The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-12-19
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We ,nals he folloWlae extracts from The Con.
cordia Intelligeneer's admirable correspondent
e Nota Bene
TrPRosy.-Yol will observe in the papers a re-
mort or the Judgment Of the supreme Court IN the
case Of Madame POn,alba os. the flfst Man,ci-
paIity. advert to it merely TO note singular tact
tbat came ont ia the suit, viz that In Spanish
times here. and as late as 1855, leprosy was so
common that a hospital exclusively for iepeTs was
sstab lishgd The disease has entirely disappeared,
the hospital been burned down and the square on
which il stood converted into graveyard.
The TEE-To-TUM SYSTEM suppose you have
heard ofthe celebrated Arkansas Doctor, who prac-
tees upon the te-tO.tum system. well, he has
arrived here, and bids fair to become the fashion oil
the town. You may see him every day before the
st. Charles Hotel with drab pantaloons, ana l9i-
bell-crOwned hat with the slightest SHADOW Vi
rim to it. His hair hangs down over his sn9ulueIs'
and he sports pair of tortoise shell spectaees res.
ing on John Tyler nose. He employs an IsIul
ment with eight Sides similar to the te-to- u1 useu
by boys, only Of larger size and differently leu5r-
ed On each side of this octagoh Is q letloI Io
SIGNED to represent ceTtan thing-as, for example,
v for yomt G. for glystsr, $ for purge, Tor sweat
etc. Whenever the Doctor Is called IN, ne taxes
with him this wonderful instrument, ana without
examining either the pulse or the tongue, or asking
any questions, he proceeds to SPIN II, ana prescrDes
according to its indications. Thus if V turns up,
he forthwith administers an emetc, If u, an lnlec-
tion. and so on. The success which has attended
This new system is said to be astonishing.
THANKsGIvING.-The New England Society are
making great preparations for Judge Thacher, and
pumpkins for pies are very much in demand lur-
KEYS too are scarce for every body is boarding them
for that other Yankee usage, Thanksgiving day,
lately introduced among US, now near al latnd anu
very generally observed.
FIsH-FlsHING.- BY the way, that is one OF the
hest fishing banks in the world. All the eatable
fish YOU see at Havana are brought from our
shores. They have none along that part OF Cuba;
Strangegbut true. We have now numerou ana
very peculiar population engaged in fishing for tins
market-ehiehy Spaniards-but we require a lew
| Cape Cod men. They would gather fortunes from
the Vastly Deep almost fast as gold IN Calltor,
MIA. In national point of view these shores Will
! one day be important. In 1746 Holland had lO,CJJ
sail and 1853 Geo seamen in the fisheries and i was
| iestingly said that g Amsterdam was built on
herring bones'' We have here the finest fish suit
| able for sating and in great abundance, yet none
are cured and the supply brought to this market Is
| never equal to the demand, and generally any
thing but fresh, and the prices asked are exor6tant
| I know of no venture that company OF Down
Fasters could take hold of, more certain to pay
than the driving of fish on the Gulf coast for the
| Cuba market and for the daily consumption here
necessarily great because Of our large Catholic po
| pulation who observe the regimen OF the church
and also because of the throng of vsiters here from
| the interior who eat fish as rarity.