The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-12-30

transmission of this Dispatch there is 22l feet water
in the channel Large quantities of drift are pass
ing by. The weather is very cool.
CINCINNATI, Dec. %, s P. M-The river at this
point has risen feet during the last twenty-four
hours. The weather is cold. Boats from above
report the Kanawha to be rising very fast, and
freshet is apprehended. The Whitewater is high
at Harrison, Ia, and the canal is in danger.
change q pr ces WIi.KyEDemand air at i5gsT5s1c
No change in Groceries regards demand and
bbs Al Sc. and loo kegs At sizo 'D 0''''''' ~
THE CHOLERA in New YoRK-The following
is the report Of the New York Health officer, on the
Goth, as to the cases mentioned by telegraph:
g Four cases of cholera have occurred at the
Marine Hospital since yesterdays report Three
of these were old inmates of the Hospital previous
to the arrival of the ship New York. One Of these
has proved fatal"
A New York letter of Wednesday evening, the
10th, says:
The resident physician reports one case of
cholera as having occurred at O'Clock, this morn
ing, at No. ISL Washington street, being German
boarding house. The case is that of German,
who has been twelve months in the United States,
and arrived from Pittsburg here eight days since.
He has been in intercourse with the passen-
gers Of the New York, andhad taken passage
for Europe in one of Messrs. Fox q LivingstOn's
vessels, and would have sailed this day, if the
attack had not prevented him."
FLIGHT OF THR PoPE CoNTRAD1cTED.-The
Boston Advertiser publishes the following from the
Paris Journal des Debats of Nov. 90, cOntradictng
the rumor of the Pope's flight from Rome:
some of the journals was in an error in an
nouncing that the Pope had been obliged to quit
Rome. The Government has received, under date
of the 23d, at o'clock, P. NJ, the following tele-
graphic dispatch:
por,s c.In The r.vv M;risfr has 4. nm
arrived at Roms this afternoon"
The Journal des Debdts of the Both contains no
later intelligence from Rome. 1t publishes official
dispatches from the French Ambassador to the 18TH
CATHOLIC B1sHoPs.-The Cincinnati Telegraph
states that Rev. M. Vandevelde, late Provincial of
the Society of Jesus in Missouri has been appointed
Bishop Of Chicago; and Very Rev. Maurice de St.
PaIais, administrator of the Diocese, Bishop of
Vincennes.
o. The College of New Jersey has just con-
ferred the honorary degree of d. d. upon the Rev.
Nathaniel S. Prime Of Ballston Spa, NY, and the
Rev. James Hamilton, of the Free Church, Re-
gent Square, London, and the honorary degree Of
| A. NJ on the Rev. Joseph Warren, Of Allahabad,
India.
CHuRcHEs.-There are eghty-fve churches in
| Cincinnati-and yet it is one of the most wicked
| places in all creation. So says the Louisville
Courier
LIBERAL.-Hon. Jacob Burnett has RENTED $500
to the American Colonization Society at Washing
ton, in aid Of the efforts of the Pennsylvania Society
to effect the liberation of 567 slaves offered gratuit-
GUS emancipation on their assuming the expenses Of
their colonization
PENNSYLVANIA LAND.-A farm of 100 acres,
lying upon the river, about three miles above Har-
risburg Pa, with the usual buildings and improve
ments, was sold for $l5,5 500 cash.
FIRE-The paper warehouse of Messrs. Nagarge
Philadelphia, took fire from spontaneous combus.
ton, on Wednesday, the 10th.
Gu1LrY.-The trial of Shadrack Barnes, fol
murder, took place at Richmond, KY, last week
The jury found him guilty. His counsel applied
for new trial, which application was still undel
consideration at the latest dates.
DEATH FROM THE KICK OF HoRsE.-George
Dickinson, free colored man, was kicked by
horse at the residence of Mr.. VIM. A. Kirby, Il
Trappe District, Nd, on the 18th inst, which
caused his death the next morning.
| ny The Anti.Slavery Convention Of Eastern
PennsVlvania met at Phlladelpnla on the SVth iis'
Resolutions recommending petitions to Congress
for the full exercise Of its slledged powers over tn
slave subject and for the abolition of slavery in tn
District. were discussed nearly all day. Edwar
M Davis was elected President Of the Society, ant
one of the Secretaries was lady
ny Mr.. Beecher, the Englishman who was sho
at Vienna for sharing in the rebellion, was compo
ser of music and critic. He was the editor OF tn
. radical newspaper M. Jellinck, also shot, ediIe
or wrote for the Austrian Mineral Gazette. he wa
ayoung man, and disciple Of HegeL
Or Killing wives in Boston is no great offence
certainly. James Henry was sent to the Stat
Prison for six years. for beating his wife to dealt
and Barney Golding to the House of Correction 4
two years, for killing his better half by kicking h
down stairs All the parties were drunk at the tim
$ Cr- The number of marriages in Hartford, Gem
4 for the year ending Aug. 9TH, lS4s, was ITO;
# births, 296; Of deaths, 2l3.
] NJ DR.. Graves, in bis Clinical Lectures, state
- remarkable circumstances that females are vel
!, rarely affected with stammering
n nv Mr.. Nye, Of Pennsylvania, shipwrecked
the late typhOon al China, escaped 70 Macao, 2
cOrding to private letter.
s oE- The printed Indictment against VI. Duff
8 az the Irish Nation, measures about ore hundr
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