New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-01
DAILY CRESCENT.
smoking in a stage.

xion ami considerable caring He once tOiu tllu
following aneclote 10 a friend of ours Travel
ing in early manhood, in public conveyance q .
III s South eastern State, he found himself in
company Of three other persons, consisting OF a
young lady and gentleman, her husband, ana
an individual mufied in 81 cloak. whose coun-
tenauce was concealed, and who appeared to be
indulgine in o fste.a. tfse with Morpheus. Sud
denly I, big. brawny Kentuekian got into the
coach, smoking q cigar, and frOwned hercely
around, as much as to say s. I'm half horse,
half alligator; the yaller flowers OF the forest,
all birthstone but the head and ears, and that's
aoata fortis. In fact, he looked as savage as
&. nleat-ax, and pulled forth huge volumes of
smoke without reference to the company within,
especially the lady, who manifested certain timid
symptoms Of annoyance. Presently, after some
Whispering, the gentleman with her. in the
politest accent, requested the stranger not to
smoke, as it annoyed his companion The fel-
low ans wered: az reckon I've paid for my place
I'll smoke as much as darn please and all He'll
shan,t stop me, no how!r With that he looked
dangerous, and rolling his eyes round as tiercely
as rattlesnake. Il was evident he had no OBJ
lection to quarrel, and that if it occurred, it
was likely to lead to deadly struggle. The
Young man who had spoken to him shrunk back
and was silent.
Clay felt his gallantry aroused. He consid-
Grad for q moment whether he should interfere,
hut experienced natural repugnance to draw
upon himself the brutal violence of his gigantic
adversary LII that laWless country, he knew
his life might be sacrificed unavenged. He
knew himself physically unequal to the contest,
and he thought, after all, it was not his bust
ness, quixotically. to take up another mans
quarrel
Feeling pity for the insulted, and disgust
toward the insulter, he determined to take no
notice; when, very quietly, indeed, the oloaked
figure in the corner assumed an upright position,
and the mantle was suffered to fall from 1t with
out effort or excitement.
The small but sinewy frame of a man, plainly
dressed in tightly -buttoned froek-coat, with
nothing remarkable about his appearance, was
seen, and a pair Of bright gray eyes sought the
fierce optics Of the ferocious Kentuekian. With
out word, this :. lay figure passed his hand
under his collar at the back of his neck, and
slowly and deliberately pulled forth long-ex-
trenely long-long and glittering knife from its
sheath in that singular place. Stranger" he
said, ssmy name is Colonel James Bowie, well
known in Arkansas and Louisiana, and if you
don't put that cigar out of this window in a
quarter of minute, I'll put this knife through
your bowels, as sure as death |"
Mr.. Clay said he never forgotain after life the
expression Of the Golonels eyes at that moment.
The predominant impression made upon him
was the certainty of the threat being fulfilled,
and apparently the same conviction impressed
itself ere long upon the offender. During two
or three seconds his eyes met those Of Bowie.
He was the weaker, and he quailed. With a
curse, he tore the cigar from between his teeth,
and flung it, scowling, but downoast, out Of the
coach window. Upon this, Col. james Bowie as
deliberately replaced bis long kuife in its eccen-
trio hiding place, and, without saying word
to any one else, on even vouchsafng a glance
at any one, refolded his cloak around him, and
did not utter another syllable to the end of the
journey. IQuarterly Review.
JuLEs LEcoMTH tells the following story to
L'Iadepe,ldence Beige:
Madame x r. has a very short bust-sufh-
GENTLY large standing, very little sitting, and
disappearing in deep armchair. In draw
ing room, maugre the use of low seats, she can
pick out higher chair, and thus avoid an I'M
happy comparison with women seated in ordin-
ary. But at table danger is inevitable. There
all the seats are alike, and all the worse for
short busts! Madame K. Y SO disappointment
find the plate up to her chin; and, obliged to
raise her elbows in order to eat, she assumes
the most ungraceful attitudes; while at home,
aided by chair somewhat elevated, she is en-
throned to advantage-her pretty bust not dis
appearing under the cloth
What, then, was to be done to render her
more attractive To have always at hand a
cushion and foorings piled to raise her up-pos-
sible when she goes to the piano--but on the
sofa and at table? In this extremity, Madame
x. Y conceived the following ingenious method :
She had made by her upholsterer a little round
cushion, about five or six inches thick, under
pressure She then caused it to be fastened by
her faithful waiting woman to an elastic brace,
leaving off all other t0urnuse She can hook it
81 "A III,
about, she Is like the rest of the world but,
when she wishes to sit down, by a movement,
well-studied, she knows how to arrange the
cushion so as to be well upon it--so well that
she de6es all seats and all rivals.
ANEeDoTE OF WASHINGTON One Reuben
Rouzy, Of Virginia, owed the General $1,000
While President Of the United States. one Of his
agents brought an action for the money. judy
ment was obtained, and execution issued against
the body of the defendant, who was taken to jail
He had considerable landed estates, but this
kind of property could not be sold in Virginia,
unless at the discretion of the owner He had
q large family, aad for the sake Of the children
preferred lying in jail to selling his land. A
friend limited to him that probably Washington
knew nothing of the proceeding, and advised to
send him a petition. with q statement of the
circumstances He did SO. and the next post
from Philadelphia, after the arrival of his petit
tion, brought him an order for his immediate
release, together with a fall discharge, and a
reprimand to the agent for having SO acted
Poor Rouzy was consequently restored to his
family. Providence smiled upon the labors Of
the grateful family, and in few years Rouzy
enjoyed the exquisite pleasure of being able to
pay the money with interest to the truly great
man. Washington reminded him that the debt
was discharged, and the General, to avoid the
unceasing Importantly Of the grateful Virgin
ian, who would not be denied, accepted the
money only, however, to divide it among Rou-
zy's children, which he Immediately did FOLD
Colony. Memorial
PRACTICAL SPIRITUALIsM.-Th Spiritual Tele-
graph contains an account of new single
machine, the draft of which, it says, was given
to medium who was under the influence Of DR..
Franklin. A machine was made according to
the draft and specifications, which is said to pro-
duce "a shingle each second of time, including
the time required to remove the single from
the machine, and the replacing of the bolts upon
the carriage A patent for the machine is to
be applied for We are glad to see the old phi
Iosopher Franklin still engaged in such useful
discoveries. He appears to be great fayorite
with the Spiritualists, though when recently
summoned by them, has given little else than
an unintelligible gable about electricity, which
showed that the philosopher had mot, in his sci
entifc knowledge, kept up with the progress of
the age. As he has turned his attention in the
other world to machinery, we may hope some
results from his investigations much more prac-
tical and useful.
LIMA-A recent traveller in South America