New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-12

Ohio River.
PlrrsBuRGH August 10.
The river here is rising very slowly.
Luscu AT THE SHAprs-The bill Of fare at the Shades
to-day made up of all the good things the market
fords. Pat Byrnes is at the head Of the liquid de-
partment, and he is au fat in all the details
THE OrF1cERs OF THE HENRY CLAY-The engineer.
pilot and clerk of the steamer Henry Clay have been
rested and held to bail in the of $1,000 each to
the charges brought against them.
STEAMER BURNED A dispatch from Toledo, Ohio, dated
the 4th instant says "The steamer Swan running be-
tween here and Detroit took fire at her dock last night
and was completely destroyed. No lives lost.n
THE CurTEn FsNEy,-Fiy persons drowned by the
capsizng of the cutter Fancy in Newior Bay Men
day ID Among the lost are James Staff Thomas Jack
son and the Quarter Master
Posi- OrrcE misunderstanding the week ending on
the 31st umo the Postmaster General established forty
eight new post-offccs discontinued seyenty-two, and
changed the names of five.
EXECUTION OF MATTHIAS Observation-Disclosures Skupin-
ski suffered the extreme penalty of the law the 9th in
stant at Philadelphia for the murder Of the boy Lehman
some time since in that city lie made no confession
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MORE INCENDIARsM.-Another incendiary attempt was
made in Savannah the night of the 9Th inst stable
belonging to Dr. Wragg set on fire. but the servants
extingushed the flames before much damage had been
DONE
BURNED TO DEATH.-Three children were burned to
death i'll Boston the night Of the Sd inst. They We're
in bed and the bed clothes taking fire from candle they
sufocated by the smoke and flame before assistance
could be rendered.
HoMrcDE.-We learn from the Tuskegee (Ala.) Repub-
lcGn that old named Spoor so years of age
killed near Tuskegee week before last. by young
man named Roy. The homicide arrested and COM
mtted to jail.
CURIOUS FAcr.-A modern philosopher, taking the
motion of the earth its axis at miles Sec
ond says that you take off your hat in the bow
to friend you go seventeen miles bareheaded without
taking cold.
RALRoAD MEETlNG.--A railroad meeting was held at
Chenille Ala the 22d ult, and $4,000 subscribed to-
wards building road from that town connect with the
Girard Railroad at some convenient point Efforts will be
made to extend it to Eufaula.
STEAMsHIP AMERICA SIioRE-The British mail steam
ship America sailed from Boston the 18th instant with
$15000O in specie on freight. On the 9th she on
shore Halifax but it thought she would be got
off without sustaining any injury
CHOLERA OHIo.-A letter to Levi Co2zens, Esq. Of
Utica dated Mount Sterling Ohio July 81 announces the
death in that place of his brother Chas W Co2zens of
cholera The letter adds that there had been fifteen
deaths by cholera in that place
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FIRE IN CHIcAGo-About twenty buildings were de-
stroyed in Chicago the morning of the 30th ul The
fire broke out in turning shop owned by Mr. Benson
Clinton street and swept all the buildings Washington
street and back Randolph street to the alley including
lumber yards belonging to different The entire
loss is estimated at from $4,000 to $4,000
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FROST IN AuGusr.-h gentleman who passed through
Ashfeld, Mass, on the I'd inst informs the NewYork
Journal of Commerce that frost was plainly visible for
some distance along the valley in the vicinity Spruce
Corners" Fences bridge planks ETC. were white covered
with it,
EARTHqu4KE-A slight shock of earthquake was felt on
Sunday forenoon the 1s instant the village of Groon
Ct the first sound of which somewhat reSembled the fall
ing Of person the floor in the upper rooms of the
house, butt was followed by rumbling noise of few
seconds in duration, and trembling of the house. Per-
out of doors sensby felt the trembling of the ground
MAcKERE1 FIsHEnY,--The Newburyport (Mass) Her
aid says large quantities of mackere were taken last
week at the shoals by seines 5000 60OO frequently
taken at haul of the seine and sold on the spot at
at Z to 2I&c each. Several seine owners made $1,000
each and those engaged in setting and hauling $40 to SIS
a day.
Losses BY FIRE BosToN,-During the month of July
there sixteen fires in Boston. involving loss Of
S204922 which there insurance of Ses56 For
the corresponding month last year the loss s15o3S
Insurance S31S For the first months of 1852 the
loss in the city by fire nearly reached half million dollars
while for the whole of the year 1851 the loss was but
S262,s22
CHINESE EMGRArioN,-At recent meeting of the Amer
leap Board of Foreign Missions held in NewYork the fol-
lowing extract of letter from China read The emf
grafton to California still goes ship lately returned to
China with fifteen Cinnamon one of whom had $4,000
for his share after three years labor and others averaged
$500 piece. The better part of the population
going to California as the poorer class could not raise
500, which it would cost to bring them oycrn
THE lIoSEY BEE IN CALiFonSIA.-Mr W A. Buck
ley Of Newburg NewYor has succeeded in introducing
the honey bee in California. out of three hives taken
from that State he succeeded in crossing the Isthmus
with one, which arrived at San Francisco recently in
healthy and wording order Great difficulty has been ex-
perienced in importing bees to the Pacific consequence
Of the wax melting in the tropics. Numerous expert
ments have failed on this account.
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largest and most beautiful merchant ship in the world
has cleared at NewYork for San Francisco her maiden
voyage. Several heavy bets in relation to the passage
nave been made of which is that she will accomplish
inside of ninety days and another that she will beat the
rack passage of the Flying Ceud On each of these bets
$4,000 at stake She is about two-thrds loaded with
miscellaneous cargo which has heen taken at unusually
nigh rates namely "A to 9Jc The ordinary rates are
rom 45 toS0
CRoPs At THE NoRr-The hay crop is light throughout
NewEngland, far knowledge extends. and the
may be said of the eastern portion of Newly or The
drought has also materially affected the potato crop and
prices unpecedenty high for this of the year
Indian corn looks better, but has suffered less
Fairly potatoes too far advanced to be much benefited
by rain even ii it should The showers which
WE have had occasionally Of late, would have suiced
We're it not that the ground like ash heap for many
inches iii depth Fortunately country is broad one
aud crops various The grain crops taking the coun
try at large have seldom been better IN Jour Com
DEATH OF JoHN Dor AND RICHARD r. DoE-By the Lon.
don papers learn that these distinguished persons who
have lived long (some 700 500 years. as to be con
sdered immortal and who apparently the largest
of real estate in Great Britain will cease to exist
the 9th of October next act of the recent session
of Parliament providing that instead of the present pro-
ceedngsn actions of eecments lin which these worthless
always took conspicuous par the writ shall be directed
to the person in possession of the demanded property and
in which the property shall be described with reasonable
certainty.
LoNDoH IN lS52.-Mr. Weed, of the Albany Evening
Journal, in letter from London, says:
Have you realizing sense of what London in NOM.
lation and magnitude, really Do you know that in
population is larger than the 1S4O showed the
entire State of Newiork The inhabitants of the cities
of NewYork Philadelphia Boston. Baltimore Albany Troy
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