The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-25


/ completion Of the task is one hour No horse,
either in this Or any other country, has ever troted
| twenty miles within the hour and if accomplished
in this instance, will stamp Trustee as being one
Of the best horses Of the day. The stakes are
! $l500-N. J. Herald.
| Do Macready, 4 New York letter says, has
failed in drawing the immense crowds so confident
ly anticipated by his friends.
PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE UNDER DTFICUL-
| TIEs-Some perseyering inquirer after knowledge
| has made calculation of the number Of words IN
! Bentons great Kearney and Fremont speech IN
/ GLIDING the appendix it comprises about $4,000
/ words, and would make book three times as large
as the ninth volume of Napoleon's Memoirs.
| ~ Madame d'Arusemout, better known as the
celebrated Fanny Wright, was robbed on the Cow
ington uy) ferry-boat the other day, by some ras-
cal who had but little respect for the rights Of
women"
G1s- The picEpockets are busy among the excited
! politicians in Philadelphia.
% Seven dissatisfied couples were put asun-
der" at the September term Of the Connecticut SUI
Preme Court, at Hartford.
d. A church difficulty in Philadelphia, between
the members of the African n Z. Church. IN
the keys 10 the Mayor who has stationed a strong
body Of police there
IL5~ The British government has requested ours
to remove the wreck Of the Missouri from the bay
at Gibraltar 1t lies in the way of vessels visiting
that port
New Dry DoCK.-The New York Sectional
Floating Dry Dock Comp9ny says the Sun, are
about to contract for building, for the T. S Govern
ment, Sectional Dry Dock which will take up the
largest vessel that floats It viii consist of ten
sections, each Of which will raise 500 tons-tue
whole calculated TO take in a vessel 300 feet long
A CHANcE.-The New York Evening Post saws
! a number Of young and enterprising merchants Of
that city are about to establish themselves in
California.
Gs- There are three crimes in Russia, for the
commission Of which the guilty party is severely
punished, viz: gambling, drunkenness and read
ing books
BosToN MoEALs.-A young man named Moore
was robbed in State street, Boston, Of SSH.
% The Introductory lectures in the four medical
colleges in Philadelphia, commenced on the 10Th
insL-about 300 students in attendance.
CASUALTIES IN FRANCE,-rhe Living Age com
piles from French documents some interesting sta
tistics of casualties in France. The number Of
drowned III that country, in the year 1916 was
1861 crushed TO death by horses and vehicles 62i
fatal railroad accidents, a. very favorable com
parlsOn for the railroads. The cabrioIets of Paris
make The greatest number of eases for the hospitals
Of the suicides in 1916, over 100 were of persons
under p years Of age.
n A ga
the owner offers reward to regain them. Quite
a g gum game that.
Irs~ z. G. Smith, aboror on the Central rail
road, while at work on a bridge al HartIand, VT.
lost his balance and fell distance of s4ty-five feet
without receiving any material injury. He was so
fortunate as 10 strike on the only spot not covered
with rocks or timber.
Gs- A man committed suicide at Harper's Ferry
from modification in having taken the temperance
pledge and then broken it,
ATTEMPT AT REvoLr-Charles w. Gray and |
William Butler, German sailors were tried in New |
York tor an attempt to make a revolt on board the
ship Flcksburg In this case it appeared that the |
mate ordered Gray out Of the (orecastle and that
the order not being obeyed, Gray and the mate had
tusse, when the captain interfered. and then Bat
Ter joined in the melee and seized the caDtai,, IN,
the throat This was the story Of the captaiD and |
mate but the witnesses for the defence contradired
them The jury acquitted Gray, but could not |
agree as TO Butler Bnter was again put TO the bar
and on the same evidence. The jury retired and,
after long consultation found the prisoner guilty.
Of combining the captain.
" The case of Whittier, who beat his child's |
brains out against his door SILL six months ago, has
been continued TO April, before the Grafton COM |
mon pleas, at Haverhill, n. IT, The trial of Elder /
Enos G. Dudley, for killing the school mistress, was
assigned for the 9Th inst.
AMERICAN LIBRARY TN PARIs-The Project Of
the Seine in Paris, in acknowledging to Mr. Waite
mare the receipt of " numerous and precious works
and documents from states and cities here, says:
''This transmission, joined 10 those which have
already taken place, increases the Intellectual
riches which compose The American Library which
the city of Paris owes to the generosity Of the
United States
MIR. Yatternare's agent in Paris states that this
title, American Library is every where recog-
nized and adopted 1t will be placed ever the en-
trance Of the Library and at tie head of the cata
logue which the Librarian is preparing. Paris has
now its American Library
CITY moRrALIFY-- Deaths IN Phladelphlh,
week before last, l03-adults AS, minors So; by
10, dysentery 9, still-bom s.
SuIoIDE.-A German named Rheinecker. whose
wife deserted him and came to this city, was found
in his bed on the 18th at New York, with his threat
cut, and a razor clenched firmly ia his right hand.
Observation-Disclosures Smith. switch tender, WEE
siiisd on Tbs Reading lPa,l 5ailfoaa'