The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-05-02
For the Crescent.
Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levees:
With Glin.pses into the Nep Orleans Bgr (roonss.)

t Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levees:
| With Glimpses into the Nep Orleans Bqr (roons)
SAMUEL SENSITIVE.
1t is fact sufficiently selfevdent, neither to be
gansaid in any manner to be disputed, that there
| IS deal of sweetness in the nature of a woman.
Samuel Sensitive had fallen in love with of the
SEX and her name was Miss Julia Katydid.
| 1t was present to Julia, that Sam had, with
due consideration OF the consequence, resolved to
abstract forty dollars and upward from his oyster
and billiard account, and besow it in beautiful,
enameled, filagree, fllaid moroccan of bijouterie,
whose value ntrinscally, per Sc, was perhaps about
| SIX bits. Sam loved katydid, and was very anx-
lous, by all honorable means, to draw upon himself
the heavenly influences of double-dstilled blessed
ness in the shape of a sweet woman's love. For
this purpose he set to work according to the man
ner and form in such cases made and provided
"Twere long to tel' the extent and the variety Of
Sans amiability upon this occasion.
1t lucky chance for the head clerk of
Messrs. Pork, Produce d Co., that the star of Katy
did upon his moral horizon, for he was posting
the turnpike of iniquty in one of the biggest omni
buses that belong to that popular line But mes
merism, in the shape of Cupid, made his passes"
at Sam, and speedily he was "gone hoss."
Julia katydd was young lady with bright eyes,
very bright ringets, very dark, and ruby lips,
like cherries, and alabaster neck, and very
nice chin with dimple in it. Was mt she prettys
She was niece of some good lady and she had
had a mother one who mother, and had
brought up this feminine jewel of loneliness in a
manner to develope the exceeding grace OF nature
pure and exalted as those blest beings whom in our
dreams of fancy, we fondly suppose to hover about
the abodes OF innocence and peace. Those who
only know women in the haunts and kennels of
sensuality, widely ignorant of the real nature of
the sex, and while profigacy tends purely TO
debase and I" imbrute - the soul, as Milton says,
the kindly influence of female innocence is like the
quality of mercy ITSELF distiling like the gentle rain
from heaven, and is indeed twice blessed" when
ever and wherever it is exercised.
1t lisa curious discovery that young fellow makes
when first he becomes sensible of the existence of
what is POLITICALLY termed "a heart He is sick
and he ism t sick; something is the matter, and he
hardly knows what. He sits and signs, whilst
visions of blond lace and fancy ribbons, to say no
thing of love darling eyes and tresses like tbs
morn,' fit before his imag ination and render him
very qualmish indeed. Sam never made many
blots in his day-book before, and once when he
should have written Dried Herrings, in copying
an invoice, his pen nsensiby traced the fair cha
racters of the name of |" Julia Katydid." He even
tried to write poetry, saw beauty in the moon and
stars, frequently by the Waterman to
wander along the Levee, humming to himself, so,
meet me by moonlight alone,'' or apostrophizing a
bale Of cotton in words like these:
Had we loved kindly
Had loved blindly,
Never met and never parted,
had ne 'er been broken heared!'
Julia, it seems, had lately gone off up the river
visit to some friends, and 1.-The self-same post to
which the steamer fastened when the fair
Katydid stepped foot on board, was like stoned
urn and monumental bust,'' to Sam. He could mt
have thought it possible that big post should have
gained upon his affection, and as by moonlight he
stood there leaning up against the aforesaid roman
tic piece of timber, and gazed out upon the mighty
Mississippi, which running at that time pretty
full of drift wood, Sam did feel sad, sorrowful and
sober hearted enough. =
But why spin out long story! for long one
could be told of the courtship of Sam and katydd.
Let it suffice to say, that through the benign infu-
ence of very woman a change came over the
spirit of the young gentleman's dream, and he who
was once the prince of good fellows among crowd
of roysterers in an evenings carouse, and could
laugh the loudest and longest, and emptiest, was
made different chap of as
His dream of life from morn till night.
Was love-still love-"
Why lengtfen the recital. Katydid was not
neyorabIe, neither had she heart of adamant,
harder than the neither milestone. She, being
vooed, was in due course Of things, won, and can
show the house where they live-that is, Sam and
lis wife, Katydd. He visits the Levee no more by
moonlight, not he; he stays at home like decent
worthy citizen, as he is. He loves Katydid, and
mas reason to bless the hour when she smiled and
vinked, and halfconfessed that she loved him.
The merchantable firm with whom Sam was
brought up, opened wide their business arms, and
ook him in. Altogether, Sam is looking up in the
world Who will not say that it was not that same
Katydid that made man of him!