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The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-07-30

IRISH EMIGRATION CHEoKED.-A Dublin letter
in the London Chronicle states that the favorable
prospects of the crops and especially of potatoes,
have greatly checked the mania for emigration in
parts Of heand. The letter says
g have learned that arrangements had been
made by some extensive landed prOpretOrs for send
ing large number Of the smaller class of occupers
to America; but they have, within the present
week, refused 10 avail themselves of the free pas
sage provided for them, with some pecuniarV al
lowance to each after landing at the destined port
II Is stated that the Duke Of Lenster 1.-THE Marques
Of LansdOwne, and the Earl Of Darnley, and other
prOpretors had offered this means of lettering their
condition to many persons on their estates who
were in a state but little removed from pauperism
and the necessary communication had been made
to an emigration agent in this city; but quite I'M
expectedly, those people have declared their pre-
ference for the " old country" and the negotia-
ton has, in consequence, been broken off. have
noticed this matter an entirely new phase in our
social revolution, which has already presented so
many extraordinary and startling changes during
the last four years. 1t must not be understood,
however, that emigration is not still in progress on
a very extensive scale. On Monday last the Gan
ges left Limerick with $50 emigrants for NewYork,
and the David Stuart sailed from the same port on
Tuesday with emigrants for Quebec. From other
ports emgrant vessels still almost daily depart
ing. From Londonderry alone, since the list Of
April last, the number Of emigFants has been 1857,
almost entirely TO the United States
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moORE AS A POET.-On'a bed Of pain, perhaps
Of death, in matched cottage in Devonshire, lies
the greatest poet Of the new tongue Of Ireland.
After life of nearly seventy Years-for fifty years
Of which he has been famOus-the son OF a Dublin
grocer, the friend Of Emmett, Gratian, Byron and
Fox, lies, crushed in mind and heart, his memory
with all its untold tales taken. from him, the
culver of his fancy empded Of the last arrow, with
many years and sorrows, like oak and lead
wrapping about his body in anticipation of the
grave. Poor Tom Moore, how grey and cold sets
in the night of his long and brilliant day
The poets body must die. Let US leave that TO
the undertaken and sexton-it belongs lawfully to
them. But the poets works and words his genius
or that part of 1t developed in type his philosophy
as revealed in his writings, his moral influence On
his nation and his agethess belong 10 US who are
of that posterty to which all the genius Of the pask
has appealed, and before whom such men as Moore
have laid their works, as it were in evidence.
OF the moral influence Of Moore on his age but
little ean,be said. In temperament and tastes, he
was neither European nor Christian. He was Sc a
child Of the sun"-an Asiatie. All his imagery
and all his predictions were oriental. Born in
he.very west of Europe, on the brink Of the At
lantie, in an atmosphere of sailed mist he was as
totally unlike an Islander Of that latitude, as man
could be. Judging 10y his writings, he should have
been native Of Rhodes, half Creek halEAsiatfc,
an intellectual compound of EpicuTus and Ma
homet. He sings forever of the sun, Of nightin-
gales, of living in the open air, Of orange groves
and fire flies, palanquins and palm irees A true
child of the islands would have substituted for
these the cloudy stominess of his own climate.
The mighty Homeric sea, the oak and pine, the
struggling ship, and the thunder Of heaven. But
his first exercise of selEwill was TO foFsake his
country, and to acclimate his maginations in the
East-an effort in which he succeeded, as no
Western man ever did before or will do again
The Nation.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-07-30

