New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-18

There. are 5000 straw sewers in New York
city, working for five months in the year and
turning off about 100000 hats and bonnets.
Ex-Governor Vroom, of New Jersey, it is said.
has accepted the post of Envoy to Prussia, and
has so Informed President Pierce
The State Stock Bank of Indiana is winding
up. $4,000 Of its issue were surrendered to
the State Auditor last week
0. j. Wise, Secretary of Legation to Berlin
is about to start for Europe. He is only %
years of age.
David Hunt, an extensive planter in Misss-
sippi, has sent donation ofar5000 to the Amer
lean Colonization Society, which is in addition
to the $1,000 which he has sent to the Society
yearly for the last ten years
Some specimens of Australian cotton have
lately been tested in Liverpool, and pronounced
to be worth Is. l0d. per pound. The statement
is that 1t can be grown in any quantity, and
with very little trouble
AT the annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Rutland and burlington Railroad, ON the
sth inst, a report was submitted which showed
gain of so per cent. in the income of the road
over the expenditures as compared with last
year.
Ex-President Van Buren, is going the rounds
of fetes and dinners in London. We observe his
name in the list of guests at a grand ball given
and also at the Earl of Clarendon's diplomatic
dinner, in honor of Her Majesty's birthday
The Paid Fire Department in Cincinnati, the
Nonpareil of that city says, has proved as eff
cient as the late volunteer system, with more
harmony, economy, quiet and order, The APP
plicatiOn of steam to the fire engine has been,
Tor the first time, successfully applied
As the statutes of Illinois provide that the
railroad companies shall pay $1,000 for every
life lost on train of cars through the careless
ness or recklessness of the company its agents,
damages for the Chicago massacre will reach
Slo3,O if sued out, as there were twenty one
persons killed.
The Montreal Gazette of the LIST in q post
script, makes simple mention of a very remark
able escape of three hundred passengers from
the consequences of a steamboat explosion That
number Of persons had just landed from the
steamer ST. Pierre, when the boilers exploded,
killing eight persons-all that remained on
board of the boat. The destruction of the vessel
was so complete that very few of the three hun
bred could have escaped if the explosion had oe-
CURED five minutes sooner
BY advices from jamaica, to the lst instant,
We learn that the difficulty between the Coun-
Gil and the Assembly is growing more and more
serious. Governor Grey has addressed com
to the senior magistrate of St An
drew, calling upon the magistrGcy Of the parish
to adopt measures for the preservation Of the
public peace, which might be disturbed if tile
prisoners are liberated from the penitcntiares,
in consequence of the want Of means in the pub
lie chest to support these prisons. The Govern
or had already ordered the female prisoners to
be released and the males are to be gradually
released. 1t is said that unless the Council re-
cede from their position, there is every probabil
n.y. OF q civil war in Jamaica, in less than three
months