New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-29

NcNara, aged fourteen, fell into the dock at
Mobile and was drowned.
A horse is now on exhibition in England
which is twenty one hands high, and weighs
twenty five hundred
IN the rich alluvial deposits Of the Sacramento
and San joaquin, tobacco thrives Inxuriantly,
and in quality is equal to the best Havana
Aman named Whalen died on Sunday last,
at the residence Of his son, in Syracuse, New
York, at the advanced age of III years.
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We see it stated that there are over half q
million bushels Of corn yet on the Illinois River
waiting transportation 60 market.
The electric telegraph is now in operation be-
tween Calcutta and Bombay, distance of over
q thousand miles in direct line.
An editor down east objects to female Legis
lature, on the ground that they would miss
represent the country.
The sum of $500, 900 has been appropriated by
the Common Council of New York for the cree
ton of a new City Hall, The present building
in the Park cost, we believe, 81 100000.
The very last dog story is told Of o fine New
foundland at Sunderland, Georgia, who seized
q carter by the throat and threw him down,
because he was beating his horse without reason
The Lockport Advertiser says that the recent
rains washed up number of the relics Of the
battle Of Lundy's Lane, consisting Of gun bar
rels, grape shot, human bones, etc.
Two men, named William Mccullough and
George W. Doudna, escaped from the Ohio
Penitentiary on the 10th inst. A reward is Of
fered for their arrest and delivery.
The citizens of Maryland who served in the
Mexican war, contemplate observing the 21st OF
September, that day being the anniversary OF
the battle of Monterey.
The Deseret News appears clothed in mourn
ing for the death of Elder Willard Richards, one
of the Mormon Saints, who leaves t,centy de.
ISOLATE wives to mourn his loss. Mr.. Richards
was native of Hopkinton, Mass.
Arrangements are rapidly progressing fol
the Great Fair which is to take place in Sep,
TENDER, on the Powell Estate, West Philadel.
phia. A spot of ground, twenty eight acres in
extent, has been secured for the occasion.
Eighteen thousand men belonging to the Rus
sian army are said to have been swept off BY
typhoid fever in the Dobrudscha. Disease ha.
killed more soldiers since the commencement O
hostilties than lead and steel.
A short distance below Vevay, on the 10Th
while the steamer Tishemingo was under way
the cylinder exploded and was blown to atoms
Mr.. Levi, second engineer, had his leg broker
by the accident.
The Directors of the Harlem Railroad hav
unanimously recommended the stockholders t.
assume the over-issued stock, amounting in al
to Alb shares, equivalent in money to Ss413, 100
a meeting of the stockholders has been called
A late work on 8. Utah and the Mormons
says that a Mr.. Woodruff, of Avon, Conn, ha
| risen to be one of the twelve apostles in Utah
| and that he is constantly marrying new an
young wives" ....-
A family named Dean, consisting of hus
band, wife and two children, residing in Dor
chester county, Maryland, partook of meal c
crabs on the 18th inst, and in less than forty
| eight hours afterwards they all died of cholera
The SUM of $4,000, it is stated, has been ar
propriated by the Connecticut Legislature t
aid in the erection at Brookline Of monumer
to Gen. Israel Putnam, provided an equal SUI
be raised by subscription.
An extensive bogus factory was recently dis
covered in the cellar of Elijah Hawks, of Mad
son, Lake county, o. The owner, who is repre-
scented as man Of some property and respectabl
connected, was taken in charge, together wit
his implements.
The majority of the attacks of cholera
New York are said to take place in the after
moons and evenings, a fact which indicates ths
exposure to the sun, and, perhaps, imprudel
dinners, are predisposing causes.
Il At Huntsville, Pamela county, Miss, on Il
18th, William Hunter, without any apparel
proyocation, killed jackson Hudgins with
double barrel shot gun. The murderer hmm
diately fled, and had not been arrested at la
accounts.
Il Aparty of sixteen persons, three from Bo
, ton, three from Roxbury, four from Vernon
} and two from Lynn, left Boston for the new te
ritory of Kansas few days ago The Court
says another and probably much larger par
will start from the same place on the LIST
!, August.
The Rutland (Vt.) Herald states that fort
seven sheep and fourteen lambs, worth SOL
$500, were killed near tree in that town,
the 10th ult., by discharge of lightning. Il
direction of which was evidently from the cart
, as blocks of wood were driven into the tr
along which the fluid passed, and the fbres
? the wood were brushed upwards.
ri General Niepokoitohytzi has been appoint