The daily crescent., 1850-09-23

been elected Senator for Galveston district, Texas
The potato rot has appeared in many parts OF
Illinois, andf ears are entertained of short crop.
The anniversary of the Battle of North Point
was appropriately celebrated at Baltimore on the 18th.
Gen Sam Houston addressed democratic meet
ing at Baltimore the 11th.
The democratic state convention for New Hamp-
shire, is called at Concord, Oct. II.
Ex-Gov Hill, of Concord has lost "a acres of
potatoes by the rot.
The Governor of Pennsylvania has offered $1,000 |
reward for the arrest and conviction of the muderers OF Chas
The Gloucester musical festival will commence
been accorded. The President the Duke of beaufort.
A boy was arrested in Detroit for selling to
stranger, ticket OF admission the Common to see the
moon rise,
Itis remarkable fact that Of the many thousands
of persons entitled pensions, only about twohirds on an
The amount of property destroyed by the late
flood at Tamaqua, Pa is estimated at $4,000 Twenty
two persons were drowned, aud ten are missing.
Mr.. Collector HYDE Of Detroit District, has now
his possession so captured vessels detected in taking
timber from the government lands.
Hon. M. Garter, Representative from the Stark
(O) Congressional District, has been renomnaed by the
democrats
The business of Chester, Pa, has more than
doubled within the s ten years t has one cotton factory
which turns out 70, 600 yards OF cloth per week.
The Unitarian Register for 1880 says there are
25 Unitarian Churches the United States, of which loo
! are in Massachusetts.
by the Government from this 10 the other side Of the Missls
sppi is 900. There are only @,OOO remaining.
| France contains 1O7 open Libraries, Austria 40,
Prussia a, Bavaria II, A. Tuscany g. saNony 8,
| Denmark ..
The taxes on the London Times amount to
$50 500 year for the paper SIS goo for stamps and S9l ECO
for adyeTtisements-tOta Si56,yOO.
The extensive Saaratus Factory of Messrs n.
Bartlett Co Cleveland Ohio was entirely m consumed by
A German Jew peddler, named David Bear
committed suicide at Syracuse recently by throwing himself
| into the canal.
The democrats have nominated Mr. T B. Flor
ence candidate tor Congress from the First Congressional
District of Pennsylvania.
There is lady at Saratoga so handsome and 50
proud that she there is only thing the world worth
looking at, and that mirror.
The Portland Advertiser sums up the whole
returns in the Second Congressional District-Fesenden
whg, 5Sl6; Appleton democrat, 5s52; majority 3S.
A man by the name of VIM. w. Stewart, has
lust sentenced to two years imprisonment in the Georgia
Penentiary for embezzng from the Post Office at Conyen
The St Petersburg Journal the Invalid, of the
llth publishes bulletin from the army of the ~ GaPPeaTs ,P
| saQuent submisslono OF two tribes
| During the recent fire at Independence, Mo,
Is kegs OF powder exploded killing A. H. Kean, and dam
aud the Presbyterian church.
A dispatch dated Cincinnati, 18th instant, says
the boiler of the steamboat Peter Miller exploded yesterday
SRe9 near r'a0'' an" Is reported '"' ''' were
Roosters have sometimes been called preachers
owing the fact that they proclaim rird Uoee The approach
Of day. What then shall e the hens Dye give Il
up? Why, lay members to be
The Medical College in Boston, in which the
murder of Dr. Parkmau took place has been closed to th
NAMED open.
Steamboats, are forbidden to W thistle within the
to s5oO % The noise is ai to disturb the CITY Fathers Will
| taking their nap after dinner
1t is estimated that of EjO,O00OOO Of taxes in
England, $500 OO rich people pay Ell $50 900 S090O
middle classes pay g35 10000 and 100000 Of th'
working classes pay El3,V3O,OOO.
, The corner stone of a new NJ f. Church was
laid at baltimore on the 2i The Reys. II. Slicer b. Ma
e and other ministers participated in the ceremonies, whIct
The citizens of Bath tMe.) have voted-645 to
1870 loan the credit Of that city to the Portland nnd Ken
nebec Railroad Company for the purpose Of completing th
road.
On the 9th inst, Mr.. B. F. Ford, IT, aged q
years, son of b. F. Ford, merchant of New York, wa
drowned while returning from fishing excursion at Green
wlch, Conn
Ihe officers having in charge Gen, Hinton
charged with rObbing the t. s. mail, arrived at Cleveland
o1fhe 9Th inst in default of s5oJO ball. the prisoner was
| cot knmitted to jail.
