New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-25
Mrs. G. c. Clay at Fortress Monroe.

The New York Herald, of the 3oth ult., has a
letter of the 2Sth from Fortress Monroe to the fol-
lowing effect: -.s--
Mrs. Clement 9. Clay was among the arrivals
this morning. Her presence soon became known.
and many curious, and, am obliged to say, some
rather impertinent eyes, peered through the
blinds of the hotel sitting-room to get an unob-
patiently these nquistorial looks and also the de-
lay intervening before accomplishing the object
OF her coming-an interview with her husband,
Although equipped with the proper papers, and
tue fundamental one granting admission to the
fort and to her husband, bearing the signature If
President johnson, the eumbrous slowness and
precision Of red tape had to be observed with all
the military proprieties. This red tapeism kept
her seven hours waiting, delay intensified in its
tediousness from the cramped up, dirty and most
comfortless character of the room in which she
was thus kept in unwilling and unnecessary dur
ance. An ambulance at length came after her,
and with Capt. Hitchcock Provost Marshal as her
chaperon, she passed inside the fortress, and
thence direct to Carroll Hall, where her husband
IS at present confined.
Her meeting with her husband, although he had
in advance been prepared for it, was affecting
| as after such protracted separation, under SUI b
circumstances such interview might be supposed
to be. Her womahy words Of comfort in the
present and love in the future, and his calm and
noble endurance of prison life, and snbdued resg-
nation to the fate betiding him. as revealed in the
much he had to say in return, are things too per-
sona and sacred for publicity. She was surprised
at finding her husband looking so well, and, / am
informed told Gen. Miles that if any one had told
her seven months ago that he would be kept this
length of time in prison, she would have pro-
nounced it impossible FOR him to live through such
a term Of imprisonment. AS it is she highly ap-
precates the kind and generous treatment he has
received and attributes his still being alive to his
treatment.
Mr.. Clay also expressed like warm gratitude for
the humane care he has received and is receiving
fact saving liberty
one could wish to enjoy.
No mention has yet been made as to how long
Mrs Clay will stay here. 1t is highly probable
she will remain as long as the privilege is allowed
her, and such, understood, she has declared as
her intention 1t is known how long and arduousy
she has labored to get her husband paroled. The
psh this object Regarding JEFF. Davis, Mrs.
Clay, whatever her anxieties may be, has only
asked about his health, which, will take this oc-
casion to say, continues good as it has for long
time past.
YANKEE DooDbE.-The Cincinnati Commercial
appears to have no great admiration for Yankee
Doodle, which it eriticses in the folio wing terms:
We are Of those who think the manifestation of
lively repngnanee to this tune should not be con
strued as eyideAke of treason. 1t never should
have been, ard never ought to be, national air.
There are historic memories associated with it
thatgye IT Responsibility and that is the best that
can be said for it. Intrinsicaly it is poor melody
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out of hurdy-gurdy or leased out of fiddle at a
hackwoods hoe-down. The Neapolitan fishermen
are accused of its paternity, which is saying very
little for their musical taste. The unhappy wretch
who brought it into this wicked world fpermitted
to take note of terrestrial affairs from celestial
standpoint, doubtless rejoces that his name has
not been preserved to be execrated with this tune.
The British brought it over with the Hessians in
the Continental war, and our fathers who fit in
the revolution spitefully adopted it to play at the
heels of the retreating red-coats whenever they
persuaded them to retire. and so it came into gen
eral and gradually into national USE significant of
the ability of live Yankee to whip all creation
on the slightest provocation.
Divested of historic associations, it is not half
so good a melody as ''Old Dan Tucker,n Zip
Coon,'' or Jim Crow and is unworthy of hold
ing the rank of national air. 1t is an adopted
citizen Of uncertain descent brought to the land
of the free and home of the brave" by the nation
that introduced African slaves among the whites
and smallpox among the Indians of the continent