New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-22
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The Rutland (Vt.) Herald states that there
been confined in the jail at that place. the last four or
months boys aged about thirteen years. Recently
there was put into the Jail boy, YEARS Of
charged with ths crime Of stealing butternuts In that
| jail there more than twenty persons confined for
crimes Of all grades There confined there also,
| three miserable prostitutes
| We learn from the Vinceanes (Ia) Gazette
that Rev. 8 B. Mccormick has bssn suspended by the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church OF Indiana for un-
christian conduct the frat specification being for
associatng himself with the Underground Railroad
the second for actually engaging in the business of
assisting slaves in making their escape from to free
territory which is contrary to the laws of the State of
Indiana The parson would do well to venture south
OF Indians for should he do he might be suspended
| In an altogether different manner.
We see by the latest Memphis papers that the
hesth that city which for some time has been nm
usually bad, is improving
The st. Paul Democrat of recent date informs
that two surveying parties will be shortly to the
head Of Lake SUPERIOR upon the line of the Minnesota
and North Railroad another to the southern line OF
Minnesota that probably third will bs necessary to
surveys In the vicinity of St. Paul. shers the
ing Of the river will require very careful examination
dispatch had been received from officers the company
stating that $4,000 ths way from the East to pay
the expenses of the surveys all Of which would bs ex
pended this fall.
Three women escaped from the Michigan State
prison night not long ago. One of them WAS under
sentence of Imprisonment for life for murder.
The powder used by the Allied armies in bst-
tering the almost mpreguable Notifications Sc
hastopo made Hazards and Dupont's mills, In
Connecticut and Delaware. Two clipper ships belonging
TO Grinne Minturn Co., dispatched during the
summer with full cargoea Of powder for the orimea
The President of the United States has au-
thorty to cause the summary removal of inraders on
any land belonging the government either by order
addressed to marshal in his name, in that of the
sseretsry in whose department the question arises; and
he may employ public force accomplish the object
1t is stated that the postmaster at Atchison,
has all the copies of the Lawrence Her.
aid Freedom received at Atchison subscribers re-
fusing circulate them under the law passed by the
Legislature orbidding the circulation of incend
ey publications The publisher the Herald has written
statement of the and ssnt it to the Postmaster
General.
On the 10th inst, a child three years of age,
daughter Of Mr. Whitman proprietor Of the ST. Nicholas
hotel New York was run over on the corner of Chestnut
and Eleventh streets Philadelphia by gsntemsps
risge. and died an hour afterwards Two children, in
charge of NURSE about to the street, ed
eat child beneath the horses feet when the ysr
pulled up, and the child back to the nurse holm
prudently attempted to front of the osrrsge %
the other child in her arms She knocked down snd
the wheels Of the carriage passed the ohds
The father was summoned to the atty by telegraph and
rived to find his child dead. ss
AT the late State Fair at Elmira, N. T.,
German exhibited lock from which, ii the wrong hey il
used pistol bsrrs with great rapdity issues and the
short memory about ts ley has sudden termination,