New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-06-24
Miscellaneous Items.

4 Miscellaneous Items.
| The U. s sloop of war Decatur left Norfolk on
1 Wednesday last, for the Pacific.
| x-Preaident Van Buren is said to be writing
| history of his own life and times
4 The Lowell Courier has come out in favor Of
the organization Of new party, under the mot
to Of g Repeal and Restoration
"a writer in the Portland Advertiser, coiuci-
alng IN the opinion that new party should be
Party
The Boston Commonwealth is indignant be-
cause Gov. Washbarn did not head a riot to
prevent the execution of the Fugitive slave law
An Arkansas paper states that not less than
one hundred horses have been killed in Union
county BY the gnats, within the past two or
three weeks
VIM. D. Gallagher has withdrawn from the
EDITORIAL department Of the Louisville Courier.
and announces that his business connection also
VIII cease on the 1st proximo.
Inc lsland Creek bottom lands, in McCracken
county hy.' are growing over with beautiful
| The growth is spontaneous
The steward "a free neero) Of the steamer
Magnolia, running on the Mississippi river. re-
Gently held half Of the ticket which drew $50
09O IN the last drawing of the Havana Lottery.
The City Council Of Cleveland, now consoli
! dated With Ohio City, consists Of TWENTY-FIVE
members, representing Q population Of near
| fifty thousand people, and a valuation Of prop
1 erty Of about seventeen millions
| The Boston Commonwealth, Of June Is.
| says: Hnxford, who was charged with assault
! ing r. II. Dana, Jr., and has disappeared to
escape trial, and Lewis Clark, who bailed him,
| were both members Of the 's Marshals Guard
| Sponge fishing is said to have become verv
| prohta6Ie business IN the neighborhood of Key
West. One hundred thousand pounds are re-
ported to have been gathered during last yenr
! and the sales amounted to twenty-five thousand
dollars. The article is mostly procured by ma
tiyes of the Bahamas
! The st. Louis Republican says: sc The last
number Of the Shepherd of the Valley was is-
sued Saturday-the editor announcing that he
| could no longer continue its publication at a
loss Ii seems not to have been a paying paper
at any time, as the figures given show-and the
| publisher has done right in abandoning it,
The Newark Advertiser says: 4" A few miles
| from Trenton lives w0m 4 Of masculine frame
| and disposition, who is very skillful mechanic
| Sha has constructed a handsome carriage.
makes and plays violns, and has manufactured
| gun, besides many other articles She is
| entirely elf-taught, and is only twenty five
| years old.'
More persons fall out concerning the right
road to Heaven than ever get to the end of their
journey.
The fellow who tried to get up a concert with
! the band OF a hat, is the same genius who few
weeks since played upon the affections of an
| uptown lady.
| One Of the papers is of opinion that the
| Know Nothings viii carry the next Presidential
| election Another thinks it quite likely, as thew
| certainly carried the last
presentation Of plate came off a few
days since at Buffalo. The plate bore this in
| serlption: g Piece of plate presented to Mr.. +.
! Warren. at his residence at the Metropolitan,
| 5pril 4, 1854, by himself' The material was
lelf white with blue edges Mr. Warren closed
the ceremony by taking half dozen raw
| upon it.
The patient mule. which travels night and
day, will, in the end 60 farther than the Ara
| bian courser. m @
Ma, didn't the minister say, last Sunday,
that sparks flew upward -
:. Yes, my DEAR but how came you to be
thinking oil ~
: Because yesterday l saw cousin sally's
downward"
What an agony Of wit is in the following
The Car has mustered hundred thousand
men The Sultan will pepper them, aud Eng
land and France will assault theme and Austria
ana 1, PRUSSIA will show vinegar face so there
will be pretty pickle altogether
1t is astonishing how toddy promotes inde-
pendence. A Philadelphia old .s brick who
was lying day or two since in very spiritual
manner, was advised, in friendly way to
economize, as g flour going up LET it
go up, said old bottle. nose, kin git as high
as dour kin any daysn
We once heard Fermonter exnress his onin
ion OF person in the following style Of classics:
. could take" said he, the little end of no.
thing, Whitte 1t down 10 point, punch out the
pIth OF a horse-hair. put in forty thousand such
sous as his, shake them up, and they'd rattle
's Do you see any thing ridiculous in this
wig:' asked brother judge OF Curran.
Nothing but the head, l." he replied
The people who send money to the newspaper
offices, with request to 'ssend the paper as
long as the money lasts, are respectfully in
formed that, generally speaking, the money
don't last long.
The Ganges canal, a work of great maeni-
tude, located in British India, was opened by
the Lieutenant Governor of Agra on the sth Of
April, with great ceremonies and large parade
Of troops The total length of nayigable chan
mel, including branches, will be 500 miles, in
winch IS included an aqueduct 80 feet long,
erected over the Solani river at a cost of $780,
600.
CONSUMPTION. Dr. Wood, of PHILADELPHIA,
argues the protective and curative value Of cod
liver oil, from the fact that the obituary tables
give much diminished number of deaths from
consumption since II came into general use.
: Probably be says, . we have cured one in
eight cases of consumption hyi.s use
GRAND NAVAL FErE, On Tuesday evening
last Commodore Newton and the officers of the
frigate Columbia, the flagship OF the home
squadron, gave splendid entertainment on
b5ard, at Norfolk, at which the attendance was
unusually numerous and brilliant
Some days ago, a gentleman visiting a iail in
Cincinnati, heard enc of the female convicts
singing with gayety aud spirit ssAh! my
canary bird, said he, looking through the bars
Of her cell . Your canary ;. she replied u
wish you would hang the cage where could
get little sunshinei''
Joseph Smith, Jr., son of the Prophet is a
sub contractor on the Warsaw and Rockford
Eallroad, having section south Of Nauyoo
THE ENGLISH AT A TURKISH HAREM-A COR
respondent of the London Times, writing from
Constantinople under date of May =, says:
Visits to the Sweet Waters of Europe are now
at an end, and the fashiona bles of the Turkish
world will soon have to resort to the Sweet Wa
tiers Of Asia at some distance up the Bosphorus.
nearly opposite the Bebek An amusing scene
took place on Friday at the former spot. A gal
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