WEIR, THE ARTIsT.-Mr. Willis, writing to the
Home Journal, from Cozzens's new hotel on the
Hudson river, relates the. following: 8: Within
stones throw from the portco of the hotel, upon
knoll half hidden with trees, stands one of the
most beautiful structures, of its kind, in this eoun-
try-a stone church, Of English rural architecture,
built by the painter Robert Weir. The story of
its construction isa touching poem. When Mr..
Weir received ten thousand dollars from Govern
ment, for his picture on the panel Of the Capitol
he invested it, untouched, for the benefit Of his
three children. On the death Of these children
all three-soOn after, the money reverted to him,
but he had feeling which forbade him TO use it.
Struck with the favorabeness of this knoll under
the mountains, as a site for place Of worship,
much needed by the village by, he applied for
it 10 Mr.. CoZzens, on whose property il stood, who
at once made free gift of it for the purpose. The
painters taste and heart were set at work, and,
with the money left him by his children, he erected
this simple and beautiful structure in memorial of
hallowed utility. Its bell for evening service
sounded few, minutes agO--the tone selected, APP
parently, with the taste which governed all, and
making sweet music among the mountains that
look down upon it. Mr.. Weir named it THE
Church Of the Holy lnnocents.' >"
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CHARITY IN THE BAY STATE. = The Lowell
tMass.) American describes shocking case of in
humanity dying stranger, in the town of Groton
poor Irishman, just arrived in the country, was
employed to assist in digging we'll He labored
faithfully during the intense heat of the day, till
about three O'Clock. At that time, exhausted by
labor, and in search of water, he started to come
out of the well. No sooner did he reach the top,
than it became evident he was dying, and in a
very few moments he was corpse, though not
without pangs Of the most convulsive agony. The
people who stood by, dragged him to one side of the
road, laid him upon his back by the fence and left
him. During six long hours, it is said, lie remained
there-late into the night, no one to guard him, an
object of curiosity to an occasional street-walker
and constantly beset, if not actually preyed upon,
by dogs The American is very indignant at the
want of decent feeling displayed by those who
knew of the shocking affair.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-07-30

RISE IN THE ALABAMA RIVER. - The Mobile
Tribune Of yesterday says: "The steamboat Sunny
South, arrived yesterday from Montgomery, reports
rise in the Alabama river, at Montgomery, Of %
feet, and that the water was rising all the way
down, having attained at Claiborne height Of Is
feet. The rains have been frequent and heavy
since, with no immediate prospect of cessation.
We have reason therefore 10 fear an extensive
overflow of the river lands, which Of course will
prove very destructive TO the crops. From the
other rivers we have no definite information, but
learn 10 general terms that there IS sufficient water
for boals 70 reach The highest points,"
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-07-30

PHYSICIANS AssocIATIONIsTs.-An association
operation in labor, production and consumption.
1t consists Of COCO members. belonging to different
trades and professions, and among them several
physicians, who observe the following conditions:
Each Doctor has a certain number Of families un-
der his special charge in important cases he is
obliged 10 consult one more of his colleagues.
All the Doctors belonging TO the Society must
once week impart their observations and expert
ments to each other. The medical council, in con-
junction with the general council Of directors,
ercises an inspection for sanitary purposes over the
of this arrangement is about 30 confines Is cents)
a month for each member
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From ths LoBbvisIs JoumalI
THE hooking BIRD....BE G. s. PERciyAE.


