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New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-26

THE APPROACH OF sPRING.-The sweet season OF
buds blossoms birds and universal beauty rapidly
ing Soon the and lawns will become dotted with the
brightest emerald the nd yoets will flush their faces and
emblingly offer the dewdrop tributes of gratitude their
parent the sun; and the little songstes Of the groves will twer
together and build their nests for the happy time coming
there indication of Springs approach always in advance
Of buds, blossoms and birds This indication ry goods
Mr. G. G. Wayland at the of Poydras and Garondeet
Streets Issues hisst Spring manifesto ladies of New
leans in this mornings Crescent We would advise the ladies
TO read IT for feel quite certain that Spring will certainly
come, and every body ought to be prepared for -
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-26

SUGAR KETTLEs.-M essrs. McCuteheon, Howell s.
Co.. No So Camp street. prepared receive Phil
adepha kettles Of the Tennessee pattern with CRATE
and furnace mouths. See advertisement.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-26

A CLERGYMAN IN DisGUIsE.-A stout man of red
compleXlon strong presence, and bearing an immense
moustache, accosted Amasa, the page in the Repre-
sentaiyes lobby at the State House, yesterday, and
asked the boywhe lie should hang his coat &masa
replied that the fremen usually pegged their extra
toggcry in the basement, and added If you arc
fireman or Waterman you had better go below "
am the Chaplain Of the House." responded the
stranger; Wheieat Amasa bowed meekly, and con-
Quoted his reverence to an antechamber.
IllnStnn
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-26

HEIDsEECK CHAMPAGNEs. - The great house of
Messrs f. j. Hart Co. Nos Il and 70 Tchonpiouas
recep, supplies of this celebrated wHe and viii keep
always Oil hand See advertisement.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-26
The Florida Literary Filibuster gets off the follow

The Florida Literary FiLbuster gets off the follow
ing good thing:
my dear SIR" said our friend Drumsticks to a
young married gentleman who had just been made to
feel the joys of paternity my dear Sir can Won tell
me i'll what your present status varies from that Of
the same individual one year ago?'
Cant say that can, Drumsticks.'
will tell you. One year ago you were a sigh
'nS oreE; now you are a lOrinS sire. Don't say
word see I've got you. Good morning sir ~
JACKS HoEEsTY.--A sailor had wandered into
church yard, and was amusing himself by reading the
inscriptions on the grave stones Presently he came
to one on which was inscribed the following
Weep rot for my dearest dear
nm hot dead though lie here"
calculated: fN'' "o
Well, I've said that there are cases (which man
may lie; but if was dead I'd own it,
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-26

1shmenf of Alfred Munroe Co.. at the of
Magazine Gravier is petorc its great
fairly goged with the supplies lately received and
presents less attractions the purchaser coing
The garments generally magnificent in material fashion
able and durable in make all the styles Of the day. for
wear for business elegant leisure may
selected taken Of the smallest
quantu Of money. We refer readers. in
country Messs Munroe & Co.'s advertisement and advise
the class not to forget the store If they leave town
ether class aot to forget it when they to town.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-26


FINE ARTS FOR THE LADIEs.-We spent a very
agreeable hou Saturday evening the studio
Virginia Sullivan Of Julia and
feminine pastine and painting,
The first Il pretty and simple method Of imparng the
richness and beauty of oil painting to steel
craving Autograph The second equally pretty method
Of converting plain glass and other articles Of clear glass;
into perfect Of beauty The third consists in working
leather into different ncul frames baskets,
whatnots and stening polishing them until they
resemble hne carving in wood The named need
explanation All Of Mrs snvans specimens beautn
70 behold and believe there few ladies who would
not And 1t much pleasure pride become mistress 81
onore Of the arts which she which she learned
for her days auence but to which she
compelled by the rulings Of Providence to eso
for living She has been following professionally only
about year and half and short time has won high
encomiums Of praise in the different communities in which she
has given lessons what seen Of her work and
from impression Of the lady upon acquaintance we can
cordially Her the ladies Of New Orleans as
teacher Of several refined feminine Accomplishments which
taught in academies elsewhere The specimens
be ratified off by Mrs S. the
taken The articles conEist of four beautiful pictures painted
in the GreciLn style embossed leather what mag
nfcent piece embroidery and bunch of flowers
embossed leather frame velvet embroidered pattern
velvet embroidered pair Of Slippers decorated Of
flowers and decorated of fruits All articles
beautiful and desirable and worth riskng small
obtain possession Mrs SIS studio is in the building
Of Julia Magazine streets ground floor
street front.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-26

