New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-08-23

50 much employed by Becklurd, is dead.
John Il. Cough is giving temperance lectures
at Exeter Hall and the Wilmington Club.
Mrs. Chisholm is on her way to Rome to see
her SON. who is student in the Propaganda
! There is now magnificent theatre in Alge-
ria, and a Paris troupe have left France in order
to perform in that colony.
| The Bavarian Government has decided that
executions shall no longer take place in public,
but in the interior of prisons.
The new Vaccination bill has passed, by
which children are to be vaccinated before three
months of age, or parents 10 pay penalties
recent writer says that Pyt1agoras was q
great dandy lie wore white robe, with Per-
sian trousers, and golden crown on his head.
The very best painter of animals, and cspe-
cially of that difficult one the horse. possessed
by the French, is woman-Mademosslle Rosa
Bouheur.
The foreign papers arriving at Warsaw and
st. Petersburg are almost entirely cut to pieces,
and all the important news extracted before
reaching the subscribers.
Preparations we're made in Paris on y grand
scale for celebrating the birthday of Napoleon
Ill. the anniversary Of which occurs en- the 10th
August lie is u yesrs Of age.
Baer, German astronomer, calculates that
when we shall have a telescope nine times more
powerful than that Of Lord Rose, we shSll be
able to descry objects in the moon rs small as
man.
Much agitation prevails in the Roman States
from fear OF famine There has been short
wheat harvest in Tuscany, and much uneasiness
at Ravenna, Faen2a and lmola The exporta
ton Of corn has been forbidden.
The culture and sale of flowers foT the Paris
market two branches Of trade which are
continually increasing Ten times the quantity
Of flowers are now raised that were produced
ten years ago, and the prices Of plants, instead
Of falling, have risen
Among other novelties projected in London is
& subterrsnean railway, which is 70 run from
| the lower end Of Edgware Road to Kings Cross
| The capital raised is 70 be G3OO coo, and Il re-
sponsiOle contractor has undertaken its con
s'ruotion for sum considerably below that
amount The length Of this road will be less
| thsn two and a half miles The line is to be in
full operation ia less than twelve months.
y letter from Rome states 50 that the Pope
has been laid up with a scalded foot. Punch
says he does not wonder at this since the Holy
Father has been for long time in hot icater.S
| News Of the 18th, from Rome, states that the
| health of the Pope is daily becoming more pre-
carious. Flo is suffering from severe attack Of
asthma and general debility The Pope is 81
years of age
i -AIsSn' leN VIA s'Ii'o
native air would impart some ygor to his old
| and nearly exhausted frame. 1t was more than
once reported, since his absence, that he was
| actually dead. lie was partially restored, and,
| at last accounts, was making his way back to
| Paris by slow stages, accompanied by hiS two
sons and niece
There IS at this time an unusual demand for
telegraph wire, and several tons are produced
daily. Gessrs. Morewo0d X Rogers, Of Blrming-
| the East India Company The same company
mas an order frem the Botanical Gardens OF
Sydney for ten tons Of galvanized labels for
flowers The birmingham houses have received
almost unlimited orders Tor general hardware
Soods IRON Austraiia
NJ, Theodore Telfereau has laid a paper before
the Academy of Sciences at Paris in which he
| asserts that he has produced gold by artificial
means. lie believes that there are very few
simple substances in nature, and considers the
'forty metals now assumed to be such, are in
reality compound ones, probably Of one radical
with some unknown body, hitherto not studied,
but which of itself alone modites the properties
with forty bottles while, In reality, there is but
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AANgt-p Ann, I,s
Government is about to have measured tLe de-
grees of the meridian from the North cane in
= deg. north latitude, to the mouth Of the
Danube, in 49, deg Of the same latitude--that
is, on a line which trayerses Europe in its whole
length, and forms q fourteenth part of the en-
tire circumference Of the earth. The measure
ment will exceed by three degrees the largest
ever before executed-that which the English
carried from the Hilnalaysta the southern seint
of British India
WHAT'S THE REASON A NewYork journal
says that some difficulty has sprung up be-
tween Messrs Hogg & Dslameter and the Girls
tai Palace oflcsls, and the former have with
drawn their application for place to exhibit
Ericssons oaloric engine, constructed bv tnopa
for that purpose Mr. Holmes, the superinten-
IeHt OF the machinery department, had made
sPecial a .i s 70 measure exactly the
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