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The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-17
Fashionable Clothing.
THOMPSON g. NIXON,

NO. ~ CAMP STREET,
To- Have received per Winfield additions their
as TO render It u complete assortment Of
FASHIONABLE CLoTHING and FURNISHING GOODS,
comprising
CLOAks. of Black French Goth. T,4 r. and full circle
OVER COATS, of various qualities and all the newes,
styles.
DRESS COATS. of Black French Cloth. various qualities
FROCK COATS, of Black and coored Cloths.
BUSINESS COATS, of Back and colored Cloths, Drab
and mixed Cashmere.
PANTALOONs, OF Black and fancy Doeskn and CASH
VESTS. Of Cashmere Satin, Wooden Velvet, Black and
fancy Silks, and White Marses, single and double breasted
SHIRTS, OF fine Linen and Linen Bosoms
HOSIERY, of Shaker Fannes, MernO, Cashmere, Silk
and Cotton.
MORNING GOWNS, UMBRELLAS, PERFUMERY,
&c, cDf
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Railroad MeetiNg.


NEw ORLEANS, December IS. 1851.
meeting CT the Internal Improvement Committee, he
Munepaies, the Executive Committee the opeousas Railroad
the Committee Of Ways and Means the and
Nohern Railroad and the General Committee appointed
Railroad Convention ia June this day. at O'Clock
NJ, at the Merchants Exchange.
On notion Joshua BALDWIN to the Char and John
Calhoun was appointed Secretary.
The Chairman stated the object of the meeting adoption
plan oil organization for the South Csnvsnon
| to be held in this city In January next.
Mr.. j. D. B. DeBow made motion that twenty.
five citizens be appointed Delegate, arrival
The following resolution offered by Mr. P. Benjamin. as sub.
situte, unanimously adopted:
ssos. da n; s . Ghs sPpS
:. p rOd 9. : name with
read Convention BE he'd city janusry ne., r which
s IL .s
Oonas @ TN % to sppy 70 me Municipal Councils
money to deray the expense. Of the nay
ThePresdent appointed said following
k W Gss 6 Gsns' s'5 f Eos Rev.
MARKS. George o. Yalcsy r. Frnder. Joseph
s.l ssas H.
On motion the meeting sdIOurned
| JOSHUA BALDWIN, Chairman.
JOHN CALHOUN, Secretary. dI7
Correspondence.
ST. CHARLES ST, Dec. l3, 1851
Gensnsnln accordance conduct which have
marked out for myself PROPOSE with your apart
next SATURDAY NIGHT Benef, Charitable
Association If meets the Department
you will please cause she necessary arrangements
conducting the business Of the evening" renderp. the
worthy Of the noble institution which it proposed benefit
Very truly, yours, DAN RICE,
To Aessr E. Mcovern Chairman others OF the COMMITTEES
on Balls and Benefits of The Ftenen Charitable Association
| FIRxMES's CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION, Dec 10.
| To Dan Rice, ESQ.,;
Dear SirYour kind benevolent Offer rendering Bere6t IL
the Firemen's Charitable Association received and with heart
felt thanks, behalf Association accept mean
being very r'fucd at present. for the support of the widows
hsuo
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-17

fV Washington Fire Company No. 2O-At an
annual meeting Of this company held Monday evening" Dec
the following gentlemen for the ensuing
years
JonN SRwELL....... President.
ALEX. ROBERTSON. Foreman.
ROBERT HAMILTON. First Assistant.
ALEx CLARK ...... Gee md Assistant.
JOS ROSE ........... secretaiy.
John DAVENPORT 80. Treasurer.
JOHN klMMEL ......, Steward,
HENRY LEOvY c, CUMMINGS DELEGATES 10 the re-
mems Charitable Association.
do iw JOS. ROSE, Secretary,
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Hats, Cans, etc.

