The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-10
Tofal 5nteuiaenre.

fore daylight Sunday morning. Most of the un-
fortunate inhabitants were aroused from sleep by
the encroachments Of the food, and in their con-
fusion, and the terror caused by he bowling winds
and the fearful prospect Of inundstion we're para
Used in every impulse save the instinct of self
preservation. Thus their stores and provisions,
always in this city kept, for GOODNESS, on the
sessions to be ruined - totally ruined and
destroyed. In calamties like these the gene
rosiiy of the public Is expected to extend as
far as their means viii permit. We feel sure the
good people OF New Orleans will prove their
generosity and will further prove to the sufferers
among the colored people that they are the only
true friends the colored people have.
The DEMONSTRATION of the German clubs to.
night will certainly be q magnificent affair. Our
German fellow .ctizeDs are determined to turn out
to man in the procession. ana to disprove the
opinion Of the Badical party that Grant will get
any votes from that excellent class Of population
THE REGISTRATION OFFICES are now daily
opened or shut at the whm of the individual
named Baker, whose name Is as execrable in the
ears Of the people of New Orleans as that OF Par.
son Conway, or that OF Bakers renegade fellow
Briton, the ambrosial Shelley. And among no
cisss OF our citizens arc the names OF Baker aud
Shelley more execrated than among naturalized
Engshmen, lrisbmen. Scotchmen and Welshmen,
or hose of the same birth places who still hold
allegiance to their queen. John Bull spurns
equally a traitor and a natural born slsnderer.
NOBLE CHAKrrY.-A special meeting of Louis.
lana Steam Engine Company No. 10 was held on
the evening of the Sth inst. II was reported to
the company that sum of fifty dollars had been
rendered to the members az q reward for their un-
firing exertions and their good service at the late
fire Benville street, IN the region where the in.
hsbitants were suffering from both fire and over.
flow.
On motion, il was resolved that a further sum
Of fifty dellars be added TO the above donation,
and that the total OF one hundred dollars be ap-
propriated to the sufferers from the present food,
q committee of five to be charged with the dis
tribution.
ST. CHARLES STREET, opposite the Academy and
the Olympic Theaiers, is now the Alameda, Prado,
Bonlevsrds. or Central Park (cal it as you will
of the dusky Helens of New Orleans, between
and s every evening. An excellent taste for
music, particularly the mu ic of brass Instruments,
ia universal with our colored population; and
they stand in crowds, nightly, opposite the rival
theaters, wrapt IN the dulcet and harmonious
strains discoursed from the verandahs of those
establishments. We like this passion for music.
and the exhibition of it. 1t shows that class Of
people are not naturally addicted to treasons,
stratsgems and spos. They have been led away
from quietude and happiness by carpet-bsg
syrens, whose ears are tangled and out Of tune.
"Let no such men be trusted"
THE WEATHER is fast becoming sutumnal. Yes
terdsy and the day before were delightfully."- cool,
and even the suns hitherto scorchiDg rays we're
not at sll unpleasant. The equinoctial Is over,
and we may look forward to fortnight of the
sunny, dreamy days OF Indian summer for which
our southern climate is so celebrated.
TIE ATTENTION of persons who visit the dress
circle of the Varieties Theater, and are therefore
presumed to be gentlemen is called to the fact that
it is not exactly Chesterfeldan to reach over two
seats and take from gentlemsn's hat, without
bis personal acquaintance or previous consent,
anything therein contained, be it even as small a
rbing as a programme Of the performance. As
such erratic acts may often be attributed to the
- &hA han onofl fAr-
gwen, but the word unchesterieldian is hardly
expressive ough TO be applied to the persstency
OF keeping the article TO the opposition and detri-
ment Of the rightful owner.
A NEW REsTAuRANT.-An evening or two ago
the reporter of the CRESCENT sat down with half
a dozen colsboTers from the other papers, at the
festive board of Mr.. J. Detzel l99 Poydras street.
ID was the occasion of the opening of q new res
taurant on the cheap, cash principle. The rooms
are fitted mp in an excellent manner, and with
liberality and good taste that do credit to the
PROPRIETOR. A cheap restaurant combining the
American and French styles, has long uevu nesdad
in the First District and Detzel is the first to pro-
vide one. He has rooms above as well as below
stairs where privacy can be lad. His cooks are
genuine artists, his walters polite and neat, he Is
a favorite with the hucksters in Poydras market,
and always has the choicest meats, vegetables and
game. Above all. Detzel's prices are the thing
which most strongly recommends him. We ad-
wise such readers as generally take their meals at
eating houses to try his cookery and his charges,
for we are sure they will be pleased.
The TEMPERATURE yesterday, as shown by the
observations of A. B. Griswold & Co., corner
Canal and Royal streets, was as follows: At
A. M. 6s degrees; IL N. "; r. n. ~ 6P.
N. IS.
The temperature yesterday, a. shown BY the
thermometer ct c. Duhamel's, Ill Canal street,
was as follows: At 6 A. n. 6S degrees; IL n.
65; 3P.M. 6S; 6r. n. 81.
A YOUTH, apparently of an ungovernable
temper named Pierre Martin, has been arrested
in the Third District on the serious and abominsble
charge of attempting the life of his mother. This
precOcions scslawaR, Who numbers some fourteen
years as his span of existence, received spank
or two on that portion OF his body universally
recognized among Christian and pagan nations
among the ancients, the people of the middle
ages and those Of our own generation, as the
proper spot on which to infiict salutsry punish.
ment for childish indiscretions. The spanks were
administered by the iDcensed maternal fouot IN
true maternal solcitude for the future welfare OF
the vicious imp. The moment the old lady re-
leased young hopeful, be seized hickory sap
ling club, similar to those so fashionable in Radi
cal professions, and among the enlightened freed.
men who shsre the spirit OF Independence (lord OF
the lion heart and eagle eye) and folio his foot
steps with bosom bare, nor heed the storm that
owls along the sky. He seized. and at the same
time raised the cudgel for mortal stroke, intend.
ing no second blow. At this eventful instant
bystanders rushed in and dsarmed the wicked
hoy. Three months retirement in the House Of
Refuge will medicine master Pierre Martin to
obedience and TO the commandment honor thy
father and thy mother" Let the recorder by all
means try the prescription.
The Cry TREASURER is prepared to pay the
teachers in the public schools all the salary due
them from January, 1858.
A POLICEMAN arrested a negro on the levee, in
the Fret District, yesterday, for stealing cotton
As the thief passed down Poydras street on the
way to the lock up be presented a very ludicrous
appearance. Pants, shirt, back, front, every part
| OF him from the neck to the ankles, was stuffed
with quantities of the staple. II cropped out at
| his sbirtcollsr the waist band of his psntaloons,
| and over his shoes; it gave his stomach the por
| tentous rotundty OF London aidermsn's, and hii
posteriors msenifcence of development peculiar
| to Hottentot belles.s
There must have been thirty five or forty pounds
| of the new crop in this peripatetc cotton bale.
MA. LLAMBIAs. ESQ.,, contests the election o
| L. Pessou, colored alderman from the Thir'
| District.
1 WILL THE VENERABLE Julius Augustus Noble
| one of the registrars in the Third Ward, be kinC
| enough to inform the anxious citizens of ths
| ward what be did with that large number Of blsnl
| c.rtlficates of registration which he took hom
| -...o.Sax, the dav hefOre and more thai