New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-19
Recent Publications.

From Mr. Norman, No. IA Camp street, we have
received the following:
| THE ToRCHL1GHT or, Through the Wood. BY Har-
| riet A. Olcott, author of Isora's Child" New
| York Derby & Jackson.
| A neat volume Of $50 pages all about a wealthy
| wdower of settled notions who maries pretty
coQuette addicted to fine dress and filtration. The
married pair lead cat and dog life for years,
have sweet little child, girl, and separate. The
| child is retained by the father, and sent to some
country relatives, among whom she grows up sweet
and religious This is all in and around New York.
The mother settles in New Orleans, and lives despe-
ratey fast The girl yearns for one or the other oil
her parents, and decides upon her mother. She is
shipped off for the South in charge of melancholy
gentleman who takes a mysterious interest in the
whole family Descending the Mississippi, the steam
er is smashed in fog ny another steamer. Both sink.
The melancholy gentleman butfets the waves with his
lovely charge but they are separated, and her last
words are, Unite my paren:s.' She however, is
picked up by Red river boat, going up, and he by
boat going down. Some travelling dancers, (the
Raves, probably,) who had been on the same boat
and were also picked up by the Red river packet,
claim the girl as of their party She grows des-
perate and impores the protection of old planter
on board. He takes her under his charge they
leave the boat at Alexandria, go over the falls in
scow, and haul up at a romantic plantation in the
wilderness.
The melancholy gentleman, believing the girl lost
sets about fulfilling her last request. The father be-
comes broken hearted sinks, and wishes to see his
wife once more. News arriving that the girl is still
alive and kicking, the melancholy gentleman COM
missions his younger brother, wild rascal, to go
after the girl, and take her to her mother in New
nfl,.,,
girl besides The mother, proud of her beautiful
child brings her out, and makes her nearly as fast
as herself; the melancholy gentleman all this while
lowering in the background anXously. At length
the husband and father packs up for New Orleans :;
arrives in very feeble condition, and puts up at the
St Charles. The wife will not visit him, nor let her
daughter do it; for she is smitten with the melan
choly gentleman aud is only waiting for her husband
to die that she may marry him. AT length the girl
steals off to her father and is very wetched. The
wife next gives grand fancy dress and mask ball at
her residence; and whilst it is i'll full progress, the
melancholy gentleman beckons her Oft, gets her into
carriage and rattles away. She thinks it an eope
ment, and is ticked to death. But he never lets her
know what he is up to, till he gets her into the ST.
Charles Hotel, at the bedside Of her husband, who
forgves her for her wickedncss and dies. The wife
is terribly abased; quits fast living and becomes re-
ligious. The melancholy gentleman then tells his
tale which is, that he loved her when he was boy
and had watched her kindly since in return for
which, all he wants is her daughter. She consents ;
the melancholy gentlemen then shows his teeth to the
rakes and rascas that after the girl, mares her.
nd-that's all. New Orleans is dished up to suit
Northern palates and the story is about good for
lackadaisia tear.sheddng as any that has lately
been issued.
GRAuAH's MAGAZINE FOR FEBRUARY.
splendid number, in literary matter and illustra-
tons. The editors table is very variegaed and en-
tertaining.
HARPER's WEEKLY, No. 2.
This number rivals the first in excellence. 1t con
tans matter to suit every respectable taste and every
article is complete