New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-10-11
from one end to the other far exceeds anything Of

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the kind ever before seen in this CITY.
The drygoodseres iewery stores fancy stores, and
the like in other parts Of the cy-further out Canal
and down Chartres and Royal and up Camp-are not
whit behind in the splendid displays Of their win
dows.
The picture windows down town also loom out
with new attractions and block the banquettes with
admiring crowds. We looked at some new French
pictures yesterday, which we could have gaZed upon
for hours. The window where the Partisan carica.
lures are displayed, as fast as they come out and
come over, is plastered up with fresh and eXces-
sivey cOmical grist After grnning at the absurdi.
ties ourse it IS greater pleasure to stand aside
and look at the different grades and qualities Of grin
which the window draws forth upon the miscellaneous
faces that collect in front of IT, Some faces it is |
true, never grin; for we have seen old sober-sided
codgers and solemn looking prmp young men stand
| ing at that window, and evidently enjoying every
thing ia it, without ever once cracking smile, The
evidence of their enjoyment is the length Of time
they stand there. 1t would be a great place for
sketcher or daguerreOtypist to take funny faces if
he could get well seated with his apparatus inside
that window.
And for all Saints Day-the LIST of November-we
AlSo seS haShliSShS preparations Ill Vie "lhuomS'
DEAN mas oeeh ou'y ehls summer, and many loVed
ones, VINO helPea 10 oeek The graves oil their lost
lo'eS ldst NoYeihoeA' VII nave theiF own graves
tI,, '.ie loseo oles .o'D
made more than ordinary preparations and the
shop at the corner Of Royal street and Arsenal Alley
is a wonder to behold The store and all the windows
are filed with all descriptions ofsouvenrs and grave
decorations many of them Of the most elaborate and
u tneli.
home factIrars the yaeDoboa o,ors
and yraaths and fastoons and bo5%fs onJ crosses,
and the like ont of gIaza5 n,nor rro ,,raorroo orc
hard at yyor, and viii he ont vitb tbei haglets in
mood time.
It is not only entertaining. hut instructive, to
glance in at the shop windows about town, as the
; busy season approaches.
,, A GpvrpAr Rep.F-Tbe .boft ~ Dr cboiIIa,s
Irl.o On cstno,, t D..
horse becoming frightened broe also and great was
I tbe stampede Of the crowds around He etartad to
enter the Gem cof.cbouse nrotat, IN coo off with
= sherry cobbler, when Mr. James Beggs, seeing that
he hadn the money to pay for the prospective dam.
: age interfered and stopped him. 1t was a gem of
good action on the part of Jem thus to interfere in
: behalf Of the Gem.
FIRE AIARMs-Tbere were several fire alarms on
tifh ''V were SeEetai nte a'aiLii' on
d trlday and saturday nnt none had much, II any
excuse not enough, at any rate, to Justify waste Of
space in these columns.
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JEWELRH STORE koBBED'-A JeWelry store on pa
n rome street. between Poydras and Perdido, is re-
ported to have been broken into and robbed on Sat
a drin,, tho terrorar, oIsoroo of tho ,,ro1rie
al ~
t. tof. some fourteen "aWhes' WIN Flhgs Ioos auu
other articles valued altogether at $500 were taker
awav. AS usual the robber failed to leave apv clue
u hebind bv which he might he detected
le peIlnu " WHICH ne ~ sn' " ue'e''eu
lt Poor DoBRN "A caFthorse on Saturday mad one
e, of his legs broken by coming into sudden collision
H. with vehicle, turning the corner of Grayier an(
- Franklin streets His leo was honeIessIv broken
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