New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-12-23
CONGRESS SIGNAL
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Il coNGREssIoNAL
~ wsnnrsros, Dee. Us, 1864
ssSArg-rhe senats wss not ia session to-day
Housr--Mr Houston from the Committee ON Ways
Msans reported bill tur We
YEAR ending June 1886 Referred to the Committee Of
lhe whole On the State Of the Union
sGay s vss e
MicIlsgan City Indiana, and otherwise improving the
hsrbof Of said city Referred to the COMMITTEES On Com
The House then went into Committee ofthe WhsIs and
took up the private calendar. ~.
Ms gdgerson moved that bs passed ", " the se
better u Il nsv, bat Nj. Edssrtons motion was
The bin Cor The relief Of the children heirs Of Maj
General ps Eab discussed and arnendsd BY appro-
This BILL together With four other private BILLS was
Nj. wsibridgs III memorial IL Bcnj Price
and others in favor Of tho Homsstead Bill.
The House then adjourned tn Monday.
a Hrr AT LORD Aberdeen "a London letter
sMr Dickens's Household Words is becoming rather
politically sasica and has hard hit this week Lord
ID
Hr Dickens thinks ehak Abby Dean III hare notics TO
ss n. ss q 4 e
at the head Of bis establishment = q
spEEcH OF KoSsuTH os THE WAR; On the
Both us meeting was held in London in
ton of The POLISH revelation of 1sSe ana ashch Kcs
suth delivered elcqaeut eddrsss The course q the
Allied GoyernmeDtss n conducting the wax, = criticised
without mercy while the gaiantry Of their armies Is
dwelt upon with spontaneous admiration and sppsause.
According To Kossuths the only of secuxing the
West Of Europe against the encroachmens Of Russt is
the reconsruction Of Poland followed vi ne xsstoAsn
Of the other lately subjugated and suppressed n.cus
Il ties Of the Continent
TIE Hooslc TusNEL.-The Greenfield (Msss-)
Republican states that the york of buiiang the Hoosac
runnel Win be vigorously beguu in the spring capt.
talsts in NewYork having combined to execute IT, The
contractors expect employ power drills and Let day
light through the mountain for iess than two million
dollars. 4f
New discoveries Of ore are said 10 be OF al
most daily occurrence IN ths copper regions q Georgia
and Tennessee several Of which prove Be Of
ally rich character severa specimens of metal have
been found the vicinity Of Lookout Mcontan, in Dade
county Georgia During last month, Is ne learn from
the Georgian nearly sixteen hundred boxes Of copper
were received Savannah from Dalton, and about the
same quantity from thr Tennessee mines
| Advices have been received at NewYork from
Caracas Venezuela the 4th u The choera had been
Introduced from Trinidad, and gradually spreading
ttnrougAouC 1n0 bpece VI HiSH 1ltoA'
chan fteeu hundred persons had died ct the psssnee
decree pardonng parea implicated in the lsse resol
a had been issued 1t exeepts however, criminals en-
ployees 81 the Government and the leaders Of the move
" ment. -
at A few weeks ago poor, very poor, mechanic
in Cincinnati, named VIM. L. Walker left propert
worth nine thousand dollars by the death Of rich reia
p tive in Baltimore. He proceeded to that city, sold
for eight thousand cash in hand returaed to Gin
cinna set up for Gentleman frequented the fashion
able Saloons etc., and lost sx Thousand dollars by gan
ea bling in the course of a few Gays
THE FuN OF BEING SHOT Ara letter write
81 in the crimea gives his experience thus 8 tS
When got under fire of the enemy's large guns
depoyed into line and lay down. snd remained ons hor
he in this recumbent position, with shot she'll grape can
a ter and every Internal invention for the destruction
w. from thrtytwos twenty-four and eighteen FOUNDER
Just when we lay down an eighteen pound shot struc
II away lis pouch and ammunition he the third ms
49, my right and thought that things were beeonir
ne serious We lay sti half hour before any OF OF
ch artillery cae up and when they did open fra as yc
ov may imagine and six Founders could not do mus
siion and vel worked After lying down for about
minutes began 10 get little accustomed to the whiz
shot md the ss1esch Ss The esnss @ es s oFes
he was one them meant for could mot possibly ayo
took out my opera glass and watched tns procssdn
nsl of the enemy In very short time knew every 8
had that would bear position, and you may masi
for my feelings when saw those guns dischaIgsd Ihs
tervas the discharge snd the arrival q the 3
ss confess IL shs % happsss momenis 81 ls can't
Something q the nature at all
dria it very unpleasant you wish to hare my au
graph you had better keep this not day and scarc
os an hour passes without deadly missile pass
ir OF perhaps day Of them may IL
at fancy to my head and then you VIII not hear
this moment two shells burst close to where am sitti
| of them, i writing LnlS my kn
long under stone wall, thrown up for the defence of
ried picket MY bail is nearly broken and perfes
the bothered and confused by ths firing from
lines and the town. which now going on ior rs 81
day think the Russian fire is slackenng. but this
he apcy shah now 60 for change to see there
rried any Russians moving about in our neghborhood
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recently arrived in this city from the neighbour
Of the Congo River in Africa It Is said that mis- lengt
between tWenty and five feet with grth Of tn
curious croumstsnces connected with this great reI
or stranger since his arrival which are worth chroncl
xy Of doo and no other food was eaten by him
in months after About the rst Of October this Kim
snakes arrived ~ BosIon ana W. n,Ss rss M
blanket folded into four furnished TOT ms
i was full tins tempt his appste and therefor,
h,o troduced rabbit into his den just at evening On
@ gs tss ss ras aas a1
and seven days after the blanket was discharged,
one unipaired after cireuitous Journey threus
ant
ous Ii may now be seen in the aparnent-being six
al i wide by seven In length Since that period he
exhibited exceiisnt health and has deyoured
the Every few days he drinks about three quarts Of wat
a tbs sucking ali up When an animal Is giveI
y food to one Of his family Of serpens 1t l. eyed tnfs
nave for an instant and then the trembling creasu
nings suddenly in the huge folds Of the terrible
Of the sterthe cracking q tne bones peing usnJ
oft of quite asanee M hf i an;yslent to hand
kant steady while ID Is gradually down the q
Of the animal into the stomach, whereit i slowly dge
It's the opinion Of Mr. Sears that when the, the anae I
i'd the rspo escsped and he edge
h for blanket was BY the teeth When these are
ON the beng holders and mot for mastcstion
r, anits impossible disengage them and hence Sha
Is once drawn into the mouth. must necessarily go
pres the throat Even the muscles Of degutton seem
Conor volition and the norsei ao
agher strong psEssatae
~ al gical and Medical Journal sA
"A PAITRY SwINpLER.-Three or four "
Yopr since on the arrival Of foreign steamer gentsml
- Il called upon Madame Ruttkaf Kossuth and said u
hn