New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-10
9lf6 Orleans 9aflg Crescent.
rRTDAY MORNING, DEoEMBER 10, 1858.
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and III one Of them he explained a matter which has
no doubt at times embarrassed the understanding o.
many IF our readers-the Specification Of the Eng
lish word "corn, as applied to the grain products
az different countries In this country it means
ansize,p ana as We know that cereal is not among
me productions Of countries in reference to which the
word corn is used, the majority ofreaders are quite
AT loss as to what grain is indicated. "Cornn is
hut another word for agrain,r and in England corn
means awheat' in Germany, "rye;" in the Sandman
peninsnla abarIeyn "Meat' was originally word
Indicating anything edible, but it lis now applied only
to animal food and "esh, which meant pork alone,
ID now applied to any sort of animal food It is in
their original sense, the lecturer may have re-
marked that these words are used in the Scriptures
The speaker hauled Charles Lamb over the Goals for
committing the vulgsrisms Of "hain't' and "ain'tn
ID letter to Coeridge-a barbarity which he could
not assent to if perpetrated even in fun We are in
cned to agree with him for neither writer nor speak.
er has right to commit assault upon reader OF
nearer by using them.
The jackson Monument.
Every one who has any proper information as tc
such things has pronounced the statue OF Jackson
cast Of which adorns jackson Square to be tie
greatest work Of the kind in the world the comaari-
son always being made with especial reference to tive
equestrian statue Of Peter the Great St. Petersburg
which IS in a similar rampant attitude, and which
bore the palm of excellence until the work Of Clark
Mills snatched it away. But the opinions of so many
have all been incorrect for the young abolition letter
writer in an episte to the New York Tribune, gives
his authority, which is undoubtedly strong as it can
not be denied that he is judge ia art matters for
its being inferior to that of Peter and Peters horse
To be sure the bronze horse of the Russian Gar can
not keep its balance without the assistance Of Its tail
in contact with the pedestal and Of tramped snake
the coils Of which support it, while that Of the Amer
lean President scorns any assistance beyond that af
forded by bis own hind legs. Sneerng at the
" enlightened Legislators" who presumed to be
Judges Of art Taylor pronounces the statue of Jack
son inferior and accuses him of sitting the horse like
q wooden efigy." or course this new revelation
upon an art question win at once supercede all hith-
erto received opinions There is absolutely no telling
what Taylors verdict on the statue would be if It
happened to stand in the midst of Northern city.
A supposabIe Case.
Merchants opposed to the course of the Mobile
Mercury in supporting the American candidate for
Mayor, have been disseminating their subscriptions
The Mercury takes it very phlosophically and sup
poses case It supposes that it should choose to re-
taliate by mentioning their names and stating their
iliberaity in plain, truthful terms ana goes on to
suppose further, that this course would probably dam
age their business to somewhat greater amount than
the withdrawal Of their s. subscriptions did the bus
ness the Mercury 1t leavesa moral to be deduced
from these remarks, and which is that people should
be careful how they quarrel with the press, as its
magnanmity is their only security from the terrible
phfD 1vh5 las i+g
may mention that the Mercury came to Us Yesterday
much enlarged, and its proportions now eeipses those
Of any other paper in that city We congratulate it
on the prosperity which this movement evidences.
A Nice Predlcament
Is that in which the Free Masons Of Buenos 4yres
now ind themselves, for the latest intelligence from
that quarter is to the effect that they have all been
excommunicated, and that the clergy are exhorting
their wives and children to desert them, and their
servants to denounce them. This conflict between
Masonry and the Church is certainly Of no little i'm.
portance, aud we shall watch its progress with inter
est The vigilance Of the Church must certainly have
been more relaxed than we have record Of its ever
being anywhere to have allowedthe adherens of the
obnoxious association to gain such strength in the
very domains Of Catholicism without checking us
progress
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If ENGLAND Her cond,ct ID and.
alarm the pationaIities If Fnraya iob
IN The maintenance IF tbat indefnjta saa,sthiao
which is termed 1.-THE balance of powern The i1di,
ydaa operations Of that little woman are If more
alarming import than all the movements toward
which make Rnssia tba ,igbtr,.ra
81 European politicfans she il doing r,oro For E,
lands system Of usurnation than III ~ aas+s ~
armies with which she oyerr1nning Tho ,yorId sba
I nannfactnrinp Princessas at IT. ,,,.ra1rslo3 l.
history, and what is the consequence? WIN Win
every birth ia horn national alliance oy,;,ors
and tremendous rqsnt Fvary princass Iii, ~, y
De settled IN life wifi princa b,spon7 ~ |
when all the frnits of This ndnstrions nnoa,s 1,I.,
are So established England viii he bonnd II ror,t
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md conference.-the aha vgir attai, ,si,ia, -
immense nr4noaderanca tbat tbs K;no5,r,s ,,ttzt,
rave no Princes IN eofne II, fo tbair sb,ra,e
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