The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-24


Chagres, cross the Isthmus, and meet mail
steamer, which will take him up to Oregon. His
family, under the care of brother, will leave ST.
Joseph, Mo-, about the first of May next.
MIssIoNARIEs.-The bark Kate Hastings, which
cleared at Boston on the 18th ins for the Cape of
Good Hope and East Indies, has as passengers Rev.
w. Ireland and lady, missionaries.
Gr The Wesleyan General Convention in ses-
sion at Cincinnati, has for President Rev. Daniel
Worth Of Ohio, a knsman of Gen. Worth.
EARLY IN THE FIELp-The editor of the Boston
Signal has come out with ticket for 1852; he says
''Taking counsel of no spirit but the Supreme
One, we make the following nomination For Pre7I-
dent Ofthe American people, in 1852, Abbott Law
renee, of Massachusetts, For Vice-Presldent, VIM.
S. Archer, of Virginia.
o. Jesse R. Burden, NJ. D., has been elected
President Of Philadelphia college of medicine, in
place of the Rev. J. B. Durbin, D. D., resigned,
% Californa-struck people can get to their des-
tined Eldorada in the ship Silvie de Grasse, Capt
Rich, which will be dispatched from New York on
the LIST of November for San Francisco, Monterey
&c Cabin passage, $3.50; 'steerage, with provi-
sions, $50.
o. Sir VIM. Colebrooke, Governor Reid's sue
cessor as Governor General of the Windward
Islands, had arrived at Barbados.
NJ At a recent examination of girls in Cheshire
for The right of confirmation, in answer to the
question, 9 What is the outward and visible sign
and form in baptism - the reply was, Z" The
baby, sir.
o. The total number of immigrants arrived al
New York, from the lst to the 18th of October, in
elusive, is 4GO9-from Ireland 2,467.
BosToN WATER Works. The water of Co
cituate Lake was, for the first time, let into the
aqueduct of the Boston Water Works on Thursday
morning, the 10Th inst, in the presence of the
Mayor the Water Commissioners and Engineers.
o. The Manchester Examiner mentions an ar
gumcnt advanced by Bolton man to prove tina
the moon was not inhabited-nO ScOtchnan haC
been Known to visit it.
p~ Bishop Hughes, OF the Catholic diocese o
New York, is opposed to the establishment of the
Cistercian order of monks in his diocese lie de
sires the recall to Ireland of the two Cisterciar
monks who have come out for that purpose.
% The Secretary of War acts as the Secretary
of the Navy during Judge Mason's absence from
Washington.
o. Thomas Darcy Magee, the Irish refugee
patriot, is in Philadelphia, having escaped from
Ireland under an assumed name
GARDE MoBILE-The vote of the Garde Mobile
in Paris is rather significant Out of ten thousand
eight thousand voted the entire radical ticket, Ras
pail, Thore and CADET After the desperation will
which this Garde Mobile fought against the Re,
how
gone for their candidates betokens a change 0
views, hostile to the government.
DON'T CARRY WEAPoNs.-A young man named
John Dawson, was killed at Pittsburg, by fallin!
upon bowie-knife which he carried in his sleeve.
| MILLIONS ACRES OF Bounty LAND-Of thu
regular army, about thrty-five thousand men arr
entitled to bounty lands. The volunteers who ar,
| entitled to these lands are about fifty-fve thou
sand. Fourteen millions four hundred thousan,
acres of land will be required to satisfy the claim
of the soldiers in the Mexican war. This land, a
the Government price, Is worth eighteen million
two hundred thousand dollars.
9s- The filling up of the dock at the foot O
Delaney street will add near two acres to the cit
of New York
HUNT, ALIAS WEBB, THE FoRGER.-This inge
NOUS and industrious parsonage has received, a
Albany as reward for his evil deeds, a sentence o
five years to the State prison. The forgery of whcl
he was convicted was check upon the Alban,
| Exchange Bank for $500. Webb, it is not doubt
| ed, drew 600 from Philadelphia, New York
and Cincinnati banks, some years since, in connec
ton with the forger Reed, who lately died il
| England.
! REFORMING BACKwARDs.-We see it stated
that the people of Michigan wish to reGstablisl
capital punishment. We hope it is a mistake
LOCOMOTIVE SPEED-The Lowell Courier say
that new engine, called the Camilla, built b,
Hickey & Drury, and designed for speed, ran 70
the first time on the Boston and Lowell Railroad OF
the 18th inst. 1t has driving wheels of g. feet il
diameter, and is capable of running a mile in
minute
EMIGRATION TO WESTERN VIRGINIA TIL
! Winchester Vrginian states that large numbers o
emigrants have passed through that town within
month past, principally bound for that noble region
| Western and Northwestern Virginia. That coun
try is advancing at giant pace. New towns ar
rising and old forests falling in every part of il
Ign, N. Y, is expected to be finished this time mex
| year. There are 200 men now at work upon it
and there are 240 other men employed about tn
| Navy Yard there.
! THE GERMAN HECKER-The arrival, by tn
! steamship Hermann, Of Hecker, the German revo
lutionst, has been the most exciting incident of thu
| week. He has had warm reception in NewH orll
| Hardly had the steamer made the land. when
| delegation of the Common Council boarded her
and took captive the political hero; and warming
with the occasion, gave him most fraternal greet
ing. :. His political history is soon summed up
distinguished lawyer at Baden, he was also for
long time the leading member of the Legislative
| body of that Duchy. After the French revolution
of February and the consequent political agitation
in the German States, he was chosen as member o
the preliminary Assembly of Frankfort, gathered
together for the purpose of establishing new con
stitutOn for Germany. He then took the lead as al
advocate of republican institutions, and urged witt
all the might of hearty sincerity and great ability
the immediate organization of a German Republic