New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-07-18
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e rive Yesterday d brief report Of an egeite
among tile down BARRIERS Twas with no little
concern that we beheld the members Of that ancient
and honorable profession raising the alaruno war
though that war was civil OF at least as ciSiEas war
could lie between themselves.
We respect the profession for various good reasons
BARRIERS are honoraby mentioned in history at that
remote period when the globe had scarcely recovered
from tic taIaps Of the deuge BARRIERS are immortal
in the tales Of the Arabian Nights BARRIERS fignre
with credit ia later masterpieces of fiction and bar
bers iii tie present time are proud TO say possess
ali the upon which their ancient tame
was built. Physically they are handsome, sometimes
imposing morally, they are genteel polished and
polte and intellectually, they are far superior to
treat many Of their patrons OF their Importance as
q class Of the community little need be said. sup
pose tie BARRIERS should conclude, every man OF then
to Law by their razors and work no more { what
would become Of US all The simplest mind can ar
rive ut a speedy solution to the probleni. q
Many a black.haired knowledge-box that we now
see, would be either gray as q rat, Or smooth as
turnip Many fascinating wave of hair that rejects
tie amorous sunbeanls and gush of locks that daily
with the zephyrs and sweeten them with their ambro
sal odors, would typify the briarbush or stand six
WAYS for Sunday. The yelyety cheek, the seductive
Whisker and the killing moustache would disappear
in chaos of scrubs and kinks, and the Don Juan OF
our city parlors would be transformed in appearance
to the wild ranger Of the occidental hills. Credit
would become impaired friendship weakened ; love
matches broken off dscord regnant in the family
circle and all the business all the happiness, all the
gentility, would fadreadful thought to that class
Of tile community who shave themselves. For
time society would be upset; and the consequence
would be, instead Of the goodwill and mutual re-
ance that now sweeten social intercourse, semlbar
berous and hostile state Of feeling, with every man
an independent bungling barber of his own, and 9
rise in the price of. court-plastar
For the foregoing RESPONSIVE regret the difficulty
already alluded to. But it must be borne IN mlnd,
that BARRIERS being human have their share OF those
| inirmites which, as tradition hath it, descended
from Adam the common father of us all. Like other
classes of the community who have common inter-
est they enter into compaets of which honor IS the
bond such as the uniformity Of prices, hours q
labor etc., and it is only natural, when such bond
is violated or treated with contempt that they should
4 manifest the commotion of their hearts after the
/ fashion of other classes of the human family. The
4 immediate cause, then of the difficulty under con
sderation was the expressed contempt, by word ano
action of a certain boss-barber for the recently
4 adopted agreement of the profession 70 close then
i shops at twelve o'clock on Sundays, and at elgh
Il o'clock P. M. on week days. Those who stuck K
the bond naturally felt displeased and gave the re
fractory boss delicate hint Of their displeasure,
. few nights SINCE by smashing in his windows. VI
the following two nights they besieged him. but uses
only the weapons Of language; particularly that an
Gent epthet which the devil invented for application
= to those unfortunate husbands who have talthies
wives. The boss, although he stood his ground, ant
shaved on unnchingy after the regular hours, fore
saw that unless he engaged the services OF that othe
s class Of the community known as the Leatherheads
he would be compelled to succumb to superior nun
| bers He made that engagement; and what toloWe
y was embodied in our report of yesterday
G Those few of the beseigers who were captured
were Yesterday arraigned before Recorder Fabre an
9 made to pay fines of five dollars each. To the
credit be it said not one of them had degraded tn
7 chief implements of the profession by making it
t weapon Of warfare, as would have seemed natural
T vulgar minds. Not a razor was found in the who
crowd This gives the greatest satisfaction; for
. now feel that should we ever be unfortunate as
incur the hostility of barber, he will not accidental
: cut our throat whilst shaving u.s. but will resort
those means Of satisfaction which are common to a
classes of society.
! The war, we believe, is now ended; although tt
i recreant boss shaves on in his infumy and we hol
( peace will reign forevermore The turptude of Oh
black sheep cannot sully the whiteness Of hundrt
white ones and ought to be treated only with sie
js contempt. We side with the besiegng BARRIERS I
d very obvious reasons We can easily avoid the sh'
y that aroused them to war; but it will not be SO ea
oavoid the besiegers, who are scattered around In
e indefinite number of shops We must state in CO
lie clusion, that the emeute was confined to the Fren
le department of the profession. The German al
q African departments were neutral in the matter,
is though we believe they are subscribers to the bon
as the violation Of which the Frenchmen so fercely
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