New Dry GooDs SToRE.-Mr. s. B. Churchill
whose household word up ladies Of New
Dreanshas opened dry goods store the corner
Apollo and Erato Streets and which certain will
speedily have very large patronage To-day will
play large stock Of dry goods the fine and substantial
kind which he will sell at extremely low prices they having
been purchased cheapy at auction We lady
40 hiE card
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-26

SEEKING FOR PLEASURE UNDER DIFFICULTIBs-A
correspondent Of the Cincinnati Gazette writing from
Topeka Kansas, under date Of the It'll inst, says:
All the soldiers in the Territory are now in winter
quarters at Fort Leayenworth, except one company
Company H., Capt. Nubie) which Gov. Carey has
encamped near Lecompton for his personal safety.
On New Year day this company gave ball, 10 which
a number of the citizens of Lawrence were invited
Only think Of ball on the open prairie, beside the
frozen haw river, with the suppertable spread in
tent-of dancing with oyershGes and blankets, (not
shaws but big coarse Mackinaws, such as the Indians
wear)-of gentlemen slapping their hands around
their bodies, while dancing, to warm their fingers, and
ladies' running to the campfire at the end of each
| tilOn TO warm their fingers.
They got tired Of it about midnight, however, ard
all turned in to sleep under the tents. In the
| ing holes were broken in the ice, around which the
ladies collected to wash their faces and then. having
refreshed themselves with cup of COTE, the merry
dancers set out on their return home The balls you
have in the States tame, formal affairs compared
with the dances we get up in Kansas.
|
WHICH Mr.. SMITH "a domestic bombsheli
has recently scattered discord if not desolaon about
the firesides Of the many families rejoicing in the
name of Smith in Birmingham An advertisement
appeared two days successfully in the Birmingham
Journal, addressed to :" Mr.. Smith, Birmingham
and calling upon that individual to pay the amount
left due by him at the Opera Hotel Bow street, Con
vent Garden, accompanied by the significant hint
that were it not done speedily retlibton would fol-.
low. This advertisement will be repeated, and
| luElneI particulars gwen Oh tile tlalsact0n. Inc
further particulars evidently implicated a lady
in the case" and every individual of the hundred
Mr.. Smiths, Of Birmingham is business man,
and in the habit of frequently travelling up to London
on urgent business my dear !" at least one hundred
Mrs. Smiths, of Birmingham were made first suspici-
Gus and then miserable. No less than twelve Mr..
Smiths wrote to settle the account rather than be
worried, and four called in person two days ater the
advertisement, but the Fright Mr.. Smith had re-
mitted by the way OF post, and the initial of Mr..
Smith, OF Birmingham, still remains painful bat
inscrutable mystery. English paper.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-26

The report states that the swamp lands to the
amount ii one million acres, the sale Of which was
authorized BY the Legislature Of 1855, nearly dis
posed Of and that 1t will shortly be necessary that
provision should be made for further sale. The
public lands sold during the year amount in the ag-
gregate to s3s,5I0 acres. 2
in view Of the fact that large portion Of the
pUbc lands have recently been donated to the State
for railroad purposes the report recommends that the
Legislature make provision for the selection Of all
swamp lands, as the railroad grants cannot until
then be located without prejudice to former grants,
as appears BY the opinion of the Secretary Of the
Interior. a growing tendency. the report says, is
manifested to give the acts Of Congress donating the
swamp lands to the State a. less liberal construction,
which may result in depriving her Of the full benefit
intended BY those acts. This has been shown by the
refusal Ok the Secretary Of the Interior to recognize
the q shallow likes 7 of the State as part Of her
original domain In consequence of this the present
Register has refused to sell any Of said lakes sales
Of portions Of them had been previously made, and
given rs N much difficulty. *
As difficulties have frequently arisen from improper
Subdivisions Of public lands upon old and erroneous
surveys, the repoft recommends that provision be
made whereby the lands sold as well as those still
the properly Of the State, can be surveyed.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-26
publac I..nss II I.oa,.ian..

