The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-23
Partisan Gossin.

Partisan Gossip.
Translated from the Etas Uns and other French papers
BY P. WILLIS.
LITERARY MEN.-Authors and editors are great
people in France in politics and society. as well
as in paragraphs and nOtoriety There are two
candidates at present for the representation to the
National Assembly from HOnne-AlexanderD Dumas
and our successful and brilliant ex-cOntempOrary
Frederic Gaillardet, who has lived out one of the
many lives of man Of genius, here, in New York.
Dumas and Gaillardet have been antagonists before
in duel judjciare. The former (in prevousi
attempt consulted cIairvOYant as to his prospects
OF success, and told that he would not be ap-
pointed this time, but would be on the resignation
of his opponent Louis BOnapare. So Monsieur
GallIardet has prophecy to encounter, as well as
the active spirit Of the popular and ecund mulatto
novelist.
DUMAs-Dumas is man of imperturbabe good
humor. The scandals, plots and misrepresenta-
tons with which envy besets the successful in lit
eratlre, and which 80 fret most men, do but make
| him laugh Indeed he makes fun of real misfor-
tunes. He narrated TO friend as a very good joke,
that his villains of servants had during his journey
to Spain, robbed him, by drinking and otherwise,
of 1000 bottles Of Bordeaux wine. 1t is easy to
understand how brain that makes up for snch
losses must be hard y'a1i,1 rfis manuscripts, not
outstanding his rapdity, have never an erasure
They are, on the contrary, beautiful specimens OF
penmanship, neat, clear and legible.
. My friend ~ he said to his son, who Is Just
commencing authorship, 9 more manuscripts OF
authors are rejected, by editors and managers, on
account of their bad penmanship, than for any
thing else Napoleon wrote a remarkably good
hand when an officer Of artillery"
JULES JANIN.-Ths freshest, piquantest and
| most readable of newspaper writers, does his best
work in a cottage night-Cap and dressIng-goWn
lust before going to bed is his brightest hour. The
good nature of his criticisms however, Is said to
depend upon the attractions of his bed, and the
| fOregone history of. the day on which this same
white night-cap puts an eXllnguisher. Janln writes
| hand, legibe only to those who have studied 1t
well. His contributions to the journal des De6dtS
are so difficult to decipher, that the compOsitors In
their printing office paid one-third more for his
| manuscripts than for others.
Like all successful writers, he is good deal be-
sieged by letters of introduction, presenting to his
! acquaintance young candidates for the bllssiul
| diTifO IaOnStrdri. One of these young authors,
very highly recommended, came lately to Paris
| He forwarded his card and letter to Janin. That
! same evening he received a scrawl, which, being
utterly undecipherable, he stuck into his mirror,
| surprising it to be the Jke of some OF his young
| acuuaintances Some weeks elapsed and neither
that riddle was explained, nor had he any ntel-
! gence of any design on the part of Monsieur Janm
to notice the letter. person CHANGING to call on
him who knew the handwriting, thus read the HE
roglyphics:
Come and breakfast with me tomorrow morn
ing, and we will chat over your projects
''JULEs JANIN."
THIERs-Thers dictates, seldom writes. Seat
-
ed in his study, with his elbows upon a table Gov
cred with papers and portfolios, he delivers himself
as if he were speaking from the tribune, and his
secretary is obliged to record with the alacrty OF
stenographer If it chances that the poor secreta-
ry does not keep pace with the speed of his delivery
and begs him to repeat phrase, the ex-presldent
of the Council stamps with his foot irets, and takes
four or five minutes TO regain the lost thread
g The devil take it, sir " he exclaimed one day
to his SCRIBE an author is not a school master
| no haoly n1gp al plea
sure like the leaf Of book "
The celebrated author, Hoffman, (apr0pOS of the
habtudes of authOrs,) always intoxicated himself
with drink before taking his pen. lie used to say
that Bacchus and Apollo were cousins. And thl:
reminds us of the reply of wit to celebrated
author who was describing the fine effects OF coHee
| on his mood of composition.
" All said the wit, " and since reading youl
last book, have had sovereign contempt Tor you
grocer: he mixes chicoree with your coHee
Very REsPEcTABLE-Th New York Stal
SAYS: There is much talk about respectable socie
tv. One often gets into the very highest society
in his dreams. We have dreamed of conversine
with Napoleon Bonaparte, and asking him for hi
autograph
LAMART1NE.-This great man thus replied tt
some of the French Deputies who essayed TO dis
play their wit by calling him the Poet Statesman
" As to THIS 6plth6t OF IOeJ, WHICH my enemies dF
perpetualy hurting at me, in the hopes of causing
my destruction, ! accept, gentlemen, and if it b
the will of Providence that some few rays of glor
come to ilumine the last years of my life, shall
still rejoice to find myself guilty of the crime
poesy! What, then, are we doing at this very mo
> ment gentlemen, what is our country doing at thi
very day if it is not the most sublime Of all poetry
o. Nan is happy only when he is employed
:, Laziness begets vice-vce begets crime, and Grim
: involves d5ath-deaih inAicts intamy on his men
ory, and bows down the heads of his parents, s
tiers, brothers, wife and offspring. Who will n'
, avoid aziness
HORRIBLE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT baker in Wo
it verhampton, England, has the following announc
/, ment at his bakery windows" Baking done evel
s. day. n. Peoples Uitats cooked"
: ALMoNDs-The Winchester Republican, Va
ID is indebted to DIrs. William A. Baker for a samp
', Of almonds raised in her own garden They
OF extraordinary size and fine flavor.
" g>z- In Canada they have enacted a law AGAIN