The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-08-28

important dispatch from our Baltimore cores
pendent,
Liverpool Cotton Market
BALTIMORE, Aug. 24-Theaa Steamship Canada
has arrived, having sailed from Liverpool on the
1lth inst. The demand for Cotton during the past
week has been active, and the transactions have
attained large figure, amounting to 7s coo bales,
Of which spectators took $4,000, and exporters
5000 bales There has been a steady attendance
OF the trade throughout and under the influence of
this inquiry backed by the advices relative to the
growing crop in the United States, prices have adj
vanced one-eighh to one .tafthing per 10. The
quotations now stand as follows Fair Uplands,
std; Fair Mobile, SD; Fair Orleans, SD.
Havre Cotton Market.
The accounts from Havre indicate steady mar
ket, with tendency upwards. Prices are very
firm.
The Grain Markets.
The harvesting Of the crops has commenced I'M
der auspicous circumstances the yield promises to
be most abundant. This circumstance has had the
effect of depressing the Grain markets, and for most
| descriptions the tendency of prices is downward
For Indian Corn, however, there has been rather
| better demand.
The Funds.
The London money market is unchanged, the
! supply Of capital being very abundant The Funds
are advancing. Consols closed on the 9th at 925,
and on the 10th they reached 49, The amount of
| bullion in the Bank Of England is fifteen millions
and half AT the Paris Bourse on the 9Th, the
| Funds opened at per cent advance.
State of Trade.
The manufacturing districts are actively en-
ployed, and the demand, both for wooden and cot
ton goods, is brisk
| The Danish Blockade.
| The Danish Government has given official no
tiee that the blockade of the river Ebe to ter
inmate on the l1th inst.
/ Sardinia.
A defnitive treaty of peace has been concluded
| between Austria and Sardinia.
SECOND DISPATCH
More of the Markets-PoIitioaI Intelligence
BALTIMORE, Aug. 24-LiUerpool, Aug. 1.-THE
demand for Flour is chiefly confined to the retail
trade. The best American brands command from
20s. to 21s Cd, There have been large sales Of In
dian Corn at from 2ts. to 26s. per quarter Corn
meal ranges at from AS TO to 14s. cd. per barrel
Bacon is in steady demand at former prices. Beef
commands ready sales at full prices.
Rome.
J The Commissioners the Pope have ordered the
disbanding of the entire army of Rome, not except
ing even those who had remained faithful to him.
Venice.
! The city of Venice is still unsubdued by the Aus
trian besieging forces. It is reported that three
! American vessels have euded the vigilance of the
assaiIants and have carried provisions into the be-
leaguered city.
Hungary.
One dispatch says that the Hungarian General,
Benz, with 10000 men, has recently defeated
hodHr uf Dr7g -, VI,
Hungarians under KIapka this name must bs a
Telegmphic blunderl have taken the important
city Of Raab by storm, capturing an immense
quantity of munitions They have likewise sue
ceeded in occupying several other cities In gen.
eral terms, the accounts from Hungary are emin-
emily favorable, and every battle Tough: results in
some advantage to that gallant people
-sOs
CATHOLIC CoLLEGE.-Ths Milwaukee Sentinel
states that Bishop Henri has purchased eight lots
in that city, for the site of a Catholic college.
H-In the bark Stella, which sailed from Alex.
andria on the nth, for Cork, Mr.. Fenton, recently
appointed Consul at Cowes and Southampton
went passenger.
AooEpTED>-The Rev. Mr.. Green, Professor OF
rhetoric and logic, in the University of North Ca
rolina, has accepted the appointment of bishop Of
Mississippi.
o. Father Mathew administered the pledge to
about 1000 persons in Roxbury, on the nth. He
has already given the pledge to upwards OF 25 OOC
in Boston city and vicinity.
o. Mr., William Sturgeon, of Manchester, dis.
| tinguished for his researches in electricity and
magnetism, has been placed on the civil list by
Lord John Russell, for the pension of ESQ year
G5~ The greatest man is he who chooses the right
| with lnvlncble resolution, who resists the sOres
| temptations from within and without who bears
the heaviest burdens cheerlully, who is calmest in
storms and most fearless under menace and frowns
whose reliance on truth, on virtue, God, is most
untalterng.- Claiming.
CHOLERA IN BosroN.-The following is the
latest from Boston The report for the "a hours
ending August IS, shows 20 deaths from cholera,
of whom were Americans, and Is foreigners.
Yesterday, 17th,) the cholera deaths were 9. The
deaths for the week were 257-of which III were
from cholera; dysentery 81; and 10 from diarrhpa.
They consisted of 76 Americans, and ISL foreigners.
CHOLERA IN BTRMINGHAM, PA.-The Pittshurg
Gazette of the 18th has the following account OF
the cholera at Birmingham:
The disease in this Inflated town is rapidly on
the increase, and is now spreading through all
parts of it. The greatest conservation prevails,
and few who can leave their houses remain in
them. The stores are closed, and the streets
blocked up by the furniture wagons and carts
removing families into the country while the man
uactories are, with very few exceptions, shut up.
When the plague ragged most fearfullv in London
| that town could not have worn a more residential
| appearance than Birmingham did yesterday The
people gathered in knots Of four or fiye round the
huge fires which were burning in the streets, some
built Of coal, others of tar and rosn while the
streets wore almost wintry aspect in spite of the
fire and smoke, owing to the quantity of lime scat
tered all around.
1t would be impossible TO record each particular
case, but we are assured by the Sanitary Commit
tee that twenty-one persons died Yesterday. while
between thirty and forty are now under treatment,
many of them in a state Of collapse.
One of the physicians, Dr. Moy, who was at
tackled yesterday, is now dangerously i'll, and Mr.
! Hermann, one of our hest musicians die5 ~,