MoRNINo, JANUARY 70, 1857.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-05-08

RUsE OF A Fashionable loUSG LADY.-A
Western young lady writes home to a De-
troit paper gosslpping account of her Wis
1t to Albany, New York, in the course of
which she relates the following amusing
story
Among the scenes visited, she had been
present at private social dance near Al
bany, at which a Miss ", talented, ele-
giant girl of twenty, was also guest.
This young lady had been noted for lead
ing the fashion in that neighborhood, and
having come home in the last foreign
steamer her appearance was anxiously
looked ior-ior it was calculated upon all
hands that her wardrobe would display
Partisan STYLES "a little later than the
latest About 10 o'clock the lady in
question entered the drawing room, and, as
Il matter Of course, all eyes were turned
upon her. She was attired in a heavy
PompadJur,' "a fashion of Louis XIV
time amply skirted, falling in long futed
! folds, and describing u circumference Of
some three yards round her pretty feet
The dress was lOw-to admiration-had
hanging sleeves, open and slashed, with
rich lace under sleeYes and chemise, dia-
mond stomacher, earrings and necklace,
and protuse diamond hair ornaments. She
ilOated demurely with an immense painted
fan, and occasionally dropped, for the
amusement Of dangers, a lace mouchoir.-
The dress was perfect, admiroble, captiva.
ting, even to the embroidered silk stocking
and the diamond buckled, red heeled shoes
Curiosity was on tiptoe-the forms of po
lite society were almost broken through il
eigerness to scrutinize, examine and inspect
the detail which constituted such a magnl
fcent tout ensemble The night wore on
still no word or look from the pretty fashion
,ssdsy gave token the, shs wsI aware Of thi
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-05-08

The climate in this part of Iowa is said to
be very healthy. Of course, like all places
the West, they don't have the shakes here,
but seven miles out One poor fellow,
friend Of mine, who has been out about that
distance, in Rome, | saw to-day, shaking
like a reed shaken by the wind asked
him his reasons for SO doing. Why says
he they all Go 30 in Rome and when you
are among Romans you must do as Romans
do | thought that was being little more
complaisant than | should be, unless | was
obliged to be. The wind blows here nearly
al. the time, and is the disagreeable feature
of the climate. 1t is muddy or dusty all
the time-and such mud | never saw the
like of it. 1t sticks closer than brother,
or even creditor. Down East, if you walk
in mud half an inch deep you will have Just
half an inch of mud on your boots-no
more, no less but here it adds to its depth at
every step, crawling up your rubbers, up
your boot-legs, up your pants, and no one
knows how high 1t would get IL one should
kssp % Ws!k.sE' IslvsJa carry . chip
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-05-08

ROMANTIC MARRIAGR.-Some years ago
the husband of a young and beautiful wife
at Carondelet, Missouri, left her for awhile,
in order to try his fortune on the Pacific
coast. lie remained there seven years, and
was then unheard from, aud. finally there
came word that he was dead. The widow
put on her weeds of mourning, and wore
them the usual term, At the end of that
period she received the wooing of a neigh
Dor and soon agreed to wed him. On the
morning of the wedding, and just as she
was about leaving her house for the church,
her absent and mourned for husband pre-
sented himself and asked for kiss of well
come, but with lofty mien and disdainful
air, she repulsed him from her presence
leaped into the carriage and away they
went, the embryo bridegroom not compre-
hending in the least the strange proceed
Ings; and to cut the matter short, they were
in few minutes at the appointed place and
married, The ante-terior husband, we un-
derstand wants his wife and threatens to
kick up a muss. This is the most novel
wedding that ever occurred in Carondelet,
and has created as much sensation as the
Dean and Boxer affair did in Gotham.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-05-08


