New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-29
9tn 0rItans 9ailg Crescent.
WEDNESDAY, MORNING, DEoEMBER %, 1858.
1897 oTSE-aE. ls-azs-aos,Fs-4ls.Ers.
..shnlgsneare ReadIng., J,

a ssshalgspesre Reading"
A correspondent Of the New York Post takes issu
with another correspondent Of that paper who YER
brilliantly condemns the error Of the accepted edition
Of Shakespeare, which So absurdly make the exile'
Duke, 10 Much Ado about Nothing to say;
land this our le exempt from public haunt
Finds tongues in trees, books IN the rnnhin orUoAs
Sermons ii etonea, and good II eyeTyfhng.
For which he proposes that t1e reading snouiq "
and was evidently intended 70 be
Finds tongues In trees stones ia the running BROOKS,
Sermons in books, and good in everything.
Common sease oommends this rendering, for I
brook ID certainly most unusual depository for books
though commonly stones may be found in any sucf
water eonrse: 80 sermon is an extraordinary occu
nans fora stone though often having place in .
book, Ii ii. thevefoge. patent that some hungling
Translator trausosed the words books and stones'
and that their restoration ia their original places viii
restore liz passage u IT. original beauty and mean
ing. The correspondent proposes to AID the shak
spearian emendator By substituting plum" toI
ibongues.a and thus make the passage entirely cor
rect and to read thus;
e4pd tfis ouf life Exempt from public haunt,
Finds plans in trees, stones IN The rnnn1ng brook
Sermons ID books, and good N everything
srhe Ttaeatcr Services
Continue to be well attended in New York-hy those
whose conscenees forbid them entering theaterupon
secular occasions This would seem to be proven oy
Tie statements Of the papers to the effect tnat q
Sunday evenings the churches presents beggarly ~,
raw Of empty pews, while the National 1heaeer auu
Academy Of Music are crowded 70 tnae lnsseau :.
ndng new field oflabor, the preaeheEl w sie'ei
enpties the church and carries as hela ~ ~
Policemen are every Sunday evening thieRy alsttio
g nit IF tlie National, and by vigorous appl'
.st;o,s u tber rattans endeavor to maintain some
si1d N proprety in the dsorderly congregation Of
Eavs tbere assembled. These scenes must the
entertainment attractive and ensure its drawing
Well.H
rev Er. chaplin,
learned divine, is working hard and feathering
III nest veil for We see it stated thathe delivers four
veer lectures week in different parts Of the coun
try and breaches twice on Sunday in his church in
New York. This must keep him moving very lively
and leave him but Lifetime for spiritual ministration
among bis aock The other week, for instance, he
leFt New York aud before the next Sunday had de-
liverea four lectures 10 Portland Maine, another
il salem, Massachusetts,, third in Chelsea, in the
same state, and fourth in some other city for
which lectures .he received City dollars apiece, ex-
slaaiye Of expenses, and was back again in New
York before the ensuing Sunday, where he preached
two sermons. fol- which service he is regularly remu-
nerated III the sum Of Sl25, making the sum of his
weeks wages 1926. Four lectures per week has
been the Reverend gentlemans regular programme Of
operatons during the season, and as he has pretty
Veil got through with the near home demand, he is
about to extend his flying trips to the West being
announced to lecture at Racine, Wisconsin and other
nlaces out there. What "eelestialn phenomenon,
to be sure, IS this cometke clerical lumnary, who
thus shoots through al eccentric orbit wide as the
country with oil the switness of steam! How he is
( laying up treasure, n too
The Fighting Editors
or THE Paris Figaro recently engaged IN double
duel with d couple Of hostile army officers, each Of
lie four contributing little blood to the publication
Of their honors. One Of the seconds was N. Raye
i comic actor, and au evening contemporary Of yes
terday specuIates as to the probability Of this Raye
being the Brazilian ape Gabriel. We can settle this
important question negatively for Gabriel Rayel is
and for some time past has been in America fort
night 30 he was coming the ape at Niblo's Garden
ii New york and closed his season there on the night
Of Saturday the 18th Instant There be many Ravels
beside Gabriel and bis brothers, for we are told in Eu
rope TIE family representatives Of shat name are quite
ubiquitons iii dramatic, pantomimic and punch-and-
indvish circles They are race of ahoWmen.