EThe taxes of Portland, N H., assessed this yeal
loun TO so 43 76 Hon Levi WoOibury pays ST29 81
\ Steam mii5 company *l9l 25, Piscaiaqua Eychaus
Bank $92 3j and there 3 persons and estates that Ph
hLouis Schlesinger, First Lieutsnau. OF the lat,
T Affhea aGEoad2t ait Of COMMON Con iIs5s is95 ~
a. h09s5ds @ 81 Pa the Grand jury Of Wayne county brought
| in favor OF the law. VI H1teu
| A gentleman from Indiana was attacEed with
the house of citizen two physicians We're caled n. T&e
| were ia. en- with the disease and died ''''
In England, there is population Off 900 900
ouS Sf tEsd bs P P6a w4s @ qn9 the number passed
United States with population Of 5000, 600 SaDaGIs OF
u'e same PERIOD. cheap postage makes thsdlerencg.
All the Coffee grown in the West Indies has
@ m TR t, %o plants akgn there By French Botanist
ayit9
deprived himself Of his allowance in order to aerthe@m @ lie
Several of the arsiocratic churches in Nevy
DIX wag9 ny hayf 2een goseJ during the summer, cone.
ppers announced he fact and Show b ssr b hng news
o. theatres proclaimed it to the public Great country t
Some scoundrel has been writing apnonvrnous
" 5s to ne iIsns 2 Lancaster, conveying information of
esfu @ Po iof 'le destruction o the city Of Lancaster
anst It. The citizens regard these letters as hoax but
al villains who may attempt to fulfil their own predictions
Yesterday we noticed several large steam bofIars
RITZ @ Placed on board Of the packet hp Tu4na lying at
Iafs fee on Pine t Psoc Of old 9Pd d9oated various
Some months rgT=sS FORK Coarisr 'O "'' sacramento
Capt Henry Wilder, Of che schooner Oconee.
procure medical aid for one Of bis crew TO his aT5 m r.
h ognd himself at once the object Of general attention and
nark-and public meeting was called, which the most
Il erng rSs9ati9gs We're passed in compliment him The
Chlse O an is, ne soon usCOYgreI,
several years before, in saving life iOm the wreck OF tie big
5 ulel, Of PCtOu. 7
u. S. slOOp Of war Gemantawn, Commaudar !
E1wndes, at New York from Pensacola, August 2 touched
Havana on the 9th. There was nothing new At lIavama:
few vessels in port and little or NOTHING ,DiTg p.
+ ed in Havana that the Queen Officials have cordemue
4 nee OF the nine American prisoners, wc were 10 be shot
remaining SN We're condemned to work the chain aug
The Columbia Sentinel says. " We are for |
scaaon, open, unqualified naked secession Hencetob we
d lorEW upon the government il has existed but for our
NJ ana TO the extent OF our ability destroy it, il shall
cast no longer We Oahe the very name OF tyranny and
" hslsF II SoWS ltSei IN the expressions OF crowned
u 'nTe or Of desp0tC majority. il is equally the object nj
" f WHiNNsateds unqualified abhOucucg."
The census OF the United States taken in lCi1 |
81 ow5 tl there that time, 8, q. 5 ngi
ugrcutrr1I pursuits 1l 7i3 in manufactures GO7 in
'mn.rei I71I ia mining; J62l IN navigating the ocean
slOhs Inc number OF employed in
q nd commerce had doubled in twenty years while ibe
nimher OF those engaged in manufacturing had.
DR.. Francis Parkman, says the Boston Times
At reply TO the letter addressed him by the late Professor
WEBSTER lew days before his death Ii is added that the
sOlse was not what, under the circumstances shOuld
ave eeApressng dOubs OF the truth of Prof w S con
''OI' ana eNhhns spirit Of untOrglveness, which very
a uleFenl letter was prepared by Dr. Putnam, hut il was
ppesed In connection with this subject the latter gentle
Deatl-the Wages of Sim
The U. S. storeship Erie, w ID, Porter. Tieut
pmnan,hnF; arrived at NewHOrk the 18th inst from
phstanQnople Among her passengers are Ammir Rev, |
phhlssOhst from the Sublime Porte the United States
inu suite John T. Brown, Esq DragOman 10 the IL :
ngahon, az Consatinopo; Thomas N Carr late Consul
engTal al I4ngier; s p. Carter. Passed Midsbpman IT,
y an! Il T. Cla se, from the Mediterranean Squad
'nS n, p GTeene ATE mate OF the bark L. 5. GOOdhul
American COnsus ~ '' ~ 80" "
The New York Shipping List has published its
ua tancs OF the cotton and wheat crops OF the United