New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-01-05

addressed to the President rurportng to be the resgna
ton of said officer This letter with number of otlera
he signed and perfectly ignorant of the important
fact until the document was exhibited TO his wondering
eyes
| The flesh of animals Which feed exclusively
is allowed to have higher flavor than those which
cooped up May there not be the difference between
men who read AS their taste prompts and who
| confined in cells and colleges to stated tasks!
Formerly, a bailiff caught in barrack-yard
in Ireland liable by custom to have three in
blanket and squelc The squelci was given by letting
the ground.
A countryman applied to a solicitor for legal
advice After detailing the circumstances of the he
Oh ny, sir rejoined he, IL thought it better you
the plain truth you put the lies to it yourself
The Washington National Inteligencer, in
commenting on the French brought by the Europa
expresses hope that new-lght invenonista will
not Government to demonstrate with the Prcs
dent Of France for overturnng in this summary way the
| constitution of his country
They have a boring machine at work upon
of the northern railroad which tunnels through gra
mite. etc. with great rapdity Congress. national
boring machine is ut Washington. 1t goes through its
business very slowly. although its perforations into the
rocks occasionally surprise the Treasury Department
The bookcase which the Queen of England
is about to present to the Emperor of Austria will cost
dollar. and then give him $4,000 to read it. there
might be some prospect Of Improvement in the young
rascal
1t is delicious to have pretty girl open the
front door and mistake you for her cousin.
still delicious have her remain deceived till
she has kissed you twice and Rugged the buttons your
coat Ma. here's Chawles''
Dr. March says the hest cure for Mysteries is
to discharge the girl In his opinion, there
nothing like flying around to keep the system
from becoming unstrung Some women think they want
a physician, he says when they only need scrubbing
brush
missionary, writing home from China, says
that the Chinese little fire, and cold by the
thickness Of jackets Three jackets cold is moderately
cool; six jackets cold is keen; and from ten to fifteen
| jackets cold is extremely severe.
| The season for making presents is on hand,
and understand that certain military who have
troops Of friends to be substantially compnented
The rank and file propose to present arms to their Off
! GERS on the next parade day.
| Professor Julius Caesar Hannibal commenced
his last scientific discourse y in the NewYork Picayune
thus Blubcd Desples-I shell 'debber dis ebenin to
spain to YOU de life and karacter oh dat BEAUTIFUL neck
mong de anshents de Hopous Toadabuss but de
common order OBJ mankne call it TOAD
| The Newly ork Gas Company have reduced their
price to thirty cents cubic feet the reduction o four
teen per cent? to take effect from the LIST next month
The reduction is caused by the active competition the
kossuth orators supplying the market with auperabun
| dance of the article.
| At wedding which recently came off in the
Episcopal Church at Georgetown. the gentleman who
gave away the BRIDE to the great astonshment Of the
worthy clergyman and audience made speech upon the
occasion.
Tipplers often say they drink ardent spirits
to drown melancholy Burton in his Anatomy of Melan-
choly gives them proper answer: As good be mean
| proposition We think few sober men will dissent
| s. How forgetful those folks in Scripture times
were wife said old farmer who trying read the
geneoosy Of the patrarcs in dim twilight without his
spectacles. "l1ow So husband ~ said the wife Why
don't you see it here that Abraham forgot Isaac
and Isaac forgot Jacob and -
The Illinois papers says that Mr.. Chas. Den
ton of Peoria has invented reapnp machine which far
surasses McCornck cutting the grain whether stand
ing or lodged green dry upon rough sur
face laying it in bundles, and doing it all well
| The following definition of the words Cabal
and Wing may not be unnteresng readers as an
item of history The word Caba originated in the reign
of Charles the Second of England from the letters
of his ministers names--Clifford. Ashley Buckingham
Arlington and Lauderdae. The word Wing given to
the liberal party in England by the royast in Cromwels
Cod Cod '' ''' l''s'' D'0''0 We n0' III
The comparison of the journey of life to
very fecously expressed in the
following lines by Charles Wesley:
Here in the body pent.
| Absent from Heaven roam
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
days march nearer home!
| A white owl, measuring over four feet from
tip to tip was shot on the farm of Thomas Comfy in New
jersey opposite Vaudeville last week This is the first
| specimen Of the kind killed in that neghborhood
and had probably been lured from his native hauns by
| curiosity.
An editor at Coshocton. Ohio, was unmerci-
fully rawlded last summer by political opponent for
which he prosecuted the person for damages The charge
admitted but the Court only the damages at
% one roys The legal value Therefore of an editor.
NICE as decided by law Is established Very cheap for
| such interesting amusement.
| The following powerful elegant, and classical
appeal made in Court Of Justice somewhere in the
West by of the learned heads the bar Gentlemen
of the jury. do you think my client who lives in pleas
valley where land i. rich and the soil is fertile would
be guilty of stealing little skeins of cotton' think
i reckon not calculate not And / guess gentle
of the jury that you had better bring my client
not guilty for if you convict him. he and his John
will lick the whole of you!
new and terrible foe to despotism has arisen
in Germany, 1t is hunger fmine threatens for the
prices of grain constantly the increase The Prus-
sian Government has already caused purchases to be
made in Southern Russia, with the hope of warling off
the extremity of suffering. Indeed. it experienced in
lSiI the fearful consequences of such famine. The
of the military mobilization has made an extremely
powerful impression the public mind and considerable
numbers of men have been thrown out of employment in
Berlin.