New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-10-07

WHAT has She Tone Am abolition paper
wants to know what the South has ever done to
advance the reputation of the Republic We
quote a paragraph:
'And what has all this South done which has
so lorded it with her one hundred or two hun
dred thousand negro drivers over this country
Where are her superiorites- = her arts or her
literature even, except as, they came from the
Norths Where are her chemistry, geology :
| Ii literature, mechanics, engineering, esthetics !;
where are her grand efforts to diminish human
| toll: her steam engines, locomotives, timber
bending, or planning, or sewing, or washing
machines, all this gospel of divine economics for
the sweating and Borrowing humanities of thou
| sands Of years
| In what too has she with all official rhetoric
| and dnellolegic contributed to the inspirations
of the century. Nothing, nothing, less than
nothing"
As our friend wishes To know what the South
mas contributed to the country, we would mem
ton, George Washington, Thcmas jefferson,
Patrick Henry, ana the Declaration Of Indepen.
dence She gave US Marion and Morgan, the
pattie Of Yorktown, and Cornwallis's sword
she has done several other things, but these we
think quite sufficient to offset the wonders en-
acted with gum elastic rat traps and gutta
percha frying pans. By the way, this sowing
l-teeling among different portions Of the Repub-
c 10 o business that we should like to see cur
I 'h"p 40 iiihuO NY TeCTlulIuHtlO0 Ill
will and enmity. If men are wrong, convince
| them OF their error, not by throwing filth at
| their reputation but common sense at their
brains. About face, and come back to deoency.
New York Dutchman
Mrs. FITzwnIrAM. The last English papers
bring US news of the death of this we'll known
performer. On Monday, the 18th, she was
seized with prernonitory symptoms of the cho1-
era, and she died on the same evening The
performances at the Haymarket Theatre, Lon
| don, were suspended in consequence of this
event. Her maiden name was Fanny Copeland
and she was born in London in 1902 She
| made her debut on the London stage in 1916,
and has ever since been reigning favorite,
Mrs Fitzwilliam visited the United States in
| 1878, and played star engagements in the
princlpat cities. She was unsurpassed in the
delIneation of sombrettes and broad comedy
| ExpLosToN.- This morning about 7 o'clock
| one Of the steam boilers on the lake boat and
canal propeller Asa r. Swift, of Rochester, ex-
ploded, while the boat was lying at the pier at
| the foot of Columbia street bridge, preparing to
go to New York. The conclusion was felt for
| some considerable distance on the pier, shaking
| the houses to their foundation, and causing the
| tumblers and bottles to fall off the shelves.
The smoke-pipe Of the Swift was carried over
two. story frame building occupied by Mr. Ben
L J"hAitA F.ahVIhAs thul louESQ pIl6 Oh SuHV6S
| nearly 40O feet from the boat. The engineer,
| MI. Riley, was in the engine-room when the ex-
Pioslon took place, but he escaped with having
his face slightly and his hands pretty badly
| scalded by steam and water. The engineer OF
the propeller Swan, of Philadelphia, was stand
ing near the boiler, and blown overheard. He
was rescued unhurt. No other persons were in
any way, other than the engineer, injured, and
| no damage was done to the boat. The boat be-
| longs to Captain E. Halfway, of Buffalo, who
was In charge, and James Bell, of New York.
She was fully laden for the latter place. The
boat, engine and boilers were constructed in
| Rochester Upon examination, we find that the
| boat has upright hollow tubular boilers. One
of the inside upper sheets of iron is torn from the
upper rivets in diagonal direction nearly
down to the opposite rivets, showing pretty con-
oluslvely that there must have been some de-
feet in the iron. Alb Eve Jour, 9th ult.
Our OF HIS LATITUDE. --On Wednesday last
some fishermen at this place succeeded in cap.
turing genuine juvenile shark His appear
ance created 'squite sensation . in cur vii
lage, and several old salts, those who ssgo
down to the sea in ships, and do business upon
the great waters, pronounced the monster a
veritable bona fide shark.
This leviathan of the deep was certainly
long way from home, and we presume is the
first ever caught this high up the Mississippi
river, but as to the genuineness Of his shark
ship there is not q shadow of doubt His for
midable tail somewhat resembled the rudder of
. steamboat, and was 50 arranged as to steer
him as well when swimming on his back as any
other way. His two rows of savage looking
teeth, resembling those Of a cross-cut saw, the
peculiar position Of his mouth, ETC., all go to
prove him the same as the shark described in
historical ichthyology. Persons who doubt the
truth Of this &c fish story, can see the subject
Of it by calling at the wharf boat Fort Ad.
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