New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-01-20


y UNCLE TON. IN ITAL1AN.-The Paris correspond.
ent OF the Boston Traveller writes:
You should get Professor Monti to translate Uncle
Toms Cabin from Italian into English. Mrs. Stowe
herself would not recognize her bantling The Pope
having read Uncle Tom,' and being delighted with
it, determined to have it done into Italian for the edi.
cation Of his subjects Strange changes took place
in the sleight Of words, and by the time Uncle
learned to speak Italian fuenty the good people y
became fervent Papists and the " bad folks y deep.
dyed Pedestrians, and finally Legree puts Uncle Tom
to death, because the poor negro would not forsake
ms beet IN the doctrine OF the-lmmaculate Concep
ton of the Virgin Mary!
THE MErAcoMET.--The Key West Key of the
Gulf gives the following graphic description of the
Metacomet, which sailed from that port on the sOth
ult., to join the Paraguay expedition:
The :" Metacomet +" is about 375 tuns, draws feet
Of water, with her coal 600 tuns) and stores on
board which brings her guards within 80 inches of
the water. She is bad sea boat laborng heavily in
moderate breeze; sea striking her guards with
much violence. causing great jar and strain. Her
tophamper viii docredit to any highpressure Misss
She had been recommended by Commodore Semmes
to be transferred to the squadron at Montivedeo who
regarded her unsea,corthy but another Board of
Survey, composed of Commander Mitchell and Naval
Constructor Porter of the Pensacola Navy Yard re-.
ported differently. She was therefore, fitted out at
that Yard, officers and crew having been brought
around in the Arctic" The /" Metacomet +" steams
AZ the rate OF Six KNOTS an hour.
The "Metaeomet has crew of Is seamen fire
men, and coalheavers, and all eager to defend the
honor of our flag in the waters of Paraguay. She is
to carry an inch gum to be given her on her arrival
at Buenos Ayres, and at present mounts 24.pound
howitzer. She sailed for Barbados on the 3Oth ut
A TIGER AT SEA.-A somewhat extraordinary adj
venture was met with few days ago near Muilky,
which is about 20 miles north Of Mangalore, on the
coast. Some fisherman starting out very early in the
morning, while it was yet dark, with their hooks and
fish spears in their boats, remarked something dark
in the sea. which it appears outside the breakers
they made up to it to make it out in the dark. One
of the first boatoad of FIVE called out "a cheetah
cheetah - but it was soon discovered to be royal
tiger. They rode close up to it, and the first man
drove his fish spear into it, and then another bella
bored it the head with oar. But it soon turned
on them, put one huge paw on the side of the boat
which capsized it, and with one blow of the other
felled the poor man with the oar Man and tiger dis.
appeared together, at least none of the others
more Of them. They were all shot out by the cap.
sizing boat and it was little time before they
were picked up by other boats. That evening the
tigers body was washed up by the waves dead, and
the next morning the poor mans corpse with the un
claw marks on the back Of his neck The
Others escaped unscathed, with the exception of an
awkward blow on the ankle which one Of them got
from the boat. What possessed the tiger to go out
for cruize in this fashion, does not appear.
Madras AthenRun1.