The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-15
About the Pieayune, etc.

BOccdcclO,
Day of the Decameron, tells an amusing story about
certain King of Argos, who saw. strange sights
while gathering fruit from pear tree in his garden
but his amiable and quick-witted Queen succeeded
in making him believe that what his majesty had
taken for amorous dalliance between herself and
avorite servitor, was altogether owing to certain
enchanted qualities of the tree upon whose limbs her
lord had perched himself Our friends of the Plea
yune are disposed to initiate the tactics of Lydia,
and would endeavor to make of us second Nicos-
tratus Like the good easy monarch we may be
disposed to believe the denials, protestations, ex-
plantations, ct ce,era, but like him we must persist
that the thing Sc looked amazingly different to
man up tree!' The explanation of the Plea
yune of the Intimate connection" may pass
without criticism on our part-we will grant that
our view OF 1t was owing TO the enchanted tree
from which we looked but while our contemporary
was In the explanatory mood, he should have al
least attempted an explanation of fact which has
become notorious, and of which we furnished the
dates and particulars of some recent instances, and
that is-thai Geographic dispatches received by
the Picayune and ourselves at the same time, when
the dates of the dispatches show that in some cases
ours were put in the same office three days before
might once occur by accident, but one which from
the constant manner of its recurrence can only be
explained by favoritism shown. This may be a
"gratuitous wrong committed by &c some unknown
operator operators, clerk officer messenger of
the telegraph" but that is not likely. We do MT
believe in causeless crime any more than the editor
Of the Picayune. But we do know that ahe thing
ls-we have shown it to be, from the files of our
neighDor in several instances, during the present
month we can show other instances extending
back for months yet the Picayune in its long arti-
Gle devoted to apparent explanation of its posi-
ton, or vindicalion Of those connected with the
company, contents itself with a simple denial OF
facts proved by its own columns. When this con-
dIiion of things is changed, " The Crescent" will
have something more 10 show relative to its superior
arrangements, than what the Picayune is pleased
TO call a boastuness of its own energies and a
disparagement of Its neighbors." But what avails
arrangements, energy or expense, when CON-
munication sent to US from Baltimore on the 9th
arrives here al the same time with one sent from
the same place to the Picayune Oh the Sth OF the
month Yet such is the truth, and this is what is
called fair competition!
As to the Disagreement of our neighbors, it Is a
vice in which We never induge-we are content to
leave that to those who have no other means OF
covering their defects or offences. We have even
gone so far as to compliment the Picayune on its
express arrangement, though we had some doubt
at the time of the propriety of employing mail car
riers to beat The native suspected that it might
increase the number of mail failures, and prove
detrimental thereby to the correspondence and
business interests of The community. But, never
theless, so long as those in authority made no OBJ
lection TO it, and appeared to think it all right, we
did give our cotemp6rary credit for attempting to
secure the earliest intelligence The result of the
operation, however, by means justifes the
boastful language used in relation to it. The pro-
ceeds are by no me ans CONNIE nsurate with the ex-
penditures, and would be authorized slightly to
change an expression of the elder MIR. Weller, and
declare that we +" do not see the use in giving so
much TO get so little" As to the benefit of the
press the mercantile community and the effort to
make Them believe that it established for their
advantage, the assertion of such things is pernssi
bic in rhetorical flourish at the conclusion Of
long article whose context would not bear too close
an examination, but it is mere flourish after all
The mercantile news of any Importance has all
been received by the telegraph, bad it IS, before
the express arrives, and the only advantage which
the merchant possibly derive from the matter is
the assistance he may gather for the digestion OF
his dinner by hearty laugh over the funny pic
ture of the horse flying through the air, like the
pretensions of the Picayune, without a foot of
earth to stand upon.