The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-10-24


the performance, was disguised with the rules
and customs. He says:
First, no lady is permitted to sit down in the
dress circle OF orchestra stalls which cores
pond with the lower seats in the pits of our
theatres unless in " full Dress" without bon
net, etc. Gentlemen are expected to be
equally circumspect and stylish in their attire,
but the rules in their case is not always en-
forced
We presented ourself in our everyday cos
tune, and were admitted but the ladies who
accompanied us had to doff their bonnets,
which were handed to a "lady" in waiting,
who, with an eye to business, charged shll-
ling for her services when giving them back.
Then, suppose you have purchased tickets
! for the dress circle, you find you must take
back seat, though all around you may
be vacant at the time, and if you ask for an
/ explanation, you are told that the only way
YOU can get position in front is to exchange
4 your tickets and take seats in the STALLS
4 These are fifty cents higher, Of course, but
you have no remedy, and quietly pay the
difference.
But this is not all. You have taken your
seat, and the usher, in red plush velvet
brooches, blue swallow tailed coat and white
choker, hands you programme, with the
potcst of bows. After such obsequious at
! lention you begin to think that matters are not
SO bad, and kindly nod your thanks to the
usher, but lie cant see it in that light" He
wants " thrup- pence" from you for the afore-
said programme, and unless you choose to
pay it, why, he takes it back The perform
ance over, YOU leave the theatre, and in the
vestibule YOU are asked by another usher, in
red vest and velvet breeches, if you will have
carriage, to which you reply in the afirma-
tive, whereupon he halls one near by, for
which, Just as you are about leaving, he has
the cheek to demand shilling
You ask for what, and he tells you "it's
the CUSTOM" and you pay for it, and pray
again You are now in the carriage, and the
door is closed, by whom you neither care nor
inquire, but are soon made to know, for Just
as the driver is about starting, a cuss,' - with
badge on his arm labeled "Olympc Thea
tre,'' sticks his head in at the window, and
asks your honor to remember the porter -
proceeding entirely unnecessary, for we have
no fear Of forgetting him as long as we live.
/ Remembrance, however, is not what he IS
after. He wants money; ats the custom
ere, your 'onor;" SO you pay and pray again,
and feel good deal relieved as the driver
cracks his whip, and the horses trot gaily
away.
You soon reach your hotel, for the London
" cabbies !" drive very fast unless when you
employ them BY The hour, and if you should
take the trouble to calculate damages, you
| will find that your trip TO the Olympic has
cost YOU about as follows: Tickets to the dress
/ circle, each one dollar; additional to stalls,
/ fifty cents for programme, six cents; fee to
usher twenty five cents; ditto to porter,
twelve cents-making a total for one person Of
4 $1.93 in specie or 50 SO in American currency.
At the battle of Gaines's Mill, 9th June,
/ / 862 a young officer in Louisiana regiment
was shot in the elbow. the joint being broken
into shivers by the ball. He was borne TO
the field hospital, where, his arm hanging
4 helplessly by its muscles, the attending sur
geon determined that amputation must take
place. This the young officer firmly refused
! 10 permit, but insisted on being removed TO
the State hospital On arriving there his case
was considered by twelve surgeons, all Of
whom, but two, were of the same opinion
but two of them declared that the limb could
be saved, and one of these, the director of
! the hospital, undertook the operation of re-
section of the joint. All that was left of the
Joint with the adjoining ends Of the bone
was cut off, the muscles, veins and tendons
being carefully saved, and the whole then
nermitted to heal up. We met him the other
day in the person of Henry B. Wyatt, former
" captain of the Lafayette Cadets, 18th Lou
isana, who returned home week or so ago,
and if he had not told US that be was without
an elbow-ioint, and had not taken off his coat
and shown us his arm, we would never have
believed it /; he writes neat hand can lift,
carry pull, and do a great many things even
better than we can; and, if corncred or
crowded on, we are prone TO believe he could
make quite good fight yet with it; and yet
he has no joint to his elbow, and his arm is
homeless for about six inches where the elbow
once was.
1t may well be imagined that he is over
flowing with gratitude for the skill, thought
fulness understanding attention Of DR.. For
mento, to whom he owes the preservation of
his arm. New Orleans Plcayune.
A SOUTHERN INVITATION TO THE jews
The Richmond Wing thus indorses the world
renowned business sagacity of this long de-
spised race:
Terrible, indeed, must be the industrial
condition Of Ireland, when the Israeltes avoid
it. Neither climate, distance, danger, nor
any other cause deters them from settling in a