New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-20

Inc Young lady VINO caught c0lu by drinking
water from damp tumber is conyalescent.
The Herald publishes rumor that Hon Jas.
Brooks is to succeed Mr. Hail. Postmaster General
Henry Clay in 1874, on being applied to bya
lady to write some verses in her album replied IL
never wrote a line OF poetry in my life"
A pedlar Of flowers in NewYork is said to
have amassed $4,000 by the sale Of bouquets in the
of the last few seasons
The Cunard mail steamer Europa left at the
usual the 18th inst for Liverpool with 81 passen
gers aud S725iS5 in specie.
A sham duel was fought at Richmond on
Saturday the 18th inst No names given, but sup
posed to be members OF the Green family.
The Union contains letter from General
Shields favor General Pierce the Presidency and
yindicatng his military character.
The American Board of Missions has paid off
all its debts and commenced the financial year with
plus of SIS 81.
Mr.. W. Scrope, authorof'' Days of Deer Stalk
ing and other sportiye works died in London July ~
in his elst year
Benjamin L. Jolly has been arrested in Louis
ville charged with causing the death of Mrs Margaret
Mcdary, by poison.
Mary, daughter of U. s. Senator Gwin, Of
California; buried on Tuesday the 10th instant at
Washington.
A true picture of despair is q pig reaching
through hole in the fence to get cabbage that lies
few inches beyond his reach
The laborers on the railroad Mt Wheeling, Va ,
are on q strike and the contractors awaiting rein
forcement.
Colonel Benton, at the late election in ST.
Louis received six votes for aor besides several
for justice of the peace, constable and coroner
The tides run amazingly high, just at present
As Mrs Partingon might say the and MOON acting
in congregation, is the cause of the freenomener.
The proprietors of the NewYork Daily Times
have rented building for office at the of Ann
and Nassau streets, for $4,000 per annum.
Messrs Merrick & Son, of Philadelphia, are
now shipping Cuba engines and other machinery
sugar plantations there the cost Of whchis Sl20o00.
George Thompson, who was not re elected by
his old constituency of the Tower Hamets has been
elected to Parliament from the Scotch University of Alb
erdeen.
The wheat crop Of Wisconsin exceeds every
thing the WATERFOWL Chronicle says that has ever been
seen in that any other State The yield will average
from 20 to 25 bushels per acre.
On Tuesday night, the 10th inst, Mr. joseph
Dickinson of Amherst Mass had almost an entire Hdrk
of sheep and lambs killed by dogs Out of flock Of %
p were killed.
Zodoc wants to know if the minister who
prayed last sundy that the sp, may dtH the dew
is liable under section l. or if his license protects him
LGreenheld (NIass) Democrat.
The Pittsburgh Union has three men in that
office that set $4,000 each solid matter in ten
hours and one who will set 10000 in the length of
time, for wager of 5000,
The lady who had so narrow an escape lately
at Niagara Falls having boldly the large slab
which divides the American sheet of water was the
tress, Miss Annie i4ondsdale.
A Western editor speaks of the circumstance
OF bird building its nest upon ledge the door of
doctors office ms attempt TO its young in the
very jaws of death.
The Metropolitan Hotel, Broadway, New
York, supposed to be the largest house in the United
States is to be opened by the Mcs Leland on the LIST OF
September
Halifax papers announce the arrival there
of Sir John Gaspard lie Marchand the new ieutenah-
Governor on the 9Th instant IN the nag shp euhoer
land, from Newfoundland
"lfyou can't keep awake" said preacher
one of his hearers when you feel drowsy why don
you take pinch snuff The shrewd reply was, The
snuff should be put in the sermon'-
Mr.. Andrews, Consul at St Johns, N b., has
returned to Washington with report of the facts in re
gard to the Fisheries. He anticipates some dicuty in
efecting satisfactory adjustment
The Captain General of Cuba has sent a re
QUESTION to the Spanish Consul at Newlork command
ing personal appearance in Cuba within twenty days
of Jose Hernandez native of that Island who is charged
with having attempted to provoke duel with Gen Leme-