The southern press., 1851-08-25
NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 2I


Key Stone.
New ORLEANS, Aug. 81.
The Empire City has arrived from Havana,
W tn dates to the 18th. The Spanish troops
had attacked Lopez, near Bahia Honda, and had
taken 81 prisoners, including Col Crttcnden
and Victor Kerr, who were carried to Havana
and executed. Some 200 Spaiiiards were killed
during the two engagements, and Lopez was
victorious in both.
y KIDDs TREAsuRE.--We yesterday saw one
OF the company who are engaged in the hercu-
lean task of searching and digging for Kidd's
buried ingots on Stratford Point under the d.
rections and incantatons of some wizard of the
clairvoyant school These seekers af er 'hid-
den treasure" have labored some two or three
months, and have expended sufficient energy
and means to have constructed goodly por-
ton of railroad track from Stratford to Bridge
port. and yet their labor has been in vain Not
the first red cent" of the pirates i'll gotten gains
has greeted their anxious vision, although they
have excavnted their pits to depth almost bot
tomless. The member of this spiritual rap
ping engineer corps" whom we saw had much
the appearance ofa New York dandy, with about
the quantity of brains necessary to furnish the
upper story of one Of that species of the genus
homo and judging from the superabundance of
hair upon what we suppose nature once de-
signed for face, we think he would find little
difficulty in tracing his genealogy as far back
"a the time of Nebuchadnezzar. if not directly
to the old grass-eater himself Vive la hum
bug g!--Ne1o Haven Palladium
An ADMIRER OF TALENr.-The following is
related bv the Morning Herald apropns of the
visit of Mile Rachel to Manchester, England
We translate from the Courier des Etats Unis ::
At the moment the French Tragedienne was
descending from her carriage to enter the hotel,
a letter in the following words was handed
her:
"MADEMoIsELLE II am an Englishman, en-
thusiastic, poet and admirer of your mar
vellous talent But have bnt one pound ster-
ling left, and fear that you will not play before
four days. This would condemn me to die
without having heard YOU and am capable of
living through spite. And, | want to die the
day after tomorrow.
"Plny, then, tomorrow, Mademosielle, and
will be able to go to applaud you Here, in
effect, is the way | will appropriate my last
piece Of gold:
alst Two days nourishment iof 90
I'D. A seat in the pit z 90
18th, A phial Of poison 2 80
"Total 22f 80"
1t is said that Mile Rachel Immediately an
nounced Andromaque.
NEEDLE WomEN.-The shirt sewers assoca-
ton Of New York city have published an appeal
to the public, saying among other things:
"Tne condition of the shirt sewers of our city
is amentabe, and calls for your kindest and
warmest sympaihies 1t is estimated that their
numbers at present exceeds six thousand Many
Of these frendless orphans, early left to strug
gle with poverty, and solely dependent upon the
precarious pttance of wages doled out by em
ployers.-Others are widows, depending upon tn
needle for the support Of helpless children, and
with the pttance of some 50 90 or 81, so per week,
trying to feed, clothe and pay The rent of family
We need not tell you this cannot be done.
They bear in silence, suiferings and trials that
would chill the sternest hearts to recount. The
defenceless girl often wresles with poverty, hun
GER temptation, until dire necessity forces sad and
fearful alternatives upon her. Is this Christian ?
Is it human
A NEW VARIETY OF SWEET PorAro.--A valua-
BILE addition has lately been made to the varieties
of the sweet potato in Alabama, supposed to be
from Peru. letter describing it, says:
at is altogether different and equally superior
to any variety OF this root hitherto known. II is
productive and attains prodigious size, even
upon the poorest sandy land, and the roots remain
without change from the time Of taking them out
of the ground until the following May. The
plant is snguIary easy Of cultivation, growing
equally well from the slip or vine, the top vine
of the full grown plant being remarkably small !;
rhe inside is as white snow. IL is dry and
mealy, ond the saccharine priacipIe contained re-
sembes in decacy of flavor virgin honey"
The attendant of Mathews in his illness intended
TO give his patient some medicine but few mo-
cine was nothing but ink, which had been taken
from the phisl by mistake. and his friend excaim-
d Matthews, have given you ink ~ "Never,
mind, my boy--never mind,' said Matthews
family, IN swallow bit of blotiing paper. .
IMPORTANT ARRKsr.--At Chicago. on Friday
last deputy sheriff Wood arrested James G.
Green, $50 called there, but known at the East as
Jim Gal agher,) the celebrated burglar, who some
two years SINCE robbed several rooms in the Sher-
man House, ofgod watches, jewery, &c. He
was accompanied by another burglar { who has
refused give any name,) in whose possession
number Of instruments of the trnde. such as files
pick locks, hand vices, skeleton keys, wax for
making Impressions of keys, and lantern were
fbund. .--Bs6aio Courier.
The Charleston Courier notices the arrival at
that port Of two ships from Liverpool with large
xnd valuable cargoes, M an Instance OF the direct
importation Of goods, instead Of receiving them,
~ heretofore, through other channels