New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-07-06
GeIesrapbso TO tbe Dailp Crescent.
ONE WEEK. LATER FROM EUROPE

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ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP AMERICA.
The Cunard steamship America arrived at
Halifax on the 4th inst. By her we have one
| week later dates. The following dispatch was
received yesterday afternoon by the Associated
Press The dispatch, as published yesterday,
made the sales Of cotton for the week preceding
the departure Of the America, 81, 400, which
should have been as corrected below, 24,400.
Liverpool Cotton Market K
Messrs Brown, Shipley & Co.'S circular states
the sales Of cotton in the Liverpool market for
the week ending 22d nlt., at 4,40O
The sales to spectators amounted to $500
and those to exporters to 5000 bales.
The market during the week was very dull,
| and prices of the middling and inferior descrip-
| tions were considerably lower at the close than
on the previous week. s#ae "a
The lower qualities had declined to greater
extent than the others, viz. 4,of penny per
pound, while middhng grades were SIG Of a
penny per pound lower
The market closed dull at the following quo
tations, viz Fair Orleans, z Id; Middling Or
leans, Id; Fair Uplands, I'd; Middling Up
lands, 6sd. per pound.
Dennistoun & Co.'S circular gives the follow
| ing quotations: Middling Orleans Gid, and
Middling Uplands Gid. per pound.
Brsadstuffs.
Messrs. Brown, Shipley 81 Go. 70 circular
| quotes the Breadstuff market as generally un-
changed, except Corn, which had experienced q,
decline of Is Cd. per 480 pounds.
The same circular quotes Ohio Flour 43s Cd
to AS I'D per barrel, and Mixed Corn 49s Cd
per 4S0 pounds.
Provisions.
Messrs Richardson, Spence s Co g circular
quotes the Liverpool Provision Market as gener.
ally unchanged.
Lard was firm at 49s to Sos per cwt.
State of Trade.
The Manchester market was dull and un-
changed.
Money Market.
The London Money Market was easy. Con-
soils had declined.
Rise in the Alabama.
MONTGOMERY, July 5.---The Alabama has
been rising rapidly, and to this morning has
swollen eleven feet. lis still rising.
An interruption of the lines has prevented
our reception of additional news by the Amer
lea. We have, however, a few words of politi-
cal news, but the telegraph has rendered them
so illegible, that we refrain from their publica-
ton, The details will probably come to hand
to-day.
The evening Picayune Of yesterday published
the following telegraphfc dispatch.
Rumored Battle.
HALIFAX, July 4th-Immediately previous to
the departure Of the America, rumors were
current that severe battle had been fought
in the Crimea, in which the Allies had been de-
feated
1t was added that French General was
killed on the occasion
Sebastopol
uen' rehssier telegraphs that the Allies be-
iors SeDastopol were completing new batteries,
from which they would soon open on the place
with terrible effect
!, Inc Joarnafde ST. Petersburg considers that
Inc successful conclusion Of negotiations for
peace is perfectly practicable
-@z--AN=
MlssrssIPPL~-The Canton Citizen. Of satur-
day last, says;
The rain that we were 80 anxiopslv ant;c;n..
ing when we went to press last week, came ON |
SATURDAY evening In torrents, reyiving yeeeta-
ton OF every kind and the spirits of eyeryhodv
We regretted to learn from some Of onr oonptyy
friends from different parts Of the county. that
the rain was not general. We hoped, and We be.
lieyed, from the way it poured down here, that
all Madisen and surrounding diepins y nod
received thorough soaking-a bountiful sen.
son.
The editor Of the Citizen has been presented
with bottle Of wine of domestic manufacture.
and he pronounces its quality excellent.
We ind the following paragraph in the DEM
| ocratic Platform, published at Brandon:
The boy Jack, committed at the February
| special term Of Rankin Circuit Court, 1854, for
the murder OF his master, William Williams,
I1aae nus escape from Jail, in Brandon, on
Wednesday night last. He filed a large chain
by which he was confined to the floor Of The cell.
| with the blade Of a congress- knife, which had
been filed like saw. He slipped the holt ~
| the cell door back with the blade of knife. as
can DO easily seen by looking at the door and
open the door to the passage up stairs. One of
the windows up stairs was raised, out of which
ne must have made his escape into the yard be-
low de then got over the enclosure and made
bis escape,