New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-06-13


through our city fasf wetk, and ioined eaal other
near here for their better ruu nal protection:
they numbered toeether alaiHg sixty efTacYfvs
men well armed and besiaes tssese wers ti,ei1.
wives and children, baggage wagons, etc. They
are on their way to California, and neither ID.
tend to be deferred by the Indians or the Gle.
ments IEo or three other Companies are form :
ing IN this part Of the State. and ore of them wiIf
leave IN few days for the same destination
EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR IN Tf8E GrEF. - Az
gapt- Daniel aornan,.of the ship Jersey, from
Limerlek, y was on his outward voyage, and when
about forty FIVE miles sottheast of tEa feland af
Anticosti, during a. fbiek fog, and sstrrounded
by field ice, he heard the report Of a gun Sup
posing it 20 be signal from another vessel near
at hand, ne caused the fog bell to be rune. to
avoid collision In about twenty minutes the
fog cleared off, and his ship was fonna to be close
% % pisee 81 ice, on which lay in view the body
OF an Indian extended, and still bleeding pro-
luseIy from wound in the chest He was euite
asaa, sa and not far from him lay The hodyof an
osher Indian, with dead seal alongside Of him
ihe Iifse poor fellow, it is conjectufed despair
ing ot Felief from certain death by starvation,
had just put period to his existence. not i'm
aglni7g that ail vas really so near They
probably vent out together on the field Of ice to
Kill seals, and had drifted out to sea. when. the
first dying from cold, the otE.er committed sui
eide to avoid q more, lingering death. f0uebec
Mercury, May q
Recent discoveries and examinations in Greet
britain have rendered It absolutely certain that
Jera natura of that island were, in times gone
by, larger and more dang rous than the fallow
deer and the fox. The natives, long before the
days OF CaTactaeus and Julius Cesar, hunted
Wild beasts as large and ferocious as any to be
found in the tangled and luxuriant forests Of
Geylon. Elephants and hyenas, at a period Of
confined to the Geological Gardens Of London,
hut roamed over the hills and through the great
oak forests Of Great Britain Biologists and
naturallsts have, by an intelligent examination
and study Of, old bones dug up in various parts
OF the Kingdom, rendered the fact certain
Bones, recently exhuned at i great depth. by
iaborers digging gravel in Oxford, have been
ascertained to bethese Of the elephant Similar
relics have been found at great depth below
the surface of the earth, in all portions Of the
island. In 1906, the entire bones Of an elephant.
with the qualifications Of we know not how
many centuries above him. were found near
Ho4ton, in England; an elephant skull, tusks
and all, were dug up at KingslaAd some years
ago, forty feet beneath the surface of the earth
The Druids, no doubt, three thousand years
ago, may have :" seen the elephant to whom
these bones belonged, while they celebrated the
mysterious rites of their religion in the recesses
OF the primitive forests Of England. That these
DEIGT6 the BFI-
tons invaded Great Britain, is demonstrated by
the circumstance that the bones of the Roman
soldiers are found much nearer the surface of
the earth-three times nearer-than those Of
the elephant.
In digging ON the Great Western Railway
from Oxford, the e Boswell Bone Caves were
found, containing the most astonishing evidences
OF the existence at one time in England, not
only of the elephant but Of the rhinoeeros and
the hyena. They were discovered in sinking
shaft deep into hill. In these caves an incre-
dlble number of bones were found of the
elephant, the bear, the rhinoceros the hyena.
and the ordinary domestic animals At period
perhaps almost coeFal with the deluge these
animals may have been as numerous in Great
Britain as they now are in the region of the
tropics The eighth volume Of s' Household
Words contains a long and curious article
upon this subject,
VERDICT OF CHICAGO CoRQNER's JURY.--The
Chicago Press publishes the following rerBGtiss
copy of a verdict rendered few days since By
Goroners jury upon the body of female child
found upon the lake shore:
STATE OF ILLINoIsE, Cook county, ss.
At an inquistion taken for the peopel of the
State of Illinoise and county of Cook this 26th
day of May a. d 1854 before Mr. AUSTIN Fl ynes
Coroner of said county of Cooke upon the view Of
| the body OF Female Child name unknown then
and lying dead upon the oatks Of Twelve Good
and Lawful Men Of the psepel of the Said State
and County of Cook and Wien and who the said
| came to his or she came to her death We ths
jury do say We the Jurors do Agree The Body
came to her Death by death unknown.
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The editor Of the Pittsburgh Post has turned
type-setter. His first effort appeared under his
editorial head a few days ago, and will be found
below. He will, no doubt be one of them. .
some of these days:
NeWpriNteR
This is our eB ort at Typesetting pesune
that it will show that we can learn fast
-z .t We are self-taHsht too. We
Want ho help, Me viii have it right without as
sistanee. The prooI will need no coretreioa, we
don't intend to try it every day but we will
the drinters know that we are one off them.
talk about the ART Of drintingt It is just is
easy as rolling of a log
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''Your Old Kentucky Home you poor soul,
you !" said Mrs. Partington, as she thrust her
nightcap out Of the window, away almost into
the midnight, to catch the notes of song an