New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-02-08

John Peters, from Gilbert county, N. Y,
was robbed Of $4,000 while drunk in Porter-house
No Roosevelt street. n Y last Saturday. by the owner
Of the groggery named Lane He induced to enter
the den by prostitute Lane was arrested and COM
mtted to prison and the property recovered I'VE pre-
Peters will be cautious in the selection of his
company for the futursand at all keep sober
The Baltimore Times, formerly morning pa
per- issued in the afternoon Although the Times
but recently established it has already by the ability
with which it has been managed gained strong hold
upon the Baltimore public, and presents, glad
to unmstakabe evidences of prosperity We beg
present the assurance of distinguished consideration
Mrs. Mowatt has an engagement to play at
Charleston the Goth of February After leaving there
Mrs Mowatt will commence series of engagements at
the North to continue until the month Of May It is
said hsr marriage will take place early in June The
happy axpeetapt of her hand u.s. according report the
editor of the Richmopd Enquirer
Jenny Lind is announced to sing four times
this winter In Dresden, assisted by her husband and
other artists These sorses crowded to oyerowiug
at three thalers per ticket 1t is said that she will go to
st. Petersburg in the spring to give series Of concerts
there There is talk Of trying induce Jenny to
appear in opsra in this country.
Muringh Murphy was arrested on the Both
ult at New York on charge grand larceny and
Catholic priest, from Fordham named Edward Murphy
who lying ill In the tin box 81 653 in money and
the owners will which gave the greater part of his prop
erty to the alleged thief.
On the evening of the 28th ult. q train of
ears on the New York Central Railway. few miles from
Buffalo was thrown from the track in consequence OBJ
structions placed upon the road The Company have of
tered $4,000 reward for the arrest Of the miscreant
A man was found dead in carriage at East
Cambridge Mass the 2th ut 1t is supposed that he
died of smallpox and that he had been dead about three
weeks The carriage in which the body was found was in
shed, and had not been used for many weeks
In Boston, S9, ,120 have been contributed by
243 persons and firms, fund to be divided among
those who were distinguished by their bravery and hu
msnity in the of the passengers and of the
steamship San Francisco.
Austin Il. Parker, respectable farmer of
Gutord while under depression of mind cut his threat
in his barn with pocket-knfe the morning of the
Slst ult He was torty-six years of age and leaves
family.
The Humane Society of Massachusetts, offer
premium of S400 for the best life boat and of slO0 for
the best carriage adapted to transportation of the boat
both to be tested in August next.
The Supreme Court of the State of New York
has made perpetual the Injunction restraining the laying
down of the Broadway railroad the ground that the
Councils had no authority to make the grant
One day last week Mr.. Chauncey SRartward,
who lives at Gayuta, Ohehung county N Y, succeeded
in taking in trap, large wild cat which weighed sew
enty-fye pounds.
Miss Julia Dean, it is said, has accepted an
offer Of $4,000 and expsnss) for sixty nights appear
in she will leave for tho gold region from New
York, in March next.
Reverend Asa d. Smiths congregation, wor-
Shipping in the Fourteenth street Presbyterian Church.
New York $4,000 for benevolent and religious pur
poses last year
A Scotch servant girl at Cleveland, Ohio,
has received information from her mother in Scotland
that she is heiress to a fortune of $4,000
General Samuel Houston delivered lecture
on the North American Indians at Providence r. l. on
the evening OF the 3lst ult.
Dr. Lewis W. Chamberlaine, Professor of
Materia mediea in the Medical College of Richmond Va
died in that city on the 10Th ult.
The magnificent Congregational Church ut
East Huntington, Mass has been totally destroyed by
FIRE. Loss, $4,000.
The New York Legislature has a bill before
it to incorporate an asylum for the reformation of poor
inebratez.
The Messrs. Mcdonald, arrested in New Yorl;
on the charge Of vending lottery policies have been re-
On the 18th ultimo 10000 bushels of wheat
from store we're sold in st. Louis at 81 % 81 SO pei
bushel r.
The rates Of freight between Savannah and
Augusta Ca have been advanced to so cents per balls
cotton
Mr.. John Middleton, of Pelham, Conn, was
Killed in New York on the 10Th ul by falling beneath
car. -
An old man named Horny Sillburn was frozer
70 death on the night of the Both near Pittsburgh