New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-08-16

All vessels from this port, arriving at Nor
iolk, are TO remain at quarantine, until they
can he oyerhaue1
new political party, to he called the Amer
,can party, it is said, is about to be formed in
NewYork
The last news from Gen. Sam Houston is that
ne IL making temperance speeches in Texas
"ho would have thought 1t
ne sheriff Of Essex county. Georgia, has
Deen for some time past busy attempting to
seize favorable opportunity
ELEcTfic PnEN"MESoN.-Th London Dioge-
1es says he telegraph is not yet over the whole
world, yet the news runs from pole to pole.
II s stated that ia the great yacht race to
come of n September, at keyport, Long Island,
IN English yacht Will enter The prize is $500
A MoDEL STATE In New Hampshire there
are but seventy six persons, between the ages
Of u and q, unable to read or write.
a law has been enacted in the State of New
York, imposing severe penalties for the destruc-
ton Of birds or birds eggs and nests in public
cemeteries.
Montgomery and Pensacola Railroad commenced
the survey Of the road, starting from Pensacola,
on Wednesday last.
An intelligent printer being asked if a GER
tain man was {" crazy" said: '' No, the word
implies that person has lost sense; the indi-
Vidual spoken of never had any
A gentleman having asked, So how many dog
Gays there were in year." received for an an
sWer, that it was impossible to number them,
" as every dog has his day.
a late German writer says that the peo-
pie Of the United States can burst more steam
boats and chew more tobacco than auy other
FIVE nations in the world. Complimentary that
Elisha Riggs, one Of the most eminent bankers
Of this country, died in NewYork on the Sd inst,
aged - years. He was a native of Maryland
and formerly member Of the old house of Pea
body, Riggs & Co, of Baltimore.
PERSONAL mathematician being asked by
stout fellow eff two pigs weigh twenty
pounds, how much will large hog weigh" he
replied; :" Jump into the scales, and l will tell
you Immediately"
Two living graffes, one measuring II feet,
and the other Is feet in height, arrived in New
York in the steamship Washington, from Bre-
men. They are said TO have been brought from
Egypt at an expense of $4,000.
The Kentucky papers announce that Profess
sor b. ". Dudley, of Lexington, the founder of
Pennsylvania University, the oldest surgeon in
America and one Of the most eminent in the
world is now stricken with disease, from which
no hopes are entertained of his recovery
Iowa is being filled up very rapidly. One of
our exchanges says that the whole interior is
full of settlers. A hundred emigrants were
met in one day recently by traveller: S34 $50
were received at the land office, in about six
weeks, over and above all lands entered with
warrants, which will reach very large amount
The entries were all by actual settlers.
MADEIaA.-A gentleman, now on the Island
of Madeira, says there will be no wine made
there the present year. He adds that it will
be necessary to root up the vines and get fresh
cuttings from abroad, SO that many years may
elspse before good wine will be made there
again. He gives rather q gloomy picture of the
prospect for the inhabitants, for whom he thinks
there is no resource but emigration
JAPASEss PORCELAIN A late writer on Japan
says: The tea-cups are especially worthy of
attention. | have seen tea cups, a dozen Of
which, with the saucers, would not weigh three
ounces They are really transparent, and SO
thin and delicate that one would believe the
dropping Of piece OF sugar would break them
nevertheless, this very thinness gives them an
extraor inary elasticity
The London Times says '' In fifty years Ire
land will be Protestant to man Both the
Roman Catholics Of Ireland, and the race iden-
titied with that faith, are all leaving Ireland
Ere long there will be none left. At the present
rate of emigration, which cannot be less than
200 600, chiefly Roman Catholics, in a year. our
children will see the time when the Celts will be
as obsolete in ireland as the Phenicians in
Cornwall" :"
''IRIsH News - There is a column with this
heading in every English paper. The intelli-
gence in it Is always uniform in its character.
1t is always the same story of eviction, poverty,
sale Of estates and emigra ion. One can trace,
day by day, the great change that is gradually
coming over Ireland The removal of those who
were born on the soil, and the substitution of
another race. goes on slowly but inevitably
That is the . Irish News" for this century, past, :,
present, and to come.
A HATLEsS PoPULATIoN.-A gentleman pass
ing through Massilon, Ohio, the other day, no.
ticed that the entire population were bare head
ed; supposing a funeral was the cause, he un-
covered his own head and inquired the name of
the distinguished dead, to whose remains so
much respect was shown. 1t turned out that
all the hats In town were put in requisition to
the windows which the late hail-storm had rid
died. The visitor gave his head scratch and,
replacing his hat, left town.
LrQUoR Law II SwEDEN--In Sweden, who
ever is found drunk is fined for the first offence,
80 and for the second, 81 for the third or
fourth, Imprisonment is added to the fine, and
deprived of the right of voting at the elections,
or holding office, and exposure 10 the church on
Sunday. If the same individual is found COM
mitting the same offence the fifth time, he is
imprisoned six months and condemned to hard
labor. If professor of religion, il is still more
severe, and he is cut off from the church
CHLoRoFoRM FOR BEES.-A sixth part of an
ounce Of chlorotorm for single hive, or nearly
IA quarter of an ounce for a large hive, is used
in Scotland for putting bees to sleep while their
honey is taken. They PUT the chloroform in q
shallow breakfast plate, covered over with thin
gauze, then put the hive over the plate, covered
with cloths, and in twenty minutes the bees will
be sound asleep, and out of the combs on the
table. This is considered better than sulphur
and the bees rather like it.
The deepest artesian well in America is now
in progress at the sugar refinery works of Bel
cher 4 Brother, at St. Louis, where it has
reached the extraordinary depth of 1850 feet,
far belew the level of great portion of the
bottom of the Mexican Gulf. The boring is to
be continued until good water is reached, which
is expected to be at the debth of about 2O0O
feet, and this will be the deepest well in the
world. The work thus far has cost So 900, and
| the only result has been streams of salt and
sulphur water. The hole, which is three and a
| halt inches diameter, is bored with an auger
driven by a steam engine, the instrument pene-
trating about four feet daily The rods meas
ure thirty-three and fourth feet in length,
and ars put together with screws.
| SPORTING INTEILIGENCE.-Th Saratoga Whir
! gives the details Of the great trot which took
| place there on Tuesday, between Flora Temple
| and Tacony, the two fastest nags in the world
| The match was for mile heats, the best three
| in five to sulky, and Flora Temple was agar
| yictDrinuS winning ba fret