New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-09-01
Anniversary Events.

/ Just by way of variety, we propose until further
notice to jot down such old items as may shed in
terest upon days which may not be remarkable for
any new event, as the year rolls round. If not in,
structive it will at least be in terestng, and will
serve to remind people amid the mutiarOus excite.
ments of the present. that there were some very
/ considerable people who lived and many laundering
1 things which took place a long time ago, We are
| all apt to become too much wrapped up in the
events OF the present. aad to fancy with the existing
wonders of steam, and electricity and telegraph and
SO on that it is not worth while to look back be-
yond the birth of our generation for anything won
derful to think of or talk about. And so, to show
what the LIST Of September is noted for and what it
has seen on different occasions.
The LIST of September is the beginning Of the COM
mercial year in New Orleans fact somewhat
Swallowed forth in publications in another part of to-
days paper In large cities the commercial year
begins with the almanac that is the LIST of January
The lapse the receipts of cotton has fixed the LIST of
September as the commercial New Years day in New
Orleans. Fifteen or eighteen years ago, the LIST Of
October was the day but the ambition of the
planters in the matter Of sending the first bales to
market crowded the LIST of October so much, that
the beginning of the year put back to the LIST Of
September Cincinnati, we believe, ia the only other
city whose commercial year begins to-day, and that
is owing to her intimate and extensive relations with
New Orleans. To 60 back, it was the day which in
1851 seven years ago. saw the sad spectacle of Gen.
Lopezs execution by the garrote in Havana. The
same day saw Instrumentation of the St. Petersburg
and Moscow Railroad Of the greatest railroads,
if not the greatest in the world. In 1888, twenty
years ago, it saw the death of William Clarke the
companion pioneer of Lewis in the Rocky Mountain
explorations-a man who was adored by all the
Indians, and who at his death was the Oldest iu-
habtant' of st. Louis, But as we go back we must
be brief. On the lst of September these things took
place
I8l4-Tbe U. S. soopof,war Wasp pitched into a
British convoy, carried of aud burnt brig laden
with military stores, and sunk the Avon, of Is guns
Same day the British took the village of Champlan
and Fort Casttne, on the Penobsoot.
l80G-Patrick o'Bryeu, an Irshman only feet &
inches high, died at Bristol, England,
l604- Planet Juno discovered, by Harding, il
Germany.
I779-French aeet, under Count d'Estaing, captur
ed the British ship Experiment of so guns aud three
frgates, off Charleston.
l771-sezure of powder in Charleston, by Gen
Gage, and an excitement among the people whicl
compelled several Of the Kings officers to resign.
l729-Death Of Richard Steele, Of ar The specta
tor
17I5-Death of Louis NV of France.
lB91-The Grand yizier and 10000 men kiIlej
during Turkish revolution, in fight with the i'm
perialists under Prince Eugene.
lG82-Wm. Penn and hundred other Quakers Ief
England in the ship Welcome, for America.
/ 1675-Deerfeld, Mass, burnt down by the Indian
under King Philip.
165l-Dundee, Scotland, taken and sacked b
Gen, Monk 1000 men women, and children, slaugh
tered.
l64l-slaughter of colonists on Staten Island b
9 the Raritans, in revenge for depredations by tn
e Dutch.
- - l62O-Sailing Of the Pilgrims for America, iror
CT Plymouth, in the Niayfower
et l6ll-Henry or Hendrix Hudson's mutinous GREY
7 picked up at sea, dying of starvation
- ll59-Death of Nicholas Brekespere Pope Adria
ct ~, the only EngJishman who was ever Pope
q Rome.
At r. C, 4t-Diyine honors deoreed to the memory
as Cesar.
i B. G, 55OS-This big jump into the past, brings
o. to the jumping off place for according to the Sci
tuagiut and to the learned chronologer Julil
Aficanus, of the third century, it was on the NOR
s ing of the LIST of September, of the above year
d yulgariy speaking, the Year 0ne-that the earth WI
5 created. This, as we look upon it, was all sorts
an event in fact. We have never heard Of anythit
to equal it since To-day, then If there be any tru
Il in chronology, (and we don't intend to argue I
ie question with any one, geology or no geology
at actually Old Mother Earth's birthday, She tod
achieves the very respectable age of seven thousa
lie three hundred and some odd years. This we thir
er is honor enough for the LIST of September We do
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