New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-14
Removal Of the People o Norfolk and Portsmouth


II will be remembered that the committee Of
relief which waited upon the President for the
pdrpoae Of obtaining The use of Old Point COM
fort for the inhabitants Of Norfolk and gPorts-s
mouth, failed in thefr object The, Richmond
Dispatch Of the Sch says: "a
The committee returned to Baltimore, where,
upon q conference with the committee Of the.
City Council, an encampment upon Craney
Island was determined upon, and the Mayor
immediately published a call for tents. A
number of the volunteer companies offered their
tenta, and number ofpersons volunteered to 80
down and put them up. Z
Before the committee Was deputed to WASH
ington to renew the application for the Fort,
MIR. IN. Falls, under the impression that the diff
.fculty in the way Of yielding the Fort Has the
time Il would take to remove the troops, offered
to do 50 with the Bay Line boats, Of which heis
president, in IL hoars-e engaging to take them,
their camp equipage etc., TO New York P iilh
delphia, ~ aahington or Fort MoHenry, Alter
the committee had gone to Washington, the
Board of Managers Of the Baltimore House OF
Refuge rendered to the President, for the use Of
the soldiers at Old Point, the buildings under
their control. The President sent the following
dispatch, 9s - s'Y '4 w g'':' s5g9' Fa ~ 7r
!. w4sHmeTos, sept. 8, AZ P.M--To John Is. wright,
First Branch City Council have answered the commit
ought be regarded as satisfactory It pains to be
to inform you that the proposition Of your
city authorities doss not tend ~ ne dsS.ss
After this the whole plan Of removal to, Old
Point was abandoned, and the enoampment ct
Craney Island resolved upon. Mr.. Muller re-
commended . suficiency Of tents TO accomnno-
date 5000 persons, to be pitched upon Lynhaven
Bay, and the immediate removal Of the people
Of the infected districts to that point. ~
;MIssIssIPpf. The Port Gibson Herald of
Friday last has the following paragraphs: =.
/ Up to the present writing, Friday morning,
there are but two we'll authenticated cases OF
the fever in town, and they are recovering "A
large proportion Of our citizens have left town,
and there are but, comparatively few that are
liable to take the fever remaining; it 10 conf
IDENTIFY expected that it will spread but little
this season. w, - -.
We are sorry to say that the yellow fever at
Grand Gulf is increasing, and is assuming q
very malignant type. There have been but
three deaths, however, and we feryentiy nope
there will be no more. 1q. "A, ssda ,stgl Ias sn1
The Marion Republican announces that the
track Of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad has beer
laid to within ten miles Of that place, and that
Ill tut GuuESe - lAAuAbAh NY
through and the ears would pay the town Q
visit u ~ RI ~ - .. ~ -, ir. RS
A runaway negro was killed o few days agt
near Kosoiusko by q Mr.. John Brown, who va.
endeavoring to capture him. The negro hac
armed himself with q club and turned upor
Brown, who was then obliged to shoot him. ~
| The Coffeeyille Herald of Friday last has thu
following paragraphs: j.. III D. So, ya... ~
We are sorry to learn that the recent very
heavy rains hiive injured the cotton crop Of THU
county to considerable extent, and should i
! continue, our planters will, sustain sersou
loss. Ii, however, we should be favored with
good fall month, the crops will average two
thirds when compared with an ordinary yield
We heard the other day that q yoang boy, al
| orphan, charged with stealing, was arrested b!
Set OF ruffians, IN y portion of Calhoun county
| known as the ssFork," and most brutslly muir
dered ID the folio wing manner. anspeclng Ina
the boy Wasgailty, they attempted TO estort
confession by threatening to hang h,m. al
the preliminary steps we're taken-the saplinl
| bent, the rope adjusted, and the threats stll
| pending yet the boy would not acknoEiedg
| having committed the theft. just about thi
| time a lazy happened to b. riding near BY, an
| seeing tne condition of the boy, taintea and fel
| to the sround-the men, forgetting the condi
| tion. Of the boy, ran to her assistance, snd q
course, the sapling few up, suspending him, ali
| before they could return to his assistance th
horrible deed was done. We don's know bo,
true this is, but if it is SO, those who were en-
gagged in it should suffer the full extent OF tn