New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-28


One night bed in an ice house is q great desi-
deratum; the next fires and feather beds
equally So We have heard of several ther-
mometers being worn out by their active du-
ties, and know that numbers Of men feel them
selves halfway thermometer-iz Ninety five
degrees in the shade is not surprisingly com
Portable, but vastly exeels this changeable style
of weather na e-qy9st
Yesterday morning was undesirably hot :
yesterday evening undesirably cool; If the
clerk of the weather would practice little
more steadiness in his operations, he would con
fer a great favor on his friends here below. Let
him fix suitable temperature, and then "stick
q peg there II .e
PERSONAL. are informed by gentleman
who lately received q letter from him, that our
friend and fellow citizen Major Ranney arrived
in New York with the party of Hon Randall
Hunt, intending to accompany them to Europe,
He was prevented, however, by illness, and is
now recruiting at Sharon Springs, He proposes
to return by way of the Virginia Springs and
st. Louis E''T
Major Ranney and Mr.. Hunt reached New
York the day previous to the unfortunate ARRAY
between DIR, Graham and Colonel Loring, and
Mr.. Hunt is understood to bs retained for the
defence. .1 80
Our Saratoga and New York exchanges speak
very highly of the New Orleans ladies stopping
there and award them the same compliments as
the New York journals. Verify, the Crescent
City is quite notable place.
SINGULAR SUICIDE Day before yesterday 8
strange man, name unknown, committed suicide
on the farm of Mr. Chambers, near Florissant,
in the following manner He made a bed of
straw, near hay stack, after which he went to
cherry tree and broke off stick, and going
back to his bed he laid himself down and put y
handkerchief around his neck and inserted the
stick in it, with which he twisted the handker-
chief until he was literally choked to death, and
in that condition was found. The unfortunate
man was seen few hours previous at the toll
gate, upon the Plank Road, where he inquired
the way TO st. Louis, and upon being informed
be took ia contrary direction. He had the
appearance Of having been sick, and it was
IMPORTANT NEWs.-The New York Tribune Of
the 2lst, says that
New Orleans, though the outlet Of a large
portion of the western territory. cannot attain
TO any thing beyond fourth-rate' Importance,
and is not increasing in size Et
New Orleans is not increasing in size ~
Where did the New York Tribune obtain this
very late, valuable and authentic information ?
g 1t cannot attain to any thing beyond o fourth
rate Importance Merlin and Madame Ad-
olrhe! Where did the New York Tribune &C.
quire its powers of prophecy? It cannot be
deemed astonishing that these statements, ami
hilating at once the census reports, the evidence
set before our own eyes and every customary
law of inference, should lead us to the enqui-
ries. The census reports show o large and
steady increase in population and property for
the last ten years. We hear, daily, of the diff
ficulty of obtaining houses, and see, daily, new
buildings in process of erection But what is
all this! New Orleans is infected with slavery
and it goes against the Tribune's theory that
there can be any prosperity where slavery exists.
Accordingly, New Orleans does g not increase
in size, ana can not attain to any thing beyond
q fourth rate Importance! We admire the
consistency. Can we do less than believe the
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The Boston journal relates an authentic ac-
count of the neglect received at the hands OF
certain American Gonsuls by Captain Leach,
MASTER Of the ship Strena Of Boston, This ship
was cast away near Revel, in the Gulf of Fin
land, the pilot running her on the rocks. After
the ship was stripped the captain discharged
his crew. The place being in . state Of siege BY
the Russian Government, he was ordered to get
his crew out of the way as soon as possible,
Three of them went to Elsineur, there being no
Consul at Lufec; the Consul at the former
place would have nothing to do with them. The
mate went to Riga, but the Consul refused to
advance him the funds to go thence. AT Memei
he Jared no better. They could get nothing
from the Consuls because they were cast away
in Russia and did not go to Cronstadt-but to
Cronstadt they could not so, because the Rus
sian Government would not let them. So these
brave tars were left desolate, wrecked paupers
in foreign lands where we have Consuls The
at Washington should better
provide for the contingencies which our com
merce has in the European war. ,"5 z--o a.4
------a ad7 81.
Bill Poole, who fogged Morrissey SO unmer-
cfully not long since, has established drink
ing saloon in Broadway, at the corner of
Howard street, As soon as one of thesa men
win prize fight, it seems natural sequence
that he must become the keeper of grog shop
When Tom Hyer whipped Yankee Sullivan
several years ago, his friends Immediately set
him up in this same kind of business in the
Bowery Neither his habits nor associations
were at ell fitted for this kind of occupation, so
he neglected it, and all went to ruin. Fighting
men and their friends and shadows keep about
one quarter of the porter houses in town.
A terrific explosion of gas took place at the
paper warehouse of Messrs. Benedict Co., in
New York, on the 10th inst 1t appears that
the gas had escaped from the pipe and filled the
interstices between the ceilings, walls and floors
Workmen were engaged in repairing the pipes,
when the gas ignited, tore up the first and
SECOND floors, and knocked o portion of one
of the side walls of the building out of plumb
Several of those in the establishment were pros
trated, but none seriously injured, fa=iy-t,..i
Yesterdayla. youth by the name of Leonard