New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-23
The Era of Elope1nents.
The Philadelphia Rnlletin has the follnuiI

Eiopements come in heavily the present season.
The scissors are rewarded with daily crop too
large for storage in columns of average size. Give
your true reporter good elopement, and his cup
OF happiness will hold few drops more. If there
are incidents in which his pen positively reyels,
they are the midnight escape, the hasty union the
adventures at railroad stations the pursuit OF in
dignant relatives, and all the other mysterious
points That the most ordinary of fugitive aec
ton will furnish.
Within a fortnight we have perused with profes.
soHal difference and individual disgust the detail
Of what now seems one horrid hegira of unhappy
lovers In several instances the pairs were ridicu-
lousy Unmatched. Men in their gray were off with
maidens in their very greenest-boys hurried off
woman old enough TO be their grandmothers; black
eloped with white, and vice versa-and the latest
ana most astounding of all cases, is that of two
children, of the respective ages of Ii and Is who
linked their terrible and gloomy fates together
and started off for that romantic elysium the city
OF New York, with the sum of IS between them.
We propose to deduce no grave proposition from
the current facts Let the cync's eye detect the
cancer in our social system that the host of elope-
ments would seem to indicate. We believe it to be
only the old and immortal passion for doing forbid
den things that first stirred the gentle bosom of
our mother Eve. The disease works its own cure
Every hundred miles farther from home il a fall Of
several degrees of the mercury of love, and the
END OF the journey brings nothing more truly de-
nghtul, nothing more eagerly welcomed, than the
grieYed but long-suffering parent with an eve
blazing indignation and heart running over with
forgiveness for the folly of youth. But an clone.
ment is not what it used to BE- and is surprising
that so many should rush into an enterprise which
mas become so eminently business-ike. Steam and
lightning have robbed the flight Of all its thrilling
romance. Nigilant policemen interfere sadly with
the ladder and moon business that was once so en-
chanting There is no Gretna Green, and 70 cd was
never higher. Sc there is far more romance in the
commonplace course of true love.
FISH SToRY.-In the State Board of Aprieul.
cure room in the Statehouse, is a large glass box
or vessel wherein is kept several live specimens Of
fish, among others a suniish about six inches in
length. The Secretary recently caught a common
horseleech and placed 1t in the water with the
fish. A contest Immediately began between the
sunish and the leech involving life or death to The
worm, which was watched with much interes. and
curiosity. The suntish attempted to swallow the
leech, headforemost, but the latter fastened him
self to the under jaw of the fish and ohstinatelyre-
fused to be swallowed. The next thing was for the
fish to get the leech out Of its mouth and to this
end various ingenious maneuvers were resorted to
without effect. At last the fish, raising his mouth
sucker from his position. Again the fish ATTEMPTED
to swallow the leeeh, this time tail first; but the
willy worm fastened himself to the outside Of his
enemy's mouth, and had to be disodged by re-
petition of the blowing dodge. The struggle lasted
for more than week, and at last the fish succeed
ed In getting the eeeh down. whereat he manifested
his satisfaction by series OF nexplicable curYets.
but, alas the exultaton of the finny victor was
bnef for the next morning found Mr.. Sunfish float
ing sideways upon the surface of the water-dead.
me bloodsucker had triumphed, even in death,
and left no living foe.
columbus (ohio) Statesman.