New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-08-09
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Anniver.ary Bvents--August 8.

Anniversary Events August 3.
1855 Santa Anna left the city Of Mexico with
goo men, under pretence Of putting down the revo
lutidn d Vera Cruz but signed an abdcation at
Psrots, and sailed to Havana. On his departure q
mob destroyed large number Of houses.
Imprisonment for debt abolished in England;
the act taking effect on this day.
lS42-Treaty establishing the boundary line be.
tween the United States and Canada across the State
OF Maine; the British acquiring thereby good por
ton Of the latter State that Of right belonged to the
United States.
ls4l-The steamboat Erie, on her passage from
Buffalo to Chicago, took fire and was totally DIES.
troyed. OF 200 persons on board, principally Swiss
and German emigrants, only 2s were saved. The
boat was valued at $75, 600 merchandise $4,000;
specie $4,000.
lS39-Pera, suburb Of Constantinople, nearly
destroyed by fire; $500 houses burnt.
| 16lS-Captain Ross discovered the Esquimaux
tribe Of Indians situated at the northeast corner Of
Baf6ns bay, extending on the sea shore l2O miles,
and not exceeding 20 miles in breadth, and bounded
on the south by an immense barrier of mountains,
covered with ice. They seemed utterly ignorant Of
other nations to the SOUTH whence they are supposed
to be the original race.
| lSl5-The British ship Northumberland, IA guns,
| Admiral Cockburn, sailed from Torbay with the
exiled Napoleon for st. Helena.
| 1Sl5-Commodore Decatur settled the differences
between the United States and the Dey of Tripoli
The Dey made restitution Of property and prisoners
lsl4-Bombardment Of Stonington by the British,
commenced. It continued three DAYS. British loss
| 81 killed, so wounded; American loss wounded
lsl2-Battle Of Magauga the British and Indians
under Major Muir and Tecumseh, defeated by the
United States troops under General Miller and driven
into Brownstown, whence they escaped to Maiden in
boats. American loss 10 killed, wounded.
lSll-Battle OF Baza the Spaniards under Blake
defeated by the French under Sonlt Of 10000 Span
ards not more than 1000 rallied again.
1s09-The President of the United States Thomas
Jefferson, received official information of the nonrati
6caon Of the British treaty, and suspended all in
tercourse with that country.
| 1sOs-Romana, with 10000 Spanish troops, de.
serted the French army under Bernadotte, and were
conveyed to Spain in British transports.
ls05-Lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike commenced his
voyage to the sources Of the Missouri river with
party OF ~ they were taken by the Spaniards and
returned the next year.
lso4-Robert Potter, an English prelate, died !;
known by bis elegant translations of HSschyus, Eu-
VIC tuItt great QTAWALlSt6 OF
ancient Greece.
| 179e-Elba surrendered to the British under Com
modore Nelson.
l7s7-The ship Columbia Captain Gray, and soop
Washington, sailed from Boston, for the northwest
coast Of America and China. They returned in 1890,
being the first American vessels that circumnaygated
the globe.
| I778-Lord Howe's fleet arrived off Newport in
quest Of Count d'Estaing, who put to sea the next
morning.
| 1775-Capt Lnzee, of the British sloop-of.war
Falcon, attempted to take an American schooner in
Gloucester harbor, Cape Ann in two barges, whale
boat, schooner and cutter, all of which were captured
| by the Americans in CONSCIENCE of which he bonn
| barded the town. American loss / killed 2
| wounded
| 1759-Birthday of Jean Baptist Annibal ALBERT
Dubayet, in Louisiana. He served in the American
| army during the war of independence, and went to
France on the breaking out Of the revolution there.
He was appointed Minister Of War, and the next
year Ambassador to Constantinople, where he died.
| l757-Fort William Henry, with garrison of
about 1900 men under Col. Monroe, capitulated to
Montcalm, who had invested the fort with an army
of 1850. The garrison was to be allowed the
honors Of war, and protected from the Indians but
with the characteristic per6dy Of the French in all
these colonial wars the Indians were allowed to pill
lage and massacre the defenceess soldiers SO that
their baggage was lost and 1900 slain or made priso
/ ners.
| 174s-Alexander Blackwell, Scottish physician,
| beheaded in Sweden, on suspicion of treason. His
wife, to support him in prison, published Herbal in
two volumes folio, containing 500 plates, drawn, en-
| graved and coored by herself.
1746-Battle Of Rotto Fredo, between the Allies
and the Austrians; the former defeated with the
loss Of 5000 men Austrian loss about half that num-
| Der.
/ l744-John Bridges, Duke of Chandos, died. Few
1 particulars are known of this peer, except of his
munifcence The earlier part of manhood was spent
in reflection and observation his middle age in bust
ness, honorable and useful; and his advanced years
in benevoence. He erected the princely seat of Cam
ons, near London, where he lived in splendor to
which no other subject had ever aspired. His ber-
ay was equaled only by his generous forgiveness of
injuries. Pope made him the subject of his satire,
which Hogarth punished by representing the poet on
a scaffold withdrawing Burlington House, and be.
scattering the Duke of Chandos carriage it passed.
Yet Pope's verse respecting the shortlived magnif
cence of Canons was prophetic:
Another age shall see the golden ear z 0@...-.
Deep harvess bury ali his pride has planned.
And laughing Ceres reassume the land.
Three years after his death the stately mansion
sold by auction, piecemea such was the rage to buy
something at Canons. It's site was soon vacant.
l7ls-Action of Cape Passaro, between the British
fleet, twenty sail, Admiral Byng, and the Spanish
fleet, twenty-seven sail of the line. The Spaniards
were defeated with the loss Of twenty.one of their
| ships either taken or destroyed.
37s-The great and disastrous battle of Adrianople,
second only to that of Canine, in which the Roman
egions under Valens for the first time defeated
by the Cythian Goths The wounded Emperor was
removed to a cottage, which was fired, and he
| persisted in the flames.
| 357 B. Can eclipse Of the moon which preceded
the departure of Dion from Zacynthus (zante) upon
| his celebrated expedition against the tyrant DID,
nysius the Younger. He entered Syracuse with his
little band of 500 veterans in September, and in three
days became master of the empire. The deaths of
Democrtus and Hppocrates, each l04 years old, and
of Timotheus, the Milesian poet and musician, took