New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-21

5ZS IT, ot5a2 as iss eEa as Il hsff aRoB
say, at I'm.
host interesting objects Of the exhibition;
the bronze casts Of Don Juan, an Indian girl and
Nubian slave, must have arrested every
eve, There were smaller statues, too, Of the
NEUROLOGICAL gods and goddesses, and a henutfnl
model Of timo-piece was the golden figure of
some nymph or grace, represented as holding the
vibrating pendulum in her hand A very pretty
concet was the representation Of a grotso, made
bv some young lady Of taste from her souvenirs
Of travel. But we cannot describe further. We
regret to conclude without some account Of the
carved, ialaid furniture which another building
contained; Of the taste which was displayed in
chairs, armoirs, beastaads, window hangings;
gold ard silver mounted harness here, an en-
bossed Mexican saddle there pyramids Of soaps,
delicate perfumes, elaborate mantlepieces of
east-iron; What, in short would take a column to
describe/ The whole Of this portion Of our sub
ject we must pretermt now.
We shonldlilc TO describe too, the exhibition Of
garden flowers represented by an island rising
hill-like in the center surrounded with messy
banks and spanned as TO its canal with rustic
bridge aud one or two other Conservatives of
rare plants; but this time the reader must see for
! himself
There were hobby horses for the children ard
great moral side shows for their grown up elders
| there we're tie race course buildings which was
rather thinly attended by the worshippers of for.
tune, and there was the race course itself around
which some of the lovers of horse flesh were tear.
/ ing At 2:4n pace Upon any other occasion we
might make an interesting paragraph about the
Immense number Of carriages drawn up in bat
/ II, l t,IPl A.
day to something over thousand Of all descrip-
tons. But the subject grows and We desist.
But, after all, the proper subject Of man is man
and the most interesting exhibition there presen
4 was the crowd ITSELF The fifty cars which trans
ported most Of 1t were crowded almost to snfoca
tion with passengers, and at times it looked as j
the city had been suddenly seized with the desire
for emigration. To conclude what we hayetosay
the turn out Of our city population, all in thei
Sunday clothes, was probably the largest that ha
ever been witnessed in our midst.
THE FAIR AND FAIRS.
The opening of the fair yesterday was an even
calculated to awaken many "reminiscences and t
suggest many Interesting reflections. Those VIII
have in days gone by wituessedthe fairs Of the oil
world and especially those Of tmerrie England,
could not but be struck with the similarities an
with the contrasts which our New Orleans festive
presented. On The one hand there were the ten
Of thousands Of people, young and old, and G
Both sexes, all gathered together for q joyou
hd!day-all gay all happy, all seeking for a cal
niva of relief from the cares and tolls Of eyeryda
lirc all proud Of the day and of the cause tha
had called them together in the bonds of sympath
and friendship. There were the tents, and th
booths, and the stands-there were the rarec
shows and he aying-horses, there were the flag
streaming from every coigne and the hprdy
guraies grinding out their windy trumpetings
there were pretenttous bands of music, ther
we're vehicles Of all descriptions in whic
visitors had gone to the scene, there were place
inviting 10 refreshmeut; there were implement
OF hus6asAry and manufacturing machines yisibl
at first glance oYerthe ground there were build
ings devoted TO the exhibition of great v0riet
4 ofproducts, anima,' and vegetable, and mineral al
tistie and meehanfca L natural aud manufactured
But the features that distinguished the oceasio
were its object, The mann, whichit Sas inansu
rated aud conducted aud the character tbe peopI
attending it. Tie great object was thatof e2eonI
aging the efforts Of our people to advance, in al