New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-02-07

Alice Carey the gifted rc,ss is said to be dangerously
i'll in NcwYork
Prescott and Macarsy the two distinguished histl
riaus have been elected honorary member the Roya
Irish Academy
George vandenhoH the actor, has sailed for Europe
where he will perform for while and then to the
United States.
The 18th of June next will be the two hundredth ami
yersy of the incorporation of Lancaster Massachusetts
IL is to be appropriately celebrated
Neal Dow the author OF the Maine Liquor law has
rived in Baltimore the purpose Of stir, IN t
among the citizens in tay Of his particular doctrines
new Jail is under contraction in Cincinnati to
cost $4,000 The plan proposes to purchase few acres
OF ground within ten miles Of the city for the erection
Norkhouse, at cost Of $4,000 more.
| SUSPICION or MuRuER-A sailor recently discharged
from the L. ship Pennsylvania, arrested in Pha
delpha on the 10th ut, on the charge Of numbering
man named Fink 1t is said that he prove alibi
BY the Paris fashion plates gentlemen full dress
made in Paris with sleeves large at the wrist
like the sleeves of ladies' dresses and with
underseeves puTeed at the wrist like those worn by
ladies.
RELIES FOR M,pEHA The bark Nautilus sailed from
Boston the 2Sth ut with 200 barrels flour and large
quantity Of contributed by the citizens for the relief
of the starving inhabitants Of the island Of Madeira
similar expedition will leave Network in few days.
gentleman writing from St Petersburg in December
says that universal thaw prevails throughout Russia
all the ice is broken uphe weather mild and close
and deluge of rain falling In consequence the sedgcs
in common this abandoned for carriages
where boats not required
The FIRE companies the city and county of Philade
phia who have their engine houses have made
arrangements have stationed in them at all hours
of the night and fire breaking out in any see
tion OF the city county they give notice by
ting ID fire rocket,
Tx STRAW BoNSsr BrslNrss--A new establishment for
the manufacture bonnptS has been organized on
extensive scale in Peterborough Massachusetts II is
calculated to cut ten thousand straw bounets wear
1t employs two thousand females and hundred ami
fifty men but not chan oue-fourth them work in
the factory they being paid by the piece
BAD Evp.-Chares Daley oAas McSIauus was last
week sent to the Jail at St Louis for term six months
Tor two Of larceny The st Louis Union SAYS be
was clerk short time since in the house OF Rowland X
Aspnwall in New York is fine looking and talented
young man who, coming West and failing to get clerk
ship lacked the moral stamina TO bear misfortune and re-
sst vice, and therefore turned thief
New KrND or MANrsE-Gn the Island Of st. Vincent
new kind of earth has been discovered Of very peculiar
properties and whal so valuable that it is likely to be-
come az no distant day important aud regular article
Of expectation Little less than thousand tons have
been taken to bermuda to assist in the formation of
brawater that is being erected BY the Government there
They claim that it is excellent cement for use under
water Besides is said that English chemists have an
alyzed IT. and pronounce it to 9e valuable than