New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-06

EciiPsT Sturgeon
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NEW ORLEANS:
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL s, 1862.
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p,,sn.rn NY Acc,pEsr-Mrs. =. 4. Barnum of Bridge
mort Conn the wife of Mr. Barnum of the Museum in
NewYork swallowed by mistake on the 10Th ult spoon
full of deadly poison akenine or wolts bane l'f
some simple medicine, powerful elnetic rescued her
from the very jaws Of death Some years ago heaVy
dose Of morphine taken by mistake very nearly sacfcea
the life of the same lady.
LOLA MoSrEs-rhe Countess of Landsfedt is rapidly
becoming important character in the dehocra'ie
party While Richmond she was formally baptized INTO
,c filth under sponsorship Of the editor OF the En-
surrr vino took pains to publish special voucher lof
her orthodoxy At Boston. the other day she awaited
herself of an interview with editors to pronounce de-
c1 preference for Mr. Buchanan and expressed fer
want regret that will not be qualified to record Vote III
bis favor With such endorsement, MIR Buchanan
will unquestionably ahead of all competitors.
SECULAR DEsERTIos SEA--Ihe snip Ilhcihh''i' VI
suoungton which arrived at NewYorh On the 2sth ut
from whaling cruise on the 10Th March fell in with and
boarded the British schooner Fanny Bourne OF Dart
lnouth n S. abandoned and di'lnantled Inc captain Vi
tue Cincinnati reports the schooner perfectly tght ne
took from quantity Of bills OF ladng insurance
policy promissory private letters captains memo
rand,, and other papers
VARIOUS srArIsrcs,-The railways Of Britain have cost
twelve hundred millions Of dollars; the canals thirteen
hundred millions the docks hundred and hty NIL
lions There merchant vessels $50 war vessels
$40 yachts All together represent tunnage OF 4io3Ao
and are manned by 2oOuUO men All average Vi ohe
vessel is lost at every tide,
The amount OF coui mined in Pennsyvanla during the
year 1851 14oJpD0 tuns of bitumnous and 4oVooo
OF anthracite Of the aggregate value Is sZ2Cooouo
The coal peunsyyau cover l50OO square miles
slhgse of Great Britain 900 square miles, The
first within the water Level the second from
800 to 1900 feet below the surface of the ground.
An owego Druggist advertses four of genuine
-serpent oil brought by Captain seabury of the whale
ship Monongahela Good for coughs and colds and only
81 per bottle
To,lslsByr R,yER-The Mobile Tribune states that a
Geographic dispatch from Aberdeen reports rise OF eight
feet the Tombgbee river This subject OF great re-
iocing as the and planters in the vicinity OF
Aberdeen have little chance yet this season to
-hip their cotton receive supplies
piorA TSRRrroRY-rhe inhabitants of Carsons Valley
nave applied Congress for the establishment of terri
torisl that region which lies between
Utah and California, They propose the name of Pothtor
the territory The region is said to be capable of
maintaining large population and probably it may IN
few wears form u State.
IMMlcRAs1s-The packet ship Racer arrived at New
York on the 2Sh Liverpool in IS days bringing 1865
passengers and the packet ship Underwater with $50
passengers, She left Liverpool on the 9th Of March.
DrA1u OF l. NJ. EpwARp.-Isaac NJ Edwards who was
shot Jackson Miss about three weeks since by man
named Griffin, died in that city on the 29th ut The
latter made escape Immediately after the
aud although the Governor has offered reward for his
apprehension clue to his whereabouts has been OBJ
tanned.
AGcrpESr-Last evening about O'Clock as the schooner
Curnea Capt Goodmanson leaving the wharf at the
Lower Pcayune Tier and had line to the towboat South
Western the line slipped from the boat when the Cornela
went of the schooner L. F. Rogers carrying away
the arboard davit of the Cornea smashing the
g. T. Rogers's yawl, the schooner Geo. Lincolns yaw
carrying away the arboard davt of the Lincoln besides
some o,her triing damages
PRouor,on IN THE NAyy-Augustus Mclaughlin sor
of A. Mclaughlin. of Barnum's Hotel, Baltimore foi
many years attached to the United States Navy Mid
shipman, has been promoted to Passed AIidshpman.
NAVIGATION REsuMEp.-The weather at Buffalo. N. Y.
on the Goth u was warm and the navigation LAX,
Erie had been resumed.
The steamer Admiral from Toronto. had arrived al
Rochester n Y and navigation of Lake Ontoro at
been permanently resumed.
The Hudson river is open from Newi ork to Albany.
4 CELESTIAL AccEssoN-The San Francisco Herald o
She % ult. has the following: Among the many Chi
nese eangrants who arrived day or two since Mis-
Atung She landed on Pacific wharf, where she gra
cosly received by Miss Aoy Miss Atung replied to thu
welcome in few pertinent and feeling remarks much t.
Of lame of bootn wbn Inf
gathered around to witness the The two fair one
then formed into procession and marched up Pacific
street. attracting much attention..
Goops FOR CAxApA.-Thc British bark Iarbinger Capt
DAWSON arrived at Boston. the 9th ult from London
with full cargo goods for Canada, consigned to Hill
& Co This is the first entire cargo that has arrived
at that port destined for Canada.
New DlsfAsE-The Cumberland (Md) Aleganian thu
describes disease which has made its appearance
i'll that neighborhood:
disease which has banlcd the best medical skill ha
been prevailing for some time past in the Gades, tn
upper part of this county Its approach is known by
slight pain which extends the system DRAWN
tie body nearly double, and causing the most excrucia
ting pain to the person attacked who is only relieved
death, which usually takes place in few hours. Fam
lies have been almost entirely destroyed by it, and
hear of an instance where widow and three childre
attacked and ded-one little child only escaping.
VAGRANr CnLDREN.-lt is computed that there 81
Thousand vagrant children in the city NewYor dest
tute of intellectual moral instruction. An instituto
been recently incorporated by the Legislature
State. styled the NewYork Juvenile Asylum the object
the corporation being to take charge of such chdre
between the ages of five and fourteen years may
voluntarily entrusted to by their parents guardian
committed to its charge by any magistrate of the city
provide for their support; aud to afford them the
of moral intellectual, and industrial education.
ing in Holland. and at Egmont-op-Zee crossed bayone
with the french regiment bearing the same number.
ball fired during the retreat of the latter regiment passe
through the jaws of soldier of the 3st. named Robe
Huock In the course of the afternoon he was buried
the sand hill where he had fallen by soldier of his reg
mcnt named Carncs. During the night bullock reco'
cred having been lightly coored with sand crept OF
and crawed to picket of his regiment posted near
was sent to hospital recovered and serving wit
his regiment in Malta in 1906. His face having bee
much discolored and his voice scarcely Ineligible
part his tongue and palate having been carried away
he had years served pioneer to his COMPANY
soldier it died, and bullock part of his duty. du
the grave. in which he found on the arrival of til
body for interment, still at work. though then tie
fee deep On being drawn out and asked his reason
making it unusually deep he replied" Well sir is ft
poor John Carnes, who buried me and think sir, If