New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-03
sIGNs OF DISSOLUTION.

They say--that is, Shakespeare and the vulga
(two very opposite things) say--that raven
have some gift Of knowing doomed man, ant
gather towards him when his fate, unsupported
by others, is approaching The carrion-c crow
of office have much the same instinct, excep
that they troop with glad cawing to newborn
H power, and fly from it, with the most disma
croakings, as soon as their prophetic nostrili
detect the death faint about it.
The birds of this sort have evidently beer
holding, by the help Of their second sight, a
crownerfs or perhaps rather D dis-crowner's
quest over this Administration of blessed mem.
ory. Our reporter in Washington has not yet
sent US the verdict at large which they have
brought ia by anticipation; but we understand
that it is to the following effect
"We, the jury Of inquest on certain corpses
that are in office, do hereby, after duly shutting
their carcases, and nosing them over and over,
give our verdict as follows, namely:
That the corpses aforesaid, eight in number,
were found in places just the last to suit them
sor the nation, and were evidently there, from
the first, prcdestined feast for us fowls of gar
bage.
THAT two Of them Gone Marcy and one Cush-
ing) smelt, from the outset, of 50 many political
funks, that every body stopped his nose at them ;
and that all but dogs, who prefer i'll odors, have
been observed to keep on the windy side of the
six others.
That the persons Of these two, though in d
very advanced state Of decomposition could
alone be identified; the others being people en-
tirely unknown.
That the two were enough to infect all who
came near them with political rottenness, and
were themselves walking grave yards of public
pestilenee That one of them, movable by a
large patch on the seat of his honor, came to his
death by q disease of the Constitution, called
the spoils; the immediate cause being, some say
surfeit, and some, choking That the other
had had, ever since Tylerian times, an old
and yirnlent eruption Of shamelessness, which
stSiking in, produced modification and killed
Inn That the third was, as far as could be
discovered. an obscure person, named in war,
Pierce, from never having stuck any body, or
in peace, from his never sticking at anything,
or by his party, because they were prodigiously
stuck, in taking him. What was the direct
cause of his death-the Softs or the Hards,
Judge Bronson or Mr., Guthrie, the Nebraska
bill or what other Of his incessant and trans
parent trickeries, your jury doesn't know nor
does any body care They have only been able
TO arrive, from great mass of testimony, at
the fact that before his elevation to the Presi-
dency, he was little too fond of an utensil
called horn; and that since then, he has CON
ilnued constantly to go in at the big end Of one
und come out at the little.
s. As to the remaining five, the post mortem
examinations show that they died of an extra
ordinary complication Of nearly all the diseases
that political flesh Is heir to.
:" Further, your Jury beg leave to make this,
none point, a special verdict. and to say that
the deceased died much more auspiciously for
the public service than they had lived; and that
their death is ything but a public loss .