New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-12-02
DAILY CRESCENT.

DAILY CRESCENT.
ALL THE TIME.
You ask me. love how many times
think Of you day
frankly only
Aud mean just what I fay -.
You perplsxed and somewhat hurt'
But wait. and hear the rhyme
PRAY how can do more than once,
what one does all the time
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AN EprrxPH. The Atheneum says that the
following inscription is copied from church
yard il Eassxi
And Mary his wife.
Their surname was Pritchsrd,
They lived without strife
And the reason was plsn-
They abounded In riches
They had pain
And he w!fe 'ccre the breaches.
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How CANADA OBTAINED ITS NAxE.-The orr
gin Of the word ssCanada' is curious enough
The Spaniards visited that country previous 70
the French, and made particular searches ior
gold and silver, and finding none, tney often
said to themselves "Acansda." (there is nothing
berel The Indians, who watched closely,
learnerp fhja sentcnce and its meaning. After
the densrture of the Spaniards the French ar
rived and the Indians, who wanted none of
their company, and supposed that they were
also ySpaniards come on the same errand, were
anxious to inform them that their labor was
lost by tarrying in that country, and necessarily
repeated to them the Spanish sentence SAGA
NADIA" The French, who knew as little Of Span
ish as the Indians, supposed this necessarily re-
curing sound was the name of the country, and
gave it the name of 6 Canada" which it has
borne ever since.
TIM SWISS My estimate of the Swiss charac-
ter has wofully deprecated since have travel
ed among these mountains. With history
such as Greece might be proud of, and q race
of heroes that Rome never excelled in the days
when women would be mothers only to have sons
for warriors; the Swiss people now are at a
point Of national and social depression painful
to contemplate. They are indebted largely to
the defences of nature for the comparative lib
erty they enjoy, and perhaps to the same seclu-
sion is to be referred the want Of thousand
comforts of life, which an improved state of So
ciety brings. All the romance of Swiss cot
tage is taken out Of a travellers mind the mo-
ment he enters one of these cabins and seeks re-
freshment or rest. The saddest marks of pow
erty meet him at the door. The same roof is
the shelter of man, woman and beast. The
same room is often the bed-chamber of all
Scanty food, and that miserably prepared, is
consumed without those domestic arrangements
which make life at home luxury. There is no
future to the mind of Swiss youth. He lives
to live as his father lived and that is the end of
life with him. Perhaps be may have gun,
and in that case, to be the best shot in the val
ley may fill his ambition or if he is strong in
the arms and legs he may aim at distinction in
the games which once year are held at some
hamlet in the Canton, where the wrestlers and
runners contend for victory, and others throw
weights and leap bars as of old in Greece when
kings were not ashamed to enter the lists Many
OF the youth Of Switzerland are willing to sell
themselves into the service of foreign powers, as
soldiers Swiss soldiers-hired to be shot at,
and shoot anybody foreign despot may send
them to slay: service SO degrading, and at the
same time so decidedly hazardous to life and
limb, with 50 poor chance for pay, that none
but people far gone in social degradation
would be willing thus to make merchandise of
their blood. Yet they have fought battles
bravely with none of the stimulus of patriotism
ana their blood has been as freely poured out
for tyrants who hired them, as if they ere
bleeding for their own and the land of William
Tell. [Cor. N. Y. Observer