The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-08-31
" I ION Lne oCItnTIIlC AHlEIICdu.
Value of the Mechanical Glasses.

narchical aud Ogarchcal governments have been
far DEEPER stained with acts ofngratitude, than re-
publics. IT is not by monuments reared msplendor
20 statesmen and warriors that can estimate the
depth Of a nations gratitude or anaton's patriot
ism. No no, it is not by these, but rather in the
absence of neglect and IN justice done to the de-
serving obscure, than in lie heaped up gorles
showered down upon the memory Of great and dis
tinguished men
Tins is particularly true Of the mechanical classes
OF every country, and especially those of Great
Britain. The most enthusiastic admrer of England
may talk as he peaSes of the gIOries and victories
Of old England, and the names of Nelson and
Wellington may be shouted with the most bursting
enthusiasm, yet where would have been their VIC
tories and where their mighty fleets and well pro-
yded armies if IIardgreaye had not invented the
| spinning ienny2 1t was the mechanical genius,
mechanical skill and industry of the operatives of
! Great Britain that made her wealth, and enabled
her TO equip the armies of Austria, Russia and Prus
! sia, to meet and vanquish the Great Captain
! Only for the wealth which flowed into England's
Golfers by the sale of her manufactures, she would
be poor country indeed for she has not the natu-
raj capacities of agricultural greatness, but her me-
| chanlCs have made her a great country, and the
men to whom SIZE is most indebted, with but very
! few exceptOns,) sprung not from her mobiles and
aristOcrauC classes, but from her industrious, hum
| bic poor Hardgreave was a poor operative Ark
! wright barber. and Dr. Cartwright, the in
ventor of the pOWerloom, was by no means of high
! DESCENT. James Wat., the immortal irnprover of
! Telford the great architect and Rennie the great
! civil engineer, were mechanics and George Ste
| venSOn, the successful locomotive improver and
! engineer, was but a working operative. To her
living mechanics England is still indebted as she is
! to those that departed. Stevenson is still
strong and energetic, and so is Balm the greatest
of Engand's living electrical engineers, and he too
! is a mechanic.
Now, what we want to exhibit, in calling atten-
ton TO these things is, the neglect, the oversight
Ii
honor other classes who are not so deserving. We
! know that a Herschel and Rennie have been
! knighted, but where in the whole history of Eng
! land can find man made Peer OF the realm,
unless he has Numbered in the Parliament house,
! or Numbered on the battlefield! Blood and elo-
| quence have been passports to the dignity of the
peerage, while the mechanic might invent land has
mvented) and raise England from the 6 dirt to the
deity" in manufacturing greatness, still he is not
considered equal TO the rich and idle dronesh class
of exclusive ttes &c. The offices, too, of emou-
ment and distinction, are exclusively the rich mems
pairimony, and this Is the crushing weight that is
driving many excellent mechanics to this country,
! and which will be the means, in the course of
twenty years more, of destroying the cotton manu-
iacture of Britain and making the mules and the
| looms of Manchester and Glasgow TO whirl and
whisk on the banks of many of the now lonely
streams of Georgia and Alabama, instead of the
banks of the Clyde and the Irwell.
| In calling attention to the ingrattude of another
government do not say that this is govern
mental question, but it is evidence of the indwel-
! ing of wrong, unjust and naughty feeling in those
classes, who, b. Inheritance, are managers of go
vernment. This is Just as true of all other govern
| mens, even our own, it is of Britain, although
that country presents the greatest contrast.
| five look to the many offices and the persons
| who Gil them at our own firesiGe (f we may use
the expression will find that we can point the
finger to that management which necessarily be-
longs to all political organizations and say as said
the prophet to David, $ thou art the man. Let
these reflections be weighed well by all those who
wish well for their country, and let there be more
encouragement TO the worthy of our producing
classes irrespective of any thing but real worth.
| There is no doubt but our mechanical classes are
more comfortable than those under any other gov
eminent, and they meet with more encourage
ment, still no can doubt but there is still room
for improvement Let us then prove to the world
as nation, that towards all deserving classes OF
our citizens the Great American Republic is the
most grateful of nations
An INFIDEL ON PRoFANITY-The annexed ex-
tract from an article in the Boston Investigator,
Infdel organ, on the subject of profane swearing
is, to say the least, ingenious in its argument:
''There are two ways of talking about profane
swearing One Is, TO condemn It as a sinful or
criminal act equal to that of fasehood dishonesty,
etc; another is to ridicue it a vulgar, half-civi
lied habit originating with the ignorant and super
stous classes of the community. The common
method of COndemnng it, is the former or the pulpit
method-thereby creating one more sin, which is
no sin.
g Now we should as soon condemn the smoking
of cigars as sin, as to call proane swearing
wicked habit. Both acts are vulgar but one is no
more denOralzlg than the other Of the two
practices, however, that of smoking Is more worthy
of being COmdGmned on account OF It's Injurious ef-
fecs upon the health. Religionsts are apt 10 re-
gard the habit Of proane swearing having an
| anti-religiOus influence We differ from that opln-
ion widely When we find that prOfaIe swearing
is the most common among the ignorant classes who
have the most religion, how are to believe that
the habit has any tendency destroy the religious
sentiment We believe, on the contrary, that 1t IS
| i'll the religious sentiments that 1t has lis source
The great tOuntaiu-head OfprOlane language Is the
Holy Bible This assertion will startle the pious--
. but it is true Who would think of saying God
dunn u0H' if he had not been taught that damn
ing was a part of Dety's employment The word
: damn is now 50 Intimately woven with our YER
nacular. hatit Is difficult to find its synonym Men
use il 10 express their utter detestatOn OF thing
II is he belest way of expressing such adherence.
Sill eAdvise all men of sense, and lnfides espe-
ciaIIv 70 abstain from it. We can get along with
ont il: and it is Christian dialect, We ought to
leate it 10 he used expressly by Christians.
AN INDUSTRIOUS WoMAN,-On Wednesday last,
saws a late Glasgow Herald, awoman named Foley,
who had only arrived from Ireland on the preceding
day. was brought to the poice-ofiice on the charge
of pocket-picking. She was liberated on Thursday
forenoon, however, for want of sufficient evidence,
and within an hour afterwards gave birth to an in
FAINT, in a court off Be-street from which she was
removed to place Of shelter On Saturday morn
ing, the woman, accompanied by her child, called
at the police office to make inquiry regarding re-
lation, and on the same evening she was again
lodged in the office, on three separate charges Of
picking pockets, which had been committed during
the day This interchangeable parsonage and her in
FAINT remain, of course, in custody till liberated in
due course of law
LoNDoN.-According to the Rev, Mr. Bellows
tue sale of the public parks Of London would pro-
$ badly pay off the national debt. The first and
last characteristic of London, he writes, the
peculiarly which thrusts itself upon you every mo-
meut, is its size OF this no description gives you