New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-02
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~ . S4Li9LlLdS DOuuEbs FDT a week or ten
aays past the weather has been remarkable for giving
Us beautiful day and an ugly day in alternate aud
regular SUGGESTIONS. According to this programme,
70 day ought to be beautiful but whether it be beau
tfui Or horrible, will be all the same to US. We are
bound to make our item out Of it.
FIRE.-A fire broke out last evening at about .
O'Clock, in the cotton brokerage Office of Massrs
Neil Brothers Co., in the second story Of the build
ing No. Union street, near st. Charles. The whole
interior of the office (the second room from the 'front.'
was brilliantly adame before the first water Of the
fremen interfered, and very soon the flames were no
more The quickness Of the iremen in finding the
place and quenching the flames was one of the most
admirable things we ever saw in the whole course Of
our experience in running to fires. The wooden cell
ing and partitions of the Office were well snged and
the charred frame of walnut armoir, with the
smoking remains of the papers it contained gave ev
idence that in the armoir originated the fire. and this
was accounted as about the same as evidence of in.
cendiarism The story above, filled with combustibe
partitions and loose samples of cotton, got only a
good smoking, whilst the story below, in which Mr..
Edward Yoens had on exhibition some specimens
of the machinery turned out at P. Rahms Eagle
Foundry, in Richmond, Va. received a yerv COM
p!ete drenching from the water thrown at the fire
in the second story. The whole damage by the fire
did not probably exceed $500.
The ITrNERANTs.-The peripatetic novelty dealers
are now in our midst, in full force.
The lungtester man has got the front stand on st.
Charles street, in the mouth of Commercial Place,
and has for week 50 past been doing land-offce
business There are hundreds of people who seem 10
relish that kind Of blowing quite as well as the con-
yersational or oratorica kind. We learn that new
ssociety is now forming under the title of the sAnti
Gas Association" the members Of which are raising
subscriptions for the purpose of buying from the
iungtester man tickets for blows at five cents each
to be distributed around among quiet people, for pre-.
sentaton to those who get to gassing or blowing in
lingual way to the great discomfort and agony of
their hearers. The only obstacle to the success
enterprise, we learn, is the probability that all the
combined beneVoence in New Orleans cannot buv
tickets enough to present to all the gassers Still
we throw up our hat for the Anti.Gas Society. and
hope they will do good, if they do not entirely
succeed.
The cosmorama man stands just back of the lung.
tester and does big business, at picayune peep
His box is small but it contains whole wordfull
OF the beautiful and the sublime in nature and art.
The wirehammerng machine appears on Canal
street as usual and puzzles and mysties the crowds
to the great sacrifice of their picayunes.
The blow.gun man is doing fair business, on the
levee opposite Jackson square.
In place of the fancy medicine man, with the puri.
tan hat and rnglets that we had last year. we now
have another fancy medicine man, in a shad.belied
coat and shaker hat. He sells little bottles of medi.
cine, warranted to cure every human ailment, from
bad thought in the head down to sore toe on the
foot. He calls himself the d" Good Samaritan" and
challenges and defes the world to prove that his
medicine is not what be says it is. Being a good
taker, be does, matter Of course, an extensive
business.
Around the intersection of st, Charles and Poydras
streets the wondershows are beginning to soar above
the simply marvellous, and border upon the perfectly
prodigious. There is the great wax show and the
mammoth mule show; and the Punch and Judy show,
with live man swallowing a real sword, for
lagniappe; and the South American snake show.
where live Scotch bagpiper, and miniature steam.
ship are given in without extra charge etc. The can
vas paintings, and the stunning bills, and the vocif.
erous gentlemen in the DOORS and the wailing. and
shrieking, and screaming of the inner handorgans
bagppes, and other ear-spting and peace destroying
Instruments form chaos of confusion and distract
ion which are perfectly horrible; cross between
Bartholomew Fair and Bedam.
The musicians are on hand in full force The two
accordion boys and the two tiddug girls are going
slowly through the city, like sort Of musical itch
AiI making lots of money The hand.organists are
the musical scrofula of the city, as ever Their num-
ber is prOdgous and their industry is perfectly ire
mendOus. Some few of them have new and improved
instruments, which give them the call The organ
with the monkey circus is on hand doing the greatest
business of all the organs.
The itenerant brass band is also in town doing a
fair business in the picayune way.
The two Canadian Indian squaws, with the bead
worked reticules, moceasins, etc. are doing a hand
some business. They are not as pretty, but are a
good deal more respectable than the two suuaws Of
the same tribe who monopozed public attention last
year. The police of the Second District have given
US some information about these squaWs which is in.
teresting
The settlement from which these squaws come is
near Montreal, in Canada. They are cultivated
tribe of Indians and have for many years been in the
habit of travelling through different parts of the
country, and peddlng the different articles of their
handwork at home. They are all, however under
the perfect control of the chief of the tribe the
erned in all their movements about the country
The two squaws who were out here last year were
remarkable for their good looks They sold out their
stock of goods without trouble; and were so much
llattered by the gallant mascuines of New Orleans
that they were in no hurry to go home. To tell the
truth they became notoriously fral-forgot their old
home, and concluded to finish their lives in New Or
leans. But their old governor in Canada, it seems
heard of their fall from grace He came to this CITY,
and, after telling different people that the women had
dsgraced their tribe, and not fit to go travelling
again, took them home with him. He stated that
he was going to keep them hard at work at home
for several years, as a punishment-none of the
squaws who could not preserve their respectabilty
being allowed to travel.
The two squaws now here arrived several weeks
ago. They are not near as pretty as those of last
year but are dressed in the same fashy style, and
have the same wares to sell. The police, who are
good judges of all kinds of females, assure us that
the present squaws are each as spotless as Caesars
wife. We believe they really respectable Indians,
and worthy the patronage they receive.
FIRST DISTRICT CouRT.-Judge Hunt-The four
Spaniards charged with robbing another Spanard,
out on the Carondeet Canal, and half numbering
him, month or two ago, were tried yesterday that
is Jose Formosa, Juan Formosa, Luis Grote and
Juan Regnal. The first named, Jose Formosa, the
youngest Of the four was dismissed by noNe proseqn
before the trial. in order to appear States evidence
The whole particulars of the affair We published at