New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-27
Curiosisiss Of Newspaper Isiteraturs.

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A curious fact will strike every editor ss he
looks over his exchanges. An article appears
in some paper, possibly his own, that secms to
touch the nerves of the press, and it travels
the rounds Of almost every paper in the State
He secs it first in the dailies iii his neigbor-
hood, then in those more and more distant, and
at last in the weeklies, and for three or four
successive weeks his eye falls upon it every day
IN the columns of some one or more Of his long
list Of exchanges Sometimes it is o leader.
sometimes paragraph, sometimes pun or an
anecdote just now we have an Sc Unparalleled
Outrage by q Boy travelling through the
press all over the State, and it will 20 on
travelling until it has visited every State and
almost every county in the Union. The arrest
of Madame Resten for o horrible felony, has
been travelling for two Or three weeks, and the
disgusting and obscene evidence elected on her
examination before the courts has just started
the rounds
There is good as we'll as evil in this. When
it happens that the thing which thus gets
ltloat has moral, it may do great good, for it
is read by hundreds OF thousands, and will
make lodgment in, and exert a salutary in
huenes upon the hearts of few, at least, of that
vast number. But when, as in the case of the
testimony against Madame Restall, it ministers
to the corruption of the human heart and the
Wtiation of public taste, it may be productive
of vast amount of evil.
me editor who can set the good things
thus afoat, may, in some sense, be regarded as
a public benefactor. He supplies, first. the
hundreds Of editors with matter for their col
umns, without the necessity Of their puzzling
their own brains. He ministers to the moral
or intellectual culture Of hundreds Of thous-
ands Of readers, by sowing broad cast aH over
the land, sentiment of morality, principle of
philosophy or fragment, at least, Of a wise
system Of policy. But he who starts one Of the
IS bad things on its travels, incurs serious re-
sponsibility, and is deserving of the seyerest
censure. 1t is diffenlt to measure the amount
of evil he may occasion, or the aggravated har-
vest OF the seeds of corruption he may scatter
N. Another fact cannot fail to strike every intel
ligent editor, He writes o good article, Of which
he feels proud, one that he thinks will, and in
tends shall attract public attention He will
find one cotemporary stealing it outright and
adopting it boldly as his own. Another will
steal half Of it, and mix it up with some original
ideas, marking, possibly with inverted commas
SO much as he plumbers, without reference to
the authorship. Another will transfer it TO his
columns, unleaded pehaps, but without credit,
so that he can adopt it as his own, or as clip
ping, according to circumstances. Another,
still appropriating the IDEAS, clothes them to
some extent in different language. and then
claiming them as original, fourishes largely on
his exhibition Of profound reflection and extra
ordinary wisdom
These are some OF the g euriosities Of htera-
ture. as exhibited by the newspaper press of the
day. ALBANY Register.
The SAILORS BBLE.-After O. recent heavy
storm on the coast of Massachusetts,, d sailors
chest, which had been swept from some wrecked
vessel, was cast on shore, and opened by those
who found it, A narrator says:
But we found a precious treasure In the
sailors chest. No diamond of Brazil-no gem
of the Western Coast SO precious; yea, the price
of it was above rubies.z It was the Word Of
God. We were glad to see it. The sight sent
tide OF pleasant thoughts through our hearts
II we knew not where the tempest had sent the
body, We could not but hope this precious Bible
had sent the spirit to heavenly home Ne
name yet met our eyes, but these beautiful
lines, cut out Of some book or periodical, were
pasted on the l.y leaf:
"a parent's blessing on her son.
f Goes with this holy thing -
The love that would retain he one, - (
Must TO the other cling
4. Remember, It's no common toy,
mothers gift relnember boy Y ez
ssIn company with the Bible VIC found a da-
guerreotype of d lady-heyonds question the
mother Of that SON, The giser of that book. As
we gazed on the placid features, NE could not
but think these beautiful lines were placed there
by her whose image was now before us Her
own fond and pious heart had made this gift
these lines. A pious mothers blessing with
such gift T
ANEeDoTE OF CHARLES LAMB.-The following
Is an original g Lamb and was, we believe.
picked up by Fields, the poet. Charles was,
once travelling in the vicinity of one of the Eng
lish watering places, in company with several
iadies, one OF whom, more remarkable for pratt-
cry thAn good taste, took occasion to call forth
the polished satire Of the wit, after this fashion
Dear me, MIR. Lamb, that's very sheckias!s Z,
W-wh-what. Madam =
why, there! down on the beach; those boys
bathing
g Charles looked-and saw some half dozen
little urchins gamboling in nudity and nncon.
oeaied delight. along the sparkling sands, aud
thus rehuked his nastier companion.
'B-b--boys those are g--g- girls, NIaaar.l
are they not :"
"Why, Mr., lamb mol assure you they
are boys y
sAresare they An well, ex-c-use me,
Madam: at this distance. tl--tl--tlor,t kuasS