He Siitsth spsrt from the fealhs.sd throsg,
IN the hush Of 5he early year;
And pc lllts 70 the varied Hotss Of song
.em ti3lesst nnd grove, az all day long
Ihey lall On hfs TaPished ear.
And the secret power Of every tone
sinka deep in his swelling heaFt:
And hemases the melody I'll his own,
With skill that Is known 10 him alone
LIS mystic sense 70 impart
And when no more can his heart e6ntain
VI the music he has heard;
Inc Wondenng sOugsieFs hear again,
4 helf mingled n0t9g Of 10Y and pain
From tie voice Of the sslf-sams bird
The axulfiag scream Of the tYranrhawk
his captive shrek Of pain,
Ana The eagles eIy from the lofty rock,
In the notes Of his wild refrain.
Then the lonely voice Of the u0urainR dove.
The tones Of che happy tthFuah.
5aaq tls humble spefFow 2 song Of love.
From hearts o'eriiowinE gulh.
And OF. in the hush Of the silent night,
a solemn voice u hea d,
And the startled Ilespep wake in flights
Then pause 20 iist with strange delight
To the. wild magician bird.
While thus bis melody iosts along
Through the eafy soitudes,
EneptuFing all the listening LhfOng-
% what s he. with bis magic song,
Butthe Poet Of the WO0ds2
He dwells from the throne of men apart
man Of thoughtful mood
ana ne lfsis-t0 the yOiea Of The human heart,
fTom rural Vale and crowded mart
As It falls on hii solitude.
And the thrilling power Of every tone
Stnaa deep an MS swelling heaTt;
q nd ne makes The meaning an his own,
With magic Skili that is bis alone
lis mystic sense 70 impaH-
And when N accents sweet and clear
lie singeih his powerful veFsC,
he tn1es Of men aiiwouaerng hear
The self Eame lips, their hope their fear,
Their secret thoughts Ieheane.
The iordly tyrant's words Of scOm.
The captive's sigh OF pain.
And the patriot heHOis shout up borne
With the triumph sound OF the wa rIiOrs horn,
Are the notes Of his varied strain.
Then the honowiAg moumer's plainiivs moan,
he lovers Whispered word,
And the humble laboTaI's Joyous tone
LISTENING home when his task IS done
In measures sweet are heard
And, Oft when the earth is hu4hed in sleep
Mid the shadows, vague and dim,
His solemn thoughts their Vigls keep
And the startled world awake 10 weep
Strange teafs Of JOY with him.
While thus he sings in words Of Ere
BY countless thousands beard,
Whils countless thousands too admire,
o What is be, with his sacred lyre,
. Bot the human mock1Dg- bird.
lfHgJreesb0rO, Tam. a f.
The moenEbd frequently gings in ths night which tia
notes are peculiarly wild and solemn.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-07-30

A WHITE SLAvE.-A curious case of white
slavery has recently been tried under writ of
habeas corpus at Columbus, Georgia A girl, aged
II, who has been living as slave in the family of
one James r. jackson, was claimed by Mrs.
Glider as her child, having been taken off by her
iather many years ago, and sold as mulatto.
Alter full investigation, the girl was declared
Tree white person, and delivered to her mother.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-07-30

PLAGuEs.-A history of all the plaques, or ma
lignant epdemical Diseases that have prevailed in
the world would make most interesting book, and
we wonderland no medical writer has yet under
taken such a task. A correspondent of the New
York Journal Of Commerce says:
fad the following records among my papers Of 1912;
Spotted EegefFhis fatal disease continues rage in
the interior OF New Hampshire. Sixty two deaths have
cured IN Antrim, among the mountains aud 30 in
Aekworth in Is days. In Londonderry many have died:
IN some instances whole families have been destroyed Onf
last accounts state that 100 under It's operation II has
likewise prevailed 10 very alarming degree GOstown
feesburg, MANCHESTER, N, Salem, and Pelham. They are
frequently attacked with perfect etharEy loss of sense
somsmel with only acnte local pain; but in mOstcases
the process Of death however the patient may be attacked
Is tremendously rapid. boston paper of May 1912
In April, 1872 Capt Adams TeneFite He reports
Of 4e inhabitants in the port Of OvRtaYe 1920 had the
lever 3l0 died go escaped the disorder $50 left the city
In 1879 historical writer Vi tied the Island of Mauinaue
lie TINS speaks OF il This author, who WIS upon The
ISLAND 1853 impues 70 the malignant influence Of some
unknown, uHluky star epidemic madneis which
then ragged in this island where he ys many people, be nF
deprived Of their reason about the like madran
though without fever other apparent distempeT.
Come crowned themselves Othe mounted the tops of
trees and pTecpiees in order TO fly into the air fell to the
bnom and vera dashed TO pieces but bV imprisonment
and baihnadoing many were made more sober"
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-07-30

Coal TRADE.-The immense extent of the. coal
trade Of the United States is indicated BY the fact
that thrty-one vessels, brigs and schooners, laden
with coal, arrived at Boston from Philadelphia in
one day. The New York Evening Post estimates
that much greater quantity of coal than all these
vessels carried arrives in that city every day by
the canals and railroads, or in schooners and
barges, from the Pennsylvania, Maryland and Vir-
GINA mines
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-07-30

