New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-04


partially deserted, but at the date of their leav
ing, the disease was thought TO have nearly dis
appeared. Among the deaths reported was that
of Mr.. Hughes, merchant, and his clerk, for.
merly of st. Joseph. The Sam Gloon had but
six deaths on her upward trip--all among the
deckers, and chiefly Mormon emigrants Some
sickness was reported at Kansas, Westport and
other towns in that vicinity. Six or eight
deaths had occurred at Westport
The cholera continued to rage at the last ac-
counts in nearly all of the British West India
Islands
AWFUL RAvAGEs or TIE CHOLERA IN JAMAICA
We have files of the Kingston Morning Journal
with dates to the 18th inst.
Cholera is making sad havoc among the peo-
pie residing in tie district of Everton in st,
Thomas, in the vale. Thirty eight cases had
occurred at that place, out of which twenty nine
proved fatal. The disease has also appeared at
Worthy Park Estate, in St. John, but in a mit-
gated form Fifty four cases had occurred,
out OF which five persons died At ST. Ann
Bay, up to the 2Sth ult,, seventy persons out of
small population had died, and many more
were i'll. The disease is said to be more rapid
in its effects this visitation than it was in 1850
four to I'VE hours seem to be the time that the
patient lasts.
The Philadelphia correspondent of the Balti-
more Sun has the following paragraph in rela-
ton to the great rush for office under Mayor
Conrad's regime:
{" The rush of patriots and those DESTROYS of
serving the consolidated city continues at the
Mayors Office. Up to the present time, nearly
one Thousand have presented themselves and
had their names recorded by the Mayors Clerk
Notwithstanding all this, as soon as the hour
Of reception arrives, the anxious expectants
form themselves into q line like mendieants
about soup-house in cold weather, and wait
their turn
AN INCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL-
wAY,-A correspondent of the Port Huron Com
mercial communicates the following to that
journal:
SAT the time and place of meeting the trains
OF cars, ottentimes amusing incidents occur.
must record one of the most ludicrous and Mt the
same time awkward affairs. In passing up to
the lngersol station, there was q great crowd of
people who had escorted a couple who had Just
been joined in the bands Of wedlock All were
smiling as a morning sun. The baggage had
been checked for Detroit, where they were des-
tined, as their bridal trip. The couple were
seated in the cars, which only tarry few
moments, when the bridegroom, at her sugges-
ton, stepped out to get some cakes, and while
making change, the whistle blew, and both
trains started He jumped on, and passed out,
and after very leisurely slowing away his cakes
IN his pocket, he started forward to hunt his
bride. He looked all through the train without
finding her, when he accosted the conductor as
follows. In great excitement l say, Captain,
some of the passengers are left Can't help
1T, Sir replied the conductor But said the
bridegroom, { was married this morning, and
my wife was aboard and l don't see how she got
out The conductor, seeing what q fix he was
IN, and where the mistake was, asked him where
he was going, to which he replied that he was
going to Detroit. Well, them said the CON
ductor, you are the one who got out You are
now going towards Niagara Falls Great
God is that so Well, stop the cars immedi-
ately, says the bridegroom. Can't do it, saws
the conductor We never stop for any thing
But says the man, | am just married this
morning, and here am going one way, and my
wife the other. Was ever a man in such fix,
and the Captain won't stop the cars / know
It's bad nix to be ill.,, says the conductor, but
| can't help it. l know how you feel, have
been married myself but | must obey orders
BY this time a crowd in the cars had collected
around the unfortunate man, all Of whom knew
the whole affair. A lantern jawed specimen of
a Yankee near, hearing it all, put in a word or
two. Look a here, old Teller, you've got to
grin and bear it. l wish | could help you, MS
you have raised all my feelings But | say
continued he, guess she won't take any body
else for you when she gets to Detroit for they
don't have any of that kind That kind said
the married man, what do you mean ? Why
says the Yankee, they don't have any so ugly
This led to a row, and the excitement being
over, left for my seat, and laughed for ten
miles at least
ANNEXATION OF SANDWICH ISLANDS. dis
patch has been received from Mr. Gregg, our
Commissioner at the Sandwich Islands, that the
native Government throws itself into the hands
of the American party for protection from
French, English and other foreign settlers The
Commissioner has been empowered to accent the
Island for the United States, and assure the
native Government of American protection
[Courier and Enquirer.
The Washington Star says that the Admins.
tration have de ermined not to fill the mission
to Central America, on the ground that, in the
existing condition OF affairs in that country, it
is not only useless, but a serious embarrassment
to the proper care of our interests in that
quarter-the plain meaning of which we under
stand to be that the Administration thus dis
poses of Mr.. Borland. The Star further says
tLl'tb VIC SSutia1 i1AheIlCdu nlSSlOl was MT.
Eyerett's hobby,
A drunken quarrel sometimes is productive
Of good An lrishman and his wife, keepers of
rum shop, in Warwick r l., had o quarrel,
during which the woman broke decanter on
the head of her lege lord, when he, to revenge
the insult offered his offended dignity, took an
AK and stove in every rum cask in the shop 1t
is snid that the neighborhood has been very
much improved by this occurrence.
Judge Douglass has received from Fort
Leavenworth a hickory walking stick that grew
in Kansas. The Union describes it as of for
midable size and having several large knots,
ornamented with buckhorn head, and upon
plate of gold is inscribed Kansas and Ne
braska," By the way, we hear nothing more
respecting the 90 mares nest" discovered by
Colonel Benton in the new Territorial bill The
warm weather IS supposed to have caused the
eggs to explode.
The latest and most wonderful cure effected
by patent medicine is the following A boy
had swallowed a silver dollar None of the
faculty could devise any alleviation, Whereupop
the inventor of the cure of medicines was sent
for. 1T is evident" said he, 8 that so con-
siderable n coin can never be forced by any
emetic known to science However, let him
take this pill, and fattering consequences will
be likely to ensue." An hour afterwards the
boy threw up the dollar, but in small change,
principally five cent pieces
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