The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-03-05
A String of It ms.


Murdoch is playing at Pittsburg.
Wheeling, Virginia, is now lighted with gas.
There were 70 deaths in Boston last week.
A negro 104 years and II months old, died at
Charleston on the 2lst.
The Mexican Boundary Commission is expected
to be employed three years in running the line
The population of Australia has nearly doubled
within ten years.
Death. in Philadelphia last week 155-by con-
sumption %.
There have been two shocks of earthquake at
Antigua lately.
The recent arming of the Prussan militia has
cost the country about $25.0OO.Ooo all for nothing.
A debating society has been formed among the
Cherokees at ahequah.
The Ashwood Female Academy, near Columbia,
Tenn, was destroyed by fire on the 10th ult.
A new Synagogue is about to be erected in
New York
A bill to modify the Usury Laws has been intro
duced into the New York Legislature.
In Europe, people take off their hats to great
in America, take off their hats to the people,
The box rents of the San Francisco Post-oftice
are worth $3l COO per year
A solution of alcohol with very little camphor,
brushed the backs of books will keep them nom
milldew.
The Opal " is the name of neat weekly paper
Tuca A. s' y pFnI t any ns Interesting "e publication
Letters from Florence of the Both ult state that
decree has been Issued prohibiting e use OIL MASKS ethe
happv horne il a glorious and instructive
sight one which does the heart good to see, and which,
beed lea ineaceabe impression on the mind
A nromise and its performance should like the
scales of balance always present mutual adjust
ment.
genius in Troy has just invented stove that
of the wood while the ashes pay for the
remainder. Here's stove as is stove.
More than 10 900 Russians of the first families
asked of the Emperor leave London during The
Abhas Pacha, the ruler of Egypt, has sunk into
Mohammed Ali.
| Space in the Crystal Palace has been granted 10
the Bible Society exhibit specimens of their Bibles in
| no less than $50 languages
| Monday, the 7th of April, has been assigned to
fl the four vacancies in the Massachusetts, delegation in
| Congress.
| Commodore Stockton gave great public fest-
val at Trenton N. j. Friday evening, at which he made
speech, regard 10 his election as United States Senator
Margaret Devne, convicted of poisoning the
Mcknight family Bergen N. j., has been the
State prison tor twenty
Mrs. Mowatt, the American actress, was play
ing a, last dates at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, to crowded
| Mrs. Frances Ann Kemble has gone to Paris,
and vas to commence sere' OF Shakespeare readings in
| tierz's saloon, on the 9Th inst
| Commodore G.. Vanderbilt, who has been to
the Nicaragua the Pacific, arrived New
| York in steamer Pronetheus, from Chagres.
The Rev. Mr.. Nelson, rector of Latimer parish,
in Lexington. Va, has been appointed missionary to
| Shanghai, China.
recent official list shows that The number oi
wearing Russian orders Of merit is s. 23l Of the
orders of GEORGE first there only three knights
| Paskewich. Wellington, and Radesky.
| At Munich are nine young Egyptians: they are
there be educated, especially in The science of Med
cine. They industrious, and make good
| study,
Lous Napoleon gets about $50 letters daily
asking An old soldier who had served IA year
under the Empire lately polite refusal such
ton The refusal was Autographed and numbered IA 3.
| An expedition in search of DR.. Leichart, the Aus.
traasan traveller whom has been receiv
for unusually long PERIOD in December last preparing
10 start rom singapore intending explore the
New Hol and beyond Van Diemans Land
| A Miss Ellen Graham adverses at London ,c
give startling deneaons of character, both full and detail
ed occupying the four of sheet of the sly
does by examining the pecuiares in the persons hand
| writing. Price, Is 3D..
Newspaper putting is carried to great perfection
| in Paris. Well known writer's, when they receiv,
a commission for the fe1ttIleto1 of the newspapers
draw up a detailed account OF the plot, with de
scriptions of the principal and incidents
then charge advertisement agent to carry this
document round to the principal tradesmen, AM
propos to them (of course for a consideration t
introduce their names and addresses with puis OIL
their in particular places. Ii the heroin
| gets married, the author introduces the name an
address of the milliner who furnishes the xeddn;
dress if the hero blows out his brains, the nam
| nj nf the smith INhere he he