New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-09-20
THE DAILY CRESCENT.

THE DAILY CRESCENT.
ANOTHER MURDER = Thomas McShane, the
who was stabbed in the abdomen on Sunday night
last Phippa street. died yesterday morning at the
Charity Hospital Deputy Coroner Terrell engaged
in holding inquest the body up till late hour last
night when the jury adjourned till IL O'Clock to-day for
the purpose of taking further testimony 1t Is to be
hoped they may be enabled to discover tho perpetrators
of this dark deed.
THE RIOTs.--We trust that the riots which of
late prevailed such alarming extent have
ended Last night the regular police, aided by
small citizen patrol duty and not the slightest
disturbance manifested itself in any portion of the city
This will certainly be received by all citizens cheering
news. The heavy rains which have fallen for two or
three nights past have, doubt had their effect In
storing order Mendo not like to engage in riots during
a heavy elemental storm.
FIRST DISTRICT.
n Last night as Recorder Summers was passing
along Lafayette street he observed Corporal Ageo and
watchmen Lynch and oNeil in a cofee-house, the
evee, amusing themselves by drinking and carousing
Just if that their legitimate business They
4 arrested for neglect of duty
a THIEVES ON DuTY.--Oficer Hornsby is re-
ported the police books having sandered the Po-
lice Department by stating that he point out three
thieves among the regularly organized police If he
\ it should be done
THIRD DISTRICT.
A RIoTER.--A fellow named Joseph O'Toole
last night arrested Leyee street. when INDUCING
in noisy and inhammatory harangue, which evil
IDENTIFY intended to create riot 1t is to be hoped that
Recorder seuzeneau will attend strictly to Mr. OTooe's
All the other arrests in this District during
night were for drunkenness and trivial cases Of assault
+ and battery.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
GOAT SToLEN.-William Coslow was arrested
and held for examination charge having stolen
valuable goat from the residence of Mrs Couigan on
Magazine street. mild.
A DOUBTFUL SToRY.-A correspondent of the
4 Petersburg Express, writing from Charlestown,
Va, makes the following statement, for the truth
Y of which we can not youch We remember that
1t isnot long since story was circulated among
4 the newspapers of the country that an ancient
+ watch, which once belonged to George Wash
s lngton, had been unearthed near the site of old
= Fort Du Quesne, and we had always given the
4 General credit for more prudence than to
y scatter his valuables broadcast over the land
Barnum is no doubt by this time in possession
( of the watch and both seals. Here is the story
=" Washington was accustomed to wear two
seals to his watch--one gold and the other Of
silver. Upon both of them the letters G. W.
were engraved, or rather cut These seals he
j wore as early as 1754, and they were about his
Z person on the terrible day Of Braddock's defeat
On that day he lost the silver seal. The gold
one remained with the General until the day
y OF his death, and was then given by him tc
his nephew, gentleman of Virginia, who
carefully preserved it until about seventeen
years ago, when, in riding over his farm hi
: dropped it, and could never recover it. The
other day the gold seal, lost seventeen years
ago, was pioaghed up, recognized from The
letters q. w on it, and restored to the son O
I the gentleman to whom Washington had pre-
sented 1t. AT almost the same moment thu
silver seal, lost in 1854, just one hundred years
ago, was ploughed up on the site of the battl,
IN which Braddoek was defeated; and, in like
manner, recognized from the letters &C. w.
So that in a very short time the two companions
will be again united. i have this whole state
ment from the most reliable source possible
namely, from the gentleman himself, who ha
thus had restored to him these precious memen
toes OF his great ancestor. The affair is Blu
one more proof of an oft-stated maxim, tina
truth beggars fiction in strangeness / repeat
that there is not the slightest exaggeration o
mlsstatement in the matter; and no room TO
mistake, In legal phraseology, the truth ex
cludes every other hypothesis
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD LANDs.-Fey
I persons fully appreciate the quantity of lam
that is contained in the grant in aid of the Hi
nois Railroad. The quantity is 2 1900 900 acres
How much is two millions six hundred thousan'
acres Not much less than the dimensions
the whole Of the State Of Connecticut, as fol
lows: --7-=-=---
Official returns of Connecticut 2733s T9 acres
Lands patented to Illinois Central R. r.. 06o acre.
person or company that should own tn
Whsle State of Connecticut in fee, free of debt
with all its rocks, rivers, swamps, bays, hills
dales, and valleys, would be possessed Of a goo
farm, notwithstanding very large proportio
OF it would be unremunerative, being unsus
ceptible of cultivation and ineligible for occu
patton The State of Connecticut contain
100000 inhabitants, 60,378 dwellings, 50
miles of railroad, and a taxable valuation
$780, 100000.
This is what has grown up upon 'patch'' {
land equal to the quantity owned by the Illinoi
Railroad, but far beneath it in value. The Ian
owned by the road is all selected for its fertil
qualities and eligible location There is non
Of it waste or Improbable. There is no porto
of it remote from railroad conveyance to tn
best markets North or South. 1t is all acces
sble to the most abundant supplies of btu
minous coal; the whole quantity of coal in tn
"Hoie ouiou 10 Ioo,UUU ulleS, 0ue- tHlFu
which is in Illinois. The supply of timber b
railroad from the north is limitless. Here al
all the elements for the support of an immens
: population. UNITED States Economist. e,
FEMALE TELEGRAPH OPERATORS ia
sex are now employed as the principal operate
in the telegraph Offices in England. The Londe
correspondent Of the National Intelligencer.
his letter of the 24th ult., says.
'sThe occasion of the opening and prorog
ton of Parliament are always field days at Il
electric telegraph stations, owing to the gener
desire throughout the country to receive Il
royal speech with the utmost possible dispatc
All the officials are on the qui piue, pick
hands are appointed to work the instrumen
communicating with the principal stations, al
spirit of friendly rivalry prevails among tt
manipulators as to who shall transmit correct
the greatest number of words within Civ
time. Upwards of one hundred and fifty cler
are generally engaged in forwarding, receivil
and transcribing Her Majesty's address; al
on Saturday. for the first time, the services
the female clerks now employed at the Electr
4 Telegraph Company's central station we