New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-06
salisreIlaueons Menus Items.,

The claims filed for bounty land under the
act Of March B. 1885, number upwards of 100000 The
Commissioner Of Pensions has issued rather more than
thirty Thousand warrants OF all sizes and at the rate
which they issning warrants It viii take over two
years to complete the hand Claimants who are
anxousy awaiting the receipt of their warrants will have
to be patient No doubt Congress will devise some means
at its ensuing session speeder execution the law
"A Mrs Elizabeth Sheldon, of Lisbon, ST.
Lawrence county New York committed suicide recently
in singular manner. She bent down the top or tree
tied her skirts to it. and rope that and aboue her
neck and then let the spring back its place When
found she dssd though her feet rested en-
Supposed cause, domestic difficulties.
One of the best epigrams ever written was
oopjured up good many years ago by-ve dont know
whom. Qu;e, sabe Hereit is:
Az Harry. ons day wat abusing the sex 'Fs
~ As things that in couttship but studied to yex
And in marriageibqt sought to enthral; -
Never mind him. says Kate, a,ts family whim:
His father agreed 80 4xacty with him, - e
That he never would marry at all q r.t.
\ An engineer Of the Lowell railroad, while
looking into the boerurnacs Of engine East Gsm.
bridge on the 2oth, instantly Killed by the explosion
Of the boiler. He was horribly mangled udsoalded.
The ST. Louis InteLligencer, says that the pro-
Of making satpetrs with but rude applances wus
III opeit'ohin In usouti HAny years ago ana tnatn cou
be resumed, to limited extent, in some localities aud
with but small outlay. The earth impregnsted With
the elements Of saftpet is found in caves in several
counties Of the State. Fhe InteIlgencer says a =.
For many years past hs foreign supply saitpetre has
been great and the price low that its
now an economical question: whether It's production will
the capital and labor necessary under present
prices, %s ,s a. > = a
Major Jack Downing, in his last letter to
w Gineral Pierce from board the brig Two Pollies
cruising about Cuba suh watching the chances gives
following picture of the present condition things poti-
caly in this country = : ass =4z q
Let me hear from you Soon for don't think shall
hold here much longer things now s unless get
new orders see thinEsis hckening up silaround you
and with the troubles IN Mexico, Denmark and Kansas
and the melting down aud mixing up about fifteen polit
cal parties all the country and running them into
thirty nep oiids, you must have your hands full aud
will need all your friends to stick by yon and you
not the man to dAsert an administrations 90 long as
So remain your old friend and Minister at Large and
Captain of the Two PQllies, MAJOR JAeK DowNlse.
The editor of the Georgia Gonstitutionalist
has seen cotton stalk which had it $50 squares and
bolls.. 80 ~ 80 >
Mons and Madame GODDARD made q success
fu balloon ascension from Cincinnati on the 25th ult
They were accompanied by reporter of the Gazette
The Commercial announces that small frame hous,
would be taken up atths next ASCENSION
From correspondent Of an Abolition pape,
we learn that sundry hensble men in Phadephs offer
sound practical reason why Paaspore williamson the
negro thief who sl in jail in that city for contempt
court deserves to be hangsdbeoause say they he had
no business to get up slave excitement just at the op
ing ef The trade. y
The Southern (Ga.) Enterprise gives the fol-
lowing account Of recent tragedy In Teair county
sutng from the slopemspt and marriage Of youug
named Quinn with q Miss Wilcox: ssssS
After they had been united ths started
for the house Of the ridesrooms father but while psss
irrp small creek on the road John Quinn, The bride.
groom was shot In the back and instantly killed. His
wife went back to the rst house. which was Mr
Ashey and gave the That her husband had
been killed, -, ,s -sz-..5.Fz., - j..
n Suspicion rests upon the father OF the young LADY,
he has given bond of his appearance at Superior
Court OF Tefair.
Workmen engaged in digging in one of th'
streets in Richmond Va have found clam shells SO fee
below the original srfaoe. They had the appearances
having been converted into black mari When were the
depositeda
A large sun fish, Weighing 400 pounds, wa
caught BY Nc John Losst on Cape Elizabeth last eel
II will bs exhibited in connection with the q Mammot
Sword Fish, and seal which ax feet 10 length
taken In cesso Days short tins since oa TuesdAY an
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