New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-15
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/ F1LLaL INFECTION REWARDED.
Nowhere in the world, one would think. j,
romance SO intimately interviewer with thf
realities Of everyday life, as in La Bell
France. The following charming little story
is one OF the many that's being enacted every
day and hour in the gay metropolis:
In a modest apartment in the Faubourp st
Germaine, young man Of about thirty ant
an old white-haired man, whose wandering eve
reveals that his mind is not quite STEADY, have
l dWelt for several years. This young man
whom we shall designate simply by the probe.
l matIcal letter K, for fear of being indiscrset,
| IS an engraver on copper, and shares his dwell
ling with his father, who fell into hisdotage ten
years ago, from the loss of all he owned The
poor old mans insanity consists Of a sort d;
| irestlessness, for which he cannot account, even
| to himself, and nothing but the presence of his
son can aim him in the least degree, on which
| account the young man tends the afflicted pa.
| rent with the tenderness and solicitude Of a
mother for her child. The neiehbors are some
| times moved almost to tears BY the lovely pic
ture they occasionally see through the open
windows, Of the good son supporting the white
head Of his poor old father on his shoulder,
where it rests with the confidence and happiness
of child a, @-5
However, this affection of the artist for his
father did not prevent his youthful heart from
asserting its rights, but it imposed the most
rigid silence upon the expression of this inward
sentiment, for he feared lest his bride should
ind the care of the old man aeburden, and fail
to bestow that tenderness upon him to which he
was accustomed. Therefore, in order to deceive
possible this necessity Of loving which he felt
80 painfully, M. x would watch for hours
at a time charming young maid which aps
peared at one Of the neighborine windows
abandoning himself fearlessly to the pleasure
OF nourishing this passion, since it was utterly
impossible he should ever win its object, as the
lady was the daughter Of his own landlord, and
would have dowry of some two hundred thou
sand francs, while he had but his burin She
was then but the ideal creation which every ar
tistealls up in his dreams, and in all the young
mans productions shone forth her lovely fea-
Etures. gaS - gs's5s" sa's
Matters had been in this state for come time
when finding himself in arrears for two quarters'
rent, the young artist sought his landlord TO
beg. a farther delay. until the psy for some
work then due should enable him to meet the
debt. .. .5.-szt 81,
In the first place. young man, replied the
proprietor kindly, 4' have never asked you for
the money, and request you will not distress
yourself about it; in the next place, why do
you not marry You might readily find wife
with handsome dowry, and money never comes
amiss''
8. Monsieur replied the young man. "Ihavs
long determined to remain single, fearing that a.
wife would regard as trouble and embarrass-
ment that poor old man to whom feel more
like the father than the son; but to speak
truly, have discovered q maiden for whom /
would answer as for myself, 80 much of sweet
ness and angelic goodnesssis there in her whole
appearance; but l never hope to win her, for
she is rich and have nothing ,5.ds.
What, nothing? Have you not your talent !
Besides, what man millionaire though he might
be--would hesitate to give his child to the care
of one who would watch over her with the devo.
ton with which you attend your afflicted father 2
Fear nothing, then, but speak for her, be she
whom she may H Y5.2 &77 s4
but. sir, if were to tell you that your
daughter is the one love,'
'tBy heaven, sir, you would tell me glorious
newsl Do you believe have forgotten, despite
my fifty years, the eyes with which lover re-
CARDS his fair one !"
A few days only have passed since M x
witnessed the realization of what he had re-
garded as an impossible dream, and the poor do
tard feels with surprised satisfaction the kisses
of o young woman, beautiful as an angel,
mingled on his wrinkled forehead with those Of
his beloved son. ~
| INTERESTING TO ASTRONOMERS - We an
generous gift Of sc, 600 for. the purchase Of a
q heliometer for the Observatory. Professors
Baehe and Peiree, distinguished astronomers,
4 justly regard it us an important step in the ad-
vaneement Of American science. Konigsberg,
| (Germany,) Oxford, (England,) and Albany
will enjoy the distinction of being the only
places in the world where the erection of this
valuable and delicate instrument has beer
attempted. And it is believed that the posses
| NJ or rrment prnua ~ n, rt
Importance than the possession of large equa
torial for ordinary observations BY its us,
| the precise longitude OF places in America will
be for the first time de6nitively settled, an,
the absolute distance of the fixed stars can b
more nearly ascertained than has yet bee
accomplished. Another distinguished astrono
| mer, Professor B. A. Gould, OF the Coast Sur
vey, who q few years since declined professor
| ship to which he was elected in the Universit
of Gottingen, will be associated with Professor
| Peirce and Bache in these observations, and
is expected will make Albany his permanen
residence. [Albany Evening journal.
TAIL TRAVELLING IN 0HIo.-The express trail
on the Great Miami Cincinnati, Hamilton ant
Dayton) Railroad, with the engine g z Hom
medieu," made the run from Dayton depot 70
Cincinnati depot, ON Saturday. 2bth ult.. IN one
hour and twenty two minutes, with nve .'p ot e
tImakipr four stops. and reducing speed through
the coroorate limits of the villages on the route
Distance, sixty miles, running time, o mule
minute" --=
r,,, wx,,sxv REMEpY. The Point Pleasant
ltv. : Rannhlican states that q colored boy, be-
ions;na MaI to 10 Mr. David Long, of Mason county
Vaa was lately bitten near the knee. joint by q
connerbead snake. The leg immediately be-
came swollen, and thereupon nearly half gal
| Ion of whisky was poured down the boys throat
1 producing no intoxicating effect, but he sool
recovered from the effects Of the bite. ~