The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-15
CITY TOPICS.

In our local reports of this morning will be
found chroncled a number of theits, robberies,
garrotiDgs and burglaries which have occurred In
the city within the few days past. Most of them
reach Us through the police channels, but one or
two we learn from private sources, inducing the
supposition that there are even more unrecorded.
The increasing frequency of these occurrences
brings with it to all rejecting men the ever in
cressing conviction thata speedy and severe rem
edy must be adopted to rid our community OF
the numberless thieves, professional or otherwise,
male and female, who now infest it. When men
notorious for connection with similar crimes in the
past can walk the streets and snap their fingers
with impunity at the authorities; when, not on
one or two nights, but every night, robberies
and assaults are recorded in almost any part Of
the city; when. there being no vagrant law, the
doors of the workhouse no longer open to re-
ceive, for sixty or ninety days, dangerous or
suspicious characters not yet taken, it is true, in
any overt act, yet known to the police to be
always plotting and ever ready to execute
roguery; when men can be assaulted on the prin
cipal thoroughfares before midnight, knocked
down, robbed and left insensible- then, we say,
it is high time that the people move, and, by
quick, united effort, drive forth bring to justice
the scoundrels, comparatively few in number,
who so boldly menace their property and lives.
The approach of the merry Christmas season is
made painfully visible to the impecunious by the
brilliant displays of holiday gifts in the store
windows. Already have the small boys begun
the banging Of fire crackers and swapping of tor
pedoes, and already there exists among the cred.
ulous little ones intense excitement over the
~ hat
parsonage with the broad face and little round
belly that shook when he laughed like bowl full
of jelly.n How many wee girls and boys ask
daily how many more days must elapse before
his coming; how many of them hold one-sided
dialogues with the imaginary old fellow up the
chimney; and, oh what visions Of sugar plums,
and toys, and stockings boated into irregular
shape with all sorts of good things, dance through
their heads the while. Well, we have all expe-
rienced these same innocent joys, and, it may be,
none of more real, downright satisfaction In our
whole lifetimes. And, in the happiness of the
juveniles of to-day, to recall and live over our
own long past is but a fitting accompaniment of
the Holiday time.
Yesterday a beautiful young lady could have
been seen walking through the rain, conveying 10
her arms a black and tan dog. The animal was
cuddled up in her arms and covered with her
cloak. only its head peering out, its eyes seeming
to twinkle at the idea of what a good time their
owner was having. An old bachelor bystsnder
beheld and envied, and finally sauutered of
through the rain, gently murmuring:
When Peggy's arms her dog imprison,
always wish my neck were his'n,
How often would stop and turn
To get pat from hand like her'n.
And when she kisses Towser's nose.
Oh don't wish that we're those,