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The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-09-04

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fined in the Parish Prison under sen enss Tor maBsugheL
bending appeal TO the Sppree Count Attempted % r.
his bed. Hemuf have been engaged for some Fees on
the article, and had finished h 10 worknanbe nnannef
The suspicious of Capt Power the keepsr ar0u pY
he movements Of prisoner confined IN The same e win
Chandler who expressed disposition 70 bis qnar
eIs iI0n bis npaBioH. The room was eHaH
lined. and the Eope found. -. q
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-09-04

NEW ORLEANS:

rUEspAf MoRMINe.. aE9TENlgER J.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-09-04
lALLEYs PAIN ExTRAoroR,


but shall subioin few testimonials Of is value selected
from the thousands our possession from all paris of The
country. --f - So
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-09-04

FIRST MUMcIPALITX COuECIL.-This body met Hast
evening. ReeoIder Genos prssdineI0 member present
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-09-04

FTNHE PUBLIC are particularly invited 10 esI aud see
COOKING STOVE which are pronounced hy,al -,
pIogement made on the Cooking Stove = I'D
The above Stoves are simple md much more ~
easy managed than the common Premium vet as many
persons will them who have not been accustomed TO the
of C0Okng Stove, 1t may be necessary TO give few
got Book Of Directions, in pamphet form Al my store
From long and practical experience in the Stove Bus
ness have no hesitation in prOnOuncng the Western Air
Tight and my own Stove the most convenient and
Economical articles off red 10 the nublic.
= M III DEVEREUN. 26 TchoupitOuBs At
N. B. Also large assortment Of COokng Stoves Of DIFF
feTent paterns and Hail Stoves; Air Tight Stoves; Frank
lin Stoves large and small szei Cannon Stoves Pyramid
Slower Harm StOVe for wood or coal and general asSo
ment Of KITCHEN FURNITURE, Of superior quality /;
COPPER AND TIN WARE, Of al descriptions, .
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-09-04

Il ENl1A - 14laasls n
THE STEAMDQA AT UNC1aE SAM il now offered
l. for sale she s in EOmplsle mnninE Opder - y
having ust hetn thOFoughly FapRirsd a. the &
do, Ks IN - Louis apa stands No. il The In Z
snEanee Companies, there and in this ety. caes afEe
and is OF light dausht Persons wishing buy
eEaulne her as she laS AT Algiars,
81 For tuttfer particulars apph TO
aul1H hyde OGf ESBY ~ PcydFas 90
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-09-04

a. For Oalifornia.-The superior fast sailing ship
&41th DALnaAT1A, Capt w. n. k0igef, will leavo
fog Saa FTaBeico EiR pom IN Brazil and Na!pa-
also on SATURDAY, October s. PapAEe IN the sahlns
S250; in the sieerags (Nea with crew. $50 ko algAt
. an aaS PAR3SBIsE. LAWRAsoN CO. 81 Gravsl.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-09-04

80. For California, ola Chagres. -Rsguiar
S4NigEfN .NORthfJr Packer - The splendid steamship
- ALABAMA, ]. J. Wight, commander, viii
leave foI Chagres THURSDAY, Sept g. at ocOek A.
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1849-01-13
The santa lie Trade.

The publication Of series Of articles has
been commenced in the san Antonio Wes-
tern Texan, the object Of which is to dem
onstrate the vast superiority Of the route TO
chihuahua and Santa lie, TO Port Lavaca,
San Antonio, and the Upper Cross-tiuihers,
on the Colorado river, over the one al pres
ent travelled by the way Of 81. Louis and
independence, Missouri. The distance from
Independence 10 Santa Fe and Chihuahua
j. set down at near eight hundred miles, and
that from the Upper Cross-timbers TO Santa
Fe at not over three hundred miles. On
the whole, the writer makes out a strong
case, as lawyers say, in favor of the Texan
route.-1Nal. Intel.
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1849-01-13

