New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-26

burgh the latter having been appointed to some higher
post.
The HeN CONVENTION -The annual convention of the
& Hen Society !, of Boston, will be held in mammoth
tent on the Public Garden. during the Sh and oh Of
September.
Mr.. VIM, Sims. a gentleman about sixty-hSe years of
age has been recently arrested learn ron the New
York Herald by the authorities at Matantas where he
has resided upwards Of forty years. for assault it is
said on drunken Spaner, who had entered his house.
and refused to sut It, when Mr. Sims kicked him out
CoIToN IMPORTED FROM NENEzuELA.aA cargo of cotton
from Venezuela has arrived at Network and on Tuesday
1852 bags sold at about ten cents per pound Further I'M
portatons from the same quarter promised if present
high prices continue Cotton does not grow there from
annual plants in the Southern States but on perennial
trees, and the cotton can be had for the picking
STEAMER susk-yhe little Rock (Ark) Banner of the
18th inst says;
The steamer May Queen belonging to Messrs Adams
and Tmms, and loaded principally with freight this
place. sunk on last Friday night in nine water about
fory.fve miles below here. No insurance on boat and
very little on CARGO
SUDDEN DEArHs.-A young man who had been absent in
California about year returned to his home in Garrison
N Y Wednesday, the 18th inst Unexpectedly and as
he entered the door and met his mother shd sister fell
forward into the room and was taken up lfeless Mr.
Isaac Houston Of the se place. was found dead in his
corn-feid on Saturday, the 14th.
QUEER MARRIAGE RELArldNsHr.-We have been inform
ed says an exchange by intelligent resident Of West
ern Virginia that there resides ha man about thir
ty years of age, whose matrimonial history is follows
When he was child his father died His mother soon
married very young man, and died. His step-father
but thirteen years older than himself married young
wife and died when hero married his step-mother
Mr.. Watson G. Haynes protests, through the NewYork
Tribune, against the nomination of Hon John Hale by
the Free-sol Convention. He says every thing was
rushed through under the gag of the previous question
and that if fair expression Of opinion could have been
obtained: Gen. Wilson of Mass, would have been the
nominee lie goes for another convention, and alleges
that not over 1000 delegates attended at Pittsburgh
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ARREST OF A "MEssrERtcn pnYsltrAS THE Lowell
(Iass.) News says that Samuel L. Hammond. mes.
merc physician has been arrested in that city on war
rant from Brunswick, Maine charging him with having
obtained in that place the sum of $3.50 under false pre-
tences by making dsreputabe charge against citizen
of Brunswick and extorng the above sum to keep it
secret lie was taken to Brunswick for trial
In A BAD FIx.-A member of the Philadelphia bar has
had serious charge brought against him. in consequence
of some undue familiarity with fair CLIENT whose suit
for divorce against her husband he was prosecuting
Unfortunately for him. the contending parties became
reconced and the reunited pair having secrets the
husband has brought suit hoping to console his
injured feelings with 50Oo which amount he lays his
damages.
SHIP BUILDING IN LIyERPooL,--In a ward on the west
side of Brunswick Dock the keel of vessel of UPWARDS
of 1000 tons has been laid When completed she will be
the largest merchantmen ever built in England. The
great features in the construction of this vessel are that
she will be built of soft woodpch pine with American
oak floors She intended for the Australian trade and
is expected to carry immense cargo Her cost is ex-
peccd to be little above half that usually charged for an
oak built vessel.
SLooP OF WAR GERaIANTowN.-Samuel Lewis who come
home in the brig Porpoise rms that great cruelty has
been practiced on board the United States ship German
town, now on the coast of Africa He says Since the
Germantown left NewYork 9th April 1851 there have
been six court martias nineteen months pay stopped
nine and half months ratons have been changed to
bread and water only and by of the the whole
time has been passed in solitary confinement"
MADEIRA WINE.-Most disastrous accounts are received
of the future prospects of Madeira 1t seems not i'm
probable that the celebrated wine of Madeira will become
u matter of history blight of sort has entirely
destroyed the vintage for this year and seems likely to
destroy the vines themselves 1t appears in the shape
thick white powder which entirely the clusters
of grapes. The inhabitants have menoralized the por-
tuguese Government to be permitted to cultivate tobacco
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BRoKE JAll..-The Mobile Tribune of Tuesday saws: A
man named Griffith who lodged in jail some time
since charge of murder escaped thence on Sunday
evening He was preceded by negro who had managed
to get hold Of key. They at discovered In
their preciptae haste Griffith toward the Shell Road
and was soon apprehended by the people great crowd
arriving Immediately entered the chase The negro was
apprehended yesterday morning Both are now safely
lodged
The MURDER AT ST.. JOSEPH We learn from st Joseph
Mo, that the four men who under arrest at that
place, for whipping named Willard to death. in the
woods near the town, few weeks ago had been commit
ted to Jail by the examining court for murder in the first
1egree The next session of the Circuit Court will be
held in October They must remain in Jail till thasame.
rs the case does not admit of holding to bail When the
murder first became known it with difficulty that the
;itizens were prevented from lynching them.
0RlGN WIEArA most curious and able dissertation
upon the origin of wheat completely utifes the views we
have held for although does not show that oats change
into rye as many believe. and offers support to
other speculaons OF the kind nevertheless it de-
beyond all further question that wheat
itself trausmutaon of kind of wild grass NJ Esprit
Fabre of Agde well known to botaniss an acute OBJ
and patient expermentast has made the discoye-
~ which has been introduced to public notice by Prof
Dunal, of Montpelier
MARRIAGE IN JArL.-At St. Louis on the 18th instant
William Trowbridge who is confined in the county Jail for
eged entertainments from his recent employers Messrs
dcCreery Essex Co.. united in the bonds of matri
nony to Miss Kate Rosemear also called Mrs jenkins
Justice tombstone tied the connubal knot and two or
hree other citizens present witnesses The
iage was celebrated pretty much all other marriages
re, with wine and cakc-good humor prevailing high
mong the small knot it had gathered
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BRocRs MoSuMEST.--The Toronto Globe states that n
Ian for the reerection of Brooks Monument has been
the base to the head of the statue 1856 feet only
light feet less than the Nelson Monument in London.
he base will contain vault for the reception of the re-
mains of General Brock and Colonel Macdonald The
tatue at the summit will be of stone sixteen feet in
height staircase of go steps will from the base to
he opening of the capital.
At the anniversary meeting of the Agricultural Society
If South Carolina held the 18th instant the following
,nicers were elected
John II Tucker, President.
James Rose, Vice President.
+. D. Quash. Corresponding Secretary.
Ed. Barnwell Jr., Treasurer
The premium for rice awarded to the President
John H. Tucker ESQ., for the greatest yield on O acres
# land, amounting to SSSls bushels.
HEALTH CrlEs.-The following statement comprises
he deaths in of the Atlantic cities for the week