New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-08-01
THINGS IN GENERAL. ETc., ETC.

Things IN GENERAL, ETC, ETC.
Things in general progress about as is ordinary
in the city Of New Orleans. There is no perceptibe
variation in the onward march Of things generally.
Things as usual remain in statu quo, and the usual
things peculiar to Crescent City summer will pro
badly take place, as usual until the advent of the
usual stirring bustng pushing, running, racing fall
season, when we usually do more business in one
month than contemporary cities do in three ,
There are some exceptions, however, to the usual
order Of things. The city is unusually healthy at
this writing has been SO all along and bids far TO
continue 50 until the fross Of autumn bring back the
last of the runaways who have been spending money
and seeking pleasure in the swelterng resorts of the
North-where snobbism universally congregates, and
where abuse of everything Southern is the favorte
tonic of conversation We shall have no commisse
ration for them if they are insulted, plundered and
slightly mobbed. Half the money they bestow upon
the enemies of their section annually would build up
our glorious wateringplaces, and make them unsur
passedIy comfortable and attractive. As it is, South
ern seashore and gulf resorts, springs, ETC., ten
fold more convenient than any Northern place, and
Just as well provided with all the substantial comforts
Of life.
The unusual heathfnness of the season has brought
alarm and CONSERVATION upon that highly respectable
and profoundly learned class Of our felloweitizens
known and designated as physicians. All doctor
dom is in an uproar and understand that several
meetings have been held, and committees appointed
to devise ways and means to rescue them from the de-
structon which seems impending. 1t is also rumored
that a grand mass meeting is in contemplation, at
which terrific onslaught is to be made upon our
population, by the desperate doctors, formdaby
armed with medicine bottle pill-box and lancet. We
trust this rumor is not well founded: but if be true,
the charge at Balaklaya will be nothing when com
pared with the charge Of the New Orleans disciples
of Esculapus. few hundred of our well-todo
citizens should periodically resolve to get sick in or
der to prevent such calamity Detailing the metropo
liz of the Southwest. We can see no other mode of
escape for the doctors having had nothing to do for
some two years, approaching starvations verge,
and are becoming reckless, and they know they have
an inaenable right under the Federal Constitution,
to life liberty and the pursuit of something to eat,
drink and wear, as well as other people.
The Knights Of the Green Bag lour upon the un
offending community like thunder-cloud, and look
lean, lank and hungry. When talked to they are
sharper and crosser than thorn fence, and roundly
that this city is about passing into the hands of
ancient Nicholas, because the inhabitants wont sue
each other They say that, unless the dockets of all
the courts are immensely heightened, that New Or
leans will suffer immedicable run-that city with
out litigation is no city at ail-and that, without
plenty of lawyers, well feeed all the time, COM
mercal mart can hope to attain any overshadowing i'm
portance. We havn't heard of any lawyer suing
lawyer yet however. They, like the doctors, never
take their own medicine.
The builders and mechanics = that most useful, |
honorable and industrious class of people, with
out whom city could get along, or ought to get
along are more than usually busy. The music of
the trowel hammer and saw, is to be heard wherever
we CO. and stately ediices and tasteful dwellings are
going up in almost every direction. New Orleans is
evidently going to ruin if the prosecution of mighty
will effect that end.
The political market--so far as the city is con-
,erned-is SO dull that the rates are not quotable
We anticipate considerable animation in month or
,wo. The Democrats, since the "Army Bill'' was
ii,mcted "a word, coined expressly for this oc
ason, and its last appearance in these coumns) are
ather under the weather, and the Americans do not
lain much more than five thousand majority at the
lext November election. In the Third Congressional
District they are having rather lively times. The
Davidson and anti Davidson men are auarrelling like
,om-cats the body of newly slain rat and the
people quietly looking on, inclnng to the belief
that the leaders on each side are telling the truth
Old Tom Green Davidson has got the track and will |
run throngh-away behind Watterston. In the First
District Eustis and Where are assiduously endeavo.
ng to WOO the sweet smiles of the sovereigns. We
nave no doubt of the election of the former In the
nd nd Win raran mt Wa
lont think that sugar speech of Taylor will save
lin, and do think Burke will come out long way
head on the quarter stretch We have no idea of what
sandidge is doing in the Fourth District. If we are
lot much mistaken, Sparks will make him see sights
,efore November.
The organ-grinders are spraining the ANGLES of
Melody, breaking the spinal column of time, and in
letting the most diabolical atrocities upon the of
hose who can appreciate the concord of sweet
ounds," with their usual indomitabe perseverance.
We would be almost willing to endure another yellow
ever season, if it would drive them away at once
nd forever.
There more business being done than is usual for
his season of tue year-a more than usual quantity
# rain fang-more water in the cisterns, cutters and
wamps than usual-more, and heartier, and healthier
,eope in the town than usual--more mosquitoes
With longer bills than usual which they present with
unusual assiduity-and more of everything that is
comfortable, agreeable and prosperous than is usual
We congratulate everybody in the city, except the
loctors, lawyers etc., and the rest of the remaining
population, on the unusual of good things with
which they are at present blessed
The printers, up stairs. complain of the heat. No
wonder. The composition room, with thirty gas
lights burning, must resemble small = furnace.
They hurry the editor. Well, here goes.
We don't usually write such articles as this, but, if
anybody don't like it, we give them distinctly to IN
lerstand that-we are willing to accept their apollo
,ies if rendered in decorous language and respect
ul manner.
Recent Publications. ~,
We have received from the publishers, through Mr.
J. B. Steel No. 60 Camp street, copies of the follow
ing new books:
The AMATEURS GUIDE, and Flower Garden Direc.
tory. By John 7. G.. Clark. Washington Taylor
s. Maury.
work which every horticulturist and gardener