The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-06-11

sixty-first Diocesan Convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the State of Maryland met or
the Both ult., in St. Paul's Church. Baltimore, AZ
ter appropriate religious services, Bishop Whiting.
ham being absent through indisposition, the Rev
DR.. Wyatt was appointed President pro tenn. The
annual address of the Bishop, giving an account Of
his episcopal services and mnistratons during the
past year, was read by the Rev. Mr.. Lyman. The
Baltimore American gives the following summary
of the document:
the diocese IL removals DEATH and Is ADDITIONS the pre-
sent number Of clergy l0 sbyte and deacons making
dates for holy orders H. -Four ordinations had been held
e ods Of pss ~fe IT, to the and to
~ at WHICH ~ persons had received the sacred rite The
states that the of the church curing the year has
pesn onward but not to that degree which might be
forts diligence and beraty in aiding the cause Of the
church IN Maryland
At the afternoon session the election of standing
committees was made the order for the next day at
III A. M. communication was received from the
Bishop, nominating the Rev. Clement F. Jonas to
fill the vacancy in the Ecclesiastical Court of the
diocese, caused by the removal of the Rev. William
Reese to the diocese of Connecticut.
o. Mr.. Lawrence Hill, who recently died in
and strength of character. When seized by what
he satisfied would prove fatal illness, he sat
down Immediately and executed his will. He was
dead in five hours and buried in thirty. Truly in
life we are in the midst of DEATH A policy, which
Mr. Hill had for l0,000 in one of the Life Insu-
rance companies of that city, had expired on Fri
day-he had failed to renew it. Mr.. Hill was also
the first to be buried in site he had just chosen in
Greenwood Cemetery.
DEATH OF VENERABLE LADY.-Mrs. Eliza
beth Ramsey, widow of the late Capt. Ramsey. of
the U. S. Army, died on the 29th ut. in Cincin-
natl She went to that city the year of St. Clar's
defeat, above half century since. She was one
of the oldest pioneer women.
OF Col. Joseph d Sargent, a distinguished citi-
zen of Leicester, Mass, and many years member
of the State Legislature, committed suicide in
state of mental arrangement, week before last.
LlBERIA.-News from this new African Repub-
lie has been received at New York, by the bark
Nehemiah Rich, which left there on the 10th Feb.
The President (Roberts) had arrived from Eng
land in one of her Majssty's frgates fitted up for
the purpose Of conveying him and his family to
Liberia. They arrived on the LIST of February.
President Roberts met with very good success in
England, France and Belgium, havrg had the in.
dependence of Liberia acknowledged by all those
powers The English Government heve granted
the right of trade TO the Liberians between Cape
Mount and Palmas, and have consented to their
purchasing all the country between Cape Mount
and the Sherbro river, and a private banker in
England had made present of $4,000 or f4OOO
for the purpose of purchasing that country. The
English Government had also made present of
cutter of guns to the Liberian Government, and
had also placed at the disposal of the President as
many of the English vessels of war as he should
wish for the purpose of burning up and destroying
he slave factory at New Cess. The English have
destroyed all the slave factories Galenas and burnt
he whole place down. They were to march on
he slave factory of New Cess on the LIST of March.
If the slave factories between Palmas and Sherbro
for ever effaced from that part of the country.
The authority for these statements is Capt Carl.
on, Of the bark, who furnishes them to the Secre.
airy of the Colonization Society.
ANOTHER ACCIDENT AT THE FALLs-A letter
lated at Ireland Depot, May 18th, says: "Yester.
lay at noon three men were seen attempting TO |
ross the river in skif short distance above the
lam now under construction. AS they neared the |
middle of the river, the current, which at present
s unusually rapid in consequence of the projection
# the Golfer dams either side, speedily overpow-
red their efforts to resist it, and risng if to view
he inevitable death before them, they were swept,
tern on, into the rapids. Their boat tossing from |
ne rock to another, in few moments was seen to |
apsize; the men rose, clinging to the gunwales, |
nd were hurried on until an opposing rock dashed |
he boat into fragments. Two disappeared at once;
he other was seen erect, the water to his knees,
ut in a moment after he was hurled down and |
cen no more. At The first appearance of danger,
boat with ten men left the shore below the falls
Or the foot of the rapids, but after remaining for
ONE time, with no appearance of the bodies. re-
urned. 1t is less than week since that an acct
ent of precisely similar nature occurred, in which
owever, two of the three escaped. In both cases
he parties were Irish.''
ESCAPE OF Scale, THE GREAT JEwELRY
was some excitement at the Stale
'rison, CharlestOwn, This morning, upon finding |
Ope- ladder suspended from the outer wall of The
'rison. The inference at once was that some one
the prisoners had made his escape, and search
vas forthwith instituted to ascertain who was miss.
1g. 1t was soon known that William Scale, alias
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company with Jim Webb, of Government Jewel
otoriety, robbed the jewelry store of Messrs. Da-
is & Palmer of 500, 600 or $3O, 900 worth of prop
rty, and the brokers' Office of Messrs. Gilbert q
on of several thousand dollars, gone, and that
e accomplished his escape in the following man
era short time ago he, at his owfrequest, was
laced in one of the cells of the old prison, the new
rison being overrun with occupants His trade
,as that of whitesmith, and he surreptitiously
assessed himself of tools, with which he bored
trough the rivets of the lock of his cell door, and
7as enabled to open it. This let him into the arch
,ay from whence to the yard only one door inter-
ened. This door he also forced, by cutting an iron
hahn. Then, by means of rope. ladder, he scaled
lie walls, and was at liberty. He probably chose
st night for the attempt, in consequence of lis
eing dark and stormy, which would prevent his
sing so easily observed by the guard. Scale is 80
ears of age, is feet 81 inches high, has black
1es, black hair, dark complexion, is some pi,ted
' the smallpox, and has scars over the right eye,
nder the left eye, on right cheek near the ear, on
It side of the neck, and two large scars on lower
lrt of the right arm. He was sentenced on the
'th of July, 1S4l, to fifteen years in the State
rison for the two robbers, and has conseqenty
har rlv ioht which