The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-05-08

from the burning sun, and for the most part being
under water. He was taken aboard, and after
some time, with udicious care, he recovered, when
the vessel returned to Mazatlan Gen. Inclan de-
serves the thanks of every philanthropist for his
prompt humanity. The wretch Patina will be
punished for his cruelty
shock OF an earthquake was felt on the 9th of
FEBRUARY at Santebo, town of Chihuahua which
occasioned great CONSERVATION. No casualties &C.
Cured.
The cholera has appeared in different cities and
towns In the country, but only sporadic cases, ex-
cept on the banks of the Rio Grande, where it was
epidemic.
fire OF some extent occurred in Guiana uato on
the 10th ut., consuming property to large amount.
1t appears that although that city is one of the
largest and most popuous in the Republic, it has
not single hre-engine, nor are there any other
means kept for extinguishing fires.
The steamers to ply on the lakes in the vicinity
OF the capital are rapidly advancing 10 completion
We learn from the Monitoreo of the 10th inst that
Daniel Boyden, an American, stage-coach driver,
who for fifteen years had conducted himself with
the greatest credit in his vocation, had suddenly
made OIL from the capital with few thousand
dollars, which had been entrusted to him for trans
port from one place to another He is stated to
have taken the road to Vera Cruz. The precise
sum Is not mentioned. The man who has thus for
feited character of fifteen years standing has left
wife and family in the city o. Mexico in the great
est distress.
LITERARY DELINQUENTs.-A correspondent of
the N. Y. Herald writes as follows from Baltimore
mentioned, yesterday, the fact that it had been
discovered that the Grafton delivered by DR.. Muir
phy on the occasion of the dedication of the tenn
pie of the Sons of Temperance, last week, had been
discovered to be a literary larceny almost entire,
from an essay on the Ruins of Time," by the
late DIR. LOfand, well known throughout the coun-
try as the s. Milford Bard This announcement,
which was also made in one of our city papers
yesterday, was rich enough; but the true history
of the affair is rich beyond all comparison Ii
appears that DIR. Murphy, on being spoken to with
regard to this matter excuses himself by stating
that, not having time TO write the Grafton himself,
he had got his friend, Mr. Thomas Ii. Stamford
to write one for him !; and that the petit larceny
address, as delivered, was not his own production.
This confession must have been rather humilia-
ting to the doctor; but the subsequent denouement
has placed broad grin on the counenances of one
half of our citizens. Mr. Stamford retorts on the
doctor by disclosing the agreement between them,
winch was, that the doctor to write lecture
Tor him. on condition that he would write the ora
ton; that the lecture was given in exchange for
the Grafton, and that on coming down from the
stand after delivering it, he was accused with hay-
ing stolen 1t bodily from the writings of Addison,
and subsequent examination proved the truth of
the assertion. He further asserts that he had to
father this literary larceny from the great English
author, and that the doctor ought to have shout
dered his larceny on the Milford Bard without
making any disclosures on the subject. Between
them, however, they have perpetrated an outrage
on Their brethren OF the order that is wholly mex
cusaole. If they were incapable of performing the
duty imposed upon them, they should either have
resigned or have employed some writer of acknow-
lodged merit to produce something suitable for the
occasion