New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-29
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ekf6nDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20, 1859
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~ nv York Herald is attacked with mora
d = i Jn = fsarfully desperate n its denuncia
4 X M exhibition Of nude Venus ~ Us
u IAelf Gallery, which II persists n CONSIDERING
Soet indecent work 81 ut which ever made
~ u decency, - public display Of which
Il ~ ~ forbidacn III London and even Paris.
Tke ia says III since y was placed u Z. ne
tsaIIery. " mot 81 position IN which 7
~. v - rroved an immense card, and
,.Ssh sl1 q eyond "a precedent has been
7; ilisl, iIrongs Of men and women con-
b1iee 81 hard to gaze TO safety on the
=, III beauty u proportion which the painter
srayed Mith Singular excellence Of art and
w aspiration Of genius. OF course the man
s ~ - ~ out III strenuous vindication but the
H1SSN y back It them, and not at them only, but
6 ~ f.kine shots into the masses Of the Ward
"a 81 snd other schools Of religionists whom, il
I'LL ~ " crowd 20 gaze upon the obscene picture,
~ - back 70 their conventicles and their homes
M churches ID hold up their hands in horror and
p1pefs being sold by small and needy boys on
Sunday, and u poor men taking three cents worth
IL sabbatarian riding in horse-cars and omni-
huGses.
2 Our sentiments in the matter are expressed in
IN encouraging word Of advice to the Herald to
III u, and keep up It's cannonade in each one Of
The seventy odd thousand Of triple sheets which
ne daily shot forth from It's lightning press. The
real friends Of morality may not altogether like
Their new champion, but d gun aimed by sinner
may carry rs true to the mark as if leveled by 8
saint, md may its discharges tell in the ranks
against which it is arrayed, for they compose that
gfeat class Of wrongheaded religionists and polti
6ans who cluster together in feverish masses unit
Y M sclEgenerated heat Of their own corrupt and
ifee-thinking imaginings breed noisome heresies
which smell to Heaven and faint the whole land
With fhs issns and ologies which the fecund fecu-
III tleir social and associated intercourse, in
~ IL IA church, generates and sends forth to
III With its undiscovered "some new
4, 4 ~ workings Of conservatism in politics
II fgions Go into them, Herald, skin and salt
y ~ toiIles and vices Of Gothamitish society, your
v i liazity, We will not say schooling, in
wl6ch afsas You with the very weapons Of attack
kSk \ y probable that the nude Venus will be
through the country in the churches for
~ tsneft 81 religious objects.
Wkat the Herald calls black, must be black in
and yet II figures in the great boosted, refined
eIsla& high art gallery Of Gotham, an index
~ taste.
10HG CANE. There is a story told Of two per-
4 Qf distinction, the one lived at Madrid the
c&her " Rome, who played game at chess at that
i kInce BY correspondence. They were young
m item they began the game, and though they
ssd - - old age, yet the game was not finished.
n 01s ~ them dying before the other, appointed
4 4 executor to so on with the game.
sS p6Exla N ILLINOIS. The Chicago Press and
reKves the history of the first duel that was
B ~ 6eght in that State. In the year 1920, AL
i Btewart and William Bennett fought with
y ~ N ~ Clair county, and Stewart fell MORALLY
y "a the first fire. Bennett made his escape
Y Sfe hAnsas, where he remained two years. His
! ~ bouts Was discovered, he was arrested,
bach, indicted, tried, conpicted Of murder.
ezsgedtsd. Bond, who was then Governor of
Il ~ necessarily but fruitlessly besieged by
ifisnds 81 Bennett for pardon.
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s3 sJAvAN GRIMM L.---A Javan criminal was con-
denlned bY the Sultan to fight large royal tiger,
uhoss fsrccity was raised to the highest point BY
Waut 81 food and artificial irritation. The only
8 weapon allowed TO the human combatant was a
dagger With the point broken off, After wrapping
round his left fist and arm, the man
4 eufexed the arena with an air of undaunted cool
-, I'M hxed 3 steady, menacing gaze upon the
4 nxgte. The tiger sprang furiously upon his in
i tended victims who, with extraordinary boldness
- thrust his left fist into the gaping jaws,
and a The same moment, with his keen though
pointless dagger, ripped up the beast to the very
Aeafts a less than minute the tiger lay dead at
sconqnerer's feet. The criminal was not only
4 lcTsiEen, bnt ennobled by his sovereign.
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UARLEAsANr PREDIcAMENT.-On the afternoon of
A ne 18th, Anthony Wehosky, the man who runs the
gfns n the Custom House building at Providence,
y. while engaged IN cleaning the boiler, got one
u his knees wedged in between two fues, and
stnck fast, with his head and shoulders outside the
MIN holes and the rest Of his body inside He re-
manned y ths position from halfpast until after
y o'clock. It was impossible to get inside the
boiler g render him any assistance without knock
ing away he brick work in which it was embedded,
80 catting ont one Of the plates Of iron Of which
= Was constructed. This course was abont being
HUfsaed when ne succeeded in extricating himself
Win no other injury than swollen knee, which
dld not prevent him from walking to his home in
II Ctsnston.
AM UNcoANoN INDIcTsENr-A Cannon Scold-
TIE Anderson g. Cl Gazette in its reports of the
Il fAl term of Anderson Court says:
The most interesting case was, The State Va
Nancy stevenson As the public are aware, this
Mas ~ Indictment against the defepdant as a "com-
non scoid." A true bill was found against defend
ans iAsS Maxch term Of court and was traversed
w MAKE TINS brief notice Of the case, that the
pubic may see how 1t has been disposed Of and
because tne papers OF this and other States have
commented much upon it. The case was called
ior trial On wednesday last, Hon. r. Munro presid
inss h0llcitor Reed representing the State. and
Aessrs Orr y Marshall appearing for the defendant
The case being called Mr. Orr made a motion to
quasn the Indictment, on the ground that it was not
a. lldlctahle ohense in South Carolina He made
nrief but able argument in support Of his motion
sustaining himself by reference to the case of
commonwealth vs.. Samantha Hutchinson y
which was tried in the Sixth Judicial District If
pennsylvania, and found in the American Law
Aeglster p. llS. The defendant, in that case was
discharged on the ground shat the ofense Of com.
mon scolding Is not indictable as crime in Penn.
sylyana. u - = 'Ai'
N. Reed read from the books much law to sus.
tam the indictment. After argument pro and con
the following order was passed:
On hearing the motion in this case it is ordered
.nat me indictment be quashed on the ground that
y not an indictable offense that portion of the
common law relating to this offense being obsolete