The Daily Crescent

Correspondence of the Crescent.
Crevasse News in New York—The late George Porter—Railroad Celebration—Hudson River Railroad—Cholera Weather—Board of Health.
NEW YORK, May 31, 1849.
Eds. Crescent—Our intelligence from your city this morning is especially distressing, but we hope that its terms are exaggerated. The dispatch dated yesterday states that "half the city is now inundated, and the inhabitants are flying from their homes and business." This is perhaps the very worst form that could have been given to the dispatch, as it leaves all the particulars to be filled in by the ready fears of the mercantile classes, and can have no smaller effect than to check our business with New Orleans very seriously.
The pleasure with which we would hail the receipt of intelligence from your city in ten or twelve hours is entirely destroyed by the character of the first dispatch ever transmitted within such time. Nobody regards the important fact that the wires at length form an almost unbroken line between the two cities, but all minds are engrossed with the sadness of the news brought over them.
We have also the intelligence of the death of poor George Porter, whose excellent qualities made every man his friend. Poor George! I shall ever remember the last evening I passed with him, with one of you, "as a sober member of our merry party."
We are to have something of a celebration to-morrow, on the occasion of the opening of some twenty-two miles more of the great Erie Railroad which removes the North-Western terminus to Owego. The connection by railway with Lake Erie is thus completed, although by a route of much less advantage than that to be obtained by the completion of the great road itself.
The Hudson River Railroad is driving forward with energy, and our city will soon be within a very few hours reach of the most distant Northern and Western points of this and the Eastern States. Our winter communication will be especially improved, as we shall be but little dependent upon water conveyances in any direction.
We have the best possible description of Cholera weather—I mean that in which Cholera may flourish to any extent, and I am sorry to say, that our authorities, Board of Health and all, do all that is possible (by doing nothing) to encourage its growth. The city is in the filthiest condition, independently of the state produced by a week's rain. The Board of Health reports eight new cases, and three deaths, within the last 24 hours. Some of these are pretty certainly not of the Asiatic type: but now, every thing like Cholera Morbus, is considered worthy of a report to the resident physician as Cholera itself.
There is nothing of interest in a local way to-day. The Niagara's news is looked for anxiously, as she is fully due at Halifax.
Respectfully yours,
INDICATOR.