The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-06-14
NEW ORLE ANS:
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE IA, 1e4o.
Foreign Items.

THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE IA, 184o.
Foreign Items.
Present accounts from Tabriz state that reli
gous insurrection had taken place in that city
The Moahs, having been inierdicted by the prin
clpal eccesiastlc, rose in arms to the number o
5000, and have taken possession of the place.
A Dumfries paper gives account of an infan
a few months old that was destroyed by cat which
attacked 1t during the mOmentary absence OF Its
mother. The cat not known to be rabid, We
in few minutes inflicted severe wounds about
the head and face that surgical aid of no avail
The Recorder of Liverpool has decided that gro
GERS, in weighing sugar. have no legal right to de-
duct the weight of the paper in which it is wrapped
An illegal distillery has been discovered in AL
dersgate street, Liverpool, by means Of explosion
which set the premises on fire. The confusion
which followed afforded the parties implicated az
opportunity to escape.
A man named Patrick Francis has been com
mitied for trial at Galway, Ireland, for a murder
alleged to have been perpeirated tVenty-six years
ago He had previously been in custody but had
been liberated for want of sufficient evidence
A fire which recently occurred in Glasgow de-
stroyed property to the amount of 100000 Among
the buildings burned were the large sugar-house OF
Messrs. Wainwright IL Co. and church in Clyde
street, in connection with the established church
of Scotland Mostly insured.
The King of Hanover has recovered from his
late serious indisposiiion.
The Galway indicator states, as positive fact,
that the deaths in the Banasoe warehouses; in
one week, amounted to the rightful number of $50.
The news-venders in London have charitable
association for the relief of their distressed asso-
ciaies. The capital is fl000, and is increasing
Daniel O'Connels library is to be sold by
auction.
Not single village or town in the Roman terri.
tory has declared for the Pope.
Steen Billie, the commander of the Danish block
aiding squadron, has threatened those British vessels
which attempt to evade the blockade.
A large number of spots on the sun are now
visible.
Earl Grey has disposed of his Horton estate for
$4,000.
Mr. w. Rathbone, of Liverpool, presented Father
Mathew with t5OO sterling, in order that he might
pay the extra charge made by the insurance office,
where he had policy for his life, ontilsnoccason
Of his coming to the United States.
400 paupers died in the workhouse at Ballinasloe,
Ireland of the cholera, during the week ending on
the 5lh of May.
The Portuguese Government has declared all
vessels trading to the Cape de Verbs free from the
customary tonnage duty.
On the English Railway the following persons
are employed: 102 secretaries, 80 managers, 4
treasurers, 4O5 engineers, 1897 superintendent, 243
store keepers, l45 accountants, 50 cashiers, BOG
draug htsmen, 1877 clerks 200S6 ariifcers, l47 1875
laborers, ll9 inspectors, % land surveyors, 625O
gaugemen, 685 foremen, II policemen and $50
plaie-layers.
The Europa, that took over the news of the de-
struction of the Parliament House in Montreal, also
carried out sketches of the building, and the notes
from the pencil of Mr.. Somerville-and these came
back TO us in the London pictorias.
postal arrangement between Belgium and
France has been concluded. A letter now pays but
40 centimes either way.
Nine. Ramigny and Mme Recamier, of Paris,
are among the aest.victms of the cholera.
Jenny Lind has proceeded to Paris.
Torricellian shower bath has been invented.
The President of the French Republic has been
violently assaulted while riding out near Suremus.
His assailant was captured.
Lady Whichcote has died. in consequence of a
fall from her carriage, which she was driving at
the time. She was dashing and elegant lady,
fond of the whip.
Rev. Mr.. Shores health is sinking under lis
imprisonment.
JENNY LIND.-The London Atlas collects into
one paragraph the following amusing newspaper
contradictions about Jenny Lind:
Jenny Lind was absolutely married to Mr.. Har-
rs, at Norwich, on Wednesday forenoon. The
Bishop of the diocese oficiated at the nupiial
mony, and was at the same hour in the Hanover
square Rooms assisting at the meeting of the Serv
ants Provdent Society. On Tuesday night Mde.
Lind travelled by the steam train to Dover, and
early next morning stepped on board the Osfend
packet, en- route for the continent Sir Moses Mon
tefore and his lady crossed by the same boat on
their way to the East. Mr.. Bale received, by
Thursdays post letter enclosing intimaton
from the Swedish nightingale that she had become
Mrs. Harris on the previous morning. Miss Lind
has accepted invitation from some of her friends
of long standing to visit them at their country seat
in Northamppnshre, where she will remain for
some days, her expected marriage being postponed
for the present. Mr. and Mrs. Harris are on their
way to Stockholm, where they will spend their
honeymoon, and probably the autumn. Jenny
Lind may be expected to appear in several con:
certs If not in regular operas, before the close of
the present season. Her pending negotiation with |
MIR. Lumley for series of performances next year
at the Haymarket Opera is broken off, the inima-
bic vocalist having resolved to enter convent"
A NEWSPAPER VoLUME.-Mr Vattemare has |
invited all the editors and publishers of the United
States to send to the Boston Daily Bee, Uhe editor
of which has undertaken to form the coection,) !
copy of their papers, published on the 18th of july
lS49, with a copy of each semi-weekly and weekly |
which they may issue during the first week in July
Papers published in other Anne ean natioA9 Ind |
old rare newspapers, will also be thankfully re-
ceived Acknowledgements will be made through |
the Bee of all donations received. The design is |
TO have them arranged and placed in the I" Ameri.
can Library" at Paris
A GREEN ONE.-An exchange tells good story |
OF an innocent countryman, who CHANGED to be in
one of our cities on Sunday, and concluded to go
to church. Arrived there, he waited outside for |
moment, when to his profound surprise the organ
struck up, from which he concluded some sort OF
, snake down :" was about TO commence. just at
that moment gentleman invited him in and lake
scar; Not xaetly, Mster-l amt used to no
such doln on Sunday; and, besides, don't dance"
90 Convention to devise measures for the