New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-27

honest opinions Of c5ntemperhries are very
often dstraction iii disgiise; while criticism and
envy are ID nearly reIased, that il is difficult to
separate reviewers Judgment from reviewers
malignitye
d Rainy Day in Londoa.
II waa j rainy; an unna.iistaka abl s4is,S aag.
/ is was Chat sort Of dull, deggeds detS S4iii}A
downfall, that browns Hope 1T onds Iaost
tgndbiy IN 4 gutter. les, drowned slss Hes,
beyond hot bricks and Bellows You cannot
warm her back to life-you cannot blow new
breadth into her lungs, Won feel gloomy. Jlesx.
unspeaksbly stapid. n u the soul is a spas Es as
some bards- have depominated ber.ashe is in
danger Of being extinguished altogether for
| your spirits are most unqns stionabfy dampeg
You envy the very roof Of the house there, ron
know, there are spouts to carry Of the super
| abounding fluid, but none To relieve yours over
charged mind. No; there the rain seers ac-
eumulating still--one gray, leadeu, dreary
\ deiuge.
In parts Of the tropics, now, where ii rsins--
though, gsooth to say the rain is Sill kaazikr
there, when it does falL--there is sosasx}3y$t
rather azimating, rather exciting and exh hiB A
i rating inEfhe SCENE The water comes dawn
with . spirited rsssf and roar fhat startS&s
\ you: 1t is cataract fromsthe very etnufss
The noise is almost like the voice of the sea: Il
is grand and wonderful ~ Stirring, restless,
stormy, uprousing, agItated scene But here
ness, 80 chilly dullneas is so respectablsN@ :
rainl 50 safe-going and well conducted lE
| would never wash you off your horse tit washed
| poor lady OF her mule, once, at Panama. or
out of your gig-not it-whieh tropical rain
! would be very apt to do. 1t would content it,
self BY giving you plenty Of rheumatism, and
your death Of cold Aye, it might wash You
into your coffin but all fair and smoothly
drop, drop, drop pretty fast, too; but steadily,
always very steadiiy--a John Bull sort II 4.
rain-p persevering, quiet, taking hold Of the aay,
and keeping bold with a kind of bulldog peril
nacity. Will ever give in, till it meIts The
world aWays dragged through its own niire:
i It is enough to put an end To teetotalism
even Father Matthew himself would, perhars.
feel slight symptoms Of incipient hgdrophotra
/ and the very Priessnitz himself Wera he here
4 to-day, merely from being over wasered, might
go through process Of saltwater cure, in the
way Of being cured Of all predlecticns for water,
forever. Though it may heHi some mortal ills,
what sufferings hath it ever ileriated like those
it inhicts, in the form Of rain It owes us some
consolation and compensation, in soosh, ard it
cannot easily iquidate that debt, let me tell it,
i with all its liquid lavishmens.
4 The country inn / am inhabiting seems half
becoming an ark, and ffoating en- the bosom Of
II the waters. The land we live in seems melting
| from us, to one entire sod g Rule, Britannia
Britannia rules the waves" perhaps so !; but
the rains rule Britannia, soraetmes, and very ty-
ranicalB, too. The British welkin seems ailo-s
4 gether transformed into one vast floating water.
ing pot, and instead Of brandishing her trident,
the worthy dame aforesaid had better put IN ~
thick cotton four and -sixpenny umbrella, and
wear good dreadnaught over her shoul-
4 ders, and a washable beaver over her brews, in
stead Of the Roman helmet that is usually rep-
resented as adorniDg them. She should get a
macintosh, too, for her Lion A native d hot,
dry climss, that poor auadruped must BIZ d ar
tyr IN r5a rTu1af
r is. by the unthinking, in aIlEeathers.
L Hegh ho! patter, patter. p1ash, splash! Ifthere
are any shower bath makers IN this neighbor-
hood, perhaps they are noreto be pitied than
am. They must see utter ruin staring them in
the face, for shower-sick must every bedy be
for twenty years to come at least---so 1t .ssny
rate Eshould say, from my presens Tsslngsl
How abominably happy those unsy rnpa athizing
! unfeeling ducks look u-u-u-ugii { should
like to set every duck jack of you on the duck
, ing stool, only that would be no punishment !
3 How can we use their name as term of eldear-
, ment Dear little dnek,, indeed Malesolent
monsters with what wisked enjoyment they
waddle and splash, there. Just before my eyes.
as though to say e You tyrants, who Slaughter
us SO numerically, full often, see how all
compensating nature makes US happy when you
are wretohedt Next time you eat duck, and
green peas, remember this. and don't boast OF
J your superiority too much -a puddle can make
US happier than principaity makes some of
, you. Quack, quack y"
| must move from the window the sight of
, that ecstatic duck, yonder, is too much for me;
my philosophy is in an inverse ratio to dack-fe-
/ lcity. Hideons, hateful. odious, abhorrent
/, things would sooner call pet-child, or
pet-dog my sereech-owl, or my sweet little alli-
) gator, than my duck. in future. Stay there
) seems q more sober and quiet one--for really,
some of them appear to become intoxicated ON
water! Indeed, who knows but the fumes Of
thousands and thousands of public houses in
our not over sober country may ascend family
to the clouds. and thence family descend again,
| and slightly alcoholic this rain water-quite
enough topuzzle and perturb the brains Of duck
lingss He appears to compassionate the miser-
able, featherless biped, man, without webbed
feet. He greatly pities the helpless, deformed
: wretch! though the world was made for ducks
{and perhaps this juicy part of it particularly j
f yet he has q heart under his plumage, and can
' feel for those poor dumb animals who cannot
quack, nor express their suiferings in any rea-
sonable language.
While gazing on that happy party, ] had felt
how hattered they might have been, had they
: known our term for such bathing as they We're
. enjoying was q g ducking.'s / left the window,
# and carelessly took up a newspaper lying on the
1 table, My eye is caught by the pathetic am
g nouncement that g bobbin- net is dull.1 Poor
: bobbn-net Perhaps it rainei at Nottingham.
e $ Mule-twist is languid = Scotch-mist in the
IT mule-bWlSt loeauty, ! guess :. fotatoes are
# looking up fprobably that species called the
pink-eyes) The clouds we're breaking there,
depend ont! ss Jacconets are depressed p
feel for them from the very bottom Of my heart.
,tl There was very dew, at least, at the time
j doubtless. Butwhat is this2 ssFiour is lively 2
If All | groan inwardly, and envy -four, savagely
70 / read no more: l care not, in this melancholy
~ mood, for the information that pigs has riz OF
~ ~ mangel-wurtzel fallen; for no fall, we're it
: awful as the Decline and Fall of the Roman
i Empire, or the fall of all China itself Tin the
china closet, mean): fall, in short, whether
of mangelwurtzel, or the funds of foreign stock,
a or Nottingham stockings, can affect me new
n nothing but a fall in the barometer Fate seems
q to have resigned her shears for that redoubta-
u bio instrument; in fact, empires, dynasties,
;. governments, constitutions, and institutions
10 might actually depend on this same barom-
4 eter. just imagine such a rain as this at
"a Paris! Our volatile friends would not. prob
"a ably, recover their spirits under half-a-dozen
= revolutions at least The first two or three
J, might flash in the pan, their powder would be
nj so damp. #S
I, ~ Once more / saunter to the window, resolved
~ to ignore the ducks, and be deaf to the exult
= T. ing voice Of quackery Behold, . fly or chais
a, from the neighboring station has stopped at tht
- - door Even if it only walked, ii must hav
~ ~ gone pelting pace Igaze on dissolving view
tyoi unndpserinf eran trarf, n,,e.