The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-05-10
A String OF Items.

Wood is scarce in Cincinnati, and sells high
there as "a 25 co,d Some kinds command IS 90.
The mercantile navy of Sweden consists of 1854
vessels; TONNAGE 7s.5A. OF these. 49 steamers.
The population of the Cherokee Nation is 20, 900,
5000 being exclusively Chsfokees and the whites and
blacks.
Chilly Mcintosh, head war chief of the Creek
Nation, has been ordained Gospel Ministry and
employed by the Baptist Board native preachers
Ezekiel Stokes. conductor on the Mansfield and
Sandusky tOhio) Railroad. killed on the as by bring
knocked off the train by bridge
The Cincinnati Commercial saws that one dollar
notes the Northern Bank of Kentucky altered to tens are
now in circulation in that city.
The Louisville Courier of the Sd inst saws that
the frost of the night of the LIST total of
The fruit crop in that reAion.
Mrs. F. Follett, aged twenty-five, and married
but few months drowned herself recently at ST. Abans
Vermont
The Erie Railroad Company expect to deliver
their passengers in New York city from Dunkrk on Lake
Erie in sixteen hours.
The Boston Times closes long eulegis article
on Mr. barnum by saying he his fortune proper
dcous and liberal plan of advertising the newspapers
The Nashville Gazette says that during the
short soou OF Father Mathew there he added between five
and SIX hundred to the already countless number his
perance disciples
"A man named Groatman was instantly killed on
tne s'h nt by falling into the wheels of Conckin &
woods white lead factory, in Cincinnati. His body was
literally torn to pieces and scattered around the
lncendiarlsm prevails to an alarming extent al
present. in all of the United States Every conviction
Tor such crime ought TO have the penalty of the law
meted out to it.
The lumber and other materials for the constrlc-
ton OF the Presbyterian Church. in Thbodaux La are on
he GROUND. II Is Intended that this church will be the
handsome public edice in the town.
The patent for Paine's Light, taken out in Eng.
land is published in the Scientific American. This Light
was patented England on the l2h of June 1850 hut has
been only recently enrolled
The mountains north and east of Pottsville Pa.
IN the early part OF last week, fire. enveoping The
whole region in clouds of smoke. These fires appear to be
OF annual occurrence. and destructive to the grow
ing timber.
The spnners at Fall River, Mass, numbering
SOO operatives, have been for the last twenty four
Weeks against reduction of amounting to % per
cent Their tailoring brethren in Massachusetts, are con-
ulbutng to their support.
The Legislature of Delaware have passed bill
providing that the sale The Sabbath of any intoxicating
drink shall be considered worldly employment shall
subject the offender for the first offence to fine of $40 to be
recove ed by indictment.
In the Court of Oyer and Terminer, NewYork,
Judge Edmonds sentenced Aaron B. Stuckey convicted of
convicted OF the murder of James Curry be executed
the a7lh of Jane.
A Philadelphia paper tells of the arrest of a
young man from Baltimore by Mayor GIpn for wearing
shrcolar OF unreasonable dimensions, and adds that
the Mayor had determined put end to such fooeries
fhladelphla must be hard place to live in.
The Great West, Cincinnati newspaper, says
that the new three cent pieces coming active
aion IN business transactions there They just thing
to meet the demands OF the postal law nstitung three
rates,
The new steamboat 50 Reindeer, - on The Hudson
River is perfect ruher She recently made the trip
from New York Albany in seven hours and fifty five
minutes, running time She said be the fastest boat
now running in the wide world.
There were on the lst of January, 1851 eight
hundred and sevenytwo Banks and branches the United
States. Their aggregate capital s227 55s94; loans
and discounts s4l2 0 specie, sis,67l 49, circuia
ton, sl55, 055 ISL deposits, $27 SO, 79l.
The hackmen of Cincinnati being ordered off the
Madison steam packet its arrival proceeded the
boat which they did successfully. smashing the sky.ghts
DOORS etc and doing considerable damage. Such conduct
infamous, and the ring LEADERS ought be severely pm
ished.
Gaming is largely on the increase in Cincinnati
An immense number of young clerks with small salaries and
liberal pckngs sueld their all Rondo' kindred
games. The city Of ham and will have u consd.
cradle influx OF peculiar portion of population so soon
as that fashion is known to have come in there.