New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-10-20

ss
s5s.ssd sseordiuss. ~ s1' ~ M'D'A
The snake Bit Irishman.
A party Of gentlemen having gone on q deer
hunt, was greatly annoyed by an Irish Jeremy
Diddler, who qnartered himself upon their camp,
and bored them by bis idle Boasts and abuse Of
every thing American, and particular horror
Of all kinds of snakes, and one Of the party de.
termined to take advantage of his prejudice with
a view Of getting rid of his company. Accord
ingly, one night when he was sound a snoring
perhaps dreaming Of snakes, the mischievous
gentlemen got his hunting knife, and going to
where the offal of large deer had been thrown,
cut off about seven feet of the intestines, and
securing the ends with twine to retain the con.
tents, tied one end Of them fast and tight to
corner of Paddy's linen that had wandered
through a rent in his oh-no. We never mention.
ems, coiling it up smoothly by his side, snake
like and true
All things thus arranged, the conspirators
lay down again, and at the conclusion Of one of
the stage-horn snores, one of the gentlemen
roared out at the top Of his voice g Hu-wee
hu wee! big black snake, eleven feet long, has
crawled up my trowsers, and is tying himself in
a houble bow-knot around my body !''
At the first shout, he gave the Irishman fu-
rious dig in the side with his Ell bow and kept up
a running accompaniment on hisehins with his
heels! of course, the noise and hurting awoke
MIN quick and wide; in the first movement he
laid his hand on the nice cold coil at his side,
and he Missed out tst Jasus!'' 81 ss
q Mading one bound, that carried him some ten
feet clear of the camp, and with a force that
straitened out the coil, and it or acked like d
whip. Casting one wild, blazing look behind, be
tore off with the rapidity of lightning around the
camp in Circle Of forty feet across, nd at every
bound, yelling s SAFE him SAFE him by the
tail! Och, Howly Vargin, stop him! Och, ST.
Patrick, tare him till jiblets! A-wha, a-wha,
he's got me fast howld, och. an he has! By the
Howly Saint he's mendin his howl on to me j
Och, Jasus, gentlemen, take howld on him /;
catch him! Shoot him in the tail-end, moind ~
During this scene, one stood hugging sap!
ling with both arms and legs, his head thrown
back, screaming with laughter; another lay on
the ground, rolling in fits of laughter; another,
!" Fat Jim" stood with his legs about q yard
apart, his hands holding his hips, shouting at in
tervals of five seconds, Ssnake. snakei snaket''
and the echo seemed to mock him with the return
Of 6 snake! snake snake!'' as Paddy made the
circle Of the camp. sassr5 M
After circling about thirty times, the poor
fellow flew off at a tangent into the dark woods.
and the mingled sounds of sSnake Murder
Howly Virgin Fire! Help!" etc., died away in
the distance, and the hunters were alone. y
sUmph." said one, +" / thought that snake
would stop his snoring in this camp at any
rate''
The next evening Paddy was seen going at
mighty rate through Knoxville, with a bundle
on his arm and a shillaly in the other hand,
poking out his head in a half defensive, half ex-
ploring attitude. He was hailed with Which
way, Paddy?'' ..-. '.ga g s,s
"Strate to ovid ireland, by Jasus where
there are no snake!' growled out Paddy with
out stopping an instantsa SIT 70 75655s55t &
MOBILE AND MONTGOMERY q. s. MAI. LINE.
Messrs Cox, Brainard h Co., the gentlemen who
have the contract for carrying the o. s. Mail
on the Alabama River, advertise that the boats
composing the line will commence their regular
trips on the first Of November next, leaving
Mobile and Montgomery daily, the latter place
on the arrival OF the cars, and connecting at
Mobile with the New Orleans boat and at Mont
gomery with the train going North leaving
Selma daily ate O'clock A. M. coming down. aa5
The steamers to be employed are the Messen-
ger, Magnolia, Cuba, Cremona and Empress, all
fine and fast running passenger boats, and to
be under the command of able and experienced
officers. 't '3 l0fsiY7 85a
Mails will be delivered at fourteen different
landings along the river, among which are Sell
ma. Cahaba. Benton, Prairie Bluff, Clifton,
Vernon, Bridgeport, Washington, Bells Land.
ing, Lower9Peach Tree, Claiborne and Gaines
town, and facilities for the transmission of mail
matter will be at hand such as we have never
before been favored with. Mobile Advertiser,
18th. en $50 5lrf 81 58=5l7 44rs e8I,.T
Running in the fog thirteen knots an hour,
and the fog so thick that the bow of the boat
could not be seen from the stem to the stern. is
running o risk which astounds most men who do
not think much Of the subject. 1t seems to
them very much like being shot out Of a cannon
into the dark, when a wall may be hit, or some
thing else as hard. But If we set down and
calculate upon voyage Of 5000 miles long, the
chances of collision, in comparison with the
small number Of vessels usually seen on the
broad ocean, these chances are small, very
small; and, indeed, SO small, that upon sailors
and captains they produce very little effect, In
oil times past, the captains Of our packet ships,
or clipper ships, have never paid enough Of re-
spect to these chances, to tempt them to stay
their progress in theileast, and hence they have
always run off the foggy coast of Newfoundland
with the same speed that they would run OF the
clear coast OF Italy. 1t has been calculated
automatically, by sailors. that they run no
great risk in these fogs under the doctrine Of
hence the confidence with which they rush into
them and through them, New York Express.
DISCOVERIES IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS.
Arctic expedition, under the command of Capt.
Ipgle6eld, of her Majesty's steamship Phoenix,
has made some discoveries which are as import
ant in d commercial point Of view as they are
interesting to theggeologst Dispatches have
been received at the Admiralty from Capt In-t
glefeld, dated ssFour Island Point, July 9th.
1854 2 from which it appears that the coal de-
pno stoSo he lal txru1.