New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-09-05


Nor Sick BUT SEETIMENTAL.--It would seem
from several articles which have recently APP
peared in the New York Mirror, that the SYM
pathy 50 literally bestowed by the ipress upon
Mr.. Willis, in consequence Of his supposed
failing health, is entirely uncalled for. cor
respondent of the Mirror tells the following
good story, at the expense Of the poetic in
valid
ga ridiculous story is just now current along
the road. Willis, you know, ezcelsin the plain
tive species of composition, and cannot exist
without large daily doses Of sympathy and ad
miration Consequently, he Keeps himself dill
gently at the point of death. The story is, that
the Brieadier, short time since, was actually
taken in himself by this point Of death humbug.
Reading in q Boston paper that his beloved
partner was, really and truly, in q very bad
way indeed, he rushed up to Idlewild in great
alarm The Brigadier, you are aware, never
writes much for his paper, and depends on Will
lis for the greater part of his supply of matter.
OF COURSE if N Parker Willis should happen to
be seriously unwell, the Brigadier would be in
an extremely awkward predicament. Breath
less and anxious, the old soldier hurried to the
gates of Idlewild What was his surprise, what
his relief, what his merriment, to find the plain
tive and ruddy Home Journalist, axe in hand,
trimming his trees with the energy of back
| woodsmanl That was a tough but happy day
for the Brigadier. His energetic partner tired
him out with rambling over the place. No mat
| ter. He returned with his pockets stuffed with
| copy" w..
The Rock ISLAND BRIDGE.-It has been sup
posed by many that the work on this structure
has been suspended, in accordance with the re-
cent order of the Government official to that
effect This is not the case. The grading on
the Island is being rapidly completed and the
stone abutments and piers on the Illinois side
of the river are already finished. On the Iowa
side the abutMent is very nearly completed,
and coffer-dams are now being placed in the
main river, to begin on the piers. With favor
able weather and water, these can be finished
by the first Of January next. AS an order from
the War Department cannot reach the work in
| the river at all, some other measures must be
taken if it is stopped. We understand that it is
the intention of the company to proceed with the
contract until arrested by actual intervention
of law, or the ntsrposition of providential diff
culties. Nothing short of these will affect the
ease. [Rock Island Advertiser.
| --~
NORTHERN NORWAY from an interesting no
ttice, in the North British Review, of work en-
titled g Norway, and its Glaciers" by Profes.
sor James D. Forbes, of Edinburgh, we gather
few interesting facts relative to the character o
Northern Norway:
The Northern part of Norway, as is wei
+ known to every geographer, is intersected BY
numerous irregular bays or fiords, extending
far into the country, and its mountainous shore
are guarded from the attacks of the oceai
i waves by great insular masses of earth AMI
rock, which are scattered, singly and in groups
| along the coast. Few or no roads traverse tn
country, and it is seldom visited save by Eng
| lish sportsmen, who are attracted by tn
charms of the excellent salmon fishing, whicl
abound in the streams. Potatoes and barle.
are cultivated to limited extent along tn
] Northern shores of Norway. The actual sum
! mer there does not exceed a month in length
and during the long months of winter the stool
are fed chiefly on sea-weed and the heads q
, boiled fish. Professor Forbes states that il
. some of the valleys the bodies of those who di
| in the winter season are kept in frozen stat
until the advancing season admits of their be
ing carried to the grave The frozen corpse
5 then frequently fastened astride the back Of
sure footed pony, supported by bag Of hay
r and thus rides to church for the last time.
Il Inc highest iduu III norway Is OOUU itcl doUN
the level of the sea. The prominent features
t the country are valleys, fields and fords. Th
g fields are broad, table-topped mountains, c
elevated plateaux, intersected by deep and nal
row valleys. These fields are often intermina
. BILE wildernesses, varied only by craggy height
spotted with ungainly patches of perpetui
a snow.
1 One charming characteristic of Norway is IL
sparkling abundance of running water. Bear
Lotto 1n1,- in
v every valley, some times spreading in their d
e scent into broken falls and subtle ramifcation
K and again stretching down a steep Of two thou
/. and feet or more, like single snowWhi
D thread; but On approaching these seemir
{ threads one is astonished at their volume, whit
Y is generally such as to cut off communicate
IS from bank to bank. The source of this profusit
of living water lies in the peculiar con6guratit
of the country, the mountains being wide al
f fattened and the valleys deep and far apar
I. Thus each river represents the drainage of
: vast extent Of upper country. All the featur
= and phenomena of the glacier are observable
Norway.
IS The laboring classes of the Norwegians a
said to be as fine a body of peasantry as a
found in any part of the world. The men a
q tall and muscular, and appear manly and civ
It As the hair is worn long, the appearance of IL
re aged men is singular and often highly strikin
~ The costume is usually of brown home-manufa
tured wooden cloth, embroidered in green, wi
10 a belt curiously jonted with leather and bras
p from which hangs knife with carved hand
st Unlike some travellers, who have declaim
,e against the slowness and stupidity of the Nc
wegians, Prof. Forbes found them uncommon
:. intelligent and courteous.
$, ALEXANDER HAM1LToN.-Opposed,a as in ma
tn instances the constitutional views of Mr. Be
u ton have been to those of Mr.. Hamilton, tn
re gentleman, in his Thirty Years in the Unit
We States Senate pays the following beauti1
tribute to his memory:
~ He was the man most eminently and va
~ ously endowed of all the eminent men of
ed day at once soldier and statesmen, with
81 hand, to execute: writer an orator. juri
fe an organizing mind able to grasp the great
Ia system and administrative to execute the sma
- est details; wholly turned to the practical blu
u, ness of life and with Il capacity for Applicant
nd and production, which teemed with gigantic
by bors, each worthy to be the sole product Of
re single master Intellect but lavshed in litt
all from the ever teeming fecundity of his prol
- genius. Hard his fate when withdrawing fir
he public life at the age Of thirty -four he felt hi
ry self constrained to appeal to posterity for tt
on justice which contemporaries withheld from hi
to And the appeal was not in vain, Statues +
,,o to his memory, history embalms his name; p
4 IL.