GET IN ROOT oRoPs.-N write under the
erai farmer may be more rapidly increased
under a Judieions cultivation OF the various
roots' than IN any other way, that more
thah aouple the value per acre may by OBJ,
laiheu from .nem ehan from nay crop'' and
more eVeh' than from the small grams or
inaian corn
ine eu,,i'"'ors oi Ehgiahu nave long un-
uerstoou .,is secret ana nave become pros
porous unuer l,s 'each'hes' no man, prop-
aoy' foih 'h's country ever gave the
svol' ~ .e 81 ihuch attention as uiu Mr
ebster during his mission IN England -
ana lew men IN our Judgment have done
sheir country 30 slgnal service as ne dld
py ms Investigations OF TINS sunJect' and by
promu igat'oh OF 'ne iaets whlch ne learn
ed' lhey awakened attention. and the
fruits OF ms suggestions are now manifest
all through New England at least
y, tne 'urhiP' there Is great variety,
anu 'heir cultivation is zoo well understood
10 need any explanation OF ours For winter
ana spring use' some persons prefer not to
Put IN their root crops until the third week
III vune'. we prefer u httie earlier date.
we are gratined 70 notice that the culti-
VA,ioh Vi 'he sugar oeet is beginning 10
enlist the attentlon OF farmers. Those who
nave inaue .riai OF IL SPEAK OF II In terms oil
apPropatioh' IL Is not only very produc-
i've, Out one OF the pest roots that can be
leo TO milch cows and young cattle-caus.
ing rich now OF milk in the former, and
great vigor, sprightliness and hardihood in
the latter. There is probably no climate
IN the world more admirably adapted to the
cultivation OF the sugar beet than that of
New England. In no case which has fallen
under our observation, have those who
have planted 1t failed of securing paying
crop; while in most it has yielded a greater
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-05-08

from the Boston Correspondence of the New York Trbun
"OLD Brown" IN BosToE "A large sum
OF money has been privately collected. and
placed at the disposal OF Mr. Brown usually
called OF men Old Brown. IL is understood
.hae THIS notorious individual, who has had
'he misfortune to incur the i'll opinion OF
our iellow-citizens of Missouri that have
kindly volunteered, to manage the aIInirs
Kansas, and who il under Indictment far
treason against their peace and dignity. has
Deen living retired but active life in this
Vlcinlty for some time lie rather exnected
call from the Marshal of the District. and
was prepared to give him uncquivocal man
liestations Of his appreciation of such offici-
al courtesy. 1t is said that he has 80 made
ms arrangements that he could have assured
the Marshal and twenty-one of his train of
ms high consideration in the short space
OF two minutes, before they could come near
enough to offer him their hands But for
some reason or other the Marshal forbore To
oner him tins mark OF attention. do not
know the precise sum that has been passed
over to this concealed traitor. One rerson.
nave been assured, contributed no less
than $1,000. So you will gee that there
are those hereabonts who show their faith
such as it is, by their works. This money.
l believe, is not to be muddled away in re.
iievins the distresses Of the present settlers.
but to be employed in the evangelzation of
the Border Ruililns, should they again get
their faces Iionward. From the earnest
concern which Mr.. Brown has manifested
ior the spiritual welfare of these sinners in
times past, it is believed that the disren-
sation OF this missionary fund could not be
placed in better hands.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-05-08

How THE Utah DIFFICULTIES MAY BE SIT
TLED.-Ihere is one way in which the
troublous affairs of tab may be settled
without violently disturbing the doctrine
OF squatter sovereignty. and in exact ac-
cordance with the wishes Of the sectional
interests into whose hands the government
has wholly fallen. Let dozen slaves, a
few OF them pretty mulatto girls, run away
and take refuge among the Mormons. Mr.
Buchanan woald send the whole army after
them with Gen. Scott at its head. Brig
ham Young would naturally refuse to sur.
render the fugitiyes, especially the feminine
part of them. lie would have q special
revelation upon that matter in less than
fifteen minutes. \ conflict would ensue,
and while the army was employed in the
great constitutional duty of getting back
the negroes, it would, by overturning the
power of Brigham Young, incidentally es-
tablish peace and law and order in the ter
ritory.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-05-08
p O T. T r Y.
SPRING.
A NEW VERSION.

