New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-05-02
DAILY CRESCENT.

BIBLE DIsCUssI0N.-Andrew jackson Davis
and two other persons, of even less pretensions,
have issued call for a convention, early in
June, i" for the purpose of freely and fully can
wasting the origin, authority and influence of
the Jewish and Christian Scriptures" The
Tribune, in the course of some remarks which
many of its readers will deeply regret to see,
expresses the hope that some clergyman thor
oughly qualified to uphold the authenticity of
the Scriptures will be designated by the clergy
Of Hartford, if by no others, to take n leading
part in the discussion" We respectfully but
earnestly express just the opposite desire The
game really is not worth the powder. 1t will
require thousand fold stronger power than
Mr.. Davis and his two associates, or the ncon-
gruous company that they may gather together,
to invalidate the truth or impede the influence
Of the Word Of God, as contained in the Holy
Bible. Immeasurably ADLER and more learned.
and more influential men than he have tried it.,
and tried it in vain. Conventions have assembled
for the purpose, but after gratifying the passion
Of the members for a notoriety that they
could not otherwise acquire, they have died out
and are forgotten. The same fate will speedily
overtake these lesser lights, if they are let
alone. my. Commercial Advertiser.
A SECOND WILLIAM TELL.--About a month
ago, we learn from the Courier des Etats
Unis, case was brought before the Correc-
tional Police of Spires, a city of Baden, which is
without parallel in the annals of justice. A
weaver of Spire, who had been much extolled as
marksman, undertook, by desperate expert
ment, to establish his reputation beyond dis
pute. To this end, he loaded his pistol, and re-
paired to his garden, accompanied by his son, n
lad about twelve years old. He ordered the
child to stand at fifteen PAGES from him, with a
potato upon his head. The boy obeyed, with
out making any resistance, and the father,
preserving the utmost GOODNESS, fired his pistol,
and dislodged the potato. the ball piercing it
through the very centre
The weaver's neghbors, to whom the fact was
related, refused TO believe it, and would only
be convinced by repetition of the fool-hardy
exploit. 1t was now night, but the intrepid
marksman insisted upon an immediate repeti-
ton. Instead of the potato, he placed upon the
boys head lighted lantern, at which he dis
charged his pistol with the same success as be-
fore. The fame of this extraordinary exploit
coming to the ears of the police, they deemed il
their duty to arrest the second William Tell
and put a check to his wild ambition by the
agency of the law. The justice before whom
the case was brought, not sympathizing with
the admiration which the affair had excited
among the weaver's neighbors, and having as
certained by careful investigation of the cir
cumstances, that the second time the pistol ball
had slightly grazed the boys cap, condemned
the marksman to eight days Imprisonment
| Boston Traveller.
The chronicler of the sayings and doings OF
Mrs Darlington, that ancient dame of worthy
| fame, has got back into the Office of the Boston
Post. Here is the last characteristic anecdott
| of the good old lady and her son Isaac:
So never see the like !'' said Mrs Parting
| ton, as she slammed to the front door, with @
noise and jar that set every thing to dancing il
| the house, and the timid crockery stood with
| chattering teeth upon the buffet " in the cor
| ner. 1t was wrong in her to say she had never
seen the like, for this was the fifth time that SHE
had been called to the door by violent ringing
within half an hour, and had found no one there
Hence anger-so rarely an occupant of hei
| mind, but so justifable now-prompted the
| slamming of the door, and the remark, 50 never
see the like" 1t was the LIST of April, and the
| occurrence was the more annoying for this
reason. She stood still by the door, and watched
stealthily for the intruder; tapped her boz
easily, and RECALLED her olfactories with a dusty
| oblation, and held still. The peal of the bel
again startled her by its vehemence Sh,
opened the door and looked out, but no one wa
to be seen. As she turned away, a string at
tached to the bellwire, extending from the ban
| lister, met her gaze, and sitting quietly upoI
| the stairs, with n grin on his face that had
| world of meaning in it and world of fun in il
| 9ht Ht iioW tne spectacles Sparkeu IN In
rays Of her Indignation She went for the rod
which had long rested on the shelf, but it hat
been manufactured three days before into al
arrow by Ike, and as the chance of finding i
diminished, her anger cooled like hot iron in tn
air, and the rogue escaped.
4 |
| An INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF A BABY.-O
Friday evening the 23d ult, on the arrival a
Salem of the o'clock train from Boston, bah
of about two months old was found, snugl
wrapped in a shawl, and lying upon a seat il
one of the cars, quietly sleeping, without an,
protector. The child was provided for tn
night, and at about eight o'clock the next morn
ing, woman appeared at the depot in grea
anxiety for the fate of her darling Her stor
was, that she took passage in the cars at Bosto
for Wenham, and arriving at Lynn Depot
stepped out for minute, leaving the child on tn
seat that before she was able to get in agai
the train started, leaving her behind in grea
tribulation. As there was no other train b.
Salem, she was obliged to walk over from Lynn
The child was produced, identified, and give
Inv md