New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-11
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From sls Mercury ii Monday We extract HE fol
lowing:
II is an idle habit into which we iournaligers are
prone to fall, of reporting from week NJ Week ta'
the health Of the city il good simply because there
| i no yellow fever among us. Hcannot however e
escape observation. that without an epidemic, Iol
which this is not the season, we are having very
heavy hills Of mortality at present n lot week
4 and 20 the week before. This ii undoubtedly at
tributahle to the severe cold weafler. \,
The programme of the Spring races over thu
Magnolia Association Course is published, AMI
4 Hill meeting promises to be most brilliant one
Including the race oil Friday, March ?, provision !
made for six days Of sport, during which eigh
| races are to be run, viz
i The three-year old stake, two-nile heats.
4 Tho Association Purse, three-mile heats.
\ The Association twu-y old stake. mile heats
The Battle House Plate, twofnile heats.
The Campbell Handicap, two-and-a- half mile
heats.
1 The Association Purse, mile heats
The Association Purse, four-nlile heats.
The Association Purse, three in five.
i Such ample Inducements cannot fail to draw x
the meeting 4 large number of the best horses II
the country, in addition to those arendy On ths
ground though, owing To thu fact that only two n
the races stakes. are unable TO say definitely
who they will he. Unfortunately the Legitimate
heiress Of Brown Dicks fame will not be able 70
| whit glorious contest It would be between our
Maggie and Exchequer. AN It y, we cannot pc
lieve he will be permitted TO claim mere nominal
| victory.
The two-y old stake viii be watched with in,
terest, and the progeny III Brown Dick will 10 eX
pected to do all that horses can do to maintain the
prestige which they have acquired in one eFentful
week. They will have the blood Of Wagner and Of
Albion to compete with.
new feature Of the meeting will be the Camp
hell Handicap, which will be earnestly looked TO
IN the hope that 1t may develop 8 talents 2 eaicu-
| ated TO shine on the English turf.
/ As we learn particulars of the promised sports.
| NE shall endeav0r to keep our readers posted
IA stranger standing in the posfofiice this morn
ing enquired If he could get some Georgia money
changed there. A sharper standing by answered
yes and holding out his hand, received the de
posit from the unsuspecting stranger in the most
perfect business way, and retired into the interior
department just as If he belonged there, and thence
out into the alley-way, leaving his unsusnecting
victim waiting for his return, which he idpatently
fol- long time. AT last accounts he was search
ing for his transient broker but had not found HIM
n auction phrase, he is g going going gone Y
and the difference of exchange between Georgia
money ard no money at all knocked down TO
our too coniiding stranger.
| The Mercury has received tue following pro-
gramme, received from an obscure quarter Y
TABIEAU Xxx. OF THE MrLEHEILIoN SOCIETY
Qbuerse
UassTA, God III Patience, astride Of the Jackass
PUG. s5
TrsasrA, Cod Of Impotence, kicking Mule, Cor,
with his fthe Mules ears back.
Hereg,se:
Tile foot of the Jackass upon URNsTA's belly.
URNsrA has thrown himself into q graceful atti-
tude, and appears to be whistling- Patience and
long suffering.
TuNasyA and the Mule Con change positions so
that the heels Of the latter are just now ID con-
tact with the nose Of the former Impotence
and c0ncnssion.
Change to Dissolriag Fie,rs:
ERSsTA and the Mule and the Jackass and TuSGsTA
xstr1h foft tItarf
AZ tic curtain falls. DouGLAs, son Of TUsGsTA, is
seen astride Of the Jackass PUG, fading from
REV.
Grand Chorus nf the Mulehellons,
On slippery rocks See them stand,
And fiery pillows roll below ~
Thunder aud lghtning with much smell of brm-
stone. Then pitch darkness ensnes The bray
gf Jackass.---A suppressed cry DIT f Oh, Lordy VII
The stage il brilliantly illuminated. --DoUGLAs is
seen lying or. his back, his finger pointed to the
White House in the distance--the Jackass gallop-
ing up Capitol Hill Pitch darkness follows. 7
TUsE n Devil take the hindmost.'
The War Between spain and Morocco.
The London Times brings down, by its cores
pendent, its narrative of the attempt at war Just
essayed by Spain against Morocco, to December 8.
The arrival of troops at Ceuta from Cadiz Icon
tinned. There had been one battle and four skir-
Tetuan will be the first city against which amy for
midable demonstration will be made. The Spanish
troops thus far, both officers and men, have appear
ed very well before the seni- barbarians. who are
bold and skillfn in stfatagems and surprises. Their
cavalry charges are prompt and vigorous, and
Ereat steadiness square and delfberaiion in firing
will be necessary to resist them successfully There
have been some cases Of cholera and dysentery in
the army. The horses and mules stand the climate
better than the oxen intended for food. Three hun
dred galley slaves, chosen from among the best
conducted, have been taken for soldiers. Many
there for murder, at least for killing in
duels with knives.
In Spain there seems to be almost a conviction
that England u favoring the Moors, and even lend
ing them actual assistance This belief il strength
ened by the circumstance that Mr.. Drummond
Hay, Consul, was remaining at Tangier, although
the other cousuls had left 1t is also charged that
British officers have been among the Moors, in
strncting them how to lay and work their guns at
Tangier.
On the 9Th there WAS a continuous hurricane at
Genta, with heavy rain, which made sad havoc
among the tents. An attack BY the hLoors was all
that was wanted to complete the disagreeables Of
the succeeding night. The next morning the as
poet Of the camp was uncomfortable enough.
Some Of the new men were struggling with their
ioosened tents, knocking IN pegs, which the soft
ened ground will hardly retain. mending broken
poles, and straning damp canvas, while others are
making efforts, generally unsuccessful, to get up
something in the shape of breakfast
cured Of wound in his hand, which he received
III the battle of the 18th November. where the
Spanish loss in killed and wounded was about two
hundred aud fifty 0'Donnel lives in tent of
very moderate dimensions, and IN an exposed posi-
ton, and shares the discomforts of his officers
which are not few. The Moors frequently 90
within the furthcst Spanish lines, but disappear as
soon as any soldiers appear. Only a very small
portion Of the Spanish cavalry had arrived. 1t is
probable that O'Donnellwill commence the regua
lar campaign with two corps more there, and Gen.
PRINTS reserve, in all about IS 900 men. In the
battle of the 18th the Moors fought bravey chiefly
from behind trees, to which they chung like SER
nents, Slipping around them SO as to present the
least possible mark to the enemy. Their esoiagdr-
das, very long -barreled guns, require prop for
their aim to be sure at all. When thus supported,
they will kill at forty PAGES.
4 On the 18th Spanish battalion got into the rear
OF d large body 81 Moors, who were defending a
wood, and charged them with the bayonet, killing
good many of them. When thus attacked they
take their guns by the barrel and use them as
clubs. Their mode of defense ii found very inef-
fsctnal against the bayonet, with which the little
Spanish soldiers rush upon them. The Moors are
described By persons who have been in close con-
tact with them and have seen their dead bodies on
THE battlefield, az extremely fine men. Most of
them are tall, not b few nearly six feet high,
bearded and OF various compile xions, varying from
black nearly so, to tint almost white as that
of some Europeans. II was unprecedented that
their wild and fcrocinus appearance and horrid
wells would have an illuminating effect npon the