New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-19
The New OIL Discoveries.

SOLID UiL IN THE SHAPE OF C0AL---The P1tta-
burg Post Of the 1lth says:
We have been favored with small specimen
Of coal from the neighborhood of Cairo station,
Ritchis county, Virginia on the Northwestern Vir-
ginia Railroad, which il OF peculiar quality. It
has been tested by various chemists, and has been
found to be as it were cryssalized mineral oil being
without stratifcation, and free from any foreign
substance. The tests have shown that it will yield
one hundred and sixty-fiy gallons Of crude oil to
Der cent a refined o aer
dstiliation, sixty-one per cent. of the whole
amount was obtained in pure oil, and thirty per
cent: Of lubricating oil and parafne. By taking
portion Of the coal and laying it on hot stove or
shovel, its extraordinary quality is obvious. It
melts and runs like wax. The vein wlichh has been
developed is upon the land of Mr.. William Canp-
bell. The position of the vein is different from that
in which coal is usually found Its not horizontal,
but in conelike or vertical shape running over
hill. The VEN is not mere than four feet wide,
though unfathomahle in depth, MS q shaft sunk in
the valley FOR thrtyfour feet still found III and
i 1t has been traced in It's narrow, comb-like shape
/ from both sides Of the hill towards the top. Al
i company who examined the location have par
4 chased one hundred acres Of land containing the
| vein for five thousand five hundred dollars.
The richness Of this coal in oil renders tot great
value. 1t is quite probable that II shafts are sunk
deep enough. reservoir Of mineral OIL similar to
/ that in Venango county, will be reached, from
which this vertical vein Of solid oil has originated
| Further examinations in the vicinity are about to
be prosecuted. which will, without doubt. result in
i
! On WELLs.-The Meadgille Democrat says
The oil excitement still continues throughout the
country, and new "sitesR are being secured almost
! every day. We understand that Riceyille and vi
cinity are taking hold with energy, and have com.
Howard Rice & co have la succeeded pa1i II pstrikina
one of the strongest veins yet known. 1t is said
| that the oil and water are thrown from four to
twenty feet above the mouth of the WE'LL It prom
ises to be one of the most productive wells in the
| oil region. E
Some other wells are down some sixty feet, with
| the best indications OF success.
| GouRAGE BEFHTING TO FEMAIEs.--An exchange
| remarks
There is branch of general education which
/ is not thought at all necessary for women, as re-
CARDS which, indeed, ii is well il they are not
| brought up to cultivate the opposite. Women are
not taught to be courageous. Indeed, to seme
| persons, courage may seem as unnecessary for
women as Latin and Greek, yet there are few
| things that would tend to make women happier in
| themselves, and more acceptable to those with
1 whom they live, than courage. There are many
women OF the present day-sensihle women in
other things-whose panic terrors are Q frequent
source Of discomfort to themselves and those
around them. Now, it is great mistake to imagine
/ that hardness must go with courage; and that the
bloom Of gentleness and sympathy must all be rub
bed off by that vigor of mind which gives presence
of mind, enables person to be useful in peril and
makes the desire to assist overcome that sickness
OF sensibility which can only contemplate distress
and difficulty. So far from courage being unfemi-
nine, there is peculiar grace and dignity in those
i beings who have little active power of attack or
defense passing through danger with q moral cour-
age which is equal to that of the strongest. We
this II great shngs & We perfectly ppremss
Queen of Scots, or Marie Antonette. There is no
beauty in fear It is mean. ugly, dlsheveiied
creature No statue can be made Of it that o
woman would wish to see herself IKE.
HoRRIHIE MuRDER.-The editor of the Pensacola
Gazette has seen a private letter from Hollow
Square p o., Green county, AIa.,) from which he
makes the following extract:
A terrible thing has occurred since wrote you
last - the murder of our postmaster at Hollow
i Square. He took his meals about mile from the
4 post-ofice, and was returning from his supper
when it is supposed, he was met and followed int
the office, and there knocked in the head with an
II axe; then robbed Of all his money. The letter.
were then all broken open, and a great deal d
money taken from them. He was then dragged
about three-quarters Of mile, with the intention
of putting him in an old well, but the murderer hed
before he accomplished this. Before he left to
make sure Of his victim, he shot him through the
head. The postmaster was very inotfenslve
man and was very much liked but was Tl murdered
derer has not been taken up, although i Il e Well VEL
/, known who he is, but not having safficienI evl-
dence to hang him, they think it best !, 70 let MN
alone. Negro evidence is pretty much an there Is,
= and you know that is Of no avail IN court,
| IN
!. the following interesting statement Of the official
:. coutlnct Of Tie ten Governors Of New York city,
!. Five Governors at time in the penitentary have
\ drank themselves drunk and then, quarreling over
b Their cups they have called each other common
thieves and wound up by getting into fight. pelt-
ing each other with glasses and the remains Of
, their dinner, smashing the furniture, and then,
hanging their hats upon the lamps, they have roll
led under the table to sleep off their debauch.
Ii Is by no means an uncommon occurrence for
| ha and their punstS tn ba he|pafj
down to the river and lifted into the beats by the
prisoners, being too grossly intoxicated to helT
themselves. At such times the guardians af oul
pauper aud penal institutions are wont TO indulge
in language and behavior iewd and disgustingly
obscene. Well may canvicts remark. as they fire.
qnently have done TO the wariens, upon witnessing
such scenes, g Mr.. --, it's pretty hard that
should be sent up here for six months for gettis.
drunk on my oerfa nancy, and be pus under tn
keeping of those srlo Gef drunk upon other retple $
The editor who kissed his sweetheart, sayin;
ssPlease exchange.'' is believed not to have ex
: ceeded the proper '' liberty OF the press n 50