New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-07-09

= OLD KENTUck"-A Kentuckian at the bat
tie of New Orleans, who disdainiDg the restraint
e soldiers life, when his name is upon the
muster roll, preferred :. going it alone,' fight
ing upon his own hook While the battle was
aging fereest, and the shot was flying as thick
as hail, carrying death wherever they fell.
" hentuck might have been seen stationed
under a tan maple, loading and firing his rifle,
as perfectly unconcerned as though he was
pickin' deer Every time he brought his
rifle TO his shoulder red coat bit the dust. At
last he happened to attract the attention Of
oll Hickory who supposed he had become
separated from his company, and rode up to
him to bring him behind the redoubts, as he
was in position that exposed his person to the
enemy.
Halo! my man what regiment do you be-
long to - said the General.
: Regiment h-llr answered Kentuck, thold
on yender's one of 'eme' and bringing his
shooting iron to his shoulder, he ran his eye
along the barrel--a fash followed another
Englishman came tumbling to the ground
Whose company do you belong TO /" again
inquired the General
Company the d-ll" was the reply of Ken
tuck as he busiei himself reloading, - see that
ar feller with the gold hxins on the coat and
hoss Jis watch me perforate HIM p
The General gazed in the direction indicated
by his rifle, and observed British Colonel
riding up and down the advancing columns OF
the foe Kentuck pulled the trigger, and the
gallant Britton followed his companions that his
kentucky foe had laid low in death that day
Hurrah for old Kentuck ~ shouted the free
fighter, as his victim came topping of his
h rse then turning to the General. he contin-
ued, 3" I'm fighting on my own hook, stranger"
and he lesurely proceeded to reload
IMPROVEMENTS N GES ,A.--A Genoa CORES
pondent of the Newark Daily Advertiser writes,
under date of June 6, as follows:
1.-The establishment of n new journal in this
city, entitled The Railway may be reckoned
among the signs of progress in Italy. The I'M
portanee of introducing the modern means OF
| social and commercial intercourse is, in fact,
already appreciated On the LIST October the
line of rails which are 10 connect us with the
railways of France and the rest Of Europe will
be completed to Turin, and in all December 1t
will be opened to the foot of the Alps, at the
Mount Cents Pass SO that travellers will next
season be able 10 travel from London, through
the Continent to Turin, Genoa, Florence, Ma
pies etc, by steam--except the short interval
| between LYONS and Mount Gents. That part of
/ the line is now under contract, and the work
| will be pursued with all practicable dispatch.
when this track shall be completed, it must
become the great highway of intercourse be-
tween Europe and the East. We have already
| ,elerraphic communication with Paris and
ported here almost simultaneously with their
first publication and American news may thus
be promulgated here on the hour of its arrival
at Liverpool--that is, ten days after date.
These improvements, and the reasonable ex-
pectation of the establishment OF lines of steam
ers to New York and Rio, have given a new i'm
pulse to the city, which is now undergoing some
very important physical changes. Old build
ings are to be superseded this season by new
ones, better adapted to business; some of the
narrow streets to be widened, the wharyes
will be materially improved, and plans have
been adopted, through British enterprise, to i'm
prove the harbor itself Merchants and capi'
talists who have hitherto adhered, with ever
more than Dutch tenaeity, to their old ways
have at length attained better understanding
! Of their own interests, Genoa will therefor,
become enue mere the ssogna, II %. the eres peE
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