New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-04
weather and Crops.

nmns of intelligence concerning the 8 w ather
and Crops,n some items of which are original
but more selected, and extending in their scope
from Canada to California from the Atlantic to
regions lying far westward of the Mississippi.
They are epitomes and brief chroniclers Of the
agricultural times summing up for the benefit
of all little of all that transpires in depart
ment which affects every one.
To merchants and farmers and those inter |
ested directly in the crops Of the year, these
items undoubtedly have on immediate interest, |
but they are not totally devoid of value even to
those others-three times unfortunate - who
stars y even less than was asked for in Agurs
prayer and, perhaps, see less Of the green fields
and growing crops in an entire year than their
country friend in q single day. To them these
frequent records of big sqashes, mammoth oeets'
wide fields Of waving corn and broad acres
whitened with cotton, suggest pleasures that
live only in recollection and take no hold
on reality. They conjure up visions OF other
days, when purer air was breathed and the
when the morning was for pleasure and the
evening for recreation; when some species Of
sport arose with each rising sun and gave vigor
and health to the participant.
There is n great deal of value in these re
ports Of 6 weather and crops" and a great deal
Of interest, too. The country editor, sitting in
his cool sanctum, in close converse with some
friendly subscriber, who has just presented him
| with a specimen of early fruit or monstrous
at he
guilty Of begetting in the breasts of those who
read his recording paragraphs To him the
items he pens are merely local news, but to the
readers immured in city walls or wandering
far-off distances they are like snatches Of some
/ old tune or like passages from well-remem-
I bered romance read in the days of youth.
4 Their Retrospective quality is not the only one
belonging to these country items, however
4 They carry the mind forward as well, and build
up all sorts Of fancies for period when the pro-
duct of many years labor shall leave the FORUM
ate possessor liberty Of retiring to the country
and enjoying there bucolic pleasures which are
SO sweet and soothing; which grow more at
tractiye to every man as he grows; which have
been sung by every poet Of olden or modern
i times; which have consoled the greatest minds
and been greedily sought by the most dis
tingnished. They lead him to visions of fertile
fields and great cattle grazing in them; OF
crops, green and glorious, whose tops wave iR
the wind like the remnants of gigantic army
or sway before it like undulations of the sea.
He beholds the Socratic philosophy Of the good
the beautiful and the true in a new light, and
sees the qttite cum dulce in a more tangible
} form labor that is pleasure as well as Q
profit becomes visible strongly desirable.
To the more part Of men the reading of tbs
daily reports concerning weather and crops
lis, probably, more suggestive of profitable pecu
MARY transactions than aught else. But ther'
} are then, others, to whom We have alluded, who
! in penning long accounts of pleasant weather
, great crops and rural amusements, almost SCI
the long lines of the summer sun, the grateful
shade Of the olden oaks, the rich verdure Of tn
fertile fields; who seemingly hear the SUI
surrum of the swarming bees and the audibl
surging of the wind through the great tree
tops who remember the scenes and sports o
earlier years, repine at the labors and discom
forts of the present and look hopefully forwar'
to an advancing period when they may EMO.
| the weather that obtains in the country an
grow crops as vast as those of which they read
MEETING OF THE GREYTowN SUFFERERS. =
e An informal meeting of American citiEens-pro
perty owners and residents of Greytown-wa
3 held at the Irving House, in New York, on th
afternoon of the 9th ult. The affair of tt
d bombardment Of Greytown and the losses sus
E tanned thereby by American citizens, forme
Q the subject Of conversation. A Business Com
+ mittee was appointed and q form Of petitio
: to Congress praying for Naturalization 70
o losses, was adopted and signed by the ten gen
tlemen present. None but American citizen
we're permitted to participate in the meeting
J, IMPORTANT INvENTI0N.--The Boston joufnf
Il understands that an invention has been recent
n made which promises to effect great saving j
t the cost of wood for locomotives. At recef
] trial made on the Worcester Railroad, loef
o motive to which the new invention was apple
d mlde the run to Worcester and back with
q train consuming 144 cubic feet Of wood. Al
e other locomotive of equal capacity and DRAWN
Is the same number of cars, without this improve
Il ment, consumed on the same trip $50 cubic fet
= OF NDOu IHt teoe 40 fcSaEueu as q loI oh
% and the results are highly important. The in
IS proyement is in the valves, by which mo,
= direct action is produced and with less rever'
ie pressure.
The Navy Department is shipping boys for Il
! United States razee Independence, now fitting
the Brooklyn Navy Yard for the Pacific. Abo,
forty of the Juveniles, whose ages vary fro
. fourteen to seventeen years, are already I
u board the receiving ship North Carolina. II
total number of recruits on the ship is 70,
y hundred. Numerous applications are daily r
'u eeiyed from parents for the enlistment of the
10 sons in the service, Making sailors of DO
= seems to meet the appreciation Of the naval al
y mercantile marine The Independence will pr
~ baby be ready for sea in two weeks
ry -
ng sHooTrsG.--O the Goth ult, at Gransbur
Green county, KY, an ARRAY occurred among
lie number of drunken men, in which one of tht
he named Pemberton was killed by pistol sh
n from another named Read.
P A man named Murphy was shot dead in Oh
he cinnati on the 18th ult. in drunken row
Ah one John Casey. The murderer was arrest,
ri A female, aged seventy-seven years, was
ut Gently sent to prison in Great Britain for 70
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