ELECTRICITY AND CHOLERA. --Professoy Dim
stead, of Yale College, has written in the New Ha.
ven Palladium an article on the relations betyyean
electricity and cholera, which have so much oecu.
pied public attention Of late. A brief svnopsis of
his letter is made in the New York Daily Tribune
He is Of opinion that there is no unusual mv.te-
rious connection between the condition Of aiaoa.
pheric electricity and the prevailing epidemic
The facts which have usually been alleged in proof
of this connection he explains on the supbosition
that certain causes which change the electrical
state Of the atmosphere, tend also to increase or
diminish the ravages Of cholera. The relations Of
the atmosphere to electricity are controlled chiefly
BY the combined agencies OF heat and moisture
Thunder-storms occur most frequently when the
air is hot and damp. But this state of the atmos-
phere is unfavorable to the action of the electric
machine and other apparatus for the artificial pro-
duction Of electricity. The hot and humid air
which generates thunder-stoms and impairs the
action of electrical apparatus, is remarkable for
promoting chemical changes in animal and vegeta-
bic substances. In such state Of the air meat
soon spoils, bread sours, butter grows rancid. milk
eurdles, and sweetmeats fement Here we per-
eeive, the Professor argues, that the same condi-
ton of the atmosphere which preeedes thunder
storms and impairs electrical action aggravates
malignant diseases, and if at any place where the
pestienee is prevailing there is an unusual absence
Of thunder and lightning, we may regard il is an
obstacle to- the progress of the epidemic copious
supply of rain, however, hasa tendency to lessen
the ravages of disease. The Professor concludes
that the disposition to ascrbe the production of the
cholera to variations in the electrical state of the
atmosphere, is not in accordance with the cautious
spirit Of the indueliye phildsonhH
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KossUTH AT "A SYNAGoGuE.-It is related of
KOssuth that he paid a visit TO the Jewish Syna-
gogue at Grosswandem while the Israelites were at
prayer. After the service was over, he addressed
them in his peculiar style, and requested for
giveness, in the name Of the naton for the unjust
acts done and burdens imposed upon their race
during so many centuries he thanked them for
their bravery and devotion to the public cause,
and gave them solemn assurance that from hence
forth the law would acknowledge no distinctions
between individuals based upon a difference Of
religious belief
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-07-30

The POTATO ROT.-Dr. Richardson has written
to the Baltimore Sun, enclosing a specimen of the
potato vine with species of fly, which he con.
siders one of the causes of the potato rot. The
specimens contain the egg and worm. He gives a
narrative Of the history Of the insect, so far as it
has been investigated, and adds that particular ex
periments are now making which will be pub
lished in pamphlet form.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-07-30

FREIGHTs IN CRoEsTADr.-Adyices from St
Petersburg of the 18th ult, state that there were
nearly 500 vesseles at Cronstadt, half Of which
were seeking freghis, but buaiRess was very dull,
and no employment for ships Offering.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-07-30

BRIDGE OVER THE PoToMAC.-The bridge over
the Potomac, at Shepherdstown, Va, from the Ma
ryland shore, the BoonsbOro Odd Fellow states
will be SO far completed by the LIST of January as
TO be in crossing order though the contractor, Mr.
Bowers, has till LIST July, 1850, to finish it. fine
railway is now extended across the river for the
purpose of conveying the stone and other nate
rails. A Golfer dam, of immense dimensions, is
now nearly finished. and the piers and abutnents
will be commenced in a few days.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-07-30

MURDER AND SUICIDE. = Mrs. Royal, wife Of
John Royal, Of Monroe, Maine, on Tuesday week
killed her only child, daughter of FIVE years, by
cutting her throat with razor, and then retired to
an orchard by the HOUSE. and hung herself from
an apple tree. She was deranged, but had been
discharged from the lunatc asylum about four
months before as cured
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-07-30

