New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-16
Tsm Corr.

We grow stall corny 10 america. The world i
beginning to find It ont. Every year brings The
fact more and more home % the percepnve and
digestive faculties Of all civilized humanity LIE
all great truths, IL did not gain credit Of once,
True, everybody sess II here with his own eyes,
but not 80 on the other side Of the Wator. The
first accounts OF the pfoduckiycness Of our Vest
farmers with about as much respect Is lie iish
stories of the sailor Ginbad. II took even the
highest dignitaEies of the land d long while 10 net
fairly mp to level with the actual fact Even ct
Museum an which enjoys very distinguished con-
ssderation as curiosity. Il divides attention, we
do mot say equally, but certainiy fkactioualls,
with the NineEeh Bull and the great KohfHoor,
Ball; and yet 1t has but q very simple history,
and il is not very extraordinary 0f corn a.
ter all. = reached its present distinction some
thing in this wise n, 5#
ner party in London, at which Lord John Russell,
Lord Morpeth and many other distinguished men
we're present, the conversation turned upon the
Irish famine !; and the remark was made BY Lord
John that be rejoiced that good substitute for
the native breadstuf had been found az Fudian
corn- Turning to Mr.. Bates the American part-
ner IN ne honse 81 Barring Brothers, bis Lordship
& Why, Bates, some Of Tie cobs have twelve or
fourteen rows pf grain On them M ~ y
Mr.. Bates coolly replied.
q fes. ny loyd, hAye seen from twenty to
twenfy-four rows on q COT, ~
That is q rare Yenkeeism z wns tie pleasant
retort Of the Premier5 and the whole company
shouted ID approval.
The burst Of merriment over, Mr.. Batss bozrht
pany all round that be could produce such aA earl
Done " exclaimed Lord John; and the bet
was clnched q sa
The dinner passed Off Mr. Batesretarued home
but not entirely at ease He had done strange
thing; for the first time In his life he had made an
engagement he was not absolutely certain Of his
ability to fulfil. He had misgivings that he had
rashly pledged the honor of his country. 1T had
been long since he looked upon an American crib;
and however patiently be winnowed the coYnr
uc0pia OF his memory, he found that the cobs OF
his early days had gone glimmering through the
| lapse Of time, among the things that were, and
were now far on that he couldn't count the r0ws.
He was as Plautus would say redactus I'D iIsitas-
| in Yankee parianee, :" hard up-n Bat fortune
dropped the next day, at the counting house. Of
4 the Earrings. Mr.. Bates, with Frightening face,
4 hailed him, and made know his difficulty.
You are safe, y was the response q Il live to
| Get home, you shall have even bigger ear than
| Our friend G. soon. returned, and straightway
wrote to Messrs. Rogers Reynolds, of Lafayette,
Ind, telling the story, and begging them for the
| turn the tables on Lord john, showing them what
! Yankees could do. ss XIV 8
In the July following, Mr.. G received, BY
l express from Lafayette, a nicely arranged box.
4 containing six ears of horse tooth corn, two Of
which had twenty mine rows, two tzfyty-oiae, and
\ two THIRTY TWO. The box was forthwith address
| ed to 6 J. Bates, Esq, care of Messrs. Barring
Brothers \ Co. ship BY Black Bal Line, care a ths
Lord joni Russell, first Lord of the Treasury third
son of the late Duke Of Bedford By tho second
daughter of George discount Torrington, and kneal
descendant Of Lord William Russell, the martyr Of
i The dinner was won. Jeshua Bates did not per
| petrate a Yankeeism,' y and the British Museum