New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-12-29
MISSISSIPPI ITEMS.

Ebenezer Moore charged with the murder of Thacker,
in Calhoun county has been committed to jail in default
of giving bonds for $4,000 He is confined in Oxford
jaithe Calhoun county Jail not being secure The Cal
houn Democrat understands hat taking him to oxford
managed escape from the sheriff by cutting the
cords that bound his eaping from his horse, and
under of night escaping He was subsequently
recaptured few days afterwards, and safely lodged in
jail.
Joseph Rogers of tawamba county, found drowned
in the river Van Buren,, the 18th inst He had
been drinking to excess and attempted TO cross In that
situation
The Eatchez Courier Of the 23d inst. says:
The law was indicated and righteous punishment In
cted yesterday noon upon the bodies Of Frank and Cen
era convicted and sentenced to be hung for the crime
of murder The whole arrangements for the execution
conducted in the most solemn and orderly manner
and hardly have failed to prove useful lesson to our
negro population The procession started from the Jail
about II O'Clock, the prisoners deceny clothed In
white each sitting upon bis CONN in open cart Three
military eompanes-the Fencbles the Light Guard and
Natchez escort Upon arrival at the
place Of executiona hill In the southern part Of the
city nearly mile from the Interpretations mme
datey commenced and as soon as they were completed
the signal given at twenty-five minutes before IL
minutes sficed to exngush life After hanging suit
able time the bodies cut down. rsconveyed to the
jail, and delivered over to proper parties
Cassius NJ Clay lectured last week in Toledo,
Ohio the Beautiful" and disappointed his audience,
the papers of that state or he did Cas-
great slavery and has pretty accurate appre
citation Of the beauty of hogs and their products Be-
| yond these he is out of his element.
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| In New York city there is much distress
among the poor working 1t is estimated that in
the 18th ward alone there three thousand me-
chanics of employment and that in the whole city
there cannot be less than seventeen thousand absrng
men who have work, any prospect of work The
India rubber works in Brooklyn have discharged over
thirteen hundred and the dock yards Of Brooklyn
Williamsburg and Greenpont present very different
pearance from what they did last summer as over two
thirds of the have been discharged And to render
matters many employers reducing the wages Of
the few who still at work, while the prices Of all
the necessares of life remain at exorbitant rates The
wages the employees of the Erie railroad have been
duced 80 day but they have struck against it,
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ANEeDoTE OF THE GzAR.-Nicholas, it seems,
| in spite of the anxiety incident to his present
| puslIion, maintains his OLD habit OF walking the
streets of st. Petersburg unattended. He was
| lately informed that a tradesman in large
way of business had insulted Frenchman
without proyocation, and he Immediately sent
| for him.
| When asked why he had insulted the man,
he replied: g Because hate his nation
| "Is that the only motivei"
eyes, Sire,''
"Then you shall have an opportunity to
crafty your hatred I shall send you to join
my army in the Crimea.