The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-11-28


A CARTS Repenge.-In a work recently pub
lished in London, by Captain MillmaD, are to be
found some Of the most thrilling scenes from life in
the tropics it has ever been our fortune to meet
with. The following account Of Caribs revenge
on a sea captain, named Jack Diver, on one of the
narrow mountain paths of Guadalupe, il exceed
ingly graphic and forcible ,......,
While he was making up his mind, a dark figure
had stolen unperceived close behind him, with a
small basket in bis hand Of split reeds out Of which
came low buzzing, murmuriDg sound. He lay
down quietly across the path, at the point of The
first angle OF the elbow of the mountain spur, not
many feet from the hind legs of the horse. Jack
Diver, with scowling look turned his horse round
with some difficulty 1t plunged and reared slight
ly, but went on. Occupied with retaining his seat
the master of the transport scarcely perceived the
figure lying in the path He could not see who il
was, for The face Of the man was towards the
ground. But the horse saw It at once. The animal
accustomed to mountain roads from its birth, had
often stepped over both men and animals, which
are sometimes forced in the narrOwest parts to lie
down TO lei the heavier and stronger pass, in thai
highly dangerous and disagreeable method, lifted
his feet cautiously, one by one, SO as not TO tread
on the PROSTATE figure. As the horse was above
him, the man lifted with one hand the lid Of the
basket, and a swarm of wasps flew suddenly out
buzzing and humming fercely, and in moment
they began 10 settle on The moving object. The
horse commenced switching his tail to drive then
away; pricking up his ears, and sn0rting will
terror. 4 s
The man on the path lay quite still until they
had thus moved Oh few yards, and then he raisec
his head little, and watched them with his keel
black eyes. The wasps, driven off for a moment
became only the more irraied, and returned witt
vigor and wonderful pefinacitY to the attack, be
ginning to sting the poor animal furiously, in III
the lender paris They assaed the wreiched mas
ter In his turn, daring their venomed barbs int
his face and hands, and driving them nearly frantic
rha hara pu u.d am IL Inant
his stlrrups and his presence of mind together
twisted his hands into the horses name to keep hi
seat, letting the relns fall oil his neck Al last
with a rear and bound into the air, the maddene
animal darted off at a gaOp; but the faster h
went the closer stuck the persevering Wasps. Jac
Diver shut his eyes, screaming with fear and pain
Then the Carib chief rose up, and again the hawk
| like scream echoed along the valley. The turn
TO be made-can the horse recover himself! Yes
maddeued he is, he sees the danger lnslinctivey
| HIS speed slackeHs-he throws himself on hi
launches, with his fore feet On the very brink G
| the precpce. One more chance! The blind, in
| fatuated man remains on his back. Again th
| horse ieels the stings of his deadly prosecutors
| again he plunges forward, striving 10 iurn qulckl
| round the corner. Round, and he is in compare
| tive safety. On sudden, from behind buttres
OF projecting rock then start across the path thre
| dusky forms, hnging their hands wildly In the al
1 Then was heard that rare aHd awfnl sound, tn
shrek Ut horse in the fear oil certain and comm
| on the slippery shelf, and struggling madly, br
uBsuecessfully, il, he fl over and over
| down--down-a thousand feet down From tn
sailors lips there came cry. But once more tn
hawk screamed. A glorious feast 10 the ants an
the JoDny crows
Boy Loue-One of the quserest things TO thin
| of in after LIE Is boy love" No sooner does
| boy acquire a iolsrable stature, than he begins
imagine hlmseif man, and to ape mannish way
He casts sldeong glances al every tall girl he ha
| pens 10 meet, becomes a regular attendant
church, or meeting, sports cane, carries his hes
erect, and struts a little in his walk. Present.
and how very soon he falls in love--yes fails is Il
proper word, because it best indicates his happ
delirous self lfabasement He lives now In iai
| region, somewhere collateral 10 the world, and y
somehow inextricably blended with 1t. He pe
fumes his hair with fragrant oils, scaters essenc
, over his handkerchief, and desperately shaves al
| anoints for beard. He quotes poetry IN whi
love-" and dove," and - hearl," and dar
peculiarly predomnae and, as he punges deep
into the delicious labyrinth, fancies himself fill
with the divine atflatus, aud suddenly breaks {
INTO the scarlet rose-ot rhyme. He feeds up
The louks OF ms beloved; is raised to the sever
heaven II she speaks pleasant word /; is beuay
| INTO the most astonishing ecsiacIes by smile a
is plunged into the gloomest regions of misanthro
ri by frown.
He believes himself the most devoted lover
| the wsrld. There never was such another Tn,
never will be. He is the one great idolater!
| Is the very type OF magnanmi,y and self abnes
ton. Wealth he despises the grovelling thoug
, | Poverty, with the adorable beloved, he rap
rously aposrophizes The first Of all earthly bic
E | iBgs 4; and Love in cottage with water and
| crust" is his beau ideal paradise of dainty ,
lights
S He declares to himself, with the most solemn e
= phass, that he would go through fire and wat
$ | undertake a pilgrimage to China or kamschat
e | swim storm crossed oceans, scale lmpassa
t | mountains, and face legions of bayonels, but
t one sweet smile from her dear lips He doats W
d | the flower she has cast away. He cherishes
n | gove-a little worn in the fingers-next to
II | heart. He scrawls her dear name over foolscaI
;, fitting medium for his insanity. He scorniully
e preciates The attention of other boys of his O.
=. age cuts Peter libbets dead, because ne said L
). the adorable Angelina had carroty hair /;
d passes Harry Bell contemptuously, for daring
e compare g that gawky Mary Jane" with his
/ | comparable Angelina
| Happy happy foolish boy-love; with its no
4 and its fears, It's joys and It's sorrows torlures,
- ecstatic fervors and terrible heart. burnogs, its
~ lernn iudcrou5ness, and its intensely prosac
q | mination. ..
l. Common Sense VS.. Nonsense.-Dr F. Tuthill
Is livered an address the other day before the Al
/ cultural Society of Suffolk county, NewYork,
g in the course of his remarks he touched upon Z"
false shame of labor in the following manner
"The day has already come in our cities tha
,r | man, stout as Milo of old, has a load of W.
m brought 10 his door, and he really aches for
ID | pleasure of handling it, yet must he hire maj
s. pitch it into the cellar, while he stands idly by,
to | SO much as touch stick of it on pain Of los
a caste. If a stout and vigorous cilizen, whose n
,t ces swell with all excess of strength, has a oat
ID | wood lying The sidewalk, he may as well hi
himself at once as be foolish enough to save a
lar and saw it up himself; yet if the man
pitched it in, and the CRATE is down so that he 81