New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-07-21


Ma TarI,fspas AsD Ma. wrnsrrs The Boston Jour.
nal having published paragraph the effect that II had
been authorized state directly and authoritatiyey that
there truth whatever in the reported conversation
betwsen Mr.. Webster and the Hon. H. A. Talmadae. M
to the duty supporting the and that
the reports which in circulation With regard to Mr.
Websters future conduct are, therefore, entitled to no
credit Mr. Tamadge reterates his own signature
authenticity Of the statement said to have been made
by him before the Ninth Ward Wing Club of NewYork on
the 9Th instant to the effect that he had seen Mr.
during the preceding day and had conversed with him
freely upon the nomination and prospects of the wing
party; and that Mr.. Webster in that conversation
knowledged gratefully the attachment and devotion
which his friends had exhibited both in the National Con-
yention and since the nomination had been made but
said that he did not how any good result could be at
tanned by presenting his name any further to the coun-
try and that common duty now dpvolved upon the
wing party namely rally to the support of the candi.
date regularly nominated by the representatives of the
wings of the Union in Convention assembled and that
he for his part ready to give the whg ticket his
cordial support and he trusted wings every where
whatever might have been their personal predictions
Mr. Tamadge, moreover denies that any Boston paper
had authority to contradict it. e
PRESIDENTIAL srEcuLATloNs.-The NewYork Tribune
figures up the electoral vote for next November thus:
Probably for Massachusetts, IS Vermont, s
Rhode Island A; Connecteut6 NewYork, 35 New Jer.
sey, Il Pennsylvania, q Delaware 8 North Carolina
10; Kentucky, IL Tennessee. 12-Total 1874.
DonbyM-Slaine. 8; Ohio Is; Maryland, 8 Florida,
s Iowa, 4 ; California. 4-Total so. n
Probably for Psce.-New Hampshire, s Virginia Is
South Carolina s. Georgia, 10; Alabama Q Mississippi,
Total S. -'''l'''' -' f'AAn''A' F
whole number o96-Majority 149
OF the doubtful States, the Tribune expects Scott to
car MARYLAND nd Tall
The Evening Post has very different figure and gives
Pierce and King ia Scott and Graham % doubtful 81
FALL ELEcrioNs-The Presidential election is to occur
the I'd day of November next and elections in ad-
of the Presidential will in the following States
at the time mentioned below at most of which members
of Congress to be elected Alabama August Ind-
ana August 2; Iowa, August North Carolua, August
s. Vermont, September Georgia, October A Florida,
October 4; South Carolina, October IL Kentucky
August Ri Illinois August 2; Missouri, August 81 Ten
nessee, August 81 Maine September 10 Arkansas Octo
Der Maryland. October g.; Ohio October IL Pennsyl-
vana, October u.
MOVEMENTS OF Mn. WEBsTER.-It is said that Mr. Web
ster contempates proceeding next month st. Johns
N. b. and will continue his tour through that province
by the line of the proposed railroad Portland to Hal
flax which through the beautiful valley Of Sussex
to Shedac the Gulf of st. Lawrence and further
that in progress for placing at his disposal
her British Majesty steam fgate Devastation which has
been ordered to Prince Edward Island for the protection
Of the fisheries in that quarter in which vessel he will
have opportunity of cruising for short time for the
benefit of his health and which vessel will carry him to
Quebec, should he wish it.
The GREAT FIRE IN MoNTREA.-The Montreal Herald Of
Saturday the 10th inst contains several columns of the
particulars of the conagration which occurred in that
city on the Thursday and Friday previous After mar
rating with much minuteness the progress of the fire
which broke out in house the east side of st. Law
renee street, near the tieds-the Herald remarks:
As to the Victims they deserve the utmost compassion
The majority belong to the laboring classes The suffer
ings Of of Them especially of the children must
have been intense Anxious take care of their nroper
the slightest shelter with the beating directly upon
them in many with little to eat and perhaps otener
in great straits to water Fortunately the night
was SO fine as to make moonlight bivoac by no means
serious hardship.
We have heard of several cases of coup de solicit caused
by exhaustng labor in the heat but of no fatal case
There also births in the fields on this memoir
able occasion We have not yet made the lists which
we are about to print below but at rough calculation
we suppose there may have been fourteen hundred
houses burnt, which, at inhabitants each house
would give nearly ten thousand without houses the
probability is however, judging from the census returns
that as many as fifteen thousand must have bvouacked
in the open air. We cannot refrain from bearing est
mony to the cheerfuness with which the poor people
bore their misfortunes The writer walked some miles
through heaps Of furniture piled each side of the
street, between midnight and o'clock in the morning
and, conyersng with many of them he found nothing
like complaint or dependency
table is given showing the yearly rental value the
properties destroyed which up a total of 1880
worth propabably about f201 000 besides considerable
quantity of merchandise and furniture. The fire was
principally in what called the suburbs and the dam
age consequently less In extent than it had occurred
in the business quarter The popular Distress
could hardly be aggravated