The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-04
Toral Sntelligenfe.

The ELECTION YESTERDAY absorbed the atten- |
ton Of the entire population to such an extent |
that nearly all offenses against municipal regua-
tions were ignored. The arrests throughout the |
city were for mere peccadilloes. We saw q col |
ored woman arrested on Bienville street, near
Basin, yesterday, charged with drawing razor |
on some person, and carried Of to the calaboose;
slightly shot in the leg by the accidental discharge
of pistol. The ball merely grazed the shank OF
his leg and did no material injury.
The city has rarely been more quiet. Negroes
were to be seen at every poll and SO far from BE-
ing molested they were entreated to vote,
whether for Grant or for Seymour.
At every poll there were men employed and
sworn by the authorities-men OF the drst respec-
tsbility-to zee that every registered voter should
deposit his ballot unmolested, whether he were
white or black, for Seymour or for Grant, and We
can assert, from our personal observation, that
they discharged their duty faithfully.
/ THE VENERABLE JACOB BARKER, now verging on
his niDetieth year. was as early as halfp
six yesterday morning at the poll, corner OF Pry.
tania and jackson streets, and was the first one
who voted there. He voted for Seymour and
Blair, il being, IL we mistake not, the fifteenth
ballot for presidential candidates which he has
deposited during his long and varied lifetime.
PEOPLE WERE TO BE SEEN yesterday morning at
all sorts of hours and in all sorts Of odd out OF the
way places looking for the polls to which the first
letter of their family names and the election COM
missioners had assigned them. Some who lived on
Prytanis had to go out near the Jackson depot.
and some residing back near the woods had to
vote on Julia street, near Carondelet. But the
arrangement worked well nevertheless, and we
don't believe q single earnest Democrat failed in
his search for the poll where he might put In Q
plumper for Seymour and Blair.
PETE AsToNIsHED THE OCCUPANTS of the CREs-
CENT ssnctum last night by the question, Why
y there no difference between an oculist and an
auristi" He answered the query himself By the
declaration that il an eye "a nigh doctor and
the other an ear "a near) doctor. All parties
doing well up to last accounts. 9I
ST. PAUL's CHURcH.-we learn that Rev. Mr.
Adams, rector of this church, who, for some
weeks past, has been in New York in attendance
Protestant Episcopal Church OF the United States,
has recently returned, strengthened and rein.
vigorated for his winters work. His people will
be glad 10 receive him again. In the same con-
resigned the rectorship Of manuel Church, in
Jefferson City, for the purpose Of moving to Mis-
sssippi City there to take charge Of church. just
founded. Success go with him.
TIE GALLANT HANCOCK CLUE meets tonight in
its rooms, No. l39 Canal street. to permanently
organize. Let every member be present. The
occasion will be an important one.
We LEARN that the vestry of Christ Church
have placed pew at the disposal of Mrs. Polk,
the widow of the lamented bishop-general. This
is as it should be.
THOSE STORES that were open yesterday had
subdued air about them none Of them had their
shutters down. and their general aspect was that
of shops which protested against their being open
at all, and found themselves very uncomfortable
at presenting an appearance so different from
their neighbors. The drinking saloons were
cosed-in front. We saw one bad case OF drunk
enness on 81. Cherries street, about O'Clock, but
that was all. Such a quiet election we never be-
held before.
SENATOR CAMPBELL publishes card in the Eve
ming Re publican, stating that he voted, not be-
cause ne deemed It fair and free election. but to
show that, as "carpet bagger, be would vote
| under any circumsta lces.n According to the ac-
counts of those WAC were present at the senator's
voting, the pregnant hinges Of his knees were
| good deal exercised at the moment, and his mind
| was 30 much eDgrossed 10 the eplendor OF bis
| having given plumper for Grant and Colfax that
| he was obvious even OF his registration paper.
| forty PAGES, snd the paper handed over to him.
| And these assume but yaoI's sxeremsnt
| IyMAKING OUR ROUNDS in the Fourth District,
yesterday, we could pot help stopping at that
stupendous structure, the New Orleans Grain Ele-
| vator, to the top of which we were ciceroned BY
Mr.. j. J. Henry, one OF the engineers Of the
building, through labyrinth of stairs and on raf
| tiers over almost bottomless tanks, the idea OF
| which even now makes our head feel dizzy. We
found the roof near completion. the level portion
| of which, about forty feet square. was occupied
by a couple of dozen of ctuieUI ike ourself ga
| zing upon the Crescent City from height OF one
hundred and forty-three feet above the level Of
the ground.
Since the days OF the majestic cupola of the st.
Charles Hotel, burnt down IN 1852, it had not been
our good fortune to get so high In the world, and
our conception OF the great city in which we live
| was really small. Since 1852 the immense changes
| and improvements that New Orleans has under
gone can hardly be realized, unless seen from our
situation of yesterday, and when we advance the
opinion that its population cannot iaL snor. .,
three hundred thousand, we believe we are mol
mistaken in fact, we are fully sustained by the
late resistration-43 Oe0-even by admitting that
ss low as eight per cent OF the population OF large
cities are voters for the usual per centage Is gen.
| erally one out Of ten.
the result of the enterprise OF Mr.. Hgoy we were
informed by Mr.. Piersou, general superintendent,
would be ready TO go into operation 10 Two OF
three weeks and all connected with tne establish
ment are sapguine Of the most gratifying success.
The tower near the rivers edge 70 nearly ready
TO receive the great India rubber band 10 wnicn
is attached the slevsting buckets. This band and
that for the eevsting apparatus IN the main ouid,
Jog re completed. Another and immense Dano
of INDIA rubber and heavy duck. TO be used q. the
grain carrier from the tower TO the main buildng,
will soon be finished and 10 in itself an ingenious
contriyance well worth seeing. The long gallery
To- ouQh which II IL TO operate is completed AND
] furnished with the necessary machinery. propelled
by steam engine Of seven hundred horse power