New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-05-30

lext session, [Cor. \. 7. Tribune.
COMPARATIVE HEALTH OF CITIEs-The report
f the Board Of Health of the city of NewYork,
or the year 1852, shows an aggregate Of 21 ,55S
leatha, while the report of the Philadelphia
Board Of Health, for the same year, gives the
otal number of deaths in that city at 1925
Thus, NewYork, with population Of SIS, ,507,
nad one death to every "a persons, and Phila-
ielphia. with 409 600 inhabitants, had one death
to every 40 persons. NewYork has large for
eign population, among whom poverty and
want breed sickness and death but il. appears
by the statistics that the chances Of life are
stronger against the native population in New
\ FORK than in Philadelphia The deaths in New
! ork, during the year 1852, of persons born liz
The United States amounted to 14,o71, or one
native in every thirty-fve of the population,
while the whole mortality of Philadelphia,
native and foreign. during the same year, was
out one in 40.
TRYING ONES TEMPER.-'' During the recent
Trip Of the Eclipse from New Orleans" says the
Louisville Journal, :" young gentleman, who
had just got married, came on board at Mem
phis to engage passage for himself and wife, but,
before he could get ashore again, the boat had
showed off, and he found himself going up the
at the rate of twenty miles per hour,
his lady love standing at the wharf and witness
ing the distressing sight. In vain did he ap-
peal to the captain to land him, depicting his
own situation and sufferings as well as those of
' the wife he left behind him - in the most feel
ing terms. At Paducah, the Eclipse took boat
in tow laden with wood. On it he escaped, and
intended to hail the first steamer for Memphis.
From his condition when he left the Eclipse, the
passengers were of opinion that he could not
survive the shock forty eight hours longer"
Frauconis Hippodrome in New York seems to
be falling into bad odor 1t is said that it at
tracts all the profigacy of the town; and il is
also averred that the feats endanger the lives of
the performers in an unusual degree 1t has
already been the scene Of several most unfortu-
nate accidents. They occur to the females who
ride the chariot and horse races In one case,
chariot wheel came off, and the female driver
was thrown, and so badly injured that she
afterwards died, although at the time the pub
lie was made to believe that she was not much
hurt. On Wednesday week, the spectators were
shocked by another accident. Two women were
riding q horse race, when one of the horses
stumbled and fell over on his side. His rider,
Madame Caroline, was thrown to the ground,
and before she could recover her feet, the ami
NAL rolled completely over her. The other
horse coming close after, leaped over the pros
trate one. Madame Caroline was taken up
unconscious and carried out She was very se-
riously injured.
The city authorities OF Boston are looking
about the towns within fifteen miles from Boston
to purchase farm of some twenty acres as
location for new hospital building, which is
proposed The present quarters occupied by
this institution at South Boston, are altogether
too limited to meet the necessities of the popu-
lation. 1t is proposed to procure grounds on
whith class of the patients can labor site
is wanted which will be in healthy location
easy of access to the city.
In the Connecticut House of Representatives,
bill requiring railroad corporations to employ
a brakeman on each car, and all passenger
trains to stop at least two minutes at stations,
under penalty for neglect of $1,000, has been
read second time, and referred to the Com
mittee on Railroad Accidents.
The New York Art Union Investigation has
resulted in the complete explosion of all the
| charges Of mismanagement made against its
| managers.
| The uniformly wet weather of this month in
| the North, is source Of complaint with the
| Northern farmers, who are retarded in their
planting operations. Still, grass and grain are
coming forward finely.
| The autobiography of Alexander Dumas, now
publishing in Paris journal, reveals, amongst
other "prodigious things, the hitherto un-
huOWn ldCl tDdt Tile heNOlutlOu Ul July, lSOO,
was not accomplished by the people of Paris
but by Alexander Dumas himself; that he and q
companion, an artist, captured, unaided, pow
der magazine, and took regiment of artillery
prisoners that he is invunerable to grape shot
inasmuch as, in the Revolution, half dozen
cannons blaZed away at him, one after the 9th
er, at only few yards distance, and left him
unhurt; that he, though in those days young
man, scarcely known at all, talked grandly
about what he would allow to be done, and
what he would not allow to be done, to General
Lafayette, Nj. Lafayette, and even to Louis
| Philippe himself, in whose household he was en-
ployed in the capacity of clerk.
! FASHIONS BY FIRST" HAND-The fashions
in millinery and dress making present the usual
| features. Fingers are very much worn--nearly
to the bone-skirts and accounts are still very
long, while bodies, particularly those who think
themselves some bodies, are excessively low,
with great deal of stiffness and quantity OF
bone about the place where the heart is likely
to come, if there happens to be any. In the
evening dress, the petticoat is usually very fnll
and the pocket often very empty. Ihe material
of the bosom is frequently glace, and covered
with a transparent tissue of imitation stuff,
which may be seen through easily. Flowers
are not much worn this season in the hair, but
the cheeks are got up as usual with artificial
roses. Punch.
ScorcH MoRALs-In the British House o.
Commons, on the 22d instant, the bill for regu
lating licenses for public houses in Scotland oc
casioned a discussion, with awful statements
That country was emphatically calleda t" drunk
en- one, its statistics ofpotaton and int1xicatioi
being matchless. The Lord Advocate proclaimed
that the evil against which the evil was directee
was '' the National sin of Scotland, sin which
overshadowed all other social bills of the coun
| try, Nv Huna said that he WOuld readily
. vote for the introduction of the Maine Liquo
/ Law-which excited "great laughter" Mr.
Henry Drummond affirmed that, every Satur
, day night thirty thousand men got drunk il
. Glasgow, and lay in perfect state of insensi
: bility until Monday morning We might add
/ large or small proportion Of the fair sex. 1t
. said that Scotch preacher designated alc0hC