New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-10-02
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AtS meT1&g depended upon us yfogfaphy, would
deserve an extensiye patronage, IT'S not, how
ever, Id our opinion, what such 4 work should
be. Tho SELECTION Of individuals IS not CORRECT,
lid ths iirst Plsees and secondly, tho characters
Ill aoo aigh tly and snperfcially treated. Mr.
| Bald Nin does overmuoh Justice TO jackson AND
a1soe ther too little. to Hamilton. He has lef
out great deal Of what WAS valuable, import
knt and interesting, and put in much that i
useless and improbable. g Party Leaders
may be taking title-may be pecuniaril,
profitable publication. but it does not subserv,
the intersstsas which ii ought to aim, and il
ionly Of q secondary general advantage, even i
that.
8 Woedcraft; or. Hawks about the Dove.
Cote; By W. Gilmore Simms y New York
Redfeld.
This is o. new edition Of q Comparatively old
work., and is very handsomely gotten up
Simms has achieved very considerable literary
reputation, and some of his works are. well
worth reading, The present Was evidently
written with haste, and has not, even yet, been
submitted To the revision and pruning it ought
to have. Tho plot is good, but some Of the
characters, and much Of the working out, fails to
! come up TO the proper standard There is some
thing, toe, in the fact that We are not vet fal
enough removed from the earlier period of our
history to allow novels and tales, founded there.
on 70 enjoy great popularity. The practical
interferes with the pceticar and imaginative,
and memory prevents fancy accomplishing all
sthatit might It can be had at Morgan's.
LATE LIrERATuRE.--Mr. &c. Morgan, Ex-
change Place, adjoining the Post-ofice, adver-
tises in another column the receipts Of a large
number of books, standard, miscellaneous and
periodical, which be has received by the latest
steamers. Morgan,s selection Of books is al
ways admirable, and his assortment always
large Necommend onr readers to His, store,
and TRUST they will patronize it, No man
deserves patronage better.
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Il. The STARS AND STRIPES Ar QUEBEC, 1.-The
sworkmen employees Oh the Plains ofs Abraham
in preparing for the approaching Agricultural
Exhibition there, were desirous to manifest their
loyalty, and at the same time pay acompliment
to GOV. Elgin, on his way lately TO open the
Canada Parliament For TINT purpose they
shoisted a flag Immediately on the approach of
his LoTdship' carriage. All parties were sur
prised to find the American flag floating at the
masthead, and that the British Governor had
passed under its shadow on his way to represent
the Queen Hseems the ominous flag had been
brought down.. with others, from Montreal, for
the exhibition, and that in the hurry of the mo-
ments the workmen had run up the stars and
stripes
HEALTH OF SAVANNAH. The total number Of
|deaths in Savannah on the 18th was eleven;
seven from yellow fever The. Georgian says.
z The foregoing Is the most favorable exhibit
for the health Of the city that has been made
since the 29th of August. Indeed, there have
been less than Al interments on no day since
August q, which was prior to the commence
ment DC the publication Of daily reports But,
notwithstanding the improvement, we need
hardly say that it would begreat folly for any
of our absent friends yet to return Sal
The Mobile Register, Of Saturday last, has
the following s3f
THE SWEEPSTAKES REGATTA Our Yachting
friends Of New Orleans could not conveniently
brlng over their boats, agreeably to arrange
ments, owing to the sunfavorable direction of
the wind, but arrived themselves on Thursday
morning by the mail boat The delegation was
composed of choice spirits-M essrs. Sid. and
Benz Story, Henry Rareshide and Buchanan
and Handsomely received and entertained by the
yachters IF this city. They left yesterday,
we'll pleased with their short visit, for their
homes
All the arrangements for the sweepstakes race
we're definitely settled. The contest is to come
,f at Biloxi on Wednesday next, October 4.
,ntrance ~ 20O each The entries thus far are
The Sylph, Mischief, Ripple and Mystery In
consequence of the match between the Vesuer |
md Venture, at Point Clear, on Che 9thof Octo-
,er, these boats will not enter as expected.
"A large number of our citizens will no over
VI witness the sport. The steamer California
n tuesday VIII take all passengers wishing to
70 and arrive at Pass Christian in ample time
Q put them on board the Creole, which boat |
viH land them in good season at Biloxi The
eturn will be in the same way, causing no |
clay. . =.
THE REGATTA AT .PoINT CLEAR-We under. |
land that the sailing match to come off at Point
lear between the Venture and the Vesper ON |
1onday next, October g. has been made mi
etween party Of New Orleans and Mobile /
entlemen. The challenge came from the for |
aer and has been accepted here. It is CON
ween the tive cities in the art.of boat building |
nd sailing, and will doubtless excite great |
cal Of interest among all classes. Both the 1
oats are southern built the Venture at New |
)rleans, by Mr.. il Mallory, and the Vesper |
ear Point Clear, by that indomitable skiff |
nilder, John Pearee, after the plan and model
her owner.
ExEcuTED. Orban, convicted Of the murder
4 BosBeau, was hung in Belleville. Ill, on the |
I'd ult The execution was private, and q |
'reat crowd besieged the doors of the jail and |
ernanded that the prisoner should die in their |
light
sTERg1BLH RAILROAD ACCIDENT The Cincin-s
iati Gazette of the 2lst has the following ao-
cunt Of 2 railroad accident, by which sixteen
+ seventeen persons we're more or less injured,
md child killed s.
: One OF the most dreadful accidents which has
,ver occurred upon any of the Western rail-
roads occurred on the G. H. & D. Railway, on
North canal street, near Carr, within three
squaresso Of the Depot, yesterday morning about |.
ben minutes past 10 o,clock The train Con
suctor whitney, consisting Of one baggage and
three passenger cars containing about 100 pas
sengers, was coming towards the depot. AS
me locomotive, tender and baggage car passed /
the switch. the switch lever broke. The rail Of I
the main track being ont of line, the wheels of /
me passenger cars struck the rail on the end,
ana Two Of the cars were thrown with immense
Violence down an eighteen foot stone embank-
mshe INTO tne Mhitewater Canal, in which .therej