New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-16
,.rrnrrIt rRona NEonILE.
Special Correspondence Of tns crescent =.

inute to the memory OF tne idIe 1sl"SA eASp'tAH
.ust be highly appreciated by his numerous P
riends, and the fidelity of your analysis OF ms
haracteristics as a writer will be acknowledged
" those familiar with his compositions in the
;RrscFsT in years gone by, His genial tempera-
nentaud frank, syInpathising disposition, together
with excellent conversational powers, strongly
attracted all with whom he became acquainted;
his circle Of friends and acquaintance thus be-
came yery large, and he leaves behind him social
void unusual even with men long identified with
Journalism, The readers of the CREsCENT-espe-
cially those familiar with its columns during the
half dozen years previous to the war---will mss
his EASY and fluent pen, which was at home
in the graphic and faithful portrayal OF facts con
tinually interviewer with strokes of quantity eS-
pressed humor, Mnd equally at home IN the AIRY
realms of fancy. He worthiy filled and adorned
in a its domestic and business relations, the posi-
tion assigned to him in life; few can dc more,
and alas! few do as much. Israel GIBBONS was,
indeed, a man to be remembered long and wen
and when, done with the affairs of thisworld he
looked back upon his past life, he could nave
found little in it to deeply regret or greatly re-
proach himself with.
In one respect we here have an advantage over
the people of New Orleans, who depend on the
local columns of their daily papers tor q Know
ledge of what is transpiring around them. Ohe ol
\ the Mobile journals has q correspondent N the
/ Crescent City whose accounts ot certain glasses
of events there are microscopic, from the ALREADY |
performed plays in the theaters and how they were
1 received, to the picking up Of sick and drunken
man, the running away OF horse and 2 1ase alaFll
Eof fire. MANY such incidents are graVely publlsntQ
as if of special interest and Importance 70 the MO
\ bile reader, who certainly must sometimes Wondef
at the short stock Of sensational matter IN your
i CITY, which is all hands admitted TO pc very
wicked one. Even in this little town we can oc-
II casionally furnish wherewth to dress up SylV&-
i nus Cobb romance. We had case OF the kind
Il not long ago. A Mr. MeGanley stabbed to death
4 a Young man named Menzie, on suspicion that the
latter was unduly familiar with Mrs. McGanley;
The deed was performed in an atrociousy cruel
manner, and from Mrs. McC.'s conversation upon
the subject it was said to be doubtful whether she
!, sympathized with the murderer or his victim
| Menzie is in his grave, McCanley Is IN prison
awaiting trial for murder and his wife walks about
the streets and conducts herself in style suggest
# i've of insanity real fegned, or OF natural de-
nravity, She dresses, respectfully and is rather
comey of couutenance, but has bad habit OF
\ astonishing strangers by accosting them on the
street and demanding the time OF day ana the loan
d Of half dollar
II The circular Just issued by the general telegraph
i agent informs the public that after to-day ("ea-
nesday) there will be d &c marked Improvement IN
ly the character of the dispatches sent" know Of
c. nothing in which there is more room Tor improve,
- ment, and were a newspaper proprietor should
i try to believe fufllment Of this rash promise
= possible It is certain that the teeGraphlc news
imaginable. Important events often remain unno-
"a tced, while accounts of the most trivial occur
rences are sent over the lines for the information
J" OF people who can have no possible interest IN
i'd them; and that too, at an expense to be appre-
ic ciated only by those upon whom it falls. Mhat,
for instance, can be more absurd than telegraph
ing from Philadelphia, NewF York, or Boston, 70
d be published thousand miles away, the resqit OF
Ii a base ball match between two clubs OF school
ID boys? And yet this has been done over and over
"a again, and probably will continue to be until the
~ promised tmaFked Improvement" +" takes place.
n A portion of the Northern people became IN
n sane two or three months ago on the momentous
subject of ball-playing, which Immediately took
rank in the columns of their press with irst-class
. sporting matters Every Northern neWspaper--eX
d cent perhaps the religious ones-had something to
l. sayabout and their illustrated
sheets appeared every week with cuts OF stupid
faced youths generally with hair parted IN the md
die who had distinguished themselves with the bal
-e and ball. 1t is incomprehensble that the com
y pliers of teegraphic should take it into the
Ia sapient heads that this could be of the sghtes
: interest to the country at large, and it would b.
NJ incredible but for the constantly recurring eyl
~ dence Of the utter incompeteney OF many 7
ep whom this most important branch OF the teie
graph business is intrusted.
- Mr.. Hicks will do well to hurry up his reform
nv and those having charge of the Atlantic cabi
should look closely to the character of Their dis
No patches. Notwithstanding the enormous cost c
= these we frequently find them duplicated in sui
~ y. stance or worthless in matter. For instance,
ltn dispatch from London a few days ago, which q
tie tle stated rates over hundred
ea formed the people of this continent that the Iol
~ don Globe had editorial alludng to certai
t"e supposed designs of two crowned heads j
Europe. Fortunately, no further particulars wei
our given, and were left entirely in the dark as
gs the only thing of consequence in the dispatc
os VIZ the view taken by the Globe in this edt0ri
OF such remarkable Importance. The oracug
the utterances of the London press are continual
made the subject of dispatches over the cable, al
one appeared recently in thefolowing words, su
gestiye, doubtless, to the person who sentlt
sew tremendous consequences:
- q The Times says the Americans have been d
ose vsing fortifcatiOns and casting guns on yario
hat models"
A suspicious employment, truly. The hidd
ne importof this dispatch could be nothing more n
- q less than that the Times is watching the Anne
hall cans closely, and has discovered something We
ress suspicious. The information sounds as if intend
lne, for some other quarter of the world but the S
n nf pidity of the thing would be incomplete withC
IA sending it here to let US know what We are doil
.'u' For day or two the Mobilians have been
hng the lookout for the grand meteoric exhibition
nounced in the public prints, and the mayor
m At very kindly and considerably ordered the C
bells to be ruBg when it shall commence, in ort
to .'arouse the snorting citizens that none sho
gton need to watch the night out for the expected
play. The skies are too cloudy at present for
ra lestal pyrotechnics, and it they occurred
night they were unheeded here,
s1on This letter might as well be dated anywhere
here, for anything it contains pertinent to Mob
but there is absolutely nothing going on here t
,EAN would interest a New Orleans reader g. W.
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~ ~ DIscoNTNUANcE OF LAND OFFICES IN 7
: tI. Nv sTATE-As will be seen from notice in the
propriate column, the United States commissio
of the General Land Office, has discontinued
- land offices at the towns of Greensburg and
= - lousas, and consolidated them with the cen
arios office Of the State in this city.
=. The land offices at Monroe and Natchito,
- have been reopened.
seds CONCERT EXTRA AoRDIS ARY-A benevolent
the pose has induced several of our first lady ar
nges TO volunteer their aid at grand vocal and ns
AXE mental concert at the New Opera House, to-
llent row evening, The 18th instant. Besides Mesda
ONE, Urban Fleury aud Loceuet and Miles. W. r.
such i. r., among the performers are numbered Me
rom, Fernando (bartton de Darts,J Davis, -Four
atestl treaux, Noras, Page and Yandergucht. Mo
fort these names are well known to our citizens al
longing to ladies and gentlemen of the first Il
part cal ability in New Orleans. The Others alth,
for newer to fame with us are none the less deser
taOr of DonuarifV ami eafgpYn