New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-05-12


Horace Greeley, notwithstanding his " isms, y
often writes some good things. Speaking Of the
division Of newspaper labor, and that as zone
swallow does not make summer" so one man
cannot make good newspaper, he says:
"He may worry on for years, but his columns
will soon be gaunt; his brain overworked, and
his subscribers hanging on only because they
hate to leave him, not because they want to
read his paper Under such circumstances, he
does not 80 much aid the cause to which his
paper is devoted as it aids him. He leans upon
and lives by it-not it by him.
"We speak from much experience, and we
assert what the judgment Of rejecting readers
must approve. The writer hereof had no other
ambition in boyhood than that of obtaining use
fulness and position as an editor; the studies
and efforts Of his life have all tended to this
end. Yet no lacks very many qualifications
essential to the making up Of powerful and
useful journal-lacks classical, critical, agri-
cultural, financial, foreign, political, musical
and other knowledge, which only supplied
through q division of editorial labor. We seri-
ously doubt that any living man knows enough,
and that one lifetime is long enough TO master
the various knowledge demanded in the editor
ship of good newspaper
"0f coarse, we know that periodical devo-
ted to some single topics or class Of topcs-Ag
riculture, temperance, Abolition or Odd Fellow
| ship-requires far narrower range Of capaci-
ties, and may perhaps be conducted with decent
efficiency by single Editor. Such sheet is
not properly newspaper, but series Of tracts,
put forth at stated periods. 1t may be very
necessary and very useful; but newspaper is
another matter. And, even in conducting this
periodical tract, it is not good for one man to be
| alone. lie may easily write it all and have
time to spare !; but he should have hours for pro-
founder reading, for methodical investigation ;
he should enjoy opportunities Of travel and
hearty communion with his fellow-men, for want
of which some Editors lose all sympathy with
the age in which they live, and drift uncon-
sciously back into the eleventh century, or
Whereabouts. A life in a closet, even with a
printing office adjacent, is no fit preparation for
an Editors responsibilities In no other coun-
try is editorial labor SO excessive, so unremitted
as in this, where scissors, to a great extent, do
duty instead Of investigation and study, and
where the force of editorial structures is often
obscured by the inaccuracy of reports and a
general slovenliness with regard to Details
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| The matters Of Munich are in difficulty with
the police. 1t seems that every kind Of head
dress that they invent is interdicted, as sugges-
tive Of demagogy and disorder. A great many
innocent tiles have been seized lately, and no.
body knows what he may wear and what he
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petition to the municipal council, to know what
shapes are admissible and what are not. The
municipal council replied, on the Sth of last
month, that they really could not tell. The
| Paris Chariuari advises the citizens to appear
in the streets in their night caps, the most
peaceable couture known. The style entitled
'Calabrian is forbidden, as seditious; the
| bullying crown is eontreband, because it looks
| like howitzer or small mortar; caps and vi
n ,la 81 en- Al
| worn throughout Germany by the students, and
| all students are demagogues, pointed hats were
| once rallying signal; broad brimmed hats
were worn by Bolivar, who was reyolutionist;
brown hats, with long fuzz, were, and still are,
the favorite covering of P. J. Proudhon. Evil
IDENTIFY, there is nothing left but the nightcap.
EARTHQUAKE AT WHEELING.--The Wheeling
Gazette states that slight shock of an earth
quake was felt in that city on Monday the ID,
about fifteen minutes past nine o'clock A. NJ, 1t
was so sensibly felt in all directions, and shook
fthe building occupied by the Linsley Institute
so violently that the teachers fearing its fall,
dismissed the scholars. No sound was heard,
! and, although the rocking of the earth was but
momentary, it was so sudden and powerful as to
excite alarm. The compositors in the Wheeling
Argus office were frightened from their stands
in consequence of the severity of the shock.
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OPERATIC.-An opera company is now being
organized in New York, with Steffanone as prima
donna, for the purpose of giving operas in the
Southern and Western cities The company
will commence their career in Charleston in the
course of a few days. Among the artists en-
ployed is young novice of great promise, Miss
Blangini, who has for some time been under the
tuition of Max Maretzek, and who is said to
possess remarkably beautiful voice, with other
effective stage attractions.
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THE CHICAGO CoLLrsIoN.--Moses NJ Tyler and
Thomas Cockham, the conductor and engineer
of the Michigan Central Railroad, have been
admitted 70 bail in the sum of $4,000 each upon
writ of habedS corpus. Mr.. Whiting the
conductor, and Mr.. Davis, the engineer and the
fireman of the Michigan Southern train, have
also been admitted to bail by Judge Wilson, in
the sum of $4,000 each. Each of the persons
were also put under bonds of 500 to appear as
witnesses in the judicial Investigations to be
hereafter instituted.
THE PRESS IN RUssA.-In Russia, without
Poland, there are 1856 newspapers,
namely: ITO in the national language, s French,
80 German, English, Polish and Livonian,
The three English journals are occupied .exclu-
svely by commercial affairs; those in German
discuss agricultural and religious matters, and
the French papers treat upon all subjects. There
are no journals except at st. Petersburg, Mos
COW and Odessa.
The steamer Arabia sailed from NewYork for
on the 4th instant with $50 passen-
gers and 100000 in specie. Among her pas
sengers are, His Royal Highness the Prince de
WED and suite, Germany; Count de Pedrosa
and lady, Havana; A. +. Smith, ESQ, Rich |
mond, Va. Lieut. j. Grant Raymond, Royal
Navy.
Josephus Baresa, Hungarian, hung himself |
1T Muscatine, Iowa, on Monday, I'd instant. He |
lad been slightly indisposed for some days, and |
chose this mode of terminating his existence |
lie was once in affluent circumstances, was |
Captain in the Hungarian army in 1913, and |
refugee from that country. He was about 80 |
years Of age.
A HUNTER OF KENTUcKY.-A correspondent |
If the Evansville Journal writes as follows about |
. Kentucky hunter
sc Wat Eckman-it would do you good to see