New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-04
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atsd almost Immediately above my aching head.
where was gathered q choice company, consist.
ing Of three Germans, who cele brated their re-
turn toward faderlsnd in discordant ditties-ona
follsh Jew, who talked treason and atheism
Two New Yorkers, who talked dry goods
oompsin-sonie cholcoate colored refugees, and
wv. Two oid seat dogs, " who chewed pig tail and
Lynch regaled through the small honrg With i
series OF appalling stories; of which, one about
Two negroes who murdered their oyerseer and
packed him up in barrel Of salt pork, figured
with eminence -
The honorable association Of the sScreech
0wis" n dated ITS existence from that NIGHT.
lfhliadelphia Bizarre
AGES OF AxIMAIs-A hear rareIv sx,sad,
twenty years dog lives twenty years: q fox
loor,eeh ,. or sixteen; lions are long lived-Pom-
Pey lVed to the age Of seventy. The average
age Oh cats is fifteen years; squirrel and hare
seven or eight years, rabbits seven. Elephants
nave neen known to live to the great age Of four
hundred years. When Alexander the Grsat nod
conquered one Porus, King Of India. he toot !.
great elephat, which had fought yery yaliantIv
for the King, named him Ajax, and ser]jcate1;
him to the sun, and then let him 90 with this
inscription: ss Alexander, the SON Of Juuitar.
hath dedicated Ajax to the Sun. . This eie
phat was found with this inscription three hun
dred and fifty years after. Pigs have been
known to live to the age of thirty years; the
Tnlu0cfrO1 n hnroo has &Iszs.
p I'VE 70 the age of sixty two, but averages
twenty i've to thirty. Camels sometimes live to
70 ene age o. one hundred. Stays are long lived
Sheep seldom exceed the age Of ten. Cows lise
ABOUT h1teen years, Cuvier considers it probs-
Die that whales sometimes live one Thousand
years. Inc dolphin and porpoise attain the age
OF thirty. An eagle died at Vienna at the aSe
Of one hundred and four years. Ravens fre-
quently reach the age of one hundred Swans
have been known to live three hundred wears.
Mr.. Mallerton has the skeleton of a swan that,
attained the age OF two hundred Pelicaps are
long 4 tortoise has been known to live
to the age of one hundred and seven.
The HEIGHT OF Co#ARDIcE cE.-During the win
ter past the newspapers have recorded numer-
GUS suicides. Self destruction has been, wa
think, uncommonly frequent. What are the
causes we are not prepared to decide. How
ever, we are satisfied that many suicides are
forced by dissipation, many by inexcusable i'm
providence, and some by constitutional insanity
Not q few hurry themselves reeklessly into Pc
cuniary embarrassments, and then commit sui
cide to escape from it Every such man is q
coward. To our mind there is no more despiea-
Bile exhibition Of coWardiee than for a man to
shut his eyes against his own affairs, until,
when ruin stares him in the face, he takes his
life to avoid worldly responsibility. He cuts
himself off from friends and kindred it NAV be
ban Il.
green of the glad earth, for what That he may
escape an hours on o minutes anguish Is he
not o coward
A savage cur looks at man, and he leaps
precipice in the dark to escape conflict Has
not such man craven heart,
Learn to labor and to wait to suffer and be
strong: these are the notices of the heroic heart
Cincinnati Columbian. e
GHosTLY EyTDENGE.-A trial for murder took
place last week, in Wetzel county, Va, in which
the evidence rested mainly upon spirit rapping
and ghost-seeing proof. A man named Lsben
Mercer was charged with the murder of a man
named Gamble, some time since A John Hind
man met one night the ghost of the murdered
man, who stated that Mercer was his murderer;
and the spirit rappers we're consulted and they
corroborated the evidence of the ghost. The
Court, however, ruled out all such testimony,
and Laban was acquitted. The trial created
great interest IN the part OF the State where 1t
occurred. Incredulous Court not to believe,
when the dead rise up to testify
On the night Of the 11th in Penn township
(Fla.,) the wife of Mr.. David Tahm, who had
been deranged for several weeks, undertook to
| murder her husband while he was asleep, by
| striking him on the head with an axe He how
ever, recovered shortly from the blow and at
tempted to seize his wife, who fed out into the
| darkness and escaped out of sight; the next
| morning she was found dead, in an out house
| near by, having hung herself.
William Ross Wallace, of New York, has re-.
ceived the prize of one hundred dollars for an.
ode which was to be sung at the re-inauguration
of the Crystal Palace, ON the 4th of May. Nc
poem was presented to be recited at the REIN
auguration which the committee thought woi
thy Of the prize a.
Twenty -one German country girls, from IL to
Il years old, were lately taken from steamer
on the Rhine, which they were descending in
company with three men, who were taSing them
to New York to be placed in houses of ill-fame.
Their were sent to their homes, and two of the
men were arrested.
TAxAs MERCHANT SwINDLED.--Mr. II. a.
Crammer, q merchant near Houston, Texas,