The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-05-02
Correspondence of the Crescent.
Peter NJ Deshong-Boarding Houses in Leonard Street.
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NEW YORK, April q, IS49
Eds Crescent-Mr. Peter M Deshong whose notoriety
as athematcian almost equal to his genns as an ope
ator one has been trying his hand on our New
York and Brooklyn editors. With verdant
cephons the said editors have rejected Mr. Peters liberal
propositions and most of them have hurled back upon him
all sorts of hard names-because he makes them his
postage. Now every body who knows any thing worth
knowing, is well aware that Mr.. Deshong very great
humbug but that not the why his letters PROPOSE
tons etc. are moi printed The secret lies in the fact that
he does not pay for his advertisements The people that
cry out "impudence" "humbug." imposition etc.,
all the time only you did send the money" One
shilling line will for first rate editorials in the
pers that denouncs Mr. Deshong bitterly. There is
nosuum humbug, that cannot find in editorial
columns for all the praise that its proprietor write and
pay for. Mr.. Dehongs mistake lay in the offer pay
mathematics He wanted to the editors and the PEG.
pie alike-a great that
A dead Sc" is now making upon our fashionable
in Leonard street, Church and such
localities Within the past ten days. not fewer than five
peaps moe lady propreto of these establishments have
been brought before the city courts charged with violating
certain ordinances put forth for the regulation of the morals
of this great city. Fanny Howard and Mary Smith
brought up yesterday warrant issued for the arrest
OF Mr. John F. Delaplane of most moral repecta
be- and wealthy citizens the complaint of hiring
his houses for certain specified to like Fanny,
Mary, Lucy, and their crowd. By charging them
rates, he realizes the largest kind of profits from their
vicious trade There are many in city who do large
business the line, and who culpabe than
the women TO whom they rent their houses.
Our recently started United States city dispatch post does
the purpose expected The system good but
the administration defective and general thing fails
to expenses. The carriers employed sufficiently
regular give confidence that the letters entrusted them
will reach their destination in time and few business
make their boxes medium of their correspondence,
Notwithstanding the extremely low charge of cent for
delivery in any part of the city The system will, when
regularity established in its details, work WELL but
time and good deal of it, is necessary to make it
pensss and answer all the purposes of its design.
am glad to that the Talbotype of which we have
had whisperngs only for the past brought
ont perfected Portraits taken by this method have many
advantages those taken by the usual Daguerrean pro-
of which is that of multiplication thus answering
somewhat the of copper plate engraving. Our
weather is very fine again, but cool.
Respectfully, yours, INDICATOR.
Connecticut Election Defaleation in the Marshal S
effce-.4rrigat of Gotd-Saaing of the Unicorn
New YORK. April 3d. ls49.
Eds CrescentWe have length the official of the
late Connecticut election and the calculations of the Hart
ford Couran accompanying its publication, seem to prove
that the wings scared than hurt in the contest
The Couant shows that the wing plurality in the State is
542 than it last spring. and that if the abo
ton and scattering votes had been the this they
last Mr. Trumbull the WING candidate for Governor
would have been elected by popular majority of 92l There
is but little doubt of his election by the Legislature and the
wings will retain the ascendency there, but ejaculation,
legislative action will bring back the lost Congessmen-
They " dead gone"
There have been whispers of defacaon in the U. s.
Marshals office in this city for day two past but few
seemed to ard them originating in any thing i'm
porant than the anxiety of the original Taylor to get
up excitement. quarrel between tho Marshal and
the Clerk the District Court 1t however be
much serious MI. Moore the Marshal is very mystic
rousy absent from the CITY, and his friends meet all enquiries
with the reply. that no man is to be Judged without
hearing This sounds suspciousy when connected with
the fact that positive denial of the charge yet made
The facts are briefly follows: Amongst the property
found board the brig Lawrence seized months since
suspicion Of connection with the slave trade was $OOOO
in specie. This, Mr. Moore deposited in The Bank OF Anne
rca with view he said of saving the commission of
half OF per which the Clerk of the District Court
entitled if the should pass through his hands
On Saturday last Judge Nelson ordered the TO be
paid the Clerk. when calling upon the Bank for
the amount it discovered that the whole amount had
been transferred to the private account of Ely Moore only
81 500 Of which remained in Bank Mr. Moore could not be
found and the money could not be paid n-so far
We have arrival of Gold DUST from California. but
from Africa About $50 in yesterday by the
bark Adelaide. from Anamabe, on the Gold Coast.
TIE British steamer Unicorn all ready for move
when was down town hour ago. and by this time Off
without much doubt for California. could not get list of
her passengers but told that she has fair number
Her agents have poed By the reports from Chages
Mazaan Galveston and ST. Louis. Had the reports from
those points been favorable she would have had forty
passenges-Judge Thomas Jefferson Smith, well known in
this city humorist and Chief Justice of old Marine
Court goes ont in her. bound for San Francisco.
Our reports from Canada have nothing important
them There good deal of disorder in the Horse OF
Assembly on Friday night and Is reported that ME- bad
expected to resign this week. and the Governor will sign
the Rebellion Losses BILL
Our weather is trying hard to be pleasant but makes
rather bad business of it. 1t yet COOL may say chilly
Respectfully yours. INDICATOR.