New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-10
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tue itutter Of crinone on Canal street; some Of
the fair taking refuge in hospitable stores and
others taking French leave in buses and carriages
If the clerk of the weather would so change his
| programme as to give US the rain in the morning.
and his cool breezes and sunshine in the evening"
he would win the love and gratitude Of the ladies'
| and Of all who love and and admire the ladies.
MEETING OF THE US1oS GuAnD. The Union
Guard had their second meeting lasl evening at
Odd Fellows Hall, and it was rouser. We never
saw more harmony and enthusiasm at any meet
ing. Mr.. A. Mazureau, the President, occupied
the chair, and Mr.. j. H. Frobus the secretary's
| chair.
| Mr.. Beggs, Of the Executive Committee, re-
| ported, among other business matters that the
| room in which the meeting was held (the supper
room Of Odd Fellows HalD had been engaged for
| the weekly meetings of the Guard until the elee-
| tion in November -
| The President announced an invitation TO all
the Bell and Everett clubs Bell Ringers, and all, to
| be present at the meetings of the Union Guard
| recess was taken, and large portion of the
| audience came forward and signed their names to
/ the roll of the Union Guard.
| The following gentlemen were nominated by a
committee as the regular officers OF the Guard:
| Preside,t-A. Mazureau.
Fice-PieSidents = First District, L. Fl. Place ::
Second District, a. Legendre; Third District
Chas. Culbertson; Fourth District, D. 7. Glenn.
| IreosUer-Thomas Askew. um
| SecretMy-J. Fl. Frobus.
| Grand Ndi,shd{-Jas. Beggs. v-a.-
assistant MdrsIals-Frst District: T. A. Bart
| lette, W. R. Fish, F. F. Trinchard Second Dis
triet john slemmer, b. G. De l'Isle, - b. Sora-
hiY1n
| Ceran. Fourth District: S. 5. shumway, j. P.
| Smith, G, II. Beman.
| Finance CoHaneiNee-Moses Greenwood, Wln. P.
| Vincent, John A. Watkins Philip Shaw.
| These nominations were unanimously ratified
There was plenty of strong Bell and Everett
| speaking. After the handsome introductory re-
marks Of Mr.. Mazureau, the President, the follow
ing gentlemen addressed the meeting in succession
Messfs. A. J. Blocker, John Jay Lane, T. Madison
Day. NJ. A. Foute, A. P. Field and Mr. Jonas. Most
of the speeches brief but telling. Col. Field
delivered the sledge-hammer speech Of the meet
ing. Tie interest and enthusiasm Of the audience
were very great; and whenever the word Ken
tucky fell from any speakers lips, that word
appeared to be the signal for perfect tempest of
thunderous applause. IAN owing to the tele-
graphic news Of the Kentucky election, received
yesterday.l
The Union Guard is like the corn of the Western
bottoms by moonlight-you can actually hear it
growing! Look out for the next meeting Of the
Guard! .-a-M
W,r. H. NOT JoHN HIN our report yesterday of
| the Holland and Chellet difficulty, we inadvert-
emily stated that venerable and esteemed
| friend John H. Holland was the Holland concerned
! 1t slip of the pen, which we now correct by
stating that VIM II. Holland was the man.
| DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.-I4ast night at about II
O'Clock, fire broke out in the upper story Of Mr..
G. Boyes large furniture establishment, on Royal
street between Customhouse and Bienville.
| The flames gushed out and up with inconceyable
rapidly and in short time there was nothing left
Of the splendid establishment, (at the upper end of
the Montgomery Buildings, or Furniture Row save
piles of brick and some smoking timbers.
The wind blew up toward Customhouse street.
The fremen were able to save the furniture stores
| in the row below Boye's, but above there was too
much heatEand smoke to enable them to act effect
| lively. ....=.. .Z5
When we left the scene, CATER mdnight,) the
building next above, the looking glass and picture
store of Mr. V. Guette lacked little of total destruc-
ton. As we write, the fire still RACES ftrously,
and the crash of falling walls smites our ear.
P. S.-1 o'clock A. M.-The fire RACES still
worse. The furniture store of ID. Keham, next
below Boyes, in the Montgomery Row, is in ruins.
| Above the starting place, Guette's is in ruins
| also tie large upholstery and cabinet making es-
tabshment of Sebrecht, occupying two buildings,
with fancy shops below. Next, Neagle s. Carpen
ter's furniture house is in flames, and will soon be
! done for
The large wholesale wine and liquor establish
ment of Fames & Norman, occupying two build
ings, and cornerng on Customhouse street. is hotly
menaced; there is hardly any hope for it.
The firemen are making desperate rally to
keep the confagration from crossing Customhouse
street. The east side of Royal street smokes and
is being saved with much difficulty.
| Numbers of the fremen have narrowly escaped
with their lives from the falling of the walls Sew
era of the ladders have been burnt at their upper
ends.
| The EMILE OF THE ARCTIc.-ft is now stoutIy az.
serted that the citizen of this city, reported to have
been lost on the steamship Arctic when she sunk
some six years ago, is actually alive and on his
way to this city, those who are most interested ex-
pecting him daily.
The individual in question was or is Mr. Fleurv.
proprietor of a grocery at the corner of Orleans
and Robertson streets. The grocery still fourishes
as well as its proprietress, the once bereayed
widow with two orphaned children. Her present
husband is Mr.. Weber who was clerk in the gro
Gerry when Mr.. Fleury left Three little Webers
have been added to the household whilst the
| Fleury children, a daughter and son now IL and
Is years of age, are still thriving in the family and
doubtless quite anxious to embrace their papa,
should he actually be alive, and actually return
from his unheard of and most adventurous cruise,
| 1t is now distinctly asserted that Mrs. Weber on
last Saturday received the first intimaton of the
startling news of her husbands return, after an
absence Of nearly six years, in letter from him,
dated at New York. lady friend, to whom she
showed the letter. reports the substance of to be
that Flenry with five other survivors of the Arctic,
was picked up from fragments of the wreck by a
whaler, which kept on her long voyage. This ship
was subsequently sunk, and fifteen of those aboard
saved themselves upon an island, from which they
were taken by another whaler, which was just
commencing her cruise. and which only returned
to New York a week or two ago.
Should all this prove true-and we shall know
in few days whether it be true or MOTT will
offer romance of real life exceeding anything in
| the whole realm of fiction.
7. .S.-Since writing the above, we have it from
a.