The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-03-28
Times Changes.


In ITO, Edwin Bordin announced that be hal
taken the commodous tavern known as the King,
Arms, near Whitehall N. Y, which he stated wa:
as convenient as any house on the continent:
" Said Bordin returns his sincere thanks for thu
past kindness of his friends, and he will show hi.
due thereof by the most obiiging behavior, ant
every other means which can be in the power O.
the public's obedient servant Gentlemen who are
strangers, on inquring of said Bordin, will be pro.
vided with convenient lodgings; and turtle pro-
vlded for large companies, dressed to perfection
and the public papers taken for the gentlemen's
amusement"
Hear this, We big bugs, who keep big hotels, and
are as big behind the bar as Haies, the Quaker
giant, and who look at each gentleman inquirng fol
traveller as if he wanted a place as a waiter
take lesson from Bordin's advertisement By the
way, will Alderman Ridabock inform us whether
the aforesaid Bordn was not the little man we once
knew who kept the Tontne coffee house for several
years!
Speaking of landlords-they were quite differ.
ent race in old times to what they are now Bon-
face made the punch in big bowl, and when he
brought it into the parlor where the company were
assembled, he made proclamation, Gentlemen,
here g your very agreeable health (" He then
took long swig, after the ancient custom of host
tasting first of the wassail cup for fear of poison
To this day the publican of London is just as civil
and polite as he was century ago. Our host at
Plymouth, England. always brought the first dish
dress, who brought in the second He was so obse-
quiously civil that we used to experiment upon his
politesse
What will you order for dinner, sir g"
GA fried SOLE"
."Thank ye, sir! Very much obliged to you."
Also, a boiled fowl.''
Infinitely indebted to you, sir %
With sauce blanche and caulifower."
Thank you kindly, sir 20
Applicant and clotted cream
Very grateful, STRIP
And bottle of old port''
GA thousand thanks, sir 20
lie was rlimble as quicksilver, and always at call.
Landlord
"Sir!"
'sWhat g the hour 90
Five o'clock, sir; l arm very much obliged to
you''
Every thing is changed business habits, man.
ners and systems. Our tailor sports a mustache,
and cries, "BraUa! braUa!" is a good judge
OF Italian music, when he should only be Judge
of broadcloth and neat fit.
Among the advertisements in ITO is that of
counsellor, who announced that he will give the
most candid, honest and satisfactory advice in all
cases of law and equity ANY man doing the
same in these degenerate days would starve. A
civil dun humbly entreats those who are indebt-
ed to him to pay as soon as is convenient lest his
creditors should begin to think it nconvenient to
trust him any longer
The following is the list of letters advertised at
our postoffice in ITO. Not enough for printers to
quarrel about: Philip Livingston, John Romano,
Magness de CoeiY, Isabella Graham, John Hay,
Quidor Demarest, Robert Morris" Old General
Ward, of Newark, announced that he would leave
Newark in stage-wagon, two hours after sunrise,
for paulus Hook, Jersey City, and leave for New.
ark two hours before sunset Such driving will
not answer now. We go on the high pressure
principle. -Major Noah.