New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-02-20
Brahch Opens = segar store.

Branch has failed to raise the necessary capital
to open segar store, SO, John Chnaman like, he
has resolved to open stand in the open air, and
hold forth in the northwest corner Of the Park.
Here is his pronunciamento: NJ
TO the Editor Of tie Neto York Tribune Il can
not find congeniai tobacco partner, and have not
the means to hire segar store, and therefore shall
white and blue, and ] have bought table and
one hundred and fifty segars, and shall offer them
for sale to-day from the Park sidewalk corner OF
Chambers street and Broadway.
Where all my friends hope TO see,
And smoke with them principe.
q take some snuff q Of r,, swse e ess~
My snuff will rival the sweetest perfume, and
soothe and thickle the nostrils, and elicit sneezes
that will emerge in Patti coneords,-my pipe to-
bacco will incfe vivid retrospect Of early days,
and cheer venerable males and matrons around
their evening fires, and the merry voices of lovely
children, my chewing tobacco will sweetly scent
the gastric juice and adorn the face with smiles OF
charity and my segars will exhilarate the discon-
ISOLATE. and emit fragrant incense that will curl
like the locks Of Circassian virgins, and ascend
towards the pretty stars like souls Of spotess pur
ity, and form clouds of Italian splendor, that will
allure and guide my genial patrons to the realms
of celestial bliss.
had long interview with my poor and proud
relations. told them that was poor and sick and
nearly worn out, and was in want Of bed and
food, and clothes little longer, but was afraid to
steal as had been in the penitentiary for alleged
libel and did not desire to 60 there for stealing as
the quarry was q mighty rough place. My poor
and proud relations said that they would rather
see ME IN my old cell for libel theft, than to see
me selling segars in the open air, and that they
would never recognize me if sold segars from the
Park sidewalk. told them they need not grind
their Jaws like panthers, and turn up their pug
noses like cannibals, for Mayor Wood learned the
segar trade, and formerly sold segars for subsist
ence-that ex-Alayor Mickie ID a tobacco dealer,
and that the Lorilard's acquired great wealth as
tobacco vendors. My poor and proud relations said
that segar merchant was quite respectable, bit
to sell segars in the open air was outrageous and
discracefui told them that the noblest avoca-
tons were conducted in the open air-that William
Tell and George Washington fought their battles
in open air--and SO did Andrew Jackson save at
New Orleans, where he fought in cotton citadel,
but with the benignant sky for his ceiling-that
Commodore Perry won his great naval battle in
the open air--that Major Andre was hung in the
open air, and Burr and Arnold should have been
that anctioneers sold wares and lands and houses
In the open air--that the poet Burns sold his bal
lads in the open air-that Wall street brokers
transacted business in the open air-and that news
boys sell papers in the open air. and thus support
their dear old mothers
This matter-nffaet argument drove on poor reia-
tons into q mighty small cavity, when one OF the
poorest and proudest Of them all exclaimed, IN
Tones Of wrath and tropic thunder, that was
perfect fool for not stealing fortune @heh -
Taught Aldermen and Counciimen aaa JIM NJ r;.
ciaia md had Dretty much my own way IN the Clty
Hail for several years, which would have saved me
n, When he uttered these pernicious and mon
ps raas morda arose and myself LIKE
liberty pole and gave him an indignant glance IKE
Tall II esIer or Washington at Burr, ana ne enrea
III ~ nd crayied away like asoft shell crab
Win u ali nv Door and proud relations close az hs
heels heels and claws who viii probably never speak TO
me again unless realize nice ll. aed sg VOW ~ hat
thay never denounced me for selling cigars from
the Park sidewalk. ..,,,vv Il. RRIKcH
,s..,.nt corner Of Chambers street and Broad
IT ssy ornosits stewards narble building.