New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-02-04
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ST. LOUIS. Feb. 3.-The overland California mail
has arrived here, with San Francisco dates to the
10th.
There was rumor at San Francisco. when the
mail left, that three hundred prisoners, confined in
the State penentiary had accidentally been poisoned
BY some chemical substance getting into the -four
used in making bread.
The report Is probably exaggerated.
The United States sloopoEwar vandalia had left
San francisco for Guymas, Sonora to relieve the st.
harys. now stationed there.
81: LOUIS, Feb. 3.-The overland mail brings later
intelligence from Carson Valley, in Utah.
The difficulties between the Anti Mormons and the
Judge of Probate for that district are growing more
serious.
The Judge, who is . Mormon, had published
card declaring bis intention to perform the duties Of
his Office, without fear or favor.
collision between him and the Anti. Mormons
was considered inevitable.
the Nevsjoes and other hostile Indians, with great
success.
Paul G. Shore was killed in Santa Clara county,
BY Thomas Seals, on the 9Th inst.
The affair produced great excitement in the
neighborhood, and ynching was freely threatened By
Seals was arrested by the authorities, and carried
to the Jail at San Jose and only protected from mob
violence by military force.
Later From Kansas.
"a AooiSt eu' o'-tISlAy AhIteIluK aCCountd nave
been received from the Kansas gold mines, which
confirm the previous accounts of the miners.
A dispatch from Leayenworth dated to-day, reports
the notorious Brown and the chief Of the Indians who
have been engaged with him in plundering and mur-
dering peaceabe citizens in Kansas and Missouri
have escaped into Nebraska, and their outlaw band
have dispersed. The United States troops who went
in pursuit OF them have returned to LeavenWorth.
Tslegraphic Movements.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-It is understood here that F..
O. Smith, one Of the patentees Of the Morse Tele.
graph, has contaminated arrangements to sell all his
telegraph interests to the American and Magnetic
Telegraph Companies for about $lOO,080
A rumor ia current that arrangements have been
Magnetic Companies, which will insure speedy con-
solidaton Of the telegraph interests between Nova
Scotia and New Orleans.
| Domestic Markets.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-The sales Of cotton to-day
were limited to 800 bales. Quotations are merely
nominal. Operators are waiting the arrival Of the
Asia, now fully due, with Liverpool advices to the
22d ult Middling Uplands, LII. Flour-Superfine
Ohio $6 Is to Sc 30. Mixed Corn, s6 to SIC, Lard
closed buoyant at l24 to 125.
| CINCINNATI, Feb. 3.-The Flour market is firm
Quotations unchanged. Whisky has declined ac ;
sales to-day at 254. The sales of Western Mess
Pork to-day were $500 bbls at $ls SO. Sales of 500
city brands at $l9 co. Lard closed buoyant with an
upward tendency. Sales to-day al ll2c.
River Intelligence.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 3.-The Ohio river at this point
is about stationary with feet four inches OF
/ falls.
| VIcKsBURG, Feb. 3.-The steamer Illinois passed
down at 10 o'clock this morning, and the Nebraska
| at noon to-day.