New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-05-27

complete control the country and 81 its trade il
ganed This viii have the Of stopping thes
trade and keepng the Aican tribes On the coast from
fighting each other TO the neglect Of useful
occupation The French, however view the movement
jealousy and regard their possessions in that
quarter endangered by its It would be
calamity them to Africa if they to lose
Il those possessions altogether
/ THs ADAME TocisuAs LIBEL the Criminal
Court at the instant, the libel case
the United States against Alma false assertions
against the character Of Madame formerly Ap-
poonia Jagelo, was taken The counsel in the case
MI Fenaal United States Attorney Reverdy Johnson
Walter d. Davdge the prosecution Messrs Brad
4 ley Key and for the defence The evidence then
offered bellous which appeared in the
washington Telegraph The defence asserted that no
evdence produced OF the publication Of libel in the
the jurisdiction Of this court
and therefore the should be dismissed The legal
point discussed and the court decided that
the should 60 and it accordingly proceeded and
/ was not concluded at the hour Of adjournment. 2
Nj PErNssLyASiA EriscoRAI CONVENTION The Pennsyl-
Episcopal Convention assembled at st. Andrew
Church. Philadelpha the 18th instant After the roll
called, motion made BY Mr. Ashurst, lay dele
gate from Epiphany, TO admit lay delegates from the
Coored Church Of the Crucixion The subject post
until the 18TH after the Bishops address, By the
following vote Clerical 4S to 40 lay IS to 20. After
neectua ballot to elect Secretaries the Convention
Iadjourned until the following day. s5
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ApsiIfrED 10 BAIL. Mr. b A. Hannegan who recently
killed his law at Coyngton Indiana has been
admitted to bail in the sum Of $500 II
MURDOCH The Mobile Register gives summary Of the
Of the celebrated horse Murdoch within
the last two years He has started in fourteen
won seven Of the purses amounting round numbers
thousand three hundred and twenty dollars
The amount Is small and inclined to believe there
may be some mistake in the figures.
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LaERTx NATIosAL8 CoNyENTlcN At BuFEAio.-The LIB
ery party have called National Convention to be held
Eat Buffalo, NewYork the Lat Of September next,
candidates for President and President Of
the United States The call ID approved by james Bir
ney ssnsive land owner Of Ohio. and Gerrit Smith
Of the wealthiest the State Of New
York The call is signed BY Fred. Douglass and three
others Of and BY Representatives from Ohio
Pennsylvania, Illinois and Indiana.
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PowpER Mill ExrLosioN. The steam magazine at Sau-
geres NewYork and all the mills except the single wheel
mill blew up ~ fonr o'clock Saturday morning, the
| 18th inst. 70 lives lost.
SABBATH suHooI CELEBaA great Sabbath School
About 1000 children in the ceremonies and
single could hold them five different churches
were opened for their reception John Folk Esq,
chief marshal Of the procession,
The Batemans those talented American children have
appeared in England in new play called The Old School
and the written for them BY Mr. Bernard Their
performance Of it is inmitable
| A yIoLErr HAIL SToKM,-On Monday, the 18th inst,
the vicinity Of Doylestown Pennsyv visited
severe hail storm. It Is said the hail stones
large shell banks and could be shoveled up by bushels
Many trees Frustrated, the washed from
the earth windows were broken and dozens Of young
chickens were killed. It also passed Norristown
Perth Amboy and other places.
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SrRiKE of FERRy PILorsOn the 18th inst. between
twenty and thirty pilots employed three of the Brook
Ign Ferry lines at NewYork quit work in body,
demand for higher wages and the boats all stopped
for time, causing great Inconvenience and confusion
The dicuty could not be arranged, and green hands
were employ 8
VICE ConsuL The President has officially
recognized Mene Vice Consul Of Sardinia for the
States If Ohio Kentucky Indiana and Michigan, to
side Il Cincinnati.
SrEAM on THE ILLlNoIs CANAL.-A few days since the
steam propeller Gates arrived at Lasae from Chicago
the Michigan and Illinois Canal She proceeded TO Peoria
and took cargo of corn oats and other grain and
last heard from making her back to thela
all right
I Block OF MARBLE front THE ,RlsER NIEN-The river
Of Pittsburg propose to the river of the entire
West and South, unite in procuring block blocks
With suitable Inscriptions thereon to aid in the construo-
| tion Of the National Monument in Washington
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NEW dorELs IN Nav YoRk thin the last few months