New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-03-26

1easonable.
We folks living amid the brick and mortar scenery
Of downtown do not remark with what rapid steps
the season is advancing to the days when

Of downtown do not remark with what rapid steps
the season is advancing to the days when
vertical the ssn
Dsrts on the head dife- his forcefut rsse.
/ Already II is the 26th of March and down Town
there is little Of greenery 70 be seen TO REMIND one
aoen4a snr;nc,a ethereal mldneesn But blief tour
of observation in those neighborhoe is hes
=. that ont n the garden district and in the sub.
urhs one can charm his eyes with the sight Of the
fresh green yerdure Of the heritage and foliage smell
the flower scents and hear the voices OF birds which
were silent in the winter time Already, in the words
az Thomson without p) who wrote the 4'Sees
/ 'rlora decks The fields
Wa y sss ana the s shesss
r 5s...s mo tails. Ev'ryhips is 1li'he'
| Human nature has begun its spring time pining for
intercourse with inanimate nature and is obeyng the
instinct it may in brief afternoon trips by rail and
carriage to the verdant suburbs and the breezy re-
treats Of the Lake Shore Carrollton is animated and
Milneburg and the Jefferson Lake End Y are popu.
lous; the fish fry business is looking up Anon these
resorts will become too crowded too cityed to satiae
the couutryfe craving, and summer birds will plume
their wings for longer flights to remoter watering
places.
Spring is passing, and the crowd of strangers is
passing away with it to their homes. For brei
time the city will be left with little more than its
population proper and then it too will be diminished
to the summer residue Of stayat.homes, who will
make themselves les comfortable as they may, and
very comfortable, in the enjoyment Of the dolce far
niente allowed by the nterregnum Of business. Va.
rey is the charm of existence, and few there who
are not longing for the calm delights of summer morn
ings and the luxurious laziness OF vesper twights
which will become so tedious in their turn. The
variety Of life, which now rules ascendant is that af
forded by trips to the lake. on the shel' or by the
cars, and report that the is sufficiently
advanced to render it delightful variety, and we
prescribe it to the business tagged the invalid, and
the splenetic, as admirable course Of treatment
for their relief, If not cure.
Something Startling.
1t is not at all surprising that England is nervously
anxious to secure control Of the Isthmus of Daren
for the government possessing it will have that king
dom completely under its thumb. A Northern ga.
want suggests that interoceanic canal bisecting
the Isthmus would be the outlet Of the caribbean sea-
and thus divert the waters of the Gulf stream (the
great equatorial current which passes into that sea
and the Mexican Gully from their north easterly
toward the coast Of Great Britain and northern
Europe. Now, the British Isles are within the same
parallels the fgd nhospitable regions of Labra-
of the Gulf stream render the climate much more
genial-in fact, habitabe. Suppose that the United
States had canal through the Isthmus, and Great
Britain should become warke, all that we would
have to do would be to open the locks turn the Gulf
stream into the Pacific ocean and thus cool off the
Britons freeze up their rivers and lakes, bind their
coasts and harbos and fleets therein with barriers
ice strike with the blight Of frost their crops in the
6n md cnft ho rUhn shaft J,l;,
ering with cold from strathy Head to Lands End
"giant's causeway" of ice would bridge the Irish
Channel in winter, and cebergs would career through
the British Channel and the Straits of Dover They
could be allowed a habitable climate only upon good
behavior and if obstinately hostile we could put the
screws to them and freeze them entirely out of the
islands queen, prince and all the royal family,
Johnny Bulls, John OGroats and Emeraders, mobiles,
tenants, and all-compelng wholesale migration to
some more hospitable Cline and leaving the evacu.
ated kingdom everlasting ice monument to the in.
genuty of the philosopher who suggests the scheme.
Mr. Belly has just taken strong force of engineers
down to the isthmus and perhaps, it is to carry out
this plan and annhilate Great Britain at the expense
of the wine and other interests of France which are
dependent upon climatic influences.
The Revulsion has Come. .
A few months ago aud every person North was
+" chessman,'' excited to pitch of enthusiasm by
the brilliant feats Of the young American champion
of the /" royal game.' In every village chess club
organized and the manufactures could not supply
the tremendous demand for knights, kings queens
and bishops and the checkered fields of their doughty
battle. Clergy and laity were all enthused and it
was at once voted the only moral and conservative
species of sportingthe only sort in which all sexes
classes and professions could participate not only
without derogation to cloth and clashing with the
course of morality, but with positive benefit to all
partcipating-mnd and thought strengthening and
elevating withal. Of course excess must generate
revusion as its final fruit, and it has ensued and
many newspapers are now busy discussing the
morality of the game of chess, the religious press
having generally turned against it, The game is OBJ
ected TO tending rather to refresh than recreate
the mind and as requiring more of the precious art.
Gle, time than conscientious man can spare that
it contains no information and imparts no real
strength to the mind that its influence on the TEN.
per is most unhappy, defeat causing irritation and
success awakening undue elation, ETC. As the South
did not go crazy on the chess question: though Nor
ply is of it, it has occasion now to be ashamed of
itself and affect sort of insane sanity in the
endeavor to prove itself sensible. The consequence
of this change of front will be the debarring of
indulgence in the game to many who delight in it,
but whose standing or profession is such that they
will not dare to indulge in what is publicly denounced
as immoral"
We have very Grave Charge
To bring against the mailing clerks of some hun
bred of the "cotemporaries'' who are accorded
the privilege and honor of exchanging with the
Crescent 1t is an unwarrantable assault on the
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