New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-06-19
Domestic Miscellany,

The Shakers at Enfield, Conn, have lately
been called to deplore an affective dispensaton,
which has deprived them of two of their most
effective members, ANfew evenings since the
two members in question were suddenly missing
and after Il long and anxious search, it was
found that they had gone and got married"
Both parties have our liveliest sympathy.
An extra session of the Virginia Legislature
is in agitation, for the purpose of taking action
on the subject Of internal improvements. The
Governor is required by the constitution to call
an extra session whenever a certain number of
members sign a requsiton A great many
members have already done SC, and, at the last
dates, only four more names were wanting to
complete the number
Frederika Bremen has written a warm APP
peal to the Swedish Parliament in favor of the
Jews.
The stauuton (Va) papers state that there
was a sight frost, on the LIST inst, in the coun-
try around that town.
1t appears there have been six gentlemen
elected to the Mayoralty of Washington, at diff
ferent periods, who were printers by profession.
Their names are Roger Q. Weightman, Daniel
Rappne, Joseph Gales, W. W. Seaton, Peter
Force and John T. Towers.
A car of the freight train recently thrown
from the track near Gotham, Me-, contained
hundred barrels of -four, eighty of which were
The Chicago Democrat thinks the population
of that city, by the first of next January, will
be 100 900.
Mr. Isham Williams, of Madison county, Ga !,
came to his death on the 29th ult., from being
stung on the arm by a wasp. 1t is stated that
he died in less than ten minutes after being
stung.
Upwards of four hundred visitors arrived last
week at Saratoga Springs.
Within two days last week over 200 dogs were
poisoned by the police Of Cincinnati Strych-
nine upon meat is the article used.
We learn from the Niagara River Pilot, that
on the Sth inst, Us the II O'clock train from the
Falls was approaching the crossing of the Cam
andaigua and Niagara Falls Branch track, a
small child was discovered playing heedlessly
upon the track The alarm was given, but the
boy was not to be alarmed-the breaks were
ordered down, but it seemed absolutely imposs-
bic to stop the train in time to save the child.
The fireman took in the whole at a glance, ran
along The boiler, and leaped off just in time to
snatch the boy before the engine passed over
the spot upon which he had been playing.
Another moment and his body would have been
a mangled corpse
Is IT SETTLED We perceive that the Delta
still conspicuously publishes every Sunday
morning that notice of the immense superiority
of its circulation over that of every other pa
per in the city and especially that of the Plea
yune. The latter respectable and undoubtedly
well patronized journal has in the meantime
dropped the matter and says no more about it.
This looks as if the perseverance tor pertinacity
if you like,1 of the other party had carried the
point, but as silence don't necessarily imply as
sent to proposition, we arc still in the dark
and are curious enough about the affairs OF our
neighbors to ask for further information
We don't think our readers ought to be de-
priyed of all the good things said by the North
because we happen to occupy Southern lati-
tude; hence, we can not forego the following
JEFFERSON REVISED is thought they have
got a new edition of the < Declaration of Indie.
pendence" at the South especially calculated
for that latitude The following is said to be
the beginning of the precious instrument
''White men are born with considerable free,
dom, and endowed with inalenable rights
among which are life, liberty, and the puFSui
Of niggerst s" portland Advertiser.
SOMETHING To BE TALKED ABoUT-The Musi
cal Congress which is to be held at the New
York Crystal Palace on Thursday next, pro
misses to be on a scale never before imagined il
the universal nation. That gifted, brilliant
dashing bamboozler, Julien, is to be the CRANE
director The New York Times thus notices tht
Congress
1.-THE arrangements are on the scale not only
without precedent here, but we imagine with,
out parallel in Europe. Such musica
event indeed marks a new epoch in the history
Of art in this country, and is, We trust, but the
beginning Of many such If, as we have every
reason to believe, this Congress proves satis
factorily that we have fifteen hundred first rat,
musicians at our very door, there need be it'll,
fear of retrogresson, and still less of comparison
with any other city in the world The list 0
Choral and Harmonic Societies will number
perhaps, thousand voices, The perfect, mas
sive harmony of such corps can scarcely b
imagined
r At the National Theatre, on Wednesday eve
5 ming, certain literary gentleman of this city
I J, W. h., came forward to deliver an address Of
i the & Drama " with hat, cane and gloves! Thi
popularity struck the gods with amazement
| and by the time he had one glove off { = dow
+ came about two pounds of flour Then cam
5 three or four strings of onions. After that
T promiscuous shower of Bologna sausages, oil
a shoes, lemon peehngs, gas fixtures, and othe
:, vegetables. The literary gentleman then shool
his cane and stepped out suddenly, New Yorl
$ Times.