The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-13
CITY TOPICS.

reaaers that some of the beneficial results OF the
immense stationery bills of the Legislature are
already beginning to be evident. Noah Douglass
a verv black negro was last session installed by
the House In the place Of the gentleman elected
bv the people of St. Landry parish as their repre-
sentative. Then be signed his name with mark.
But Yesterday this favored son Of Ethiopia sent
a written resolution up to the clerks desk, thus
showing that with the aid of the States stationery,
purchased with the peoples money, he has so lar
improved his time during the recess as at last to
he able TO sign his name just like white gem
men, Who will now grumble over that bill OF
5000 for the pens used last session. Who VIII
mourn over their depleted pocket-books when
they know that through their emptiness an African
has become full of learning? Let affairs continue
thus prosperously 10 the House, let all the non
Wrists now in 1t display the like commendaole
zeal as the Black Douglass, and In the course oil
| dozen wears or SO the millennium will be reachea,
for then every member OF the Legislature will be
able to write. Speed, speed the happy day.
There are SO few good things that ever come
up in the body that meets on Royal street, that
when measure Is introduced therein which Is
calculated to really benefit the people Of the State
or any portion of them, it affords us pleasure to
call attention to it. bill of this sort was intro
| ~ +pn since nv DIR.
domiciled 10 the old prison, in the Third District
to what is known as the Louisiana Retreat, on
Magazine street. corner of Nashville Avenue.
This is building that is in every way suited to
the purposes to which it is intended to apply it,
roomy. airy and comfortable. In this respect it
is far different from the present location which is
entirely unified for an asylum, being small and in
an unhealthy location. We hope the bill will be.
come a law.
Quite an unusual sensation was created on Pow
dras street yesterday by fascinating novelty now
on exhibition at Bessrs. Mcintyre d Applegate's.
A crystal fountain, supported by bronze pc.
destsl, inlaid with gliding, and containing an artist.
icsly arranged bed of artificial flowers, encirced
by eversreens. was sending successive columns of
sparkling globules which, gracefully ascending
and descending through conically shaped glass
tubes, scinctilated and gittered from the rays of
light, presenting the appearance of brilliant sta.
lactites formed by gradual coDgealation. The eff.
feet produced by this exquisite specimen of in.
Sgenious mechanism was magically beautiful,
nih. the mind with ideas of enchantment realized
anu recalling some fairy spectacle where the
soueu nanu YES exercised with its supernatural
eneci. Inc hVen'v. and patentee of these fem.
taihs Is MI D. u Johnsoh~ho is at present 10 he
found with Messrs. Mcintyre o. AnnIago,a "a
has several of these rare gems for sai., Which &c
drawiDgroom ornament stands without ri
The troupe which is now playing sixty-day en-.
gsgement at the corner of Royal and Cont streets
which appears daily in the farce of /" How to be
Legislature" day or two since introduced among
themselves bill aDolisbng the present school !
board OF this city for not carrying out In "trooly
lol style the provisions of the {. J. constitution
Now this YVES all very well as far as it went, bat |
We would suggest 10 the honorable Ethiopians /
who now control this State that they have not /
gone quite far enough. Yesterdays dispatches
tell how Croly, of South Csrolina-who the sailow
is We don't know-introduced a bill into the u. /
s. House of Representatives fOrbidding the use OF
"disloyel' school books in the country. Nov |
- --S-"sru. lucy nave placed no pro. /
vision about the loyalty of school books IN their
bill. Now tbs is an imporlsnt subject. sunnose
mat child should learn his grammar from d,.-
loyal edition, would bis utterances ever be correc,
10 Ioi ears! Suppose that he should get his ideas
Oh tractors from disloysl arithmetic. eould no
ever cast accounts correctly? Or imagine that be
smpioyed a disloyal spelling book, refusing N
%" tne knee to Webster, .or used a drsIoyal
geography, in which Louisiana was put down as
',ate and not as territory, or studied the heavens
Vi'n the aid OF disloysl astronomy in which
'outwells famed "hole IN the sky is not get
OWL or got bis ideas of ethics from a
lsioysl Bible which Gays 1t is wrong IN
zeal spoons, or perused q disloyal history
winch are narrated the exploits of that
utrsgeous rebel, G. Washington, ESQ. and {
here Lee and Jackson are called great soldiers
10 pure men, and Batter and Banks are called !
pooh thieves and cotton absorbers-suppose. We
~ mat any child should get his ideas from ds.
ysl poofs such as these, coud be ever grow m q.
% good Radical citizen? We are afraid NOT.
Aereiore It IS that we earnestly recommend N Il
9 House to give their careful attention TO the
nool DOCK question. 1t is one of vast import. -
zee, Tor on 1t hangs the decision Of the question G
neither the future population of the Crescent as
y VIII be "trooly loil' or honest people. Grid III
men your loins, ye legislators! Work early w
WORK late; lose your dinners and get no sun. 10
rs; but do, o do, have some bill about "dis.
ar school books, for if you don't the children
U be honest in spite Of you. :,
favorite Chinese " little game is BurIir. mi
ne. ed
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ed. Judge Durel, before whom the case No. tin
ued has refused the prayer of the petitioner sr t
Withers, that a receiver be appointed but cal
directed that the company be restrained from !
ing interest upon their second mortgage ons
as until that due upon their first MORTGAGE cps II
ds Is paid. He also ordered that a months
ement OF business transacted shall be filed gel
the masters in chancery. giving. at the ,so a
"mo, authority to Mr.. withors 10 rooo., ;nS,
application for the appointment of a N
liver, whenever circumstances NAV varran, pas
action. From this decision it appears that nc &c
"ithers has partially succeeded in bis snt on y
partially failed. He has guaranteed the nav lst
OF bis coupons, but has failed to take the city
'any out of its present hands According as y.
me or the other of these objects was his Orle
ipsi motiVe, he is victorious or defeated. II
iIs' ne is triumphant, for bis coupons will r,
sooh DC paid but If the latter he il for
10, Tor the directors still retan ooc,.or r Al, the