New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-31

| UNREQUITED AFFECTION. New York cor
respondent of the Charleston Courier relates
| the following bit Of scandal in speaking of the
arrival of Grisi and Mario:
The only piece Of gossip that have heard at
ais referring to these musical artists, ls rather
| piquant, besides being literally true. An Eng
lish woman seems to have become very much in
| fatuated with Mario, and knowing that it was
| his intention to visit America, and seeing it
announced that lie would sail in the Baltic, she,
too, took passage in the same steamer, and az
| rived here On Saturday. She went to the same
hotel as the handsome tenor. The most singu-
lar circumstance in connection with this roman
tic affair is, tn at the enamored and persevering
English woman never spoke to Mario in her
life. She is neither young nor handsome, and
Mario is said to be exceedingly displeased at her
annoying Partially for him. What Grisi thinks
Of it, is matter of sage conjecture
KILLING MADE EAsY.-The New York Tri-
bune says that important experiments with new
artillery have just been made in England, in
the presence Of military and naval commanders
The practice commenced with 68- FOUNDER gun,
ten feet long, weighing So cwt, on Lancaster's
principle Of the bore, being oval instead of
round, which gives the largest guns all the adj
vantages possessed by the best rifle, when shot
or shells Of a particular description are used
Excellent practice, it is stated, can be made
with rifles at considerable ranges, bat until the
experiments with Lancaster's oval guns or egg
shaped shells, correct aim could not be taken at
the astonishing distance of 5000 yards, the
| range Of the practice with Lancaster's inven-
ton. The long period which elapsed during
the flight of the destructive projectile, weighing
| upward of S8 pounds, owing to its elongated
form, caused, according to the account given, a
feeling of greht suspense, but when it fell at a
distance of 5000 yards, and in no instance did
the shells fall wide or short of the target, the
| spot where it fell and burst presented the APP
pearance Of the eruption of volcano, the sand
being raised to q great height in the air. Elk
periments were also carried on with Moorsoms
shells at 5000 yards, and the practice with
them and with shot is described as very good.
Several other guns have been made of smaller
bores, on Lancaster's principle, for the purpose
of carrying on experiments with them.
| THINK AGAN-It is related that during the
first few days Of the reign of Queen Victoria,
then q girl between nineteen and twenty years
of age, some sentences of court martial were
presented for her signature. One was death
for desertion; soldier was condemned to be
shot, and his death warrant was presented to
| the Queen for her signature. She read it,
paused, looked up to the officer who laid it be-
fore her, and said:
| nave you hothlng TO say IN penaH OF tn1s
man " .-.o.n..
"Nothing; he has deserted three times" said
the officer. -s 5.
'sThink again. my lord" was her reply.
g and" said the gallant veteran, as he re-
lated the circumstances to his friends, (for it
was none other than the Duke of Wellington,)
seeing her majesty SO earnest about it, said,
he is certainly a bad soldier, but there was
somebody spoke as to his good character, and
| ha mo ba far opuht 7 Gnn m ho
contrary"
'sOh, thank you thousand times !" ex-
claimed the youthful Queen, and hastily writing
Pardoned in large letters on the fatal page,
she sent it across the table with hand tremb-
ling with eagerness and beautiful emotion