New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-09-21

has arrived, with New York dates Of tne even
ing If the 18th and morning Of the 10Th lnst.'
as late as due. This mail contains the foreign
letters brought by the Niagara
FATA1. AssAUIT.- man named Charles CAL
llahan. driver Of q beer wagon, was assaulted in
New York, on the evening of the 18th, by
number Of boys. one of whom, named John
Lynch, threw heavy stone and struck the IN
fortunate man under the right ear, knocking
him from his wagon senseless upon the pave
ment. He was picked up and carried into
stable, but died few minutes afterwards.
The police were sharply in search OF young |
Lynch.
CATCHING A TARrAR.-The English have at
last captured a Russian prize. A letter from
Odessa says that one Of the officers of the Tiger
has won the heart Of one Of the richest maidens
of Odessa, and is about to carry her off as
prize - $3.50
THEATRICAL ACCIDENT. I'm the dancing scene
in the tsSerious Family" at the Holiday street
| Theatre, Baltimore, on the evening of the 11th
| inst, Ellen Mordant's dress caught lire and
enyeloped her in flames. The property man
threw his coat around her and extingulshed
them. She was not seriously burned, but the
accident caused the most thrilling excitement.
| ANOTHER FUG1rIYE SLAVE CAsE-Much ex-
element prevailed at Chicago on the 18th inst,
| in consequence Of the attempted arrest OF a ~
gitiye slave by three men from st. Louis. The
slave was found in one Of the principal streets,
and seized by the men without the assistance of
the officers Of the law. The cries Of the fugi-
| tive soon drew together large crowd, and in
the confusion he was torn from his captors.
They instantly made an attack on the crowd,
recaptured the fugitive, and one Of them tired
pistol wounding citizen. The three we're
then arrested and lodged in Jail. The examina-
ton was progressing on the 18th before justice
of the peace, and an excited crowd had gath
cred about the office
DEEP SEA FISHING. Captain Chase, of the
schooner Mary, while off the Cape Of Delaware
the sea very calm, saw barrel afoat near him
He lowered his boat and approached it, suppos-
ing that it was barrel of -four He turned it
up to right it. and found that the other head was
out and that twelve sea black fish had slowed
themselves in the barrelso tight that they could
\ not get out. The last one wedged in the others.
They fell an easy prey to the captain, and upon
being taken out, were found to weigh about IL
pounds each. W.
CHOLERA IN COLUMBIA, Pa The awful NOR
tality in Columbia is said to have been caused
J by the putrid carcasses Of sheepwhich had died
!; and been thrown into the reservoir. When the
water was drained off the bodies were discovered.
y a dispatch from that place dated the 18th states
I that fifty deaths had occurred on the previous
day. The dispatch says:
The disease is still raging with unabated ma
, Lightly Several new cases and many deaths
this morning.
The Town Hall has been converted into hos
pital, which is filled with the sick and dying.
Tar has been burnt in various parts of the town
as preventive, in hope of purifying the atmos-
phere.
The distress and suffering is beyond descrip-
ton, and principally for want of nurses and at
PENDANTS The dead cannot be buried as fast as
required nearly every person has left the place.
It is estimated that out of population Of about
/ 5000 only about 1900 remain, and among these
the scourge is dreadful. All business IS suspend
| ed and stores closed.
The Baltimore Patriot, of the 14th, says the
disease has produced such panic that the eoun-
ltry people round the devastated town refuse to
hold any intercourse with the citizens, and much
suffering from the want of wholesome food has
been the result. DIR. Jewell estimates that il
; Philadelphia was ravaged in degree CORES
ponding with her population, as compared with
Columbia, the deaths would have reached
seventy five an hour The same gentleman is
: of opinion that the exciting of the epidem.
ic is in the atmosphere, and not in the water
as the victims have been taken indiscriminate
ly from among those who use the water from the
: reservoir, and those who drink nothing bu
: spring water. The Susquehanna, at Columbia
). is now extremely low, and the atmosphere of thu
Q town is visited by the quantity of decomposee
animal matter in its bed, or lodged above tn
dam.
>. Mrs. Elizabeth Benton, wife of Col Benton
IS who died at Washington on Sunday evening, wa
60 years of age. For several years she has BEEF
.. Frustrated, having been deprived of utteranc
and of all her energies, but she bore her suffer
ings, it is stated, with unexampled fortitud
and Christian resignation. A writer in the In
4 telligencer says;
The ruling feeling in Mrs. Benton's hear
$, and strongest to the last, was her devotion t
ID her husband OF late she has sat CONSTANT
by his side when at his labors at home, and in
deed their lives may be said to have been insel
~ arabic, for she has made her home wherever hi
Il, business called him. She was reconciled t
IN part with him on his late return to Missouri be
cause she was toe weak to accompany him, an
of knew that his duty required his presence
= home. When she felt the approach Of the Girls
ne which terminated her life, she led her daughtt
v to the vacant chair in which her husban
a. worked, and, by look and gestures, made it al
N parent that she required his recall. It WI
4 too late She walked to the bed in the nel
y apartment, from which she was never able
rise. s.-=.
HEALTH OF CHARLESTON. - The Board
Of Health reported nineteen deaths from yello
G. fever for the twenty-four hours ending on u
as 18th instant. Contributions have been plact
~ in the hands of the editor of the Courier to &
ne amount of 1851 for the Roper Hospital al
he 1921 for the relief Of Savannah The Court
re says:
ng "a friend suggests that the pastors of t
ed different churches in the city announce to mo