New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-12-20
LANeUAaH OF MOTION.


In the wild parlance of these latter days. when poetry
romance beauty and other endowments are girep with
hand to qualities and characteristics by
deserving of Them shall not be deemed renohing
the general habit infringing the general custom by
abiding to the poetry of motion-a style Of progression
and very remarkable among the
Of human life that swim here Cansl and our other
fashionable Streets with easy unduatory gait that
conveys idea of Arabian entertainments renewed at
the of the nineteenth century That there's
thing Characteristic in the notion the walk the gait Of
human as well as horse, can be denied by none who
have SEEM with open eyes the progress of either
The highblooded high descendant Of the Sultans
of the sroceo stepsi dainty elastic manner suggestive
of Pegasus and his arsnorng progeny The heir Of la
Dor and rudgery goes With halfclosed eyes heavy step
and perhaps heavy heart to the renewal of his work aud
the re-oommencement of his hard labor No stmulant
supply him with the elasticity which makes the glory
Of the blood. horse Rest, only, renders him rounder
food makes him fatter and that which completes the
physical depletes the spiritual.
The rule holds good with the biped that obtains
with the quadrupsd The who takes his feet from
earth though they Of lead and lets them back
in heavy eaden manner, never is anybodynever can
be anybody. He exists rather than lives and his nor
NAL condition is anything but intelligent. He was
moulded for newer Of wood and drawer of water to
repire such period and then expire without any life
product whatever The heavy-gaited, slow unwieldy
step ia worth all the chronological certif
Gates that could possibly be accumulated criterion
and testimony concerning the individual whose nature ia
therein developed deep.thInking introvertive intel
lec sometimes slowy-comes, perhaps, to dead
halt in its progress The Of this Isl however that
the operations Of the mind require and up all the
physical well mental machinery and leave nothing
the external being accomplish So soon however
the idea is born the body jumps forward quicksned
and relieved from Its momentary pause The blood circu
lates the eye gosshead pilot and the feet follow
another in that active energetic manner which no
mere provender produce. This fact based on the
worlds experience and observation has the merits Of an
axiom that the best certificate Of character person
possibly have is that which wrtesitss the ground
with the feet for pen. @ai
There are, however distinctions and subdivisions of
testimony in this general evidence Two walk to-
gether. The plants his feet like pillars of marble
the other touches them with the elasticity of ndarub
Der. OF these the former will endure the most-the
latter will do the most The will follow his original
business with unwearying uufaeriDg consaucy into the
gravethe other will try his hand at every thing. The
will live in the old homestead and be buried by the
side Of his fatherthe other will hunt gold in California
climb the Himmalsyas and be buried at sea- The one
will be permanent and relablethe other cratic and not
always be depended upon The feelings of the former
deep and eternalof the latter, hot and brief The
is content with the old coach-the other inyents
steam engines and electric teegraphs Neither may be
thoroughly satisfied with what they accomplish but the
latter is invariably disguised the toy is turned
aud leaves to seek something strange and novel of which
no has ever dreamed The one lives in Old England
the other is born in New England and is cosmopolte
He cannot rest in his Sleep but dreams of some ac
tiTity ahead In heavenand he will most undoubtedly
get there If there be any other way of reaching except
by the old beaten track-he will stir up the cherubims
and offer to build plankroad for Gabriel across that
Cerbonian bog which enguphs many. He will hold up
his head and march the golden streets as vigorously and
Independently he does Broadway shake hands with the
headangels and try to kiss the female divnies Per-
haps he may be poean--in which case caucuses will
go to glory with him and annual elections be held for the
celestial sherdalty He will make mill to clothe the
Graces and set up shop to supply his side with revovers
aud Mississippi tooth-pioks.
Taken whole, the man with gait Is an entity Of
note and merit If in his intending progress, he some
times gets into the wrong field he is push ahead
till he out in the right If he takes hold of thing
it has to be done If he starts project its realization
must be reached He does much that is wrong from
want Of reflection, and accompshes much that is good
because he cannot help it. If he is rogue he is big
he is saint, he is a seraph At all events he is
somebodywith warm friends, enemies with great
possessions at alneyerheless Croesus in the
future,