New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-07-28
The News


news of interest.
The steamer America sailed from Boston July
Goth, full of passengers. She did not take out
much specie.
Capt. Charles Russell, of Louisville, acciden-
tally fell from the cars, near Rouse's Point,
New York, on the 10th July, and was killed.
Ex-President Fillmore, it is said, may be
daily seen in the streets of Buffalo, looking like
one relieved from the drudgery of power
Yankee Sullivan, it is said, has made match
to fight with Morrissey, the champion of Cali
fornia, about the middle of autumn, for 81 900
a side.
The Washington Union says that the Presi-
dent is in excellent health, and has been so ever
since his return. He rode out on horseback on
Tuesday afternoon.
The Boston Transcript says that Mrs Now
att, the actress, has been seriously indisposed
for more than month, in that city, and that
she does not yet leave her apartment.
The total amount to be raised in New York
city this year by taxation, including S24l 553
for common schools, is So 207 ,795 OF The tax
will be one quarter mill on valuation.
The Navy Department have dispatches from
Com. Perry up to April y, when he was at Ma
Gao preparing to sail Immediately in the Missis-
spp for Shanghai. He expected on arriving at
Shanghai to meet the sloops of war belonging to
his squadron, and to sail with all his shps) as
soon as possible for japan.
Com Shubrick has telegraphed the Depart
| ment, saying that, on the opinion Of Chief Naval
Engineer Martin, who has Just inspected the
| Princetons boilers at Portsmouth, New Hamp-
shire, he will probably be able to so repair them
as that she may sail for the fishing grounds
about the close of this week
Amos Kendall is building ten cottage style
frame houses on his farm on the outskirts of
| Washington, on the line of the railroad The
| total cost, exclusive of the ground leach being
on a lot of two acres) will be some S15 900, and
| they are expected to rent for an aggregate of
S25 ,O0O-a profitable investment, indeed.
Messrs Page & Bacon, of St. Louis. have pur-
chased from the Bank of Missouri nearly quar-
| ter of a million of silver coin, which the bank
had been aceumulating for years past A pre-
| MUM of two per cent. and upward was paid,
varying with the description Of coin.
| The ladies of Grand Rapids, Michigan at
| tended the polls on the Goth to urge their hus-
| bands and brothers to vote for the Maine law
| They were, Of course successful In Leoni the
| ladies also came out, and the town gave pos ma
| jority for the law.
Professor Schouw traces the history Of the
diffusion of the cotton plant aId cotton with
tolerable degree of probability to periods be-
fore the birth of Christ, when it was confined
to India, Herodotus, who lived in the fifth cen
fury before Christ, relates that the Indians
made their clothes Of wool grown on plant
A meeting Of the citizens Of Fond du Lac was
held on the 9th ult., Mt which resolutions we're
adopted inviting the Hon, n p Talmadge to
address them on the subject of the spiritual
manifestations He accepted the invitation
and agreed to make his address on the l4th in
slant We suppose the honorable ex Senator
may be now considered fairly On the stump in