The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-04-26
A Walk About Town.
BY A PEDESTRIAN.

Got up early from my bed in my little room near
/ Lafayette. The sun had scarcely risen, and every
object seemed lazy and idle. On some German
| ship moored at the evee saw about dozen stall
wart sailors with bare legs, securing the decks.
They seemed to be as happy as lords, although
their wages sometimes not more than six dollars
month. Saw negro throw a large stone at
the head of his mule, because it would not pull an
empty dray-wished owned the negro-would mt
treat him he treated the mule but make him a
present of cow-skin, and make him whip HIM
self. :. Saw poor long-shoreman lying down on a
bench; had on red shirt and blue cottonade pam
falcons; coarse brogans, but no stockings. He
had spent all his money in tippler's shop the
night previous for grog, and when his last picay-
une was discovered to be gone, he was kicked out
of the house. Thought that there were some land
lords who deserved to be bastinadoed. :. Saw a
shipping master riding at full speed upon small
pony. He would have been willing to have
freighted every ship in port, if he could have been
elected Saw him go on board vessel, and
come off again, with, in all probability, a flea in
his ear He kicked the pony in his sides, and after
dlsmounting went to the nearest og.shop. How
he kept his spirits up by pouring spirits don. -
He did mt get the freight of that ship. The
has just showed his golden face above the grey
clouds of the horizon, and battles with lustre the
distant scenery. Now come the hustle and BUSH
ness of the day. Shop-keepers are opening their
stores; stevedores are hurrying on board their re-
spectve ships. Those stevedores they are for the
most part honest men, and, physically speaking,
work harder than any other class of the commu-
nifty. Many of them have little tin kettles on their
arms which contain their simple dinner repast.
When their work is over they get their bones,''
and then separate for their different homes to WOO
g tired natures sweet restorer sleep; OF may
hap to spend their days earnings in grog-shop.
There IS big, red faced man walking hastily up
the evee. He s Customhouse officer, and is
hurrying on board his vessel for fear that if not
there by SUNRISE the Captain may report him to the
Collector. Went into St. Mary's Market; saw
a man, a good old man in blue jacket and cotton
ade pantaloons, with long stick of sugar cane in
his hand. Wondered who he was, aud much sur.
prsed to find out that he was lawyer of some re-
pute. At the lower end of the Market there wasa
woman with basket of live era BIS at her feet AL
though she loved money, she had no particular
affection for press from the claws of the ungainly
creatures that she handled with pair of iron
tongs. Saw the cat fish " man, who declared
that his fish were just caught, and were tender
as piece of lamb Went up the Market and saw
rounds of beef, launches of venison and legs of
mutton, that would have made disciple of Ora
ham forswear his hermit-like appetite. Came
down Townships all open-and heard the news
boys calling out the names of the different papers
that they had for sale. These boys are "cute -
as foxes and as industrious as ants. Some of them
who now cry out "ere's yer, here's the