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New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

MODERN INVENTIONS FoREToLD IN THE THR-
TENTH CENTURY, will now, in the first place,
speak Of some of the wonderful works of art and
nature that | may afterwards assign the causes
and methods of them, in which there is nothing
magical so that it may be seen how inferior and
worthless all magic power is, in comparison with
these works. And first according to the fashion
and rule of art alone. Thus, machines can be
made for navigation without men to row them so
that ships of the largest siZe whether rivers or
the sea- can be carried forward, under the guidance
of single man. at greater speed than if they were
full of men (rowers.) IN like manner a Car can be
made which will move, without the aid Of any
animal, without incaculable impetus; such as we
suppose the scythed chariots to have been which
were aneienty used in battle. Also, machine for
flying can be made, so that man may sit in the
middle of a machine, turning an engine, by which
wings artifeialy disposed are made to beat the air
after the manner OF bird in flight. Also, an in
strnment small in size, for raising and depressing
almost infinite weights, than which nothing on oc.
casion is more useful for, with an instrument of
three fingers in height, and of the width, and
of smaller bulk, man might deliver himself and
companions from all danger Of prison. and could
rise or descend. Also, an instrument might be
easily made by which one man could draw to him
self thousand men by force and against their will,
| can be made for walking in the sea or in rivers,
even at the bottom, without bodily risk for Alex
ander the Great made of this to the secrets
| of the sea, as the Ethical Astronomer relates.
These things were made in ancient times, and are
made in our times, it is certain, except, perhaps,
| the machine for flying, which have not seen, nor
| have known any one who had seen it, but know
wise man who thought to accomplish this device.
| And almost an infinite number Of such things can
be made as bridges across rivers without piers or
| any supports, and machines and unheard OF
engines. Roger Bacon.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17
ID MALLARD
A Most Magnificent Stock


FURNITURE AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
Which he personally selected had manufactured to order
He would call particular attention to his styles of
sLEEPING-RooM FURNITURE, in Mahogany and Violet
Ebony
PARLoR, DINING GROOM and u BR AIRY FURNITURE.
FANCY ARTICLES OF FURNITURE.
SILK FURNITURE sTUFFs, 0AMAsKS and LANIPAs.
SHADES, RIGS, SPRING BLINDS, etc.
EMBROIDERED MUSLIN and BoBINET CURTAINS.
splendid assortment of MIRRORS, consisting Of Manel
Glasses and Venetian Melaions.
CoRE1CEs GILDINGs, and extensive variety of such
goods.
PURE ALFENIDE DISH COVERS, Piatcs Oil Casters, Ii.
ouor Stands; DINNER and TEA SETS, in Plain and Or
pamental Porcelain; Sets Of Bohemian and Paris Crystal
FANCY ARTICLES FOR THE TEA AND TOILET TABLE,
in Crystal Biscuit and Porcelain Fancy Tea and Coffee
Cups splendid Vases, stapettes Clocks, Lamps, Jadi
neres, etc, ETC.
A Splendid Assortment Of Bronzes,
Consisting of Groups for Palors steuettes Anque Vases,
Clocks etc. copies from the great masterpieces of anti
putty by Babedienne and sapyage which will be sold very
low.
Being unwilling 10 deal any longer in GRPETINGs he will
sell tho balance goods which now has on hand
at COST PRICE, His stock consists of general assortment
of yelves and Brussels Rugs French Mackaoes Also
Mesquite Meetings. and Canton Msttngs.
He always hand full supply CLARIFIED COLA
| OIL.
90 2pst-tal So Royal street.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