YOUNG g. CO.,
WNtch-2sNEers, ETC.,
No. CAMP STREET,
r. Have constantly hand, manufactured ex.
VA pressy their order large and complete
fine WATCHES, for adies gentlemen fully
complete assortment of JEWELRY, Gold PENS,
Gold, Silver and Steel SPECTACIIES Plated WARE
We would respectfully call attention the above also
stock Of SILVER WARE, which for
aud qualify, the whole of which prices
n Particular always given repairing Of
Walches Clocks, and JewelTy. ms 2p6m
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to the "Daily Crescent.
Icy THE PEOPLES (o'RIKLLV) LINR1
80
Cold Weather at the West.
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' '' e"u""' o"u "hich, IL wa embrace not his
scorn and contempt are to be Missed out upon the
nation which has SO signaly befriended him. He
mas an asylum here, safe as a fortress, against
wrong and persecution, but Hungary is more beau.
tifnl TO hm-is it more beautiful to us,
Why should he threaten and dictate as soon as
ne lands upon our shores! Why should he draw
ianciful and dangerous 1--WE apprehend the reader
OF history will say Jacobinical) distinction he.
tween free people and its free Government, Wbv
should he declaim that that Government is at war
with the sentiment of the people! For himself or
for Hungary' Every act of that Government has
been friendly to himself and friendly to the cause
of Magyar nationality We apprehend now much
Of personal feeling mingles in all this. Congress
declined sending honorable members to smile at his
smile, answer to his nod, and walk humblv in his
footsteps; and forthwith we have Kossuth re.
ported as speaking in the following strain to dele
CATION from Philadelphia:
but he went on to say that, at the present mo.
ment, y was quite impossible for him to declare a.
What time he could go there, and that, indeed, il
Was NOT certain that he could 60 there at all His
ooJect III visiilng this country was not personal
one-he dld not come to promote any selfish Dur.
pose and ne could not, therefore, do any thing
that was calculated merely TO CRAFTY himself Ills
object was to promote the great cause of liberty
m, J a 'ne world and especially in Hungary;
sympotised IN that object he could not but sav Not
he as deeply distressed at the action which had been
taken BY Congress. '''''
He had the highest respect and regard for Con.
sesscns recognized il as the exponent of the ma.
md u, v-s>r~ -f ~ =.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-17

k- Boys and Girls High Schools, Second NUM-.
cpaly-An Examination Of Candidates admission above
named Schools viii the 26th in
held superntenents ROOM No. Num-
cipal Hail. dl7 lot
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-08-08
ODD FELLOWS CELEBRATION.

The 10. o. Fs. of Salisbury had a grand
turn out on Monday 18th ult. There was a
large number of visiting brethren in atten-
dance from other counties, who, together with
the members of the Lodge in that place, made
up a procession of considerable length. They
marched from the Lodge room to the Presby-
terrain Church, where, after prayer by the
Rev. A. ID. Montgomery, DR.. Dickson. of Nor
canton, delivered a very handsome address
After which the members of the Order sung
the closing Ode, the benediction was received,
and the procession resuming its order, returned
TO the Lodge room.
At two o'clock they proceeded, in order, to
the Rowan House, kept by H. L. Robards, Esq.
where was spread a most superb and bounti-
full dinner Among the Regular Toasts, we
find the following:
Temperance-One of the brightest virtues
of our Order; nc Incorporate man can be a
good Odd Fellow"
So far as it goes, we heartily subscribe to the
sentiment; but we hope soon to see the time
when our Brethren in Friendship, Love and
Truth" will not tolerate an Incorporate man
in the Fraternity, even as a bad Odd Fellow.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-08-08
WORTH READING.

The following Communication, though too
late to apply to the electioneering times that
have just passed over in our State, contains so
much wholesome advice, that will apply to
other occasions, we give il. for the benefit of
all whom it may concern. The portion con
eerning an Agent is also worthy of considsra-
ton:
Having noticed an article in a late No. of
the Spirit of the Age, over the signature of
!" Long Creek" by way of cauti0ning the
Brethren against the evils that generally attend
political excitement, | hope that the advice aud
warnings in the brothers article will have an
effect to do much good. / hope, however, that
no brother if invited or tempted to drink IN
toxicating liquors; will forget the language he
used when he said, " pledge my honor as a
mar" &c. Just think Of it, and that will be
sufficient for every honorable man, altho' his
old appetite should seem to return when he
sees others drink /; altho' it might rush upon
him like a storm, Just think of those words,
and he will stand firm.
What the brother suggests concerning an
Agent, L am partly IN favor of. He advises
the propriety of inviting some good Temper
ance orators from abroad to attend the next
meeting of the Grand Division, at Raleigh,
with a view that his services may be obtained
to canvass the State. He says let one or more
distinguished champions be invited to visit the
State, and let US confer with them in refer
ence to obtaining the services of one of them.
We are somewhat astonished at the Brother;
and we would ask the question has North Car
olina no Sons of talent? Has not our old
North State champions and orators whom we
can employ for this purpose?
We think she has men of ability, that would
compete perhaps with any other State and
we believe if tried, they will show themselves
such. We are decidedly in favor of having
the State canvassed by some person or persons,
who may be willing to undertake the task ;
and while we are not opposed to securing the
services of some Temperance orator from a.
broad, we think that men from our own midst
could be secured, who would be found as able
advocates of the cause as can be found else
where. We hope so at least. A SON.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-08-08
What i. 10 BE- thought Of .hat imam. who.

