The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-11

BY THE FAT CONTRIBUTORS.

There was funny little episode on the car that
helped TO arouse us. At Montana o young man
and young woman came on board of the sleep
ing car, and the former said "See here, Mr..
Conductor, | want one OF your best hunks for
this young woman and one for myself individu-
ally. One will do for rs when we git TO the Bluffs
hey, Marier? "a playful and sffectonate poke at
"Msrier' with his elbow, TO which she replies,
''Dow. John. quit!"l for you see we're goin' to
cit married at Mariers uncles when we git there.
We might "a been married ct Montanny but we
took habit to wait till we got to the Bluffs, bein
as Mariers uncle is q minister, and they charge a
gol' fred price for hitchin folks at Montanny."
Maria was assigned to one of the ''best bunks,"
and John was given one not far away. After
time the inmates of the car were all slowed away
in their berths to 60 through the inevitable alter
nations Of swelteriDg and freezing.
During stoppsge of the train at one station
the voice of John was heard, raised In pleading
accents, all unconscious that the train had
stopped. and that tones which the noise of the
rafting wheels had drowned while the cars were
moving. could be distinctly heard by all when
they bad stopped.
Now. Mari, you might give feller j,s' one
kss"
'.John, ycu quit, or I'll git right ont here aud
hOof it back to Montanny in the snow storm"
Only one little kiss, Marier, and III go; hope
10 def / don't"
John -"
just at that interesting moment q gray head
prouuded from a berth at the other end Of the
car and an old man cried out SO that all could
hear: "Marier. for Gods sake give John one
kiss, so that we can 60 to sleep some time to-
night"
Ii is needless to remark that q peal of laugh
ter rang from one end of the car to the other,
under cover of which John skunk back to the
solitary seclusion of his I" bunk" leaving Maria
to the uDdisturbed possession Of her marriage
license, which she interpreted to permit no
license TO John until accompanied by the proper
certificate. And Marier was right.
California correspondent of the New York
Journal Of Commerce thus compares the Falls of
Niagara and Yosemite:
The Falls Of Niagara and the falls of Yosemite,
in California. objects almost bey ond the power
of finite comprehension. The contemplative OBJ
server surveys -
The hell Of waters where they howl and hiss
And boil in end ess torture
and with each succeeding view isenabled to form
more definite conception as to the volume and
power Of the tremendous cataract. In respect to
height, Niagara dwipdIes to insignifcance con-
trasted with the fearful plunge of two thousand
six hundred feet at Yo.Semte-sixteen hundred
feet of this descent unbroken-and. as to volume,
the falls in California are probably quite as i'm
pressive, If viewed near at hand There is this
difference, however that one il the long feathery
fight of an arrow. or as the plunge of q rocket
through the heavens, whereas at Niagara pom.
derous mass ia thrown over the pIecipice, and at
once strikes below. One Is light, aerial, beaut.
full bot at the sa me time the eternal roar that
cense perpetually ascending, indicate the presence
of a restless power. The other Is overwhelm
ingly terrible. One is the firing of rife at a dis
tant mark the other the discharge Of mortar
snort range. ! think that Niagara suffers in the
comparison. IL is something from which human
nature recoils with q sense of dread, whilst Yo-
Semitic fills the mind with astonishment and rap
ture.