THE MEANNEss AND BRUTALITY OF COLLEGE Sru-
DENrs.-Ine Process of :. Hazingn Explained
The process of hazingr which the Faculty of
Harvard College recently punished By expulsion,
is thus described:
You send your boy Of 16, II, or Is years to col
lege. He enters the Freshman class. Away from
home, among strangers, perhaps little homesick,
he appears "green,n or "spooney.D But he
minds his business and knuckles to his tasks. Not
SO with the impudent fellows of the class above
him. These Sophomores Immediately conceive
the idea Of putting through your boy.
| They have various ways of doing this. They
| take him of cold night and put him under q
| pump, and, after he is well wet and chilled, let
him go home to his bed and sore throat; or, per-
haps, they will get him into room, and there try
| to !. smoke him out,n by burning tobacco in the
and pipes, and when they find him becoming pale
and sick, leave him with laughter. Or, if he is a
nervous or sensitive boy, they will try to Brighten
him out of his wits by compelling him to go blind
folded into darkened room, and then show him
| hdeous things There are various other ways OF
"hazing,'' such as ducking in tub Of cold water,
getting the novitiate drunk, ETC.
If the boy has spirit enough to resist these out
rageous insults he is told that the result of resist
anee will be discomfort and annoyance during his
| whole college life and we have known instances
| where this was the case.
| You will be likely to ask in what part of the
| Joke the laugh comes in,n and your boy, O
course, feels inclined to put the same question
and SO do we.
They have carried this thing so far in Harvar,
dangered, and the students were unable to do am
study during whole term.
| The Faculty of the College, therefore, made al
example of eight Sophomores who were caught
leave of absence for year to learn at home less
| brutal manners.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

SYRT4.-It seems that affairs in Syria are still
very disturbed and distant from peace and repose.
A statement of the horrors around Baalbec says:
The number of villages plnndered and burnt was
twenty-siX number plundered and not burnt, ten;
number Of Christians reduced to beggary and want
1855. The outrages were not committed by the
pruses, but by Moslems, and is thought that there
was widespread conspiracy among them and
their allies the Metawalehs, to root out the Chris
tan population. Omar Pacha, who now holds the
chief Turkish authority in that region, well inten-
toned, is continually deceived BY the cunning
Moslems. The people do not have enough to eat,
have no houses, farming tools, or seed to sow
and if this continue until the rains come on and
the vast plains of CoeioSyria the great wheat field
and granary of the country, remain unsown, TIE
will be beyond all calculation. If the Christians
could now be supplied with cattle for blowing and
grain for sowing, and harvest thus secured for
the coming year, untold misery would be prevented.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

4 boIitlon Thiewes Captured.
From the st. Louis Republican we copy the fol
lowing telegram ic dispatches:

From the st. Louis Republican we copy the fol-
lowing telegraphic dispatches: :
IsDgpgxDEyog. Jackson Co., Dec. 11.-Last night
party OF Abotfonis IS, five in number supposed to
be from the Territory Ut Kansas went to the house
Of Morgan Walker, a Large slave owner, residing
southeast of this city and demanded his slaves and
his money. Walker fred aid killed one of the men
instantly. The remainder were arrested. The
Sheriff Of this Gaekson1 County has gone out 20
bring them into this city. d ontgomery taught
school in this neighborhood, few years since.
= 5o Y gsT y fs1R.
I'VE shall not be surprised to heay that Judge
Lynch has taken the case of these negro thieves
and robbers into consideration, and if so, short
fication for the proceeding it, as Is con5ccturedy
these miscreants are part of Montgomery's band,
Who deliberately hung and shot Hines, Moore,
Bishop and others, near Fort Scott
SECOND DESPATCH. Independence Dec. ii 1850.
Our citizens were agitated to-day with att e1npt
on the part of three or four of Montgomery's Iaen
to run off some negroes of Morgan Walker q
wealthy citizen residing twelve miles from he1s.
One OF the band sent to reconnoitre the premises
told the family they might expect an attempt OF
the kind dHFfng the night. Mr.. Walker and his i'm
mediate neighbof5 prepared themselves. When
the party came and demanded the negroes and
property, they were told to go and get them.
killed, another wounded, and third taken prison
er. When the news reached town, a meeting was
called and action taken at once to prepare for
emergencies. A more efficient county patrol was
organized in every precinct, and committees Of
vigilance were appointed, with q determination to
prevent any more tamperiDg with slaves.
Mr.. Morganis settlement was near to the place
where Montgomery taught school year or so ago,
and he and his party were well acquainted with
every part of it.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