How strangely the value of different things
is estimated. A few grains of toasted bar
ley are wctted, and the juice squeezed into
q little water, with a taste Of the leaves of
the hop plant--the value of both being too
small to be calculated and very slight
tax is laid upon the mixture, which costs
also so little labor is hardly to be reckoned
our coinage. A pint of this sells, at retail.
for fOurpeDce and il Of good flavor, IT Is
Ieckoncd cheap and well worth the money
and so il is. IL is drunk of in minute or
two--it is gone. On the same table on
which this was served lies newspaper, the
mere white sheet OF which costs one penny
farthiDg, aud the duty thereon one penny,
with no deductions for damaged, crooked,
or over printed copies made ready for sale,
aud charged too with carriage from mills
aud stamp-oflice at n distance and IL is
covered with half a million Of types, at q
cost of thirty pounds fer itself and other
sheets printed at the same Office the Same
day and this sells for no more than pint
Of ale, the juice of a little malt aud hops.
And yet after one person has enjoyed II,
ailording him news from all parts OF the
world, and useful thoughts on all that inter-
ests him as a man and a citizen, it remains
to be enjoyed by scores of others in the
same town or elsewhere and il promotes
trade, and finds employment, and markets
for goods, and cautions against frauds aud
accidents and subjects for conversation
aud there are some who think this article
dear, though the swiftly gone barley-water
is paid for cheerfully. How is thlss 10
the body better paymaster than the mind,
aud are things of the moment more priced
than things lasting' Is the transient tick
ling of the stomach of more consequence
than the improvement of the mind, and the
information that is essential to rational
beingsi II things had their real value,
would not the newspaper be worth many
pints Of the best ale !-LiperPool Mercury
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1849-01-13

must come from Oregon, Chill and the Uni
ted States. Our grain gold, in exchange for
coin, sells for nine and ten dollars the ounce,
though it is well known TO be worth at the
mint in Philadelphia eighteen dollars the
ouces at least. Such is the scarcity of coin
here.
We want mint. Let Congress send us
one at once over the lsthmus else this grain
gold goes to Mazatlan, TO Chill, and Peru,
where il Is lost 10 our national currency.
Over million of gold, at the lowest COM
putation, is taken from these mines every
month and this quantity will be more than
doubled when the emigration from the States
from Oregon, the Sandwich Islands, and the
Southern republics arrive. Send us mint !
could give you forty more Illustrations of
the extent and proluctiveness of these
mines, but no one will believe what hare
said without my name, and perhaps but few
with il.
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1849-01-13
Chagres.

The New York Courier aud Inquirer eau
tons California emigrants to beware of go
ing via Cbagres, for the following reasons :
Chagres is small, destitute settlement, in
a very unhealthy climate, incapable of af-
fordiDg even the shelter of n roof TO any
considerable aud sudden accession of STRAIN
gers. These means Transportation across
the isthmus are confined almost wholly TO
saddle and baggage mules, are very limited
and when arrived nj Panama the stranger
finds few habitations and no vessels or next
TO none.
The steamers Of Rowland &, Aspinwalls
line, which are to touch at Panama month
ly, cannot, under any circumstances, accom-
modate more, probably, than 100 to 900
passengers, and for these, places have, for
the most part, been secured IN advance--so
that hundreds will run the risk Of being left
on the shores Of the Pacific, or NJ Chagres,
without the possibility of moving there
from, exposed to want, sickness, and all
concomitant ills. There are uGw ten or
twelve vessels up for Chagres at this port
AT Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore many
vessels are also up, and these will carry ma
ny more passengers thnn can find eCa from
the isihmus. We trust these words of eau
ton may have The effect Of diminishing the
numbers who may be rushing to such GER
tain disappointment and perhaps death.
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1849-01-13
The Gold Mines not Inexhaustable.

