New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-31


Mr. Davis, of Clermont county, Ohio, took the
first lot of ripe peaches Of this season to Cinein-
natl, and sold them for eight dollars per bushsIs
The Baltimore Democratic City Convention
have passed resolutions denouncing Knows
nottingham.
Upwards of $4,000 barrels of flour were sent
from st. Louis up the Ohio River, during the
month Of June
Fifty-six deaths per day was the greatest
experienced from cholera at Montreal
up to the 18th inst.
The Liverpool Journal says the large Eng
lish steamship companies have been unable to
make any dividend the present season.
A new political paper, called the State Rights
Register and National Economist, has just been
issued at Washington It's under the editorial
management of G. c. Baylor, Of Baltimore
The Board of Trade of Alexandria, Va, ask
the concurrence of the merchants of Baltimore
and Fredericksburg, Va, on the subject of buy
ing corn by weight, Sc pounds to the bushel
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The Secretary Of the Treasury has made ar
yer bullion to the San Francisco Mint for coin
age and distribution.
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Secor, of New York, for the construction Of q
marine basin and railway near San Francisco
for $840, 1000. e.
Two men were arrested in Baltimore, the
other day, and held to answer, for beating their
wives Their names are Martin Buck and Will
liam Donohue. Have they in Baltimore pun
ishment adequate to the case
The New York and Hayre Steam Navigation
Company announce that the large steamer St.
Louis. just completed for the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company, has been chartered to replace the
Franklin
In the heavy gale which lately swept over
Lake Ontario, the schooner Duke Of Darling
ton foundered about twenty miles from Toronto,
and six hands. including the captain, persisted.
A boy named Bailey was the only person saved.
The total population of Pennsylvania born
citizens in the United States, in 1850, was
1904 ,649; the number Of Inhabitants Of Penn
sylvania born in foreign countries, 295 1872; I'M
known, 1885,
A young man named Norcross was killed in
Salem, Massachusetts,, on Tuesday, by the ex-
plosion Of soda fountain which he was charg-
ing, a fragment Of the copper fracturing his
skull 8%
Capt. s. Dudham, of Hancock, Vermont, shot
a bear in his pasture, on the 9Th inst, measur-
ing eight feet from his nose to his heels This
is the ninth bear the Captain has dispatched
within twelve years.
The Milwaukee Sentinel learns from Madison
that the Grand Jury in the United States Dis
trict Court have indicted s. NJ Booth, J. A.
Messenger and John Ryecraft, all Of that city,
for alleged participation in the rescue Of the
fugitive slave Glover. ~
In Albany, N. Y, recently, o boy 13 years Of
age got up in the morning perfectly well, ate
some green apples and a pint of cherries before
dinner, drank plentifully of milk at his dinner
and was buried in the cemetery before dark Of
the same day. &
The taxation for the ordinary purposes Of mu-
nicipa1 government in New York city, is estima-
ted, for the ensuing year, at nearly five million
dollars. The rate of taxation is one dollar five
and three quarter cents on every hundred dol
lars of valuation.
The Belfast Qreland) Mercury says the ex-
tent to which the sale of Indian Meal is carried
on through the rural districts seems really
wonderful. At one steam mill the average
quantity turned out, for the last couple o.
months, exceeded fifty tons per week.
Capt. Richards, of the British brig Queen
arrived at New York from Limerick, report.
that on the ID instant, in latitude 43 degrees
q minutes, longitude 48 degrees 4S minutes
he, saw an iceburg about five miles in circum
ference and three hundred feet high.
Little iron steamer ]. G. Lee, from Whining
ton, Delaware, where she was built, bound Il
Nicaragua, to ply on the lake, foundered at sea
on the 10th inst, when two days out from Ha
yana, where she had put in for coal The crew
were all saved
An English paper states that q number o.
English gentlemen have associated themselves
together for the encouragement of the long ne
elected fisheries of Ireland Twenty Thousand
pounds have been subscribed, and the services
of practical men secured for carrying on tn.
operation.
1t is said that the Japanese would not agree
to the recent treaty with the United States, til
it was stipulated that no American woman
should be allowed to set her foot on the Japan
ese territories This was a concession they
probably thought was due to the Japanes,
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Fishing for sword fish seems to be q lucrativ,
business at the Eastward The New Bedford
Mercury says that operations have been com
menced this season with great activity, ane
about forty Of the fish were brought into tn,
New Bedford market few days since.
The Buffalo Chief of Police received notice OF
Thursday morning that reward of $500 fol
the arrest of Robert Schuyler was offered. 1t il
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