The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-05-27

lhOu, LamaTtne! as great In deeds Song,
| Hast wisely, promptly, done thy mighty part.
| Let France be proud in claiming such a son.
Kings, empires dynastes, ali fall and rot
bq Sp int sneh as ahnf h ia r ds One
GEORGIA THEATRIcs-A Georgia Scene.-If my
memory fail not, the 10th of June, 1909, found
me at about ii O'Clock in the forenoon ascending
along gentle slope in what is called the :" Dark
Corner of Lincoln. | believe it took its name
| from the moral darkness which reigned over that
portion OF the country at the time am speaking Of
II, In this point of view, it was but shade darker
| than the rest of the country, il was nconceivaby
| dark 1t any man can name a trick or sin which
| had not been committed, at the time of which
| am speaking, i'll the focus of all the countrys il
! Elimination, Llncointon, he must himself be the
most inventive OF the tricky, and the very Judas of
| sinners Since that was, however-all humor
aslde-Llncoln has become living proof that the
light shineth in darkness Could venture to-
mngle the solemn with the ridiculous, for the
purposes of honorable contrast, could adduce from
this country instances of the most numerous and
wonderful transitions from vice and folly to VIRTUES
and holiness which have ever, perhaps, been wit
messed since the days of the apostolic ministry.
So much, lest it should be thought by that
what am about to relate is characteristic of the
country in which it occurred.
Whatever may be said of the moral condition Of
the Dark Corner,'' at the time mentioned, its
natural condition was any thing but dark. 1t
smiled in all the charms of spring and spring bor-
its luxuriant woodlands, its sportive streams, its
vocal birds and its blushing flowers.
Rapt with the enchaniment of the season, and
the scenery around me, slowly rising the
slope, when | startled by loud, profane and
bosterous voices, which seemed to proceed from a
thick covert of underground about two hundred
yards in advance of me, and about one hundred to
the right of my road
g You kin, kin you9"
Yes, kin, and am able to do it, Boo-oo-oo.
10 hos IL ol,1I, Dir
stone and he-fire! Do Mt hold me, Nick Stovals
The fight IS made up, and let IS go at it. Damn my
soul if do MT jump down his throat, and gallop
every chitterling out of him before you can say
'Qutn''
g Now, Nick, do MT hold him Jest let the Wild
cat come, and III tame him! Ned III see me fair
fight, wont you Ned %
Oh yes; ii see you fair fght-blast my old
shoes, if don't ~
"'That s sufficient as Tom HAYNES said when
he saw the elephant. Now let him Gomez
Thus they went on, with countless oaths inter-
spersed which | dare not even hint at, and with
much could not distinctly hear.
In mercy's name thought ], what band of ruff
fans has selected this holy season and this hea venly
retreat for such pandemonium riots quckened
my gait, and had come nearly opposite the thick
grove whence the noise proceeded, when my eye
caught indistnctly and at intervals, through the
foliage of the dwarfoaks and hickories which in
tervened, gllmpses of a man or men, who seemed to
be in a violent struggle; and could occasionally
catch those deep-drawn, emphatic oaths which men
in a conflict utter when they deal blows. | dis
mounted and hurried to the spot with all speed. [
had overcome about half the space which separated
it fromm when saw the combatants come to the
ground, and after short struggle, saw the upper
most one for | could not see the other make a.
heavy plunge with both his thumbs, and at the same
instant heard cry in the accents Of keenest tor
ture, Enough My eye s out!'
] was so completely horror-struck that ! stood
transfixed for moment to the spot where the cry
met me- The accompces in the hellish deed which
had been perpetrated had all fled at my approach:
at least supposed so, for they not to be
Now, blast your corn-sucking soul, ;" said the
victor Ia youth of about eighteen years old as he
rose from the ground, come cutt'n your shines
bout me agin, next time come to the Courthouse,
will you! Get your owl-eye in again, if you cam
At this moment he saw me for the first time. He
looked excessively embarrassed and was moving
off when called to him, in a tone embroidered by
the sacredness of my Office and the iniquty of his
crime, ~ Come back you brute and assist me i'm
relieving your feow-morlal, whom you have ruined
foreveri''
My rudeness subdued his embarrassment in an
instant, and with taunting curl of the nose he re-
piled, g You need mt kick before you're spurr'd.
There amt nobody there, nor Ina mt been mother. l
was jist seeln' how could "a fout." So saying,
he bounded to his plough, which stood in the cor
ner of the fence about fifty yards beyond the battle
ground.
And would you believe it, gentle reader, his re-
port was true All that had heard and seen was
nothing more nor less than Lincoln rehearsal in
which the youth who had just left me had played all
the parts of all the characters in Courthouse fight.
] went to the ground from which he had risen,
and there were the prints of his two thumbs plunged
up to the balls in the mellow earth, about the dis
lance of a mans eyes apart, and the ground around
was broken up as if two stays had been engaged
upon it.
FIRE IN New ALBANY, lathe Daily Bull
etin states that the oil mill of Messrs Webb &
Box. valued at S. 900, insurance $1,000; the large
and extensive steam Touring mill of Messrs. Aus
tin & Mcdonald, valued at $1,000, insurance $4,000,
and two story frame dwelling, belonging to Henry
Turner, valued at seven or eight hundred dollars,
were all destroyed.
MUTINY AND MAssAcRE.-Papers received by
the Cambria state that the British convict ship
General Wood was seized when two days out from
Singapore, bound to Penang, by the convicts on
board and the captain and nearly all the whites of
the crew murdered. About twenty lascars and
were spared. The mutineers ran the
vessel ashore on the Island of Bungarow, off the
Malay coast, and then abandoned her. Soon after
wards she went down, the passengers with diff
Guilty saving themselves in the boats The Malays
took part with the passengers and the
convicts obliged to fly from the island. They