New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-02-16

STARTLING RuMoRs FROM KAnsAs.-ln the st.
Louis Democrat Of the 18th we fnd the following:
A gentleman who arrived in this city last evening
brings startling rumor from Kansas, from which
Territory he has come direct.
He states that when be LETT Shawnee, which MAS on
Saturday last, the 9Th inst, there was rumor cur
rent that Brown, who had been blockaded In SONS
log huts near Nebraska, and was released by force
of the free State citizens OF Kansas, had Afterwards
met the Missouri posse under the direction Of DR..
Woods. Deputy Marshal, whom Brown captured and
Immediately hung.
able sensation.
Mr.. Smith, the well known hotel keeper in West
port of the opinion that DR. Woods had not been
hung. although he believed be had been made pris-
Judge Campbell was Smiths authority for the
whole statement.
It is Thought il the report is true that Brown has
hung Woods, that the citizens of Platte City will
wreak their vengeance on Nj. boy and his son.
PoLrr1cAL CoRRuPrros.-A dispatch Of the 9th
inst from Washington says
President Buchanan is now very uneasy under the
Investigations of the appointed to inquire
into several Of the contested election cases. II ia
positively asserted that exposures will coon be made
Showing beyond doubt that he. bore part in the
complications of the Florence District in Phiadel.
phia, where few days prior to the election last fall
hundreds, if not Thousands of persons were thrown
into the district under pretence of being employed
by the Government.
FROM SANTA FE-The Santa Fe Gazette, Of the
18th ult., says: i,
Captain Jose Maria Valdez arrived in Santa Fe
last week, with his company of spies and guides,
from the late Navajo war. The company delivered
over their arms in this city, and were discharged from
the service. The friendly Utah Indians, who returned
at the same time, kicked up quite hnbbub in town
as they charged to and fro through the streets.
whoopug and whrlng in the air the scalps they had
taken from the Navsjos in the war.
RArIocINAT1oN-An incident in natural history
occurred in williamsburg Blair county, Pennsylvania,
few days SINCE that goes far to prove that rats can
reason. If it were not authenticated BY persons
whose word cannot be doubted, it would stagger u.s.
The workmen in the machine shop Of Mr.. VIM. G.
Huyett of Williamsburg, noticed large and appa-
renty venerable rat issue from hole in the wall and
proceed along to the turning lathe, where hung by
WIRE bottle of soft grease oil, such a. Is used
about the lathe His ratshp proceeded to inspect the
bottle, and examine it with his nose and paws; but
finding that on account Of its long and narrow neck
econtents were beyond his reach he seemed good
deal puzzled how to get at it. Finding his priori
efforts to persuade the bottle to yield its contents I'M
successful he sorted to what might he called the ar
gumentum posteri0ri. He actually ran bis long tail
down the neck Of the bottle, and then Withdrawing
it, licked from the Aforesaid caudei appendage ID
coating and then repeated several tmes the ipseni
GUS process until the laugh and nose Of the amused
spectators alarmed him.
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