New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-10-11

Loss OF THE BRIO Gg.ARtssA, AND RESCUE or
HER CREw.-The pilot boat David Mitchell, on
the I'd inst, ct 8 A. NJ, when in lat. 40 q, lon
II 10, fell in with the brig Clarissa tof Warren,
Me- j. Hathorn, master, bound from Phila-
| delphia to Boston, in sinking condition. The
| pilot-boat took off the crew. consisting Of ten
persons, including the captains wife and child,
and arrived with them at this city yesterday.
| At the time they were rescued it was blowing
d strong breeze from the northwest. The Cla-
rissa sunk an hour afterwards She was coal
laden IN. Y. Express, 4th. ..s5i.. y
A'GooD EXCUSE. There is society in exist
ence, which, like most other associations of the
kind, has standing rule that all members who
come late or absent themselves shall be fined q
certain sum, unless they are able to give suf-
ficient excuse for hardness or absence. On one
occasion member came in after hours, and the
Chairman asked him his excuse for being late
Greatly, sir,' said he, was not able to get
here before. Domestic troubles; perplexities of
mind cannot say which will die first, my wife
or daughter! !" 5tsSS
"Ah,' said the Chairman, expressing much
commiseration for the father and husband, &c
was not aware of that. Remit the fine, Mr..
Secretary the excuse is Q good one. ' tt- IA
The member consequently took his seat. The
next morning another member met him, and
with feeling asked him how his wife and daugh-
ter were.
SIN excellent health, replied he. Sf4
"How thought you said last night that
you did not know which one would die first !"
ssI did and am still in quandary. Time,
| however, will decide the question
l SCIENTIFIC NOVELTIES. DR.. Tyndall has
been examining the subject of tones, emitted
by masses of heated metal while cooling He
| proved, by repeated experiments, the correct
4 ness of the explanation hitherto received, but
was still unable to assign the phenomena to
| their true cause Another was on some most
extraordinary effects of motion One is this.
\ Let beam, free to turn in all directions, be
balanced horizontally on the top Of standard Z;
then put small wheel on one end, cause it to
rotate rapidly, and the beam will still retain its
4 horizontal position, Notwithstanding the weight
\ Of the wheel. 1t is as though motion nullifed
gravity. 55,...l. 24'55 I'M
Another interesting subject is that brought
forward by Professor Edward Forbes, who has
A started an inquiry as to the depth Of primeyal
oceans, and who believes it possible to throw
light upon it by the study of the color of fossil
4 shells The shallower the water the more in
tense the color, is the experience gained by
/ dredging in the seas Of the present period and
reasoning from analogy, we may infer the same
1 law prevailed in earlier periods. Gutenberg
4 too, contributes something more to our knowl-
4 edge of ocean life He has examined specimens
4 Of the mud brought up from the depth of si1
thousand fathoms, and finds them to contain
living infusoria The astronomers, also, have
4 been somewhat excited, not by the discovery O
new planet, but by a book on q Plurality Q
Worlds, written to prove that there is no plu
rality. The author, learned doctor of Cam
bridge, contends that this globe of ours, ant
this only, is inhabited. All the other, are life