The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-11-15

Some half dozen convicts at BIackwelps
stand New. ork taking advantage of tho excitement
Saturday. swan the river and escaped One Of them was
subsequently found in house Vaick street, and recap
The abolition of Grand Juries is being debated
In the Indiana Constitutional Convention 1t is proposed TO
@ m g9oG examination therefor The PROPOSITION
have power to reessbish Grand Jures, if did work
1t has been very generally stated that Amin Rey,
the Turkish Envoy in this ry, had sin wives
plurality Of wives being allowed by the laws of his native
country he has however, requested the editor of the Chris
an Waterman to correct this statement and say that he
has b t one wife.
There are in operation, at the present time, in
Richmond, Va, forty three tobacco factories in which
emoyed over 1890 hands, and which produce in manuiao
tued tobacco fourteen millions five hundred thousand
pounds, annually.
About seventy Irshmen, engaged on a. new
building IN New York, stopped work because negro
employed They offered to make purse for him il he
on the building ceased
A snuff box of novel construction, and designed
to sqpesede the necessity Of ulng the fingers in taking snuff
has been registered at Birmingham The box is inverted and
the lularing mixture, and ready to the nose.
A physician of Paris who was recently chal.
legged to duel ehose what he called his weap6us-that
t9ts should be drawn, 4otch Of tie toO should srqom
araea q arsene The challenger declined, and the affair
A runaway negro, having stolen horse in Brown
The horse Joined BY his neighbor, Mr. William Gil6ert On
wound in the breast of Gilbert, and than escaped
Lieut.. Maury, of the National Observatory, in
etero the Secretary of the Navy sratq thai the pnst d.
covered on the night OF September 49, 1850, by Mr. Hind OF
al Observatory on the 28h ut at ''o ~ SAO"
The reason why editors are apt to have their
manners spoiled because they from one correspond
ear and another such vast number Of eYl ca
We learn from the Providence Journal, that II
mills containing 4O looms, IN the vicinity of that city, have
oo a sOppso MANY Of these were manufacturing printing
The receipts Of contributions for the erection of
NE " ashngton National monumsn during the mon tn of
bclObeT from all sources. amounted 400 They have
averaged, since the lst Of January 1850 per month
A serious controversy has been pending lately
between the National Bank of Vienna and The press of hit
it denies ''''''o''' WHICH
The Warrentown lN.CJ News says: "There
not lOste drunka in Warrenowu nor family tbat
Is not perfectly Ee4nectabe and making decent living 6y
honest industry This is saying much Tor village but
The number of dogs in the United States is COM
pued at three and half ions TIE expense of keeping
q equal to that Of twenty millions Of Sheep or two millions
The Constitutional Convention of Indian, has
says the CeGtreyie Irpe DnocTa determined exclude
testimony IN courts OF justice against white persons
A monument 10 General Wooster is proposed bv
Che citizens Of Danbury Connsqtsu who have started
STATE are to contribute.
What answer did Julius Cpsar give when Brutu,
l aa 6@ hoy E p B5 he had eaten for breakfast
The Chicago Advertiser intimates that some Of
the gboton' endeayonng the Greek Slave and
run her into Canada. @''
Michigan, with population of 100000, has
5xysix miles of railway completed and three hundred and
thrynne miles more in Cours Of construction and projected
An Irish paper announces that Mr.. Kenny, re.
received no further damage EF'
The number of arrests for illegal voting in the
City Of New York, at the last election very large One
man was arrested for stealing ballot box.
During the month of September, 800 vessels pass.
ed through the Weland Canal This much larger num-
Der than IN corresponding months Of previous year
A o. Sossa monument to Columbus is to be
erected Madrid.
In ) yannab alcohol has been manufactured from
the peel Jtthe sour orange.