The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-03
Correspondence Of the Crescent
NEW YORK, Dec. "a, 1874

the exhIaating pleasures of sleigh dng snow baing etc
The transformed into great jingle and
that man who attempts from Park Row to the Aston
House without both wide and both legs invisible
The Bowey and Third Avenue exhibit all the styles OF
sliding vehicles that have been in for the last century
two from the skating palaces of kipp Brown and the
elegant like seghs eghted with light hearts beauty
and fashion, down to the article sporting runners of hoop.
| poles body made of dry good box
We have exciting news from Washington The course Of
Mr. Holmes and his friends will be from helping his
cause The members from South Carolina have a habit of
regarding themselves and the interests of their few consu
of much greater importance than they really are IT,
they pretend to threaten they become really troublesome
they will find Old Rough and Ready hard deal with
the premises they found his ustrous predecessor Old
Hickory. The sOuth, !" for which they speak,
will give them but little help In yesterdays letter,
mentioned the abduction of negro boy from this city, by
party of who supposed to have fitted Sou It'll with
their prize The parties in Phadelphia whom dispatches
were eegaphed announcing the fact duly the look
out but answering the description given made
their appearance, and to this effect intelligence returned
to this city 1t then supposed that the fugtves had
stopped the road and would take another route SOUTH
to eude pursuit and the dangers of the telegraph
But events proved that these suggestions all
The party had not crossed the Hudson but had gone
the East River and scent of them caught by Of
the Brooklyn city marshals who followed it TO Gravesend
village Long Island by the shore 1t stated that
appointment had been made for schooner to and
take off the captive and that the storm of yesterday just
stepped in in time to the negros bacon by ndeng
the too heavy to allow the vessel to venture One of
the parties engaged in the Transaction is an officer of
Brooklyn police He is believe, in the Tombs from
which he will probably be transferred to Sing Sing
The Tribune of this morning devotes or three of its
columns to important table, and comments the SUBJ
ect of mileage received BY members of Congress Some
facts disclosed therein that make feel rather susp
cous touching the superior morals of great Is it
really honest to take more money from the pnbc pue
the true intent and meaning of the law woud auborzeq
ask for information No member should receive mileage for
greater distance than that between bs Mace of residence
and the City of Washington by the mail roue and vet there
is hardly member that satisfied with the exobitant nav
that such an allowance would give him. One of the Ken
lucky members charges for thirteen hundred miles Msss
spp member more than doubles the of miles bv the
route and charges an excess over reasonable
perhaps should say leg allowance of more than thou,
and dollars So with man from Indiana WIN gets an over
payment of nine hundred and sixteen dollars Those from
your State get an excess fuv Thousand dollars
One from Arkansas of s74s: one from Iowa S767. one
from Wisconsin 1894 one from Illinois, 1898 another 1871
etc ETC. nuwher shine on the list for over $500 and an
aggregate form for the House. of over $47 OOO and for
the Senate nearly s15OOe-makng total payment by Uncle
SAM of $62 0O for which no services are claimed to
have been rendered by the recipients Is this credtabe to
the parties engaged2
Our Cholera report yesterday afternoon, three cases
and deathnone of them passengers of the ship New
York The report of this afternoon gives and
three deahsal inmates of the Hospital before the New
York arrived
shocking indeed awful of MURDER and proba
bly, suicide subject of investigation in the Eastern part of
the city; two killed outright, and
dreadfuy wounded-so badly indeed that it thought i'm
possible for her to 1t is impossible get at the facts
the Coroner will admit the premises The
of the parties not known The house which the trgedy
was committed in Henry street, Walnut. The victims
are French or German. Yours, respectfully,
INDICATOR
NEW YORK, Dec. 20, 1S48.
Editors Creseent-Our storm way last evening
at o'clock to the brightest kind of star light and this
morning enjoyed touch of seasonabe weather. such
Jack Frost used to manufacture for Christmas times
these regions The day lovely such little boys with
their coasters and little ladies with their lovers especially
delight in. In the city, the seighing already bad but
few miles out it said to be superb The sormbehaved
bsdyore down the telegraph wires of both lines South
drove the steamboats, OF the Eastern routes back into their
harbors threw serious distractions all along the railroads,
and produced all sorts OF inconvenience to the travelling
community have heard Of damages sustained by the
shipping, and hope there was none The Nor wester has
far produced perceptbe effect the Calyony fever
would anything produce effect short of revou
ton OF nature That fever bound to rage In all weathers.
and like the Cholera, have doubt, all climates and
countries expect to learn by the Hermann Europa,
whichever gets here first that fifty ships fitting out for
San Francsco-and half dozen steamers besdes-from
London and Liverpool and twenty or thirty from the differ
ent ports of the European continent.
1t is matter of regret that Congress will not throw aside
the squabbes that now engage their attention. and
kind of law for the regulation of affairs in the gold district
Government Receiver at least should be sent with
deputies to take account of all gold dug exported and
collect reasonable per cenage the yield Ishoud think
authority to do might be scratched from the files of
safe precedens slowed away in undy of the Trea
and State Department, and that the President might
safely order two three dozen officials out on that duty.
know plenty who would and willingly run the risk of
confirmation of their appointments by the Senate Old
Zach-indeed would for nothing. and find themselves.
asking only free passage to the ptaceros
The excitement concerning the negro abduction case has
pretty much died since was discovered that the fellow
fugitive from service in Maryland. The matter
left the hands of the aboonsts into whose hands the alb
ductors have beautifully played have no doubt there is
law enough in New York to ensure any man his slave if
that slave is runaway those who have ever failed in
having such property restored could easily trace the cause of
failure to or improperly of conduct on their own
part
An extraordinary letter from the Hon. w j. Brown Sec