New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-06-08
Tn. s,ubbornne.. of Mules.

That hardy, long-lved, laborious and patient ami
NAL, Ike mule e-halfbrother to the horse family and
universal servant and benefaor to the human family
has but one fault that We have ever been able to
discover. This fault is his strength of will and his
habit of acting upon ideas of his own which, though
they may be rational enough, subject him to the i'm
putation of insanity in the absence of any explana
ton on his part particularly when, as is frequently
the case, the mules master can boast Of no more
nationality than himself
The fault we regard as unforunate for frequently
makes both mule and man spectacle for the pablic
not to speak of the aceraon to the legs of the
and the temper of the other; ; and we never see an
exhibition of this kind but lament the absence of
statute forbidding the animals to fight it out when
they are so unfortunate as to disagree. We would
not object to seeing fight provided it were fair
but the mule being, as it were in the Stocks chained
and strapped fore and aft without d possibility of
acting on the defensive, the other beast has most
cruel advantage over him, and can lash him in his
tender parts, club his nose, and torment him in a
Thousand ways, with the most diabolical impunity
This is all wrong. We know there is an ordinance
which punishes cruelty to animals but the mule,
from the unhappy fault to which we have alluded,
generally meets with so little sympathy from the m
one takes the trouble to bring the lash OF the law to
bear upon bis felow.beast.
AS this is a progressive age, however, we have
hopes Tor muledom. we peheVe the day Will come
when mules will be properly understood acquitted OF
the lmputauon OF insanity, and treated as the most
rational OF quadrupeds; Tor such we already hold
them to be- Several difficulties that we have seen of
late between mules and mue-drivers, have satisfied
The other morning, as we passed the corner of
Canai ana BASIN streets Whoie trio OF mules were
acting upon an iron determination not to come down
Canal street any iarther but to turn Oft into Basin
street. Ihey were attached to tlmber-wheess, and
couple OF timoers aoout hundred feet long. The
fourth animal, who wanted the Others to keep on
down Canal street, was arguing the case with them,
with bis whip, IN very persevering manner but to
no purpose and as he called them sons of female
dogs and heaped unnunbered curses on their souls,
We set MN down as the only insane brute in the
erowd particularly as we were able to see at glance
that the harnessed ANIMALS had reason for the stand
they mad taken. Long habit, in hauling timber in
the vicinity OF Inc New Canal and the New Basin,
mad enaoed tnem 10 discover that the Canal stopped
a' 'ie nasl whelce tney conciuoeo 1lat all canals
must stop at basins. consequently, hnding them
serves on cana stree' ana soon after as basin they
decided that they must maui up there notwthstand-
ing any delnson their eyes might offer, of an open
street ahead, ETC., or argument on the part of the
driver Whom they knew to be consttutonay stupid.
on another occasion, recently, mule created
great excitement and blockade, by stopping at the
corner OF Chartres and Customhouse Streets and re-
tuslng 10 pudge another peg he was duly anathema-
szeo ana .cked IN the legs but Tor time to no pur
pose. A'ter whlle he voluntarily went ahead,
without deghlng 10 oner any explanation OF his con-
auct' we were there' however, and having been
lL'a'eu Dy Denton onut INTO the mysteries OF horse