New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-19

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WEDNESDAY MORNING, sEpTENBER1g 10, 1856
1t viii be seen by referring to our marin,
column that the lighthouse at Pass Christian
hassbeen re-established. Also that at Ceda,
Keys, on the Florida coast, and that at Cape
Roman on the coast Of South Carolina
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The New York Democratic State convention
have adopted platform which reafirms the
principles of the Philadelphia convention Of
August u. regards the Southern States as
fully restored TO the Union, and the people
entitled to all the rights and privileges OF
citizenship affrms that the Capitalization Of
power in that State, no less than in the Union.
is fatal to the harmony of our political sys
TEN, and dangerous to the liberty Of the citi.
zen, and assails the recent legislation al
Albany and Washington as unprecedented in
4 eStravagant expenditure, etc.
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municipal election was held in Alton,
Illinois, ON the 18th, in which the Democratic
& National ticket was carried triumphantly
throughout. Alton has hitherto been a radi-
cal stronghold, and this success, the lines Of
party having been clearly drawn, is looked
upon asa certain test of the result of the
State election On the 9Th Of next November.
Pennsylvania paper says that about a
hundred of the wealtnest merchants and
manufacturers Of Pittsburg, Pa, have peti-
TONED the governor Of the State for the pay
ment of one hundred and eighty thousand
dollars incurred by them in 1868 in assisting
to build Notifications and dig trenches to keep
OF the Gonfederates. but that none of the
names Of the poor and rniddling classes who
gave their days and weeks labor on that oc-
casion, appear on this petition.
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Bad and designing white men have so
worked upon the fears Of the negro population
Of Memphis that they believe the Southern
whites have poisoned the wells and cisterns
Cuffee won't buy q watermelon Or a pumpkin,
or even steal one, lest it should be plugged
with stryohnine.
The Montgomery Advertiser Of the 18th
says, The quantity of cotton brought into that
city within the preceding two days had en-
hvened the market considerably, and given
the usual quotations something more than the
character of nominal The following prices
We're obtained in the market readily, the de-
mand being good Ordinary and good ordi-
mary 10 to %; low middlings and middlings
"a to 20; strict middlings ~.
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Peter Cooper. Of New York, has published
a letter to President johnson the gist Of which
is, that the negro should be looked upon as
having sprung at one leap into all the privi-
1eges Of q hee-horn citizen, and should be
allowed to exercise them tntranlmeIled.
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TEE ACADEMY The performances at the
Academy for this week include the most cele-
bratea maryels Of the ring. BarebackedI
steeds and riders. wild Indians, senegambian
artists, acts of dislecation, are at present put
down upon the bills. La Petite Catalini, the.
great Sebastian and the trick horses lendtheirI
attractions and the performance concludes
with touch 81 the theater known as FL
zapatoro de Madrid.
TEE Sr. CHARLES THEArBR The usual
African melange of melody, conundrlns,
burlesqueoperas and afterpieces still CONTINUES
to be given us at the st. Charles. Those who
have any desire to see what at one day was
the most popular Of our shows had better 60
soon. The minshels leave US after Friday
evening
NE are indebted to the officers of the
steamer Idahoe for a Monroe paper Of the 5th