The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-10-24
A String of Items.

"a sGWTtI NUGI8TV, composed 0T IaIleq. I9 among
the ouroses advertised for in the newspapers
The opening of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
was celebrated on Thursday, at Cumberland
Evansville, New Albany and Jacksonville, Ia,
made ports of entry by act of the last Congress
Hon James X. McLanahan passed through
Philadelphia on the I4th, on his way to New York.
Crawford, who was confined in jail in Rome,
Ga, for MURDER mas made his escape.
The Hon. Charles M. Conrad, Secretary of War,
arrived in New York on Saturday. the 18th.
Sentence of death was pronounced against an
gir eighteen years Of age The trial occupied four days.
The individual who struck Billy Patterson has
at last been discovered Miss Mary Hnrbur has been
rested in New FORK for striking William Patterson!
An English jury in criminal case, is said to
Rai e d O[I%si as to 10 Whether he Is the man
The New York Evening Post says that G. P.
r. james FISH, has efare BIS g!Snonn the proper court
Judge John Y. Mason has been elected President |
of the Virginia Convention, and Stephen Decatur Whe
Secretary.
The Georgia Annual Conference of the Method |
Friday, The sth day Of November next.
Jenny Lind spent the night of the 18th at Iran
was expected in Philadelphia the next day,
Miss March, a teacher in one of the public
schools in nedham, Mass taken sick Immediately after
eating ice cream, and died.
virulent disease has broken out in kernstown,
Va Six had died within the last few days The disease
bears sembIanCe to the cholera
found drowned in Willis creek, ut Cumberland, Md, lately
She had been iahoring under dependency.
The New York Tribune announces the publica-
ton Of new, work on Austria. The author is the Hon;
William II. Stiles, late American Charge to the court OF
Vienna.
The Hon. Sidney Breese, late United States
Senator from Illinois, is a candidate for the Assembly IN
Clinton county, in that State
Alfred Carson, Chief Engineer, has been nomi-
dent candidate.
The Episcopal church in Macon, Ga, is about
being taken down to give place to more spacious and ee
Mr. W Choice, of Rome Ga, was thrown from
his buggy few days sinfe and seTousy injured Ills
The Madison Visitor says the requisite amount
from Madison to Monticello
Hon. J. S. Black is spoken of by the Carlisle
Fs SR9!fS5 "a ''""'as '' o"'u states senator HUN
The Directors of the Attica and HornellsviIle
Railroad Warsaw, Genesee county, New Ork last
week, and put the whole road under contract.
A whale was found on Thursday morning, hard
and @ s1, % @ Point on Fg 8@ Shore about one and half
NJ. Boyd, Esq, Of Marengo, Ala, delegate to
the Nashville Cony ontQn, has resigned and will have nothing
to do with the Convention.
A new bank, the John Hancock Bank"
sd, Mass, about the Isl Of Soyem sS
The Postmaster General has appointed David
Keller Postmaster at Jefferson Frederick county, Mary land
| vice John J. Erwin.
President Sparks, of Harvard University, it ap-
pears has expressed no intention of resisnng his office lie
We learn from the Montgomery (Ala) Adver-
seT that Col joP Erwin ha Tss s MS F2s f oRm
Basby has been appointed in his stead
Charles Dreamer has been found guilty, in Balt-
more of transmitting to the Pension Office, at Washington.
detraud the United states OF land warrant certificate
The amendment to the Constitution making
Judges OF Courts hereafter elective has been adopted by
majority Of the citizens OF the Commonwealth of Penn
| sylyania.
The Tanneries in South Danvers, Mass occupy
$40 and use $50 eco hides and 1900 cords Of bark
leather, and sd, Jj6 Morocco sLins dressed.
There is a spurious tea mandatory in Jersey.
Damaged from the bonded warehouses, teaeave from
are converted into what is sold for tea.
The NewIersey Native American Convention
aSet for Goysno and fs0ved that was nsSredeat to
nominate another candidate.
Bybark Hualoo, Richards, II days from Jaremie,
ST Domingo. earu that the Emperor has foil -leu ue
cutting Of any more osNoo1 Ia ms I0muious IN, Y Tn
The great painting Of Death on the Pale
Horse BY Dunlap puplo the celebrated West being
copy of VESTS orsna was .oI at auction NewYork on
! the 18th inst. The Lrst bid--s-3VO-toOk Il.
