The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-24
- Many days we have fingered,
Around the cabin door,
Oh, hard times come again no more.n


A. HEAD C0APLAINETH.
Many days we have fingered,
Around The cabin door,
oh, hard times come again no more"
But they have come again some more! Singing
Hard times come again no MORE" helps the
matter little as far as the imagination is con-
cerned. but il don't pay the washwoman. The
man that said g hard times come again no more"
must have been one Of the foolish virgins that
we read Of, but by his saying so he had evidently
struck lie, which the vrgies did not, according to
the good book, which il never iieth-except too
long upon folks's shelves.
Ihave hearn that " the darkest hour IL Just be.
fore day." end that every cloud has a silver
lining, and that i" it's an III wind that blows no
body good" and ''it's long lane that has no
turn" and all them feliers, but the dark hour
has lasted so mighty long that am afraid the
"day" won't come, nor won't git any "silver
lining" and that the :" III wind" win make me sick,
and that Mister Lane will never turn round! Who
is there in this vast insane poorhouse containing
30,0O0,000 souls, exclusive Of the Republican
party. that don't feel hardg
Amt it hard times when you have to live on
hard bread?
Amt it harder times when you've got 90 but
New Orleans city money at 100 per cent. discount
TO buy hard bread WITH and havn't got but two
bits of that. sir That's the question before
the meetin' house.
Take New Orleans for instance-if you can. l
amt big enough 10 take il alone-and see where
she stands. Don't she! Ask Gen. Grant, who
thinks he knows all aboatit and don't kn ow any
thinki) Smoker
Again. While landlords are filing tn cir fow-
ing bowls these times. what are their tenants
doing, and how long will they have any think do
il with And If a man hasn't anythink TO do with,
and don't expect any, and has lot OF New Or
leans city money that amt worth anythink either.
and he has wife, who does the property belong
TO?
But what if New Orleans or any other man. is
head ever ears In debt and their promises 70 pay
amt worth the paper they're pictured onto, what
t~ff kfu1 ahf n al Vol
don't believe IL Jay Cookies last note on time.
jay saws the United States Is safer for being 10
debt. SO is New Orleans or any other man-so Is
hen safe for being too oldi SO is Herring safe
II ami very hard times for people who have got
all the greenbacks they want. and buildings aud
pianos. and plenty OF water left BY the mukman
every morning, and plenty of whisky left over
1t ami hard times for folks in Cuss tom House,
or a mint (julep) a bank. or the city treasury,
or street commissioner business, or something OF
that sort outside Of regular married e Bat II Is
hard times for them as has to git for board,
steal their Clothes and sleep on the top OF picket
fence-and then be arrested fer having no visible
means of support
Ii is hard tines When we take city notes we
are Ike the poet who took mo note of time. but
from its loss" brigham "foung's Night
Thoughtful
Verify, it is easier for needle to go through the
eve Of camel. or a newspaper man to collect
rates, and shoe leather throwed in! (P. B. III
you are troubled with dyspepsia or want TO getup
reputation that will beat Weston's or Sergeant
Bates them, just try to collects few newspaper
BILLS You'll find 'em very healthy know of
man that couldn't even collect his thoughts the
other day, to say nothing OF his billsl
IL the South amt let alone by kongress pretty
severely pretty soon our dogs will have to carry
a bone in their mouth and magnifying glassover
their eyes 10 make themselves believe there's
ans thing TO eat in this section Of the greatest gov
eminent Gen. Grant ever shone on
Business is plenty, 20 be sure bnt unfortunately
there amt anything to do; never was 50 much
money but whar and In whose trowsers Is ~!
Times never was better, but who'd bet on 'em if
teen minutes ahead? Our minister wouldn't.
fAraminta my wife-iniaw, wants a new dress.
hut told her she needn't address me on the sab.
iect; of course she never said boo about dress
after that-o-b, NO! woman won't talk about
dress after death Talk about buying dresses!
Why, pretty soon you'll have so many revenue
stamps onto 'em that you can't tell the figure on
Koperess don't care for hard tlmes-their pay
goes on regular. Their heads is level, " they AMI,
they ought 10 be!
lRepeat the last stauza
Hard times come again no more!" Tue man
who said that Is idgiot, TOOL, mss Jake laD-
ricator and -unatic lie and ms statement Is
worthy OF a member OF kopgress IN looo- ne
aint got stick. to- the-truth enough for govern
ment contractor or officer in the Mexican g9V-
eminent.
But it's too bard tines TO wear any more Pen
and ink on this subject I'll postpone the rest,
All is keep stf upper lip. your shoes clean, and
hold on TO your umbrella.
N.B-I've lost mine, bat times may be better
Peacefully yours, A. HEAD
PSI had not been eating pickles when
wrote the above, neither was i sore headea.
But. by thunder, the times is not only hard, Du'
fhe sidewalks il nard, and the people what Walks
onto iem is hard, and our cider is hard, and oui
case is hard and WHY
ns- Washington, ID. l'yel O.
cthe above is one OF the principal guide
boards in this country, but you masta De guiae'
Friends y beg pardon man haint gotsny tina
Amt yot money-fe1egs; we may yet nave Dette
times and better land.
Ihesr thee speak Of better land.
1hcu ealrst ~ ehlire. hspp' band;
Throw th,ir time snd county add money away
Not there, not there, my chile
Jsuwhere the people are yet appalled,
By nepTsmsses given and As oee sees,leo, IA ma.
Ara he nigges on top the VII folks would ricef
Rot there. not there, my chile
r.v ,A.re brave people wsre vanquishsd IN blood,
that ran Ger the valleys and fields hke q hood.
Where ma gnolia and orange bends DER he graves
~, .hse who We escaped being ruled by their slavess
Not there. nos there. my chile
r.,nct m ,he south, with their troubles ard cares,
tis NOT in the North. with her plostoss and snA'es'
- I. ar l,ld aa VAS IN isr Fsie fhff eas btet
That better ianc
Tho.. DAYS r..y come in she land agsiu.
And peac~ and gooi viii and prosperity reisn'
Bat 20. uni. ~. ss,s 3 s,. ssS ss ssss''
f,f nolItca hack and ther Ju<gernsut wheels.
~ mas so.' 'thAts So my enns'
sritefully, yours'n, HKAp