New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-29
VOLUME XIV.

was, on any similar occasion as great an aggre
| CATION of the loneliness OF Louisiana
The stands representing the States were like SC
many trump cards in grand game of euchre
Hearts were trumps; the four queens were in the
hands OF 81 South Carolina" " Alabama, )" " Geor
ga" and Florida !" but Virginia" held the right
Homer guarded" Gentlemen who got worsted
IN this game, next conceived the desperate design
| OF taking Todd at the "Jeh Davis'' stand but
came off in the vocative again; receiving only
strawberries and cream, which refreshment, though
| delicious enough, lost much of its favor when
handed out by the hours of "Jef Davia.n After
| taking an imbecile round and making many shall
low attempts to get even with the "Southern Con.
federacy" Southern Rights" " Texas, %" Louigf.
ANA aud Missssippi,' the hewildered gentlemen
sought refngejn the second saloon, only to find
that they had jumped % from the frying.pan into
the fire." The Crescent Riflesn menaced them
with its battery Of bright eyes, to the right, "Tcn
nessee, to the left, threatened to come next and
9 Fort SUMTER" in front, would have driven back
any but phalanx of desperate mortals resolved TO
get out or die in the attempt. Running the gauntlet
of these brighteyed brgades and seeking egress at
the left, another invncible barrier the Ladies'
War-talr," compelled halt and more tribute the
dainty " MagnoliaH and the proud " Independence
being almost run over in the rush and confusion
Exit from this hall at last achieved the crowd
in mad rush for the back stairway, {the main
stairway being bockaded by horde of outside
barbafians in league with the lades) fairly entrap
and hem themselves in. All this search for the
outskirts of their thradom results only in their be-
coming still more hopeessly and helplessly sur
rounded by the hoop-sErts of creation. They find
themselves in the midst Of the most killing and re-
lenless Of their enemies The ' Beauregard -
battery permits them to pass the door only to find
themselves in O. central point of annihilation be-
tween " Fort Pictens,n d" Fort Pike ~ and " Fort
McRae," backed by the whole Confederate
States," with flying artillery consisting of grand
piano, creamcolored pony. enc Abe Lincoln
hanging by the neck, dead and 500 sewing
machine! It is here that the invaders have 10
halt sue for mercy, and make peace az best they
can. Then, recouciIed to their fate, they have
Through to roam around the building at will; but
if they steal off without permission, they are adj
judged souless culprts. guilty Of high treason to
the South, to Mars, and to Venus and the Virtues
1t is great pity that the fair cannot be con-
timed longer than to night. Tonight, the remain
ing articles are to be ratified off and auctoned off
tt4 tlitH lS~it CiDSGS "A OF uncommon
interest will be seen at the " Crescent Rifles "
stand-a stand which, we should state, is so named
in compliment to the Crescent Rifles, now at Pen
eacoia-in which company is brave and gallant
son of Mrs. Fl. Brown the excellent and patriotic
lady who presdes at the stand. The feature we
speak of, will be the presence Of Mrs Preston, a
lady SO years of age, engaged in picking and pre-
pairing lint for the soldiers-an old lady whose
blood has flown in rivulets so to speak, for her
countryside having lost her husband ard her two
brothers in the war of 1872, and her two sons in
the war with Mexico. Who will not desire to
visit and pay their respects to the aged and still
patriotic survivor of such family of American
warriors as the Pressons? 1t will certainly be
great and profound attraction at the fair.
Let everybody visit the fair tonight. Don't be
afraid Of The squeeze and if you should happen to
spend more money than you intended to, remem-
Der the noble object to which that money is to be
devoted.