New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-08
DAILY CRESCENT.


inoenliaries just now. A number OF fires Of late
have been traced directly to their agency
Nearly all the wholesale dry goods stopts in
NewN ork closed at three o'clock on Saturday
afternoon, according TO agreement
1t is denied that Mrs Williams, mother Of the
Rev. Eleazer, is about to sue for SANDER every
person who called her son /" Bourbon
Barney Williams, the actor, it is stated, las
purchased house in NewYork, valued with its
contents ut Sl7 900, which he presented to his
aged mother.
The ship Connecticut Capt. Williams from
Liverpool, with between five and six hundred
cmlgrants for New York, put into Sicily, st.
Mays, on the 10th ult., in distress.
The river opposite ST. louis was receding
rapidly on the 3lst ult. 1t was seven and
half feet lower than when it was at the highest
stage, about three weeks before All the upper
rivers were on the decline
Thos. Mexican Petit, lately appointed Direc-
tor OF the Mint at Philadelphia, died at his resi-
dcnce in that city on the Both ult lie was for
merly Judge Of the District Court, and was also
District Attorney under the administration of
Mr.. Polk
The jury in the case Of Miss Wheeler tried
Mt Milwaukee for shooting her salucer, have
been discharged, being unable to agree upon a
verdict. 1t is said they stood ten for acquittal
and two for conviction A second trial was
commenced
DIED.-Colonel Claiborne Myers, of Alabaina,
formerly a resident Of South Carolina, died on
board the steamer Cherokee, on her passage
from Havana to NewYork He was distinguish
Ell for his agricultural success, being one Of the
most extensive cotton planters in the State Of
Alabama
The Merchants and Mechanics Bank Of Os-
wcgO, lately located at Syracuse, was SOLD to
cF Wa11 .,I.
weeks since, and removed by them to North
Granville, Washington county, in this STATE,
where they are doing a regular banking bust
ness
The Consulship to Venice is worth nothing and
TX Marvel is Wing, 50 the two things balance
Mr., Mitchell il engaged in writing a history Of
Venice. and the Consulate gives lin an orpor-
tunity to prosecute his literary researches, with
something Of an official claim upon the sources
Of information. IRoch Am
An immense feet Of vessels, from all PARTS Of
the world, arrived at NewYork on the 3ist ult
among them the packet ship Isaac Webb, from
Liverpool, with 20 passengers packet ship
London, from London, with 44O, and packet ship
Mercury, from Hayre, with 53S Besides these,
some half dozen ships from German ports came
in, full Of immigrants
RAILROAD EXTENSION ~ NORTH CAROLINA
A portion of the citizens Of North Carolina and
nokc Valley Railroad, from GAINESVILLE ID Mil
ton in North Carolina, and the construction Of
a plank road from GAINESVILLE to Roxboro. a
convention in relation to the project is to be
held at GAINESVILLE on the 9TH Of July.
The Ringgold Surveying Expedition, it is said
has been ordered to proceed, with dispatches
to the East Indies, by the way Of the Cape Of
Good Hope. 1T is to touch at Cape de Verbs fol
water, and to rendezvous at Batavia, prepara.
tory to a reconnaissance in the China Seas. The
survey and supply ship John c. Kennedy will
leave Newly ork in about fortnight, with val
liable stores, to join the expedition at the Cape
OF food Hope. Letters for persons attached to
the expedition may be sent to the care Of Capt
p Hollins, NewYork Navy Yard,
MERCANTILE FAlLrRE.- The failure of a house
engaged in the clover speculation at Plliladel
phia was announced on Change in that city OIL
the 31st ult The Ledger says:
The amount involved we have heard set dowr
at half million of dollars-but this amount il
probably considerably in excess of the real loss
The failure on Saturday, we learn, was on
note of 5000 The parties in the combination
it is said, have shipped from $4,000 to 20,00t
bushels Of seed. The movement aimed to con
troll the market, and when nearly all the seeC
within reach was supposed to he in the hands 0
parties concerned in the speculation, the higl
prices at which the article had been place.
steadily drew on the market additional lots 0
one, two and three hundred bushels Tn
amount was more than the parties could carr,
or desired to carry, and of course the price o
seed began to fall, and from eight dollars pc
bushcl has fallen to about four and n half. III
action, Of which we have the reported end, ha
been feared for week or two past, and durin
the time has been the subject Of free conversa
ton among our merchants