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

was found left outside the inner vail The i'm
pression ID that with this knife he intended 10
fight his way if detected and interrupted; bus
/ ii is surnised that he took ao0q with him
smaller knife to convert infe asaw for the pur-
pose of saving off the irons. 1t il sVtlsng that
he could not travel rapidly.
DEFENDING THEIR CoLoKs.-s Some e lie hard
est fighting in war is in defending the colors or
attempting to take those of the enemy. An IN
Stance, 80 common in all wars, is related as oc-
curing at the battle Of Alma:
| Among the many daring exploits, says one
writer, Of the intrepid men by whose energy
and unshaken courage the allied arms have been
carried to the heights Of tho Aims, we have NOT
| heard Of an instance which surpassed in. cool
daring the conduct Of Lieutenants Lindsay and
| Thistlewaite, Of the Scots Fusileer Guards, the
Queens colors being carried by the former, and
| the regimental colors bythe latter gentleman.
At the moment before the heights were gained,
and when the deadly struggle ragged 90 iereeIy
| as to make it almost impossible to tell fxisn3
| from foe, the two ieutenants became separated
| from their battalions and found themselves
with the four sergeants whose duty IL was II
support them, attacked by o body Of Russians,
whose commanding officer had led them againss
| the colors. a desperate conflict ensued; tna
four sergeants quickly fell under O. shower Of
balls. The Queens coloTs, carried by MIR. Lind
say, was torn into strips, being pierced BY a
/ cloud Of bullets The staff was shot in two;
still the gallant ofieers perseyered, and sue
ceeded in cutting their way through the enemy
who surrounded them They were ably assist
ed, and at the right moment, by Captain Drum
mond, the adjutant of the regiment, whose horse
was at that moment shot under him.
| Captain Lindsay, seeing the danger TO which
the ooIors were exposed. rushed to the relief,
and, with g revolver pistol, shot three Of the
assailants TIE successful bearers Of the stand-
ard escaped almost miraculousiy, and succeeded
in planting their eolorg On the heights, which
had been then but just won from the Russians,
Mr.. Lindsay having actually climbed the steep
face Of the hill with the aid Of the broken staff,
while he exultnely waved what remained of it,
with Her Majestys celors, over his head s
Neither this gallant gentleman, nor his equally
distinguished campanion, Mr.. Thistiewaite, re-
ceived any hurt
The 7th Fusileers,' says another correspon
dent .siost their coiors. and the Russians got
hold Of them. too, but the 10th charged them,
and charged them three times before they sue
ceeded in getting them back. The 5th Fusileers
we're cut up tremendously by the Russian bat
/ teries. They fired nothing but shell. 1t was a
strong and tremendous fght--all the French,
English and Russian artillery firing shell az,
once, close to one another, and the line Of cav
airy charging all at one time"
II The CAPRICE OF 4. SINGER - MademoiselIe
4, Cruvelii, the famous cantatrice, was recently
engaged at the grand opera at Paris for the
!, term Of eight months. The was to sing but
twice week during that time, and was to re-
ceiye for her services the comfortable little sum
of one hundred thousand francs. On the day
t before her appearance, however, she discovered
, that her name had not been printed np0n the
play bills in larger characters than the names
of the other actors and actresses, and indignant
at what she considered an outrageous imposi-
tion, she Immediately absconded from Paris,
and the poor manager, after waiting in vain for
i her appearance at the theater. was obliged TO
refund the money taken at the doors, and close
T the house for the evening But the affair was
serious one. A prosecution was entered against
9 her for breaeh of her engagement, and the
: furniture and other property at her residence
q was seized for security. Thus matters stood at
s last accounts. Mademoiselle Cruvelli had not
made her appearance, and nobody knew where
9 she had gone Her servants said that on the
morning of the departure she had gone cut as
4 if for walk, leaving all her money, trinketa
r and property behind Her most intimate friends
t declared that she had acted under the advice Of
t M Hebert, the Minister of Justice under Louis
Philippe
a E1ooUENoE OF THE HANDs-The hands are
a by the very instinct Of humanity raised in
. prayer; clasped in affection, Wrang IN despair;
= pressed on the forehead when The soul il sspsr-7
n vite thrust forth objeetionately to repel; the
# fingers point, to indicate, and are snapped in
= disdain the palm is laid upon the heart, in in
: vocation of subdued feeling and on the brow Of
. the compassioned in benediction The impress
:. sive capacity of the hands was never more
| strikingly displayed than in the prisons OF the
4 deaf and dumb. Their teacher stood with closed
. eyes, and addressed the Deity by those signs
| made with the fingers, which constitute Ian
i guage for the speechiess. Around him we're
h grouped more than hundred mutes, who fol-
i lowed with reEerent glances every motion. 1t
d was visible, but an lnaudible worship.
'e SINauLAR--Mr Ashbury and others, says
a the Jackson California; Sentinel, in cutting
= down pine tree for saw-logs near that place,
: found embedded near the center of the tree. q
- bullet about double the size of q common buck
Il shot The tree itself was over three feet in
= diameter and there was no earthly trace of an
~ entrance for the bullet. For an inch or so from
~ where it lay the wood was gnarled, sort oi
- spherical knot had been formed, and more thar
"a fifty circles we're counted between it and tht
nearest outside Of the tree. Fifty years. there
ar fore, must have elapsed since this bullet wa
ba shot into the tree; and the question arises, bJ
.. whom? It was supposed this particular part
California could never have been visited by any
10 white man before about twenty years since.
~ LORD RAaLAN-The Commander in Chief o.
h the British forces in the Crimea, is an uncle O
a, the Duke of Beaufort, whose grandmother wa
rs daughter to Admiral BoscaWen, who, with ,
ae broom at the head of the mast, drove the Dutol
fest from the seas, and contributed to establish
ut that supremacy at one time accorded to th
d, British Government.
aS Mademoiselle Rachel, the famous French ira
he sdae is reported making to coma
New York September 1885, for the purpose Of giving
nd series OF the French classic and moder
ia dramas.
8 Our Friend, a we'll directed monthly Maga
zine observes that the anteduyian life have bee
of great contrast to Only aney having two dre
- whales hanging up in tine harder, and cold mammot
W cut and come again the sideboard Shall hei
ed YOU to little of this cthoyaturus soup2 Thank yen
led should prefer slice VI your masadon stewed p!eso
SEQ aurii Remove levathan Ia crapoderie! Imagine
- bill not at two months but two hundred years; and
feog who carried OF your platebex getting sent TO Il
no tread mill for the term Of fourscore summer 5euceis
he an elderly gentleman with liver complaint eT only
hundred years standing weariug cut four sets OF al
teeth and fnaiy carried o after brief illness OF tr
hu hundred aud years in galloptng ceusumptona
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