New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-07-11

UNFoRTuNAT OCCURRENCE IN SoUTH GARoLINA
We copy the following from the Savannah GeoEgian,
Of the 5th inst |: s 8$fS5ss "a
A Apublic meeting held in ST. eter Parish, s.
day before yesterday. resulted very
The facts as they have been related us, simply
these E$3 sss &
The meeting was organized by calIing The Hon.
Edmund Martin to the CHAIR and lie proceeded To an
point committee to prepare hIsiness for
eration When the committee were about to retire,
q Mr. Jesse Peoples, member of the House Of Rep
resentatives Of South Carolina man desperate
he had not placed him upon said commit d Ar.
Martin replied that be had not thought 5of
upon Mr. Peoples told him that be was q I'd ar.
Mr.. Martin forthwith knocked him down and was
fieting severe chastisemen upon him At this the
friends of both sides commenced to Interfere and
soon became general fight We are sorry 70 say
that Dr. b H. Martin Of this city the son Of the CEN
teman alluded to above, was severely cut. and That
Mr.. Peoples was killed. s3S
IT not known who indicted the wound which
caused the death of the hitter. Is 8
SUBMARINE GABl The A New York Daily Times,
of the 4th inst, says: N 3ss
Two submarine cables arrived, yesterday in The
southampton, Liverpool packet ~ One OF them is
five miles long, fyeeighths Of an inch IN diameter,
and weighs eight and onehalf tons of the sai-
pest form ofcable, with three conductors, insulated
by gutta pereha. This il to connect Cape Cod and
Martha's Vineyard. & FsSs8 III 94
The other cable was half mi Elm eagth ana three
inches in diameter IT, has five conducting wress
covered and bound together with wires insulated BY
gntta percha. 1t is to cross the Penohseet river
Maine 53z sS
e FILIMoRAf. AND. .DoSGLsos in MIssIssRP We
extract the subjoined from the Memphis Eagle of the
4th inst. 5s9s
A correspondent, writing from Gross Ridge, iss.as
says: g Tho canvass has opened with hrightnros
poets for Fillmore and Donelson. The noninationos
Buchanan has still further brig htened these prospects,
Democracy is drooping aud cannot tace the mhsic.
Old BUCK turns too many senesets for the citizens
| Hurricane Creek, and Fillmore wllmofe will carry
| this neck Of the woods by a large ma
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I Cor. FREMoNT's FINANCIAL CREDIT Col. Eresg
monts rumored Of fabulous wealth are net
credited in Wall street, the annexed statement ef
the Journal Of Commerce na5y he believed
The failnre Of the State 81 California to proyie teg
\ the payment of the interest due on her bonds july
4 lst has excited much attention, y Renamed IE9II
making any remarks upen il because 1neIe
4 was plan on foot to Tse the money here ana tor
obvious reasons we did wish 70 interfere althQngR
donbtfnlof its snscess. the plan MAS for Col lsEes
mont who has business connection more orless 1ntas
:. mate With Palmer, Cock 4 Cos 10 riise tile mooney
a upon his personal security, Hss1otes oF
of them were accordingly offered all thtough thu
market by the note brokers bet hndlae 9g
buyers. However attractive the name might pc IN
eaptalsa at the head ef d canpa i had no
market value at the foot Of al, e tla pla5
has heen reluctantly Abandoned The state Of eatS
3torna Is tlerefe a de lAN