Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-21
PBLICIToUs IRONY.


The following felicitous piece Of irony, Justly
applied is copied from the New York Courier and
Enquirer
A QuIoK TRIp.-We under many obligations to the
officers OF the feet Reindeer for New Orleans
papers Of the evening Of the 26 forwarded to by the
steamer W. ~ CLIFTON from Cairo. The Re4deer learn
by memorandum ON the paper was letting herself our,
being then only three days and fifteen hours from New Or
leans This is quick work Isl Louis paper.
Hurrah! Down with the valves! In with the tar. On
with the steam Three days and fifteen hours from New
Orleans "By St. George" this will never do. This
gallant Reindeer hasn't begun to let herself OUT yet She
is but just shaking the dew drops from her TANKS There
is mette in her that win take her ST. Louis in three
minutes and half less than all this TO- Engineer
do you hear? Give her steam For heavens sake
give her steam If you have heart that can glow
with pride, if you have cheek that Jingle with
shame, we tell you to give her steam! BY the me-
mory of the mother that bore you by the honor of the
country that nursed you by the renown Of the great
Father of Waters" that grdes the earth at your feet
by the hopes of the little that call goa their patcrna
ancestor, put steam Are you so vile as to
grudge your employers patry thrill Of triumph? We
tell you, put more steam Do you hold yourselves so
cheap as not to care for the joyous shouts five hundred
passengers? We tell you, put on more steam Are you
such sneak not to like your ongs in the news
If tar won't do, turpentne Three days and fifteen
hours for only twelve hundred miles in the middle of the
nineteenth century 'Ts monstrous. 1t can be done
and if science cant prove 1t experience day wilt
can be DONE say three days fourteen hours and fifty
six and half minutes Three and halfless.
full inch of time, and Queen Elizabeth said she would give
her kingdom for inch or time" little PITCH
good engineer Another ysix, if you please, for that
lever Let her pant; let her shake; let her away
1o,. q he
likely to scad and mange than ahundred at most
We have known where not more than five or ten
killed. of whom fingered in agony than
a fortnight An explosion is net such terrible thing
after all We getting quite used to them, and the
who has not been boon himself had friend
6own up is something of curiosity, and hardly fit to be
American. 1t is rather unpleasant to be but it
is better that should weep than that strong
should shed Time is money, and the boat must
drive on. She let Aersef out, either sky-hgh
straight ahead The Reindeer knows other motto than
"0nwards Upwards"
We must apologize to good st. Louis friend that
cut poor figure in backing him up in this racing
business The truth is we have been in practice
This steam boat ockeyshp is altogether thing to
We always had prejudice against it, and about
these times like less than We have sometimes
thought that if compelled choose should
like bull batting better 1t certainly is not murderous
for not picadore is slain to thousand passengers
And, again. the in this happens to be rather
unpleasantly suggestive. We had Reindeer
own noble Hudson, and she q racer, too She pc
rished in the strife and with her persisted thirty human
beings with blood warm in their veins and hopes
bright in their hearts editorial brothers
Their dying shrieks must pass from can
Join him, with any heart, in this game of death.
In sober earnest, panied beyond expression to
paragraphs like the above frequent in public
journals. They do not spring from bad motives, but
judged by their effects they cruel the grave
AS directly any thing they stimulate steam
boats make overquick time, and thereby put the lives
OF hundreds in imminent jeopardy. In afixing the mark
of superiority to boat her rivals they make
feetness everything and safety nothing Reckessness
they regard innocent yea admirable that be
cessu Risk ignored until verified by terrific certainty
The shot that hits the apple is cried to the Skies but
taken of the shot that may perforae the brain
This spirit is altogether too prevalent among people
1t has pered lives of hundreds Of thousands
tuay cost the lives of of thousands, and it is time
that the press should universally exercise its influence
against it. quick trip like that performed the Mis-
ssspp by the Render should be sgnazed by the press
not terms Of praise but with severest reprobation.
in outdoing herself and making unequalled speed
should thereby lose much in public confidence she
would gain in public notoriety When the popular habit
of thought this sub ect is brought to this shape,
shall little Of such paragraphs that quoted at the
beginning Of this article and shall hear still less Of such
catastrophes that which darkens California news
column this morning