New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-10

NUMBER ONE HUNDRED.


Having arrived at this number, in looking
around us in the city of our abode for full
| fifty years, and its numerous and now much
improved environs since our arrival we GER
tainly can yet find greatly extended field
| for our local observations and historical re-
miniscences. Still we feel it incumbent upon
us to close now this series of typographical
surveys, as itwere, and bid our readers for
the moment farewell Not, as we Just OBJ
served before, that our subject should be ex-
haQsted, for we have seen on the contrary,
our horizon continually extended and new
objects arising to our view, but we must take
into consideration that more important,
more generally useful observations joined to
ancient recolleetions, or historical reminis-
cences demand another appellation or title,
and we may therefore continue our further
essays under the title Of Fifty Years in the
New World, or some other superserption, or
heading, which title4will thus enable us to ex-
tend our remarks beyond the mere circle OF
the city. enyirons, With regard to these
latter, we shall continue to have recourse to
them very often in our new series of deserip-
tive tableaux and although we have, as
general rule, avoided the more recent events
in our local or chronicaI narrative still, as time
marches on, and as the country generally caIms
down to more normal condition, we shall
feel at liberty to introduce the more re-
cent transactions, changes and mutations,
and hence be enabled to give very lively and
attractive development of our social condition
That this will present most unusual
aspect, when. combining the past to the pres
ent of our all-moying political situation,
needs Of no further enlargement. The great
aim Of such an undertaking that Of being
interesting or instructive, as well as useful at
the same time imposes upon US the obliga-
tionsof continuing ourselves, as much as posi-.
ble to a truthful delineation of passing occur
rences. For such q task we feel ourselves
perfectly competent and when we come to
reflect that the new title of FIFTY Years in the
New World" necessarily doesnot exclude some
fifteen years passed in the Old World, we
may wen be entitled to some credit when We
assure our readers that these fecollections of
the Old World, added to the former ones,
viii portray the most remarkable epoch of the
great French empire under Napoleon l.
that is to say, from the beginning of this CEN
fury, in 1901, to the downfall, of the magnifi-
cent structure in 1915, at the eventful battle
of Waterloo, on the 18th June Of that same
year. In such "cadre, or panorama, the
writer of these lines will not only introduce
some of the contemporaneous events Of which
he has been an eyewitness, but, also, such
in which he has been an active though
humble participant, as the sequel of these
essays will apprise the reader of.
Thomas Jefferson had been reelected to the
Presidency in the fall Of 1904, with George
Clinton, ofsNewiYork, as Vice President, in
lieu OF Aaron Burr, who had had that. fatal
duel in the month Of July preceding, in
which the much, lamented Alexander Hamil-
ton,rfound his sudden demise At the same
time in the Eastern Hemisphere, or Europe,
equally important events had taken place, the
death of Due d'Enghien in March, tile proc
lamation of the French empire in the
month of May following, and the imperial
coronation ON the ID Of December, 1904,
completed the cycle of this memorable year.
The year following, Napoleon /, then en-
peror, declared war to the Austrian sovereign,
and in short campaign subjugated that
ancient power BY the splendid battle of Aus
terlitz on the Cd Of December. 1895. The
next year followed declaration of war
against PrussSia, and this campaign ended
even more gloriously for the French arms in
the year 1906. Under these circumstances,
both the great German powers having been
overcome by the imperial forces, all other
e German doninions had to submit to the