The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-10

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Promenade CONCERT AT ODD FELLows' HALL
TO-NIGHT.-The chsritably disposed should not
forget that there will be this evening oDOOrtH-
nifty for them TO exercise the divinest Of virtues in
a most pleasant manner. At the Odd Fellows
ball is 10 be given a promenade concert by the
post band. The object is 10 aid Calvary Church,
little Episcopshan church Of the city, which,
ust struggling into existence, asks Of its richer
brethren that assistance which it has right to
demand. The occasion will be a very pleasant
one. The whole affair il under the direction of
LADIES and gentlemen whose names are guarantees
for its excellence. We confidently look for
large attendance. The tickets are only twenty
five cents, surely little enough TO exPend.
CHILDHOOD, as il should be, always excites
pleasing emotion in the bosom of the behOder
There is an innocence of evil and perfect freedom
from care about most children that makes them
very attractive 10 men whose lives are surely full
Of care, and perhaps not devoid of much evil
But when we see childhood stripped of its guile
essness and carelessness, when we behold cri nj
nails who can scarcely lisp, and beggars who an
just express what they want, how painful is the
sight What a vision OF neglect and squl.id
misery, of ignorance and filth. does not the image
OF such little one call mp! Our reporter saw
yesterday little GIRL could not have been
more than six seven years old-begging from
the passers by on a crowded thoroughfare Of the
city, She had the regular conventional whine,
and spoke 10 each one she addressed mechani-
cally, " Please sir gil me pic'yune-
the person to whom she was talking,
would have got out of earshOt, and she would
turn to the next. Few were the picsyunes that
rewarded her begging, but she still kept on.
poster. II is likely that both "father" and
"mOther" are myths. and that she is daily sent out
TO play upon the feelings of the people, and to
thus earn living for some great lazy man or
woman, who gives her crust twice day and
mat at light for her pains. Bat her story might
have been true. At any rate there she was--a
thing OF rags, shoeess and hstess, and If pinched
features couuted for anything, very hungry; and
the crowd surged around her and by her, each
one bent upon his own business or pleasure,
while her weary plant continued: please sir ;,
| give me pic'yune." Twas pitful, twas won.
| drous pitiful!
YOUTH named Charles Reynolds was arrested
on Camp street by Officer Mulahy, yesterday
morning, charged with having in his possession
vest and pair OF pants, supposed to have been
stolen. He was remanded under $3.50 bond.
Two YOUNG MIN named W. G. Care and James
| Farrell we're arrested at IL O'Clock yesterday at
| the corner Of Barracks and Old Levee streets, by
| Officers Benedict and Henessev. charged with
representing themselves as special officers.
OuR DISTINGUISHED VISITORS FROM CHICAGO.
| The gentlemen from the shores of Lake Michi
| gan, who lately made their advent amongst Us,
| and VINO were at once arrested under the strong
suspicion OF being thieves and concerned in rob
berries along the Jackson Railroad, were yester-
| day arragned before Judge COllens. of the
Seventh District Court. As there no direct evi
| dence against them, and there was probability
| of any being produced against them, and cOnse-
| quently there was no reason or ground for their
| detention, Judge Collens discharged them, and
they went on their way rejoicing.
RATHER HURBHD.-A Painful Afdir. A day
or two since, while Canal street car was pro-
ceedDg toward the Metairie Ridge, boy on the
platform got into some alteration with the driver
| who became exceedingly angry. The boy jumped
over the railing when the driver rushed back
through the car, and seeing the boy just behind
| it, and not noticing that the glass window was up.
! did not stop until he had thrust his head and
shoulders through the pane of glass, seized the
| boy and administered corporeal punishment. The
! driver sfierwards looked none the worse for his
| sudden trip through the glass.
SMOKE WITHOUT FIRs.-Lsst night about s
| O'Clock Camp street was startled by the report OF
! a pistol shot on the corner Of POydrss. Oar
| reporter at once proceeded TO the spot but could
get no explanation Of the affair beyond state
| ment made by young man standing IN front OF the
CRESCENT Office that he saw the shot fred into the
gutter By person at the corner. The discharge
was probably accidental.
CoMMKNDABLE OFFICIAL vIGILAScE.-A "Litae
| game" neatly blOcked.--An attempt az snug.
Cling on the part OF a passenger by the steamship
| uba, one day last week, was neatly stopped by
the efficient inspector of baggage, Mr.. John Il.
Stevenson. Ii seems that a trunk owned by one
of the passengers. rather respectable looking
| old man, contained false bottom. The dscrep-
| ency between the inside aud outside dimensions
was 30 slight that it might easily have escaped
the notice of one less wary than friend John, Of
the naval Office. The owner could give no ex-
PLANTATION as to this unusual style of /" travelling
box" but vigorous kick furnished 3 solution Of
the riddle by exposing some three hundred cigars.
| 1t is supposed that this sudden acquisition of
knowledge was too much for the old man. for I" ye
ancient" traveller suddenly disappeared, leaving
Uncle Sam in possession of trunk full OF clothes,
and a batch Of fragrant Havanss.
A FRUITERER in Dryades market had pocket.
book containing s9i stolen from him in neigh
boring coffee house, on Tuesday night. He had
laid it on the counter and gone on forgetting It.
Before he returned to get it two boys who had
been playing billiards iD the room had snatched it
up and run away. Special officer Cummings has
been detailed to investigate the matter.
A MAN NAMED HENRY FISH, living on Mel
| pomene street, near St. Charles, was seriously
injured yesterday morning on the steamboat land
ing, by the parting Of a line on derrick. He was
| sent to his residence.
Gait. HOOKER, who has acted as judge sdvo.
cate at headquarters since the departure Of Col.
Keeler, has been relieved from duty, ordered to
report at Austin, Texas, and thence to report for
\ duty, with his company, to the commanding gene
raj OF the fifth military district
4 THE GARBAGE OF GEN. HATCH, when returning
\ from the races on Tuesday, came In collision with
another vehicle at the point where Canal street
| curves opposite tne flORe Cemtttfics. Ohc vi tue
wheels was smashed, and three ladies were thrown
out. two of them sustaining quite painful injuries.
MEMBERs or TIE PETIT JURY IN THE U. S.
DISTRICT COURT will be glad to learn that the
jury was to-day discharged not TO meet again till
| the l4th of this month.
\ TEE EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES high
schools commences tomorrow st the different
| high schools buildings. Candidates must be over
seventeen years OF sge, and applications from
those not connected with the public schools must
be made to the superintendent before Monday, the
| l4th inst.
A SPECIAL MEETING Of the Seymour Knights is
| TO be held this evening at O'Clock at their head
| quarters over the Gem saloon. There is important
business to be transacted, and full aud punctual
attendance is therefore desirable.
THE CRESCENT is pleased to acknowledge the
visit of Major Closky and Capt Msthes Of the
i Memphis Avalanche, and also that of Col. Con-
pers the pleasant and genial correspondent of the
| New York Spirit Of the Times. Major Closky is
| so well-known in New Orleans, where he has
been passing the autumn and the present cold
weather, that it is hardly necessary for to say
that he, IS well as Harvey Msthes, was a brave
and stesdfsst Confederate soldier. Col. COnners
has placed the CRESCENT under obligations for