The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-05


A beautiful nsg has been presented to the sey.
monr Knights of Baton Rouge.
The California election takes place week from
to-day.
The Democracy are lively in Rapidss. Mass
meetings and barbecues and conservative clubs
are numerous. Next Saturday there IL to be a
jubilee by the Democrats of Hineston, Spring
Creek and surrounding neighborhood. -slrG
The following Is the ticket elected 10 Vermont:
Governor. John b. Page; lieutenant governor,
stephen Thomas /; treasurer. John A. Page; Con-
gress, /, Chas w. Willard; 2, Luke p. Poland;
3, Worth n c. Smith. sIf ~ a.
The Naichitoches Times says: Blackburn, in
his last letter to his paper says very true thing,
to.wit: That there are but two ways to restore
quiet in the South-either to rule it with rod OF
iron, or to let it alone. In other words an absc-
lutte deepotism must crush out all aspirations for
liberty, or else we must be free There Is no
middle ground, and peace cannot return except
with restoration OF our birthright of constitu-
tionsl liberty. or practical determination. IL the
Radicals expect TO feter free souls with their
puDy reconstruction they are simply mistaken.
race which has been free since the foundation
OF the world will not succumb at the nod of few
weak, self constituted despots."
Col. John Forsyth, Of Mobile, who was in our
city last week, and was spectator of the grand
procession of Saturday night, has published
very graphic description of it in his paper-ths
Register. He Gays: "while the New Orleans
papers devote columns to the details Of the grand
popular demonstration In our sister city on Satur-
day night, they give no adequate conception Of
the reality. Nor is 1t the fault Of the reporters.
That inspiring, wonderful and moving scene could
not be transferred to paper, and as no one could
conceive it who had not witnessed it, we believe
ws may say that no other CITY in America could
have matched 1t. Ii is true that New ork nss
all the numbers, materials and appliances for such
a demonstration, but New York could never be
fired with the spirit that seized upon the whole
population OF the great city TO grasp at one ides,
and to unite all heads and hands to shape into
The head of the Ewing family, known ss Old
Tom Ewing" to- distinguish HIM from the general,
his son, Young Tom," is splendid specimen
of three score and ten. almost as heavy and milf
tary looking as Winfield Scott. You can see by
his complexion that he was raised q Wing. No
Democrat can ever attain to the illuminate, open,
sanguiDe countenance which has distinguished the
Federaist, from Hamilton TO Clay. In Ewings
face there is choler and power, however; and as
he sat in the Senate during the impe achuent trial.
leaning upon his cane, drawing great respirations,
the most colossal figure on the floor, thought I
never beheld q finer instance Of hale old age.
His son in law, Gen. Sherman, at his side looked
very inferior TO him. There are points of contest
between the Ewings and the Bairs, though in
general they hate each other bitterly. and just
now they probably pray against each other. Old
Mr.. Ewing lives at Chicothe, Ohio. He has
never been a hanger-on round the government,
but has filed cabinet position, kept his personal
Independence, ana sturdny reserved the right to
differ and to dislke.-[" GATH" in the Chicago
Tribune.
Louisiana needs emigrants (immigraats) but
either they must come in armed bands, prepared
to contend for their homes and their lives as do
the settlers among Indians, or (else) Louisian.
lsns must become more respectful towards the
legal rights Of their fellow citizens.-[Red River
News.
The above is so atrocious, that we hardly know
how to characterize il. That the man who utters
IL is allowed TO remain quietly among the people
whom he thus ISLANDERS, is a sufficient proof of the
falsity of his assertion. When we reflect that its
author is one who upholds despotc and uncon-
stitutlonsl law; that he has fosted himself by an
illegal constituency, created by that law upon
the white people OF this parish that he is receiy.
ing salary of one or two thousand dollars year
from the white tax payers Of the State, to publish
the laws of the State In paper obnoxious to the
white people, and circulating not above twenty.
five copies in the parish among the tax-paying
class that he will soon demand OF the same peo-
PIE, by virtue of law without precedent in the
United States, private patronage amounting to
several thousand dollars more, we know that he
could not have the audacity to say such thing
except in community which he know to be de-
termined to preserve the peace at all hazards and
at every sacrifce.-[Natchitoche Times. .f