New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-07-11
MONDAY MORNING, JULY Il, 1858
SUMMER AND .VEHSP.IPERS.

The facilitating effects of continued hot
than in the columns of the newspapers, which
as perceptibly suffer and lanquish under the
heat of the dog.star as those intelligences which
are clothed with physical being.
We have been sitting and studying for long
number of hours this hot summer morning,
porting over the columns of numerous city and
country exchanges in the vain hope of discover
ing some nugget of wit, some bright scintilla-
ton of genius. Our labors were in vain With
out reproaching our editorial brethren for the
want of that industry and ability which we
know they possess, it may still be with all safety
asserted that great darkness has come over
them since the breezes of June died away in the
sultriness of July. The profound essayists Of
the Washington journals slumber, and the pro-
found essays in which they were wont to indulge
concerning banks, e-trade and manifest des-
tiny give place to lighter and sketchier notices
OF Premier Marcy's new hat, Caleb Cushing's
bob-d ailed sorrel, or the Presidents flirtatons
with pretty girls. The New York editors, swell
tering under thermometer varying from 92e to
s6o in the shade, struggle manifully to keep up
their spirits and indite articles as varied and
elaborate as those produced in happier months
The effort is almost hidden by the racier and
more spirited paragraphs which are sent in from
the cool shores of Newport, the pleasant shade
of Saratoga, and the comfortable retreats at
Niagara.
Country papers, however, exhibit more mark
eddy the characteristics to which we refer In
their editorial columns may be seen, instead OF
learned lucubrations on the affairs of China,
pleasant Acknowledgements of the merits and ex-
cellence of the mighty juleps, cunningy com
pounded and beneyolently sent in by consider
ate friends. They expatiate at length on the
virtues of shade-trees and the pleasures of ba
thing, with incidental illusions to the grove of
Mr.. Brown, and the bath-house of Mr.. Jones.
They extol pic-nics; they record boat rides
they celebrate GOODNESS, comfort, quiet and ease
they are the high-priests of nature, and the
chosen poets of rural life.
We sympathize with our co-laborers in their
very evident aversion to discussing the weight.
Ter matters of the land at this season. and agree
with them fully in their preferences for yere
tables and vagabondizng A few there are he
longing to the craft, beat, tergue beati--to
whom 1t Is given to spend the summer days in
travel and the summer evenings in pleasure
resting and recreating themselves and getting
prepared for the arduous daily duties of the en-
suing ten months. But the commonality Of the
order enjoy no such pleasures or privileges
Chained like Ixion to the wheel, driven like Syst
plus to their labor, they get some such glimpses
OF country joy as the Peri had of Paradise The
clover, knee deep, through which they wade
the big old trees in whose shade they sing the
hucolics of Tityrus--the springs and fountains
that sparkle musically in their eyes--the songs
of birds which they hear--are all to be found IN
the columns of tie morning paper, Is it, then
wonderful that their fancies, wandering where
they would fain be themselves, should come
back to the drudgery of the day, laden with
pictures of rural life and rural enjoyment; Is
1T singular that the product of their pens shou
be somewhat open to the old charge of
Annihating all that's made
To green thought in a green shade