New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-05-12

The following Is description of a visit made by
Shelley and Treawny to an American vessel lying IN
the port Of Leghorn:
at is but a stepnI said, "from these ruins OF
worn out Greece to the New World, iets beard tne
American clipper
II had rather not have any more Of my hopes and
Illusions mocked BY sad realities said Shelley.
.You must allow answered. shat graceful craft
was designed By a man who had poets feeling for
things beautiful; let's get model and build boat
The idea so pleased the Poet that he followed me
on board her. The mericans are a social, free and
easy people, accustomed to take their own way, and
to readily yield the same privilege to all Others so
that our coming on board, and examination OF the
vessel fore and att were not considered as intrusive.
The captain was on shore, talked to the mate,
smart specimen Of Yankee. When commended
her beauty, he said:
81 do expect now we have our new copper on, she
has look OF the brass sarpent, she has as slick
run and her bearings just whore they should be.
said we wished to build boat after her model.
Then calculate you must go to Baltimore or
Boston to get one there is no one on this side the
water can do the job We have freight all ready,
and are homeward-b0und we have elegant accom-
mediation, and you will be across before your young
friends beard is ripe for a razor Come down and
take an observation Of the state cabin
1t was about seven and half feet by five plenty
Of room TO live or die comfortably in" be Observed
and then pressed Us to have chaw OF real Old Nir
GINA cake e. tobacco, and cool drink OF peach
Greek vessel we had visited.
Crank as an eggshell," he said "t0o many
sticks and top hamper, she looks like bundle OF
chips going to hell to be bufnf.u
/ seduced Shelley ntcp drinking a wine-glass Of
weak grog, the first and last he ever drank. The
Yankee would not let us go until we had drunk,
under the starspanged banner, to the memory Of
Washington, and the prosperity OF the American
commonwealth.
aAs warrior and statesman - said Shelley, a he
was righteous in all he did, unlike all who lived be-
fore or since be never used his power but for the
benefit of his fellow creatures
For truth and WISDOM foremost 81 the brave;
Him glorys idle vlances dsxEied mo-;
Twas his ambition, generous and grest,
life to LIES end TO consecrse"
Stranger" said the Yankee, " trner words were
never spoken there is dry rot in all the main tim
bers OF the Old World, and none of you will DO any
good till you docked retted. and annexed to the
New. You must log that song you sang there amt
many Brtishers that will say as much OF the man
that whipped them so just set these lines down in
the log, or they won't go for nothing"
Shelley wrote some verses in the books, but not
those he had quoted and so we parted.
ADVICE TO IsrRIGUIss PEoPLE-Speaking of
the Tuckerman mail robberies, a correspondent Of
the Boston Traveller says:
Perhaps It may not be out of place here to give a
word OF advice to certain class of persons in the
community--ladies and gentlemen who have dmouTs
not authorized by the parson-that il they do not
want TO have their tender sentiments exposed they
will do well not to put them into the mail bags. II
all the letters in the thirteen missing mails were
printed certain persons in certain localities undoub
eddy would hardly fail 10 change color in presence
their friends.
There is man Out West who labors under the de
luson that +" Hon." placed before a mans name
stands for honest.