The New London Star of Dec. III, pub
fishes a letter from Thomas Douglass, Esq,
of that city, who dates from " Gold Dig
ging on American River" as early as the
10th of July, Boosting of the wealth of the
gold mines and the profits OF his own Dig
ging and washing. Nevertheless, he men-
tions one or two facts which expresses
world of meaning, and are worthy the at
tention of some Of the sufferers from the
California fever here at home, as showing
that this wonderful gold mine resembles all
other gold mines the world has yet known,
in not being altogether inexhaustible. He
describes the amount of gold taken out of
the earth as being prodigious, there beng
" hundreds of persons" he says, "who DAT
ly obtain from halc pound TO two pounds"
&c, Sc. But he goes on TO make the fol-
lowing observations:
"This cannot last long very many Of
the rich deposits have already been thor
Oughly drained. The business is already
precarious, depending very much upon luck
IN finding rich place. Almost any one,
however, with industry and sagacity" (and
luck, as before, in finding a rich place.
" may average from one 10 two ounces per
day. Before, however, persons can arrive
here from the States, it will, IN all probable
ity, be much less lucrative"
Really, these rich places" are getting
worked out very soon and It IS hard case
ii one must have good luck, before being
sure Of not getting into very precarlous
business, Suppose, however, one has the
luck TO "ayerage from one to two ounces
per day :" what viii be the profit, with
gold at 81, an ounce, Cat which it was sell
ing at San Francisco at the cost of subsis-
tence and all Becessarics of life seven times
as great in California as here! 1t will not
be difficult to prove by arithmetical cacula-
ton. that the - average profits Of gold mi
ming must prove about equal to the average
proceeds OF labor az bome-or about one or
two dollars day--no such great matter after
all or scarcely sufficient, at least, to re-
ward the risks Of emigration and the cost
Of an expensive voyage and outfit.
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1849-01-13

SLAYER CAPTURED.-Captain Kennard,
Of ship Goodwin lately arrived AT Boston
from Calcutta, touched at ST. Helena, Oct.
IL, and states that brig, with upwards Of
four hundred siares arrived at 81. Helena a
few days previous. She was captured 10y
the British ship Briiomart on the west coast
of Africa, without colors or papers She
had been boarded several times by the Brit
ish ship Dart, when she always represented
herself as the American brig Frederick, with
American cOiors and papers. She was Ia
ken at Congo, at which place, it appears,
she was delivered to Brazilian purchasers.
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1849-01-13

4 Washington letter writer IN the Phila-
delphia Inquirer Of this morning says there
Is a rBmor that government, in Cabinet
council on Saturday last decided to send
Immediately a number Of small vessels Of
brigs and sehOoners, to enforce an embargo
upon all merchant vessels going into the haT-
boFs Of Monterey, San Francisco, and other
places on the coast, TO prevent European
and American vessels from carrying The god
out Of the country.
Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1849-01-13

MozE GoLD.-Ii is reported that the sol
dies Of Col. Sieyenson's regiment have sent
s4O,O worth OF gold to The Mint in Phia-
delphia.
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-18
Food made OF Indian Cornmeal.

