New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-01
A Country Town.

The Vandalia Fayette County Democrat a
pretty spicy paper, and the editor a witty man,
The paper is published in the town of Vandajia.
Perhaps some of our readers may not know where
vandalia is. If there are any such, we will in
form them that Vandalia is on the line of the n
linols Central Railroad-main branch-about TWEEN.
ty-hve miles north of Sandoval For particular
description of the place, we refer them to the fol-
lowing, by the editor of the aforesaid paper:
= We should like very much for Dickens to come
to some Western one-horse town for a hero. Such
town as-- we could mention, were we disposed
to be talkatiye where they live upon the pleasures
miserable at present The time viii T come whsn
their town will be the commercial emporium n
the West. Its greatness looms up in the distance
n NE nay stack IN fog. Atthe present writing
memory Of the oldest inhahtant serves him right.
there never was one. They have had several news.
papers, at different times but they have all starved
out @. me people hadn't time to read and besides,
the Cincinnati Enquirer and Missouri Republican
were better aud cheaper papers than their own.
One winter the young men tried to get up literary
society put it soon fzzled out. Squashem and
conducted, so Squashem and Blinkhard shat down
on it.. Ii you want anything done Squashem and
Hlinkhard must do it; and without Squashea and
Bllnkhard is nothing done which is doae They
came here before the ague broke out They own
all the property in the business part Of town An
those little weather-beaten shanties heIono; In
ESquashem and Blnkhard. stWhy don't thew
build ?' Why their money is all ont on interest,
They did business in those houses thirty years ago
| they're Just as good now as theyrwer then
| squashem wouldn't sell lot for . fortune for,
you see, preper.y @ t Is going to take an awful raise
As to amusements, they have noae, except when
struggling show comes along home concert
or dramatic performance is never thought of or if
proposed, Squashem says it's iRnloral--wM exert
l a bad lntuence and so the matter ends 9g5
dog fight is hailed with the iyeliest JOY. Even
Sqnashem himself comes to his door and looks son
with degree of interest. TTen per cent.l In this
exciting enjoyment, all par1ake. And spectator,
beholdlng the congregation of lawyers, doctors,
| clerks, county officers, bafkeepers, dayslaborers,
and the p'.on,iscu, would utterly despair Of ever
ger orally eliminates ina man fgh-. and treat all
! round, after which the happy crowd disperse, with
great expectations of another jolly tiEae-
About sundown you may see from 6ye to eight
young men on each street corner, each one with q
pine stick in his hand trying to borrow knife
than Selkirk or Grusoe. The older men may be
| seen walking up and down the sunny side of the
| street, sGme what like a starving hog hunting
| hole in a eoanfied feuce A long, weary day has
worn aWaTs and long, tedious evening has set in,
and all at loss for some thing to do. On every
large as 8 livery stable sign. Even the dogs seem
to paraake Of this universal detection, and lie lazly
in the street without sufficient energy to growl at
the long-nosed hog that is roofing not two steps
| away. The people tails slow, walk slow aud think
| s,ow-lazily puff a cigar, or take . seaton some
| aoer step, utterly Indifferent to everything about
the n An entire town with its hands stuck III its
pockets, lonnging, loafng, sponging its life away
A dead sea, which might be an ocean Of living
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