The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-14

Iinger to play underline shady trees
- Hide and 90 seek'' with the flowers.
We hasten along in a joyful troop
/ And light the white crested wave.
The waters dash oveI the laughing group,
And we rise rom WateTy grave. a
A loving train, hunying hand inland
We come from our curained bone above,
Then wildly warning, scattered band,
! Haste to perform our work OF love.
The sun looks on the fresh glowing scene,
| And quickly sends each swift-winged
To brooks and flowers and foliage green,
To call US on our homeward way.
! Then from the waters the leaves, the flowers,
| Up mount on zephyr wing,
Children of theSky are summer showers,
| Oh, blessings bright to earth we bring
! Portland y4d0ertiSer LILLE AMBROSE.
| The CALIFORNIA GoLD-The following para
graphs are from the New York Sun of the 4th ult.:
eve have seen an individual, just arrived from
California, with fifteen pounds Of the Feather river
! gold dust sufficient for sample, in his trunk,
and although tshines seductvely, is only another
proof that Sc all is not gold that glitters,' being
neither more nor less than species of mica. The
| gentleman who brought it on understood, when he
sacked it, its precise value, and had idea that he
was fetching precious ore, still he thought q fair
! specimen might be of service in these parts as
lesson 10 those who hastily packing up their
- buds for the gold region. This individual was
/ on the enchanted ground ITSELF heard the murmur
of Feather river rolling its blue waters the
sparkling sands. and various blpeds with picks
and shovels belaborng the earth to extract the de-
believe that ii was not real gold. 1t was, however,
determined before he left that the gold fever was
! an unmitigated humbug, in which knayes and fools
! were the partners. The dust has been fairly repre-
scented by the California rOmancers, for it looks Very
| like flakes, and we have seen similar phenOm-
| ena among the lodges of New England, never for
| a moment believing they were gold. If the Span
! iards and Indians failed during several hundred
years past, to find such tract of gold land, with
their keen scent for the metal modern CalifOrnians
-bglT1f
! tentOn to wheat and corn fields and vineyards, for
which there is no better country EARTH or to the
| pearl fisheries of the coast, which have not been
disturbed for two centuries"
WEST INDIA DEFAULTERs.- letterfrom Kings
ton, Jamaica, August 81, says: Our highly paid
officials are the only ones who do not really feel
| the pressure of the times Yeteven amongst them
| dishonesty has been prevalent Our Registrar of
| Chancery has been dismissed, his Deficiencies
| amounting to several thousand pounds The Audi
! tor General of Prisons Accounts has decamped,
! leaving some thousands unaccOmted for. The
agent of the Planters bank has also decamped-
! fourteen thousand unaccOunted for. Our Receiver
| General died, and on counting his cash and ex-
| amining hIs accounts over ten thousand pa4inds
have been found deficient. The Planters bank
has failed with liabilities of over $4,000, and no
immediate available assets The Colonial baIik. ID
is presumed win shortly wind up, having already.
| lost over 100000, according to its own official
| statement.
present Receiver-Gener having advertised to that
| effect. Our merchants $50 called in remembrance
! of past days. do not now sell a cargo unless for
| cash, because if they do they cannot remit. The
| Americans viii notsend us cargoes unless the cash
| accompanies the order. So that you see we have
neither cashnor credit to work upon"
|
0s- The Government has hired sixteen of'the
spacious stores on the Atlantic Dock. Brodklyn N.
Y, for period of Is years, at the rate of $4,000
per annum.
DEATH OF GUINEA NEGRo.-Died, in Bensa-
lem, Bucks county, Penn, on the 23d uIt, Peter
Longstreth, Familiarity known as & Guinea Pete"
aged l02 years. Peter wasa native of Africa, and
had wife and children there Being trader, he
went on board French ship to buy goods, and was
| carried off for slave On the voyage TO the West
Indies, the ship was taken by Commodore Decatur,
and carried into Philadelphia. Peter was taken by
the Longstreth family, and after staying some time,
went 10 work for himself married another wife,
| and by industry soon acquired sufficient means to
purchase house and lot.
/ MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.-A lady residing in Vine
street, Philadelphia, left her home on the 29th ult,
in eompanyWith litteson, for the purpose, as she
said Of Shopping. She had proceeded as far as
Second street, near Arch, when she was taken ill.
| An Old gentleman then stepped up, $50 the rumoI
| goes,1 claimed her acquaintance, and volunteered
to seesifef home. They got into an omnibus, drove
/ off and have not been heard of since. The little
! boy, however, has returned to his home.
SHOCKING MuRDER BY A CHIuD.-Late London
papers contain Che details ola murder committed
! by boy nine years of age; his victim was his
little sister, aged fasf and half years. He first
shot her with an Old fowlingpiece, and then beat
! her over the head and arms with heavy stick.
He saws that his sister wished to leave the house,
and he told her not to- and se pesisting he killed
her. Four children were left inthe house while
the parents were sgsat work.
sponlng Intelligence.
LEXINGTON qKY.) RACES. -FIRsT RAcEs--SiEh
! Day-Saturday, September 30 Purse S600-four
! mile heats:
W. p Grser's Little Emtly. BY Wagner dam by, !,
j. L. b BH ai 3 g. h. red Eye, by sapedona
VIVA Evil vs aa'y yM p E Tdas b. Il Dona
imp Hsdsef9qs dam 8s,ey BalLsoP
SEcoD RAcE-Same Day Sweepstake- two
mile heats-nine entries:
l. Bradleg's b b Trustee, dam Mara Black al
O. A. Gnnstead's CIV. P. Gfeers) eli. &. by MaTgFaye,
G. W VIZ Johnson g. BY Trustee dam Miss Eden By
10u' Timc-8l6 'i''
THE sport throughout the week, is said to have
/
NASHVILLE TENN.) RAcEs.-THir day-mile
heats
4 G. B. Williams CHI E Ieae Watson, by PHam, dam BY
. G. skeeog' ch. f. Kitty Puyear, by Andeby dam 9
" i'ss'''iAH Timo-i lg-i:l811
FOURTH DAY-Thursday, Sept. 28-Joekey CiuO
purse S300-three mile heats:
You're i Lucas ch f. Puss Lueas by Wagner dam
by Leviahan y. - 4
Shegog 81 Hoffmans ch. f. yHayy D0HgtaSS' DIV wa q
Ier dam by I,eyiatIian, y. q
! Fine 8; l5-6lO
FIFTH DAY-Friday, sePtember29-PurseS 500 ::
mile heats:
lVK v S. Stevenson b. m Gertrude, by Pnani ,
lA Ja,o Inv sir William, 3 O...................e.
sbeeon q Hoffman ch. by Ainderby, dam by Lee ,
viathan. ". z .
You're s Lucas join GetuD by Citizen, dam BY =.
Pnam, J. o.. - - 8 dis.
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