New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-08-08
Philadelphia Letter.
Correspondence Of To, grrscsnt.

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PHILADELPHIA, July so
a very respectable degree of excitement has
been engendered here during the past week by
the manifestation along the South Wharyes
corresponding somewhat to your Leyee1 of u
disease greatly resembling, and by many
thought really to be, the yellow fever 1t was
brought to the city by the bark Mandarin, last
from Cicnfuegos, which, with sick crew on
board and with the vessel in an awful state Of
infection and Nth, was allowed to pass the quar-
aDtine station and come up to the wharycs
The Captain and one of the crew died after the
vessel arrived, and the Custom house officer and
others who boarded her were also Immediately
attacked, and several died The contagion like
wise spread in the neighborhood where the YES
sci was lying, and in three days eleven deaths
resulted. The Investigations Of the Board of
| Health developed the filthy state Of the vessel
| AMI she was sent back to the quarantine for pu-
| rIticadon. Since then no new cases have oc-
| CURED, and the alarm has snbsidel
An important case, the adjudication Of which
will test the legality Of railroad subscription
! made by our municipal and county authorities,
has been argued during the present week be-
| fore the Supreme Court Of the State in bane
| 1t was brought up on an injunction to restrain
| the Mayor and City Council from subscribing
| million and half Of dollars to the Hempfcld,
and the Eastern and Delaware Water Gap Rail-
| road Companies The Hon Geo NJ Dallas. st
| George I. Campbell, and other celebrities of
the bar, have been engaged in the argument
and their several efforts have attracted much
attention as able forensic productions During
the argument one of the counsel stated that on
the completion of the railroad projects which
these subscriptions were designed To aid, p9s-
sengers would pass between Philadelphia aud
Wheeling in eight hours As the distance i,
over 400 miles, the accomplishment of the feat
would necessitate an average speed of fttv
miles an hour, and this, am informed is seri
ously contemplated in order to rival the light.
ming speed with which New York now sends
passengers West ria the Erie and Lake route.
IN ingenious rogue, named Thomas j. Dow.
den, who has been using other peoples pocket,
as his treasure box, has been arrested by the
police and will probably be allowed time for
repetition and formation hy sojourn in the
Cherry Hill Penitentiary. Ills m0duS 0peraHai
was to address letters to different persons pur-
porting to come from an acquaintance or friend
detailing circumstances which rendered neecs-
sary the immediate use of cash, and asking the
loan OF a sum, generally not 50 large rs to
excite suspielOn ON IN enclosed accommodation
note. In moro than one ease this rHsf proved
successful, bat one Of his intended victims being
suspicious, the messenger was watched and hi
principal nabbed
Building improvements are going on here to
an extent, both in number and value which has
never before been egualled in the progress al
the city II is calculated that total Of three
thousand buildings viii he added this year Ia
the built up portion Of the city and county
Many Of those erecting in the central parts Of
the city arc FIVE and SIX stories high and have
cast iron fronts OF beautiful workmanship, even
TO the topstory else the fronts are all OF solid
granite or brown saud stone. with cornice-Work
eic' Of the same material. Several stores ar
| now erecting, Nhich, with the lots viii eoyt
from S2U,ooe 10 $4,000 each
Inc continued rains and cool atmosphere Of
| ehe past week has brought hordcs Of pleasure
| seekers up from Cape May-the cutting winds
| and turlorn aspect OF which durns bad weather
are the very antipodyS OF a summer re,or,
Over a thousand came up last night. ami rs tho
| ram suil continues, another large iustalfnlrut
may be expected tonight This uuoeraniouio,.-
| scattering Of the population of the Island Nav.
the deuce with the hotel keepers, who have Il,
| continue all their expensive arrangements with
out view 10 the diminution Of the number ot
their guests
Inc long prevailing drouth has been succeeded
uS unusually heavy rains, and the streams ia
silis NlV4hlty are many Of them oycrrunnins thor
SahNS' me Delaware division Of the State
S" pi mas received serious damage from tht
= ~: iNluirthg fortnight Tor repair, ana
Inns interruption Of an important coal ,,Neplt,. /.
making consumers look blue al thc r,neIs,.t i
a haYy advance consequent upon a sbart sitr,l,-
The Democratic State judicial Cunyent5o,, b.,
nominated the Hon e Knox rs ,1u,li,laf H, N.
Judge Of the supreme Court Healrcady ncc,t
PIES scat on the Bench, having been arifeiutel
by Gov Bgler TO III tho vacancy veuasioned d,
| Judge Cpulters death L is aat probable tbal
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