The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-06-07
Gatherings.

IRON the N. Y. Sunday Times.
"Can man be arrested for using indecent and i'm
proper language to his wite.' 1t is mistaken idea
thai some husbands have, that they possess pro-
prietary ght over their wives, the same as they
have over their lands and Entertainments 1t is not
so. Marriage is mutual contract, in which every
personal right that woman possess before marriage
Is secured TO her afterwards. She parts with some
legal rights, it is true but the right to be treat
ed with much dellcacy and proprlety as she was
when single If man can be punished for an as
sault and battery on his wife, he can be punished
for any other outrage.
A correspondent complains of Intellectual efforts
to prevent his boys smoking, and wishes to know
if there is any harm in it. A minister once said
that there was no harm in smoking tobacco, except
that it leads to MISUNDERSTANDING to intoxication-
intoxication to ble-ble to Observation-Disclosures
to nsumption-consumptio to death-that's all
Tall oaks from little acoms grow"
The office of Lord Lieutenant of Counties in
England still exists, but is mere honorary title,
with some patronage, and but little duties.
WAS Napoleon regularly divorced from Josephine
before he married Maria Louisa and by whom -
The dispensatlon to marry was granted by Pope
Plus VII, upon the decree of the courts annuiling
the marriage.
A sherlfi7s court in England, recently awarded a
Miss Rodgers $3.50, against man named Bachelor,
for breach OF the marriage promise His letters
perfect thermometer Of love, fuctuating and
changing with the weather. They began with
ours, ): y; cleh ilfea up 10 MY ever dear
est MARIA then soltehed INTO MY darling; then
cooled into 6. Dear Maria;' then formalized into
Dear Miss Rodgers - and broke off with the fol-
lowing announcement -" on wish to know how
intend to settle All can say is, that | cannot
be more settled than | am
A report having been circulated in England that
Gulzot was about to resume his Old profession OF
lecturer the President of literary Institution at
I n tbp IN he
would deliver course there-and suggested mod
ern history as the SUBJECT. 1his was touching the
expatnated minister In the raw. lie declined,
although his recent experiences Would have en-
abed him to deliver most instructive discourse on
the theme proposed.
The nacket sbins Andrew Foster and New World
arr;,,ad here IN Ihnrs,iav with about thousand
steerage passenqers and not one sick The British
Shin jennv Lind. that arrived here on Wednesday,
landed ffig-fno at the hospital down with the Ship
Fever. some of them in its last stages Most like
lv want of ventilation. scarcity of water. and no
raoul,t;ons as to cleanliness is the cause
The Wav some banks take care. or rather do not
take care of their unsigned bills deserves the high
est censure. In tearing down the old bank and
vaults of the Trenton State Bank. N. J.. large
numbers of bank-notes. partially signed and un-
signed, were found by the boys, and, in some in
stances passed off. Ought not the bank to be the
loser in such cases9
In Austria. bedsteads are seldom over five feet in
length. When gentleman. stopping at a hotel,
ooes to bed. one of the servants accompanies him,
Joubes him m like ack-knife, and then rolls him
in a sheet and blanket. Here is double, advan-
tage he can neither walk in his sleep, nor trot off
in the morning leaving hl%landlord MINUS
The straneest suicide on record was committed
in Cincinnati the other day. man named Bruce
dug his grave put his coffin ill., drew the lid on and
then placing pistol to his head, blew his brains
out. This is the first time we ever heard of a man
conducting his own funeral.
Sir Hudson loves defence of his conduct to
Napoleon, is about TO be published in England
The deceased jaior of the Emperor has left behind
him twenny-seven volumes OF manuscript memo
randa OF his conversations with Napoleon and his