The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-17
Pickings from Punch.

The following description of the prolix orator is
good 1t is evidently parody on Coleridge's
Ancient Mariner"
proix orator meeetb stout gentleman going about bis
business and deaineth him.
Ii is a prOlix orator,
And he stoppeth one J. b.
BY thy strange long beard and vacant eye.
Now wherefore stOpp' st thou me
My business calls I've work to do
Which would fain begin
My house is met question set
That we an interest in.
He holds him with his eager hand
=, rise to move" quoth he
Move off unhand me, long beard loon ~
EftsoOns his hands drOpt be-
The stout gensmanis fascinated BY the fhe uncon
spe-bOund John Bail stands sul
The orator hath his will.
The victim Bull sat helpless down
He could not sGape the bore
And then on ran that prolix man.
That tedious orator.
The orator talketh his hearers out of patience.
With speech uncheer'd to benches cear'd.
without pause or stop
He raved away, though all did pray
He would the subject drop.
The stout gentemans affairs call for his attention but
the orator persistent Notwithstanding.
John Bulls affairs and weighty cares
Are crying for debate;
Yet must he hear, by doom severe,
That mans eternal pirate.
- | fear thee, prolix orator.
By all that's good, / think you could
Talk off dogs hind leg"
The orator keepeth talking for five weeks
But nevertheless for Bulls distress,
And Wills Glfsp he 5s speaks full five good weeks
OF public time are gone,
The stout gentleman doth snahemize the proix orator
Now drat thee prOlix orator,
For measures stay and bills delay'd
By useless, idle jaw"
DE- The exaggerated American accounts ofIrish
affairs come in for share of Punch's ridicule:
My former letter must have informed you of the
escape of the president from the dungeon of the
Saxon. He was confined at the extreme top of the
prison, and suppered every night upon bread and
milk. There was a mighty good reason for this
Thirty fathoms of silk cOrd-twisted by the lady
repeaers of the Four-Leaved Shamrock Club
were conveyed to the illustrous captive in q milk
pail, concealed beneath the lacteal fluid AT mid
night the liberator of himself and country let him
self from the roof" the cord gliding swiftly through
his glowing hands -psrpsndicularly down, as the
blessing of chance would have it, upon the head Of
the sentry The man fell stunned to the earth
when O'Brien seized the musket, and discharging
it, and giving three cheers for repeal, was joined by
some say thousand, but IS certain not less than
fifty, patriots.
It would be tedious to detail the victories of the
night, they trod so closely upon the heels of one
another. have only time to say, that before two
in the morning. Lord Clarendon was prisoner
he was taken in his bed, in his first sleep-and the
liberatOr and President Of Ireland had quafed a
bumper of claret, calling upon MraMeagher, (who
was of course one of the party ) 70 give Them on
the festive OCCASION "WhO fears to sDeah Of IS -
Lord John Russell escaped somehow. There are
many reports to the manner of his evasion Bus
the story most generally credited is, that hr
carried on board the packet by his faithful valet in
a fiddle case. believe the President is, after ALL
not sorry for this, as it relieves him of a difficulty
The populace have been greatly excited by The
clemencV of the President, who, in opposition to
the advice of a majority Of his council, has come
to terms with the English army, permitting them
to quit Ireland with their arms, stores, and honors
of war The national heart has been acuely
touched by the loss Of so many bayonets. ought
not to omit circumstance that, after all, speaks
very favoraby for the chivalrous bearing Of the
Saxon Prince George and General macdonald
both dned with the President, ere then departure,
and in the handsomest manner drank the lmmor-
tally Of the Irish Republic.
S,bjects for the Easel-Our artists are evidently
at loss for subjects worthy Of their paint-posts,
their Dencils and their paettes and we therefore
take pity on their poverty Of idea by recommending
a few subjects to their attention. " Catch weasel
aslpeD IS looked upon as a direction not TO be
complied with, but to Catch an easel asleep"
would be accomplished very easily, for nothing can
be more sObre than most of the productions OF art
that are to be met with on our modern canvass.
There is, perhaps dearth Of subjects, for history
and fiction have been long ago almost exhausted,
and the supplies of fancy have been always of a
rather limited order, so that there is scarcely any
thing left for the painter to fall back upon. We
have, however, set our own ingenuity TO work fort
new batch of subjects worthy OF the artists OF our
native land, and we beg to suggest the following:
''The Egyptian giving the handkerchief to the
mother of Otheuo."
The husband Of the nurse of Juliet in one of
his merry moods"
''The malignant Turk beating Venetian and
traducing the State"
THE dogs barking at Richard the Third as he
halted by EN-"
:: The baker baking the meals FOR Hamlefs
fathers funeral"
Irish Sports.-We see ministers aud members are
going this year 70 Ireland instead OF Scotland. Can
it be on account of the superior shooting
Fiuakegana- Serious Flunkey-"I shonld re-
quire, Madame, forty pounds year, two suits Of
clothes, two ats, meat and hale three times day,
and piety indispensable"
The only thing that has been gained by the French
Tevolution-the admission Of Punch into France,