New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-19


To j. N. Scott ESQ, Agent, Accessory Transit
Company, Greytown.
A RUSSIAN WAsHERwoMAN.--The following
pleasant account of domestic management in a
Russian household has just been given by
Capt Jesse:
One morning, while occupied in writing let
ter, very odd squirting kind of noise outside
the door attracted my attention, and at length
worried me SO that ] left my desk and went out
in the passage to ascertain the cause Here |
found my neighbours housemaid quietly ironing
h er mistress's lace collars and caps-so this did
not account for it, | therefore reentered my
ro ON, but had scarcely got seated at my desk
when | heard the noise again. whist, whist"
looked out once more, and caught the Abigail
in the very act of filling her mouth with water,
which she discharged over richly embroidered
muslin dress, to damp it before ironing. This,
to make the spray fall evenly from between her
teeth, was done with good deal Of method, by
first putting out both cheeks and then slapping
them sharply with both hands.
KNOW NoTHINGs WANTED IN CANADA.-The
Quebec correspondent of the New York Herald,
writing, on the 31st ultimo, of the recent i'm
portant election held in that city, gives the fol-
lowing narration of the manner in which the
| Irish votes were managed:
The Irish turned out almost en- messe for the
| Government; they voted over and over again,
and their presence in force at the polls had the
effect of overawing their opponents. At two Of
| the polling booths, the agents of the opposition
candidates were compelled to leave, their lives
| being threatened in the presence of the govern
ment returning officers, who actually refused to
protect them. No sooner were their backs turn
| oJ hos, rafh ar Moi efu'e
ment were marched in plain clothing to the
polls, and voted, unquestioned, as citizens and
electors. Nor was this all-crowds of seamen
/ were brought up to the polls and voted-as good
men as any. The government money was used
both freely and openly, cash being offered at the
polling booths without disguise; and the Gov.
ernor coming up in his carriage at the Bridge
street poll in ST Rocks, read the state of pol
as ii referred to his ministers, and received the
| cheers of the mob-most of them in their shirt
| sleeves.
At the election for the county of Lotbiniere
however, their own arms were turned against
them-Mr. O'Farrell, a young Irish attorney
brought up his countrymen in great force, and
polled them again and again, to such an extent
that at one place thousand and fifty votes
were recorded for OFarrell, while the tota
number of electors for that district only mum
bered three hundred and twenty.
FIRE IN THE WooDs. -yfooreS, Clinton Co
NJ Y, August 1.-The fire is raging in THU
town to an unprecedented extent There having
been no rain here of any consequence for thu
last six weeks, the whole surface of tine grount
forms but a mass of combustion, the more
readily ignited. A strong westerly wind is moi
only driving the flames with great rapidly
through the forests which surround us, but thu
fire sweeps over the standing grass and grail
in its destructive course. The number of rods
of fence already destroyed can not now be com.
puted, but probably may be reckoned By
thousands. About a thousand cords of woot
lying upon the line Of the railroads. in this town
and two barns with their contents have beef
burned.
The worst of all this is that life has beer
sacrificed. The freight train from Plattsburs
to Moore's junction came in contact with tn
flames issuing from some hundreds of cords 0
dry wood beside the Yack which was on fire
The engine was reversed as soon as possible, blu
not until the engineer and one of the brakemel
, we're very badly burned. The fireman, in hi
fright, jumped from the train, and was foun
shortly after, not far from there, with hi
clothes almost entirely burned from him. Fl
was taken to the house of Mr. Isaac Parker
where he died last evening. The others are ye
aiue.
A Washington dispatch to the New York pa
pers dated August II, has the following:
Daniel E. Sickles undoubtedly brought impo1