New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-06
alfp GrIeats laIIn Crescent.
MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1858.



Tsannartgne.
II seems very strange that the fact Of a man haV
inn shown himself able to make good living b
working with head Or hands should be d valid CLAIM
to his right to live without the labor Of either Tha
III ii % il constantly proved in modern times whei
many men who show that they have uncommonlj
CAPABLE brains, The use Of which would make then
reality. are straghtway made the objects Of public
charity. rendered them ia a thousand ways; while
tose With only nlilonth part Of the ability to get
along without aid have none of it vouchsafed them.
Here X Tanartine, for instance, who could write
himself fortune every year, could coin his words
into ID many francs, but is nevertheless sublime
aneolmsn q Tie talented extrayagant beggar He is
Unfortunate ID his appeals for aims, and threatens
his baneaotors that unless they increase their sub
aerpto1s to the charity list circulated in his behalf
that hen have vengeance Of them that in fact, be
viii desert his country leave sorroRing nation TO
mourn bis departure that he will robpo France
Of her Lamartine-that be win die abroad and she
shan't even have his boaes--she shan't 0f course,
this threat viii fetch the rocks abundanty France
will come down in shower Of gold, the pampeTed
beneficiary will make It fly and claim more with no
better plea than that he is abundantly able TO earn
that which i begged and given, The figure which
Iamartiue is cutting in the eyes Of Ghristendom is
rather more than enough to disgust It with bis genius
even.
The Lecturing Business
Has now assumed method aud consistency which
makes it one q the learned professions IN the North
ern, particularly the New England States, where
youth is educated for lawyer doctor, preacher or
49,, M r,age III tle lecturer hiring
,sals w 81 svsni Y IvcenTa associations. which
al i, avseancs II every town Of any size in those
etatas M sT,s5nf NH denendipr mon what Ill
,,rtb Ea ,eootiates with the evecn.
sYa oomnittaa II iii association. the members Of
g,tia, nsv one or two dollars. for which sum thew
bava admapea IL all the lectures Of the season. thus
sec,rin many neasant and some profitable evenings
4 ! vsrv ~ rate These lvceum ASSOCIATIONS the
eoIa object If which Il The hiring Of lecturers rener
.llv comnrisa our.ffths of the respectable peonle
4 The town. apd fand Of thousand or more II
doIars Tins beinr raised thew are enabled to hire
twenty IL more lecturers during Tie season.
"A professional lecturer Is kept travelling from town
to town i'll yery lively manner if he is Of sufficient
note to secure al abundance Of engagements such
persons find tie business yerv proftable. Bavard
TayIor. for example, having accepted epragements
at a hundred lyeeums for the present season. an
nounces through the New York Tribune. that he an
make no more. He will get a hundred or 50 dollars
from each lyeeun and ID pocket some ten thousand
dollars travelling from town 10 town. and delivering
the same lecture before several different autories IN
course of Tie week. SAKE. Holmes, Whipple Elmer
SON. and dozens Of others have almost reiinopshed
tbe len u publishing u contributing authors becapsa
thew find leetnring 50 much more profitable. The
diversion IF same IL these Il raav loss IA N.