The New Orleans crescent., 1869-01-31

day was faultleSs, the ladies' were out in great
numbers. the beaux worried, the stores were
crowded, and to get along the sidewalks required
considerable steering. As to the ladies' dresses
they were simply indescribable. look at them
with their combination of every hue of the rain.
bow and several other hues invented since the
rainbow was, their variety of cut and shape and
form and length and width and heighth, their plu-
rality of skirts, their multiplicity of tasteful con
ceits, their bewildering patterns and their incom.
prehensible makeup, were enough to make poor
ignorant masculine exclaim that their ways are
past finding out and man cannot attain unto them.
The Lelisl ature seems to have resolved itself
into machine for ousting honest men from the
positions to which they were fairly eec ted by the
people. All last summer ii occupied its elegant
leisure in deciding contested election cases ad
versely to the men chosen by the electors of the
State in favor Of negroes, and worse. carpet
baggers, and worst, scalawags. But the material
for that sort of exercise is now exhausted ss the
honest men have been pretty we'll weeded cut of
both houses, leaving only very small remnant,
just enough to act as salt to prevent the putrefac
tion of the whole body. So it evident that new
methods must be devised. A darky named Lott
struck out an original line day or two since by
addressing" Wsrmoth relative to Sheriff Max.
well. He was followed by Isabelle, also a darky
who offered a bill ordering committee to investi-
gate the official conluct of Judge Abel; and,
should it so seem good to them TO draw up arti-
cles of impeachment against him.
Besides these propositions, several bills have
been introduced requiring investigation into the
conduct of various other officers.
So far this was doing pretty well. But these
only covered isolated cases, and it was too long
process to suit the progressive ideas of the edu-
Gated man-monkeys and their confreres who now
relieve the people of Louisiana OF the trouble of
governing themselves. So, yesterday, bill was
offered which is more sweeping. Ii provides that
when Wsrmoth, the pure, shall have laid before
him any facts which, in his judgment, prove the
neligbity of any parish judge, clerk of court, or
sheriff. to ill their respective offices, he shall at
| once issue q commission to some other person,
who, IN his judgment, is eligible, truly loil,"
and grand seoundrel generally-of which quslid.
cations, it must be admitted, Warmoth is perhaps
the best Judge that could be selected-to fill the
| Office and the person so commissioned shall at
once take possession of the office. The simplicity
of this plan is very beautiful. By it, in one day,
every Office in the State filed by honest men can
at once be declared vacant, and every thieving
carpet.bagger, scaawag and pickpocket can OBJ
tain commission. But here is just where the
hitch comes for here would come the time for
the newly appointed to get possession of their Of
fees, and. sad to relate, that might be very diff.
cult. as there are many people in this State who
do not recognize the divine right of stealing which
our present State government claims, and who
| might refuse to have their offices fched from them
in this summary style. SO think that after they
have passed this law the Legislature, if they want
to enforce it, bad best pass another one, making
every man in the State q coward aud fool for if
they do not do something of that kind it is just
probable that the law will be worth the paper it
| is printed on-and that is sill.
Justice Montamat has recently decided case
| of considerable importance to tax and license
payers. The city sued the steamer Wild Wagner
| for levee dues, amounting to SCI 20, which the
| agents of the boat were willing to pay in city
currency only. The city wanted greenbacks,
and hence the suit. Judge Montamat decided
| sgans. the boat.
The writer took long stroll towards Carroll
ton. in company with old school mate, one sunny
day, last week. It is year or two previously to
the war since either has made the jsunt and the
march Of Improvement and population during
the interval in that pleasant region was, in their
| Judgment, astonishing. The sidewalk of Msga-
zine street is paved all the way to Huntsville,
| about three miles above Louisiana Avenue; and
| 20 is Front Levee or Tchoupitoulas street. Pas
senger cars the entire distance both streets
with the regularity of city lines and, on every
large avenue, branches running from the river
connect with the Carrollton railroad. The roads,
like those u the city which are unpsved, are in an
abominabe condition, but the raised pathways are
comparatively in good order.
| Some distance above jefferson City there is a
large brick edifce the "Lane Mills" now the
property of a well known and enterprising cti.
zen, d. o. d. Sullivan, Esq. Thirty or forty men,
| women and children are here employed in the
manufacture Of cotton yarn, the quantity of
which turned out daily is remarkable. 1t is in a
large and costly establishment like this that the
wonders of human ingenuity are most clearly
shown. II is absolutely magical, the rapidity with
| which bale Of cotton, when opened, is enguphed
by thousands of whirling spindles, drawn out, at
first in hanks, then twisted and pressed to the re-
| quired quality. The machinery in gthe mills is
very beautiful, and the sight of it in operation
would repay a visit tenfold. We are sorry Mr..
Sullivan or one Of his assistants not about the
| building when the writer left; he might have
| furnished the CRESCENT with some interesting
| particulars.
Further up the writer entered the precincts of
the large saw mill of Mr.. L. Carlo, which pro-
| duces an average of 10000 feet of lumber day,
or about 100000 year. Here the two met a
| friend of boyish days, VIM. Clark, Esq, with
whom, after looking at the works of the mill,
they proceeded to a cofeehouse near by, which
has some good old Bourbon. Gazing around at
the pictures on the walls, the writer's eye was
soon riveted on a most anomalous picture of Gen.
Andrew jackson at the battle of New Orleans.
Getting upon chair he soon brought this remark.
able production to table, and pondered its pre-
Rsphselte atrocities. The inscription is as fol-
lows: Major General Andrew Jackson, in the
| precise costume he wore at the battle of New
Orleans, January the sth, 1916; 24pounder
battery No. Ill, to be seen on the left was
served by La6tte's men; the Warriors to their
right belong to the 7th Regiment U. s. Regulars;
on The left il uniformed volunteer off ser Drawo