New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-01
miscellaneous Menus ltems,

The London correspondent of the Boston Post
that affair of the heart has sprung up between the
Princess Royal OF England and the young King of Porsu-
gal, Who is again in England ON visit Queen Victoria
is said to be much troubled about it, not that there is
anything Objectionable in the young King either In mind
morals or good looks, but that he is Roman Catholic
and is thus dsbarrsd from aying himself by marriage
with an heiress however Distant Of the British Crown
The National Intelligencer of the 18th inst.
says: We understand that John RUSSELL who was con-
vcted by the Grand Jury at the last Of the Criminal
Court Of this district for the alleged forgery of the Hon
Jefferson Davss name upon notes drawn by Lewis L.
Taylor appeared before Judge Crawford Monday last
by habeas corpus and gave bail In the Of thou
sand dollars for his appearance at the next term Of the
Criminal Court in December and thersupon released
from custody
At a meeting of the Can't-Get-Away Club, in
Mobile the 10Th inst physician apothecary and five
female selected to proceed at to Virginia.
Eleven hundred dollars collected and much larger
amount subscribed which doubtless paid in during
the next day.
A MIXED SPEEcH.-An excited gentleman re-
GENTLY announced to the Connecticut Legislature steam
boat explosion follows Sister Mssker and edgsrs Of
the membramature the Evsr olsworths billed her bus
ter" He was evidently little confused.
According to the late census, il appears that
New York city has population Of CAT This shows
an increase since 1850 1O83 which is less than was
anticipated yeti is large enough to maintain the repu
tation of New York as a city of rapid growth.
CHANGE OF NAME.-Our try-aoeakiy neigh
Dor Qhe Washington Sentine thus throws It's shoYels
full of mud at the American party and people:
IT skunk had the christening Of itself 1t would, no
oonnt change its present nams and choose musical,
hghsounding perfumed appeliatlon''
Suppose, then, it should call itself the Sentinel,
wouldn't that do ~ Washington Organ.
There are sixteen counties in Kentucky in
which, it is said, there is not single piano.
Speaking Of the rythm of Tennyson's Maud,
the New York Mirror makes this funny yet absurd
ment: "To read three hundred lines of such
aloud is only rfe plsasanter than chewing paper of
tecks.o
QuARE!-When calm rejecting foreigner de-
eares himself says exchange in favor Of the American
party the Antics pounoe upon him as renegade who has
deserted and opposed his countrymen. Well this
be so, is 1t not equally true that when native born
American is found with the foreigners he Is renegade,
who has deserted and opposes his own counrymen2 1t
is poor rule that will not work both ways.
The sanitary powers of charcoal are making
some noise in the medical world and Dr. stenhouse the
chemist at st. Rartholomews Hospital London, has
Gently devoted attention to the deoderzng powers
and disinfecant properties Of charcoal This gentleman
now invites the public examination of his expert
ments. An atmosphere rendered highly offensive by
pnrefactye decomposition going within the chamber
in which it liz confined is drawn through charcoal filters
by means Of rotating fan machine and is passed into
apartment adjoining Although this air Is disgustingy
ftid 1t flows out into the room perfectly free from SMELL
The remarkable property which charcoal has of condens
Ing within Its pores large quantities Of the feed gases
greatly increased by process of patnzing the charcoal
This invention Is worthy of attention all interested in
the public hsath and If what is ascrbed to 1t be true 1t
will become eicens power in destroying Of the
great agents Of disease.
Margaret Cain, at Albany, few days since,
stole covered basket from the steps of grocery store
and made haste to get away with her booty. What
ner astonishmsnt and chagrin to discover on opening
the basket pretty little baby, snugy tucked In and
sleeping. Margaret having large an assortment of
that commodity she wished for wisely concluded to
return the stolen goods which she did speedily and the
mother of the child in her joy at its recovery, let the
thief 30 harmless
We learn from the Brandon (Miss.) Platform,
That the first bale of new cotton was brought to that
market the 25th nit, and sold for 115s per pound
In Moga. county New York, there is a well
which has ice in it all the year round 1t has been dug
eleven years The depth from abe surface to the ice 81
est This Toe Ia SO thick that It cannot be broken by
aeavy weight attached to q cord and dropped down
uponit.