New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-01-20

anxious to find the Brooklyn ferry approached one of tn
bhoyS who was quietly seated summing himself In from
oa m avore restaurant and enjoying his cigar, and b,
way Oh interrogation said wish sir, go to Brooklyn
the bhoy turned his eye upon the gentleman droppe,
DICK IN ms char casped his knee in his hands and
pied Well why the devil don't you e-o-o to Brooklyn
we have received later advices from Santa Fe
Col calhoun had returned from his visit to the Utah In
dans and reports favoraby lie says that the Navaioe
are anxious to have their treaty ratified Snow was tw
feet deep on the Cameron river The report Of the e
Of Col Davis confirmed.
Necessary evi1s-butchers and bakers. IF i
were not for them the way young folks would connubal
ne would be caution to mothers There is stubborn
blossoms of large portion of their attractveness
The New York Journal of Commerce has
learned from private letter that the U s. soop Marion
was at Hong Kong, Oct. 2Sth to sa in day two fol-
Macao. All well, The Saratoga was at Wampoa. oct
2oth--aso expected to sail for Macao
Yesterday, man was brought before the
Police Court for drunkenness and an Irish witness
asked by the judge" Do You think he the
an couldn't tell yer honor, but he acted az if he fell
much the betther for that sane
Louis Bonaparte, father of him who is now
Of the great Napoleon and born at Aaccio Corsca
the q of September IT'S His marriage with the daugb-
by the joint labor of Napoleci, and Josephine.
The Syracuse IN. Y Journal gives a notable
instance Of Of mind in boys Several lads
skating on Onondaga Lake, when four broke in. One little
saved one of his comrades. Another off with his coat.
tore in two tied it together and saved others The
third drowned. Few would have done as well
| as the noble boys.
The ladies of Mortified, Mass, availing them
selves of the privileges of leap year gave ball few days
since inviting the beaux waiting upon them to the ball
and paying the fiddler An interesting question has
asked VIZ whether leap year commences the LIST of
January, or 18th of February
1t is stated that George Wilkes, editor and
proprietor of the Police Gazette arrested NewYork
ON hsnn ~.
Oyer and Termner at Poughkeepse, where he con
yiced last year of libel upon Mir Jordan exAttorney
General Of the State He is to be conveyed there for
sentence.
The Boston Bee says ssWe believe that when
wish the people Government would give Kossth
all the guns pistols balls, powder money cheese knives
men and tooth-pcks necessary to achieve Hungarian
liberty that he could leave country and newspaper
columns the opinion Of niney-nine out of a hundred
would say amen! ~
In consequence of the loss which Mr. Spooner
sustained by the destruction by fire of the Philadelphia
Museum few nights ago. wlsGl. he purchased of Mr.
Barnum last summer, Mr. b is said to have presented him
unsolicited with five thousand dollars has also can
celled various claims that he held against him
The ship Portsmouth, which arrived lately at
Calcutta from San Francisco encountered a severe hurr
cane October q in latitude 10 80 north longitude 81 30
east AT the conclusion of the gale the vessel had five feet
Of water in her hold and her decks covered with
snipe locusts crickets and butterflies.
A brutal prize fight took place near Patters-
ton Station Putnam county N Y Tuesday. between two
IN
side Though the evening papers gave notice that the
fight was to take place attempt made stop it
The defeated party Gardncr) dreadfully bruised
in the head and face. and had his shoulder dsocated
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser gives it's
annual statement of marine disasters the Lakes
together with the loss of life and property attendant
upon them, from which it appears that during the year
1851 property to the value Of S730537 lost and 70
lives Five steamers three propellers thrtyseven
sai vessels totally lost The disasters Of the last
four have involved the loss of S267s46 worth of
property, and 563 lives
A letter from the U S. Secretary of Legation
at Madrid states that the Guatemala prison
was still at Nigo performing quarantine. the 18th of
December and that the expiration quarantine meas
would be taken by the Spanish Government to con
vey the prisoners to the United States without delay
They have not been subjected any harsh treatment
during their imprisonment and will be adequately sup
piled with clothing and other necessares in Spain
In view Of the success of Phillipss fire ami
hator the journal of Commerce proposes the following
sum in the rule of three If it takes six annators at
thirty dollars each. twelve pair of boots aud pail of
water to put out small fire kindled the ground in
iwostory shanty how much putting and advertising will
it take to bring about the time not far distant when
every house will have fire annihator and such thing
as serious confagraton will be unknown in our coun-
try2'i
1t is said that &c garote robberies" are greatly
on the increase in of the English cities Lately
several parties robbed in Manchester and Birmns
fam of these by the robbers placing their arms
'ound the neck and producing by stran
suetlon. and others by an instrument with cord and
'unning moose which is used either throw over tho
1ead for the purpose of choking trap catch the
DOT and throw down the victim.
The Boston papers describe new bank secur-
ty. called the Chronometer Lock on exhibition in
hat city The lock in fastening is by scale at the
number of hours required the then closed and
annot be again opened until the time expires unless the
works should stop in which may be unfastened nv
of the said Improvement the same not onrrang
any other time either cause the movement to stop
n allow the door to be opened while it is in operation