New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-14

WIS uOLhlnB IN comparison 10 the former one,
| and that both fires left good many houses
untouched
Having repeatedly stated in these numbers
that great many old houses in the ancient
precincts Of our city may boast of very re-
spectacle antiquity, it was necessary to give
this explanation in view of the apparent asser-
ton that, by these two reported confagra-
tons, few or no houses could have been pre-
served from any remote time of the colonial
or anti-American system. With regard to the
rural dwellings or residences, there is no such
difdeultyn for, notwithstanding the former
slavery order or regime, fires upon plantation
possessions have been ever of rare occurrence
in Louisiana, under the colonial order as well
as the modern American or Republican rule
which certainly proves favorable condi6on
with regard to the general landed estates and
the mutual relations of patrons and land cult
yators. But let us once more return to the
great fires in 178S and 1894 and have again
recourse to the information of the old lady
afore cited. 1t will be recolleeted that the
fearful tragedies of the Louisiana martyrs had
taken place some nineteen years before, that
is in 1869, when the heroic death of the elder
Where had taken place on board Of Spanish
man-of-war, then lying in the middle of the
Mississippi
At that time our informant was only some
ten years old, and living with her parents on
the coast-that is among the very population
where Where had gone to stir up his country
men to an ultimate resistance against what
they thought the Spanish usurpation or pre-
sumption. Well, our informant said she had
faint recollection of some such tragic events
but that people generally had tried to forget
these things Her words were nous oUonS
GLASSES toldeS ces idtsS So,nbres-that is, we did
drive away these dark images for they could
serve no purpose since we had to conform
to our lot Family connections brought her
afterwards to the city, where, in the above
stated locality, in st. Peter street, not far from
the Royal street crossing, she kept a small
commercial establishment in the pastry or
cake baking line, very lucrative at that time,
and no less SO in our day, since Lopez and
many other pastry saloons do attest the great
taste of the New Orleans public for les f7iq7l-
discs de Ia boucbe. This naturally brings us to
another of the most ancient private buildings
of our city-that occupied as confectionery
store at the northeast corner of Royal and st.
Peter streets, formerly kept under the name Of
Joseph Vincent If our readers should happen
to pass by that locality, let them cast glance
to the singular construction of the upper
part of the rear building. This is the remnant
Of former old bakery establishment, and
if we are not much mistaken, there was at
one time kept a sort of an upper mill, grind
ing in that curiously constructed continuance,
for pulverizing the common sort of -four into
a more refined or selected sort that is, the
making of the frstrate quality of bakers
-four At all events the old lady from whom
we have this piece Of information, got her
supply of cake -four from that establishment
and for long time after our arrival in 1916
the old man, the baker whose name has now
escaped our memory Cadet Molet) was &C.
lively employed in keeping his oven going,
until as we believe, his successor, this
Mr.. Vincent, took charge of the concern, and
converted it into modern confectionery
saloon, much fequented when still the Or
leans street neighborhood had not fallen into
its present state of deoadence. Now we
might go on and give our readers many re-
lation of the state of affairs in the old
settlements of the Canadians, on the coast of
our river, as deriving the same from this same
source of information, but we shall reserve
the most essential parts Of such reeitals
for future occasions, when we may extend our
remarks with more propriety beyond the
present prescribed circle that Is, the environs
Of our city,
Let u.s. however, not lose sight of our con
and that is that the time is nigh at
hand to gather all the recitals of former times
from trustworthy sources, and preserve them
as mementos for the instruction of after gen
erations. If the present members of our
society do not garner up their'souvenirs-th
oral traditions received from their predeces- |
may look in vain for any other means
TO revive past memories, or to hand down to |
oosterity tableau of former life, of former
in their own country In this re-
'pect our predecessors have been extremely
legligent-we may say, even indolent-for to
our knowledge, we are not aware of SINGLE
attempt of writing memories or chronicles of
one's time by a single Louisianian in the past
century, or during the French or Spanish
colonial regime. To fill this vacuum we would
iolicit our contemporaries to make some effort
" transmitting their traditional souvenirs, SO
hat at least, some historical names of Louisi-
ma may be preserved
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There has been prize fight near Shreve-
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he gusto and technicality Of Bells Life. The