The only distinct personal ansodote recorded of
William the Third, in connection with kensiNgton,
will remind the reader of Similar paternal stories
Of Agesilaus and others. A tap was heard one
was ii in al attendance. sWhes there?s asked tie
King. lord Buck answered the small voice Of
q child four years OF age. It was Lord Backhprst,
the son Of his majesty's lord high chamberlain,
the faFi Q. popset Aa what does hord BqeR
to be horse to my eoach,a rejoinea the little
magnate. 1--WE wanted you long time" VIII
liam smiled upon his little friend with an amable-
ness which the secretary had never before thought
his eountenance capable of expressing, and taking
the string of the toy in his hand, he dragged it up
and down the long gallery till his little playfellow
expressed himself satisfied.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

advent of chilly nights, finding the extra covers
too heavy. and remembering the suggestion of a
year ago, took of weighty coverlid and snbsti;
tnted half dozen copies Of popular weekly. |
never slept more pleasantly. mentioned it TO
some Of my acquaintanees, who, on trial of the
past two weeks, pronounced it etfectual had the
curiosity to weigh the newspapers in use on my
three beds, and the amount Of all was three pounds
only. The papers can be spread loosely, overlap
ping one another; though for convenience, l have
pasted the edges together How trifing is the cost
and how easily obtained pound or two of old
newspapers eanbe procured for four cents pound
and if spread between two light covers to retain
them in their place, will keep person comfortable
whether he be rich or poor. The experiment can
easily be tried. LENehange.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

srART1ING.-On Tuesday night last party of
negroes, consisting Of some forty or fifty, met in
Chiwapah bottom on the slough in the neighbour
hood Of Mr.. Edwards Messrs. w Q. Davis, R.
Reid, ir., B. l.. Crnmpton Sanders and others, get
ting an intmation Of the affair." repaired to the spot
and found them bnsily engaged in talking among
them was white man by the name Of Grunpton
who was Mr.. Edwards oyerseer. What the object
of the meeting was, our informant could not tell
1t takes but little discernment, however, to see
that it was got up for some unlawful, ineendiary
purpose. The oYerseer made his escape and has
not been seen since. verona (fiss.) Times, sth
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

4 VALUABLE RELI0.-We were shown yesterday a
gold watch of the olden time, which is Of great
value as memento of an important event in
American history. The watch was present from
Gen. Washington to Gen. Lafayette, and bears the
following inscription on the back of the inner case
&c. Washington to Gilbert Matters de Lafayette.
Lord Corvallis oapitulation, Yorktown, Deem
Der II, ISL The watch is of London manufac-
ture, and was made in 1860. 1t is said that the
watch was taken to San Francisco from Paris by a
Frenchman, who became embarrassed there and
sold it TO the present owner for the sum of fifty
dollars. [LousYille Journal
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

A SACRIFICE TO PRINeIpLE.--We are informed by
Col G. G, Green, mail agent on the steamer Grey
Eagle, that gentleman from Kentucky, who en-
diana, about a month ago, became so. anxious a
few days ago to become identified again with
Southern institutions, that he actually exchanged
his whole stock of goods, which were new and
grated with him TO Kentucky. In view of the III
ciacnt the Colonel wishes to know what the eoun-
try is coming to. lion. Jour.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17
TIE YouSa P1rrErs SELLING AT cosr-At this

THE Young P1FFErs SELLING At CosT.-At this
announcement who have heen economxng Of
the hard times wlno doubt find themselves tempted past endu
When fhe1 think how many things there in this
ordinary of which they haze especial needwhen they
remember certain beautiful comb splendid tanor stylish work
desk which the occasion of their last visit
temptation the aa then to know that this could be bought
at cost-wy ii be hid. We how goods be
cheap they offered by the essrs Pet present
know how body who visits their store could help
buying But necessity knows law and merchants
their obligations if they have TO sacrifice their profits do
1t may very sad fact the storeeeper there
| else 6ho will griave much overft.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