e- What is TO be thought of that man, who,
protesting christianity, is laboring heart and
main, TO break down an institution which has
done more to remove the Instructions in the way
Of the triumphs of the Gospel Of Christ, than
all other earthly organizatIon2 In the en-
phatic language of the Bible if a man see
his brother in distress and shutteth up his bow
els Of compassion, how dweIleth the love Of
God in him 2" Here are hundreds and thouss
ands OF his brother morials on the high-road to
destruction-posting the downward road 10 ire
trlevable woe-out who are being saved, re-
deemed by an instrumenlaliiy owned and blessed
of God, by the success with which. he has suf-
fered it to be cTowned-but yet he denounces
il all, and forms an alliance with the open, a.
ayowed, notorious opponents Of the Cross of
Christ, in destroying this instrnmentalty Il
is said that extremes do sometimes meet, and
surely here is an exemplifcation of the fact
A ~professed christian Minister leagued with
grog-sellers, grog- drinkers and grog-makeTs, in
enialling upon mankind the ~nefarions system Of
Misunderstanding, in the shape of grog- shops
and manufactures ! Can it be commended that
a sinner was ever converted 10 God in one Of
these God forsaken dens2 Will it be pretend
ed that the public morals are promoted BY their
Perpetuity2 Is it cantended that the happiness
of the people is engendered thereby Surely
no one will pretend to argue so unreasonable a
doctrine Why defend so unhoIy a work.
The answer is only to be found in one Of two
propositions, viz either from the love Of money
or gain, or the love Of liquor. Choose We be-
tween the two horns Of the dilemma.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-08-08
scoRN NOT THE UNFORTUNATE.

Under this caption, The Old Oaken Bucket
has an excellent article, the concluding portion
of which we subjoin. @Kfnd words cost moth
I'M" and may be the means of retaining many
a lost and erring brother, and place him in that
position in society which God designed him
when He created him after his own image
The Editor, urging his plea for the poor inc
briate, says:
We were led principally to these remarks
by a sight which we saw a few evenings since
on the corner of Main and Wisconsin streets.
As we were passing we overlook a poor,
wretehed drunkard, with bloated eountenance.
bleared eyes and tattered garments, Keeling
and t~ottering under the effects of liquor. We
passed on, ard m a little time returned, when
oRF attention was attracted to a crowd of per-
sons looking down into a large cellar which is
dug on the corner Of the above streets. We
too looked, aHd beheEd this miserable being
lying in the mud and mire in the cellar, his
head and face covered with mud and blood,
having evidently fallen from the sidewalk to
where he now lay. Yes, there in that bleated,
disfgured, polluted mass is a human soul-a
human mind-a being made in the image of
God! And his brother men stand around, with
scorn depicted on their countenances-jeers.
taunts and laughter issuing from their lips-and
they pass on! No ray Of pity is seen to light
a solitary face in that assembled crowd-no
friendly hand is stretched forth to raise that low
ly being-no kind word is whispered in those
ears, which are acquainted only with epithets
of contempt! He once had father, mother,
brothers, sisters and friends. Where are they
now? He once had high hopes and bright an
ticipations, and looked forward to a life of use
fulness and happiness. Alas, these too, the
airy castles of his happier years, have fed. All,
all gonel Soon the drunkard's grave will open
before him, and in its cold embrace, he will for
get his misery!
"Spurn nos the unfortunate A few kind
wordSmight have raised this poor drunkard,
and placed him again among tie ranks Of men.
Kind words cost nothing-then why not be-
stow them literally? If there are smiles, SUM-
shine and flowers for all Of us, let us not grasp
thenf with a miserIs grasp, and lock them in our
hearts. Rather let us take them and scatter
them around us. We can make the wretched
happy, the discontinued cheerful, the afflicted
resigned, without much effort, and at an ex-
eeedingly cheap rate. Pleasant words will
light up many a weary heart, with smiles and
gladness, and spreading to the lonely hearth re-
kindle the dying embers of domestic peace,
where bitter taunts would cause that heart to
bleed tears of blood"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-08-08
SPANISH

