New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-21


iaBkUrs aUd gamblers? Let Auffssey have ii
chance. He n&y d0a good deal better than the
average New York members, and he can't do
much worse.
MATrERs IN IBgKviELE PARIstt.-rhe P1aque-
mine South Of the l7tl says
Since our last issue we have been blessed with
eopious rains, and are now again experiencing de-
lghtful weather. Cotton picking in this parish is
nearly finished, and the crop realized upon al
ready if we may judge by the recent increase of
trade and an unusual profuson of greenbaGks in
our town Our sugar planters are busily engaged
taking of their crops, with nDt very satisfactory
results not over two thirds of hogshead per
arpent being an average yield throughout the
parish.
Our lakes and bayous are fall of waterfowl, and
our forests fairly alive with squirrels. AS q con
sequence hunters are having an exciting time and
plenty of fun.
The river is about on stand with the water
unusually high for this season of the year. Health
of both town aud parish dstressingly good, and
as consequence our physicians and druggists
are enjoying their opium cum digltdtiS,' as
that venerable spinster Mrs. Partington was wont
to say.
The people residing on Bayou Crosse 'Tete are
pushing forward their levees with eommendable
energy, and expect 10 have the whole line from
Mrs. Woolfolks down to Bayou Catiish'i-a dis
tance of some sixteen miles completed by the
middle of December proS. We have seen some
finished portions of the above leyee, which looked
Immediate banks of the Mississippi, not to say
iauythiag about its capacity to resist the lessened
volume and current of water to which the Crosse
T5te country has heretofore been subjected. Too
great credit cannot be awarded to the people OF
the interior for their efforts in selfpreseryatIou.
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DRUHEEN CHIInRES.-Au Eaglis journal says
The replehensible practice Of supplying chill
ldren with Intoxicating drinks for their own con-
| sumption is still carried onbg mary pRbheans and
heerseliera sill over the country end we are glad
b notice that in the metropolis an effort is about
to be made to epforce a clause III the police act
l3aganst supplying with drink children anaer six
lstean years Of age for their own consumption A
correspondent Of the Star says the extent to
which beer shops, public houses and gin palaces
are frequented by mere children s0r the purpose
OF drinking, is simply frightiul. One Monday
morning the magistrates of London had before
them twenty boys and girls under the age Of sew
enteen, g all of whom had been found beastly
drunk on the public streets on Sunday, aud inca
pabe Of taking care Of themseves.o
a clergyman entered aroom il a Manchester
Hound it full OF boys and girls drinking. In Derby
room OF a low house. In Salisbury a gentlemaa
saw erowdef Young people, some Of them SUIT
day scholars imbibing beer in the back premises
afa beer shop, one Sunday morning, during church
hours. So great is the evil of Juvenile drinking in
| Middlesborough, that the chief constable has
thought 1t his duty to Issue police notice in re-
ference 10 it, Near Portsmouth is a sort ofpubliG
| house fair aud from it young people have beer
seen rolling home drunk at 7 O'clock in the morn
A ing; they having been drinking and dancing Ill
night Ia Scotland, also, this sad evil prevails.