New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-01
TRoM LoUTSIaJy.a no LABRADOR.

We trust that the day is ut hand--perhaps
within twelve month-when the access, with
"a two hours, by the so-far-completed Mobile
railroad, ii Pass Christian and the summer
seats around it, viii convert those pleasant
shores into q mere suburb of our city, and rem
Ter our population no longer a migratory one,
TO fly North, like the cranes, at the coming Of
summer, and only to return on the wings OF
lack Frost. g 1t is a contamination deToutiy
0 be wished" For movable people must
slways have certain faults; and only stayat
lome people can cultivate some OF the Aios'
necessary virtues.
Meantime, such of us as must perforce wan
Ter or whom want of ties at home or curiosity
# health or mere g truant disposition I'M.
,els To rove, should begin to cast around them
md choose their itinerary of the season
A wise man will eschew the sea. We should
ave had gills, had we been meant for the deep
Ian, in fact, is, of all animals, the least lifted
Or it. Others can drink its brine; he cannot: ;
thers are natural swimmers; he is not: none
nut he is sea sick and yet he is absurd enough
o turn mariner, in spite of all the just curses
,eaped in Horace upon him who invented ships !!
lad Noah, that good patriarch, not been in a
sreat strait, he certainly never would have
urned sailor. That wise people the Egyptians
howed their primitive sagacity by nothing
acre than by looking upon the realm of salt
water as abominable; and there is no prayer in
a the Litany fuller of undeserved compassion
ar human error than that for the people g who
70 down to the sea in ships"
Keep to your own element, then. As well
lp for bird as fish. Stick to your own
ointment. The continental policy" is the
1nly safe one. There's g ample room and verge
aough,'' within our own. Why LAS General
Washington asks) :. leave our own, to stand on
oreign ground'"
Let US travel, then; but easy -goingly., The
ga is too rough for safety the mere land tooslow
or diversion Give US the smooth gliding
steam-argosy of our great rivers the Mississippi
md the st. Lawrence, with the swift wheeling
,ars that connect them.
We've lately meditating these matters and
planning whittier to run, this summer, in order
to supply, from strange scenes, to our beloved
readers, something gayer, more various, and
ven more adventurous than we could hope to
furnish, out of the still life of our own half
,ended animation, our sweltering summer here.
Happily, fate, fortune, or the spirit Of Ameri-
an enterprises, which has largely superseded
| 10th, threw in our way learned traveller, who
-olyed all our doubts, by showing us how easily
Ind even how delightfully."- we might, from this
ooint, realize what our partial glimpse into a
portion of the same great theatre of the curious
| md the picturesque had already suggested.
| We had already seen, at intervals, the grand
.tream of the Mississippi, without, however,
1resking into the peculiar world of the prairies
We had touched upon the noble shores of our
,wn fresh water seas; we had heard the thun-
| lers of Niagara; had passed along Ontario
| ind had trod among the lumber men, the wild
| borders of the lakes of Maine and New Hamp-
| shire catching their trout, and hunting their
moose among tangled forests, wild mountains
| md multitudinous little lakes, through regions
whose sylvan beauties want nothing but the
pastoral pipe and crook to make them new Ar
;adia, in spite of the unromantic race that in
habit them. Still, there can be nothing filter
Our traveller, who proved to be certain skillful
Ind seducing Col. Barber, the agent of the Lake
Ontario and St. Lawrence Steamboat Company
for, now -a-days, the most attractive scenery
mas become q matter of speculation and con
raet,) Shove us how all this, which we hat
heretofore beheld only parcel-wise, might b
reached collectively, and turned into one grea
mighty vale Of the Mississippi up to St. Louis
thence to traverse the prairies; to coast or tc
navigate the great lakes, looking into the cities
hat are rising up, like the towery shows of the
Fata Margana, upon their marginss and then
ey the many islanded st. Lawrence, and the
queenly Quebec, either to descend to that strange
river of unriyaled salmon fishing, the Saguenay
OF to traverse Nova Scotia and its primitive popu
lation of French habitaas, shooting rein dee,
aud moose, and spearing or fishing salmon AM
trout, back to the St. Johns, and thence int
Maine; OF else to cross at once from Montreal
by the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad, t
the White Mountains; and, after visiting thei
| heights, and lingering among the fshy lakes a
their feet, to make ones way. as the season ad
gances, towards the gaities of Saratoga, and tn
amusements of New York, until, these being ex
hausted and the brooding malaria Of our ow
great delta once more dispellel by frosts, W
| may once more fly home again and find the rost
| and the violets, the tomatoes and the crabs, til
| bananas, the figs, and whole world of sue
| flowers still blossoming or ripening, though I'll
| frosts may have come, just enough to chas
| every thing but the perpetual bloom of our CT
/ mate, whose winter is sweeter than the spring
I whose mere wastes are richer than the fertilit,
Of other lands
/ We have sketched, for our run away reader
what we know to be delightful ramble. II
boats of this Canadian part of it are famous, al
the scenery which they traverse unrivale
Should they meet, about the purlieus Of the
! Charles, the very jolly and gentlemanly voyag'
of whom We have spoken, they will do well
ask his guidance; or, missing him here, to
: to ST. Louis and inquire for him.
: The commencement exercises Of the Law D,
partment of the University of Louisiana wi
take place to-day, at II o'clock, at the Lyeeu
Hall
J, We return our thanks to Mr. VIM Y. Cob
d Clerk of the steamer II. NJ. Wright, for Match
= and Vicksburg papers,
II We are indebted to the clerk of the steam
Robart 7 Ward for Tnni villa nopars owl IA j..