" "Ham.---The air bites shrewdly--it is very cold
HOr.-It isa nipping and an eager air. HAN
LET.
" Come, gentle Spring ethereal milin.ss, come p
y Thompson, void of rhyme as we'll az reas on
How couldst thou thus poor nature hum
There's no such season,
The Spring shrink and shudder at her name
For why. find her breath a bitter blighter
And suffer from her biops, as if they came
From Spring, the fighter.
Her praises, then, let hardy poets sing
And be her tunciul lnureats and upholders,
Who do not feel as If they had a Spring
Poured down their shoulders.
Let others eulogize her floral shows;
From me they cannot win a single stanzs.
know her blooms are in full blow-and sos
The Influenza
Her cowslips, stocks, and lilies of the vale,
=. Her honey blossoms that you hear the bees at,
Her pansies, daifodils, and primrose pale,
Are things | sneeze at.
Fair is the vernal quarter of the year
Ard fair its early buildings and its bowings-
But just suppose Consumption seeds appear
with other sowings
For me, I find, when Eastern winds are high,
A frigid, not genial inspiration
Nor can, like Iron. Chested Chubb, defy
An inflammation.
smitten by breczes from the land of plague,
10 me all vernal uxuries are fables
y where's the NDrtng in rheumatic leg,
Stiff as a tables
limp in agony--T wheeze and cough
=, And quake with Ague, that great Agitator
Nor dream, before July, Of leaving off
My kespirator.
What wonder if in May itself lack
A peg for laudatory verse to hang on -
Spring, mild and gentle Yes, Spring heeled
Jack
To those he sprang on.
In short, whatever panegyrics lie
In fulsome odes, too many to be cited
The ten derness of Spring is all my eye.
And that is blighted THOMAS Hoop.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-05-08

BURNING OF GAS The metre is the only
record OF the consumption, but yet it ap-
pears to be very imperiec: one. In an IN
vestigation which has just been made by
the New York Coz ncis, it was proved by
competent witnesses that metres are liable
to get out of order; that they can be made
to register falsely, either in faver of the
company or of the consumer. A manufac-
turer OF metres said there was only one way
by which the metre could be made to regis
ter in favor of the company. and that was
by tipping it on the lett side: but there are
four ways, which he did not describe, by
which the consumer can cheat the compan y
In the use of the metre. A metre can be
made which apparently records one thou
sand feet, when only one hundred feet passes
through it, and yet it presents the same ex-
ternal appearance. 1t was also stated that
all the gas burnt in the New York uniyer.
slty goes first through large metre, and is
then distributed to the different rooms
through small metres. ct one-third more
gas is registered by the small metres than
goes through the large one, This proves
that the metres are not to be relied upon.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-05-08

Az lsPREcATIoS As ls.-The Sacramento
(Cal.) Age chronicles curse almost as Bit
ter as that of King Lear upon his two un-
grateful daughters, 1t says
An individual neat in form and APPAREL,
attempted to cross an alley, slipped from
plank and fell front foremost INTO the mud
and stood propped up by both arms, which
were inserted to the elbow in the soft earth
ern ware. Slowly Strengthening himself
up, he gazed at his spoiled sleeves, walked
to the nearest sidewalk, turned, and look
ing at the cause Of humiliation, said 81
hereby curse that plank, the tree it came
out OF, the soil it growed on, the outside
bark, the inside also, the roots, the limbs
and knots, the boughs and the birds tha.
have rested on thereon. And | further
more curse that plank, the man that chop
ped down the tree it come out of. the saw
that sawed it, the man that tended the saw,
the water, or stream, as the case may
be, which put the saw in motion, and |
curse all the surrounding trees and hills
and | also say that the city authorities of
this town, village, burgh or borough, coun-
tenance more dirt than is necessary for the
health, peace, and prosperity Of the COM
munity. Besides this, blame, denounce
and abhor that unreliable piece of pine, or
whatever other kind of wood it may
be-just look at my hands :"
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-05-08

Ellen Carroll whipped her husband, at
Buffalo, last week, and was fined 80. her
husband refusing to pay for his oW thrash
ing, the woman goes to Jail for thirty days,
comic poet, who wrote before the re-
cent revival of hooped petticoats, seems to
have had the spirit of prophecy which was
aneiently ascribed to poets as well as the
regular cafes. Hear him talk -
Behold some damsel, slender as a reed,
And fair as slender-beautifu indeed
Suddenly grow to such enormous size
That you can scarcely half believe your eyes
Spreading to seem with each succeeding minute,
St. Peters dome, with a small child stuck 10 it -
Il Boston Post