of Hudson county, has
been nominated for Van Buren, State EIector in
New Jersey, vice J. Tonnele, declined
HEAVY BErTING.-Bets as high as $4,000 and
$4,000 have been made in Cincinnati on the
Presidential election.
NAvAL.-The frigate Congress cost, for hull and
spars, 100000; when fitted for sea, $424562.
The schr Wasp, Mexican prize, will be sold at
the Philadelphia Navy Yard, on the 3lst inst. She
is 81 tons burthen, a fast saiIer, and built at
Boston, in 1890, as a pilot-boat.
EXTRA GOVERNMENT CLERKs.-The Secretary
of the Treasury has acted in the matter of some
extra clerks at Washington. Six clerks have been
retained and six dismissed-among the latter three
barnburners. They were continued in office for
nearly four months after the appropriation to pay
them had run out
OF Stickney's great Circus is to perform at
Memphis on the 30th inst 1t is approaching our
own city by degrees.
o. Its somewhat remarkable that Gov BisselI,
of Connecticut, and J. B. Robertson, Secretary of
State, were both at the point of death at the same
time. They are now both convalescent
ANOTHER EDITOR DEAD-Mr John Miller, the
founder and long the editor and proprietor of the
Providence R.I) Journal, died at the residence Of
his son-n-law in NewYork on the 18th, in the 57th
year of his age. The editor of the Providence
Herald died only week or so before.
o. DR.. Thomas Fiske, native of England,
was killed upon the Worcester and Nashua Rail
road on Friday week
0cs~ A telegraph line is to be extended from
Worcester to New London.
% George Sprague, son of DR.. A. S. Sprague,
of Buffalo, promising medical student ofthat city,
killed by the accidental discharge of his fowl
ing piece, while cunning on Grand Island.
Gz- The new foundry at the Washington Navy
Yard was put into operation on the 18th.
SUICIDE-A man by the name of F. w. Wal
ton, confectioner in Little Falls, n Y, commit
teed suicide the 10th, by cutting his throat with
razor.
OF The German Reformed Synod is in session
at Hagerstown, Maryland.
o. Gen. Thomas Longley, of Franklin county.
Mass, has died at the age of "A. He served in the
war OF 1872, and was prominent politician
Gs- The quarantine establishment at Crosse Isle
H0o o0oi oiOAeii up Ior tue season. ana patients re-
naming are transferred to the Marine Hospital al
Quebec
Gs- Hunt, alias Webb the forger, has been SEN
fenced at Albany to five years in the State Prison.
OK The ship Minnesota at NewYork, from Liver.
pool, is exciting some curiosity. She was built in
Ohio, and carried from thence a cargo of bread
Stufis to England.