A young man had entered the diligence
which was going to Scgova. A place had
been allotted to him in the interior, where
on starting, he found only one companion, a
young lady strangely travelling alone her
figure was all that It should be, but a mantil-
h covered her face. Consequently, to use
the words ola novelist, "a strange sensation
suddenly took possession of him-love en-
tered his SOUL After some small c~ivilities,
he proceeded to take her hand, which she
withdrew, while she gazed at him with two
dark eyes. through the lace that enveloped
her. Again he took her hand; be kissed it,
and feeling perfectly safe from intrusion, he
insisted on her removing her veil. With
this request after some resistance she complied.
and her features fully answering all his ex-
pectations, he might have assured her OF his
approval, but as Sagova is approaching, he is
compelled to leave her; before doing so
however, the youth pressed her to tel where
she lives, and, as she leaves the diligence
she gives him her name and address.
Am hour has scarcely elapsed when he has
tens TO the house which stands alone evil
IDENTIFY but one family occupies it. He asks
for Donna Eugenia, and IS ushered into aroom
furnished with unusual comfort. The lady
he seeks is sitting alone. She beckons him
With a naughty gesture to be seated. With
in doors his impatience has quite deserted
him, and having humbly obeyed her, she
thus addressed him:
Senior CabeHero,' she said, this morning
= woman, a widow, and unprotected, was
foreed by affairs 10 have Madrid. Her du-
ena al the last moment was taken III: her
affairs at Sagoya could not bear postpone
ment she trusted to the gallantry of Span
iards TO protect her on her road and how
her hopes were realized you can inform her.
But think not she who could not defend her
self from insult, eannot take vengeance and
drawing a pistol she presented it to his fore
head, and continued make your peace
with heaven for the earth you see no more
He does not tremble though he secs it is
no Jest; his brow quails not, and the emotion
tha4 causes bis voice to culver, is not of fear.
He lboht Tie lady in the face and says:
sWouldst thou kill me because l love thee
somchF
His eye, his voice and his courage achieved
the conquest he had commenced in the
coach, and casting aside the weapon, she told
him she had but tried his love, which she
was now convinced was equal to his pluck
It appeared that she was the young wife Of
a Cuban merchant, old, cross, ugly and cow
ardly her married life had been very short
and, in espousing the young lieutenant, she
endowed him with the wealth she had gain
ed from her first husband.
The couple are now high in the estima-
ton Of Madrid; the husband is a Senator,
the wifs a lady of fashion. But whether the
tragic sceno has ever again been enacted by
tkefn, the narrator could not inform me.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-08-08

THE POOR.

We utterly repudiate, says Doane, as unwor-
thy not of freemen only, but of men, the mar
row notion that there is to be an education for
the poor, as such. Has God provided for the
poor a eoarser earth, a paler skya Does not the
SUN pour down his golden food as cheerily upon
the poor mans hoTel, as upon the rich mans
palacel Have not the cottager's children as
keen a sense of all the freshness, verdure, fra
GRANGE, melody, and beauty of fuxuriant nature,
as the pale sons of kingsf Or is it on the mind
that God has stamped the imprint of baser
birth, SO that the poor mans child knows with
an nborn certainty, that his lot is to crawl, not
climb.
1t is not SO. God has not done it. Man can
not do it. Mind is immortal. Mind is imperial.
It fears no mark of high or low, rich or poor
It heeds no bounds of time or place, of rank or cir
cumstanee. 1t asks but freedom. It requires brs
light. It is heaven born, and it aspires to heav-
en-. Weakness does not enfeeb1e it. Poverty
cannot repress it. Difficulties do but stimulate
its Tiger. The poor tallow-chandler's son, that
sits up al night to read, shall stand and treat
with mighty kings, shall add new provinces to
the domain of science, shall bind the lightning
with a hempen cord, and bring it harmless from
the skies. The common school is common, not
as an inferior, not as the school for poor mems
children, but as the light and air are common.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-08-08
IaAtrS Drpartnltnt.
MOTHERS AND Our COUNTRY.