THE PERIL OF THE CREVAssE.-I remembered
we'll the krst glimpse had into one of these ter
rible ereyasses which intersect glaciers. Getting
n guide to hold my hand, / leaned over the yawn-
ing brink and gazed carefully into the fathomless
abyss. The two perpendicular walls of ice ap-
peare0 to join together about three hundred feet
down, an appearance resulting from the convexity
of tie eregasse. Usually l believe, great split
ends only where the glacier touches the ground be-
meath. 81 No one who falls into one of these ever
comes out alive,'' said one Of guides. Yes, "
sad another, a man once escaped, and lives still
at the Grindelwald he channels hunter, and
when coming home alone over the glacier, his foot
slipped and he was preepitated into a oreVasse.
His fail was broken by projecting lodges and
blocks of iee--Whieh, however, gave way as ie
chung to them. After falling three hundred feet,
he reached the bottom Of the glacier, with leg
anu an arm broken He found hollow space be-
tween the ground and the ice, through which
stream OF water ran. Instinctiyely ne followed its
course, despite the great pain he endured. and
after crawling along for three houss found himself
freed from the glaeier.n Ordinary ereVasses are
from three to eight feet wide as the top, but the
sides approach each other rapaliy so that man
would be wedged in between TWO walls of ice long
before he could reach the bottom, and then, unless
there should be ropes at hand long enough and
strong enough, what an awEal deathe An unfor-
tunate Russian gentleman persisted thus in ere
vase only last year; half Frozen half squeezed to
death, the heat of his body ever melting the ice,
he ever sinking deeper and deeper into his dread
full grave. dickens All the Year Ronnd.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

HoME MANUFACTURED JEwELRy.-Our friend
Tyler No. lis Canal this morning offers the patriotic
ladies Of the South opportunity give death blow
class Of Nerthe manufactures, by hnyng iewey, silver
and fancy goods of New Orleans manufacture He also
Informs them that he prepared tomake order everything
in his line, diamonds and her precious and
pair Watches clocks and 5swelry We know he will be en
couraged by the smiles his fair feilow.ctizens,
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

IMMENSE SrocK OF Day Goons AT Cosr AND
UNpERWa the the advertise
of Messrs HAEgerty Brotherz which they viii lind
matters .hst deserve consideration Five hundred
thousand dollars worth recently imported fancy &h staple
dry gools offered less than Eyer bdy knows
Of iong business When they they VIII ssiEox they
s they declare determinations Of converting
e cash any sscEiaee, and that The
prices viii DO lower than heard OF before his season.
Iies do forget cali there you may be able 70 buy yoar
Selves rich indeed. @@z s4@44a
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

A cute fellow was once asked what inference he
could draw from the text of job, " And the asses
snnffed up the east wind.h .'Yell,' he replied,
q the only inference that draw is this that it
would be long time before they would grow fat
uDon i'll
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17
AsArRoclous vrL1ArN.-The Pike county (AIiss.,

Magnolian of Saturday last has the following:
One day this week, while negro woman, be-
longing to j. I. Martin, ESQ., who lives few miles
from this place, was at work in field, some dis
lance from the other negroes, she was approached
by white man, who gave her bottle, which
afterwards proved to be filled with strichnyne and
told her that if she would give the contents to her
master and mistress he would make her present
Of twenty-five dollars. Upon her refusing to dc
to kill her, she managed to escape, however, and
running to her masters house gave the alarm. 4
young son Of Mr.. Martin, who happened at the
time to be the only white person on the place, in.
mediately armed himself, and, summoning two OF
three negro men, started in pursuit of the scoan
drel, hut were unable to oyertake him. From the
description given by the negro woman, it is be
lieYed that he is the same man who was driven
away from Summit a few weeks since for espousing
Abolition sentiments
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

LIFE N LowELL.-Lowell Mass, is the model
city of free labor and it is of Lowell that the fol-
lowing testimony was given:
At a meeting held in Lowell on Tuesday evening,
4th December for the purpose of 'taifording an
opportunity for survey of the moral condition of
the city, Hon. Linus Child said: There is more
intemperance in Lowell than ever before. The
females of the mills are addicted to dissipation to
dren. Liquor is sold openly and boldly on the Sab
bath evening, and flows almost as freely as water
in the canals"
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

WALL PAPERs.-Persons desiring to have their
HOUSES pspered elegantly and cheapy, should give Mr. j. j.
EYers No. o. Chares street. call He employs skul
workmen and his stock of paper hanng and conces
complete possible TO find in the city. He works low
present. csnsequn Of the hard times therefore
entertained that such Improvements house would
be TOO costly,
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

