New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-16
9gle6 ORLEANS 1aiIg Crescent.
THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER ls, 1858.
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IL al absolute necessity Of the existence Of {
things belonging to the physical world, 50 must thu
have an ending, and then why should we not be i
dignsnt when we see the immutable laws of matte
negatived by the act of man? Are we not justife
Id complaining Of sidewalk which, while It has
beginning, ends nowhere? Yea for such ground c
complaint have we in the ordering Of the banquet
which runs down on each side Of the triangle Wher
Camp street Is divided BY the branching off Of Pry
tania The sidewalk runs down to the point, turns
and runs up again. there being no crossings provided
for those who have been deuded into following it
and consequently, in muddy weather, they have
either to turn back and retraee their steps for a
squares distance or else essay navigation through
the mud.
II il true that an attempt at crossing, running
from the impinging apex" of the bifurcation was
made at some remote period in the city's history
when square blocks were as scarce as nuggets at the
Pixies Peak gold mines; the cobble stones were
slightly raised for width of couple Of feet, but ii
now requires rope dancers adroitness in maintain,
ing the centre Of gravity to enable the daring pedes
trian to pick his way over the small round stones
even if he has OWNERS rod to indicate the where
abons Of the causeway hidden beneath the sea of uG
which whelms it. This endless sidewalk caught sell
and lady once and many time and oft have we since
seen huTrying pedestrians brought up in despair at
this point, and stand gazing over the ocean of mud
from the limit Of their travels as 0there did from the
North Cape upon the impossible wastes Of the Arctic
sea. Then they turned and hurried back as self and
lady did until crossing relieved their blockade but
did their lost time Themaking OF crossings
to the opposite sidewalks Of Camp and Prytania
streets would restore this now useless to public ser
vice, would be public beneaction, and cost very
little.
Hog killing In Cincinnati.
reporter of the Cincinnati Daily Times bag been
on an exploring expedition to hog killing territory
Of Deer Greek in the outskirts Of that city and de-
tails bis experiences at length. single gang Of
hands in the establishment which came under his SUI
pervision kills and prepares for the packers work
hundred hogs an hour, each carcass passing through
the hands OF every individual Of the gang The re-
porter saw magnificent specimen of the genus sus
driven into the killing pen in the flower of hog life
and activity, and five minutes after he contemplated
his corpse, relieved Of Intervals and externals white
and clean, and, in fact, mere pork, singing by his
heels in the distant drying house, awaiting the salt
and brine, So the operation, much more accelerated
sometimes, goes on through the whole day the hog
travelling more rapidly in DEATH through the hands of
the killer the beeder, the scalder the picker, the
emboweer and Others than he ever did in life on his
own pettitoes
An Oriental starr Lecturer
Is the latest novetg created by the lecture demand
Of the North. An East Indian named Ganpooly. has
commenced a course Of lectures on Hindostan, Of
which country he is native of the original stock.
He appears before his audiences in Brahminical COS
tune and has succeeded in stimulating an excite
mar s.
majesty of st. Domingo would double the imperial
revenue if he should send sable subject to the North
to lecture for his benefit
And, by the way, speaking of that island, puts us
in mind of being astonshed that the libusters have
not heretofore pounced on this airest game that the
world offers They might have filled up plan for
obtaining az honorable Judgment there long ago for
individuals may prosecute an enterprise which
government properly cannot The island is fairly |
within the sphere Of our manifest destiny consti.
tuting very black cloud on its horizon It is more
fertile than Cuba and is possessed by the sassiest,
horde Of darkies in the world, whom their emperor
and mobiles would sell cheap for cash consideration.
Their worthlessness has utterly ruled out Of the com
mercial world country in which that world claims
the property right that it has now in all countries
not excepting Japan and China. Their dog.in.the
manager jealousy Of the Caucasian race causes their
beautiful island to lie faIlow upon the face of the
earth, contributing nothing to the welfare of its
peoples, securing their own misery, and a continual
eyesore to christendom. We positively object, how
ever, to the libusters taking the island unless they
ian get possession Of the darkies too and be masters
70 take care Of and reform them, If company wonld
organize they could, probably, buy the island from
It's needy possessors for about twentieth part of
What we are willing to pay for Cuba-but then Uncle
sam might have to help said company keep it against
hose nationalities of Europe which are always SO
prompt and successful in clipping the wings OF the
American eagle when he essays flight little holder
han usual. He is not free bird, this Wanted en-
'em Of the largest liberty, but chained by those who
lave no right title or property in him. to the limits
If his original domain.
A Few 9 Wortls.p
Mr. Marsh delivered his tenth of his course Of lee.
ures on the English language in New York. on the
70 inst, and from the reports we CLEAN few items
i interest additional to those which we have pub
Ished from his preceding lectures. OF the $4,000
words in the English language, Shakespeare used
5000, and but about 500 Of those he used have
,assed from use Of the 5000 words Of the trans
alton OF the Bible, not 200 have become obsolete of
1000 words of Millions Paradise Lost, there are
odI0Sly wv WHICH are HuI IN laniliar though
aach greater proportion Of those in his prose writings
re laid asidea fact showing the care and study he
devoted to the composition of his great work. The
modern cotton and wooden factories have driven out
i use some 400 or 900 words connected with The :
nore primitive manufacture Of those fabrics accord
1g to the lecturer whose statements on this head we
axe the liberty Of doubling slightly Immigrants
an American word evolved by necessity Of dis
nguishing between emigrants y and Immigrants"
Income was Of very recent introduction and takes
le place of oncome, good Scandinavian word Of
le same meaning. Outsiders 4 was added to The
oeabulary by the dissension of the Baltimore Con.
ention of six years ago. which distinguished itself by
ominating Franklin Pierce, and dictionaries viii q
oubtless pronounce il good the lecturer thought Il
J. The lecturer came down weightily on the habit 5
manufacturing words to order, which writer's for
e press have fallen into--sucb as concertzing,n
ID many Others which we have no space to '
lnmerate. Ia
BILL sHAKsPEARE.--In the course Of recent leo {
re at Chicago Mr. James Grant Wilson, al that 9
", introduced an aneedote related to him bv his
laker friend, William Hewitt Said Hewitt :'"As i
vas passing through Statford one morning, | saw =
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