New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-07
local IntfIItQenre.

@HE POLICE AND THE ELEoTION.-In view of
the municipal election to-day, the chief of police
| has issued an erder which is ell-timed and
highly commendable, He directs subordinate Off
GERS to instruct their not to take part in the
election further than to cast their individual
votes and preserve order. He also enioins upon
the police the enforcement of the order of Acting
Mayor Clark closing all drinking houses until 8
O'Clock on the evening Of election.
YEsTERDAY.-Has any Of our readers ever wan
dered through the business marts of our fair CITY
on such a Sunday as we were yesterday blessed
with and observed the still calm that peryades
its entire length The busy hum of voices and tie
ceaseless roll Of vehicles, appear buried in the
sanctity of the day.
The streets once so full Of life and animation
seem deserted and inanimate. The merchant has
retired from his counting house and relinuujghed
his daily avocation to enjoy the blessed calm Of
holy Sabbath The hardy mechanic, toiljpp from
tie early to the setting of the sun. welcomes
the advent of the day that allows him eDioyment
in the bosom Of his family. 1t teaches US thatman
has something more to live for than the mere accu
mutation of wealth.
@ So mote it be.''
The GREAT VoLKsFEsT.-Outgivings for weeks
of preparations going on for the grand German
Volksfest-the sixth in New Orleans-excited pub
lie curiosity, and, Sabbath as it was the streets
were thronged at an early hour yesterday with
people of all ages, sexes and conditions, moving
toward Canal street, where the great affair was to
be initiated by the formation Of procession.
gusty wind scarcely .abated the ardor of hot
sun, nevertheless the turnout in the procession was
numerous beyond expectation, and as the column
marched over the route appointed by the pro
gramme, the highly respectable appearance
Of the citizens forming it, and the elegant taste
displayed in ornature, challenged admiration at
every step. The most conspicuous feature in the
pageant was living type OF the Goddess of
Liberty, whose attitude and bearing was classical.
She stood in car decorated with evergreens and
flowers, attended by a bevy of madens, attred in
spotless white and the fair freight was drawn by
four " milk white steeds.n
| GambTinus was also in the line His majesty
seated in luxurious ease, in a car, appropriately
laden with the malty beverage, patronized 90
bravely by him, showed the spectators how lager
was to be taken and illustrated his lesson with a
royal hagon. Whoever he was that impersouated
the apotheosized beer drinker must be accredited
with very just perception of the traditional
Gambrinus. steam bakery, smoking and
pulling came next, the bakers busy at the oven
and now and then, giving a generous throw
of pretzels to the crowd on the sidewalks.
Coopers too, were on hand, industriously binding
slaves into barrels, and suggesting how needful
that handicraft is for the preservation and trans
portatfon of beverages, lager especially. A sugar
refinery, in full operation, was the next mechanical
display, and outsiders were occasional recipients
of favors from this mint of sweets. Last in the
exhibition of artizans came the art preseryatye
of all arts" A yeritable disciple of Faust was
working at case, and pressman, working an old
fashioned hand press was indastriously supplying
the people on the road with broadsides containing
Volksfest matter.
Under the presidency of Col. Won Zinken, q
soldier distinguished for his aptitude for array as
well as gallantry in the encounter praise of the
order of the procession is uncalled for But it
must be recorded that as the chivalrous colonel,
with his staff of marshals and assistant marshas,
passed. connolsseurs in horse flesh and judges of
riding claimed that the cavalcade was the best
equestrian exhibition ever seen in New Orleans on
an occasion of this kind. The animals were all
fine, many of them Arab blood, and, in a civic de-
monstration, we have never seen saddles SO grace
fully and firmly filled, the hand and the knee SO ju-
dciously in unison.
1t was later than was anticipated when the ex-
ercises at the Fair Grounds opened. Long before
-, - " Fs'" SAsHU 'nlonS was
assellpleu, anAlously a"@lung the opening OF the
festival Ine scene presented on the grounds
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