The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-19

LONDON, July ls-NOon.-Consols 9Il99il
bonds 72s.
L1vERPooL, July s-Noon.-Cotton heavy
sales 5000 bales; Middling upIauds IL; mddling
LONDON, July IS Evening. - COnsOls 9il.
Bonds 72A.
LIvElPooL, July s-Eveniug-Cotton heavy.
Sales to-day 5000 bales. Shipments from BON
bay to the l4th since last report 1900 bales,
Sugar quiet and steady.
NLw YORK, July lS-Evening.- market
quiet and steady. Ssles to-day 700 bales. Mid
ding uplands 3lI332c. Flour and wheat dull
prices hanged since noon. Corn dull; West
ern mixed $l@l %. Mess pork s2S 10. Lard a
shade better; kettle rendered 17}3lSlc. Naval
stol es firm. Groceries quiet. FrcIghts shade
tiIL e..
CHABL, sToY, July ls.-Cotton dull. No sales.
MiddliDgs Domnsliy sic. Receipts 30.
SAVANNAH, July IS.-Cotton dull and heavy.
MiddiDgs SOC. Receipts IS bales. Sales 76
bales.
MOBILE, July Is Cotton market dull and irreg-
usr. Sales 100 bales. Middlngs 29c. Receipts
% bales. Exports 697 bales.
LOUISVILLE, July lS.-Tobacco market very
quiet. Superfne flour Sc 5Og7 fancy $l00
SIO 50. Wheat 81 75@l So Corn 5000. O4Is
S0@S2c. Mess pork SIS so. Lard lsc. Bacon,
shoulders l34c.; Gear sides Ice.
CrNCNNATI, July l8--Flour unchanged. Wheat
81. Corn 92c. Oats 74c Provisions very dud
Butter 26@29c. Eggs Is @l7c.
ST. LOUIS, July ls.-Flour dull and unchanged.
keepSefr tTaEfssnsr sna lower Corn 79S'e' Oats
handkerchief; he said a handkerchief wouldn't
last him ten minutes, and that if it was any hotter
in Hades he wished to be excused on the ground
that he would be unable to stand it. Several
cases of coup de soliel occurred, many of them
fatal and several street car horses dropped
down and expired in great agony. Loaters-
people without " local hsbitatiOn " or calling
in vain tried to keep cool and il matter ed not
whether one walked, sat, worked or slumbered,
he was being consumed by a seemingly quench-
less heat. Southern and other exposures were
all the same, and without preference. Towards
night it clouded up aud the wind blew in great
force, indicating that tornado and heavy storm
of rain was az hand, and 1.-The people rejoced
with exceeding great JOY" but, to their utter
disgust the storm blew over after few spatter-
ing drops had fallen. 1t served to cool the atmO-
sphere, however. and rendered sleeping more of
est, grayest, ioyeliest, most solemn places TO be
found in this world. To enter it is like entering
| q cathedral; the bronZed snd slender shafts are
| Ike the polished pillars of temple; the curved
aid pointed branches overhead, with their solemn
oepth of shadow, are like its fretted roof Under
| foot the earth is brown and soundess, with q
carpet OF fallen, neede-like Leaflets, which have
| ed away from their places, as we do, unmissed
in the eternity of the life of which they formed
| an undisting guishsble part. There is seldom the
| chrpng Of birds or the hum OF insects to be
| heard, but always low, shiyering awe-strickeD
| muTmur running through the topmost trembling
| branches. They used to tell me, before l ever
/
waves was like that ceaseless ripple of signing in
the tops of the pine trees but there is no liquid
splash here such the water rings out musica y--
none Of the rhythm and rhyme of the sea-blt. IN
its stead, suppressed. almost bresthless, sacred
tone of awe which fills one with a prOfo nc
| 0uietude Of spirit. There is no other sound lk,
| il; Z cOppice like fir cOpp,ce. The yew tres u
too gloomy and too ghostly, the beech too earth
| end sensuous: one is almost heather among slthe
| Of them; but in q fir coppce, silent ana suDdued
one is a Christian in a Christian temple. And tt'
| silence is so silent ! An about you stand thos'
uruumbeIed shafts which support the darksom
| roof above, and there is no cracking OF branche
or rustliDg of dead leaves, as you walk to and II
along its aisles. II you listen very closely, J Oh
| may hear the very faint, thy snap with wh'c
the fir cones unoose their sealed scales to set frt
the winged seed within them. But there Is Il
other sound; and your own voice grows softer
you choose TO disturb the almost divine shlna
by any words Of human speech; until, With
sigh answering 10 the eternal sigh through N
trees, you turn away from the soothing level en-
calm, and set yCur face once more towards th
| chatteIng streets you left half an hour ago.
| Irne Argosy.