The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-21
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Il. JGn ga, its president, that there is but one Dem
ocrat'e club in Algiers and that the Inscription
"The Live Oak Democracy" which one of the
trans AGENCIES bore and which we mistook for the
name OF an independent club. was simply a state
ment that the hearts Of oak in Algiers are "lve"
to the great questions Of the day. Mr.. JONES also
gave us the additional cheering news that & large
majority Of the white men on the other side are
members of the club which there represents the
great party of freedom.
SEvENTY-NINE DEATHS were reported last week
10 DIR. George ". Dirmeyer, secretary of the
Board of Health. None of these resulted from
any epidemic disease. Seven were from fevers Of
various kinds and nine from consumption. This
report shows a decrease of ten deaths from the
number reported during the week previous.
We ARE SORRY TO learn that the ship.
pers of wateTmelons from this city to
the West have met with no small difficulty
in dispOsing of their consignmeuts TO st. Louis,
owing to the unnecessarily stringent action
Of the Board OF Health in that city. We stated
some time since that a prominent grocery house
here had shipped twenty-one hundred waterme.
Ions thither. Ii has since transpired that on arri.
val, although perfectly sound, the melons were
put under an embargo by the health officers, aud
gOOdly number of them thrown overheard to
float back at their leisure to the sunny South
where they came from. The rest we're landed,
conveyed TO a house in the back part of the city,
and stored there, until by lots Of fifty or hun.
dIed at time they we're disposed Of.
To LISTEN to their talk, the unsophisticsted
darkies have very singular and mistaken idea of
the procession last Saturday night. They seem
TO think everybody in the procession was a Ku-
XIX, and that the Seymour Knights we're the
generals, the staff officers, the qusrterma sters,
and commissaries. Poor darkies not a man in
eli that three mile procession Of twenty thousand
men would have injured hsir, or rather a fila.
ment of a wool, on your heads. The people who
TUNED out that night are your truest and best
friends. Come back TO them, and ask their aid
and their advice.
ONE OF OUR CONTEMPORARIES says Judge Du-
Tell has Withdrawn the commissions OF Mr.. Edge.
worth and two others, all three United States
commissioners, and has intimated disapprova
of any more actions beng prosecuted under the
civil rights bill beyond the mere taking of test
mOny. Thank God, then, Shsnnon's occupations
gone, and he must slink back TO the rat hole
where ne was engendered.
THE FIREMESs FEsTIvAL.-This celebration was
attended by an immense concOurse on Sunday.
III he reporters of the CRESCENT were 80 fatigued
by their labors in reporting the great Democratic
demonstration OF Saturday evening that they
were unfit for any eXeriiOn on Sunday. They
hope, therefore, the gallant fire boys aud the
other readers of the CRESCENT will overlook the
lack Of detail Of the performances.
A HEAVY New MATING was put down upon
the floors and stairways of the State House yes.
terday.
The LovLINEss Of amalgamation was markedly
illustrated last evening on the New Orleans
leyee. Mr.. Calhoun, the honorable mem.
Der of Rapides parish, who is somewhat
near the ground in point of stature, was walk
ing along General B1tler's First District
whsr construction in company with a six footer
of the African persuasion, apparently fresh from
q Caddo plantation. The only reason for this ge
nal couples not locking arms was the dscrep.
ancy in height. White and black made no differ
ence in the estimate. Calhoun was small and
he was wbite--Cuilee was large and he was black.
Moo fnE Efpo tha A Igfa1
was a genuine black and tan reunion. As the in
teTesliDg twins ssuntered along the levee, Cal
hOun perceived knot OF steamboat captains and
clerks that had known him when he owned mig.
gers on his plantation before the war, in Rtpides.
He left his plantation friend, aud addressed the
knot, the memberscOmposing which were uneX-
pectedly cool. After passing the time of day the
hon. Calhoun rejoined his friend, who had mod
estly kept out of the way of an Introduction, and
disappeared behind the new buildings of the bat
tuIe ground.
Col. GENTRY has been dispatched TO the scene
Of the late disturbances at Millican, Texas under
special instructions from Gen. Buchanan.
MAJOR KELLER, assistant secretary, has, we are
glad TO learn, been appointed secretary for civil
affairs at headquarters, the readmssion of the
State into the Unon rendering the further detail
OF an assistant secretary unnecessary.
An UNFORTUNATE LADY, caught out in the rain
storm yesterday, while taking soundngs with her
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sPIalhtu ner ahcie'
Mr.. STocKDALE, deputy collector, remains in
charge OF the customs since the departure OF the
collector, Mr.. Kellogg. While the telegraph re-
ports that there are numerous applicants at Wash
iDgtOn for the vacancy created by the latter's
election TO the Senate, the public may be assured
that no more systematic, reliable or competent
official will be found than the gentleman who is
Temporarily diseharging its duties.
Tur poNrcu.pTR,rS CARS. fer tbe first time
ran regularly from the Grod street depot on
Sunday, and towards evening we're crowded with
passengers, anxious TO get Whh CT the lake
breeze.
"A PLEASANT SUNDAY afternoon ulp IS Iha'
Whlch may be maue on ule STEAM Ieriy DoaS ror-
er plyInk rom yaoAsGn W vi
ksllIoal Nhari, TWO Iniies oeIow on the Opposite
soe. LheIe Is oshu VI lnuslo On DoaIu' anu
invariably crown Ol pasSenBeIs'
The RAIN OF YESTERDAY swelled the Camp
street and Melpomeue street canals into roaring
torrents, which overaowed their banks, and tenn
porarly Transformed Coliseum Place into minia.