New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-04-20


bonds to the amount of one million Of dollars.
i The only estimate Of the work contemplated u.s. !
presume that OF Mr. Troost in his letter to Mr. CLARK,
and that places 1t at the sum Of two millions You
I have believe only one hundred thousand dollars,
i as yet in stock subscriptions. This amount should
and certainly be increased to five hundred thou.
sand, and would then constitute only fair basis for
the required credit of one and half millions neces-
sary to the completion Of the work. With such rea.
sonabe of stock subscriptions for the basis
Of your enterprise, confident the authorities Of
| the city wonld consent to such an arrangement in
reference to the million loan, would insure to You
unimpared credit in subsequent and necessary nego.
| tations.
Respectfully yours
| s-------- =. ~ F" - S
PRENT1cIANA.-K our Minister to Mexico has to
touch his hat to every new government he recognizes
there the rim Of his beaver will be most certainly
worn out
Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, has sent gold snuff
box and medal for Captain Hudson Of the Niagara,
for his services IN laying the Atlantic Cable What
recognition is De Sauty to receive for watching the
electric pusations SO faithfully through dreary weeks
The editor Of the New Hampshire Democrat says
that he is sure he knows himself. If be does, he
knows about the meanest fellow 10 New Hampshire.
northern paper says that it was the shouldering
Of the Administration that defeated the Democracy
in Connecticut They must have carried the Admin
stration the right shoulder, as they carried the
election over the left.
i The Herald's Washington correspondent says Lord
Lyons is making good impression at Washington,
/ his manners being unpretendiDg. We suspec. that
4 the Lord more than the manners commends the Min.
lister to the toadies of the city of distances
Crops, one of the quartette hung at Baltimore last
| Friday, was murderer to the last. Elk cuted for
killing policeman, he left behind note to be read
after his death, which murdered the Kings English
thus: ut was me that shot Rigdon, but have re-
pented Of it'll ss
ABOUT OYSTERS. - In looking at the oyster
through microscope, it is found that its shell is
peoped with an innumerabe swarm Of animals, com.
pared to which the fish itself is colossus. The
liquid enclosed within its shell contains likewise
multitude Of embryos covered with transparent
scales, which swim with apparent facility and one
hundred and twenty Of these embry0s placed side by
side, would not make an inch in BREADTH The
liquor contains besides great variety of animacnle
five hundred times less in size, which emit phos-
phoric light There are also found in the shells three
distinct species Of worms. 1t voyages from oyster
bed to oyster bed and If in luck to escape the
wait Or prowl about to prey upon youth and iuexpe-
Renee at length, having its wild oats settles
down into steady, solid, domestic oyster. 1t be-
parent of fresh broods of oyster cherubs. As
SUCH it would live and de- leaving its SHE'LL thick
| ened through old age, to serve as its monument
throughout all tme-a contribution towards the con-
structon of fresh geological epoch and new layer
Of earth crustwere it not for the gluttony of man.
who rendng this sober citizen of the sea from his
native bed carries him, unresisting to busy cities
and the hum of crowds
TRUCKER LAKE.-The water in this lake, says the
Trinity Journal is clear and cold the adjacent hills
are covered with most of the year. and places
sheltered from the sun, it is perpetual On one side
is grayelly beach, sloping gradually out, so that
you can wade one hundred yards or more, and then
the miniature roll up in imitation of the ocean,
and are followed back by the black sand, which is
all they have strength TO drive on shore. Close by
the lake is untenanted cabin with solitary grave
near the door. An immigrants wife lies there. The
initials Of her name and her age-twenty.two-ar
roughly cut on fiat stone. She died and was buried
within half mile of the place where she might have
she had journeyed long and SO hopefully. 1t is
lonesome place even for the dead to lie down to rest
and the traveller seems to feel the silence deepening
as he fingers little while at the solitary grave near
the cabin door, close BY the beautiful lake
PRosPEcTs OF THE WHEAT CRop In TExAs.-The
Austin Gazette says:
Letters from the valleys of the Leon and Little
river inform that wheat will be harvested this
coming season than ever before. gentleman writing
Trinity and on the Ten Mile Creek the wheat looks
very encouraging. In Denton county and also in
Dallas and Parker late letters show very large crop
to have been put n and everything favorable to its
growth. writer from Kaufman estimates the value
of the wheat crop Of that region at $40 600. All
friends are in high spirits. We regret only that
have not the transportation to carry the gigantic crop
to market.
RIDING HoBRy.--The Archbishop of Dublin tells
Of horseman who, having lost his way, made COM
plete circle when the first round was finished,
ing the marks of horses hoos, and never dreaming
that they those of his beast he reoced and
said: This, at least shows me that / am in some
track I" When the second circuit finished, the
signs of travel were doubled, and he said: Now,
surely am in beaten ways" and with the concln
sion Of every round the marks increased, till he was
certain that he must be in frequent thorough.
fare; but all the while he riding after his horses
tail and deceived by the track of his error. So
1t is with men that ride hobby.
-~s-S-------.
Vvier, the horn player, received warning from his
landlord to quit at the expiration of the quarter.
The very day of his congo he carried up calf in its
infancy, and by the time his congo expired 1t had
grown almost into bullock. The key was given to
the p,oprietai,e, whose amazement and consterna-
ton may be conceived. No means of getting the
animal alive down six flights of narrow stairs had
been invented. and SO the slaughter was compelled
to take place in the garrett to the utter disgust of the
other tenants - leading to innumerable lawsuits
against the landlord, who is quite beside himself,
and threatens destruction to Vyier in consequence.
GRAVE AFFAIR.-Frghtful things sometimes
take place IN the Queen City Of the West The
Gle under the following elaborate caption which SUI
fcenty explains the subject matter:
Savage treatment of the dead--the Twelfth street
graveyard shocking developments !-tombs stolen
and sold by specializing Sexton WRONG bodies dis
inferred to time -graves eyeed and hid to save
money!
SEEING HIS NAME IN PRINT.-The most remark
able instance of love of notoriety with which we
have ever met that of man who, under the laws
Of Virginia. in the olden times advertised by the
Sheriff Of Fauqnier county to be sold on certain day
as vagrant So pleased was he with the sight of his
name for the first time in print, that he procured
copy Of the newspaper containing the advertisement
Of bis sale, and carried it ten days through the
country showing it, with evident satisfaction, to all
his friends
Elder Munger, speaking of the time when be was
boy, says it ways the custom of school children,
you passed schoolhouse, to make a bow. But in
these latter days. you pass you must
keep your eye pealed, or you win get snow ball ora
brlckbat at the side Of your head.