New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-09-22

The Hartford (Ct,) Times Of Friday week
announces that Ave deaths from cholera had
taken place in that city.
David strawn, the largest farmer and cattle
dealer in the United States, has been nominated
by the Fusionists Of Illinois to the Legislature
A rumor prevailed at Boston on Saturday |
that a Government officer of that port was i'm
plicated in smuggling transaction.
A party Of about one hundred and fifty per-
sons from the Eastern States passed through |
st. Louis on the 9th instant on their way to
Kansas. q =
Captain Tucker, of the steamer s. T. F, Ira |
st. Louis papers containing interesting news
matter.
The wife and daughter of the Hon Nathaniel
P. Borden, of Fall River, died at Boston of
cholera between Saturday morning and Sunday
night.
David Dean, a youth of 10 years, was in
stantly killed on the 18th inst. in Canton
county, Miss, by the accidental discharge of q
shot gun in his own hands
The trustees of the ST. Louis Catholic Church
at Buffalo met ON Saturday to consider the pro-
position for settlement of their difficulties from
Bishop Timon. The Bishops oyertures were re-
jected unanimously.
Nearly $4,000 have been forwarded from New
York City for the relief of the sufferers by vel
low fever at Savannah, and arrangements
are in progress looking to still larger re
suits. Philadelphia is also moving in the
matter.
The Norwalk Gazette learns that Noah Lee,
who has been extensively engaged in counter
feiting in the vicinity of Norwalk, has turned
States evidence and implicated a number of
persons heretofore of high moral and social po-
sition, in his operations
The British Government has notified the State
Department that the Queen has ratified the
Fishery and Reciprocity Treaty, and that
orders have been sent to Canada for the imme-
date admission of our fishermen to the unre-
stricted freedom of the fisheries, provided for in
| that instrument.
Francis Dick, who was hung at Dayton, Ohio,
on Friday week, not only confessed to killing
his mother in law, but also to having murdered
his father-in-law, by purposely making him
drunk and then throwing him into canal. He
denied of having killed his own brother, of
which he was suspected, but acknowledged that
he was poisoned, though by the hand Of another
person, a boy.
1t is stated that Mr. Marcy estimates the de-
posits of guano in the possession of Peru at
t50,000,000 tons. The exports to the United
States in 1852 he states at At 900 tons. The
Icost of this quantity to our farmers in that
year was about $2,600,0O0. The Secretary
supposes that if existing disabilities were
removed, it might be offered in our markets
at $50 or ss55 per ton.
Among the passengers by the last Liverpool
steamer is Captain Lefebvre Of France. He
visits New York for the purpose Of completing
arrangements and contract for a number Of
steamships to be built for the Great Transit
lantic Steamship Company, organized in France
about one year since. This line is intended to
run semi-monthly between Havre and New
York, and it is expected that the company will
commence operations about the 18th of Novem-
Der next, with the screw steamers of the Cunard
Steamship Company.
Capt. D. 3. DeRusey, chief of the Engineer
ing Department at Fortress Monroe, has been
ordered to superintend the Notifications at San
Francisco.
Capt. Brown, just arrived at Newburyport,
from sea voyage, fell from the platform of the
cars on the Eastern Railroad at that place, on
Wednesday morning the 18th, was run over and
cut in two He was on his way to Seabrook,
where he resided.
The young State of Wisconsin is represented
to be in q highly prosperous condition. With
the liberal aid of Congress, the school fund is
estimated at five millisns of dollars, and the
revenue from it alone this year is $150, 1000.
The State debt is limited by the Constitution to
100000 This debt has been created by the
issue of s per cent. bonds, $4,000, and per
cent. bonds, $4,000.
Lord Elgin's address at the opening of the
Canadian Parliament appears in the Northern
papers. He says that some changes in the con.
stitution of the Legislative Council seem to BIZ
imperatiyely required; that the final and con.
elusive adjustment of the Clergy Reserves should
take place without delay; that there are ques
tons affecting properties held under the seign
orial Tenure which cannot be kept in suspense
without detriment to the interests both of thu