New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-06-12

anu eietpess kolrOW oil the Dight Is born Y
And years mpst pess, long years, ere she'll run
To that dear spot which fools are fain to shun.
The only home which now my soul doth crave,
Thy hoIne-the long, the kst-thine early gave.
| oh, that for me the bridal sheets were spread
| Now, in my narow house and lonely bed
PHILADELPHIA, April 10, 1s44"
NAvAL.-we learn that telegrsphic dispatch Hss
received at the Navy Yard on Thursday afternoon to
get the y. s. sloopofwar saratoea ready for sea inn
medately, and her Officers were ordered TO repois on
the 10th inst We believe that nothing is required to
be done to her beyond painting and getting stores on
board, and that will soon be ACCOMPLISHED.
Norfolk Herald, 9Th inst
| WHY Mrs. swIssHELx's Pass WAS DESTROYED.
correspondent Of the New York Evening Post,
writing from Minnesota, gives the following explana-
tion of the destruction of Mrs swisshelms free love
newspaper establishment in ST. Paul:
| Mrs. Swisshelm he's started her paper again. and
deals out blood and thunder to the conspirators,i
| as she calls them, who destroyed her old press.
There is no evidence at all that her press was de-
| stroyed on account of her politics. One of the
" consprators" is Republican, and would bv no
means join in any persecution on account OF politics.
The whole thing was an example of the scandal
bred broils OF small village Mrs. S. was deter
mined the leading Democrats should notice her she
tried one and another without creating any particu-
lar excitement. She then attacked the second man
as weaker point; she published an article of broad
insinuatons against his wife, and boased that worse
were in type. He could not challenge her to deadly
combat he could not horsewhD woman he could
prevent those types heaping further abuse on her
whom he had sworn to honor and he did so. Politics
was very remote cause, if indeed it had anything
at all to do with the matter.
DETENTION OF AMERICAN vgssELs-The brig Geo
b. Prescott Capt Gilkey, which arrived here on Sat
urday from Cardenas, was at Tampco during the
late troubles at tina. port and was detained, along
with other American vessels twentynine days Al
the mouth OF the river after she ready for sea
by the revolutionary chief, Garcia. Her hull bears
marks OF musket balls in several places which acci
dentay hit the vessel during the fighting Of tn,
ccntending factions ICharestcn Courier, 7th.
EFFECT OF THE OUTRAGEs.-The reliable Hayant
correspondent of the New York Journal Of Com
merce states the following facts in illustration of the
recent outsges of British gunboat cruisers upon yes
sells under the flag of the United States:
Messrs. c. Brothers. one of the most reputable
and substantial houses OF Havana charterers Of the
American brig Charles H. Frost Silliman, master to
load sugars at Sagua la Grande for Philadelphia OF
Boston, desired to ship few sacks Of douboons from
Havana for Sagua by the brig for the use of their
agents and to meet the expenses of various vessels
loading there for their account. The Offices of insur
ance in Havana refused to insure the money at any
rate OF premium for the reason that If the brig
should chance to be boarded by any of the birds Of
prey in these waters the Buzzard Kite or Styx and
| the money should be found on board the brig, she
would be declared legal prize for that suspicious
SLAYER, while to insure justice and possession of the
ounces the officers, crew, coopers, etc., would bt
landed at some inconyenient point of the coast, tC
get to Havana or the United States as they could
This is one OF the nconyeniences to which we are sub
jected. The distance to Sagua is Short but the off
ces will not take the risk.
PHYSIOLOGICAL IKGrNuIrY.-The author Of th,
following ingenious chronological theory is evidently
genius and should not be permitted to hide his ligh
under a bushel:
After the formation OF the lower orders OF plants
upon them as a basis, the lower orders of animal
were produced. The germ of microscopic insec
was formed in the mossy pool it grew and propagate
its species From its eggs new and higher order O
animals was occasionally produced, perhaps success
sivey II tiny worm, small bug, and so on gradual
until the blind shrew the smallest of quadrupeds wa
produced. 1t again produced the mouse, from whic
spang the rat, and from this last the squirrel. Th
squirrel produced tine monkey, the monkey the bal
boon, the babboon the ape or oumng-outang b
the negro, the negro the Indian and the Indian th
, white man.
SHOOTING WHALES. - Satisfactory experiment
! were made few days ago at New Bedford, Conn
with c. G. Brands Bomb Lance. The weapon is thu
|, described:
e This new instrument of destruction consists Of
heavily made short gun, adapted for throwing hom
into the vital part of the whale, where it explodes
and either kills. far cripples him that he is easil
captured. They are made Of two sizes the bore q
: the smaller being seveneighths of an inch, and Q
the larger, an inch and an eighth. One size weigh
), eighteen and the other twentyfour pounds. A
ordinary rifle charge Of powder is all that is used th
: gun being loaded with bomb, cylindrical in form
" and sharpened at the forward end, and having
: feather OF Indiarubber attached to it, like an arroS
to guide it to its mark. The cylinder is IL nche
long, filled with two to four ounces of powder accord
ing to size, and having shank inches long with
= fuse inside. This fuse is gnited when the gun is d
Il charged and explodes just in five seconds, whic
gives sufficient time for it to penetrate the whale an
do its deadly office The piece is fired from th
shoulder, like the common gun, and the bomb Is prt
= jected with the precision OF rife ball. II il pen,
tate vital part of the whale, it is almost to ki
him at once If 1t lodge in the region Of the spine
or OF one of the iukes, the whales back is broker
or his shoulder blade shattered by the explosion
so that he make no further effort to escape tn
IS lance is then used and the monster killed with lit
risk OF life, Or of having the boat stove. The mos
ugly species Of whale to take is said to be the seal
fornia greys" They extremely shy and whei
after long chase, OF by SURPRISE iron is fastene
in them, they run as fast as locomotive, dive to th
bottom OF the ocean, or more frequently turn upon tn
boat and crush II to atoms with their fukes Sever,
A ships which have been fitted out at the Sandwic
Islands, for cruising on the coast of California hay
lost nearly all their boats by contests with these wa
= like whales The bomb lance has, consequent
become indispensable article in the outfit OF theI
whalers.. Some ships carry one gun for each boa
n while others take only one or two The guns Co
>, from $40 to $50 EACH and the bombs 50 so apiec
One ship lately arrived at Honolulu which reporte
Il having taken 1900 barrels of oil by the use Of Il
. bomb lance.
NJ METEoRIo PHENOMENA The most eminent 0
r Economical authorities of the present day--with be
and there an exceptionseem to agree in the opnit
! that meteors, fire-bals and meteorc stones, a
y masses which belong to the universe and, befo
coming into the domain Of earth, moved like Il
e planets around the sun. Only when Shey enter o.
is atmosphere do they become visible and fall SON
st times TO the EARTH In order TO explain the emiss
Of light by these bodies and the fact that for sor
ia time alter their descent they are very hot the fric
was long ago thought Of which they experience
,, passing through the air. It Is known that brig
Of meteors generally leave luminous trail behind thei
Is which probably consists Of several portions OF Il
red-hot surfaces Meteoric masses which fall TO Il
EARTH often burst with violent explosion, which
regarded as q result of the quick heating. q he ne
lyiailen pieces have been for the most part foul
: hot, but not red-hot.