New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-07-17
Interesting frem Haytl.



lie Progres, the Port au Prince newspaper, of
the 2ad off June, explains the facts relating to the
subscription for the family of John Brown, about
which there has been some misapprehension in the
United States. That paper has been publishing
from week to week, listofthe subscriptions which
have been made in various parts of the territory
These subscriptions amounted, at the above date,
to S27 03l 81, in Haytian, and 1854 06, in Spanish
currency. The Haytian currency, by the last quo.
tations, at $l5 to 81 Spanish, and at this rate,
the s27 ,Os1 81 would be equal to 81 s02 09 Span
ish, which, added to the Sas4 06 subscribed in
Spanish makes the sum total Of the subscription
S24S6 l5, United States currency. The subscrip-
tions were apparently still going on, and though
small, We're very numerous, varying in amount
from so cents to s100in Haytan, and from 25 cents
to $40 in United States currency. Petit Goave,
town Of q few hundred inhabitants, furnished two
hundred and nine subscribers.
The commission appointed to examine the coal
beds at Camp Perrin, found the mine rich and the
coal lying level with the surface of the earth, and
descending to great depth into it. ton, brought
to Port au Prince as sample, appeared to be of
excellent quality.
Abiding to the recent violation of a cemetery
near Port au Prince, Of which we published an ac-
count day OF two since, the PFogFes says: "fhis
crime only be referred to the most irightful of
superstitions which will always continue to exist
among us until the NaudouX, that leprosy which
still aliiets great portion of our Ignorant popua-
ton, shall be extirpaed.n Probably this is the
first time since the departure of Boyer, in lsI3
| that any remark has appeared in u Haytian news
paper against the practice OF the VaudouX. The
former President, Pierrot, and the late Emperor,
were both "Vaadoux papas,n or chiefs of the
society. The civilized element seems to be acauir-
ing, once more, some activity under the new gov
ernment.
letter states that the immigrants from New
Orleans were doing well in the culture of cotton on
the plains of the Artibonite. Twenty-four cotton
gins were in operation in that quarter.
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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN DALLAS, TExAs.-From a
letter Of the sth inst, from Dallas, Texas, to the
Galveston News, we extract the following:
| write this morning to inform you of the most
| distressing calamity that has ever beialien the
town Of Dallas, or perhaps any town in Texas.
Yesterday, Sunday about O'Clock. fire
broke out in the drug store of Messrs. w. W. Peak
| & Bro, and in less than two hours the Whole OF
the business portion of the town, including both
| the hotels, mass of sm0uldering ruins
| The weather has been very hot and dry for severa
weeks and everything was prepared to burr
rapidly.
The total loss is estimated variously at from
three to five hundred thousand dollars, on whiel
there is. / learn, not to exceed $4,000 insurance
The whole number Of buildings destroyed is 50 0
33, comprising the best built part Of the place
aud including every storehouse in it. Our towf
which has been the admiration of all strangers, an
which, 1t is no eXaggeraton 10 say, was one Of III
prettest small towns in the State, is now nearly
mass Of ruins. All the stores had good stocks
] merchandise, and some of then very heavy one