New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-03-18
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Mr.. Weed writes from Genoa that, as the
portrait Of Columbus destroyed by the confa-
grafton in the Congressional Library. the American Com
sui at Genoa is endeavorng to obtain copy of the only
original in existence which belongs to family in that
city.
1t is mentioned as remarkable circumstance
that within the past month ice made firmly into Lake
ario distance Of some three miles from the piers to the
depth of four inches Such thing is in the rcco-
lection Of the eldest nhabtant aud may not be again
for century to
A most extraordinary transaction lately oc-
CURED at st Louis in the Recorder Anne Small
who was recently fined $50 under the vagrant act and
qurcd give $500 for her future good behavior actually
paid the fine. and deposited $500 in gold collateral
curity for her future good conduct
A negro on Long Island recently drank a pint
Of brandy wager, when partly intoxicated. After
remaining insensble for fifteen hours he revived and
frank freely of cold water but soon after died The
coroners jury returned verdict that the deceased died
IRON drinking too much cod rate,."
\ party of eight Georgians, hunting in Flori-
da lately reported to have bagged in days As
81 turkeys, nigators Zone Is feet inches long)
panther and five head of wild cattle Bagging such game
this is almost equal to Cummings bagging elephant
IN Africa.
A lad ten years of age, named Henry Myers,
by the locomotive at Mansfield, Monday
last Both his legs nearly cut off The little fellow
had his legs amputted but lived only few hours after
When told by his mother that he must die, he said Il
know it. but | aint afraid. 1 went to Sunday school.
mother
In the Indiana Senate, on the 25th ult., a
joint resolution. asking the Government of the United
states to put stop to the slave trade on the coast OF
Africa and aiding in colonizng the and mulaoes
IN the United States was read the third time and passed
yeas 30. nays5
A letter from Paris in the Independence of
Brussels says General de St Arnaud is about leave
for Africa put himself at the head of expedition
which to take place III the spring against kebyia He
will still retain his post Minister of War Marshal Vail
| liant acting for him ad interim.
The Yankee has been well described as a
FLOW
Who'd kiss queen till he'd raise a blister,
win his arm round her neck and his Old felt hat on
Who'd address a king by the title of mister.
And ask him the price Of the throne he sat
A letter from passenger by the Empire City,
which left Neiork tor Havana the 9tl OF February.
tate that during the passage no less thanthree egrat-
ng Cafornians swept overheard by the heavy
received On deck. and lost They understood be
| al from NewY ork-names not gwen.
At Gambia, N. H., a key of powder was placed
in blacksmths shop over night, by worElnen The
work in the shop when the powder exploded and shock
''gy manged both. 1t was thought the Iishman could
| not survive
The Courier P.4thenS relates that lust as the
body Of the wife Of GYPSY named plassan being
TERED in the cemetery that city heard
| proceed from the coffin which lli4tok opened
After restoratyes had been tgrcd t. the sup
posed dead woman. She soon rec nd suficeNay to
yurn to her home
| A Maine editor says the adoption Of thei. tenn
partnce law has infused great activity the medicine
The head Of vegetable toncs. while shorty COOLERS ar only
| known as inspired corlwainers. The people of iant
may not consume much ardent spirits formerly but
| the way they indulge in medicine is Il caution.
| A peculiar kind of mushroom (the aguycvs
p,cGS grows in Siberia which intoXicates people Who
at it This funguc IL employed by many northern tribes
| but especially the Kamtschatdaes, substitute for
alcoholic liquors. to produce excitement and inebria in
Three or four Of these mushrooms moderate doe
but to produce nto1cation ten or twelve necessas
| Mr.. GeorgeF. Albert, convicted at Philade-
pia of kidnapping and sentenced to the penitentary h
| subsequently pardoned by Gov Bigler, has commence
i action against Judge Parsons founded upon repor
If his trial made by the Judge and said to have been
circulated by him. in which Albert was severely handled
A Miss Pilling, who swore Newton Gay into
the Sing Sing (NewYork State) Prison for years
charge Of committing rape upon her now says that Gay
entirely innocent. and socmnly denies that he
committed the outrage She using every in her
power to procure the immediate pardon of Gay asserting
nhappness at the result and deep eonrton for the
| enormous injury she has inflicted.
| The contumacious Queen of Madagascar is re-
ported to be dead, Her death occurred immediately
after the defeat and degradation of the flower of her army
u contest with bellgerent chief in November last
hs Queen bitter enemy Of the Christians, and her
persecution of the native would have
durable had been for the influence of her in mi
tigating their severity
The Republic states that the recent order from
the War Department for the the head quarters
of the Seventh Military Department, and the It'll u s
Infantry from Forth Smith Fort Gibson has been
cnded The head quarters will therefore remain at Fort
smith Colonel Wilson. Commandant, and Major Page
| Adiutantteneral. These gentlemen both at the
station.
A gentleman in Galena, H., not much over
fifty years old says he well remembers the time when
aud iron used in the valley of the Ohio brought
the Allegheny mountains on horseback Two hundred
pounds considered load for horse man riding
before would lead dozen horses 1t took about six weeks
| to make the trip.
One effect of kossuth's s'starring," says a
Vienna letter of the 1lth ult is that Hungary is almost
Dramatically sealed against Englishmen and Americans
tE nFtyj,f .,,
the United States have just been refused the
that country and the Hungarans themselves find ii
equally difficult to obtain passage.
There are in Paris S79 millinery establish
nents of which SCI arcmanaged by females, The houses
occupy personnel of 27l Of workwomen. and the bust
for arts alone amounts to nearly $4,000 000f year
Under the head Of millinery is included the making q
bapes of different kinds caps head dresses for sorees
and fancy articles for the toilette
The humane Grand junction Alicumstoutun
Society," of Northern city offers reward of one hunlrct
Among those who going in for the prize, is the editO
If the " Whitcd Sepuchre.n gentleman who believe
only two evils in society," chewing tobacco
hanging murdcrers.
The last number of the Cherokee Advocat,
the substance of the Presidents Message
aft cr the manner of the singing geography adapted 10th,
tune of The Winding Way. The editor says that tles,
documents apt to be prosy, and he has employed
competent poet for the accommodation of that large
ton Of the public which horIied at these annual in
fctions in their usual shape
The Albany Atlas publishes letter from
territ Smith addressed to Gov Hunt, of NewYork il
opposition to the opinion expressed by the latter in hi
message favOrng the scheme of Colonization He sts
matiges the Colonization Society rs an unparalleled com
pound Of hypocrisy, meanncss and magnity and as tn
shameless servant OF the Shareholders lie contends tina
the right of the colored pcopeto remain in America
that it is "neeful most of all the purpose OF regain
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