New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-23
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The Present Social Condition Of Bowling
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Ia, In the Bowling Green Courier Of the 10th We We
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f Bowling Green is not as quietas the town Keats
saw on the Grecian urn, whose streets forever
more shall silent be- There is an infinite deal Of
running to and fro gallopiDg horses, ploddng
drays, strings Of wagons, sauntering soldiers
such es WIS not seen in this town" Sin the olden
!" Bowling Green life and blacked boots are con
Trajectory. expressions. The, streets look like
gray band Of cooling lava they are streams of q
compound, which, to name il after Its principal in
gredient we will call mud. Imported dirt, shaken
from ten thousand feet, mingles with the native
soil, and is seasoned with rare condiments Of name
less origin and odor. This recondite substance
has taken bold possessiono Of the paYements, which
we tread by faith, sinking our feet down through
sthe dividing compound with a wayering hope that
there is q bottom. Ithas invaded the houses, and
has driven before itmop and broom. %s'sS Y
None but the more yerdant think Of being com
melancholy only one step removed from the
deepest deep, and the depths are sounded when
We see their boarders # we estimate q mans
time at dollar DAY his fire. wood viii cost four.
teen dollars cord 1T requires four days to getit
hauled, lin which time one is told score Of hes)
six dollars TO pay for ~, two days more to get g
wood chopper, and two dollars TO pay for chop,
ping. There is mystery come with the bus,
to understand, and we involuntarily think Of the
gentlemen engaged for our hotels as little if any
inferior in strategete ability to Napoleon him:
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>, From the most considerable grocer down to the
ragged boy who halls you on the street with heres
your eake, business is flush in the eating line. The
army is gradually taking, possession Of the larger
| houses, and store rooms are coming in high de-
malld. From present Indications trade viii soon BE
driven to shantes in the'sabarbsa But there istoo
much Tennessee money ,ahoat, to- allow the ener-
! getic dealer to abandon the field. The army may
drive them further into the mud, but there they u
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romano Keats-the delicate, divine Keats have
I friends in the central ARMY. We heard Of some
soldier having bought Elizabeth Barrett Brown
,ing's poem, Aurora Leigh. This is hopeful sign.
1 Nevertheless, we are not ot4in%possession Of facts
sufficient to justify US in saving that there are more
! thinkers than eaters The Chinese theory, that
the stomach ID the seat Of intellect, may be the
reigning philosophy, which would account for the
sednlous care With whichitis nourished.Esa9" =
What we have said is not intended to encourage
our goodnatured friends IN apy attsrlpg dssga
4 compliment and willsuggest, for the sake Of our
T friend, that he come in the day time. Ifvigiani
all day, it is not impossible he may, by night, hnc
choice lodging il some private hs5ois Put ! ne
One of our enthusiastic friends, a trile too nnsus
4 pecting, came up the other night: He reached
here at 1880 F. NJ. Failing to get in at seyera
! .fuliy' can'tI sleep On tie sofaY IL Tie aofa
81 |tengaged1 - Can't get some bankets2H AL
the blankets are spoken for" Give me chair
and I'll sit by the fire all nght.i /" Thechairs ars
all rented OUT Looking around our friend saw
an old trunk in the corner, and enaursd ina mos
tforlorn voice, Il, & is that engaged, too 1t was
u He left the house just as the clerk began to drag
u chalk lines on tie floor, with view Of ssettnl
apart the particular space each of several fortuna
gentlemen had secured for the night! The ,mors
ing found him at onr door, wisely sad, hayin
every appearance Of, sqysg - s37y, sz,tzze
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Il are now greatly diminished, as one of the iarges
hotels has, since our friends adventure bee
taken for hospital.
Z II FROM GEN. PR1cE's ARMY.-The latest inteI
Il gence from Gen. Prices army ct Springfield, b,
army il generally well, and the inen the most cor
fssH Saav ia IN need pf clothinr and boots and shoes
4 Gen Price is fairly worshipped by his men, wh
are ready I'd follow him where ever he may leaf
rapidly focking I'd his standard ~ is thought the
he wfil soon have force sufficient to take the hel
and PROSECUTE vigorous and sucr ressfll campaigi
y He ii detertnined not to- go into winter QUARTERS
9 but intends I'd fight as long an armed foe tfeai
y thelsoil Of Missouri. Memphis Avalanche zlst,
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: the New York Tribune we extract the following
the 2dsof aAugustehrss Ytnetby Bradlee,
Trumbull county, Dhio; gave birth TO eightctillrt
r -threeabo3s and five girls They are all sllyin
il and are healthy, but quite small. i. Mr.. Bs's fami
Is increasing fast.E He was married six years at
1 7 to Eunice Mowery, who weighed two hundred al
z seventy three pounds onthesday ofaher marriag
She has given birth to- two pairs of twins, ,tand no
I Ii seems strange,but nevertheless s true.11Mf
l. b. VASE twin OF three, her mother and father bo