New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-02-10


only needs slight infusion of railroad progress to deveo
her resources and place her among the first and mes
| dourishing States Of the Southwest.
| the Fayetteville Independent of the Goth ut has tn
| following items
John Robinson Esq, Of this county was thrown from
horse on Saturday last and was severely injured tina
ne died next day
PANrHERWe hear that one of those terrific beasts ha
| been frightening somebody few miles from town
Aransaw can't take their dogs and guns and go GU
and kill the monster they ought to be frightened
REPORTED Loss THE STEAMER ]. L. DAy.-The agent
in this city have received information of the loss of thu
| steamer j. L. Day. but particulars We find in thu
Savannah Georgian the following paragraph
The Tallahassee Sentinel ofJanuary 81 reports the los
OF the James L. Day United States mail steamer which
has been for time running between New Orleans
Key West, touching at Apalachcoa, St Marks Tam
pa. The Sentinel says.
Tho steamer James L. Day broke In two in the spanh
Hole We have just received the the disaster
without the particulars She has been towed up the
wharf at st. Marks and the better opinion s that she will
be unit for further service. No lives lost.
LATER FROM THE CAFE Coon HopE,-The bark Tally
Ho from Cape Town. Cape Of Good Hope Dec. g. arrived
at New York the LIST inst Cape Town papers state
that with continued peace the country was prospecting
The price Of wool had greatly declined Traders were
arriving from the interior with large quantities of ivory
and other products Rich mines of copper were being
worked and $50 tons of the had reached Cape Town
Troops were leaving the country for India and home
and the land Of the Kars being pareeed out to the
settlers.
MELANCHOLY AccIpENT.-We learn from the Indanopo-
lis Journal that Marshall w Parker son of the Hon
s. w Parker M c. from Indiana accidentally shot him
sell near ConnersYie in that State the night Of the
3lst ut while returning with friends from pigeon shoot
ing excursion His gun went of while he was taking 1t
from wagon the load passing into his breast through
his heart and out at his back the ugs which
part of striking watch and forcing it along with
his chain and watch, partly into his body He was in
stanty killed Young Parker was about twenty-one
years Of age, and had just left from college.
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The TwESTY-SEcoND OF FEBRUARY Extensive pre
paratons are being made in Of the northern ees for
the celebration of the anniversary of WashnRtons birth
day. In Philadelphia the Legislature of Penn
syvanis will entertained at dinner in honor of the
passage of the Consolidation BILL by which the city of
Philadelphia and the Districts are brought under one
Municipal Government.
ES~ The Shreveport Southwestern says that Mrs. E
roster recently arrived in that place and died in two days
after her arrival She unknwon to any one there
but was supposed to be from New Orleans,
HEAVY RoBsERr.-The treasury of Hardin county, O..
at henton was robbed the night of the 18th ut Of
SSTe9 The safe contained S72S5 but $3.50 had been
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MIR EVERETT ON TEE NEBRASKA BILL--Ths Daily Ad.
Verser of Boston, which is understood to the
opinions of Mr. Everett has taken decided stand in on
position to Douglass Nebraska bill This is supposed to
indicate Mr. Eyerctt's opposition to the bill
Ice IN THE RIVER AT ST. LOUISA Geographic dispatch
to the Baltimore Clipper dated St Louis Feb g. SAYS
The ice in the river moved slowly last night about one
hundred Yards sinking the steamers Asia and ST. Ange
cinnati.
CoLp WEATHER IN LoNpoN-An accounts that We have
seen state that the in England has been unexam
pied in severity Nobody remember anything like it.
The cold was SO intense in London that the night of
the Sd of January two of the London police were found
frozen to death.
Ice FALLNd,-on account of the prospect of an abnn
liant crop of ice this the rice of the article has
reduced at Bosonto large domestic consumers from
rs to II cents per hundred pounds
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A REw lprA--We observe that Mr. Waldhridpa of
Sew York has proposed amendment to the Constitu
ION providing for the election of collectors and p1sas
e ' oy tne people 90 we 60 Every thing now-a-days
must be done by the people. The peoplethe people-
popular rghts-pepuar Sovereignty thu watchworas
" every demagogue Nothing is to be left to agents Tho
5eope must constitute the Legislature the Judiciary the
executive This is the tendency of things at tho
nay Is there no conservatism left in the land TRich-
nond Mail h't-S''
El .4nigo Del Pals, of Santa Fe, of the 28th
december announces the death, at Dona Ana in New
deXico- OF james Madison Smith who was at one time
dtt9r Of the Madisonan but more recently attached TO
ne I9lrd AUDITORS office. He leaves large family in
Washington, &' -
In a very thin house an actress spoke very
DIV in her communication with her lover The actor
hose benefit it happened to be- exclaimed with face of
'oeful humor: Ny dear, you may speak out there is
obody to hear us"
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The number of newspapers printed in the
tate Of Illinois Is 1854 Dalies 20 Tri-Weeklies Week
es us mmonthiss Monthlies T. and Bi-month |
les l.
Julien was to give concert in Louisville on
he evening of the Sth inst
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