New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-02-10

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pepho thaa \ hos been guilty Of for none can tel
how lcng and 70 diic1t Of accounting for j its hon
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lvpssAsnsible causs Bennett WAS inflamed viii
envcas indignation because Of Burns being the bette
post and under such pTomptings attacked the latter
and his eulogss throwing Ill prudence 70 the winds
and denouncing the celebration a. ali humbug, ani
the Beechers, Bryants, Lowells, Emersons, It no.
genus oMme ID the way Of Northern notorieties, a
parcel Of imbecile knaves who got together TO glo
r themselves under the pretence Of doing honor e
Burma" A. the Herald and the Crescent were II
paytnership in Withholding countenance from The
4 Centennial fuss which quite convulsed the civil
ised and ID some points, enlightened world, We take
scrap from an article ID the former paper, atrenu
ou1iy disasowing, though, the sghtest approach "a
The indulgence Of any sympathetic feeling with that
journal beyond aome sort Of agreement on this topic
and even on this dissgrseing IN degree and allowing
the peasant poet far higher place than docs biz
amiable c0untryman Of the New York press !:
q Burns was victim to tie circumstances by
which be VA surrounded. Indeed, he rather sought
than avoided temptation. Weak, irresolute and i'm
pulsive, he vacillated between the fumes of the
whisky shop and the 6res Of poetic inspiration. 10
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making ..The real, sincere,
honest admirers Of the poet are to be found in the
Scotch drinking clubs, who love their poet perhaps
little more because his songs give them license
to become drunken, delfying whisky, and enWreath.
ing The foul fend Of debauchery with the loveliest
flowers sS
Are not lacking just NOW, for the times are ex.
citing enough everywhere in the world, and TEEN
with rumors Of wars, American acquisition schemes,
and indemnity claims which may be germs Of war.
There il scarcely Government in the western hemi-
sphere against which claims for indemnity have
not been entered for the attention Of our Govern
ment. and It would seem that these small powers
have, BY common consent, agreed to impose upon
the subjects Of this 0yerpowering Titan among the
nations Of the West needless Of the danger Of in
citing It 70 run ! muck among them, and tumble
them over like 80 many pins before bower's ball.
II i very plain that they do not appreciate the prin
cipIe 81 "harmleas strength" which IS is supposed
BY our diplomatists will compel respect for our flag.
The Pernvians stand very much in need Of the pre-
sence OF sort Of North American atterday Pizarro,
less the robber and murder part, to teach them
nsrs. As TO the Paraguay business, we are rather
inclined to think that the "bowlers ball" sent down
is hardly weghty and orcible enough to tumble over
into tho dust the presumptuous impudence Of the
truculent Lopez We may have sent down our gallant
fellows to become 50 many sacrifices, for there are
hardly enough of them to take care Of each other,
snch are the determined preparations made to resist
them.
Il would seem that destiny intends that there is
! general European war we shall be embroiled in it,
Ior Spain being mixed up in strong alliance with
great powers will likely seize the opportunity to re-
tort upon Us id some way our Cuban acquisition in
suits to her hidalgo dignity Of empire There are
hundred ways il which We may be drawn into a free
light occurring on the other side Of the water, and
among them this is not the least probable. Nous
perrons, and meanwhile telegraph companies pros
per.
Old Fogyisms.
Our left-hand contemporary Of Camp street might
have cited other old fogyism Characteristic Of
New Orleans in bis evening edition Of yesterday if
be had had mind to--among them that impression
which so long prevailed, preventing buildings from
having any more stable foundation than wood would
lurnish the idea being that il built upon stone
brick the erection would start on through trip
10 the antipodes. It Is related that when daring
architect essayed to lay down, for the first time,
stone or brick foundation in New Orleans old inhabi
tants rdicued the innoVator, confidently predicting
that within ten years the building would disappear
from the upper world and become part Of the art-
acial subsoil formations Of the Mississippi delta.
Some Of tho earliest erected buildings in the city
we're laid on stone or brick foundations. and have
Itood even to this day but some laid in careless
manner yielded to superintendent pressure, and
hence the prejudice that there certainty
u stability in such CONSTRUCTIONS consequently for
VeFy many years. the superstructure of buildings rose
rom wooden foundations, laid down in mud to decay
ong before the structure had suffered from times at
JACKS. IS. d
Among current old fogyisms, we know of none
more absurd than that Of selling poultry by guess
custom which universally maintains, instead of by
weight, the only correct way Of measuring quantity
ID this, asin all kinds Of flesh sold for food. In all
other parts Of the country in the South poultry
Is sold BY weight, and before many years. we expect
the old ogyism Of selling it by what it looks
o be worth, exploded.
Small Mistake. @6
The editor Of that usually well-informed "hebdoma
classical scribblers are fond Of denominatng
weekly papers, doubtless as much fascinated by the
rotund voluminosity Of the polysyllable as by the
chance Of showing what they know-the New York
Times says that the custom Of making New Years
calls is Of ancient Dutch origin, land we believe is
at present in city Of the Union except
our own (New York;. This editor has not travelled,
does not keep himself informed BY recourse to the
abundant means Of gaining instruction above and be-
POND seeing and believing" Ia various cities OF the
Union the custom Is observed and in none not even
q New York, more generally than in Mobile and
View Orleans. He is esteemed in either of these
,oung man Of very moderate social capacity who
annot make hundred calls on New Years day. at
very house drink glass of wine and eat something,
md go home "straight" in the evening. Neither is
he custom Of Dutch origin solely but Of almost uni
'ersal ancestry.
Quoth Smith to Jones, 1t really is sin
Yon do not get your pretty house fenced in;
Quoth Jones. you're wrong the place is fenced,
confound it,
Ny wife is all the time railing round It.