New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-04

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EDw ARD EVERETT N THE PULFIT. Willis, in his
last letter to the Il. j. from Idle@ild, gives remn
iseenee Of Edward Everett as he used to look when
he was 4 clergyman:
A vision Of the past has come over me. have
seen Mr.. Everett once more MS first followed and
L wondered at him, before the complete elimination
of his oratoricai fame, while he was still to be
seen occasionally in the pulpit, in Boston, dolized
Y bF that lesser intellectual circle who appreciated
aud valued what was soon to have fame and glory
uniFarsal. ~ my neophyte sense tfor was but
Latinschool boy fitting for college, and knew
him but as the young BFatsie-street Clergyman
whosn wonderful talents had made him elected by
aeclamation as Professor at Harvard) his elo-
quenee seemed TO differ from all that could else
where heer, in the 1plainable peculiarly of not
being altogether of this world The utter fault
iessness and completeness of his language, the
varied and strange mnhic of his cadences the abso
Lutte grace and Significance of his oratorical pres
eaoe and gesture these marTels of art came with
certain inspired spontaneity, which, as You looked
upon the luminous beauty OF his countenance the
aalr, pure features set in halo of sunny cnrls--
seemed superhuman and oracnlar. I have never
got over the twofod impression which Mr. Everett
then produced on my mind in its stage Of boy
scholarship wonderful, inevitable hitting home
of every arroNy word, and the occasional sweeping
away Of az ownership Of brain and heart with the
restless Weddings to his eloqnence Often as L
nave heard him since. the spell of his oratorical
lnagie has been the same--mY feeling as come
away from his closing sentences, being always like
what is expressed by the Psalmist: q So man did
DoaToRfSG IN THE BAGKwooDs.- II want to report
% you some Of the experiences of a young DOCTOR
HIS being Of the excessively ignorant class
ne gets more fun than fees:
"a few days ago was called to d house on d
professional visit, where the inmates have holy
horror Of & calamy and Iaudamy.'' White making
ny way into the good graces Of the mother. BY
noticed number of small bones attached to a
string, and Worn by the child as necklace
Knowing the strange belief in charms that such
people sometimes have, 1 Immediately remarked
q. !. see your child, madam, has had rheuIna-
+ No, sir,'' says the worthy dame them thar
are rattlesnake bones. put thar to make Pete have
An easy time q cnttin' his teeth. Last SPRING when
me boys was A ploWin' down in the bottom they
ploWed up a powerful big rattlesnake, and I last
took him and billed him three days and nights. be-
ginniH on Friday slnornin'. ] took the bones then
and PM them on string, as you sed thar, and
made him wear lem tiil now. recon, doctor, he
was about as sick a chile as you eyer seed when
Them bones WAS put On his neck !; he begun to- fis
better right of, and never has been sick from that
Day till now. Youspoke, doctor, about the rhenm-
afy pains III never hearn as twas good for tharn
hnt expect lit mont be; SEEM it worked such a
powerful kuEe on the teething. The best thing ia
ever seed tried for the rheumatic ii to take four
pieces of eel skin, just as wide as your three fing-
1oSn AiihlSS
-WTits.ii
IreinarLed, No doubt that Ii very goods, Tryss
. u es, she chimed in, Is have knowed thar to
ku NJ when all manner Of doctors means have
Here the conversation took Il pleasant tarn weather
and cropward, atfording the young Esculapian an
opportunity to make his farewell bow. Just as /
y Wa ss mountirg my pony Mrs sang out,
4 Doctor, ~ this medicine you left for BETSY \
pizeng Paving assured her Of its ant-'s pizena
qualities, Z rode back home to await another call
pf the same kind.
NEGROES N. New York The last census shows |
eolored population Of 10, s3l in this CITY. which i
. decrease in ten years oil 294S. The total mum.
Der Of foreign berth is $40; born in slave States
principally Virginia aud Maryland, 1893; born in |
Irae States, 9ss3. The number ii children attend
ing school within the year was 1887; number Of
persons over 70 years of age who cannot read and
write ll60. Out Of the II, 83I coiored persons in
The city, 356I are under twenty and there are T2T0
over tWasiiy years Of age. The number Of families
u the same population Is 1909. About one half |
i've in three wards--t Fifth Eighth and Four- /
.eailth. The Eighth Ward contains no less than
1885. 0ut of the 10000 ana over, only S. are /
returned a. owners of real estate. The value Of
I'll real estate owned by negroes is pnt down at
1856, 47S The highest value If regi estate owned /
" single individual is 100000. He ia half T
Rnite, gaze his occupation as that of waiter, and
said he was born in the State of Massachusetts I
Another mnlatto, cook, says he Is worth $50 900.
7 nonas Downing well known to lovers Of good 7
oysters, refused 10 state the value of his property
sn the gronnd that the Governmental Washington
I'D otregard him as person, and that property
could not own property. The total value Of per-
'onai estate is stated at S2l3,785. In all cases Of
ntefmarrlage between blacks and whites il il L
onnd that the wife is white none being returned
7 7. g white man marrying black woman. OF the
illrty- Two white women whose husbands are black,
aghteen We're born in ireland, five in New York I
hree in England, two in Scotland, one in Virginia
ne in Delaware one in Rhode Island, and one at
bnu 4,
biz city ninetenths Of whom arethe Illicit Offspring
7 white men and black women. Theretulns also
hoW that there are thirty Indians residing in the
ATTY. EN. X. Tribune. +
s. CRAVE I JOKE. Ii the New York Express We
ind the following:
Quite an. excitement was created in and about
ne Ihrd Ward Station House this (satarday1
corning IN consequence Of two barrels, supposed Ii
contain hnTaan remains having been brought i
aefe ny carman. Bloody matter was ooznp I
rom the barrels, az also q siekeping stencil An Is
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