The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-11
Eoral 5nteIligenre.

IHE RAINS are not yet over. About O'Clock
| IN the afternoon, yesterday, a lowering thuudeI
cloud spread like pail over the city, add about
- eeRan to pour its drenching torrents upon house
AUG street and belated citizen Ii was q welcome
visitation, cleansing our thoroupbf.res Of Tho
perllous stun that engenders disease and pesti.
fence, and Is unpleasant to the nOstrls We
greVe, however, for the planters. Wet weather
=. inns JunetuTe Is exceedingly uupropitious for
lhe cotton plants, which just upon the critic al
point OF boiling or Of growing up into rank and
unpToduetive weeds. -
WHEN TIE RAID upon the "prettvD waiter
girls saloons in the First District was rumored
below Canal street, there was CONSERVATION an 4
eommoton IN the Bismarck" and the saloon on
Bourbon street. The bouncing walters fed 10 the
second story OF the former and looked down io
repldauon upon each party of gentlemen that
came IN for lager, fearing they were policemen in
search OF them. How George managed to sun.
ny BIS customers with beverages, and whether
lhe music was Kept up, are questions we cannot
answer. The stampede was uncalled for as the
descent was confined TO the First District Leut
Schrieber, OF the First District is a sly wag aud
Recorder Becker another Brutus-Lot the mur.
derer OF Cesar, but the elder one, who had his
son hurled from the Tarpeian Rock for some
oneDse or other, the nature OF which we have for
gotten. An impartial magistrate is always more
severe upon bis own relatives than upon strangers.
be justice done though the heavens fall"
The MosT PROFITABLE srocK now a,days seems
is paying handsome dividends whilst the wear
and tear Of the road, the cars and everything but
the knees OF the poor mules, is very small. These
poor creatures suffer greatly from the slippery ma.
ture OF the square stone pavement Il is harro ".
Ing TO see, as frequently happens a poor beast
slip down on its knees, whilst the car PUSHES for.
ward upon its TANKS before the driver has time "a
put down the brake bruising and soaring its bodv
and legs cruelty. Strange nobody has hitherto
tSInea DIS ingenuity to some use IN devsing a
Of our haa
city, To obViate this fearful slipping upon the
square stone pavements.
IT wouLB sEEM as if Senator JEWELS assertion
was correct, that there are $500 stand Of arms In
BUILDING opposite the Mechanics Institute-as no
denial has been made of 1t either in the Senate or
the Republican journalistic organ.
PERsoNAL.-Hon. r. ]. Corner, chief Justice of
BRUSH Honduras and baFrister-at -law, England,
and z. J. Hankin, lieutenant royal navy and colo.
NAL secretary of Sierra Leone, were among the
arrivals by the Trade Wind from Balize, British
Honduras.
We ARE happy to learn, through the kindness
OF Or. Nicholson, that young George Niekard.
who was Sc badly injured by the fall of the plat.
form on Lafayette Square, last Thursday night
when the Democratic meeting was in progress. r.
improving One of his arms, however is par
alyzed, and he cannot see but whether these mis-
Tor unes are permanent we have not the power to
state. He is conscious TO the touch about his
have reasonable prospect of recovering.
NINETY FIVE DEATHS were reported last week
being decrease of five from the number re-
ported during the previous week; of these 2 were
drowned, died of lockjaw, l of cholera | ca.
tarrh, l asthma, cancer, IL consumption. 3 con.
gestlye fever, intermittent, 2 remittent 4 ty-
phoid fever, smallpox, l old age, III were still
BON, and the balance died Of various ordinary
diseases; AZ were males, 40 females and infants;
81 were whites, 20 blacks, mulattoes and not |
= Ia HaA
Ii not stated, and % were foreigners; 20 were |
under one year, 10 between / and 10, 3 between |
10 and Is, between Is and 20, 10 between 20 aud
30, between 80 and 40, is between 40 and so, 5 |
between 90 and 60, between 60 aud 20, be-
tween 20 and so. l between so and 30, l between
30 and 100, and whose ages were not reported.
WE THANK A. QUERE, ESQ.,, president of the |
y Spirit OF '6S" club, for a written invitation to
attend the meeting last evening.
CoLORED DICK HAND, EMPLOYED on the /
steamer Bismarck. fell overheard about six /
o'clock Sunday evening, while discharging the
cargo, ard was drowned.
The ALARM OF FIRE, from engine No. los
house, late on Saturday night, was caused by a
ire breaking out in a milk stable on DuDre street
between DumaiDe and st. Philip, which was en-
irely destroyed, while some damage also resulted |
20 an adjoining frame house and kitchen. The
table belonged TO Madame Jaccsrs, No. ZIG Poy.
iras street, and had been for some time vacant.
ncendarism is suspected.
GEN. c. H. ToNPKNs, chief quartermaster of
his department, has been ordered by Gen. Buch-
man TO proceed TO Mobile, Ala, for business con.
lected with his department.
The RECEIPTS OF INTERNAL REVENUE for this
district last week amounted TO s3l ,94l Ga.
TIE NATIONAL GAME Of base ball was PLAYED
N Sunday at the Delachaise Grounds between
be Excelsior aud r. E. Lee Clubs; and at the
ear end of Piety street, in the Third District,
between the Washington and Fearless Clubs.
The results are as follows: /