New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-11
DAILY CRESCENT.
alisreIlaneons Mems Jten1s.

A CURIOUS MIXTURE. They sang 7'e Deun
at the Cathedral Of Notre Dame Paris in honor of tn
recent achievements Of the Allied armies in the East
The flags Of the Allies, says the New York Herald
intertwined and in this Roman Catholic Cathedral tb
standards Of Mahomedan Turkey and Protestant Eng
land were displayed, side by side, with the eagles o
Francc-a nation which remains faithful to the Romsf
Church, for the present. Think of socia party made
up Of the Pope, Martin Luther and Mahomet and you
can have some idea of the changes which few years
make in war, religion politics, creeds and diplomacy
There are now in the Treasury nearly twen.
tytwo millions subject to draft of which sig millions
seven thousand deposited in New York one hundred
and fifteen thousand in Philadelphia; hundred and
fourteen thousand in Baltimore, and three and third
millions in Boston.
The Pennsylvania Liquor Law went into op-
Grafton on the "a inst few aveTns closed but others
continued in operation under their licenses which run till
May next issued before the passage of the present law
Some otheIs have been arrested the charge Of selling
contrary to law The constitutonaty of the law VIII be
tested. e7F f='
The primary meetings Of the Soft Shell De-
mosrats caused good deal Of dissubanee 10 New York
on the ID inst In mary wards, riong and lighting took
place. In the Thirteenth Ward man was dangerou4ly
shot, and several persons wounded with clubs In the
dows Of the house in which the election was being held
and the inspectors obliged fee for their lives
disturbance also occurred in the Sixteenth Ward.
A meeting Of the Board of Trade in Buffalo has
been held in that city which it resolved that
injustice has been done to Captain Nicholas of the United
states ship Michigan by the Naval Board in placing him
on the furopgh st of the Navy that his conduct while
in command of the Michigan has been such to challenge
the admiration and gratitude of every interested in
the vast of the lakes and that the Presden.
the United States be nemoazed to restore Capt Ncho.
las scive service and to the charge of the steamer
Michigan.
The keeper Of sailors boarding -house and q
boatman named Murphy were arrested in New York. q
few days ago. charged With kidnapping Italian sailor
This mode of obtaining sailors always esorted to extern
sivey during scarcity Of seamen '
The schooner Marietta Burr, Capt. Nicker-
son. from Alexandria for Boston, put in South Denham
Mass September 29 in Distress with all hands sick Of
yellow fever. At one time there was not one man on
board able to work the vessel. ~
On the 1st inst. train from Harrisburg,
pa off the track Of the Columbia Railroad
kersburg in consequence of the breaking Of rail The
engine remained on the track but the mail express and
passenger OF. Some trees alongside the road
saved them from being preciptated down embank.
ment and four passengers were only slightly injured.
The train was detained four hours
A heavy freshet occurred at Philadelphia, ON
the schuylkill river, the LIST inst. At Paramount
Water Works the water six feet above the usual
height The damage done above could not be asceraned
as the telegraph lines were down. ,r 5 1aG
We find the following in Philadelphia paper:
"A few days ago three runaway slaves arrested near
s,organtown va Two Of them belonged to John p pnr
and he Ter of Rath
Va They say they have been to Indians. found thew
could get work found the coored population In the
vicinity which they visited in state of nudity and star
vation and they struggling back in some
thing maintain themselves got back PENNSYLVANIA
wandering about almost in despair and finally returned
to Virginia, after an absence OF about two months
The Bilancia, of Milan, announces that fifty
azznans had arrived from London designing to kdnap
and carry of his Holiness the Pope when he should pro-
coed to inspect the works in progress at Porte Anzo
The plot however known to the police and the con-
sprators obliged to take to the woods of ymontone
and Palsstrina where they pursued by the gems
darmes. ~ 7=.a=@ --5.z .,H "
! A company has been formed in Dixon, Illinois,
for the purpose Of manufacturing brick by process
which dispenses with burning and is in every respect
cheaper than the old mode. The bricks are made en-
trely Of lime and sand mixed with water and pressed
with powerful machine, '> aas 's'
sixty Gotten factories conducted in the most sku and
successful manner with all the appliances in the way Of
that be found in the same kind of estab-
in New England. t'@- t-
We hear, says the South Side (Va) Democrat,
complaints of the rayages which the horn bug
making on the tobacco crop In Dnwidde and Prince
Edward the crops said to be very much injured The
of tobacco raised n that section will not pre-
sumo, be as large as we expected
On Thursday evening last, says the Baltimore
Sun of the I'd serious accident occurred the Virginia
Central Railroad about 10 miles west of staunton po
ton of the passenger train thrown of the track and
one ear upset Mr.. Jacob Sanger, proprietor of the
Mossy Creek paper mills had his leg and shoulder broken
and his nose badly cut Mr. stanly. stage driver had
s knee dsoeated and negro brakesman was badly in
iured in the abdomen which will be likely to result in
DEATH t~vq "9@F #@ 6al&
The London correspondent Of the Philadelphia
American, writing on the 14th ult,, says:
The harvest has been excellent and matter what is
sad considerably beyond the average ~ has been got ID
Nv ina aid Of spendd weather. in the finest possible oon-
dtiop The intelligence that the harvest in the United
States has been unprecedeptedy great has not been
may be expected and the price will go down with hop
skip and jump Mers aud bakers are alive to this and
the Of prices do not gain much by Their move
for purchases of very limited KIND. 5g~#
The London Times thus speaks Of the damage
sustained by Russia in the progress of the Crmean cam
paign: @. ..lz--Z
The blow which Russia has sustained is indeed terrible
The elite Of oery have been swept away III the sue
campaigns of the Danube and the Crmea Her los
Of warke stores already enormous and must soon o.
for which have been removed to the nortf
side of the Sebastopo inlet must either be destroyed o.
allowed to fall into the hands OF the Allies Already
decency laborers for manufacturing purposes iof t
cultivation Of the so is beginning to be felt in Russia
Hands are wanting to manufacture new warlke engine
from the inexhausbe mineral supplies OF the Ura Per
on the part the Allies will inevitably drive tn
Ruasian for peace any conditions
Il is the duty of the Western Powers to reduce 1t to th
condition. for thus only the peace and liberties
i Europe be secured.
| Eleven murder cases await trial IN the Nel
1 York Court of Oyer and Terminer next term.
| A fire broke out at Pittsburg on the 29th ult
at the patent leather mauuactory of Messrs shafer
Anderson on the Of Duquesne street and Diamon
alley which was entirely consumed by fire, with all
/ contents The stock was valued at $4,000, and was
sured for $4,000 only in the Western, farmers and Ne
Lisbon companies The building owned by Mr.. Shs
ybose loss is estimated at $4,000 of which $1,000
insured in the Pennsylvania Mutual Insurance Conpan
Adyices from Turks Island are to the 18th
September. The islands all healthy. Business
very dull and provisions of all kinds brought gh pre
The weather was wet and unfavorable for sat-makipg
Vessels for Europe preferred leaving in ballast 10 taA
half cargo.