New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-22
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY %, 1860. !.

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| Yesterday, the weather being still gloriously
beautiful and delightful, there was repetition OF
all the pleasures and hilarious excitements, The
cars were not SO desperately crowded as the day
before; put when we were on the ground in the
afternoon, we judged there could not have been
| less than ten Thousand people present.
The pavilion Of the singers and instrurnentalists
was all the time filled with delighted crowds, in
cluding the more fashionable and select portion Of
| the ladies and gentlemen in attendance.
The numerous refreshment booths were all
largely patronized; lager beer flowed uneeasing-
", and not and cold wittes of all kinds met
dissolution in the grand cosmopolitan bread
| basket.
The dancing pavilion very large one, with a
powerful band Of music, kept old and young Ger
many In the most delightful rotatory motion, not
70 menton Americans and other wellbehaved out
siders. Among the young ladies and their fbeaux,
this was OF course the charm, the fascination the
grand center and climax Of the yolksfest.
Two whole circnses of flying horses, and the ro-
| tatory railroad train, locomotive sham, and the
| steam Of a Dutchman grinding crank inside of u
red curtain) had ample reason to believe that re-
pubcs are not ungratefu, at least to the arts and
sciences.
The revolutionary swing made few sea-sick
but still hadn't half accommodation enough for
those who wanted to try it.
The temperance refreshment tents Gas per large
signs in front temperance, because the premium
| bidders had gained the monopoly for dispensing
lager and the ardent,) also did business which
must have been highly gratifying to the multitudes
of temperance people who were on the ground!
But what shall we say of the tent shows? In re-
spect to these we fear we shall fail. All the
giants, dwarfs, bears, snakes, acrobats, iugglers
single barreled curiosites and double-headed won
ders were congregated in one quarter, and fairly
outdid anything we ever heard of olden-time ST.
Bartholomew The rivalry of the criers and of
the various performers, in their tawdry, fantastic
costumes, to decoy tie crowd into their respective
tents, giving twothirds Of their show outside to in
duce people to give two bits to see the other third
inside, were novel and laughable in the extreme
1t would fill columns to describe, as it ought to be
described, the ridiculous humbuggeries of this
itnerant show conglomeration. Ancient Punch
and Judy were also on hand, great as of yore.
All those interesting little fascinations which
tempt the risky and the bfave--the gorgeous wheel
OF fortune, over its jewelstudded table-the re-
spiendent cases of jewels, from which you have
but to select then pay two bits and throw dice for
1.-THE board with the spikes in it, at which YOU
chuck bought rings for five cent jack knife, and
YOU WIN sne hiiiie 'aAen oaeh ior more rings
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