New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-02-04


he GIVES TUE SENATORIAL eoxalrrrE ms ADDRESS.
The Cleveland Leader of the oath ult. publishes
the following letter from Hon. Joshua R. Giddings
UTICA, N. Y, Jan. a. 1860.
Editor Morning leader see in the Democratic
papers OF Cleveland notice that / am not yet ar
rested on THE warrant of the Senates Committee
to investigate the Harper's Ferry INVASION in con-
sequence OF the process having been issued to the
ex-Marshal of Ohio instead of the acting Marshal.
| wish to say that have never believed that
should be called on to go before that committee.
do not now believe it. I also wish to say that
look with no small degree of contempt upon those
efforts of the Democratic press and Democratic
party to intimidate honest and unsuspeetng peo-
pie.
If Mr.. Mason or his committee desire to see me
ut Washington they shall be gratifed on signifying
that desire, IN any manner that can recognize as
respectful or legal.
am now engaged until the 9th of February, and
hope to return to Ohio on the 10th, to remain at
my own residence on the llth and 18th. If do not
then hear from Mr.. Mason or his committee | ex-
pect to start West, to fill my engagements in Mich
igan, Illinois and Wisconsin.
. But if they desire to see me before that H..
letter or process will reach me in New York on the
9Th of February, or at Arcade, Wyoming county,
on the 18th of this present month. But will thank
the Democratic press not to publish any more ric-
nlous blnnders of their officers; or. If they do,
hope they will not associate my name with them.
Mrs. JOHN G. HEENAN.-The statement made in
the Tribune, few days SINCE to the effect that the
young actress, Ada Isaacs Menken, was the wife
OF John G. Keenan, has been extensively copied
and emphaticsily denied by one or two papers,
Among the papers denying this fact is Wilkes,
SPIRIT OF The Times, which says, that Mr.. Heenan
IS not married. We made the announcement origi.
nally upon the authority of the lady herself and
have since received a communication over her own
signature IN which she reiterates the statement that
s si Is the wife Of Mr.; Keenan, and further adds
Af hoo tnor shat ~
brayest man in the world.n Mrs. Heenan is now
stopping at the house of her father.in-law in West
Troy, aud after fulfilling few theatrical engage.
ments this winter, will leave for England in March,
IN company with him for the purpose of joining her
husband. IN Y. Tribune, 2sth.
FIGHT BETWEEN A RABBIT AND SNAKE-It has
been generally supposed that the rabbit is one of
the most tmid OF animals, modest and retiring in
its habits and wholly devoid of what phrenologiss
term combatiyeness. But recent exhibition in
an adjoining county has proved this supposition
nnfounded in fact party of gentlemen were
out hunting in Kinchafoonie Swamp, when their
attention was directed to a furious encounter be-
tween small rabbit and snake. The former
fought ferociously, springng suddenly upon the
SNAKE tearing the flesh of the REPTILE with his faet
and sharp teeth and springing off again to avoid
its poisonous fangs. The snake seemed irving 10 |
get away but the rabbit, wholly nnmindfuI Of the
presence OF the hunters, kept up the combat until
his antagonist was disabled, when the little fellow
beat slow retreat, unharined by the guns Of the /
aamiflng spectators (Lnmpkin Palladium.
To THE Po1sT.-The Oxford (afiss.) Mercury, al.
lnding to the support which some papers are Civ
ing to the pretensions Of Col Joseph Lane for The
Presidency, says:
Horace tells US Of an ingenious carpenter who,
out OF piece Of timber not fit to make work
bench, manufactured God. The Memphis Ava. I
lanehe has done the same thing.
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