The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-22

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ning-nor would they credit the fact until they
got over from Algiers and found that Nature, the
greatest of all street commissioners had cleansed
the city so thoroughly as to make il as bright as
ne fiddle.
NEW ORLEANS will never need underground
railroads, even if she should, (as she doubtless
will in the course of a century or two,) exceed
New York and rival London in her population.
New Orleans has wide and airy streets that could
accommodate the throDgs of Broadway or Regent
street without the necessity OF j0stng and elbow
ing one smother. New Orleans is going TO be the
great grain depot of America aud of Western Eu-
rope; and in few years, when export and i'm
port duties shall have been regulated in sensible
and ststesmanlike manner by a Democratic Con.
eress, she is destined TO resume her scepter as
queen OF the coffee world, the cotton world and
the sugar world.
What New Orleans wants, is intelligent munci.
pal legislation. She wants the opportunities OF
the Father of Waters to be listened to by her
citizens; she wants the river water to be let into
every cross street, and allowed free passage TO
that natural sewer, Lake Pontchartrain. She
wants the miasmatic marshes in her rear dried and
elevsted-but not elevated by means of the foul
ssl that is daily dumped there by the corporation
carts.
Why did DIR. McFariane, a wise and learned man
so bitterly oppose the digging of bitches and
canals during the summer season! Because of
the foul stencil of rotten carcasses Of old leather
and thousand other obscene and pestentiaI sub.
worms and to fill up empty lots.
Let the City Council order all ofal to be thrown
into the river at some point below the corporation
limits; let the river water act as scaVenger in
irTigating, cooling and sweetening our streets
and in ten years Yellow jack with all his fearful
adventures, will have been forgotten and have
become merely the subject for the novelist and
the sensationast.
TIE ALARM OF FIRE which last night, about 10
O'Clock, came from the corner Of Poydras and
Circus streets, turned out to be a false one. The
hTemen were on hand, as usual, ia a trifle less
than no time, but the gallant boys had their
trouble for then pains.
f. NJ. BoUMGNY ESQ. internal revenue collec-
tor for the second district of Louisiana arrived in
town yesterday in excel Mt health and spirits.
Mr.. Boulgny tells Us the crops never promised
better than they do this year 10 the Atskapas and
OpelOusas countries, aud that the negro hands are
doing their work as well as could be expected.
IN NEW York, the delegates say, the haber-
dashers charge dollar and half for a common
fifty cents tooth brush, s4 pair for eight dollar
shoes, and in the hotels S. a dozen for washing
clothes. There is no city in America like New
Orleans for all the comforts Of life. We have very
few cases Of suDstroke-we have IN epidemic now
ard then. true, that carries Off good many peo.
pie; but we have no consumption, none of the
diseases that decimate the Northern and Eastern
and Western cities. And although New Orleans
has the reputation Of being terribly ferociOus
city when its population is reused there is not one
decent and well behaved man murdered or NAL
treated here to hundred in Chicago or thousand
in New York.
While the citizens of ST. Louis, Portland and
Boston, where the snow piles down two or three
feet deep during four months Of the twelve, are
now sweltering and painting with a Thermometer
at 100 and odd, the residents of the Crescent City
can always get a cool, breezy place somewhere
q midsummer sun. And tnen look at the restau.
rants. Compare one of them to a Northern or
Western, or even a Southern hotel. Ye gods
Think Of one gravy serving for mutton, beef. ven
ison and pork and then go to New Orleans
restaurant and call for brOiled steak, or q NUT
ton chop, wild duck, a snipe, or any thing that
should be roasted or broed. sui Jeneris unsided,
in its ewn fat and juices, by any other cOndiment
than little salt and pepper. Turn then to the
wine and the coffee. Enough!
There was, not many years ago, a Spa
nish gentleman in New Orleans, who was a
e-tleman by name and by nature. His
name was CaballerO. He had lived here many
years; he had made large fortune by his pro-
fession as q merchant; he was beloved and vene-
rated by all his fellOw-citizens. But the innate
desire TO see the land of his birth and to revisit
the burial place Of his ancestors, induced him to
throw up his business, realize his outstanding ac'
counts and his property, turn all into doubOOns,
and return to Madrid. His parting from our old
citizens was touching exceedingly. Neither he
nor they expected another meeting on this sphere.
But two years 8fterward back came Mr.. Cabal-
lero, weary of his pilgrimage to the early penGes,
and anxious TO pass his old age in the Crescent
City, whoses usages, whose citizens, whose eli.
mate, and all that pertained to it, were so plea
SAINT, so quiet and so unassCming. Reader, Mr..
Csbsllero lived before the war.
WAC ASKS "why could not Grant Say.more in
his letter of acceptsnoe!n and gives the answer,
"because he was Blair. eyed" The unfortunate
carried of in Grod street car to the hospital,
aud the physicians think he is suffering from sun
stroke.
The EXAMINATIONS at st. Alphonsus' School
commences TO morrow. The pupils are very well
advanced, are very numerous, and promise an
exceedingly interesting exhibition.
THERE WAS NOTHING whatever worthy of public
notice transacted yesterday. in the way of police
matters, in the Second and Third Districts. The
city never was more quiet.
An ILLUSTRATION of how crimirally careless
men may be of their own interests Is found in
the fact as reported at the central station yester
day morning, that on the previous night several
stores were found open and without watchmen on
the premises. Some men can only learn prudence
from bitter experience.
Two OR THREE "drunks" were the only items Of
interest occurring yesterday to be recorded. We
trust this lovely state of the public morals will
long continue.
RECORDER BECKER's COURT.-The case of j. A.
CsstsDsdO ard Arthur CastanadO, charged with
assault with intent TO kill on g. g.. Wilder, at the
store of Messrs. Wallace & Co., on Magazine
street, was tried yesterday. Recorder Becker re.
served his decision until to- day at I'm.
VARIOUS REPORTS were made yesterday to the
central station of the unsafe condition Of different
crossings in town, Of the results Of the recent
foo ds.
4 HORSE black enough 10 vote with furniture
cart attachn ent took il into bis head yesterday to
escape from further human control, and as a be-
ginning, dashed down ST. Charles street at aTapid
pace. IN obstructive lsmp-pOst, however, inter-
feTed with his designs by getting in his way, and
the shock sufficiently brought the equine to his
senses TO render him again subject to his masters
bddirp. Damage TO horse and cart slight.
THE EXPLOSION OF A COAL OIL LAMP on Monday
night, in the dwelling Of Mr. B. Ii. Putnam, on
Felicity Road, caused an attempt az fire, which,
however, was extneuished without much harm
being done. People cannot well be too careful in
the handling Of the various uminators now in use.
Mr.. CHARLES s. CLARK was so unfortunate on
last Monday night as 10 receive a nocturnal visit
nom some distinguished stranger, who testified
BIZ gard for Mr.. Clark by taking with him o. his
departure, as keepsskes probably, 1912 in cur.
rency and q promissOTy note for 500, dated