New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-14

Into thine car pour our every need
Tsmpt1,iorl's fatal charms help us to shun,
But may conquer through thy conquering Son
D.lire us from all which can annoy
Is in this world. and may Cur souls destroy;
From all caantes which men betide,
Era and death oh turn feet aside,
For mortal worms and cleave to clay
Thine it's TO rule. and rBortss TO obey.
Is not thy mercy. Lord forever free
The whole creation knows no God but thee.
Kingdom and empire in thy presence fall
The King eternal regns the King Of all
Po,rer is with thee-to thee be glory given.
.7nd be thy name adored by earth and heaven
The praise Of saints and angels Is thy own
Glory thee the Everlasting One,
Forerer be thy triune name adored.
.7mel, II osanpa blessed be the Lord!
CONSCIENCE Judge Howe, of Milwaukee, in
his charge to the jury in the Ann Wheeler
case" speculates as follows in regard to con-
science.
Somewhere amidst the delicate mechanism Of
our moral natures the Great Contriver has
placed self adjusting regulator. usually called
conscience, that principle which informs the
intelligent being this is right. and that is
wrong Man, as we generally find him, dis
covers both good and bad faculties or propensi-
ties Moral philosophers and theologians ac-
count for this condition of humanity, believe,
OF different hypothesis. The law takes no part
in this controversy. It is adjusted to the con-
dition Of man as he exists in society. He is
found with good and bad propensities, and it
against the other And l think its penalties
are imposed according as conscience performs
its office in restraining those bad propensities,
or neglects it and let propensities run riot to
the detriment of society. 1t does not punish
the miser, whose eager thirst for property
prompts to deny himself every luxury, and
many comforts, but whose conscience withholds
his hand from appropriating what does not law
| fully belong to him, or cannot lawfully be Sc.
cured. 1t does punish the thief, though the
propensity to acquire be not half so stron,
| within him, because his conscience suffers hin
to lay felonious hands upon the goods Of hi.
| neigh bors. The theory advanced during the
progress of this trial by witness, is, that in a
| thief the propensity to stealgrows stronger by
exercise, and the power of resistance less, until
| the propensity becomes irresistible, and he sup.
poses moral accountability to be diminished as
| the propensity is increased. The law reasons
otherwise, and by express enactment 1t imposes
| for many offences n heavier penalty upon sec
ond conviction than upon a first. The offence
| Of the confirmed criminal is victory OF some
| bad propensity over an admonishing conscience
! which told him the act was wrong, but dld moi
withhold him from committing it, The last
offence committed while conscience still remains
| from the dictates of the same propensity
strengthened ever SO mach by indulgence, seems
| to be but repetition of the same victory. I'M
first offence it IS assumed caL safely be punished
upon the supposition that though conscience do
not conquer, yet it might have done so IN
last offence, it is assumed, cannot be punishe
upon the supposition that although conscienc
still lives, yet it has been so often crippled ,
permitted victories that it had no longer tn
| power to control successfully And yet 1T
avowed that no man can distinguish the poin
where conscience can't control from that
| which it won't control.
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companion half pettshly turning from m,
couch "Let me sleep" The words haunte
my memory for hours afterwards. How ofte
has the wish been breathed IN this weary world
80, let me sleep
The man whose conscience lashes him for mis-
leeds-evils committed and unrepented Of
cries, as he drops his head into his thorny pill
low Let me sleep p!--with sleep comes oblivi
on The mourner, who has seen some brigh
and beautiful one fade from his embrace, like
summer flower nipped by too early frost, bow
his head above the pallid face Of the prostrat
form below him, and sighs, in the agony of h
soul--'' Let me sleep sleep with the loved OF
whose smile shall never welcome my footsteI
more"
! Let me Sleep" says the traveller, who, foot
, sore and weary, has toiled long in the worlo
and seen hopes perish unfulhlled, joys withe
ere they are tasted, friendships which he though
Sii'sAAA~ANS'Ss
rainbow promises fading and melting into colol
! less air o, let me sleep, for | am weary"
The rosy checked child, the bright-eyed maid
en-, the thoughtful matron, those for whom Iii
puts on its finest aspects, its most endearin
smiles, all have periods in which they long fo
Sleep for the oblivion of all care, hours in whic
. the waters of Lethe may flow darkly and deepl
over them.
There comeh a sleep unto ALA slee
deep, hushed, and breathless. The roar Of cal
non, the deep-toned thunderbolt, the shock
: an earthquake, or the rush Of ten thousar
: armies cannot break up its still repose. Wit
mute lips and folded arms, one after anothe
the ephemera of earth sink down into the darl
ness and nothingness. No intruding tootstel
q shall jar upon their rest, no disturbing touc
. shall wiring from them there the exclamation
# Let me sleep"
q A FISH SroRY--The Yonkers Herald tells
= a wonderful nondescript fish which was caug
. near Spuyten Duyvel, in the Hudson River,
the shad lykes Of fisherman named knifhn
> measured about four feet from the nose to 4
n tip of the tail, and in shape resembled to-
fish. The mouth, when distended, would ta
in peck measure, was filled with teeth, int
N eating a most voracious disposition. After d
q sectiHg him, his stomach was found to conts
~ five full grown shad, two hard she'll crabs, a
" a moderate sized puppy dog of the terrier bre,
;. But what was most singular of all, was his bel
v supplied with two hands, just about that pt
= of the breast where the Siamese twins are CO
m nected, each hand having four distinct fnge
10 and a thumb about the size of four year {
\ child. He was also provided with fms simil
F. to those of green turtle, and, upon the who
was most fendish, ill-looking customer
X SOME CUoNTRY editor of the Newfo
n National Democrat thus speculates: In
el hundred years, We shall have two hundred a
a thirty-two millions and in q hundred a
de fifty years, or in the year 200o, we shall hf
h :. over seven hundred millions! Our :
"a produced last year over hundred and n
Nv millions of bushels of breadstufs, to say moth
~ about the rice and fruit crops And yet
10 have hundred and ninety millions of aci
. more than FIVE times the whole territory Of E
or land and Wales, which the spade and P
never touched