The following, by the Rev. L. /. Headly,
We take from the Mothers Magazine:
In no country in the world can there be
30 much at stake on the influence of mothers
as inthese United States of America. Does
any mother ask why, and wish for an answer?
Let her reflect and consider, and she can
scarcely need to be told. Nor will she think
the declaration Objectionable as being too
broad and grave in view of the truth in the
case.
The influence of mothers is great every
where. 1t must be 30, be the state of socie-
g what 1t may. So God has ordained in
the constitution Of the human family, and it
cannot be otherwise. But wherein what
country does the condition of society offer so
favorably for the development and exercise
Ofmaternal influence as in the United States2
Absolutely nowhere.
In pagan countries women are ignorant
and degraded. Maternal influence lacks
the light Of truth and correct moral principle
to guide it and give it enlargement. In
Christian countries it is more intelligent, and
has a wider scope yet not in all Christian
countries alike. Much depends upon gov
eminent and the condition of society. In
countries under despotic and monarchical gov
ernmcnts, the maternal influence is far from
enjoying the freedom md compass it does in
republican America. It may, through the
blessing Of God, avail to the formation Of
ghtcharacter in general, in children. and
20 their salvation ever and, if but a single
soul be saved by it, it is, in this single point
ofVieW, ofincomparable value in any country;
for no other interest can compare with the
value of the soul-But in the different coun-
tries Of Europe, where, by the conditions Of
society, the few are exalted, and the many
depressed, irrespective of moral worth OF
native talent in either, it can effect compare.
lively little, except in individuals, and with.
in circles o small extent. In other words
it is relatively embarrassed. But in the
United States all is free, and mothers mas
exert their influence in hope Of the highest
and most extensive usefulness in training
their children. Here, all are soyereigns,
princes. and mobiles. or may be. ANY one
who can-who has the native talent-ma,
rise, and riseto the highest elevation. POST
Of honor ami usefulness are open to all and
mothers may have the animating hope Of thi
u tudsf anu VI any Dnc5 LOT any one OF tneH
sons. in this universal competition. Daugh
ters, too. as well as sons, may hope any dis
tinction for which they may be fitted, ant
to which invited, as wives Of men who com,
to hold the high places of responsibility ani
usefulness in the land.
Yes, mothers you have the destiny o
our country in your hands. In no other coun
try on the globe have mothers such a respon
sibility. Think Of it, ye mothers, in thesc
United States-think oft seriously, prayer
fully, and look well to your duty in train
ing your sons aud your daughters in suct
circumstances. Quit yourselves worthily O
your high obligations-your obligations tt
yOurselves-to your sex-your obligation t.
your children-to your eountry-to you
God and Saviour.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-08-08
L NEW

With three more numbers Of the Age, the sec
ond volume will expire. It docs not become US
to say hoW We ave discharged our duty in con-
Quoting the paper for the past two years, farther
thant to remark, hat we have endeatored to be
faithful to the cause in which we are engaged
true to cur friends and just to our enemies
We have labored TO exhibit and define the vir-
tues of TemPeranee-the true position of our
order-and the exact tendency of the arguments
and principles of those who oppose it. How far
we have been successful, is for others to Judge.
The past speaks for itself-for the future, we
can only say, we intend not to falter or daily
We intend to fight old Alcohol and all his myr-
midons, with renewed zeal and determination !:
andif We fall, we will fall with our face to the
foe.
Friends Of Temperament viii you sustain usl
So far you have done well-but our expenses are
heavy and increasing, and unless a correspond
ing increase in our receipts be realized, we shall
come out minus. We earnestly ask every one
who possibly can, to forward us new subscribers
to begin our new volume with; and especially
all who owe us, either for subscription, job work,
Regalia, Emblems, Seals, DC, to settle up before
that time. DoNI FAIL, and we shall have seye
raj hundred dollars to pay off old scores and be.
gin the new volume all square up.