New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-14

IL O'Clock, at the residence Of the president, AGA
Bacchus street.
CRESCENT MONTHLY FOR MAY.-The following
is the table of contents of the Crescent Monthly
for May, Mr.. William Evelyn, editor and pub.
fisher, No 90 Camp street:
Gen. Lee and his Campaigns" by J. Qutman
Moore, Esq; 1.-The Hamadryad," by Paul H.
Hayne Phillip My Son." by Miss Clara "
Dargan "Lee to the Rear an incident of the
American war, by Jno R. Thompson Esq; "Chess
Gossip" London Society u 1.-THE Bewitched
Farm" Part H., Chambers JournaI); History
of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of RATIONAL
ism in Europe" Uondon Tmes) 1.-THE Letter, i
by Mary Walsingham ''Notes in Rome, Social
and Artistic" Nondon Society; Lord Mac
aulay," (PalI Mall Gazettel; Editorial Notes,
Literature, Art, Music, by the editor; 1.-THE Con,
federate Flag" by Harry Lynden Flash, Esq;
'sonnett," by Col, Paul H. Hayne.
The first article is rapid but succinct review Of
the different campaigns of Gen. Lee, written in a
spirited and graceful style. We quote the con.
Guiding paragraph which refers to the final scene,
the surrender Of Gen. Lees army, and contains a
tribute to that great leader which is as Just as it is
beautifully expressed
There stood the mournfuI remnants of that once
glorious army that had dipped its conqueriDg ban
ners in the crimson tide of eight and twenty SAN
culinary battles, and strewn It's heroic slain from
the feet of the Pennsylvania mountains to the
gates of its own capital city that had given Man.
assas to Beauregard, and twined the fame of the
Seven Pines battle in the laurel wreath Of Tnhn-
ston that had caused the waters of the Shenan-
doah etern3lly to murmur the fame of StoneWall
jackson, and, stretching its right arm out to the
distant West, had planted victory on the dr0op
ing banners of Bragg that had Witnessed four
oil al5
and tragic scenes, and under all difficulties trials
tolls and dangers, had remained steadfast and
faithful to the last. And after having witnessed
the rising OF the Southern constellation, as It
doomed up brightly on the horizon of war, pursu.
ing to its splendid zenith the fiery path Of Mars
now beheld, not unmoved, its declining splendors
going down in the gloom of eternal night. And
he, Its Ilnstrious chief, whose lofty plume was
ever its rallymg point in battle, and around whom
Its affections warmly clustered, now commended
il for its past devotion, and babe it adeu forever
Slowly and sadly he rode from that mournful field
Tor his strong sword hung shattered at his side
aud the cause that he fought for was beneath the
loot OF power. Few were the eyes that grew not
moist at witnessing that departure 1t was the
agony OF great cause finding EXPRESSION in the
sublime soul of its great defender. And though
that cause be dead, yet will its memory continue
10 i've, and ever honoTed will be those illustriOus
names that sacrificed at its affairs. And on the
scroll OF fame no name among the list of eminent
worthless will shine with purer, serener or more
Respondent Light than that of Robert Edmund Lee.
HIS fame Is monumental. His name will be nIarea
alongside those of the great captains of
history Marlborough and SAKE, of THly and
Eugene and as long as the fame of the Southern
Struggle shall finger in tradition and song, will
ms memory be cherished by the descendants Of
the Southern races while his character will
stand up IN the twilight ofhistory like some grand
Old Cathedral lifting itself in imperishable beauty
above tue objects Of earth, majestic in its yastpro
poffIlons, awful IN its solemn stateliness sublime
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