New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-03-24
NEW ORLEANS:
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH "a, 1852

EARLY IIARirs-says old knck in his January Editors
table early habits of thought and expression sedhm
totally eradicated young lady who had favorite |
brother seaman left her native home in Little Comp
ton r. L. and resided for many years with rich aunt in
Boston, the said relative being maiden lady of great del
icacy and refinement maiden ladies wont to be.
Of the niece brought up' all accomplished
and due regard paid to refining her In |
of time, she engaged to be married and Mad
ain. the most fashionable dressmaker in Boston, put
in requson The bridal dress should have been finished
tho day before the wedding to allow ample time for al
teraton if needul. Noon arrved-no dress; evening"
another disappointment morning, and the morning of the
weddings nine oclock-ten Messengers dispatched
to and fro. Little Compton in despair At asteevcn
chimed from the Old South. - and the dress came
home, Only few minutes to spare the bridesmaids with
trembling fingers, robed the blushing expectant She
walked before the sumptuous mirror slow does it ook,
they asked. Look said Little Compton with tears in
her eyes why dn my sisters cats tail if she hasn't
clewed up my foreopsal so that Dutch ugger is a
beauty beside mc'
MrnDER-Thc letter of correspondent of the Balti
Sun gives the following particulars of a shocking
murder committed at Stewards Town York county Penn
syvana. the 10th inst the person of little gr
named Eliza Ann Busler. daughter of Jacob Buscr of
that place in the absence of both of her parents 1t was
hst supposed that the deed had been committed by
said to have been in the neighborhood and on
saturday suspected person arrested In this city
Yesterday however it reported that Catharne Bus
Ter aged about twelve years the sister of the murdered
girl had confessed that she the murderess This
report is confirmed by persons who arrived here
York county yesterday appears that the deceased
threatened to tell her mother that Catharne had stolen
something out of the closet whereupon the latter struck
her violent blow and sezing butcher knife deliberate
ly her throat from She then took the in
FAINT child of her parents and escaped but after
turned and connected the story elected before the
ners inquest about old man entering the house and
committing the deed
NovrI ISvESrIoN.-The Charleston Southern Standard
has the following gentleman noW in city. and
native Of the State has succeeded in producing Of the
extraordinary and novel results in mechanics and
science of the present day One of these exceedingly
simple apparatus be attached to any wheeled vehicle
in which placed sheet Of paper connected with nsru
men by movable cog regardless of the speed that
the vehicle may be impeled any surface upon the
paper will be correctly charted the distance course alti
tides aud depressions of the surface which passes
@he present increase of railroads this instrument
admirably calculated to facilitate the survey of land in
the various proposed and well deserves the
ton of the scientific Another invention the prevcn
ton of explosion in steam boilers This il based upon
principles which palpaby demonstrate the various ple-
of this much and justly dreaded agent 1t has
scientific men in our country and experiments which
have been made upon these principles could not fail to
satisfy the most skeptical
AvFcporE SULTAN.-Late letters from Constan-
tinople relate anecdote of the Sultan which is quite
worthy of the Arabian Nights rich Armenian had lost
portfolio containing 100000 piasters which he
offered reward of 10000, The portfolio was found and
the reward claimed by very honest and poor old
but the Armenian in order to escape payment then de-
carcd that the portfolio also contained very valuable
ring which the old man must have stolen, The affair
brought before the Sultan whohaving acertaned the hon
esty of the old and the welknown his ad
versary, decided that. the Armenian declared that his
portfolio contained ring this could not be the he
had lost and that he had better return it old man and
continue to advertise for his own
COLORADO RlvER.-The Houston (Tex) Telegraph of the
10th, says: Capt Tracy who arrived few days since
from the Colorado states that this nearly the
top of its banks during last week and rising rapidly
when he left Fears entertained that some of the
plantations below Columbus would be injured by the
freshet The season has been favorable that
the and cotton fields in the bottoms had been plant
ed and the planters will suffer heavy osses the bottoms
should be overtowed.
VoTNG MAcHINE.-A machine of this kind. forming
very convenient ballot box proposed to the late
French Assembly, for which credit of 10000 francs was
voted full description of it, with illustrations appears
in the February number of Appleons Mechanics Maya
zine 1t is very simple in its construction and offers. as
is said the advantages of undoubtcd and
great rapidity Each candidate is provided with small
box containing ten bulletins for voting five white fo)
and five blue (against) The bulletins consist of obong
square hollow frames of steel white for the ayes blue
for the and having each side the of til.
candidate The ballotbox has Sits one with two
wards and painted white and with three wards
painted blue. Within the box samoveable frame. carry
ing its base each side, rod and graduated scale
The bulletin falls the rod and piled The frames
the halotting boxes. twelve in number carried to
table standing before the President and each is PLACED
turn-tabe with the white aye rods ontside These
first told off then the blue The result of the vote
thus known in positive manner in few minutes
ARRIVAL FROM NAssAr-The schooner Mary Calber
master to H. Fitzgerald r Montell arrived at Bal
timore on the 18th Saturday aernoon) after passage
of emily six days We Indebted Captain Calbert fo
Nassau papers by which learn that the American sh
Russell Glover. W I. Tucker. master. from NewYorl
bound for NcwOrleaus with an assorted cargo of mer
chandise ashore the reef off Nun Jack Cay Abaco
Mt i O'Clock on the evening of the DIST inst The
broke heavily the vessel all night started the cabl
from the deck and tore the ruddcr off The vessel
length broke amships No lives were lost the passen
gers and part of being landed at the Cay the fol
lowing morning, Wnere tney were relieved the
crs at The of the loss of the ship may be
attributed to strong south-westery current Captain
Tucker judging her to have been about fifty miles fron
land the time she struck The cargo has been all
about three parts in damaged state
Quite an unprecedented occurrence has taken plac
there Large blocks of ice has been floating about in tn
harbor the captain of the American ship Marion prefer
ring rather throw part of her cergo overheard in ore
to tighten his vessel while undergoing repairs than pa
the tonnage duty, The ice house had been recent
filed to the brm by other sources, which preclude
the possibility of the Marions cargo meeting with pu1
chaser there,
THE BURNT SfIIr.-The ship destroyed by fire in Mob
Bay the other day. proved to be the Seine Capt Prat
formerly the Newly and IIavre line of packets 81
discovered burning early the morning of the list
having been cleared by Isaac Bell Jr. TO- the 10th fl
ayre with 213S bales of cotton How tn" fire originate
none learn Its first appearance was by smoke fro
the Matches and so rapid its progress, that some
the crew were only able to land Dauphin Island 1t
understood that ship and cargo are insured but not
the freight and captains property
- 4 WfN named Bclerstast had slFrent!Apt
himself The pal!ee Of lerlin eunitssRz thai h. III
,g,,rl Wish Number " mes 81 eSsHSsi6ar she ssps