New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-29
Arrlvals d the Prlnelpal Motels.

i ST. CHARLES HOTEL D Schepoes and
wife, city; E Buck, N Y; P E Norton, Ky; Ed
| Wooker, Brookhaven; G Prather, st Louis; F
| Nichols, I Nichols, Texas; VIM Montgomery,
Memphis; A Root; s N Sawyer, Lower Coast;
jiJ s Hammond, n Y; w R Whylard, G Brown,
Texas; G Thompson, Baltimote; E Taylor, Liv-
! erpoo G NJ French Pittsburg; Z Boyer, Mobile;
Ed Hobart, Ala; I Spence Smith, city; s Vim
/ ing, 81. Louis.
/ La; VIM Clark; Arnold, ] Shroman, Miss Belle
| Shroman Chas Landry, Jas Graham Galveston;
1 Q u Tennisson, Miss; J Brintnal S G Tally, RIB
Smith, Kordsick W Morias u Sharp, @ Fl Mer-
rett, G + Hughes, Texas; E Bartholomew, Mich;
Mr. and Mrs Chas Gayarre, Geo T Converse, John
1 d Baxen, f G Watson, ] P Johnston, o Choice, w
| LCunnngham, city: Z MeMichael Miss L Nc
Michael, N j; ] Platt and 2sons, Point Conpee ;
| VIM Prescott G L Hubbel W NJ George, Mo
| bile; N Roberts Ala; Mrs Small and children,
Maine L Lachance, Montreal; W F Davidson.
ST. JAMES HOTEL W Saunders, Jackson
| Railroad: Moore, Ala; James Jeffries and lady,
| Mrs Lewis, Rapdes; Mrs Everett, New York; ] g
| Parrhall, Ga; w Foote, Texas; DR. W Nell
hanny, Va; D Campbell, Canton: DR. Foote and
| lady, Texas; G A Chadwick, Ga; E D Long, Fla;
g 3 MeYanghy, J Neee, Ky; u Richardson,
Ala j w MoMainay, N G; W D Riestree and lady,
New York; I Mcnamara, Mobile; Geo G Randell,
Jack White. city; G Merritt San Antonio; W Fl
Harper, 1 Prudhomme, G W Cooper city
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the continent has suffered SO often and severely
from fire as Quebec. The lower or French part
of the city has been especially afflicted. St. Roche
exhibits numerous evidences of the con1agrations
which have, from time to time, taken place within
its limits, and we are informed by telegraph that
it has again been swept by the deyouring flames.
The whole of Lower Quebec, in fact, presents, or
rather did few months since, the appearance
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follows
On the 2Sth day of May, 1916, tannery took
fire, and before the flames could be arrested the
whole of ST. Roche was in ruins. For an entire
mile there was mass of red living flame to be
seen, remorselessy licking up shops, dwelling
houses churches, ships and shpyards. After
raging all day the flames were finally arrested by
blowing up two houses in the Rue Canoterie.
Scattered among the ruins were the charred re-
mains of men, women and children and many
animals One year later, to day, another fire
burst forth in ST. John street. and the whole of ST.
John shared the same fate as st. Roche.
These two eonfagrations rendered houseless six.
teen thousand people, destroyed three thousand
buildings and property to the value of ten or
twelve millions of dollars. Forty persons perished
in the flames of the second confagration. Charity
sermons were preached through the United King
dom in behalf of the sufferers, and upward of
million of dollars were raised for them in England
and the United States. The ruined districts were,
to some extent, restored, though with very infe-
rior class of buildings.
In July of last year another large fire broke out
directly beneath the CITADEL along the banks of
the St. Lawrence facing Point LeVi,) and swept
the buildings away for long distance. Again, in
the closing days of September, 1865, yet another
coniagration burst forth in st. Roche, consuming
sixty more buildings. There must certainly be
great lack Of means to cope with the elements, or
these disastrous fires would not occur.
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CURIosITIEs OF French JoUBNAL1sM.--Und
fi1an sI,,
erte, of September 25, publishes some sharp re-
marks on system frequently followed by great
number of the French provincial Journals but
which stood out more prominently onthe occasion
of the Marquis de Lapalette lately publishing his
circular to the diplomatic agents Of France That
portion of the French press receive every day from
Paris a photographic sheet containing the latest
news Of the day, and very often observations on
any important political document In numerous
cases the journals in question merely copy the
articles so received, the whole being, of course,
favorable to the government. Hence arises the
identical character of the observations to which
the Biberte alludes in the following passages:
Picture to yourself a lot of lads at college,
writing with zeal and emulation for the prize of
French composition; then imagine the astonish-
ment OF the professor on discovering that the
thirty essays are all alike; that they begin with
the same word and end with the same phrase and
that this Siamese resemblance is followed up
through the whole length of the piece produced.
After his first astonishment, the master will soon
religioasly copied some common model, and that
they are not likely to reflect any great iustre on
his institution The director of the press depart
ment at the ministry of the interior has just had
Surprise of the same nature. The journals having
the privilege Of receiving the government adyer-
tsements had received on the same day the circular
of September l6, as a subject for remark. The
same day, at the same hour, the Journal de Char
tres, the Echo de la Marenne, the Union Bretonne,
the Messager de la Sarthe, the Journal d Alencon
the journal d'lle-etYilaine and a score of Others
which we have not time to enumerate, published
the same laudatorY article on the circular of Mar
quis de Lavalette, signed however on the Chasse-
pot system, with different name in every Journal
What is this mysteFy2 Whence comes this article,
q Ia pieuDre whose tentacles touch at the same
moment the four cardinal points of France? Who
is the naughty pupil who passed this copy to his
feliow.students? 10 these questions we can give
no reply But what is certain is that you viii not
feel Inclined to place your children in an insttu-
ton whose students are formed under such loose
rules of discipline"
AN TNHUMAN MoNsTER.-hIr N. A. Hawkes., of
Marblehead Massachusetts, who accidemtly shot
his bride while they were on their bridal tour at
st. Paul Minnesota, last week, sat holding the
head of his bleeding and dying wife, when some
scoundrei robbed him Of his pocketbook CON
tanning $3l0,
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