New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-25

10 the following admirably sarcastic vein the 81.
Louis Leader bits OF Mr.. BIairs proposition fl Con
gress TO eoonize Central America with negrbes from
the United States
Panama, as Fegards its climate varies exfraordnar-
lily little; from SO deg. to s7 deg Fahrenheit bound.
the variation. A white man can wear light wooIeu
or linen clothes az 10 himself best seemeth There Il
no winter hut at certain periods Of the vea1 unex
pected and abundant showers descend and dreprh
you TO the skin. As Mr.. Bair's henefetaties will
wear their own skins as the oag external garments,
the suddenness OF the showers will he but aieht oh
stacle to the scheme Of colonization. Again the va
ters Of the Pacific warm, and the colouEsts nlay
gradually into such habits of bathing and clean
llness as are repugnant to them 10 more northern
climates: and it must Oh the philanthropic heart Of
representative with tumulteSus thrills df oy 10
remember that shark won't eat Niger II be can
get anything else that smaller fish are very abun-
dant and will afford any amount of fodder tb the ps
cine attornes. The people at present the Isfhmus
with the exception of the muies and the HdaIgos Of
saRgTe azul, never wear anything now but Panama
hat pair Of spurs and in OF extreme religious
prociyities. a scapnlar. We once saw one Of them
with boot, but he claimed 10 be a citizen Of the
Estados Unidos del Norte Mr.. Biair's friends will
therefore be suited 10 the climate with the exception
o. the washngs, to which infiiction, however, be-
nign Proydenee may some day enable them to accas-
glance at the eminent suitability Of the products
VIII De Instructive. we skip over with mere men
tloh tne fruits as being less important in the ideas
- ht. Diait Dehehcf1EIeS- The orange, lemon,
lime, tamarind, pine apple, guayayana gbava, cal
mto nispero, etc. address themselves and their mer-
Us 70 human taste; they are the most common.
fructlle Ideas IN the human brain but Tor the new
colonists Nature has also provided. There are no
possums. il it true, but iguana, httest and most
pimpled Of lizards will be found 70 supply the posi-
tion OF that quadruped esculant, to nicely Then.
too there is the oil palm, Of itself sufficient to SUD.
port the coloDsts II produces spontaneously about
three bushels Of beans to cluster each bean mass
of concrete grease, Of nature to nourish the sto-
mach and keep glossy the hide of our representative
friends, besides enhancing, by its extreme rancidity
that odor grateful to bis cifactores We can war
rant him. that three days diet Of this spontaneous
product alone viii produce such an odotons effec
upon our representatives friends az will astonist
even him
Again, that abused race has never worked when i
could help it. Admire here the judiciousaess of Mr.
Blair's coup d'Gl The reef stretches out two mile
and bali to sea- and bare for six hours day a
low tides, Is one mass OF oysters whilks and blu,
mottled crabs. II the distinguished coibnsts vii
deign to pick them up and cook them, they can ane
will fatten, and save themselves also from the degra
dation OF industry. The seas popslous with fish
the forests moan under burdens OF fruit amid til.
purple, golden and green blooms Of which you car
see the prurulent and pimpIed skin Of the oeaginou
lizard; the shores are oyster peccary and pig ar,
abundant. and, sailing up the Chagres river thu
voices of their kinsmen will greet the c0lbusts from
every tree. Indeed who knows bot that dnce settIe
in this fostering region kind Providence may permi
their tails to grow again, and thus restore them Il
their pristine perfection In this hope we hereby an
pend our intense approval Of Mr. Blairs proposition