The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-08-15


source that the Russian Emperor has shown latery
unequivocal symptoms Of insanity. His head seems
to have been turned by the unexpected success Of
the Russian arms ia Hungary. After receiving
the dispatches which announced the occupation Of
Deoreczin bg Ceodaief, the Gar was found dane
ing about his room in his shirt Il is said that he
continued for three whole hours 70 exhibit in this
extrayagant way the joy with which the news of
50 quick triumph had Inspired him. -.
IRELAND.-The following Is an extract from
work entitled Ireland Historical and Statisti-
cal" by George Lewis Smith. Speaking of the
hishman the author says:
.'What is his cabnl Mud. His food? A sin
gle vegetable! His enjoymenlsl Little superior
to those Of the animal whom necessity has made
his associate! Yet how quick is his intelligence
how apt his capacity, how refined bis wit, how
constant his attachment. how patient and endnriug
bis industry. Are these the characteristics of
bad member Of society," Next to a wife an
lTishmans great desdeFatum is pig the man
eats the potatoes and the pig eats the skns; in re-
turn the pig pays the rent and there ends the
economy Of wretchedness. The wants and desires
of more than three millions Of the inhabitants Of
Ireland are expressed in this brief summary again.
we ask, can there be any thing lower! AT one side
olthe door . the sty for the pig and at the ether pit
of manure for the potato garden. These keen the
howell always damp, filthy, and insalubrious. From
the sy TO the pit, and from the pit to the cabin the
pig r0ams at will. When the time arrives for plant
ing the p0latO the husband plunges into thu
dungbeap and carries II in baskets through the
cabin into the ground behind, where the wife and
children spread it, often with their hands, and drop
the seed in beds, which they all help TO dig. The
produce of this labor constitutes the food of the
family. Twice day the pot is boiled the pota-
toes, strained in a basket are emitted ont upon
the table, and the family, some seated upon stools,
some, for want Of tools on stones, and some where
there are not even stones enough standing sur
round the heap and each helps himself, holding
the potato in one hand, and peeling off the skin
with the fingers Of the ether. The pot is set down
near the table, and the pig takes bis place near the
pot, into which such of the potatoes as prove 100
hard TO be eaten are thrown thus the pig in the
family of the poor lrishman fares like the dog or
cat IN other households while they feed it claims
or obtains Its mouthful, and when the meal is over
the skins are swept from the table INTO the pot and
the pigs mess is made. The pig, however, often
tares better than his MASTER the pig pays the rent
and as the winter approaches, meal and other
things are bought 10 fatten it, while man, wife
and children, still live upon the bare potato"
Jerrod's Weekly News in noticing Mr.. Smiths
book, after quoting the above passage goesoh to say:
g Such is the melancholy fate of.maIy millions
of our fellow cOuntrymen! that the political and
legislative Union is really an ALLIANCES Of civiiiza-
ton with semi-barbarism. And yetwe wonder at
the display Of a revolutionary spirit and are indg-
nant at disloyalty among people cursed by the
them TO protest Parliament knows Of no method
OF ruling such country but by penal laws and
the suspension of the Habeas Corpus AcH John
Bull pays for the bayonet and the vice regal court
which, IN mockery of human wretchedness dis
plays Its gliding and glitter in insulting and nm
feeling contrast TO the squaIor and filth of the
novels OF the peasantry. With abundance of
willing labor and fertile land statesmansbip cannot
allow the people to render themselves SUSTAINING
The truth seems TO be this. in semi he rLa ~
is :.
semi-bafbarous, and rent is exacted We have
contTadicted the law of progression and demand
the effect before the cause has begun to operate.'
SwIND1ING.-Ay young man of great intoIlioa,,.
and who speaks three or four different Iang1soeS
with fluency and ease, was arrested on Saf5rJ|r
by eXoficer Barber, under warrant from InJoe,
MeGrath, on charge Of swindling young man.
named Martin, from Ithica, in this State ONT NJ
$500. He is Pole by birth, and calls bimsaIf
Julius Alexander, or j. A. Byron He has been .
clerk in a respectable establishment kept bv a M
Brown, in New Orleans. Coming on to this citi,
by way of Cincinnati, he met Martin in the trsv-
cling conyeyances. Byron or Alexander is of
pompous and insinuating manners, and winning
address, and gained much on Martini They in
deed became, as it were, a second Damon and
Pythlas. After great intimacy had sprung Up
between them, Alexander stated that he had a
large cotton plantation near New Orleans, and
invited his friend Martin TO go and see him there,
and spend a few months, describing all the beau
ties and pleasures he would enjoy Shortly after
this he came to his friend Martin in great tribula-
ton, and said he had just dropped purse contain.
ing $500 overheard, which was all the ready
money he had, and asked for loan; this was not
only given him by Martin, but he invited him to
his fathers house in Ithaca here he spent some
few days, and then left for New York. After a
week or so, he wrote to his friend Martina press
ing invitation to come to this city, and proceed
hence to his plantation at New Orleans. Martin
accordingly came to this city, but Mr. Byron could
on the necessary funds from New Orleans. and he
should draw on his friend for little more monev
to pay his hotel expenses until they would arrive.
The money was given, but Martin soon after began
TO suspect him to be a swindler and had him ar
rested. He was just starting to leave the citv
when caught He was locked up by Justice Nc,
GTath in default Of $500 bail,-Ner York Star,