New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-02-21
DAILY CRESCENT.
Baton Rouge Correspondence.


SOutsponosnts Of tbs Gusftnt-
baToS Roucy- February a. 100
coming nom NeWorleans lev days since TOOK al
vantage g; the steamer j. Wards departure and en-
trusted ysft to her ana the tender mercie n her o'eTs
iof my -afety and comfort and must say that although
was long WINE ieaehhg my destination on account oi
large quantity :" sugar which had 10 be taken in
never Travelled on inner boat or controlled by better
hands Although plain aud simple every thing about the
craft Is elegant and comfortable The officers ars all
careful experienced and attentive the we'll
drilled and polite and he fare irrsproaeaabe At din
ne hap to he in the neizborhood OF several gen
emen members Or attaches Of the Legislature. ap to
them the delicious fish pastry and ripe Venson
wth which they had their plates than roplen
he1 you would have supposed that they had made up
their minds to lay in good supply Some Of them were
heard 10 say that if they could 1--we well in Baton
Rouge they did the Ward they would be opposed
moving down to Congo Square While on the beat met
an old friend who gave me to read Matt Wards book
English Items He seems to have been dsgusted with
the writings BngisLmen upon this country every
must be who has read any of them, and determined
upon showing up their faehood and the fobles of their
countrymen and he has succeeded TO the full bent
of his r. natior- Of quick observing penetrating
mind he has taken mold OF all the weak points Of the Eng
h character and held them Up the gaze and rdieue
Of his readers with force Of language and independence
Of which will have great influence in arrestng
the tide Of todysm towards everything English in this
country. which is a consummation most deyouty
be wished His work will be read with attention and
pleasure at home well abroad and will form an era
in the history journals of travels being the who
has dared emphaticaly TO deny that the English
just bad off in their and other qualities
their neghbors Ills style is bold free and unresrned
although lie may, perhaps. carry his criticisms little
too far in instances certify from positive
perience that he has LETT unsaii great many things
which he ought to have said than he has said things
which he ought not to have said.
on arriving found the Legislature had adjourned
til wednesday No very satisfactory he
given for this holiday. 1t is said the Committees
Banks and Charitable Institutions are in New Orleans,
and this is the fact but although paying great COM
pment to the gentlemen composing these committees by
inferrng that nothing could be done without them
obliged to confess that believe Governor could very
easily have been found, who could have made much
headway without them though they had been present
This is another Of the practical humbugs which these wise
and patriotic Legislators playing oil upon the Trea
sury it will doubtless add much to their popularity
home and be the source Of considerable secongrstula
aton The fact is that the impression universal among
them that the Legislature must sit six lths, and
| there is no business to keep them here half that
time they must fill it up in order to get their PEA dienu