New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-08-04

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Fourth District--U. II. SPARES. IN!
TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1867. sgs.
- Persons ,eapinq te city duriao RHO desire
The Daily or Feey Crescent jorared 20 eu can haps eie'
Of then, regularly mailed any specified time 5y earring eae'r
orders and address at the Office.
- Mr.. Shields, clerk Of the steamer John Briggs,
has our thanks for late louisville papers. .
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q MrRc AsTr,,E LIBRARY AssocIATIoN.-The friends
Of The proposed Mercantile Library and Reading
Rooms and every citizen should rank himself in
that category will not forget that meeting Of the
Association takes place this evening, in the Lecture
Room Of the Odd Fellows Hall. The object is te
adopt constitution and elect officers We shall ex
pect to see large attendance, as the occasion de
serves. 81 NJ sl5 \ III
NJ "A CASE OF YELLow FEVER IN THE NoRTH.--A
shin carpenter died in Williamsburg, N. Y, on the
26th and his physicians pronounced it case Of vel
low fever bis certificate however setting forth thai
he died OF Z bilious renting fever" DR.. Brady
described the symptoms, upon examination after
death, as aredness Of the body, hemorrhage Of the
gums and black vomit.
The WORLD REsroSs1BLE. Miss Dix, the phlan-
thropst visited the Pittsburg prison few days ago.
and conversed with several of the criminals, among
Others with the three recently sentenced to death or
the murder Of the Wilson family. She remarked TO
one Of them III speaking Of the crime with which ne
was charged that of murder-that !" it was not 50
much the fault Of the criminal as Of the world
Very consolng to the criminal, no doubt, but what
does the /" world = say to it?
MURDERED BY 4 SLAVE. On Friday last Mr.
Reuben Nash, Of Mount Vernon, Ala, was killed in
the neghborhood Of that place, by being shot twice
with double barreled shot gun by runaway slave
whom be was attempting TO arrest. The negro
escaped, but was holly pursued and probably caught
soon afterwards.
Ny A Formidable HosT-The Salem (Mass.) Gazette
reports that an army of forty skunks was seen in
pasture at North Salem, Saturday morning. Six Of
the number were killed. The laurels upon the brow
Of Dake,' dog that attacked the force, were
found to have peculiar and rather unpleasant odor
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v a GARRoTER KILLED. On the night ofthe Sd ult
James Brown, an officer Of the ship Zurich, was at
tackled in New York, by five or six men, who choked
him and forced him down into the gutter in order to
rife biz pockets. Mr.. Brown drew large knife and
stabbed the fellow who had him by the neck, who
thereupon released him, and the others fed. Brown
left the wounded robber on the sidewalk, told the
story at his boarding house, and day or two after
wards went to sea. The garoter, whose name turned
out to be Patrick Dwyer was picked up fatally hurt
and taken to a hospital He died there few days
ago. :.
MILITARY MoyEMENr.-Ord have recently beer
issued by the War Department for the withdrawal Q
company of United States troops from Fort indie
pendence, near Boston; one from Fort Hamilton
New York and one from Mackinac and some othe
military post in Michigan, to proceed to Minnesota, Il
view of the unsettled condition of Indian affairs IL
that Territory. These will make ten companies, il
all, for the service in that part Of the country.
THE CRops IN INDIANA AND ILLNoIs.--The Com
missioner Of Patents has received letter datet
Evansville, Indiana, in which the writer states thai
the crops of southern Indiana and southern Illinois
are beyond all precedent. The Coolest inhabitant'
says that nothing has been known like it. They are
now harvesting, and the rust has done no damage
Corn is late The crops of wheat rye, grass and pc
tatoes will exceed from present appearances, all for
mer products
MAIL LINES TO THE BLACK SEA.-The Postmaster
General Of France has notified the Post Ofice De
partment Of the United States of the recent estab
lishment Of two lines Of French mail packets in thu
Black Sea, conveying the mails weekly the one from
Constantinople, by varna, Sulina, Tultcha and Ga
latz, to Ibraia, in Wallachia and the other from
Constantinople, by Sinope, Samsum and Keresoun
to Trebizonde, in Turkish Armenia
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\ EXPECTS OF LIGHrNING.-D During recent thunde
storm in New York, laborer, standing under tn
porch Of house, was struck by lightning and il
stantly killed. When found, he was partly envelope
in flames, and, upon examination, it was found tha
the fluid had entered his BRAIN perforating the sku
over the left eye. passing through his body to th
lower part of the abdomen, thence down his Limbs
shattering his garments, and escaping through one
his feet. His boots were torn into shreds, as ais
were his clothes.
An dGRoNAur IN A New CHARACTERISTIC wei
not aware that Mons. Eugene GODDARD ever practise
the hocusp oeus of modern magic as well as tt
scientific and perilous business Of balooning, but
learn from tie Philadelphia Sun that he has an e
gagernent Of the former character in the Nation
theater in that city.
SHocKNa DEATH.--Mr j. G. Patton, lady
responsibility, threw herself from the third sto
window Of the United States Hotel in Cincinnati,
few days ago. and received injuries which caused
death in short time. It is stated that she was a
dieted to liquor and was Intoxicated at the time.
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THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DIsTRIeT.-The harm
NOUS are getting along magnifeently in the Th
Congressional District. The anti-Davidsonians he
a meeting in the town Of Baton Rouge on the l