New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-25

WHAT NEXT 80 Variety's the spice of fe,'' as
the shoemaker said when lie was % chaWingn
wax, leather and tobacco, call at wonst;" the
wax particularly. Then why shouldn't actors,
especially the Varieties actors, wax warm in the
cause Of Southern Independence, and hold up their
hands and bare their bos0ns in these ppng times
of-nobody knows what! mo alIuslon to Mark
Smiths Powhatanian pipe, or his piping illusions
to the Widow Dudheen.1
The South says, my souls in arms, and eager
for the fray;' the Palmetto, Lone Star Fifteen
Star and Pelican flags are tapping q on the outer
walls; :" and whether there be hard or bloody work
or no work at all ahead, there is still the ordinary
home work Of all good citizens to attend to. But
digress. The signs of the times around us, and
Jordan Mobiles "spiritstirring drum" and ear
piercing fife, played twice on the Varieties stage
within the last few weeks seem to have stirred
and pierced the theatrical company, as well as the
patriotic citizens who nightly sit streetWard of
those tip.top-sawyers-
''Ye with ye blazing big fiddle,
And him with ye small ao.
" lille Fene!on resins his bow ~ ~
Seriously, John Owens and his theatrical COM
pnny have organized volunteer military company
John being Captain, Geo. jordan First Lieutenant
Mark Smith Second Lieutenant, Eugene Fenelon
First Sergeant, Dolly Davenport Second Sergeant,
Lefingwel one of the Corporala, Leighton the
Quartermaser, and Mademoseo Frances the
Vivandiere, and so If you don't wish to
believe it, read the proceedings of the Varieties
military meeting, held on Monday last, and adyer
tised in another column of this mornings Crescent
If any feel disposed to doubt this business, be-
cause they can't understand it, We'll explain, Just
little. booty and beauty was the cry of the
invaders long time ago, when they got within
few miles of the Crescent City. John Owens
knows, and so do all theater goers know that his
actors have the most and the finest boots, and the
best understandings in the booty way, of any
equal number of menin the city, whilst the beauty
oil the ladies of his company is the toast of the
town. If the Northern foe should dare to invade
1t follows, as matter of course, (should they be
correctly directed by spies,) that the Varieties
Theater would be the first point of assault in the
search for '' booty and beauty"
We would petition to join the ''Varietes Voun-
teers," but for one reason. Mile Frances is the
only lady OF the company whose name appears
with those of the bold soger boys, and she merely
as vvandIere. All she could do in her honorary
capacity would be to give dying sucker few
drops Of John McDonnells or John Aliens best
brandy, (or worst, if too much was required) and
then pass on to the next sucker suckers, leaving
the last sucker suckers to die We want more
than that ont of the Varieties Company. We want
some Florence Nightingale to attend to us when
we get wounded.
Just let the ''Varieties Volunteers" hold another
meeting, and elect Nightingale. Let them elect
Thompson, or Leighton, or Graham or Brown, for
their Nightingale; and then let Capt. Owens cry,
"To arms to arms !" and we will apply for the
first or last post in the company, so soon as war
shall offer us the opportunity! See if we don't!