The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-05-10

ME- L.. NUMBER So.
To its rude ministers7,cou!d they have known,
| Or felt and heard, thus Nell might have spoken,
| And speaking So the tempest would have flown:
Impitent now to chill the ardent heart
NsW walked to appness Joys now assas ss mart
sss oa BID VIII
Old winter shake his thin white ragged locks
Gpahain the bolts With lhS which he sandss rocks.
BID then sp fns oa m s % I Cheeks
Was Ger, and morning with is roy streaks
And blushes-,,s;tealng upward as in flight .o.
ssn eeT s ebee Joyous
NOBLE ADVICE In view of the then approach
ing elections, the Provisional Government of
France, while ago, prepared and distributed a
sort of political Manual, which concluded in this
following terms. We especially commend the ad
vice to our American citizens too-for are not we
also &c on the eve of an important election!
cas- the object is to the present evils of the
country and to anze for the future the reign Of
| brotherhood, (fraternite,) choose for your repre-
sentatives the men in whom you see the highest
private virtues, intelligence, devotion and self-de-
NAL whatever may be their social position, they
will represent the nation worthily If to these pr-
| vale virtues and qualities of an honest man, are
| dQueu superior
ledge of the questions connected with the organlza
ton of society," then you will have found the cand-
date most worthy of your confidence. Ii these two
| classes of qualifications are divided between the
| two different candidates, hesitate not a moment
to prefer the former to the latter. Forget not that
to make firm the social edifce, virtue is more
necessary than talent-charity than science
IRIsHMEN AT HOME AND ABROAD. douglas
JeroId, in a work called 1.-The Dreamer and the
| WORKER thus shows why it is that Irishmen work
best and fight best out Of their own country. Ihe
fact, he says, of eight hundred thousand Pro-
testants holding all the church wealth of the coun-
try in quiet defiance of seven millions of Catholics,
is in itself sufficient proof of their comparative
| helplessness at home. The reason why they
much more energetic and practical abroad, is be-
cause they are more Free Not feeling equally so at
home, they never put out for any length Of time
| their full and undivided force There has always
been some drawback. When they fought on their
own ground they did not feel quite sure IT they were
doing right, except in a few extreme cases, espe-
cially as so many of their own cOuntrymen were
fighting against them; and when they work at
hOme 1t is much for themselves as for their
absentee landlords and masters Always they have
of insecurity at home-abroad 1t Is different
Foreign Scraps.
The average amount of deaths, per week in Lon
don is l,lO7. OF births, between 500 and ,6OO.
Two shilling pieces coin hitherto unknown III
England, are about to be coined at the royal mint
q An English bankrupt, for fraudulent preference
the payment of one of his creditors has been SEN
fenced to three years Imprisonment We are more
lenent to such offenders in this country]
The royal exiles from France are "living plainly
at Clarenont, and insist that they are very poor.
Where's that $500, 600 in Pennsylvania stock which
the Philadelphia Ledger says Louis Philippe owns
Why does not his agent sell out and send his en-
ployer something to buy bread and butter with e
The London domestics have been holding mass
petition in their profession. They complain that
the Queen has torty-one foreign servants, and
Prince Albert as many more.
According to the Brussels Independent, the king
of Hanover was ill at the last accounts that his
life was despaired of. He can be spared.
The avhlity with which the Irish seize upon every
opportunity procure arms, may be judged OF from
the fact that at sale i'll Dublin, rifles brought
double the price fixed upon them by the owner
o. 1t is from such works as the following that
rich men, will surely prove exceptions to that
proyerb about their entering the kingdom of
heaven''
Transformations OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES time ago an
unknown individual in this Commonwealth, gave
$4,000 towards founding State Reform School.
The same gentleman afterwards offered $lO,NO
more, on condition that the State would make a
similar appropriation which has been done: and
now, within few days, the same prlnceiy Denevo-
lence has furnished the additional sum of $500 to
this State Institution, for the purpose OF enaFgng
the farm accommodations of the School.
The name of this princely giveris, we believe, en-
tirely unknown, except to the gentleman through
whom the gifts are presented.-B0st0n Traveller.
o. The London Literary Gazette of March 18th
saws NJ Hammerschmid, of Vienna, as the re-
suit of 1900 operations, gives the preference to ether
over chloro(orm narcotic, and attributes to the
latter consequences which may prove detrimental
to the constitution
UNMITIGATED SCoUNDRELIsM. - During the
night of the 26th ult, villains fastened a
couple of chestnut rails the track of the Pc
terboro' and Shirley Railroad, at Townsend, Mass,
short distance apart, for the purpose of throwing
off the morning passenger train. A gravel train,
however, was first upon the road, with the in
front of the engine, and the whole were smashed
to pieces. The ruins formed pile twenty feet
high. Two brakemen were killed, and several
others injured.
Gs- The Pittsburg Journal of the Doth ult. mem
tons terrible occurrence which happened lately
in Sharpsburg, by which young man named Dan
iel Bush lost his life He was assisting in raising
a heavy frame for warehouse, and was sitting
upon a bent of frame which had been raised,
while others We're engaged in raising another por-
ton of the building. The wind being high, the
bent then being raised was carried over, and tell
upon the one on which he was sitting, and caught
him between the timbers and literally crushed him
to pieces. The fall of the tmbers was SO sudden,
that even warning cry could not be given. He
was about twenty years of age, and unmarried.
MURDER CAsE-D. F. Boaoers, Defendant.-
The Concordia Tntegencer (Vidala, La contains
a report of the trial-whch was concluded on the
night of the 5th inst, though the verdict was not
rendered-of d. F. Bowers, before the District
Court, for the murder of VIM. p Phipps:
The witnesses testified that election held on Black
River in the Parish Of Concordia Monday the 1s Of
November last during the day. the deceased (Phipps)
the house Of Mr. Craddeck in the 1eghbohood
gross insulting manner that she left her house with her
Children and fled that of of the neghbon. Shortly
afterwards the accused (Bowen) went, company with
ntber from the Craddocks conclude agree