New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-03-31
Hen 0rIeans laiIp Gtestent.

COMMISSIONER SI1DELL-Perso Gossip.-Sli.
dell has subsidized with an alarming condition and
moved to his new apartments on the Champs
Elysees, we hear but little of him. When he was
domciled at the former place. there were often to
be seen on the sidewalk, opposite to his windows,
sometimes as many as half dozen Engshtnen
and Americans, who had paused a moment on
their way to the Boulevard to catch glimpse of
the old traitor who had made SO much noise in the
world, or of the young lady who bases her claim
to chivalry upon an assertion that she slapped
the face !" Of an officer of the United States Navy,
who was in the performance of personally disa-
greeabe duty Now, however, the family creates
no excitement, and they have not yet given the
promised house warming. Sdell is busy among
persons having influence with the Government,
and has had interviews with several Senators for
the purpose of endeavoring to induce them to OPP.
pose that paragraph in the project Of the address
which agrees with the lAgperors suggestion Of
strict neutrality. AS yet, however, he has had no
success on this score, as all which has been said
upon the subject has been favorable !; and in the
address of the Legislative Assembly the same
course is taken and both Of these will be adopted
without any amendment to the paragraphs relating
!. our affairs. Last week Mr.. Slidel and his fam
lily were present at grand ball given by the
Countess de Morny, but attracted no particular at
tenton. The Count de Morny is the President of
the Legislative Body, and the acknowledged half
brother OF the Emperor, being the result of an
"early indiseretion " on the part of Queen Hor-
tense He is said to possess a considerable influ.
ence oVef HIS majesty, anu, VI coulse, y LAh1 u
cultivate.
That miserable traitor Beverly Tucker, who has
Grown fat and bloated from the feed of the United
States Government, made his appearance here
several days ago, having arrived in England week
before last He reached there by way of the
West Indies, and comes with dispatches from the
bogus Government to its bogus ambassadors.
His principal occupation here is e blowing" and
imbibing, at both Of which he ia particularly
strong. [Paris Correspondence of N. Y. Herald.
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WHY Is lr?-Let every man look around
among his neighbors, and ask vhy it Is that, with
scarcely an exception, men who are doubtful in
the relations of social life who are dss0lute, or
dishonest false in their private character, or, il
, not absolutely vicious who are weak minded, ec-
centric and unstable? Why is it, If this be q
Bishop Meade, of Virginia, or Rev. Dr.. Atkinson
President of Hampton Sidney, who led his whole
college to the field, Or the vast numbered Baptist
and Methodist clergymen who have laid aside fol
time the sword spiritual for the sword Temporal
or the Roman Catholic Bishop Whelan, of Wheel
ing, who told the mob who insisted upon hosting
the United States flag on his Cathedral, that be
fore they should do 1t, they must pass over hi
dead body-why is it, if this be a wicked rebel
Hon. that such men are among its warmest ant
most decided supporters? Why is it that the bes
citizens, as well as the clergy, the men who arr
known and respected as the most reliable, pure
nnselfsh members of society are loyal to a man
Why is it thatthe women-the mothers, wives AM
daughters--of the South place the cause of tn
South only second in their devotion to that of thei
God? II this be a wicked rebellion if it b,
not in fact the best and noblest cause that eve
summoned people to the field, it is strange tina
the good and noble of the South should all b
found among its friends, and only the false ant
doubtfal in private life among its enemies.