Carlyle, in an able article on the uses of Indian
cornmeal, says: "The valley of the Mississippi is
able TO raise food enough to supply the whole
world Abiding to the Indian cornmeal that had
been imported by England during the dearth of
ls4, he says, that, again and again, he tried
of Indian meal porridge but it had 'a musty taste
lit never wanted disagreeable tang In vain
it washed in vain the meal boiled, the musty
tang still there" He finally came to the con-
clusion that all the Americans had said about the
sweets OF hominy was mere stuff. Last year how
ever he got present of some excellent, we'll kept
corn from American friend, which has altered
his old views about hominy entirely. He now be-
lieves it TO be ambrosa dish, fit for prince or
poet, We are glad that Uncle John has received a
palatable dish, for once, from Brother Jonathan
Ii would be well for the poor of Britain if this ar
ticle of food was more generally used by them. If
the corn be kiln dried, and the meal well boiled il is
sweeter than the meal made from oats, and contains
far more nutriment TO its specific gravity. There
kind Of meal made from Indian corn that is very
III this city, and which sells at a too high
price, think Ii is made of the inside of the ber-
ry-the whole hull being separated from it. II is
as white as wheat flour, and very paatable. The
price retailed is six cents per quart. This is a
kind of food which would answer admirably as a
substitute for oatmeal 10 the inhabitants of Britain
and the northern kingdoms of Europe, who have
been accustomed 10 oatmeal diet. America
might drive most extensive trade with Bri-
tain, if the inhabitants of that country fully appre
ciated the goodness of Indian cornmeal food We
wish to throw all the light upon this subject
as We know that Carlyle is correct respecting the
capacity of America TO supply any quantity of it.
A valuable improvement has recently been made
by Mr. Oliver p. Stevens, of Ohio city, in the man
ufacture Of hominy. We have received a sample
Of it by gentleman who has come from that place
II l. great article Of food; Carlyle would smack
his lips after meal OF IL, with true aliInentive
lrusto The Hon. ii. l. Ellsworth ex- Commits
sioner Of Patents, has advised Mr. Stevens TO take
out patent for the manufacture.
We have piece Of advice to give our dyspepsicsl
friends, and those engaged in sedentary occupa-
tons, and then done. II is this: Take each
a soup plateful of hominy and sweet milk for break
fast every morning, and, if you choose, ga cup Of
coffee afterwards" II you follow after this advice,
you will soon give evidence Of the truth Of the old
adage, "laugh and grow fat"
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-18

The select committee appointed by the
House Of Commons to inquire into the
state of the public Libraries of England,
and the best mode of improving them,
have made report, which is enriched by
the evidence of Nj. Guizot, NJ. Van de
Weyer, and M. Libri, in regard to the
public Libraries of France, Belgium, and
Italy.
From this report we learn, that while
London, with all IFS wealth and intelli-
gence, possesses but one collection of
books worthy of the name, which is pub
licly accessible for the purposes of study,
Paris contains no less than seven, open TO
all classes at all hours of the day and at
all seasons of the year Florence rejoices
in no fewer than six open Libraries, Dres-
den in four, Vienna and Copenhagen each
possesses three while Brussels, Berlin,
Munich and Milan are respectively en-
dowed with two. Scotland, besides the
collections at her four universities, has the
valuable one well known as the Advocates
Library at Edinburgh. The library Of
Trinity College in ireland, though open
but to a privileged few, sffords ample
means of historic, scientific, and theology
cal research. But the other Libraries in
the Irish metropolis are wholly unworthy of
the epithet of national.
In all England there are absolutely but
three Libraries whose names one can recall
as national institutions. They are the
British Museum, the Bodleian at Oxford,
and that of the University Of Cambridge.
The northern half of the kingdom can only
show one venerable pile Of circumscribed
dimensions, which was stocked by the pri-
vate munifcence Of Humphrey Cheetham,
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-18
A Good Wing Woman.

We beg pardon of our correspondent for
publishing the following extract of letter
received by our northern mail of yester-
day, giving some instruction as to the di-
rection of her paper. We hope that hel
determination to bring up all the boys as
good WHO'S may be aided by the Repub-
nc:
"You may think strange that lady should sub
scribe for political paper at all. have four sons
some of them young men, all of whom wish To
make good Wings. The reason do not wish
it taken to the store is, there they full of bust
ness and it is not half read besides, all the boys
do not 60 to the store. If it is the centre table
they all have the benefit of it, Husband is good
Wing already, but his brothers Democrats, and
wish all the rising generation to be Democrats but
we say not So we will make all the Wings we can
We respect President Taylor and his Administra-
ton"
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-18

from the people, or their representatives,
it is idle to look for any change. There
will be no pressure of Executive measures
on a reluctant Congress. We hope, there
fore, that our friends in PENNSYLVANIA
and MARYLAND will lend President TAY-
LoR's Administration all the aid that it can
derive from the success of his friends and
supporters in those States, in their respect
i've local and national elections. If PENN
sYLvANIA and MARYLAND show good
WIG front to the country, the tariff of
1916, in some of its provisions, will be in
very imminent peril
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-18

