New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-16

are required to have their certificates properly
altered. The Office of the Register is in the base
ment Of the City Hall, and it will be more convenient
30 attend to the registry at this time than to put it
of to the last moment.
H8-sec this mornings Supplement-.
MgEr1va OF THE UNION GuARDs To-NIGHT.--Tt
win be seen BY notice in another column that the
Union Guards meet this evening at Odd Fellows
Hail at VI o'clock. Its to be hoped that they viii
turn out in fall strength. Let the people see by
Tile numbers which attend the meeting Of the
friends Of the great Union candidates that in them
alona il there hope for successful battle against
the aerti0nalists, North or South
UsloN Insurance CoarANY.-We commend to
the attention Of our merchants and property
n holders the card Of this staunch Insurance Com
pany It's assets on tie first Of last May were
# s5I5 10, s2ss, a76 is Of which has been aceu-
uaulatea from the profits Of the Company within
t.is LAST four years, although large dividends have
been declared each year, and paid to insurers.
This Company insures against loss by sea, rivers
sr fires, at the current rates, paying back imrne
dately flfeen per cent. cf the premium if the IN
suEer wishes it in preference to taking his chance
faH greater amount in dividends at the end Of
the yoar. On such terms who would not insure /?
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Curious ALLEGED DISCOVERY IN FI.oRICULTURE.
A. il said that ex-REayor Tiemann, Of New York
81 his paint factory in Manhattanviile, has acct
deusAlly made 4 discovery which threatens 10 re-
voiusionze horticulture. One Of the factory hands
having thrown some liquid green paint of a par
ticnlar kind on flower bed, occupied by white
anemones, the flowers have since made their APP
pearanee with petals as green as grass. The paint
had IL II peculiar and very penetrating chemical
mixture, which Mr.. Tiemann has since applied,
with other colors, to other plants, annual bien
nial and Of tie shrub kind-the result being in
yaiiably that the flowers 80 watered took the hue
of the liquid deposited at their roots. BY COM
iieneing experiments early next year during seed
time and applying different colors, we shall no
dcHht soon be enabled to paint the lily,,' which
was solonion's ambition.
4 tsooD WAY TO ADJouRs GRAsD JuRy.-
X ATba CollIsseF. residing in the town OF Edwards,
4. Lawrence county, n. Y, has voted at every
election I'll that town, with but two exceptions for
the ass fifty years. He is the only survivor Of the
Grand jury which was in session III the Courthouse
II agaensburg when the cannon ball came into
court during the hombaIdment Of 0gdensburg in
the Eat Of iel2 Mr. GoIlistef distinctly remem-
bers seeing the bah roll on the floor in its recoil
from heavy plank but had little curiosity, along
with others present, to stop and examine ii at that
siInes ~ adjourned without ceremony. He has
twice been citizen Of Her1non, once OF Fowler,
once u Russell, and twice Of Edwards, and lived
all az time on the same farm. Mr. Coliister is
Aale, heasty and quite active, and looks good for
another twenty Eve years.
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NBvAE GArruaE or VHAEEs,-A paper has Just
been published Id England by Professor Christson
the result Of some experiments suggested so long
age as 1881, By Messrs. W and G. Young, Of Leith,
for the capture Of whales by the means Of poison,
tdr agent being hydroeyanic, or prussic acid. The
subtle poison was contained in tubes in quantity
about two oEaces Among other difficulties one
swas to dschasge the poison from the tubes at the
fight time. After various trials, the plan fixed
npoR WIS to attach firmly to each end of the har-
pooas rear the blade, one end Of q strong copper
wire, Inc other end Of which passed obiiqueiy over
tho 1ube. thereby securing It in its place then
through m obque hole in the shelf, close to the
upper end of The tube and, finally, to blight in
the rope, where Il vas firmly secured. By these
means the rope could not be drawn tight, as it
would, whan tAe harpoon attached to it struck the
whala, without crushing the tubes; the poison
would then eater Tue whale; aud death ensne The
Messrs. Young aceordngl yaent quantity IF tubes
charged with the poison by one 81 their ships en-
gagged il the Greenland fishery, and on meeting
wit ans whale the hatpaon vas skillfully and
aeapIg buried il its body the Ieviathan iinfnedi-
atsly sounded ftFer dved perpendicularly down.
waglls hui N very short time the rope relaxed,
ana the Whale r1ss to the surface quite dead but
the men were 90 appalled, BY the terrific effect of
the poisoned hafanon thai they declined to uso
any iNere Of thems Subsequent experiments tend
toconxince the learned professor that success Will
ba essabliaisad ID this method Of capturing the
mighty leyiathan " The deep.
SOMETHING ABoEr SsgUNKs.- -skanks have his
tory, as mamg New FORK trader has learned at
hisross. A geay ~ two ago they weFo exported
to Europe 70 such quantities as to promise the
puFifcatioii u our atmosphere from one Of tie
NEST disagreeah bic odors before the lapse of many
years but this aefaand suddenly fell Off ana sew
erai found themselves skinned to the amount of
$25 ,0p0 and even twice that figure Some Euro.
pean lsraelgtes, il appears, had substituted them
saecessfHfiY for ftclies, which commanded from
one to nine dollars each in market. Forthwith.
from being considered worthless, skunk sisins rose
ID price 10 81 SO each. Ships were fraigAted with.
aud fortunes inade out Of them for a few months.
Rllt an uaiucky SNOW storm in Russia, during
which one Of these collars or eapes was drawn
cver the wearers head, proved fatal to The trade.
The disagreeable oior leaked cut Now, il is said,
~ many ~ 50 ,oeo Of these skins are slowed away
in Lona3n, without beng able to find purchaser
#S a
faEspS ALaNse had the pleasure. last week, of
naakang me acquaintance of j. w. Dorr, Esq. the
ahle aud verg Interesting travelling correspondents
q q. The NeM Orleaas Crescent He is man Of
high order Of talent. easy in manners, modest ana
uilassnnliag IN conversation, and very pleasant.
interesting company, Though Ills stav here was
short no expressed himself delighted with the ap-
neaFante aud location 81 our town. and We expeotto
from Tim. u the columns Of the Crescent {bv tie
way, one OF the best newspapers in the Sta,fS seme
interesting reflections upon Mt. Lebanon ala nnr
institutions Of learning, lBienyie baptist.
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DtssoLeTIon oE cofAsVSEBsHfr.- The irm Of
tazfes ssewa dieivee the instant, Mr. steuart
vii III He GA u tle Did concern ana continue e
ssssee# aisss his account at he old
stalls @ssae asaa, NO asss 4 French market,
sArEArses N AssIEp sg A Wet NuHsE "A healthy
yesn soiAa, ehc ~ see.5 young baby desires
siauaan A. eEhes Ia ,beety or county See ad.
4zsttseaaeaR.
Cob WaTcl Ann Gu Aias i.oar.--Any person who
IN an ga Nateh with tep chain attached Will is ler