New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-18
DAILY CRESCENT.
GREAT THOUGHTS

Great thoughts gre like the fash,
H.' Their fame Ia like The thunder,
s.u' And fools would mock the craeh
IF a5H That sages hear with wonder: tt.M
And often, like the bolt and clash,
The two are far aaunder.
.~a ~. The distance of the bolt from us
We gather from the time
Before the thunder, aud tits thus
The interval g thought sublime,
Endureth without fame, ..0-
Denotes how far before his age "l.p8 %4
B ne from whom it came
81 u.. Ihe unaeknowledged sage! a,g.. ..l..-. ,.t
[Jus1Is WrrsoR.
SOME sPECULATIOH
Concerning the Present Probable Condition of New
York City in Particular and the North Generally
At the present time when for SO long period all
knowledge Of the northern portion Of This republic has
been kept from by the breaking down Of the telegraph
wires the running aground Of steaships and che
failure Of the maB there is for no little apprehen
sion with regard to tbs INTERNAL external eternal
on Of things in what used to be the northern portion
this republican those cities in which, when last heard
from, business prosperous freedom dominant hepp
general and civilization progressing with increased
speed towards the bringing in Of the millennium.
At that period now buried In very remote past We
fnd by referring to the uperannuated and travel stained
papers which have slowy journeyed to US, the
thousand miles that intervene that tere were number
I,
endeavoring to outbrag another concerning their
respective circulation, and the amount of influence ex
erted by them. Ore vas poticop philanthropco
Of very ebony color and asyor devoted to ebusng the
South another which circulated millions Of copies daily,
and had daily correspondence with Greenland Patagonia
and Central Africa besides special reporterin Brooklyn
engaged in bank schemes and turning out Pres-
dent from hpe oak another, which shifted With the Times
had not settled upon any specific policy but was trying
to make It pay generally. s illuminated the whole,
while Enquirer anxiousy sought out theiR several
merits.
great variety Of dsinssrestad individuals at the
mote period Of which write, engaged in ciroua
ting among the people strange tales of civic and national
danger that could only be averted by their election
to office. Many caucus meetings held many heel
taps tsken and much good viii apparent upon every side
Those who had "a bit Of the brogue assured tha
they Americang by choice and not because the
accident Of birth rendered them auch-hey having
chosen liberty and something to eat here to starvation
and county jail Of homs-they much better and
purer citizens than the trash whose fathers
fought for eight dollars year and less during the Revo
| luton. And they believed it. ..
| number Of gentlemenwith white silk handkerchief
around their necks black kids their hands and well
Ged purses in their pockets telling the people how
to get to place called Heaven, about which they pro
fessed to know something more than they could tell
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of the number succeeded in running wire with slip
the end into the next world which he caugh
several young angels and brought them down In accord
ance With the Yankee instinct. he made them show al
twenty cents head and they drew almost we'll
the Mermaid or Wooly Horse. But asther curl
osty satisfied the people quit the angels and tn
magistrates locked them up Blsckwell's Island
grants angels having been known BEFORE to sta
in New York when they could get away
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write many ingenious contrvances made Of slk and ohe
mysteries, into which handsome young ladies nduee
to enter by powerful being called Fashion whom they
loved and for whom many sacrificed their lives Th
divinity had controlling power with che men also, an
always making fresh appeals fhe tastes and poke
Of his worshipers by strange invention son
venerable resuscsaton This divinity was like the ph
nix in its wonderful confluence Of beiug for although
died three times each year possessed ii
edately thereafter Of fresh life, and covered with
skin The New Workers thought much of this beu
and tried to erect altsrs to 1t throughout the COUNT
because through Diana of the Ephesans they made mu
| money. --.s q
:. There great many personstions of the kind
saint which Dickens drew in his Borrobooah Cha ds7
tee who wished to send flannel drawers and undershI
the natives of the Equator but who wholly overlook
the sick end suffering at the Five Points-who oou
, mourn whipped negro two thousand miles avs
but rued their feathers their equBnmity
dying outcast at their doors. Besides these the
were many others, generous sincere and philanthropc
noble in their desre to do good and wise in the
which they sought to do it. They however, worked wit
out blowing their trumpets before the and is
quenty known only that they lived and that humani
was prohted by their lives.
l., | Besides the few to whom we have alluded, there a
many others well deserving Of place in history chou
the materials have been preserved such work. The
were compoundsrs Of patent pills and syrups living
psisces and ezpounders Of patent truths living in hut
There assss whose cheeks rosy the ers
peaches they ate. and their eyes as bright as the de
drops in June there horrid old hags whose
sufficient to give the hydrophobis there
shrswd genuses from Connecticut ready to dicker
their breeches 80 they might have tradeready to sci
great vessels loaded with wheat the Atlantic
they might the starving-ready to fit out big shi
and them, against the cebergs Of the Northern
il so they might hope help poor cassaways peol
who belonged to the Union who grew up around its b
te-felds and ought to chersh it dearer than life,
es who were mised by d few specious demagoguss tt
counted the worth Of the Union nothing by the side
N barren fact with which they were overoharged. ~
When We last heard of New York it was great Il
tropos looking out from Eastern shore to the
Of Europs and sending its wealth and enterprise
the whole world What has become Of it, passes our
= prehension There was theory obtaining among sol
and that it might day sink out OF sight, like
~ cities of the plain, and be lost. This suppostion
the fact that it surrounded by great civ
and partially made land, if not altogether so in
most densey populated parts II it has gone, we sh
overit for with all its faults and failings
its short oomngs and extravagsnces the people of
nd South had friendly feelings for those Of the Nor
New York in particular believing the great heart
SD the masses to be mindful Of the trials they
m endured the property they enjoyed the comm
future they looked forward to. Yesr by year. fanatci
- was weakening its power and hope growing more fl
1e- orbed in the East.
ov There two little cities dining New York, viii
have probably shared its fate Brooklyn famous for
y girls and williamsburg celebrated for comfortable
Of tages An expedition, unlike that to Greytown is
being formed here for the purpose of securing such
Brooklyn may possibly be hed up from its depth
per numerous young gentlemen being heartily interested.
~ Our Jerenad is ended, though the pain of having
sst New York must remain with evermore.
ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.
ST.. CHARLES sTHEATER.--Beneft of Mr.. Hat
ett. Merry Wives of Windsor " and g His Last Leg
with Mr.. Haekett in both pieces.
GA1ErT THEATER.-First night Of the N
Biblical drama Azael or the Son of Israeli and "l
j., Dromos.n
'ps- PELICAN THEATER.--signor Donetti's wond