New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-11-09
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H.. AMBITION AND LOVE- I
Pisa But am strangely altered now;
l love no more the bugle's voice.
The rushing wave-the plunging PROV
The mountain with his clouded brow,
The thunder when the blue skies bow, H
And all the sons of God rejoice:
l love to dream of tears and signs,
And shadowy hair, and halfshut eyes.
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English knowledge Of America.
A correspondent of the Utica IN. " Herald,
writing from England, furnishes some amusing in
stances Of the ideas many Englishmen form regard
ing American affairs. We extract the following from
his letter:
very respectable gentleman was recently much
astonished to learn that the American Government
had aided an expedition in search Of Sir John Frank
lin, and innocenty asked who was its commander.
Another gentleman remarked that he was very sorry
to learn that the American women habitualy INDUCED
in the Of the most horrid oaths, and asked me If
there were exceptions 70 this upseemly practice
Another gentleman confdentialy asked me if
had ever been blown up in an American steamer,
for he understood it was common practice for cap.
tains to blow up their boats ON purpose as soon as
they had collected fare Another person wanted to
know ii all Americans held slaves? On my telling
him that some millions Of Americans" were them
selpes slaves he gave look of comic incredulity
worthy of Dan Rice. Another person remarked that
he supposed the different States in America CORE
sponded to the different parishes in England. man
asked me one day what progress we were making
with the machine now building in America for flying
while another wanted to know if the United States
were not still under the dominion Of the British Go
1 vernment.
was from America, remarked But thee can
talk Henglish ~ " Is that anything SO very sur
prising 2" asked. " Thoy doant speak Henglish in
America, doc thoy?" An old lady down in Wales
| remarked that America must be very horrid place
to live in, for said she, have been told that the.
country is SO filled with snakes that it's no uncommon
thing to find them climbing up on the roof and drop
ping down from the chimney on the hearth met
| a gentleman from London, a few evenings SINCE who
| very much plnmed himself upon his knowledge of
American affairs You have very fine country,
sir, the remarkably a great country, sir-indeed, l
may say very surprising country sir but you have
asked. "'Why, in the first place, everybody chews
tobacco, and spits right and left upon railroad cars
and steamboats, 50 that it is not safe to wear fine
clothing in travelling and then instead of addressing
each other as sir, you say old boss, and instead Of
speaking to your wives as wife you say old gall
And then instead of saying l declare you say
'swow,'' and instead Of saying I don't know, you
don't ssn snasF NJ" do ysG call hat Polite
piled. And you belieue that this practice you have
been citing, and this jargon you have been re-
peatng, are common in the best American cir
?" Yes" MY friend h, replied led "yoar no,
derived from Mrs. Trollope and the brood of de-
famers who succeeded her-a brood which fourished
in England at time when it was fashionable to
sneer at and lampoon America " =" But, !" doggedly
persisted my companion, :" I have read the express
sions here quoted in an American book--a book
written by Judge Halburton Of Philadelphia" "Why,
my Gear sir" 1 rejoined, "you have mistaken Sam
Slick for American classic-fOr model of Ameri-
can style!n "Ah, now" added my interlocutor, re-
luctant to yield the argument, :" won't deny now
that You do call baggage plumber Y gave up in
despair.
And talking of Sam Slick, do you know that that
humorous delineator of Down East peeuliarities is
more read among the English masses than almost
any other American author? Another very popular
American writer this side is Dow Junior, the
gshman to me one day, " You Americans are very
smart people, but somehow you don't produce any
great writer's +" But we have feo writers whose
names are as familiar as household words, even in
England" remarked. " Very true" replied my
critical ellow-traveler but beyond Mrs. Stowe, Sam
Slick and Dow Junior, what others have you worth
mentioning2" confess was staggered but re,
covering. turned to the back part Of the book was
ments' which first met my eye, were notices of re-
prints by London house of the works OF Bryant
Longfellow, Bancroft, Washington Irving and Pres
cot. | read over the names and asked, did you
ever hear of these authors beforeF +" Prescott and
Irving! you don't pretend to say that these are
American authors, do your
: A NEW LANGUAGE IN PRoGREss.-It is rarely
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discovering language actually in the process o.
formation, gradually crystazing, as it WERE into SCI
forms and words, as it energies from chaotic state
Something of this kind is going on among the Lbe
ran settlements the west coast of Africa where, il
the great ntermixture of native aud settlers
from America, modification ofeach others languages
: takes place the vocabulary of the superior race
prevailing, though submitting to changes of construc
ton and meaning based on the old idioms which fiji
the mind, while the tongue expresses itself in thu
lately acquired words. For instance, anything thick
is denomnated @ fat" thus they say :. fat tree,
: or the branch is fat strong wind is "a wint
g too much saucy" II man resides anywhere, it il
t expressed by " sits down." Our word isl the,
translate by :" lives !" they would say Master, 81
down here Dulwch. him lib at London, back com
{. evening" .De duck lib in the pot, him boil.
Fader lib in the churchyard him lib under ground
Past dat one" means more than that one. '' Hin
I ole past me- F" Dis horse handsome past mark
You eye catch EN-" expresses you see them. "
done DO EN-" have finished them. Master sem
!. you plenty good how dos " brings your friend
compliments to you, etc. All our modern language
derived from the Latin, as French, Italian, Spanish
etc, are the result of similar process and exhbite
2 in their infancy tbessame breaking down of the il
Elections of the mother tongue and the same tendenc
! to replace them by propositions and auxiliary WORD
g that we find in the above. To the classic Roman {
the fifth century the speech of our Gothic oretathel
must have seemed as barbarous as this Anglo-negr
i. dialect does to us. 4.. f.-
9 A RICH SCENE.-The following rich scene recent
OCCuTTeu Ill OHe Vi courts JustlCt, UttWeeu
e Judge and Dutch Witness all the way from Rotte
I'll dam: .'H- h
e j." What's your native language?"
!" W." pc no native! " -
e j." What is your mother tongue?n',.
J. w." Ich hab no mutter, MynheerW
: jim an irritable tone) " What did You mrs
IS learn? What language did you speak in the cradle
:, W." It'd not speak no language in the cradle ;
y, 70 only cry in Dootch"
a. Then there was u general laugh, in which tn
d Judge, jury aud audience joined. The witness VIZ
Y nterrogated no further about his native language
COURTEsY-No man s gentleman who, withol
provocution would treat with inciyity the humble
Of his species 1t is vugarity for which no accol
plishments and no attainments dress ever atom
OF Show me the mau who desires to make one hapl
around him, aud wilt show yop gentleman
a nature and practice although he NAV never ha,