New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-10-25
It is in contemplation to erect an immense

Albany Atlas and the view ork fOst.
Some sixteen hundred acres of land have re-
Gently been purchased in Iowa, on which a
colony of Monks have settled
Among the articles on exhibition at the fair
Of the Maryland Institute, Mt Baltimore, is q
cut-glass vase, worth two thousand dollars.
Thomas Welsh has resigned the fpstmsster-
chip Of Montgomery, and VI. ?. Blue, editor OF
the Advertiser, has been appointed to his place
Another new hotel is talked Of in Galena, III
to he six stories high, and to he situated on Com
merce and Main streets. A subscription is being
raised for the purpose
The Crystal Palace in New York closes the
last Of December. It is proposed to keep the
building standing, and to continue to use it as q
permanent exhibition of manufactures.
LIBERALITY.-M W. Brown, Of the firm of
Brown, Shipley & Co. of Liverpool, has present
ed the muni6cent sum of $4,000 sterling, to
establish a second free library in Liverpool. 80
LIRyI. surs.--H II Robins5n, editor of the
Cincinnati Enquirer has commenced suit
against Gen Carey, editor of the Ohio Tenn
perance Organ. for libel. The damages are laid
at $50, 900.
s'Punch, in a late number Of his work, rep .
resented the Government of Turkey in q bed,
in the last stage of decline-Russia lowering
over him with knout, as a skeleton death-and
John Bull and Louis Napoleon in the corner as
physicians consulting about the patient
| LAND SALEs.-Since the 1st of MAY the sales
for cash and land-warrants in the Dubuque
Land District amount to 250, $50 acres, produ-
eng ,626. Of $40, ,574, received on deposit
at Dubuque, from the various offices in Iowa,
Wisconsin and Minnesota, S422 109 were from
Iowa alone This is pretty strong evidence of
the tendency of emigration to that State.
| Frost AT CHARLESTON. The parishes above
us had considerable touch of frost last Sunday
morning. 1t extended pretty low down towards
| the city, being probably within six or eight
/ miles Of us 1t seems to have put stop to the
| fever, which has prevailed to some extent among
| the negoes in st. James, Goose Creek Strange
as it may seem, the usual order has been re-
versed there this summer, the negroes have been
sick, whilst the white persons have enjoyed un-
usual health [charleston Standard, 10th inst.
YELLOW FEVER IN, MoNrGoMERY.-We re-
gret to state that sickness has increased in our
city within the last few days. The disease is q
malignant fever-and if not yellow fever, only
differs from it in being worse Several new
cases and some deaths have occurred within the
last two days.
Though we still hope to escape anything like
/ severe epidemic, we think our citizens who
are absent had better for the present remain
away. Montgomery Advertiser, 10th.
N. q
private letter yesterday from jackson, dated
oct. 10, which says: /" the yellow fever is on
the increase, and many are stricken with sor-
row at the desolaton around. The Peniten-
tiary has heretofore escaped, but within the
last few days the scourge has appeared within
its walls. Five convicts are reported to be
down. Upwards of one hundred cases are un-
der treatment.at this time. Business has been
!, Tribune.
, WEALTH OF ST. LouIs-The assessment Of
real estate and personal; property, made in the
several Wards of the city for the present year,
is $3.50 ,397 1876 33. The Collectors Of the seve-
"A sal Wards have feportssF the amount Of mer-
0 ohandize to the Auditor at $S ,144,7S6 ga.
These figures show an increase in the amount
J, of assessments over that of last year of 81
a 299 COG 81. aa.4 .1
l The whole amount of revenue derivable from
II all sources viii reach the Of $61O, 900, be-
es ing an increase of $4,000 over that Of last
y year. Llntelligencer.
p, RACING BY THE LADIES p T. Barnum hav
mt ing offered handsome list of prizes for tn
n best female horseback riding, the girls of Con
necticut have entered the list with great energy
d. The trial comes off at Stamford CT. The cours
lt is TO be open to all ladies under twenty -one
1r married or single The conditions of the rae,
t. are not set forth. We learn that large mum
8; Der of fair ones in the nutmeg State have made
s entry. The occasion will doubtless be an ex
} citing one We should much like to witness
= the display This is great country First
e came the Anglo Saxon race, and now the races
e of the women. Boston Bee. r, ~
CALIFORNIA NOMENCLATURE Some of our
+ people in the interior have most extraordinary
8 taste in nomenclature. The recent election has
n brought to light such delectable localities a.
I | Whisky Creek, Jaekass Gulch, Humbug City
= | lnp- Mn1n nrr,pl L arf{a
:, Bar, Murderer's Bar, Sbirt-Tai Canon, Lower
n Humbug, Negro Hill, Fiddletown, Coon Hollow
Jay Hawk, Condemned Bar, Grizzly Flat, Mus
It quito Canon. Poverty Bar, Mule Canon, Green
# horn, Mugginsville, Mad Muletown, Sucker Flat
4 Rattlesnake Bar, Yankee Jims, Peppermint
II Bar, Mad Canon, Humbug Canon, Rough and
g Ready, French Corral, etc. San Francisco
n Herald
- LuMBER.-There are now between 80 and
=, 10000 logs valued at rising million of dollars
Ia lying on the west branch of the Penobscot, be
: tween Milrocket river and the Five Islands OF
. the Penobscot, and for want of water cannot bt
"a got down. Rain for this purpose is very mucl
;. 4 needed. There are also about $50 rafts making
70 20 cargoes, from five to ten miles above the cit.
> of Bangor, waiting for a freshet sufficient Il
. bring them down The demand for lumber /
/. great and cannot be supplied The consequence
Is is that what there is in the market command
10 good price. The export of long lumber fror
20 Bangor, for the year. is estimated at 2 600 90
&c feet: of short lumber $50 900 900 feet.
,p MIsTAKE--A day or two since an impert
ID nent and senseless young man forwarded q lie
At to Mrs. Howard, the actress, filed with SCI
Is timents of an improper nature. Not receivil
ir an answer as he expected, he made bold to ca
s, upon the lady. In the mean time the letter b,
te been passed to Mr.. Howard, who provided hin
self with reyolvers. The fact was no sooner
the knowledge of the we'll dressed scamp, this
j, he bolted, and has not appeared on the wave
m society since Young men sometimes maj
\. great mistakes in their overtures to ladies, a.
y bullets are an excellent corrective. Bost
r Bee.
lst MoRRIssEY NOT DEAD.-Morrissey, who W
n reported to have died from injuries received
vs, his recent encounter with Yankee Sullivan, h
he addressed the following letter to the editor
m the New York Times:
of Sir; Having seen statement in the Eyenir
ide Day Book that was dead, I beg to inform yc
ip- that such is not the fact; and hereby turns
son you the best evidence, by personally hanall
r you this communication And would beg lea
the 10 add for the satisfaction of my friends, that