New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-20

w. Senior Hernandez replica thai he oehsed to be Span
sh subject nearly year age and he IL American
citizen allegiance to the Spanish authority
IT. is known as fact in geology that below the
descend On an average the increase is Of the rate
of one degree of Fahrenheit for every fifth foot
ssT Tom" said man to his friend, day or
two since think it highly dangerous to keep bills
Of small banks on hand now-adays," Tim" said the
other 1 find it far difficult than dangerous
Two sharks, one measuring 10 feet inches,
and the other feet 10 inches We're hooRea on me long
wharf at New Haven, Conn on SATURDAY a ann He
eth inst The joint weight of these monsters was 4oo IDS
A correspondent of the NewIork Tribune,
writing from Newport r. l., censures the pracuce III
which he says the ladies there indulge OIL wearing enor
diamond rings at morning calls OF on tue occasio
Of evening parties,
At Poictiers is the famous bed Of st. Hilary
where monomaniacs were Legends say that prayer
OF two said madmen lying in this bed cured them
Wouldn't this be nice place for some OF the mo'erh me
| diunis
| 1t is understood that the Special Senate Com
mtee to the charges of bribery and corrnp
ton against persons high in office, was appointed WIN
particular reference to alleged abuses in the fesoh
Office.
| The Unitarians of San Francisco have agreed
invite Rev Harrington to preach for them one year
for S6000 and have raised $1,000 to his expenses out
with agreement to pay his way back II ne does mol
| like it.
| Night came brooding over the broad face OF
naturehe stars began to sparkle in the blue skyana
noy CAIN seemed to invite repose-When lcnapou seu
forth on the dark purposes of death. Many raecoor
| that night met an untmely end
Before Mr.. Rantoul died, the vote of Massa-
chusetts for the Presidency was set down by al
doubtful Now, it is said, Scott will get it, Rantou pos
sessed vast influence and resolved to throw it actively
| in favor Of Pierce.
The peach crop in Delaware is said to be very
good On Wednesday, the 18th instant about tire
thousand baskets passed over the Camden and Ambo
Railroad to NewYork They selling at the depot a
Camden for 81 basket
The English Literary Pension List amounts t.
| fl2o0 year. Among these Silk Buckingham receive
GOO year Professor Wilson $500, Mrs Jameson fl0t
Colonel rorrens f2oo the remainder being chiefly granite
to the widows of distinguished in science and liters
ture.
2utland, Vermont, which, five or six year
ago. had only about 1900 inhabitants, has grown, sine
the construction of the railroads leading to It, to be
to be town of 1000 inhabitants. Land about il
which cost sixty dollars is now held at $4,000
$4,000,
Smelt have made their appearance in larg
quantities thus early in the in the harbor Mt Hui
Two gentlemen from Boston, Thursday and Friday
last week caught seventy-six Dozen fishing from zach
Gift, which at anchor within one hundred and iift
feet of the Mansion House On Monday two other gent
men caught eighteen dozen cod perch in Fort Geore
Channel The fishermen of Hull are enabled to follow
school, and strike upon them without loss of time [Bo
ton Traveller.