New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-29

" Going home, sir
"Where have you been -
"Down at your house." says Joe, without the
least hesitation
did you go down for anything particular" J"
inquired B 3, cas'ing his eyes up TO the white
ha id and neck Of his pullet, which was moving
70 and fro, like an ostrich feather in an officers
cap.
Nothing particular" replied Joe "I want
ed little walk, so I strolled along down to your
house"
What have you got in your hat ,"
"NothingP' replied Joe, looking much as
Nothing said B.
Yea, nofhingt" reiterated Joe
b here coolly took off Joes hat with one hand,
while he held on to the pullet's head with the
other, and with voice Of spiritual indignation,
he exclaimed:
Joseph, do you call that nothingi''
Joe Strengthened himself up as erect as bean.
pole, put on a look of unheard- of surprise, and,
in sonorous voice exclaimed
" Hon came that chicken in nuy hath"
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INQUIRIES About sHANeHAIs.-A Mohawk
farmer writes to An agricultural editor that
the 6 hen fever" RACES some up that way, and
inquiries
Now what do you think Of the variety
called Shank highs, whose name don't belis
them tell my wife they have no body at all,
and that when the head is cut off the legs come
right apart Am right Neighbor Bucking-
hams wife says they're the beatenest to lay
ON airth, and that they sit and lay both at onst
don't believe tits contrary to mater.
think they only recline a little, as it were, aud
Jerusalem how can them things set nv
jack knife can set as well as they can
&c tell you, Mr.. Editor, they put things out
of joint, too, dreadfully. When Buckingham's
wife got her Shank highs home the other day,
Etnly hor Ano1 q IL
first time, and not knowing anything about the
matter, summoned half the hands on the place
to come add help get the old blink eyed mule
out Of the crib. Old Kink says, day don't sit
on de roost same as odder chicken nohow, but
dey site stradde Of de stick, cause why, when
dey tempts to sit same as common chicken, de
head amt heaby 'nutf for de legs, and dey falls
of backward. Correct philosophy that
"They cit when they eat, / know, for I've
seen EN- do it; and I've seen 'em try to eat
stanling, hDt was go, when they peck at q
grain Of corn on the ground they don't morn
half reach it, but the head bobs right between
their legs, making them turn a complete somer-
set. May be they're like swinged cats, worse
than they look, and that's bad enough, anyhow
I'd as soon see pair of tongs or compasses
walking about the yard, as these Shank highs
And had like TO have forgot to tell you, that
Pete says theyr big liars, cause dey crows long
time fore day in de mornin' when 'taint day
but kink says, Pete don't feet dat deir legs is
so long, dey see daylight long time fore COM
mon chicken
The editors Of the Home Journal were among
those invited to Niagara Falls, on the late ex-
cursion of the Legislature of New York, and
among other incidents no ed is the following
We had the luck to see horse 60 over the
falls on Sunday afternoon. We say luck, be-
cause. though we were sorry to see the horse
should end his life in SO summary a manner, yet
since he was SO destined, we considered it q
piece of luck to see him do it. How he got into
the river, or where, one knew. We caught
, sight Of him when he was in the midst Of the
l rapids, above the American side Of the Horse
shoe Fall and those rapids tossed him up, and
whirled him on, as they would a chip--as they
! would an elephant. Whether he was alive OF
dead before he reached the fall we know not
but if he had been endowed with the life of
thousand horse power, he would have been
tossed and whirled, and rolled and hurried just
the same Over be plunged into the roaring
abyss, In less than moment he re-appearsd
in the comparatively still water near the spiral
0 staircase, with cash across his body that hall
severed 1T; and there, in the curious eddiss oi
that part of the river, he continued to aoat ana
turn about, and over for long time Probably
he is there at this moment, for the water in
which he noats is hemmed in on one side by a
precipice Of rock, and On the other BY a preci.
, pice Of water, rushing away from the terrors Of
n Cataract. It is impossible 20 convey to apy
one, not familiar with the falls, an idea of the
interest with which this scene was overlooked
by the people on the shore
Fellow-citzens," says the New York Sun
day Times, and as the remarks are most pecu.
liarly appropriate at eur present writing, We
cordially adopt them" Fellow w-citizens-
you sprawl on your sofa this pleasant forenoon
or make an inverted of yourself by proppin :
your chair back against the wall, you pro bably
think it must be easy to write what you find i,
; easy to read. Did You ever plow, hoe corn, OF
g plant cabbages! We have been engaged in ali
/, these rural exercises, and have also swung the
4 scythe and cradle under the hot sun Of the
0 South and we solemnly declare that the physi
cal labors aforesaid are mere recreations in com
r parison with the exhaustng toll of writing 70,
4 the press in close office with south western
d aspect when the thermometer is in the neigh
S borhood of the nineties. The vigorous ideas tina
should find their way by electric telegraph from
the brain to the pen, liquify on the road enc
ooze out in big globules of perspration, Will,
the more delicate tances evaporate by the . in
: sensible process. Excuse, therefore, the short
!; comings of genius under the sudorifc influence
4 of the summer solstice; for be assured that ,
), vertical sun, however it may dulcify and matur
n cherries, plums, and other fruital splump
tudes, is by no means favorable to the develop
ment of intellectual products"
r The New York Tribune, of the 18th instant
G says:
e One murderer was executed in this city yes
70 terday another is to die next Friday eight o
d ten are in our City Prison awaiting trial on tn
same charge; one has been convicted, but hope
d for new trial; and still another is added t
t, the ist this morning. A Mrs. Sally. an Iris
lie woman, recently residing at No. 232 Mulberr,
street, died yesterday, at the Hospital, from "a
:, the jury say the effects of matreatment by he
o husband. Both husband and wife were the de
graded slaves of rum, and both we're frequentl
e drunk. Already there have been six execution
d in this city within year, and Neary (if hung
{ will be the seventh, Fitzgerald shot his wife
: Grunzig poisoned his wife, Neary beat hi
e wites head to pieces, Clark killed d policeman
: saul and Hewlett killed watchman, and Sto
Il key killed negro. This is fearful catalogue
a and t grows rank, and tall and strong, ant
branches out upon every side, for its roots ar
coiled in the distillery and watered by the run
glass.
/ At the sitting of the London Astronomi ica
{ Society, extracts were read of a letter to 81
. John Herchel, from the Bev. Mr. Stoldari
, an American missionary, versed in astronomy