, Or Charlotte Cushman, after residence in
England of five years, is about to return TO the
United States, only for a short time She is to be
accompanied by her friend, Miss Hays, the novelist,
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The GREAT WILL CASE IN MAssAcHUsETTs-
As might have been anticipated in a case on which
three-quarers of million Of dollars depended, the
appellants in the Phillips viii case are not satisfied
with the result Of the first attempt to overthrow the
will, but have raised questions Of law on which
they call for The decision of full bench of the
court, before which the late issues were tried.
Two of these points are, that the executors to the
will were incompetent they being legatees, and
that Mr.. Quincy's evidence was not admissible.
A writer from Ipswich, who was present at the
trial, cautions the world, in sly way, against too
much sympathy for the cOntesting parties on ac-
count Of their loss Of the suit They are all well
to do in the world, even if they fail to get this
property. The least wealthy ia sec down at
s70,OOO-and one has about $500, 600, and ten
housand dollars year besides
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PROFEssoRs PRoGREssIvE.-SeveralP Professors
in the Universities are implicated in the affair of
June IL. Processes have been commenced against
eight or nine Professors, among them one of the
Faculty of Strasbourg, Professor of Philosophy
at Bourges, and Professor of the Paris Lyceum,
who had the honor few years since of pronounce
ing the annual discourse at the distribution of
prizes. No department of Government comes in
for such large share of reproach as the Ministry
of Public Instruction. A Professor in the Medical
School Of Madrid has lately baen suspended from
his functions account of his progressive political
opinions, and his avowed opposition TO the Gov
eminent. The physicians Of Madrid, as we'll as
TO procure his restoration, but hitherto without
success,
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LIVERPOOL AND HA vRE.-The following para
graph, ofinterest to the commercial public, is from
the Liverpool Times
We learn from Mr.. McIver that be and his
friends intend putting on some first class steamers
between this port and Hevre early next spring
when the act repeating the Navigation Laws will
take ettecp for the purpose of bringing over French
goods for transshipment 10 the United States, ETC.
so opening up to the British and North American
Royal Mail steamers traffic from which they have
hitherto been excluded. We are very glad to hear
OF this, being satisfied that in such hands the work
VIII be well DONE The Glasgow steamships have
McIver sees well enough that any value to arise
from the HavFe trade, in eonnexion with the Amer-
can, can only be secured by the regularity and
speed. One thing is certain-the port of Liverpool
must always be gamer by such enterprises"
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or LyelPs "Second Visit 10 the United States
gives, it is said, by no means 20 plsasaata picture
Of them a. bis frat
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LrTERARY.-Mr. Cooper has sent to the press a
new novel with the singular title Of 90 Ways Of the
Hour" Mr., Paulding has also a new novel in
press, to be entitled "The Puritan and his
Daughter" Mexico and the United States' is
the title Of forthcoming work by Major Ripley,
U. S. A. DR.. Hawks, has a work in press on
Egypt and its Monuments, as illustrative of
Scripture History"
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Iowa CONVENTIONS ON THE QUESTION OF
SLAVERY IN THE TERRIroRIEs.--Th Democratic
State Convention Of Iowa which met at Iowa City
on the 18th ult passed the following resolutions on
the slave question
Resoped, That depFecale any separate and sectional
organization in pOn of the county having or their
object the advocacy Of an isolated point involving feeling
and not fac PRIDE and not principle, destructive to the
peace and happiness Of the people aud dangerous to the
Resogsd That nasmuoh the territories Of New Mexico
and Caonia come 10 free, and free ROw by law il
our qese that they should forever free bat that
nnt proposed to repeal the laws making the county
Tree and TO erect Others in their stead for Extension
slavery we deem It neXpeient and improper add 10 the
iurther gaeon Of the public mind by demanding in The
by the laws Of the land.
The Wing State Convention which met at the
same place, two days afterwards, passed the follow
ing on the same subject:
ResOtyed. That opposed to the extension Of Slavery
INTO Territory nov free and that we believe to be the ATTY
Of the Federal Government relieve itself of the espOus
by q that Institution whereyer has the Constitutional
authouy so 70 do and that the legislation uecessarV To effect
these objects should be adopted.
ReS0iUed, That for the compliment paid to our State in
the appointment OF our feOwcitizen the important Oee
our thanks 1 "