New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-12-09
PhilAdsl Letter

MATTERS AND THINGS BOUT rHx QUAKER CITY.
Corrtsponsfufs Of toe int
-snstsruA. November 30.
Matters between the sla and softs OF the
democracy Of this State out coming TO point ard
that point will be of 10 the knifep revised
and improved edition of the NewYork contest. The
Hards or Nstiooais as they style themselves have
already opened the campaign. Last night preliminary
meeting held the Chinese Museum at which Gov
Biger and the Administration party In the State ware
denounced and taken To general
demonstration Of the Hsrds" with view to the nomi-
ration Of the Hon. VIM H. wite a. the candidate for
soseraor Mr. Carrgsn Of the speakers. who also
ura - tne recent meeting In Metropolitan Hall New
aenaunces Gov BIGGER false to democratic prin-
cIp osnsl s speeches we're equally explicit. Similar
ter and other counties aud should the Adi
wingof the party persist In nominating Biger for
reelection th. result will the ssme hers a. in New
York-ths wings sweeping the state
The police here have arrested an sdrnit co ox.rxter
named Cbas Clark who ia believed 10 be connected viii
extensive gang In the cellar at the redepcs Of tho
prisoner the outskirts Of the city press vas found
and in different parts Of the house other portions Of the
machinery secretsd. Under bed, In the second
story the floor boards found 70 be loose upon
examination the cavity under the floor proved to contain
large quantity Of counterfeit There ones
threes fves and one hundred dollar bills purport-
ingto he Of the following nsmed banks: Bank 81 CALI
polls Famers and Merchants Bank Of Frederick, Md;
Merchants Bank Of Granville. Washington county New
York Merchants Bank of Brighton N. j. and Farmers
and Mechanics Bank Of Frederick, Nd The aggregate
There also nine plates for altering the Of vz
Gus banks in different States chemicals for preparing
notss psper printing INK pens IN indehnts
this nefsro1s trade The notes discovered ia Cark's
house all admirably executed and calculated
ceve even good judges The bls found in fsrent
stages of their manufacture and Of them
ing submitted to the action Of acids probably for tho
purpose Of having the fxed The arrest an i'm
portaut and will save the community from heavy in
fiction Of worthless trash.
coiored scamp calling himself Peter Denly has bsen
~l.n
phlanphropss by representing himself be Fugitive
slave He obtained various from s5 upwards from
some thirty persons by telling the plausible tale Of hs
escape from cruel master in Maryland snd Of subse-
quent suffering aud poverty They deserved to be mpo
| sed upon, aud no one pities them.
Before Of sldermen yesterday barber was fined
upon the information Of VIM D. sutherland. another
who's sense q morality was 80 crest to not
| impunity On being Intercepted by Mr. H. il he was
certain he a~ him attending his svocation
sabbath, he replied he'd be Ed DID be wasn't
Whereupon the masstrsts mulcted the pous Mr. 8. 90
| cents for profanity.
Notwithstanding all the Efforts that are made by thu
temperance intoxeaon and both on tho
increase in Philadelphia The list Of inn-keepe pub
hed by the County Treasurer shows the number of NJ
reused taverns is 1855 which is every "A
80 ei3 taxable inhabitants Of the city aud districts
In the city proper the most wealthy of the city the
sides these licensed there probably 2OOOiadd
tional places in which liquor s sold so that you may
city she is scarcely behind New York in providing the
ways and means Of intoxication.
Our city authorities have sensible thing atol-
shins the absurd nomsnclature of Hereto
fore Broad street has formed the dividing line
the streets on the Delaware and schuJki foEts were
named numerically Consequently those the schuyl
Kill side could only be distinguished from those the
Delaware side bearing the numerical appeation by
the prefix Of Schuylki, Second schuyki Third aud &c
on. This has now been abolished, and the COM
nencing the Delaware side will In regular num-
bers to the schuylki- going as high Twenty third
street Cedar High Sassafras and Mulberry vii
also be altered to the which long has given
them Of South Market, Arch and Race streets. Thess
nguarities and contrarities Of have heretofore
been constant of trouble and confusion to
strangers not acquainted with street nomenclature
| and the change will be a grateful one. QuIz.