REMEDIES FOR THE sEAsoS.-As each season is
accompanied by eeran Diseases 1t is consequently necessary
provide against them by suitable remedies Messs j. Wright
Co.. Nos 81 and Isl Ghares street. has hand most
of seasonabe medicines The afflicted should
rnarlher tliis
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

To BUYERS OF HARDwARE.-We would direct the
attention buyeya hardware the advertisement Of Mesrs.
John D. BE Sens, which viii he found another page
Determining retire frem The shelf goods business mime
themselves strictly the heavier branches of their trade this
weltknown firm express the intention Of selling i stock Of
shelf goods they haze hand large discount usual
prices nqunnttes SUI puschaes. To merchants builders,
chin cnbinet makers other mechanics this il
opportunity be despsed, Having for long period Of
years done general hsincss here they must Of have
among the goods offered saOfinee nj that cond be
ed TO supply New Orleans demand both goods them
selves and their quality therefore, buyers would find much
their advantage to give them their orders
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

HaME MADE CoNFEeTIoNERY.-The stock of fine
confectionery kept hand by Mr. Ernest Tapin No % old
Leyee wei worthy aeon of lovers of the good things
Of this life Nopuent should fail calling there ard purchasing
supply for their chldrens Christmas As Mr. Turpn
manufactures his goods himself they be relied being
plIs from 20 sopons drugs see hs adveitlssent
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT LosT.-A certificate of
deposit the Butchers and Droyer Bank of New York has
lost by advertiser in paper this morning The
will be literally rewarded returning to the
See
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17


IF the Southern States once succeeded in consti-
tutng separate federation, it is surely clear that
every question now pending between themselves
and the North would become at once an lnterna-
tonal question. Every point now at issue in the
domestic forum of Congress would come under the
cognzance of the general society OF nations.
What sort of division of the unsettled territory
now belonging to the United States would ever be
agreed upon between the Northern and southern
declarations, nobody can pretend eFento conceive,
and thisis the very difficulty which seems to show
that the severance could never be effected without
bleodshed. 1t is plain, however, that every at
tempt of the Southern States to expand beyond
the territory absolutely secured to them would be
resisted, not only by their Northern neighbors,
but by the whole strength Of European ciyiliza-
ton.
The more reckless spirits Of the South are push
ing on their quarrel in the belief that if they were
once disembarrassed of the Union, they could rend
province after province from Mexico and fill each
successive acquisition with their slaves. But
Europe will have word in the matter. 1t is
simply the incorporation Of the North with the
South which prevents European statesmen from
treating the anneNations Of the United States as
avowed extensions of the area Of slavery. They
cannot now upbraid Confederaey, of which more
than half the members have no slaves with con
quering and annexing merely in the interest Of
cotton and negroes, but there would be no scruple
about taxing the Southern Federation with designs
which it would be at no pains to conceal.
Nor is there, take it, the slightest doubt that
the free States would rather assist than impede the
efforts of European diplomacy. The Monroe doc
trine would be destroyed by the very fact of a
separation, and Northern Union, once, divided
from the South, would not be long in making the
Encouragement of slavery the cardinal principle OF
its foreign policy. In short, the measure of the
dangers Of separation is the advantage derived
| from disunion. Slavery is sufficiently unpopular
| in the world for mere slaveholding Common
| wealth to run no small risk of becoming the victim
| of general crusade. But the actual connection
of the Southern States with the North has the effect
of making their exclusive devotion to a hated
| system. The Constitution Of the United States as
experience has abundantly shown, can often be so
managed as to promote the objects of the slave
owners, and whenever advantage is gained in this
way, it is gained without mourning danger, and al.
most without attracting attention.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

NINE DEBAR's DANCING AcApEAY.-M'me De-
Bar the weknown and highly accomplished insracress Of
the fantastic art again at her post having reopened for the
her dancing Academy 1876 Barohne street between
Julia aad Girod. The community of New Orleans so
mar with Nine Deb IS great efficiency teacher of dan
cling in all brought into eqpstpn in petite society
that is unnecessary that should add Of
daon that reputation well earned fully sustained Th
hours of teaching the and other information given in
advertisement. TO which We refer The nnbe.