New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-10-05
DAILY CRESCENT.


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We learn from the Baltimore Sun that, now
the summer heats are over. the thousands who
nau left their homes in the South for a more
rgngenai 80 atmosphere, sre rapidly returning
me cars from the East are always crowded upon
'nelr arrival here, while the trains for Washipe
sca and the Norfolk steamers are also doing a
.sry neevy business. There are now four regu-
,v ,vr .in'ns . day running from Baltimore to
" asulng.oa but SO great is the travel between
'ne 'wo cities Wat it is Thought another train
will have to be aaded in order "a secommndate
y, particularly In yiex of the approaching ses
sion OF Congress. when thu numher ~ nj ssss.
is always much increased. y f'''s As''
The travel Westward from Bsltimore :. a,so
greatly improved. We are Informed tbat tho
number of through passengers to whs>liuo. ca
lumbus, Cincinnati, Louisville, and poiA1 he
yond, during the present month, is fully dS~bls
that of the month Of August heindications an
very strong, indeed, that as soon as the largt
and beautiful boats of the Union Line resum,
their running from Wheeling, in connection with
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the travel by
this improving ronte viii be very great If ths
two companies come to terms, the boats viii
commence their trips about the 10th Of October
TIE wIFE-FLoGarNa AfFArR AT NEWPORT
The New York Evening Mirror says that in an
interview with Col. Cranston, editor of the
Newport News, and one of the counsel in the
Morgan difficulty, he informed the editor Of the
Mirror that he had just seen Mr.. and Mrs Nor
gan off in the Franklin for Paris; and that
they went together harmoniously. Col. Gram
ston added that the story of the fogging Of the
woman was entirely false--that the husband
never lifted finger against the wife; and but
for the interference Of Mr.. Hone, the scandal
would never have been bruited by the news
papers.
From what we could gather in brief con-
versation with Colonel Cranstou, a controversy
arose between the husband and wife in regard
to going to an evening party-the wife wished
to go, the husband did not; and instead Of SUBJ
mitting 70 the wishes of her husband like
self-sacrAcing christian, she mounted the plat
form of "woman's rights" and very yocifer-
GUS war Of words ensued. In the midst Of the
strife, Mr.. Hone rushed in and espoused the
cause of the wife, who in the heat of the moment,
uttered bitter complaints against her husband
If Mr. Mengan had then punished Mr.. Hone, or
any other citizen for interfering, he would have
been justified; and by no one more warmly
than by his own wife, when the storm of pas
sion had subsided. But his deliberate chastise-
ment Of the old man, after the blood had had
time to cool, was an act that few viii attempt
to justify. =
The GRAPE DlsEAsE.---A corresponacat Of the
New York Evening Post, who has recently re-
turned from Germany, gives the following
gloomy account Of the progress of the grape
disease Ts M ~
Let America prepare for dear wines, because
all over Europe that fatal disease called sTrau-
benkrankheit' is spreading. 1t consists of white
mildew, that spreads over the whole grape, and
completely destroys it. IL is as inexplicable to
vineyard men as the potato disease is to far
mers. Italy and Tyrol are fatally affected by
1T. In Germany it is just beginning to make its
appearance. Grapes on trellises are worse at
fected by it than those in vineyards. No cure
has yet been found, and it is spreading all over
grape-growing Europe. The papers are full of
proposed remedies, but none give permanent re-
lief. Political economists stand aghast at a
future in which there is to be neither wine for
the rich nor potatoes for the poor.
Many papers state the European grape s;ok-
ness to be the same as that Of the United States
but such is not the fact. Ours is q rot; their.
is a mildew. Ours shows itself by blue spot
upon the berries; theirs by white mildew al
over the grape. Ours leaves few sound Der
ries; theirs destroys the whole grape. n
ACCIDENT AT THE Mass MEETING IN NEwYoRE
AT the democratic (hard-shell) mass meeting
on the 26th ult., the platform fell, iniuring
| number of persons. The accident occurred afte
ex-senator Dickinson had spoken, and just a
| james I. Brady, Esq, had commenced a speech
About dozen persons were seriously injured
Michael Walsh, Esq, member of Congress eject
was found partially wedged between two larg
joists, and was injured to such an extent as t,
be perfectly insensible. Physicians, after ex
animation at the Clinton House, whittier he wa,
conveyed, were unanimous in the opinion that
MIR. Walsh was dangerously injured, principally
internally. The spine and kidneys are supposed
to be severely affected, and the breast also sus-
tanned injury. Blood was also forced from his
lungs out of his mouth. His condition is very
precarious. Mr.. Myers, Of Albany, injured
fatally Edward Higgins, a boy, had a leg broke
2. Flood, Mr.. Kearnan, B. Davis, A. Nesbitt
and son, Capt, Cornell and I, 0Connor, were
all more or less injured, but not dangerously.
A MAN WrrH Twenty WIVES. "A man call
ing himself DR.. William Hunter, but whose real
name is said to be Nathaniel ]. Bird, is in Jail
at Camden, N. Jon a charge of bigamy, and
various other charges. Elizabeth Harrington
lady of Philadelphia, visited him in prison
and ascertained he was the man to whom she
was married on the 9th of July last. On the
same day he was visited by another lady from
Kensington, named Mary Thsmas, to whom h,
was married in May last. 1t is also stated tina
he has wife in Reading, another in Whining
ton, Del, and another yet in Philadelphia. Til,
prisoner is only about twenty three years 0
age, and it is stated, declares that he ha
twenty wives, a statement which may be true
as more than one fourth of that number ha
been found within few days 1t is allege,
that he abandoned each wife soon after mar
| riage, and that they never heard of him aftel
until his recent arrest. The affair creates tn,
greatest excitement in Camden, and has in,
duced an immense number of people to seek ad-
mission for the purpose of seeing him.
| RACE BETWEEN A -BRIfIsH AND A YANKEE
CLIPPER.-The American clipper ship Sovereign
of the Seas, commanded by Capt Henry War
ner, sailed from Liverpool for Australia on the
7th ult She had cargo--the most valuable,
it is stated, ever shipped in one bottom-con-
sisting of 200 tons measurement Of fine goods.
She was so deeply foaded, as is remarked by a
Liverpool paper, that 1t was thought her sailing
Qualities would not have fair chance.
Great interest was excited among nautical
circles by the departure from London, at about
the same time, of British clipper ship, the
Gauntlet, intended to compete with the Sove-
reign of tho Seas. The Gauntlet is an iron yes-
sci, modelled by Mr.. Rennie, of Liverpool, and
built by Denny & Rankin, On the Clyde She
is 692 tons, while the Sovereign Of the Seas is
2400.
CLIPPER SHIPS Orr CAPE HoRN--The gales
off Cape Horn were very severe during june and
July, and many of the best clipper ships from
the Atlantic ports were knocked about in this
stormy region from eighteen to sixty days. The
ship Frigate Bird, at San Francisco, from Phil
adelphia and Baltimore Ga good portion of her
cargo being taken in here, we believe) was off
the Cape for forty days, during thirty of which
she experienced q continual succession of West