New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-07


The Emperor of Russia has presented Tam
burin with gold medal of honor set in diamonds as an
| expression of his admiration for the singer
| Letters from Bremen state that emigratlol
from that port taking place to an extent unknown
in any previous Emgrants average 0Oo per day
Petitions to the Queen are in circulation in
Quebec and Montreal praying for the release of Smith
| 0'Brien and his feow.convicts.
| The General Banking Law, with the pre-
redemption feature included has passed the New Jersey
| Legislature. and been signed by the Governor.
| Henry Clays birthday 1.-THE 18th day of
ApriD is be celebrated by the Henry Clay Festival
Association. in New YORK.
| Mr.. Thomas Gill, one of the editors of the
Boston Post has been nominated by the Governor Regis
ter of Probate for Suffolk.
| The growing of willows for making baskets,
in Baltimore and Philadelphia is carried on to a cons
| derabe extent in Delaware.
| Gibson, the pedestrian, has Just completed his
feat of walking 1850 half miles in 1850 half hours
| tie Garden N Y
| During the month of March just passed, there
transported the South Carolina Railroad $4,000
bales of cotton during the month of March 1851 there
were but 1900 bales transported.
| From the recent statistics, says an exchange,
it appears that there in the United States 25000
Itemsh The State of NewYOrk alone is said to enjoy
| the services of some 474o.
| The Halifax papers have commenced The dis
sion of projects to keep off American trespassers
from their waters and recommend that a fast steamer
wei manned and armed should be kept upon the coast
The Philadelphia Annual Conference has adj
dressed letter Of coincidence to the venerable Bishop
| Heddng who lies hopelessly III at Poughkeepse,
| NewYork
Six emigrant vessels, four of which were from
Liverpool from Havre and from Bremen arrived
at New York Sunday, the 2Sth ut with 1857 pas
sengers.
We read in the Gazette des Postes, of Frank
fort that the project of line of steamers from Trieste
NewYork is now agitaed by the direction the Austrian
| Lloyd.
| D. A. Powell and Richard Ashcraft, of Gin
cinnati subscribed $1,000 each towards erection
of German Methodist Episcopal Church in that
city
The Memphis Express says that Mike Will
liams the mail carrier between Perrysve and Paris
Tenn recently purloined letters and money from the
mail and absconded.
The custom of purifying the people of Rome
year by publicly smoking them with sulphur and
btumen gave the to the second month the
| February. meaning the month of publication.
The Rev. Joshua Soule, senior Bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal Church has been formally requested
to nay visit to California The request from the
| Missionary Society OF the Church, South
| beggar boy applying to lady at Boston
day last week for money to get dose Of castor oil
called in and the oil was administered gratis despite
| his grimaces.
| The population of Toronto Canada, in 1926,
was 17lg by the census. just completed it is c)7s3
having than doubled itself during the last ten
years.
The Daily Wisconsin says that the emigration
from Wisconsin to California exceeds belief Farms are
sold for half their value by persons in haste to migrate to
| the land of gold
| The Roman government have sanctioned the
introduction postage stamps for the prepayment
postage letters The stamp is about the size of the
English pc tage stamp; and on it is representation Of
the tiara and keys the badge of papa dignity and power
| Mr. Mason, chief engineer of the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad has arrived at Chicago and has placed a
section of the work from Chicago south under contract
About 1000 men at work that portion of the
road
| 1t is not to be wondered at that the Pope feels
his Dc on to be any thing but firm instead of his
having been fixed in his place by real Roman Cement he
has been merely dabbed down where he is with little
| plaster of Paris.
| The dwelling of Martin CARRIER, near Eaton
Ohio destroyed recently by fire with all its contents
While contemplating the smouldeling ruins Mr.. G, a
man of about so years of age remarked There is all
| am WORTH and fell dead
Hon Henry Clay first took his seat in the
Senate in December 1906 nearly forty-six years ago
There then but States in Union and
of the then thryfour Senator'S it is believed that Mr.
Clay alone survives
jeff Morgan, of Cincinnati, shipped $500
in dogs enterprising fellow might get large number
of dogs in this city for nothing and confer favor
| citizens by removing them.
The vicinity of Mount Clemens, Michigan
has been visited by tremendous flood A part Of tn
lower inundated. and the firm of Eastman 6
Williams lost 900 feet Of pine lumber Bridges were
1t is said that turpentine from North Carolina
now extensively manufactured into oil that an ingp
NOUS inventor has succeeded in inventng lamp which
it said this tUrpenne oil will burn freely giving bril-
liant light.
The library of Cardinal Mezzofonti, now fo1
sale in Rome can be bought $4,000 1t is said to be-
one the most remarkable pathological collections
offered embracing some 60 languages and dialects Efforts
arc making to procure it for Newly Ork,
]. P. De Whit, ESQ, has recently presented tc
to the Newburg Historical Society grape shot found Au
gust g. 1851 in the bank at Fhk Landing supposed t.
have been fired from the English frigate ASIA before
the of the Revolution.
Miss Adelne Mulenax, of Adairsville, Ga
was accidentally shot with pistol Tuesday week ant
died almost Immediately from the wound The pistol wa
on shelf upon some clothing, when drawing down tbs
clothing the pistol fell and caused the distressing acct
dent
A Mr.. Carman, of Bordentown, NewJersey
is said to be engaged in Matching eggs by steam TIL
machine is placed table about o. feet long by il
inches broad and the water is heated by an oil lamp TIL
machine contains about 100 eggs and the chickens thu
produced appear to be lively and healthy those pro
duced by natural means.
The Akhbar of Algers announces the deatl
of Ben Djellab the checkh of the oasis of Tougourt
that the principal of the district
his young SON Abde Kader to the French Government
as his the chiefdom having remained in tn
family for upwards of three centuries The decease
checkh was only 80 years of age.
The state of distress in the provinces of Prus
STA were increasing in terrifying manner: even il
Berlin itself the scarcity of vctuas felt poatoe
rising in price about 100 per cent and bread
diminishing in quality and quantity The prospect 70
the session is very far from being satisfactory
The turf is wonderfully well represented il
the present English cabinet which contains of it
staunches supporters in the persons of the Premier tn
President Council the Lord Lieutenant IRELAND
the Master of the Horse If Lord George Bentck ha
been alive it would also have been represented the III
4 chequer.
E young female who has the monomania @
homicide has just been arrested and sent to the Preectu
in PARIS Tho had ntpl huf oil vifhp
effect murder her father her mother her sister,
females of her acquaintance declaring that ST.
= wished to drink their blood
" Some wag asks the editor of the Boston Car
pet Bag, whether under the Maine Law a man is a
h lowed to his arm in sling to make merry tt
London Punch to sell soap in bars to communicate wit
the rapping spirits to administer drop of comfort
suffering friend to punch his neighbours head, to pu
chase corned beef to tap his enemy's care to eat
cherries. or to beat the spirit-srring drum.
/, General Rufus WEIGH, of Philadelphia, arrive
Thursday in the steamer Europa, at NewYork Gener
It WEIGH recently visited Paris and Berlin for the purpo
of securing equestrian and other talent for his Nation
Circus. He has engaged the celebrated Madame MINI
Prussan who is said to be the most accomplished ema
G equestrian in Europe.
s The Bangor (Nle.) Wing says that the ice
the Penobcot appears somewhat it did six years sine
prior to the great spring feshet The anchor ice hi
IL formed and along the river the ice is twenty an
twentyf feet deep not solid but compact anchor ic
u like snow ball
Twenty two colored persons, residing in Ne
Jersey have applied to the American Colonization Soce