New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-11-19
VOLUME XII.
SATURDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 49,

VOLU Il XII. @...r..@.
The company has assumed all risks against fire
damage from that element. At the same time,
factors have taken out policies OF insurance
against dangers and accidents, which includes fire
on cotton shipped either by the river route or by
railroad. But, then, two strings to the bow do
not answer in this case. The company has az
sumed all risks shipments against fire but con-
tend, if the cotton is insured by the consignees,
the company is not liable. The insurance offices
turn about and say they are not LIABLE because the
Railroad Company assumed the fire risks. How
ever, only one hundred and seventy three bales
OF cotton have been destroyed, which is far pre-
ferable than 1870 bales; and the present only
more strongly confirms the admonitions and re-
marks which talked of last year, and have
again talked of the present season. The assump-
ton and responsibility of fire risks by the company
was very mpolitic course. Suppose the train of
cars with some $500 bales, had been destroyed,
would it have been so very an easy matter for the
company to meet an immediate demand for pay
mcnt-say 100000. The talk is that the late dis
aster will lead to long ltgation and in the mean
time the planters, or owners Of the cotton, may
suffer. We, however, suggest to the mandators OF
the road to abrogate the assumption Of fire risks,
and allow those risks to be assumed by the parties
to whom they belong-the insurance associations.
There are no two ways in this matter q thousand
bales of cotton just as likely to burn up in
day one hundred.
The mails failed yesterday by both routes; that
via the Jackson Railroad owing, no doubt to the
late fire. Very little delay will intervene, and we
may have the mail over the route to-day. The
mail via Mobile never comes entirely through on
Fridays. The Canada, the steamer of the 5th inst
| is fully dnc-out thirteen days. The Asia's mails
are due this morning. ..~=
THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT.
h?aeho-seess thou not what deformed thief this
~. s, a tn @ ssa out more apparel than
If the foolishness of fashion added the strong
heads of the lordly sex when Shakespeare wrote,
truly there is food for surprise in the fact that
the gentler gender has yielded to its seductons in
our days. We exceedingly grateful to Shaks-
| peare that he wrote for all time,'' for how
apropos to this time is the sage remark of the
| cular Confade-less the term of masculinty-that t
| the fashion wears out more apparel than the
| woman, who perambulates the dusty and muddy
| thoroughfares dragging after her fair form con-
| tinuation as useless the tail of a comet-save
that it polishes the sidewalks, and in so doing, the
fashion out the apparel, though it saves the
| city fathers something for street sweeping. 1t is
| enough to make husband or father tear his
hair to see his wife or daughter performing the du-
/ ties of common scavenger by sweeping the ban.
quette with surplus yards of the costliest silk
| which he paid for-and so unpleasant is the aspect
of female engaged in this voluntary street work
| ~. crb harF ,-n,y oh
much as she approaches, the illusion is painfully
/ disspated when turn to look after the wiggling
mass of dry goods which trails its way along the
walk by tile hidden agency of mincing motive
power within.
We might have denounced fashion in this regard
with more energy year or two since, but we did
| not, for we knew that ink and paper would have
been wasted, they were several years before
| that, when ran tilt against the Introduction OF
the long dress style, and were most inglorously
vanquishcd. We knew it was no use a year or two
since, for the fashion then in its zenith and
scornfully elevated far above our fulminations. Sc
we patiently and silently awaited the setting Of
the eliminated favorite, that we might valiantly
pitch into it as it was going down hill, and claim
some of the credit of its overthrow. The time has
| come, and we are after it remorselessly. Bulletins
! from the boss mOdistiS of the Partisan center Of
fashionable law giving have been posted through
these provincial dominions of the French capital
and the faithful directing their dress maker:
to dock their skirts in obedience to the edict tina
.dresses are worn little shorter this season thar
last" Already we see members of the feminine
elite on the streets, who neatly as well as hand
somely attircd, for their skirts only touch withou
dragging, and hopefully look forward to thu
millennal period in the history of fashions wher
they actually arM not touch the ground!
Some may deem us insanely, fanatically san
guine, but we persist in our opinion, and hav'
reason for the faith that is in us-and thi
is that there is no conservatism in fashion
it never pauses short of extremes. Consequently
there is no telling how short, as there was III
telling how long, dresses will get before tn,
movement ceases. We hesitate to indte ou
opinion as to the precise altitude at which th
lower hem will finally pause and 's thus far am
no farther" shall be recorded by the director
of the modes, to stay the alarming progress o
fashionable abbreyiation of crinolne. For our
self, we shall continue to hound on the fashol
with the shout of the aspiring youth, Ercelsior!
"hgher higher !" until it shall pause on the verg
of the ultrasm of Bloomerism!