New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-11-20
NEw YoRE coRREsPoNDENcE.


It is now the season Of our primary elections, and
as a matter Of course for the usual display Of
muscle" patriotism, and ugness. On Monday and
Tuesday several severe fights took place between the
different factions, and though fortunatey-pe
unfortunately for the pubc-no lives were lost pistol
balls and brickbats whzzed freely about and broken
heads and perforated limbs were the result The late
prize fight has been the means Of a brushing up in
the manly art Of selEdefense" and on almost every
corner one may see mpromptu exhibitions that speak
well for the public improvement in this branch Of
moral education.
The two heroes Of the hour, Morrissey and Heenan
in town, and receive court from hosts of their
peculiar style of friends. Roth intend TO avail them
selves of their glory and turn it into an honest
penny, by giving exhibitions-not in company of
| course-with their respective trainers, in different
parts Of the country. The Benicia Boy" has
already netted very handsome amount in this way,
and is to start Westward and Southward with Aaron
Jones Immediately.
There having appeared in the papers of the day
from time to time various articles relating to the ap
parent neglect and inhumanity Of the Captain of the
ship Pepperel in passing by the burning steamship
Austria without attempting to render her assistance
Captain Dixey, of that ship has published letter
dated from Bordeaux France, in which he states that
it not possible for him to 60 to her relief as his
vessel was leaking from twelve to fifteen inches an
hour during the whole passage from New York to
/ Bordeaux, which should have been made in twenty
five days, but occupied fortysix and that it was
with the utmost difficulty that he prevented from
abandoning her entirely Capt. Dxey has already
distinguished himself on several occasions by saving
lives at sea, and he claims that these circumstances
should yindcate him and the American flag under
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neglect.
The police have just discovered golden nest in the
shape of bogus banking concern, called the New
England Bank of Fairmount, Maine.'' A large
amount of the trash had been circulated in the West
and some fifty thousand dollars found its way into
Wall street aud vicinity, for stocks, land etc Mr..
Bliss, superintendent of the firm of Wright, Rawdon
< Hatch, the wellknown bank note engravers, testi
fed that they had filled an order for five thousand
impressions, making in the aggregate the sum Of
sl50OOO but without any suspicious of anything
wrong. 1t is said that a number of hitherto un-
blemished brokers" are implicated in the swinde /;
in one case necesstating the immediate purchase of
railroad ticket and change Of climate and on an
other frightened individual tonsoria operation
which altered his personal appearance to such an ex.
tent that be could leave town without receiving an
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nov arraDrinr nrelimnaripS for match of chess by
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