New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-03-23
NEW ORLEANS:
TUESDAY MORNING., MARCH %, 1852

A new and magnificent theatre is in contem
pation in Philadelphia, The cost-lot and building
will be about 100000 Already ten gentlemen have vol
Anteereu subscriptions of $1,000 each.
From Prussia we have the report of extreme
distress from the scarcity of food The famine felt
even in Berlin.
Some two hundred Catholics, says the Louis
willie Democrat in the State of Indiana have published
Their determination not vote for any who has IA
yored kossuth or his
The New York Tribune says that there never
has been great dearth of employment throughout the
free States during the past winter and that it still
finues.
A large party of Chinese had returned home
in the ship Wild Pigeon having anasscd fortunes during
their short stay in California.
Samuel Hilton, the last surviving pall-bearer
OF Gen Washington died at Alexandria D. c., the I'D
ult. on the brthday of the ustrous for whom he
discharged that melancholy office.
There were 245 deaths in Philadelphia last
weet-ted of smallpox %; consumption 80; scarlet fe-
. yer H.
The recent accidents on the Erie Railroad
said to have been caused by the breaking rails
.me rican manufacture which have proved very inferior
About ten miles of the road will have to be replaced by
more substantial article
1t is calculated, says the Boston Mail, that
5000 have left Boston and vicinity during the
last two years for California. and hundreds wait
ing for voyage TO FL Dorado.
Punch asks, 50 Why is man who does not
bet as bad that does: Because he is %ter
At recent Conference of the churches in
Groon Mass the identical Bible used by John Rogers
the martyr and carried by him to the stake Of the
leaves of which bear the mark Of the flames brought
nto the Conference by descendant Of the martyr
The Astor library will be opened to the public
next September
A number of ladies and gentlemen of Bos-
have subscribed 800 each TO purchase in Paris
complete set of anatomical and physiological instruments
for the NewEngland Female Medical College.
The Sth of April has been designated as Fast
day in Massachusetts
There were 50 deaths in Boston last week 16
died Of consumption.
Abraham Jameson, stage driver, has been
arrested charged with having robbed the mail between
Somerset and Rusf,ve, Ohio.
Justice Z. Bragg, of northampton, Mass,
shot dead last Thursday by the accidental discharge
Of his gun.
1t is stated that the Hon Daniel Webster and
the Hon Reverdy johnson have been try the
great India rubber case Trenon-the term the court
commencing on the fourth Tuesday Of this mouth
private letter from London states that the
Russian Government has contracted with the houses of
Hayly Brothers. Co. and Crawshay for 10000 iron
rails We do not learn for what particular line of rail
way this purchase is designed.
In the back counties in Maine, the snow
s,veraged five feet in depth Many of the small farm
houses nearly submerged in snow banks There has
much difficulty in keeping the mail roads open
accommodate Uncle Sans teams.
James Bassett, a newspaper reporter in New
York il missing and is supposed to have committed sui
eide,
The popularity of the Compromise of 1850,
throughout the country is atteted by the fact that
candidate has entered the field for the Presidential
pagn of either party without first avowiug himself
favor of rigid adherence to that measure.
- Just before going to bed, eat two pigs feet and
fried pie In less than hour you will snake
larger than hawser, devourng eight blue haired chill
dren who have just escaped from monster with sorrel
eyes and redhot overcoat This is the Albany Dutch
mans Receipt for Nightmare.
As the steamer Chickasaw was rounding in at
the wharf-boat at Memphis the 18th, the chamber
maid white woman. stabbed Mrs. Peplow of that city.
several times with large knife, nhictng number OF
wounds 1t is said Mrs Peplow in very crit
ical situation The jumped the Sam Gloon
+ which just starting out and made good her escape
Monroe county, Miss, has been we'll remem-
tred in the political and judicial Offices One of the
is u S Senator another Representative in Con-
sress another u S Judge of the Northern District of
Mississippi another. U. s. Marshal the same District
another u s. District Attorney and another a Circuit
Judge of the State of Mississippi.
. The St. Louis Dispatch thus speaks of the
death of one Of the citizens of St Louis. .The re-
nowned Jack Bowers the Emperor of all the 1.oaers de
parted this life saturday Jack illustrious in his
way 1t becomes ill to speak lightly of the defunct
but in speaking of his deeds have doubt his spirit
would rap with great satisfaction if to ask his
publish Jack had eight wives majority of
whom were living at one time he arrested hun
dred and fifteen times lodged in sunry jails sixtyone
times in pententiaries three times sold yagrant in
three States and ynched in States Ills real name
Reuben Edmonson and he was 60 years old
The Messrs. Belcher of the St. Louis sugar
refinery digging Artesian well on their premises
with every prospect of ultimately obtaining abundant
supply of pure water for the of that extensive
lishmcu They have already attained depth of l275
feet below the surface 745 feet below the level
and they expect to 800 feet deeper The In
tegencer says that the different formations the earth
have been carefully noted from the commencement and
found to consist of limestone sandstone shells clay
felspar kind of crystazed clay mari bitumn-
mari etc, principally however, Of the first
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