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

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great excitement in that city when the steamer left
Many revolutionary documents had been seized, and
large number of Creole arrested and confined in the most
loathsomc dungeons. |
The cholera and yellow fever were raging in Havana
One hundred soldiers and hundred convcts had
died The city was shrouded in gloom.
RIVER INTELLIGENCE Cincinnati, August 1S-The mar
k E are quiet Whisky firm at se per gallon Sales Of
flour at S3 10 per Dbl The river is at a stand
PrTsRuRcH. August 1s.-There is scant &c inches
water in the channel and the river falling slowly.
Vessel AsHonE -Seuthwes Pass, August 10 10 4: Nj
The bark Marnon, from Philadelphia for NeworieanF,
with valuable cargo spoken ashore Dog Rocks
No assistance had been rendered Little prospect of
saving her. Eve Pic.
FROM MARrrSraur,-A correspondent of the NewYork
Express writing from St Pierre Martinique under date
of July &c. says:
The yellow fever with regret / inform YOU has not
abatcd this island On average, forty five persons
per day become its victims, including the most distn-
guished personages of whom Lieut. Col CASUALLY
who had considerable service in his day Europe
where he engaged in the last campaign of the gret
war and decorated with the orders of st Louis and
the Legion Honor He had fifty years of service
and commanded under the immortal Napoleon in twenty
eight campaigns.
The island has been deuged with rain attended with
considerable damage in pnd slides and the carrying away
of canes and other ground productions.
of ali men, has given so much delight and salts
faction to people Louis Napoleon In TACT with as
his possessing other qualifications but the name OF the
great his uncle would be carte blanc with the peo
pie of Guadaloupe and Martinique.
THIS MAN WHO Nlsirs the WArERrSG PLAess.--Dckens
introduces the character Mr. tleavylrop, the
who may be found at any Of the fashionable watering
places in the summer and in the winter in conspicuous
box at the opera, at the Of the most fashion
able streets when the most fashionable people abroad
Dickens has found him. and taken of it in the fol
| lowing description;
| He old gentleman with faIsp cemDleSiOn
false teeth, false whskers and wig lie had fur col
lar and he had padded breast to his coat, which only
wanted star broad blue ribbon to be complete He
pnched in and sweed out and got up and strapped
down much as he could possibly bear. He had such
neck cloth pung his very eyes out of their natural
shape) and his chin and his sunk into it.
that seemed though it must inevitably double if
it cast loose He had under his hat of great
size and weight shelving downward from the crown to the
brm and in his hand pair of white gloves, with which
he tapped it, as he stood poised leg in high
shouldered roundebowed state of elegance not to be
surpassed He had cane he had an eye-gass he had
he had rings he had wristbands he had every
thing but any touch of nature he was like nothing in
the world but a model of department.
TRAVELLING OYER Mrppy RoAps-portions of Ohio were
formerly notorious awful roads AT OF
the year mile hour considered good progress.
Something idea of the mud may be formed from the
following anecdote
\ A traveller riding horseback Little Union
meeting house. when the mud deep that his foot
touched the 'lobloy on either hand The struggles OF
the poor horse to draw his foot out Of the soft clay were
of course desperate and he could not make more than
mile and haitian hour The traveller up with
a man who standing the fence, without coat or
hat, and with fcncera was pumping the huge mortar
| bed as though endeayoring TO sound it,
Why what's the matter - exclaimed the equestrian
you excited and out of breath Are you merely
amusing yourself?n
Bless ye no said the fence man. ''I've lost ing
wagon and team somewhere along here and am trying
to see if I could find EN-"
The traveller could only give the unfortunate man hi
sympathy, and proceeded on.
This story went the rounds long time ago and is
good again
TRour IN LAKE ERtE-Mr Andrews, OF punkitz, n
y recently succeeded in catching salnon trout in LAX
Erie where it not known that they existed severa
unsuccessful attempts were made different depths
water and in different ways but at length the true wa.
found, and that by turning out thirteen mile
from shore and dropping nets to the depth of nearly
quite hundred feet and thus letting them remain 70
some hours the fish could secured Mr. Andrews tool
at one haul fifteen hundred pounds Of trout am
whtefsh In this lot thirtythree trout weighing
l. about thirty pounds each.
,s DEATH OF PunsER sAwyER-It appears that PURSE
h Sawyer. of the u s. ship Cumberland whose death
spezzia was announced time since died by his
hands He had for time been laborng under men
tai alteration, and notwithstanding he wins CLOSET
It watched he found opportunity to ntlic wounds il
"a his neck with pocket knife which produced death.
d was universally respected on board his ship
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r. APPLES OF SopoM AID GRAPES OF GoMoRRoH.'-A
usual the Americans have nominated two of their wor
u II occasionally happnlts tias
Of the model republicans appear rise high aboy
the level of ordinary humanity and weakly SUI
as posed by their admirers have attained eminenC
in the field the orumbut let them only be named
candidates for some high Office. aud all the world mm
diatey discovers that they the meanet and most dc
" picabe of men, the very sniest of earths reptile
u Punch
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e. sripIruALiss-The Christian (dass) Register of sa
el urday week says:
'our passing and rather increIulous auson to the
nj port that CHIEF Justice Wells of this State has become
- medium has brought letter from q gentleman
Oh Montague which vouches for the ruth the story fro
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