New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-01-12
Something for Every Body.


During the year 1852 there were nineteen
murders in NewIork city,
During the last two years, the Legislature of
Alabama has granted about forty divorces
The Vice President elect, Mr.. King, is seventy
two years OF age.
In Boston, sixteen thousand dollars have been
| subscribed towards the Webster monument.
A bill to abolish capital punishment has been
introduced into the Ohio Legislature
Wit is that peculiar kind of talk that often
leads to pulled noses and broken heads
Tedesco, who has won new laurels in Europe,
will again visit the United States in the spring
\ jeweler in Philadelphia has received a
diamond cut in Holland which is valued at $1,000.
Mr.. Forrest, the tragedian, has gone to Bos-
ton TO fulfill an engagement
The sale of lottery tickets in Virginia was pro-
hibted on and after the lst instant
On the 1st instant the State of Illinois paid
600 the principal of its bonds canal
bonds
Mr.. John F. Delaplaine, one Of the largest
property holders in Brooklyn has been placed In unatc
asylum.
Samuel Treadway, tried at Salem, n. j., for
the murder Of his wife has been found guilty and
fenced to be hung.
The pilots on the Cincinnati and Pittsburgh
packet line have struck for s7j per month and the
Of the Boston Daily Advertiser Of which he will hereafter
be an associate editor.
Frank Martin, confined in the Jail of Wayne
county Ia charged with arson hanged himself on the
night Of December 20.
The city marshal of New Bedford Mass, on
the 9th destroyed about twelve barrels of liquor
which had been condemned by the police court
AT Madison, Ia, one dollar and half per
hour paid to aborers for removing from pork
house, beyond the reach Of thu recent flood
There are now upwards of four hundred huA
man beings confined within the walls of the New York
Tombs City Prison, awaiting trials and examinations
81 = Al. Il \
vance charged with being engaged in the slave trade
have been committed for trial at Norfolk.
A slave of Mr.. Parker Selby, near Snow HILL
Nd has been arrested on the charge of ouraging the
person of the daughter of Mr. Holston aged years
+ Rev Henry Ward Beecher denies through the
Independent the 2Sd ult that his good lady pre-
sented him with five little responsibilities in one year
By the Boston Directory it appears that there
81 oe transactng business in that city of
which number about onetenth 5000 nonresidens
! Dispatches, it is said, have gone out from the
State Department directing Mr. Rives to acknowledge
| the Empire as the Government de fato of France
James Gillespie has been sentenced to forty
imprisonment in the pententiary for the murder
| of William Smith, in Cass comfy, Mo.
| The editor of the Nashville Union, j. L. Mar
ling Esq presented with service Of silver on Christ
mas day by his personal and political friends OF that city
A great number of wolves have made their
appearance France and particularly Brittany. The
near Paris have also been visited by these danger
| Gus animals.
| Rev Mr.. Cummings, of Concord n, H.,
has issued parcel Of flaming handbls announcing the
end of all sublunary things in 1854 He finds number
| of deluded followers
The NewYork and Brooklyn Association of
Orthodox Clegymen have decided take up the subject
of Spiritual Manifestation at their convention
next spring.
After it was ascertained that General Scott
defeated the young ladies Of the high school in Spring
mourning as an evidence of their disappointment
| A number of the more delicate females in one