New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-11-01
NUMBER 2O3.
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unues bright and cool and insurerably dusty. The
s"pufDah cisterns are getting low again.
1esteraay woke mp cooler than usual. and mn, |
h'erous people living in the outskirts of the eitv
and who Tse early, inform US that a yeritable
white frost was distinctly visible before and until
sunrise. Though we didn't see it, we do mt dor,bt
it, for the order of the day was warm clothing on
the streets and blazing fires in the houses
Jack Frosts arrival is properly welcomed in all
quarters. All that is wanting now is dash Of
rain to fill the cisterns and settle the dust
BOARD OF HEAITH.-Tbe report Of this Board.
made out yesterday, showed the total nterInents in
the city cemeteries last week to number 173. OF
this number Is were deaths by yellow fever-most
from Charity Hospital, and all the subjects from
the ranks of filth, intemperance and exposure
The advent of Jack Frost will put speedy quietus
upon Yellow Jack, who has this year been only the
invited guest of filth and intemperance, and not
voluntary visitor.
ALI. SAINTS DAY.-The decorations OF the man.
sos cottages and novels, in the silent City Of the
Dead, are complete. The visitation of the living
will take place to-day. In the different cemeteries
and the Catholic cemeteries in particular the scene
will be to creoies and other old residents not new
put something as deeply and solemny seated in
thelr breasts from childhood, or from years long
past, as tfe annual return of the birthday of the
saviour. 10 strangers the spectacle will be one of
peauty and solemnity, not easily to be forgotten
Inc custom long confined to the Catholic cemete-
RES IS not SO confined now. In the COSMOPOLITAN
and Protestant cemeteries the beautiful old Catho
lie observance will be distinctly visible for the re-
membrance of the dead is purely human feeling.
unrestricted, here at least, in its outward obsery
| ance by any sectarian lines. Collections for the
orphans will be taken at the gates of the Catholic
cemeteries. Let none go without his or her mite
for the contribution basins
NEW LusITANos BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.
This being All Saints Day the New Lusitanos Be.
| nevolent Association will observe the ancient
Catholic custom, and be present at their recently
| consecrated tomb in the Girod Cemetery The
| tomb, an uncommonly large and splendid one will
be. with its decorations, the noblest object in the
whole of that extensive and elegant burying
ground. Members of the Association will be
| present about the tomb all day, and will receive
for the orphans the contributions of all who can
understand or appreciate the lot of the multitude
nous orphans who are thrown upon the charities of
New Orleans above all other American cities. Let
those who visit the old cemeteries of the Second
District lengthen their walk little and take a
stroll through the Protestant Cemetery at the end
| of Girod street.
| SUPPLEMENTARY FIRE. - Between ii and IL
O'Clock last night, the bells rung fire alarm for
the Third District. The light lit up the surrounding
heavens, and the fact was patent that fire actu-
ally existed in the Old Third.
| We went and looked at it, and found that it was
on FreRchmen street. between Urquhart and Gil
rod; the next square on Frenchmen, to the swamp
ward from the big fire of Saturday evening. The
fire started, inexplicably. in two-story franz
| house on Frenchmen, near the corner of Girod O
that house, nothing was left but the chimneys, an
of half-a-dozen or so Of cheap one-story cottage
toward Urquhart street, the chimneys were all tina
remained to assert the pride and dignity of the an
cient buildings.
We didnt find out who had lived around the un
conquerable chmneys, or who said chimneys be
longed to. But we did discover that all movabl,
property saved, and that the scarcity of wate
| with the firemen was compensated by expansiv,
backyards and soft sheds and timber picket fences
the upsetting of which was about as good a
water.
This fire, being on the block Of Frenchmen stree
next to the big fire of Saturday evening, was natu
rally supposed to have some connection with til,
said big fire. Such, however, was not the case
The second fire on the heels of the first, was mere
ly coincidence. The loss by the fire last nigh
could not have exceeded eight or ten thousand
dollars.
WASHINGTON BASE BALL CLuB.-This club had
their usual lively contest i'll the Third District or
| Sunday. The following score was made, Mr.. La
| faye acting as umpire: