New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-01-10


MtsoMc.-'Ihc Grand Lodge of Massachusetts
recently held its annual meeting mt the Masonic
Temple, Boston. The meeting was usually
well attended, and the exercises Of unwonted
Interest Tie returns which were made show
Pc fraternity to be in more prosperous con-
option than at any former period in twenty
bars, The officers for the current year were
cRosen, the head of which is NJ W and Rev
Gf gorge M. Randall, The list includes about
Afty names, and represent the intelligence and
strength of every section of the Commonwealth
IMPORTANT TO SHrrMAsTERs.--I will be inte-
resting to shpmasters trading to the Baltic to
know, that by recent decision Of the Depart
ment OF State tho masters of vessels touching
at Elsinore, safety and crciusirely for the pur-
pose OF paying the Sound dues, and transacting
40 other business, are not required to deposit
their ships papers at the American Consulate
AT that port, either ON entering or passing out of
the Baltic
Tue SMITHSONIAN INsrlTuTE-The lectures in
- the Smithsonian Institute, at Washington COM
~7nenccd on Monday night; DR. Kane of Phila-
de'plla, who accompanied tile CrinnelI Arctic
Expedition us surgeon giving the first of a Sc
r'es OF dIscourses on the geology, oceanology,
natural history, atmosp herc, and other pecu-
harItles and wonders Of the Arctic regions
Prot. Agassiz the Sillimans father and son, of
New llavcn Dr. Hopkins, President of Will
hams' College, Mass; DR.. Oville Dewey; Prof
W. B. Rogers of the University of virginia ::
Pmi. c. t, FELTON,, Of Cambridee, and other dis
tin@uishel members ofthe literary and scientific
wol'I, are mentioned among those who will
probably succeed Dr.. Kane
JftG CNrlTol. At WASHINGTON which was en-
d.pnGered by the late fire in the Library of Con-
grc~-. was built at a total cost of nearly two
millions of dollars (S1 ,746,OOOJ The north
wing was commenced in 1893 and was finished
IN $500. 1t cost nearly a million. Tie south
wing was commenced in 1903 and finished in
lsVS and cost over $500 600 The centre was
commenced in ISIS and was finished in 1927 it
cost nearly one million Of dollars The entire
building covers an acre and half and 1920 feet
~ ground The length Of front is 1884 feet ::
depth OF wing l2l4; east projection and steps
depth, 65; west projection and steps depth SO :
height of wings to top of balustrade, 70; height
to top Of centre dome, l45 Senate Chamber.
'''St'' ~ i'tl. htl.-lt - Representatives TO-,
lgngth 81 feet. height so height of central Ro-
tHlda, @6. The grounds of the Capitol embrace
- acres surrounded by substantial iron rail
ing the length of which is tour- hfths Of Il mile
SLAVERY IN TnG ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS. Tile
captain OF a French merchantmen. writing to
the National. Paris states that mt the port of
Nccra, ON the coast of Guinea, there is not Il
single English settler who has not more or less
slaves, owning osm hmm, l,.,I,
hity on even two hundred. When the owner
wishes to get rid of his captive, he sells him to
lhehfs captain Oh an elnlgrant boat that lands
These emigrant boats are miserable little coast
ers, commanded by liberated slaves who embark
as crews, at Sierra Leone, a great number of
persons bound to service for some specified time
they take them, not to South America or Ja-
majca, but where the trade has its centre, the
Gulf OF BENIN, where they are disposed of, no
one knows how, and never heard of afterwards
tFlGnrFGL CATASTROPHE In S1cILY.-Ac-
counts from Malta say & Reports of the Sc
verify Of the weather in Sicily have reached MS
The loss of life and property has been very
great Near Marsala two water-spouts passed
over the island, unroofng houses, and raising
'uch women and children, and animals. carried
them in the vortex to destruction During this
period the rain fell in torrents in MARSHA. and
hail tell Of enormous size. At Castellamarc
tStahia, not near Naples) nearly half the town
has been destroyed, and upwards of 300 peonlc
~0oshcd into the sea. Dead bodies, fearfully
wutilated and swollen, were seen by my in
!ornant'
RtHWAY AcCDGNTs IN ENGLANp-A return
Just issued by order Of the British House of Com
mons giyes the following results of the railway
. casualties that had occurred during the half
year ending 3Oth June last Total number of
passengers carried, 81 1884 7O3; number killed
: -; injured, l13, of which number II were
~kf4Fsa and 1i2 injured by causes beyond their
own control, "a servants of the companies or
contractors We're killed. and 10 wounded Eight
passengers were killed, and G2l servants of
companies or contractors were killed and 10
wounded, i'll consequence of their own careless
ness on misconduct. Twenty eight trcspasscrs,
anu other persons neither passengers nor SER
wants, killed, and injured, by crossing or walk
ing on the railway. Three suicides were com
mltte'l.
TIM MAGYARS.-Thc London Dispatch says
that towards the end of the ninth century 1880,
the NIagyars, until then unknown in Eurone,
were forced to leave their primitive home in
Jugria, on the eastern side of the Ural river
and in the neighhorhood of the Caspian lake.
As II nomadic nation they had with them their
families, horses and cattle, wandering along the
banks of the Volga and Don rivers, and then
along the northern coast of the Black sea, from
one pasture ground to the other, till they at last
directed their attention towards the fertile
countries sllirting the Danube. They We're then
ruled by seven chcftans, or dukes, and num-
bered at least two hundred thousand armed
horsemen, who were bold warriors though
armed only with bows and arrows Soon after
{ they had entered Pantonia, they conquered it,
and made incursions into Italy, and especially
Germany. Here they were called Huns Since
that time the names of Iungarians and Hun
gary tappIie,i 10 the Nagyars and their con,l.
tFyl have enna into general Hse