New Orleans daily crescent., 1859-11-18
FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1s, 1859

beneath the Bowman House but this, under
stand, is because rnmor is abroad, that the en-
| terprising barkeepers hand out nothing but the
best they have. Water is plenty at the hotel but
scarce about town. The drought has dried up the
cisterns, and the cows, and the indgo-iooklng
liquid consumed around is carted from Pearl river
But for the drought and the dust,
/ THE WEATHER
| Would be all that any poet State Fair could
DESIRE Though the atmosphere be dim with the
| dust and the autunnal haze the sun asserts his
| sway, and manages to impart mellow, pinch
beck lnster to things not totally obscured. This
| being SO,
The FAIR To-Day
Was even more splendid and more crowded
than it yesterday. Besides the Jacksonians
and the multitude on them quartered, great crowds
of people came from the country in carriages,
with their eatables along, and made sort of pic
mic excursion of it. / did not coop myself up in
the pagoda with the judges to-day, as did yester-
day. 1 roained around at will; saw much more
than before, and was consequently more enter
tanned. The extraordinary attendance of the
FAIRER PART OF CREATION
Was feature which, being merely human, I could
not allow to pass unobserved.q No such thing has
been seen, is to be seen, in or around New Or
leans. The dress-circles of the theater or the
opera-house on benefit nights, and the annual balls
of the "Mistick Krewe of Comus,' generally bring
together all the loyeliness and fashion that can
crowd into the space prepared. On the best occa-
sions in New Orleans, you will not see more than
three or four hundred ladies at most. To-day at
the Mississippi State Fair, the hippodrome was
gorged with an audience of upwards of five thou
sand people, of whom two thousand were
ladies the large majority representing the wealth,
intelligence and fashion, of the State. Many were
richly dressed, and but few 1auntily. The
wealthiest and the prettiest were generally least
ostentatiously dressed; and, speaking of dress,
IT MAY BE NEW
. To many lady readers of the Crescent, to know
that hats instead of bonnets, are extensively the
go with the ladies of Mississippi; particularly
those of the plantation districts. At the Fair to-
day, I couldn't tell which predominated, bonnets
or hats; though incline to believe that the hats
were slightly in the majority. l am in love with
= the hats, if dare not be with the faces beneath
/ them. They cover the head, show the back hair,
and with their bows of ribbon and fringes of lace
give to the fair wearers bright and spunky look,
and to the prettest a Die Vernonish charm
which is perfectly irresistible. But / must cease
y my harping on the fair sex, and say something OF
. the great fair which includes both sexes, and ami
~ mails and other things to boot; at which, to-day,
| looked upon
g MANY THINGS
e Which hadn't time to discover yesterday. Whilst
the display and inspection of stock, and the award
IS ing of premiums by the judges, proceeded withir
u the hippodrome, the outside multitudes found
! ample food for eye, ear, mind and stomach, annie
l. the mutfarous attractions around.
e The rival steam engines, saw mills, grst mills
e and cotton gins, shrieking and whizzng away
were the chief attraction to the plantation gentle
I'd men, whilst the clatter and buzz of the rival sewing
machines, in another quarter, the chief atrac
ton Of the plantation ladies. [By the way, there
s. some fun in the placards of the sewing -machln
Mt men. You know that all these machines are mad
at the North A vicksburg agent of one of tn
machines issued bills cautoning the public to be
at ware of Yankee peddlers who were Abolitionist.
r, selling Abolition humbugs. A New Orleans ager
Id considered himself hit or hit at, and issued bill
e, warning the public not to buy, or even tampe
er with any of the machines on the ground and pal
OF tcularly those from Vicksburg, until they had in
Up spected his, the only good and really mertoriou
:" of all the sewing machines on the ground.] [Pa
re renthesis again. Each particular machine for sew
!, ing, sowing, grinding, pumping, or making fol-
u, tune generally, had its bushels of pamphlets an
bills and cards scattered broadcast. Cofeehouse
VI and barber-shops plastered with them; wind play
ing with them all about the streets; no scarcity Q
IN paper anywhere-even in the worst contingence
of diurnal life. All the trees between the city an
the Fair ground plastered with bills. Trees on tn
Fair ground, ditto. Butts of PROSTATE logs, an
stumps, likewise Fence.posts and rocks, also
us mother earth even wrung in; bills laid down b
of the roadside and brickbats them to keep ther
e, from blowing away. Every stationary object wit
mt something to say about something. Leopold, an
at the other "ony" bill-posters of New Orleans
ought to be here, for a lesson ortwo]
FRESH ARRIVALS
rs Of stock and plantation produce added to th
n days attraction. had an opportunity of inspec
Dir ing large and assortment of plants, shrubs
nd etc., furnished from the nursery of Mr. Hatch,
ell this city. There were some splendid specimens {
nd Irish and sweet potatoes, yams pumpkins, melor
ed and beans, furnished from different plantations
e. ANGAMAR's CREvAssE STOPPER,
Ia A model of which was on exhibition, create
is- much inquiry among the backlanders, and mut
Gu speculation and criticism among the riverlander
" 1t was much admired, for the reason that IL
II u model mathematcally demonstrated its utility al
~ ~ that it was accompanied by certificate of
NC practical trial and success in stopping crevas
u in St. James Parish, La, this year. To descriE
-. the apparatus would take up too much of my tin
u, ~ and too much of your room. think the thing
be heard of hereafter, and that it will realize som
~, thing handsome to the patentee, Col. Angama
~, who Is Louisianian.
~ A GEOLOGICAL CURIOSITY
w Was exhibited in the shape of collection of Il
", soils and marls of Mississippi, consisting of abo
VI VI four hundred specimens, mostly in bottles, wi
~ labels describing the geological rank and veget
Wv BILE product of each. These were from the Sta
Geological and Agricultural Survey, and were e
'p planned to visitors by gentlemen who had
eh prominent part in thai survey. This exhibti
IA was constantly surrounded by crowds OF the me
W intelligent men OH the ground. 1t was tne ca
." sheaf of all the scientific things on display, al
10 was and is credit to the State, for whom and
~ whose expense the survey was made.
~ In THE ARENA
~. The attraction existed in the display of poni,
hn mules and jacks, according to their differe
Wv grades, and the award of premiums to the succe
n full competitors. do not deem it worth while
'. ~ give list of the awards Some of the amin
were fine according to their quality, and the ex