New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-07
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united STATES yesterday SEW in'o VIZ oeA"'e
message in reply to the resolution Of inquiry
with regard to the existing relations between
Spain and the United States He states that
these relations have not assumed q more AMIGA
BILE posture than they presented at the time
when he sent in his message asking for means
to be placed at his disposal to meet any con-
tingency that might occur during the recess of
Congress. He says that Spain has assumed the
responsibility for the outrage on the Black
Warrior, by approving of the course Of the
Cuban authorities.
With regard to the proclamation against fiji
clustering expeditions, he says that individuals
cannot be allowed to assume the functions OF
Government in making war, etc.
The President concludes his message by re-
peating his call for money and provisional
authority to act according to circumstances
during the recess of Congress.
EXTENT OF RussIA.--Russia is the greatest
unbroken empire for extent that ever existed
occupying vast regions Of Europe and Asia, and
nearly one-sixth of the habitable globe. 1t is
forty lone times the size of France, and one hun
bred and thirty-eight times that Of England.
Yet it was too small for the Emperor Alexan-
der, who is reported to have said 81 insist
upon having the Baltic to skate upon, the Cas-
plan for bathing place, the Black Sea for a
wash hand basin, and the North Pacific Ocean
as a fsh-pond.'' He encroached on Tartary
for pasture; on Persia and Georgia for a
vineyard; On Turkey for garden; on Poland
for farm; on Finland and Lapland for q
hunting ground, and took q part of North
America as place of Punishment for Offenders =
MORTALITY OF NORTHERN CITIEs.-The total
number of deaths in Boston during the week
ending on the 28th ult. was $50, one-third Of
which were said to have been from cholera. The
cholera at the Massachusetts, State Prison IS
subsiding. No case has yet proved fatal. The
prisoners, to the number of 112, have been at
tackled more or less violently.
The number of deaths in New York for the
same period was 1140, of which 242 were by
cholera.
The deaths in Philadelphia during the week
were 500, about 100 of which were from cholera.
The cholera is prevailing with considerable
severity, the Baltimore papers state, among the
paupers in the Aims House of that city
dispatch from Rochester, dated July 80,
states that the propeller Boston, Capt McNett,
was run into by schooner on the night of the
2sth off Oak Orchard, and sunk She went
down in fifteen minutes after being struck. The
propeller had a full cargo of pork, wheat and
corn, and was owned by the Ogdensburgh Rail
road Company, The passengers and crew, twen-
ty-five in number, arrived at the mouth of Gen
esee River about nine o'clock on Saturday even
ing, having been on the lake in an open boat
| nearly twenty -four hours. -.a.s@ ".s
William Arlington has been committed 70,
| trial in Baltimore, charged with the murder Of
| Michael Higgins, Waterman at the Alexandra
cotton factory. The cause Of the murder waf
| that Arlington had been removed, and Higgins
| appointed Waterman in his place. @g4".
| This is, Of course, not the same VIM AIRING.
| ton who sent the torpedo in Cincinnati.
| The cost of cleaning the streets of New York
city during the three months to July 1, wal
| 1855, 904 N. The Commissioner asks for al
appropriation Of 100000 to carry him through
| the year. -----
| A Crystal Palace is to be built at Naples
| The King has approved the plan, and pointed
out the Villa Reale, close to the sea, as the site
| The intention is to devote the building tt
works of arts and science, and thus to form {
permanent depot for exposing the industry o
| the ceaatry.
1 No cd do fsiy fhn arfin or 0f .
murder committed in that city, on the 26th ult
| about midnight, under the following circum
| stances: The parties were John Maloney an,
Michael Preston, both belonging to the schoone
| Dawn Preston claimed that Maloney had in
suited him, and limited at satisfaction. Malo
ney, on the night of the murder, was seen t
| sharpen sheath knife and conceal it about hi
| person A dispute arose at the time in ques
ton, when Preston slapped Maloney in the face
| upon which Maloney drew the knife an
stabbed his comrade to the heart. 1t seem
| that they had been friends for q long time
more intimate than is usual They shipped a
| Toledo, and positively stated that one would nc
| go without the other. Maloney. who appeare
| horror stricken after the commission of til
deed, is in custody.
Mormonism is said to be making greatprogres
| in Denmark there are now Mormons in tn
smallest hamlets In the Isle of Amack, whie
is situated quite close to Copenhagen, almost a
the women have adopted the worship of tn
Mormons. Five hundred Jutlanders, recent
/ converted to Mormonism, are about to emigrat
to the Mormon colony in the United States
4 The great ecclesiastical commission at Copenha
gen has received orders from the Government
make researches as to the propagation of MOI
monism in Denmark.
MEMENTo MoRL-A dead horse was foun
some days ago lying in Fulton street. New Yorl
to which was attached the following signifcar
inscription
Died suddenly at 8 A. NJ, and as no perso
has the power to remove me, am suffered
lie here and stink. hope the neighbors wi
forgive me. OLD HORSE.
A HARD HIT.-The New Bedford Mercur,
abiding to the Greytown affair, says that tt
Administration has shown more magnanimit
than could have been expected by its me
ardent admirers. 1t has felt obliged to thras
some body. and it has taken one of its size
--Ez=---
The Baltimore Clipper of the S1st ult. pu
0 fishes the following statement of brutal trea
| want Of aacar+or 1ph,ob ora ;pnlipn5