The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-15
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TIE WEATHER continues uncomfortably and
un-essonably sultry. Tue equinox may be over,
but severe gale from the southeast or the north
is impending. s.r... .t..
JAPAN TREES are now in blossom and give
promise of full and excellent fruitage. The
orange groves are bending under their luscious
freight, fast changing from green into the golden
apples of the Hesperides. Thus it Is with rs IN
this delightful climate. Fruit all the year round;
in autumn the apple and pear, in winter the oyster
and other shell fruits, in early spring the japan
plum. in spring the dewberry. the straw and
black berry and prunes, in midsummer melons
and csntelopes, figs and peaches and apricots in
exhaustless quantities, and SO on ffom season to
season. Besides all these we have the fruits Of
the tropcs-plantan and banana, cocosnut, pine
apple. Euava aud shous.nd othors mesh ffouftho
fowery and perennial plantations Of the ever
faithful isle. r81c' rur,
ANXIOUS GRoUrs were gathered yesterday about
the telegraph and the different newspaper offices,
awaiting further bews of the elections. A gen.
eral gloom seemed to hsveEpread among our citi-
zens, which twas somewhat dssipated by tidngs
of a more propitious nature in the evening.
gentleman, one of the truest and most steadfast
Democrats since Thomas jefferson, went home on
Tuesd-- Wednesday morning, about O'Clock,
choking with disappointment. He stopped to
take toddy on St. Charles street, when q smirk-
ing Radical, with covert leer of triumph, ap-
preached, saying, General, how do you think
Pennsylvania VIII go!n Go to -" was the
sturdy answer. About o'clock, "Wednesday
way to breakfast, as cross as bear with sore
head. We gather from his own relation that he
felt like the fellow who had been mp all night
playing faro, and lost, and who started down
street in search Of a cocktail. Hardly had he left
his door, when he observed poor stranger stoop-
ing down tying his shoe. The posture was ire
sistsbly inviting With tremendous kick pos
teTiori the faro player exclaimed, ''Ccnfound
you, you're always in my way, tying your internal
shoe stripgsi" Shoe strings were at a discount
yesterday morning on inquisitve Radicals.
The LATE EoUYocrIAL, which overfowed the
back part of New Orleans, banked the sea water
at Proctorvile-the lake end of the Mexican
Gulf RAILROADS.&C. as to overflow that point and
the fields in the rear for four miles. great deal
Of damage has been done at Proctorville and the
adjscent country. The packet schooner
Metacomet, which runs through the Rigolets,
from Old Basin to Proctorvle. has been cheated
out Of "trip by the food. The pier head and
everything in sight Of Proctorville, except the
shell banks and oak knolls, has been under water
since Saturday night of last week until recently,
and there is no possibility Of receiving freight or
passage. -ff-r -rr...,l af.-e
R.M. DAVIS. ESQ.,, one of our Oldest and most
enlightened citizens, for many years president Of
the Bank of Louisiana (when the bank notes CT
that Institution brought premium on gold, Will
deliver lecture this evening, at Lyceum Hall. on
Public and Private Credit,n and other matters
of political and private economy. No man Is
more learned and experienced in this subject mat
ter than Mr. Davis. and it is to be hoped that the
hall will be filed with an intelligent and apprecia-
tive audience. ai
TIE TEMPERATURE yesterday, as shown by the
! observations Of A. B. Griswold Co., corner
| Canal and Royal streets, was as follows: At
| 6 A. N. 78 degrees; II n. 81 r. n. 50 or.
| N. 81.
The temperature yesterday, as shown by the
| Thermometer at G. Duhamels, Ill Canal street,
was as follows: At GAL Y. 73 degrees IL n.
| II; sP.N. 791; 6P. NJ rs.
TIE BEAUTIFUL SYLPH, the most celebrated OF
| all the ytc't, that have sailed In Mississippi
| Sound and Lake Pontchartrain for ten years. Is
now up in rafie. She Is in excellent order,
| wi new rigging, tackle, anchors and ballast.
| complete set Of canvas. both for sails and for
! awnings is newly painted, and has just been
thoroughly overhauled. The Sylph has never yet
met her match in Southern waters. She was
epce of Commodore John g. Robinson, the lib
| ersl patron, and indeed the first, of Southern
| yachtsmen. She was built especially for speed,
accommodate Twelve persons on fortnight's
journey, and give them plenty Of elbow room:
| She can navigate every portion Of our lake and
its outlets, and make the voyage to Havana and
for those who have taste for aquatic amuse.
! ments, or who may wish TO run fast vessel in
the lucrative trade between New Orleans and the
ports this side Of Mobile or Pensacola.
AN AuDAc1ous RoBBERY.-0n Tuesday night wai
perpetrated one of the coolest and most daring
burcIsries we have yet heard of In some time
The scene was the residence OF Mrs. Rlce, OF
Prytsnie street. Just above Clio. The family
after locking all the doors, and imagining every
thing secure, retired as usual. Bat imagine thei
surprise on arising yesterday morning to md tn'
whole of the lower floor of the house thrown wid.
open. An investigation revealed tae fact thai
six dozen spoons and forks, all Of solid silver
which had been left In the sideb0ard in the dining
| room were non est incenfus. The thieves were evi
dently rather fastidious. fol the castors, wnicl
| were plated ware. they declined to carry on. ou
contented themselves with breaking up. IN
| Butlerizers were also of humorous turn OF mind
for not caring to encambef themselves with tn
Z various cruets of The rejected castors, they se