New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-08-27
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4 MASSACHUSETTS FOR Mr.. FILLMoRE~-The Bos-s
ton Courier Of the most careful and best Inform
ed papers Of that city, says $S5A 6sE
friends Of Nh Fillmore plurality in the State Of
n s ts a. a. m @ dy and they VII continue 10
q The increase" spoken Of is not confined to Mas
sachusetts. 1t is coextensive with the North. The
"sober, second thought" Of the people Is working
wonders in favor of the true and steadas patriotic
and conservative Union.loyng statesman Millard
Fillmore. 1fthe people Of the South only do their
duty-if they stand BY the man who stood By them
when their dearest interests were jeoparded-he viii
be elected President just as surely as the day fixed
for the election arrives. Ea&%5 " s y
The Fillmore State Convention ofiMassachusetts,
have nominated Amos A. Lawrence for Governor.
E There was very severe storm Of rain and wind on
the Hudson river, during the 10Th and Goth insts.
The river rose very rapidly the night Of the 10th,
and overfowed the banks at Albany, carrying off
thrty-sjx houses. Great damage had been done to
the crops and bridges by this storm.
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The Mayor of ST. Augustine has ordered all vessels
from the West Indies, Mexico, South or Central
America, Charleston, New York and Key West to
perform quarantine in order to guard against indig-
nant and pestilential diseases: tt.ss4 ..s. 5
Doubtless the citizens Of Charleston win be indignant
at being classed with South and Central American
ports, but whether that indignation would prove so
contagious to need the intervention Of quarantine,
is question on which doctors would probably differ,
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EXCITEMENT N w WHEEBIxG.-A few persons calling
themselves Republicans" held meeting in Wheel
ing, Va, on the evening of Friday, the 18th inst.
large number Of persons attended through curiosity
1ad4
Smith made aspeech At its concusionle attempted
to leave, and was followed by large crowd, when a
general skirmish ensued during which two men
named Harding and Ward were wounded, the latter
seriously This had the effect to increase the excite
,nent, and to prevent the indignant populaee from
| lynching Smith on the spot, the Wheeling Argus
says he had to be conveyed to jail
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g There was quite destructive fire at Fort Dahou
sic, NY, on the 18th inst The steamer Welland ant
the railroad wharf were burned. Loss estimated a
$4,000. r 81 Fgg@ XIV N .y4
MORE HosTILrTIEs IN KANSAS. - Ne,0 Geosgi,
Settlement broken up by tie Abolitionists.We fin
the following late intelligence from the scene Of til
troubles in Kansas. in the st. Louis Evening New
Of the 10Th inst 5.E5 ats&. &IasS
Il n The Border Times Extra of the 10th, gives wha
purports to beeanother outrage by the Abotioniss il
Kansas. 1t states as follows .=s51 p7EEJ5.
A" Capt. Cook, Of the Georgia Colony, just in fror
that place, reports that Browns company Of Abol
tionists made an attack on the colony of New Geol
i ga and burned the place. There were only six me
there at the time--they are supposed to have bee
4 killed. The sick men, (twenty-five in number,) tc
4 gether with the women and children, had been II
4 moved to Miami. i.@E-t z5t neg,
"Whilst in Ossawatomies, Capt. Cook learned tha
4 Col Treadwell's company had all been taken prison
ers-said to have been done through the treachery
Ottowa Jones ian Indian) Capt Cook gives til
news as he heard it.p a5 cd 20 @@%'F WI