New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-09


called, when the following members answered
to their names:
The Hon F. Alpuente, President Messrs.
Andrews, Bailey, Derbes, Dolbonde, Forbes,
Nackey, Nixon, Place., Stetson, Summers,
Sykes, Watkins and Willson-14
Absent: Messrs. Burthe, Eustis, Hermann,
Lanata. Leeds, Lusto, Mccormack, Philbrick,
Ramos. Relf. Shaw, Stevenson and Wiltz-13.
The reading of the journal was dispensed with
MESSAGES FROM THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
A message was received from the Board of
Aldermen announcing the passage Of the follow
ing resolutions, and inviting the concurrence
therein of the Board of Assistant Aldermen, to-
wit:
resolution relative to the insane now confined in the
resolution relative to insane persons in the State Asy
lum at Jackson.
resolution approving the sale the supply Of curb
and stones for Fulton street Samuel F. Lee and
directing the Comptroller sell auction the contract
for repairing the Magazine Street Market.
Report and ordinance. from the Committee Streets
and Landings substitute to the ordinance on Flat
boat Landing in Fourth District.
petition authorizing the payment Of one hundred and
nine dollars (Sl0e to Jefferson Fire Company No. q
resolution granting charter for ten years to Liberty
Hose Fire Company ,
resolution appropriating hundred dollars $4,000
Hook and Ladder Fire Company No for the purchase
Of lot of ground for said Company.
resolution authorizing the Surveyor to sell at auction
the contract for the repairs of Neptune Fire Company
resolution relative to Jefferson Fire Company No. 49,
for an appropriation of SIS for a Is Comnode" J"
for appropriation of $1,000 for fire engine
A resolution granting permission to Col. Thomas ].
Spear to make public sales of horses drays etc. in the
Common street, below Circus street. for period
Of sixty days.
Aresouon relative to CARTS drays etc., licensed by the
City of Jefferson.
resolution relative to resolution No. H. from the
Board of Assistant Aldermen.
A resolution to rescind the judgment against D. T.
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resoluon authorizing the payment of sundry claims
By another message the Board was informed
of the adoption of the following resolution, and
notified Of the appointment OF Sewell, Clark,
Lugenbuhl and Burke, on the committee indi-
Gated i'll the resolution:
Rso'rsd That the and basis of representation
before the Board Of Aldermen be referred to joint
committee of both Boards which committee shall consist
Of member from each Board for every aldermanie
district.
On motion of Mr.. Summers, the above resolu-
ton was read twice, the rules being dispensed
with, and coneurred in.
The President appointed on the committee, as
required by the resolution, Messrs. Nixon,
Derbes, Burthe and Watkins.
And, on motion, the Board adjourned.
WALTER I'll. PETERS, Secretary.
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Should the Chinese emigration to California
continue, it may not be long before We shall see China
man in Congress.
Clarke & Co., publishers of London, have
is unabatei.
Purser Fauntleroy, U. S. Navy, has been
ordered to the Navy Yard at Pensacola to commence his
duties there on the first of October.
The widow of King Louis Philippe is now re-
siding permanently the Lake of Como where she has
pul Hhased chateau.
Hiram H. Baper, to be Marshal of the United
States for the district of Missouri in the place Join W
Twitchell, deceased.
Nus Forrest was greeted with very large
first The
theatre, phladepha, Tuesday evening te 23tt
and it is said, played with more spirit than uAual
The publishers of paper in Iowa give as
an excuse for of reading matter that Of the
editors got whipped ut horserace and the other was on
spree
An Irish lad having been asked if the man
who hae just ogged him his father, he replied
Yes enough he's the parent but he trates
his by another father and mother
"You are at the very bottom of the HILL" said
the physician to sick patient but shall 'ndeavor to
you up again fear shall be out OF breath before
reacl the top was the reply,
The Mayor Of Montreal has received infor-
nation from the General Committee n Louton that
$1,000 had been placed to hi CT dit for the sufferers by
the great fire in Montreal in July last
Somebody says 'sdevil" is a mean word. any
way be written Remove the and it is evil ~
remove the and it is vie, ~ remove the aud it is
ill y remove the and remains which has he aspirate
sound of hell.''
The entire amount of the receipts of the Duke
Of Wellington for his services, nesry three millions
of pounds sterling The emolumeuts of the Dukes sons,
nephews sousn and other relatives from the army,
the church, and the pension list, enormous
Dogs had become so numerous in Constantl-
nople that they lately starved three thousand OF them to
death. The poor animals were landed on an island with
three days provisions and on the fourth day the Imaums
ascended the miuarets and exhorted them TO patience
and resignation.
A young girl named Squirrel, at Shottlsham,
in Suffolk England has either lived. pretended to live
without food for many weeks She declares that angels
have visited her that has acted as her guardian.
h. has beeu lonzed by the whole country, and
have been enrnptured by eloquenee sacred and
orofne themes But suspicion has led to Investigation
and certain phenomena natural enough in ordinary per-
sons but ally uuaccountabe in who neither eats
drinks have led TO the beet that the young miracle
is impostor.
We find in antique chronicle that the organ
about e5 the first being erected in West
chester Cathedral 1t described by monk in Latin
verse. thus translated:
Twelve pair of bellows. ranged in stately row,
Are joined above, and fourteen more below;
Those the full force of seventy men require,
Who ceaseess toll and plenteousy perspire;
Each aiding each, till all the wind be pressed
In the close confines of the incumbent chest,
On which four hundred pipes in order rise,
To below forth the blast that chest supplies
RATHER TouGHA correspondent Of the Liverpool A.
bion that years ago there was Jerusaiemte
niiydual in Paris who of DR. Robertson
and all the chemical of the day got INTO an oven
and sang song while goose was being cooked When
he went into the the pulse was IL and rose TO td
the second experiment II rose 20 lIo the Thermometer
Indicating leo of At the third experiment he
was stretched plank. surrounded by lighted esnoles
and then nut the the mouth of hieh WAS this
time closed He there five minutes when the speeta-
tors cried "Epough Accordingly the door was opened
out he of the fiery gulf and with his pulse at 2OO
Jumped into cold bath and became cool as cucum
ber immediately after,