New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-04-07
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Jof Lhe TeadeTS Of the DOnbte Sheet Crescent.
Like an army with banners, whose FURNISHED spear
tops aud gtterng ancs reflect back the rays Of the
sun Whose pennons and pennonceles faunt like the
synonynes and brave forerunners Of great deeds Of
courage and knightly achievement; while thousands
OF grand hearts moving BY their SIDE anxiously look
forward to the drawing Of swords and the camor Of
gods and men fighting for honor, for fame, and for
love, the egions Of the present swiftly marching
to the future, in which lies their Armageddon and
final victory or defeat.
The army Of spring, gaining a skirmisEl here and
victory there now touches the promise Of that purple
triumph from which shall be garnered greater glories
higher honors and more permanent prosperity than
the weeks and months preceding. Every little shrub
and the smallest blades Of grass are investing them
selves with royal greenery to do honor to the occa
sion and many small flowers, painted all over more
cunningy than by any mortal painter, are showing
themselves in full attire to hail their friend and de-
liverer.
All hail to the brilliancy of the promise as in every
realization Of highest hopes we too often
find but the apples Of sodom In the future and the
past, in memory and expectation lie all true poetry,
all right history, all sound philosophy. The present
rings with the blows of the hammer-the exponents
of toll The future has only the perfect Alhambras
VI
Acropois and the dyes OF Tyre.
Monday, April 7-St. Aphraates, fourth century;
ST. Hegessippus, st. Turian Of KeannEthick are the
guardians of the day. =3 80
The wood danemony--aneD10ne 7,enaef0sa--de edlcated
to st. Aphraates, is the floral emblem. w
In 1920. Raphael Urbino died, on the anniversary
of his birthday, which was in 1888. His fame and
glory have long survived and his memory will live
the world.
In 1907, Lalande, the great astronomer, died at
Paris, aged seventy, after life devoted to science
and scientific pursuits. Though no great discoveries,
like those of Laplace and Newton, are allied to his
memory the hard mathematical pursuits which led to
and demonstrated their labors will serve as an eternal
corona to the memory of Lalande and those who,
in his manner, travel sic tur ad astra will remember
him with praise.
Tuesday, April s-St. Dionysius, Bishop Of
Cornth in the second century, and Albert, Patriarch
of Jernsalum in 1914 when the crusades enlisted the
flower and chivalry Of Europe, are the prominent
saints. n.L & Err 4Eoss59 &
The ground ivy, geconaa heaeracea, is the humble
plant which keeps green and growing the memory of
st. Dionysius. ~ gs5
In l34l the celebrated sonnets of Petrarch, en-
hodying his love for Laura gained for hin. great
regard and esteem that he was crowned in Rome,
where Virgil and Horace had been before him, and
all the people of the threehied city shouted Long
live the poet" s5rs1a% Z2-% 4t@e5a'%e5@
In 1864 John, King of France, who had been
brought captive to England by Edward, the Black
Prince, died at the Savoy palace, in his captivity;
having refused a release on terms that he was not
sure of his ability to fulfl-sans peuer ct sans re-
proche sa.
In ls46 General Scott leaving a garrison at Vera
Cruz, commenced his march to the city of Mexico
by way of Jaapa, with an army of eight thousand
five hundred men while Santa Anna was entrenched
with twelve thousand, at a mountain pass called
Cerro Gordo, and had the whole country as reserve
to fall back upon.
"wednesday, April 9.--St. Mary of Egypt; the
Massylitan Martyrs the Roman Captive Martyrs in
Persia, A. D. 362 are the Saints. The Red polyan
thus primula poyantha rubra dedicated to ST. Mary
is the floral emblem
In 1883, Lord Bacon died. in disgrace, at the ad
vanced age of sixtyix. He fell from his high estate
because he cultivated high wisdom at the expense
every day wisdom. Rushworth says of him that he
"was eminent over all the christian world for hi
many excellent writings. He was no admirer o
money, yet had the unhappiness to be deiled there
witt" His connivance at the treachery and fraud
his servants wrought his ruin. The gifts Of sutrs
in chancery caused him to be suspected, but hisie-
crees were just, suitable and fit, that no oneyas
ever reversed. His great work, DE Augmenirum
Sciential, is epitome Of all that was sound clcern
ing knowledge and will remain one of tho price
less extracts of divine thought that cannot e.
r In l744 q King Georges War +" was prolaimed by
England. 1t originated in disputes concerning the
kingdom of Austria n 7|'3
E In 1747, Lord Lovat was executed q Tower-Hill.
for high treason, at the age of niney. He was a
bold bad man, and carried to the s4told the same
/ GOODNESS which had accompanied hii througha dis
honorable life. Walter Scott skethes him in one OF
his stories. Nol +
! In 1907 John Opie the selftught artist, died.
/ Though no great and lasting wrk ever fell from his
y brush, he attained high rank n his profession
: Thursday. April l0.-5t. Bademus, 376; B
Mechtildes, Virgin and Abbss, l3O0 the patron
B esses of the day. -' 7.
The pale violet dedicate to St. Mechtildes, is thu
r flower. < W-.=
n n In 1909 Mr., Erskne' negotiations opened anew
e our trade with Englan which, by the act of nonin
tercourse, passed by congress on the lst of March
!. prohibited trade commerce OF any kind with eithe
h France or Great Briain Short as was the duration
OF scileo sMepl I'VE
u the whole country and crisis such as has not ex
listed since in its omprehensiveness and general ruin
affected every lind of industry and all branches o
~ business. Ony those whose support was drawn i'm
medately from the soil were enabled to withstand tn
lie shock. ''f ID
S, Friday April 11.-St. Leo the Great Pope, 461
ID St. Antipts st. Guthake, St, Maccai and others
whom NJ one is notable, have in charge the eleventh
l. The tandelion, taraTacum dens leonis dedicated
x ST. Les, is the emblem. D, +.5' -'
ed InI7I3, the great peace Of Utrecht, which gave
ly temporary respite to exhausted Europe, was col
g. cuied and in its conclusion was settled the twel1
years. war which sprang from the succession to tt
Spanish throne and involved the whole continent
IS peace. ,& "'n-I N55 81
a The Yarwhich prevailed in our own country durir
Of this period is commonly known as "Queen Anne
War; and was attended with great many circun
of stances of barbarity, murder and inhumanty.
ne Saturday, April 1s.-St. sabas, St. Zeno,
a. Julius, the Pope, and st. Victor are the noal
names Of the day for recollection and observance.
The great saxifrage, sarifrnga erassJotia, is
me plant dedicated to st. Zeno. E ~.
ds Senecar the philosopher, native of Cerduba,
eed span died at Rome, A. D. 65 in the fifty third "
n of his age. His moral writings give him his great
~. claim tn 1itv--hrea thing rure and sine