New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-02

A company is forming in Holly Springs, Mis-
ssippi to start by the overland route ior ,atnr ny
the way of Independence Missouri about the 10th inst
Three amendments to the Constitution of the
State of observation-disclosures of them aboshing the ex
cusion of Roman Catholics from oice-have all been "a
tilted by the people by decisive maJorties
gentleman met another in the street, who
was nj Of consumption and accosted him thus "Ah my
friend YOU walk slow Yes replied the man but
am going fast"
William Hickman, a colored man, aged ninety
four years died in Washington on the 23d ult He was
waiter boy in the of the revolution and was at the
battle of Yorktown He fought under Commodore Barney
Badensburg the of and was wounded there
A Mrs, Lyons, residing near Alquina, Fay
cite county Indiana murdered her infant child the
sth u and committed suicide by cutting her throat
Mental arrangement was the cause OF the melancholy
catastrophe. .
an anaconda would make better grdle for young
| mans waist than the arm of drunken husbandn Of
it would it would squeeze her tighter and that she
would like better.
woman at Liege has Just been confined of
three children making twenty -four in nine years having
had three at every accouchement The husband who
anxious to perpetuae his name uch disappointed
| at all his children being girls.
| The Odd Fellows of Boston are to erect
splendid hall in that city within the ensuing year 1t
to be of granite. four stories in height and will cost
$4,000 This amount is to be divided in shares of $40
| each.
| A Jury box now in use in the city of Lynn,
Mass has been kept for its present purposes 40
The used in Portsmouth, Newampshire, was made
in the year 1880 and has been in regular use for l22
| years.
| Tt is said that Messrs. Palmer & Co., the en-
tepsnc California consignment agents before evapora
ting made assignment of all their effects for the benefit
of their victims to Justice Lathrop and lawyer named
Cooper The value of their property assigned is about
s13oobut small pittance to divide among two or three
hundred sufferers
A Southern contemporary, having exhausted
his vocabulary of commentator Hunts Merchants
/
friend He saws: In hunting the world over to hunt
up the best monthly should hum farther than the
Office If Freeman Hunt 10 convince man that the
world is sby' he has only to read the article in the
| March number on the Fisheries.
The number of adults in the State of Georgia
who can not read or write is LOCO and the number
children whose parents unable send them to school
upwards OF $1,000 According to official returns the
number adults in Virginia who cannot read and write
so OOO-twenty thousand more than in 1870 and the
number children whose parents have not the means tt
educate them, is 10000
Thomas Moore was buried at the village o.
Bronham within mile of the cottage in which he breathct
his last He was placed in obedience to his wish il
the same grave with one of his daughters The yag,
church crowded with the poor of the neighborhood
and the rector of the adjacent village came to pay thu
last tribute of regard old friend. But beyond th
gentleman and Mr. Longman, the publisher there wcr
who had known the poet in life to offer him
respect in death
, A bloody FIGHT occurred at Dorchester, Mass
on the 22d ut between two parties of Irshmen. Th
fight was the result of love affair fair maid having
who willing settle tnef claim to he
affections by fair fight which enlisted the friends
each and the fight general. with not only men, bu
women One with stone in her apron, sayage,
injured boy fourteen years old who but only
locker Ten of the combaants arrested and con
fined in jail
The city of Bath, in the State Of Maine, is
well known and enterpriSing place. which contribute
largely the commercial fleet of the country and
appears determined that the profits of its individual
citizens shall suffer dimnntion from any extrayagtn
compensation allowed to their public servants. For ex
ample we select the following items from the municipa
salary bill for this year City Marshal $500 City Clerk
$780, Clerk of the council S45 Assessors $50
City messenger and Constable SIS City Solicitor SIC
We should rather think these superbly saaried officer
: might possibly stand chance to go begging.
t The Amazon fund in England now amounts t
above Ell000 1t will be kept open for about anothc
month. and it is most probable that it will utmatel
reach f12O00 The final disposal Of it will be made
the 10th inst by the united committees of Southampto
and London About $50 persons have to be assisted
r supported by it among them 10 children and abop
40 widows. About 80 of the children will be placed
orphan asylums. Mrs. Symons the widow Of the con
mander Of the Amazon has declined assistance from til
: fund.
s The Nizam has contributed large rough dia
mond, weighing toans, toward the payment Of hi
debt to the East India Company. Taken in round nun
bers weighs 800 carats and is the largest diamond
to the Brazil diamond The koh-i-noOr weighs but 30
r. The diamond Of the Nazam will not permit its being
into perfect brilliant, and the cutting being adapted
its shape need not lose than fourth in the
:. Grafton; if then this diamond be the second
n third fourth in size that is exant. the NAHUM who
mind must place a high value upon these things cou
not evncc his desire discharge the debt than y
lie the sacrifice he has made