On Friday evening last we had the qualification of
listening 10 lecture upon the subject OF choera by
Surgeon N. Pinkney, OF the u D navy, VINO mad
previously been invited and accepted
II was subject in which we all felt deep interest,
and curious TO know what views the doctor enter
tanned regarded its cause, philosophy, and treat
ment.
We were aware that the talent OF the profession
had been brought bear with all its force upon the
subject, and had supposed no room was lett Tor
originality In this conclusion we were most agree
ably disappointed for the whole lecture was redund-
ant with original thinking and bold investigation
AS to the pathology Of the disease, several I'M
portant phenomena, hitherto unexplained, were
most clearly and satisfactorily elucidated. In hne
the lecture gave evidence of intellectual and scen-
tifc analysis.
We unhesitatingly say, that the doctor possesses
all the essential qualities of clear, bold and I'M
pressive speaker. MEDiCus
We copy the above fiattering notice OF Surgeon
Pinkney's lecture ON the abstruse and interesting
subject of cholera, from the Cambridge Democrat.
We had the pleasure of listening to the same lee
ture ON Tuesday of last week, and have to express
our full concurrence in all the above encomium. Al
though not competento judge of the theoretical and
philosophical portions of the discourse, we must say,
we were especially struck with the clear and very
impressive manner of DIR. Pinkney as public lee
turer We venture to predict for him high repu-
tation as SUCH whenever the public service allows
him field for the exertion Of his high abilities in
this line of his profession. - Exchange paper.
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-18

LAKE SUPERIOR CoPPER.-Dr. c. T. Jackson, U.
s. Geoogist, stated at the Scientific Meeting at
Cambridge, that many of the mines of copper on
the shore of Lake Superior would be entirely worth
less to the companies owning them, and that the
most profitable mine could never pay dividend of
more than fue per cent. This fact is not owing to
any deficiency in the amount of the article, but to
the extreme difficulty of mining it. In the most
important vein, for example, mass of pure copper
had been reached, lying nearly twenty feet below
the surface, weighing several tons; To raise the
to the surface is impossble-it is obliged to be
separated into pieces of one two tons each in
weight, by the cold chisd alone. groove is dug
through the mass, of the width Of the finger by the
hammer and chisel, and then the pieces are raised
TO the surface and sent off. The labor makes the
process of mining long, difficult and expensive
and destroys the profits Of the company.
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-18
Ireland.
LET ERIN FoRoET THE DAYS or OLD.
(From Punch.

LET ERIN FORGET THE DAYS OF OLD.
(From Pu,sch.l
Let Erin forget the days of old,
When her faithless sons betrayed her.
When charlatans wrung from her hand the gold
Which with Barney" they repaid her;
When her sons, as green the flag they unfurled
Were led into anarchys danger,
By those who abuse at the Saxon hurled
As tyrant, foe, and stranger
On Lough Neagh's banks when our good Queer
strays,
Now that factions heats declining,
May she see the bright promise Of better days
In the wave of the future shining.
Thus let Erin look forward with faith sublime
Forgetting the days that over,
And allow the stream of brighter time
In oblivion the past TO cover.
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-18

A paragraph from the Louisville Chron-
icle has been going the rounds of the Lo-
coioco press, in which, amongst other
things equally unfounded, it is asserted that
{" the Cabinet, fearing the position of Mr.
Clay, have tried every means to propitiate
him; and Mr. Clayton, the Secretary of
State, wrote TO him desiring to know if
the appointment of his son as Charge to
Portugal would be agreeable to him, to
which Mr.. Clay replied it would" The
paragraph proceeds to say that Mr.. Clay
entertains for the Administration bitter
hostility, and towards the President, par
ticularly, deep hatred.
The object of such paragraphs is too
conspicuous to impose upon any one.
They are intended to SOW distrust and dis
sension where there is cordially and good
will. In SO far as the chargeship to Por-
tugal is concerned, it matters nothing to
the public interest whether it was asked
for or bestowed without asking. There
would be no improperly in either solu-
ton. 1t may be proper to remark, how
ever, that the entire paragraph of the
Chronicle is a weak invention of the
enemy.