New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-07-12
yIt,TrTflRTAT1 LIFE. I

Fverv calling has its oublesevery individual his
avn necTar cares, perplexities and annoyances. We
doubt very much, however, whether any calling is so
annoying 10 little plaques andperse-
cutons small themselves but greatn the aggregate,
As on own OF whether any individual Of any other
profession is called upon to encase himself in
such 4 threefold coat Of mail made patience, en-
dura1ce, and much forbearance. 1t would seem as
though the eternal, never ending work Of the brain
wasa sufficient cause for irascbty in itself without
the addition Of any exaneous elements of annoyance
Such however, is not the general verdict, and news
paper editors are called upon to exercise all the pa
thence Of job all the forttude Of Prometheus and all
the endurance of much.sufering Ulysses; being re-
Quilted therefor by the cold compliments of friends
aud the bitter hostility of enemies Editors class
of people supposed by the profanum rugus to pos
sess bodies of iron and minds that shall always shine
with the translucent and transparent light of dia-
monds. They are to endure life more laborious and
labor calling than that of galley slaves for the
return Of bread and butter They are to rack their
own brains that thereby the brains of others may be
frightened, and sacrifice their own health for the
qualification Of their readers amusement
The supposton is, perhaps, legitimate, as the work
is in degree optional 1t is, nevertheless erro-
neous. Editors are mortal like other men, and there
fore liable to err hunan and therefore liable to sui
fer That they do suffer from the calling to which
they are tied wherein "the sword wears out the
SHEATH is evident from the constant change the pro-
fession undergoes the many who come in strong,
resolute and hale, and go out weak, dsprted and ex
hausted, or drop by the way side to be forgotten
forever. The event is chronicled, moment dis
cussed, and then passed by for some fresher, more
lively and animating subject. The discussion and
oblivion are legitimate, and no bill of exception
can be filed thereto. We object, however, most
decidedly and positively to the popular opinion
that it is work alone that makes the average of edi
tora life about the same that of factory operatives
and paint grinders 1t is not the work, but the annoy
ances that attend it not the toll but the trbulations
by which tits envroned, that gives death so many tro
phes among the slaves of newspaperdom
II the intellectual mill was allowed to run in its own
regular legitimate manner, for proper end and OBJ
ject, this resultmght in some degree, be remeded.
The popular will has, however, decided otherwise
the voice Of the people is the voice of GoD-and
what has been hitherto will doubtless continue to be
hereafter until the last copy, of the last edition. Of
the last paper printed before the end of time.
Men will continue to loaf into editorial rooms, when
the doors are not locked the weather is atogeth
too hot for that nowand indulge in conversations
as long as the Had, as varied the Odyssey and
wild as the Dunciad, and the next day, over the
breakfast table, wonder that there is not more variety
more originality, more spice and animation in the
columns of their favorite
Men ,rM make their own private interests or graft
catons superior to all other considerations if posi-
ble and hang like fixtures to the buttonhoe of the
being by whom those interests may beadvanced-for-
getting that his interests are all the time suffering
and the next day hold him responsible for the short
comings they themselves have caused Some men
there are, who act as though they thought that an
editors brain was like corn mill, that would grind
out given quantity, of equal quality, in any given
number of hours.
Some of these annoyances are inevitable--of such
we complain not we accept the proper and just pen
alties of our position the greater part, however,
might be adjourned to a more fitting season, if not
indefinitely, and all parties profit thereby.
We are willing to endure that which is necessary,
even at the cost of time and convenience but we do
most earnestly protest against being made the recipient
of every mans peculiar views, upon the why's and
whereore's of the coming elecon-or as to the pro-
liabilities of when and where and how plan is to be
DEVISED whereby direct communication with the man
in the moon is to be opened. Out of doors-at the
street button hole is at the service of any
and all we are willing then and there to be " all
things unto all men,, if by so acting we can advance
their interests. Indoors, bread and buter-reputa-
tion--past, present, and to come depends upon OIL
brains, and the manner and style in which we mill
them out.
Il should be angry with you, if the time were con
venient."