The Rochester On. y Democrat announces the
deatho Of Erastqs she2art ESD OF lhay city Mr. s wa
that establishment in lsll, with competence.
| Col Webb has returned TO his duries as edtr n
the New or Courier and his t article j; to re9uke ke
party for his Tree soil votes in the i. 5. Senate,
Capt, Andrew Fltzhugh, L. 5. n, died at hi
xty-two. CAPTAIN Flzuah, entered the Navy in ISL an
served with zeal and ability through the succeeding war wit
England.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which wa
commenced nearly qnarter OF century ago. is at lengJ
far cogpsed as to be IN qEyisabs condition from Cum
Cumberland on the l0t6 inst.
The NewYork Cas Company have recently com
mened an enhancement o. TIER works on zIE reet 3nd Is
enable them produce lhan double the quantity OF
Mr. Edward Whidden was killed in Parsons
field. Me-, the l4th INST under peculiar circumstance
e %as IN c2mGany with 2Rol5eF Yong man. e4gagea
shot at and he was almost instantly killed, and the ohe
severely wounded
The Trpler Hall, just finished in NewYork
will be opened Thursday evening, by Madame Bishop
who 10 give grand CONCERT The magnitude Of this ente
ment is to consist of nearly two hundred voices, and til
instrumental OF over one bundled.
Tobacco, Coffee and Sugar are all on the rise
as we learn by reference Barring & Coz. London ccu5
and 70 continental markets The BRUSH wheat crop Is dc
cldedly short OF according to the London Me
camille Gazette.
In private letters received in Charleston, pc
steamer Isabel it stated that the price Of cigars IN Havan
has advanced very considerably in consequence OF the
demand for the California trade each steamship for Chagn
taking les than from five to seven hundred thousand.
, A large tract Of land, extending from the Bloom
ngIae Road to the North River New York; and compnsn
about fifty acres has recently been purchased by gent ema
a and attractive manner On the plan Of The Reecnts Par
London, with picturesque roadways running through
} ponds, cascades, etc.
Lieut. w. D. Porter, of the T. s. Navy, has pre-
scented the editors OF the National negenCer for dstr
button among practical farmers variety Of choice seeds fro
the Mediterranean. Among them IS the listing melon
Naples, which sud be kept good and fresh for
year merely by hanging ii in COO and dry place.
+ Mr.. Hans, d grocer, living at the corner of Bed
ford and Leroy Streets New u, has been arrested susp
cOn OF attempting poison his whole family consisting
his wife, her sister, his own SON and servant girl. Prom
remedial aid prevented any fatal results and proved that II
seniC had been mixed with their tea.
, A man who died recently in the Commerce.
Hospital, Cincinnati, from gun shot wound had survive
sIxycgh hours, after the ball had passed through the rg
aurce OF the heart This is certainly remarkable phenOn
euDn IN the tory Otsurgry. Upon pos eNamin
ION the ball was found lodged in The spinal hone after al
! ! passing through the ed OF the lung
At a meeting of Friends, in the Eastern part
Queens county, New York, lately, lady of hrt deuOmn
ton and said " There has lately to this
= try woman who sings and great many people go aft
It her Her name Jane Lynde. II this singing won,
should into eghbOrhOGd, hope OF your
folks will be drawn away to hear ner
The Bremen ship Louise, which was heretofor
reported ashore on Cuuck, has again been heard iron
| Of a Geographic dispatch yesterday morning from NOrD
stating size had bIged Previous accounts informed
her passengers having been safely landed. baltimore
| change Reading Rooms.
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: MurrIed:
On the plantation Of f, G. D9vIiers, Little Woods
the Parish OF st Landry, by the Rev. Ravol Ihura
l7th inst, Nj JOHN WYBLE tO Hiss HILIA DElILLIER
both OF that Parish.
Died:
In Baton Rouge, the 10Th inst, Mr. john b AKIN,
native OF New jersey, but long resident OF this State.
Y In Baton Rouge, on the ed u!t, Mr. WILLIAM KIRK,
! native OF Ireland.
e Auction SaIes-This Day.