New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-06-17
# WEDNESDAY, MORNING, JUNE II, 1857.
" The clerk Of the steamer Woodford has our
thanks FOR late Louisville papers.

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Int; Nj. Oscar VOORHEES, late Captain Company @,
Natioua Guards was elected Junior First Lieutenant
of Capt, Alton's Company Of Washington Artillery;
which corps, We are much grataed to learn, is con-
tinually a,gmenting ID number.
I We understand our Artillery friends are going to
Pas Christian 0n Friday the Sd Of July, TO spend
ths glorious Fourth At that delightful watering
place, ma VIM Iettrn On The following Monday.
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nm tshAvE or HENRY CLAY. The editor Of the
sFer4 wayne Times has been On d journey through
kentucky and went to pay his deyotions to the grave
n Henry Clay ID the cemetery not far from Lexng-
Ton be searched for IL first among those covered with
entahlatnred slabs. obelisks, pyramids and imposing
1 monuinents, hnt the name WAS found on none Of
these he sought Il among less imposing tablets but
bnnd II not lad At lat led him TO the spot, where
little mound, marked only BY the path worn BY the
footprints Of devoted told that the great
cornsnoner still lived ID the hearts Of the people
Near b, was the monument affectionately inscribed
BY Mr.. Clay to his mother. On an adjoining emf
nence which is ! beautiful site-wth an area Of hall
an acre, circular form the people Of Kentucky are
to erect ! monument Of kentucky marble, Of beauti
I'll design which is to rise 100 feet in height under
which the remains Of the noble son Of our sister State
are 70 be deposited The corner stone will be laid OF
ithe lsh * July re Il, with imposing ceremonies
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w AfrsoAcHNe Extinction OF THE IRISH Ian
GUAGH curious table, which is given for the first
tae il the Irish census looks like an indication Of
the approaching extinction Of the Irish language
4 LIS than FIVE per cent. Of the population have re
4 turned themselves as Ignorant Of English, and not
fourth Of the whole are able to speak the original
language Of their country.
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FRIpAY.-The murderers Of a man named Barth
ii Madison county Illinois, are 10 be hanged on Fri
DAY next, the 18th. Friday seems rather an unuck5
day for these poor wretches The murder was com
mittsd on Friday they were unprecedented on Frida,
convicted on Friday sentenced on Friday -ant
are To be executed on Friday.
FRI1HTENED TO DEATH-- An old man named
Eteinhach was arrested in St. Louis, q few days ago
on charge of receiving stolen property. In thu
police office he exhibited most painful state Of ag
taton and alarm, being unable to stand or speai
His case was called day or two afterwards, and II
ztated that he had IN the meantime died OF fright.
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"A VILL1GE DESTROYED The Ogdensburg tN.Y
Sentinel states that on the sth inst. the village
Brasher Iron Works. i'm that county contained
thriving and busy population. Before night the who
village, the foundry, machineshops, saw mills, an
every dwelling in the place except six, was consume
xs with the besem Of destruction. A fire that ha
previously ragged in the woods was driven by a win
from point or two south Of west like hail storm
upon the doomed village. In one hour forty-thrt
buildings and from $4,000 to 100000 worth
property were reduced to ashes, and forty famil
made homeless and houseless, without food or clot
ing and without the means Of employment. II
Sentinel staes that the call for aid has not been
heeded. Villages in the immediate vicinity have dol
nobly for the relief of the sufferers. OF the sutere
Il Nj. i. w. Skinner, Of Ogdensburg, is mentioned
the greatest the loss Of his firm being $4,000 oy
insurance.
Quinn FEMAIE ATTRACTIONS. "A trayelerin Afri
declares that he met king who had eleven port
wives al of whom were weighed monthly, the o
n that weighed the most being invariably installed m
tress 81 the household until the next weighing.
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BURNED 70 DEATH On the 9Th inst a fire occur
10 5oth street, New York, which destroyed SIN
frame building, and q married woman named sh
wood persisted in the flames.
SHOCKING AFFAIR.-The house Of Mr.. Lyo
,,oor Cteu hanvilp 0hio fnoE fire on the 25th U