New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-10-28

| REVIEW.
| France has debt Of over one thousand mil
| lions of dollars
| 1t is said that 900 negroes have died of the
present yellow fever in Cuba.
During the last nine months the police Of
| Philadelphia have made 6,497 arrests.
The total number of deaths in Boston, for the
week ending the 18th inst, was SO.
The sloop -of-war Dale sailed from Baltimore
on the 10Th inst, for the coast of Africa.
| Lucy Stone, and other +" femininities,'' are
lecturing to crowded houses in Cincinnati.
| Two large lots of wheat have been bought in
st. Louis at 80 to 110c., for the French market.
The boarding house keepers of Boston have
resolved to raise their prices fifty cents per
! week.
A man named George Freeth was arrested in
| Philadelphia on the 18th, for having three
| wives
| 1t is said that public reception will be given
| Koszta at Boston, where he is shortly expected
to arrive.
If you wish to have care, perplexity and mise
ry, be selfish in all things this is the short road
to trouble.
DR.. Fowler, of Boston, has invented a tele-
graphic signal, to be used for draw-bridges on
railroads.
The Metropolitan Hall, New York. it is rumor-
ed, has been purchased by A. T. Stewart & Co,
for 100000
new tragedy, &c Leonor de Guzman,'' by
Baker, has been brought out at the Walnut, in
Philadelphia.
The average daily receipts at the Crystal
Palace for the week ending the 10th inst. were
| $27 1888 so.
| The Indianapolis Journal says that the hog
| crop of that State will be ten per cent larger
| than last year
The negro charged with the murder of VIM
Sheriff., in Christian county, Ky, has been
tried and found guilty.
A Partisan has bought span of horses at
Cincinnati for $500, and shipped them thence
to Paris via New Orleans
The rum distillers of Boston have decided to
raise their prices from 3Sc. to 900. for rum, and
Csc. to zoe, for alcahol.
ship has recently been built in Charleston
and named the Julia Dean, in honor of the
talented American actress Of that name
An exchange paper says, "the farmers in
Iowa are unable to sleep at night on account of
the racket made by the growth of corn.
Within the last fortnight, says the Baltimore
Sun of the 18th inst, eight slaves have made
their escape from Mason county, Virginia.
The Cunard mail steamship Arabia sailed
from New York for Liverpool on the 10Th inst
with 81 passengers and Sl,2l5,245 in specie
Advicss from Curacao, received at New York,
report salt as very scarce, and commanding high
prices; and at Bonaire there was none to be had
at any price.
There is but one way of being correct and
agreeing with every body. 1t is to say nothing
that can be of any possible use to any one.
[Blackwood.
The Bath Mirror says every ship yard in that
city is engaged for the winter, and the number
of ships to be built the ensuing season is
greater than ever
The trial of the Captain and owners of the
steamboat Henry Clay, upon indictment for
manslaughter, is now going on in the United
States Circuit Court at New York.
The cost of the Manhattan Gas-works is es-
timated at one million of dollars. These works
employ over four hundred men at an average
expense for wages of 1000 per week
A Socialist emigration is on the eve of leav-
ing Europe to join Messrs. Victor, Considirant
and Brisbane, in their phalanstry of Texas
Several artists and writers are among the emil
grants.
A young man named Jones B. Jenkins has
been arrested at Oneida Castle, n Y, charged
with having forged affidavits in support of the
claim of Phineas Whitney, deceased, revolu-
tionary pensioner.
Deeply were we affected on reading the other
day of young lady who, being told that her
lover was instantly killed, exclaimed, 20, that
splendid gold watch of his give me something
to remember him byP'
The earnings of the Northern Indiana and
Southern Michigan Railroad for the month of
September last, were $l93, 40l for the same
month last year the receipts were Sis, 289 in
crease $33, ll2.
The clipper ship Kate Hooper, of 1900 tons
burden, was launched at Baltimore on the 18th
She has been named '' Kate Hooper in COM
pliment to lady belonging to the family of one
of the owners. She is intended for the Liver
pool trade.
A few days since the clerk and steward of
the steamer j. NJ. Clendenin on the Missouri
were engaged in an ARRAY, in which the clerk
was wounded by a tumbler Passengers at
tempting to chastise the steward, he jumped
overheard and was drowned
The Postmaster General has authorized a
regular mail for California to be made up at
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Chi
cago. Each place is to be provided with se-
parate bags, and return mails will also be
made up at California, for all the points named. |
A strike has taken place at Lancaster, Pa,
N the cotton factories. The operatives, male |
md female, to the number of several hundreds, |
struck on Thursday last in favor of the ten hour
ystem of labor. They formed in procession, in
which $50 female operatives joined, and marched
trough the city.
The darkey who creased his feet so that he
hould not make noise, when he went to steal
hickens, slipped from the hen roost into the GUS
ody 1.-THE owner He gave as reason for his
eing there-"Dat he cum dar to see eff de
hickens sleeped with dere eyes OPEN" He was
0oped,