New Orleans daily crescent., 1859-09-21


New ENTERPRISE. The new steam propeller
Florida, built during the past summer, at the North,
and designed expressly to ply regular packet be-
tween Apaachicoa and New Orleans, will leave New
York by the 10th of October, proximo, for New Or
leans
1t is expected that the Florida will be able to make
three or four trips per month between the two places
connecting with the Chattahoochee river steam.
ers-thereby creating continuous line between Co.
lumbus, and other places on the river, and New
Orleans.
There is no doubt that the enterprise will succeed
the boat is owned principally by merchants at Apa.
lachicola who are determined to spare no pains or
sary as this. We have been inisSrmed that freghts
from New Orleans to Apalachicols, have been placed
as low as so cents per barrel without primage and
IS the Florida will connect with one or more river
steamers arrangements having been entered into
for that purpose) there will be expense incurred
at Apalachicoa for landing of produce, and other
heavy charges heretofore made.
columbus Daily Times.
DREADFUL RESULTS FROM HYDRoPHoBIA.-A let
ter from Portsmouth, Ohio to the Louisville Journal
makes mention Of an extraordinary circumstance 1t
says:
short time ago young lady was bitten by q
dog. Hydrophobia manifested itself on her. and
while confined by the disease she bit her sister, who
was waiting on her. The sister soon attacked by
the same disease and bit the mother. All three
alive at last accounts, but were all raving mad and
there was no prospect Of their recovery.
AN OLD Co1N.-The Wilson IN. C.) Ledger tells the
following Of an old coin poughed up in field near
Rocky Mount, Nash county, N. c.:
1t purports to have been coined in the year 1884, A.
D. Two lions with extremely curly tails occupy op.
posite angles on the one side, while the correspond.
ing angles are filled with altars This side is similar
to the old Spanish pistareene. On the other side We
have every conceivable mark and sign. Two pillars
surmounted by two something's with the figure 8,
shockingly executed intervening. Beneath the and
parallel with the base Of the pillars the letters P.
"; then follows the date of its coinage as before
stated. We think, with those who have devoted some
degree Of attention to such matters that it is Spanish
coin and as the jewellers say of the purest god Its
worth by weight is about $l7. This is the Oldest
known coin in possession of any living mortal, as
the Oldest coin in the Duke of ,Richmond's famous
collection only dates back to 922, A. d.
1t is altogether probable that the figure az is en-
titled to place in advance of "734,' an addition
which would take small matter of 734 off the
reputed age of the coin. OF course the coin cannot
be as old as this because the characters of the die
long to later times the "pillars of Hercules being
among them-devces which do not appear on Span.
| ish coin until much later date than 1874.
| THE SECRET PoLIcE-A letter from Italy, written
while Louis Napoleon was there, says:
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men composing the secret police of his Majesty, and
more curious still to study the personages. The chief
is handsome man, about forty years of age, and is
decorated with the Legion of Honor. He has large,
square built, powerful frame, with dark hair and
eyes, dark skin and ruddy cheeks. He wears small
moustache and imperial, and although he has mill.
tary air, might pass for the rich manufacturer or the
busy agent Of some great company Without aa ex-
| aggeration be is as shrewd looking man as ever
saw his small dark eyes are constantly moving
from side to side, under the shade of hat with an
questionable broad brim no man near the circle OF
his movement escapes his scrutiny. The conedrates
| which the chief has with him here are study, on
account of their mutiform characters and virtues.
| Not one of them looks like Frenchman.
One, tall, elegant young man, with f1axen hair
and moustache, would pass for Russian Northern
him there sits an old farmer.looking gentleman who
| when he talks, convinces You very soon that you
have fallen in with shrewd politician and cunning
old fox who is only in tnvestie in his simple cos
tume Then there is enormously fat old man with
gray hair, shaven close, on whose yisage the finer
lines have become obtuse from obesity, and whose
nationality is thus obscured He is one of the most
active men of the party. Then there are two men Of
side-whiskers, who do the Englishmen. The cores
pondent of the London Times, at this place. tells
that be addressed one OF these men in perfect conf
dence in English, and was responded to in the same
| language but with German accent There are Still
others or these men whose gentlemanly appearance
and business air would totally preclude the suspicion
Of their true character. Alcssandre, the Corsican
wears the livery of the Emperor, with sword and
two decorations-a strange congomeration under the
insignia OF servant, however imperial.
EsA TRUTH PLEASANTLY ToLD.-The first good ma
tured paragraph we have seen during the progress
of the controversy between the English and French
Journals is in the Paris Charpari, which informs thu
eccentric clergyman who had offered ESQ reward TO
the best essay on the best means of keeping up
good understanding between England and France
that considers itself entitled to the prize for solyn
the question in one sentence, which is alone wortl
dozens of essays-"Le meilleur moyen pour que l'An
gleterre ct la France sentendent est de sc pare
moins haut." France and England will understan
each other better if thu. iont talk so loud,l
If you marry said Roman consul to his sor
"let it be woman who has Judgment and industr
enough to cook meal for yon-enough to dres