New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-01-28

This document contains nothing Of special interest
to the general reader beyond the following recon-
mendations at
lst. An appropriation. at an early day Of the ses-
sion % enable the Department to cancel its present
Id An appropriation q 81 ESQ for the proseeution
of work on the Teche locks. a-
Sd. Provision for the payment to the second Swamp,
boat Harfnans0n- $50 900.
4th. further appropriation Of 5000 10 complete
the dredgeboat now being built esT .-aet
5th. An appropriation Of $1,000 for the survey Of
9Th. That the State Engineer be allowed to complete
the Morganza aud 0pelousas Road, at least between
Morganzs and the Afchafalsya-
7th That some measure be adopted 10 replenish
the Internal Improvement Fund in the State Treas
ury so as to provide for present engagements Of this
Department, and for its future operations.
Sth That the State provide for this Department q
ship-ysrd and drydock at Baton Rouge, with shops,
store rooms, hospital etc. attached for the purpose
OF building and repairing OF boats, the storage OF
property Of al description, and the protection and
occupation OF invalid or sickly slaves.
sth. The sale of two confirmed runaway slaves unr
der legislative enactment. eia7f *
10th. The purchase of an additional number OF
slaves
lIth A survey Of the State according to previous
| report OF January 81 1857.
l2th geological survey Of the State.
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! A SHOCKING AFFAIRr-A married lady, named
uicu Ill EcCtubi1 ilo1
effects OF strychnine, administered by negro girl,
who confessed her crime and accused Porter Of hay
induced her by threats and promises to commit il.
It is said that his criminal intimacy with the negess
was well known to the people Of the neighborhood.
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MOBILE AND ONO RAILROAD LoAs.-From the
proceedings Of the Alabama Legislature on Friday
last, that the bill before the House Of Repre-
sentayes for extending the Stale Loan to the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad Company, has passed to its third
reading by large majority
CHLonoFoRM ON THE GALLows.-The tender
hearted editor Of the Musical World suggests that
criminals upon the scsfod shoald be rendered nsen
sble to the pangs of the desthstruggle by the app
cation of chloroform. He says:
An the music we can hear will not bansh from our
minds the horrible consciousness that the hanRmans
work is busy going on just now-it will not stife In
our the deathratte OF stranged men who are per-
ishing on the scaffold. The day appointed for the
execution Of human being Is always bitter one 10
us-chiefy, perhaps, because the execution seems
very coldblooded.- OF course, executions must be-.
We cannot all be garroted and shot and mangled in
the public Streets But our mind while admitting the
necessity Of blood for blood" and deemng it fortq-
nate wthal for the public veal that the Governors
pardoning power is not invested In ourselves ehershes
a kind Of fixed idesn as to possible mitigation Of
physical suffering, which shall be quite compatible
with the etrictest exactions OF Justice.
What the community requires is the life Of the
eulprit-is it not? 1t does not demand a certain
amount Of accompanying agony and torment. We
are not Spanish inqusitors, nor Sepoys. We wish
simply to put poor wretch aside in order that for
this world and to the view, and to the detrment Of
his fellow creatures, be may be-no more.
But why not do this mereifuilys Why couple
with the taking of life amount Of torment in the
life-taking not necessarily involved in the sentence
nor required for the ends Of justice Modern science
has discovered blessed opiate for physical suffering
--even for that prolonged stranging when the knot
unfortunately slips around to the back OF the neck
the cord catches the wretch above instead Of be-
low the ADAMS apple.
For all such Contingencies as for any contingency,
choroform and ether are at hand. Let the black
cap be an ether cap. Torment not the poor wretch
even with sight Of his scaffod. Let him, in the
decent privacy of his CELL murmur his last prayer
and bid final adieu TO the light OF this world-le
him there receive the consultations Of absolution
hear the last word of prayedfor forgiveness. Then
his COUCH let this image OF his Maker find shelter
from impending suffering in the foreshadCwed dark
ness OF death, and let bis first consciousness afte
the black cap is drawn over him, be in that dreas
hereafter into which he has been panlessly ushered
But il not in bis cell, and if dying speeches Away
must be made, and the bitter cold of winter, which
vvidly anticipates to the wretch his deathchl mus
often be enduredat least when the time is up, let
chair support him while the black cap brings to hin
that blessed obi Eion which will last him through
r the dark passage.
No longer then let us, Shylocklike practically In
sst upon the blood and the pound of fesh both
let be content with the forfeiture Of life, and mer
G cifuly remit the agony. r
REMARKABLE CAsE.-The Cincinnati Commercial
states that young and beautiful woman, whose hus
band died about month ago in the town Of Client