The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-13
a Quizzieai a account OF IA Isterview with
President Jehnson-The President Com
plains Of Tosthaehe.
The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore
Gazette says:

Gazette says:
I must confess that have little faith 10 the
various authoritative " statements emsnatIng
from this quarter. / sometimes doubt the state
ments make myself, though always made upon
the faith place in others. Determined there
fore to 20 10 the fountain head, yentured last
night TO visit the president, IN order that the anx
ious public should be put in possession OF anthem
tic information, whatever its purport might be.
He received me very cofdally. Not venturing, as
others are reported TO have done, TO put cate
gorical questions, and being little nonplussed,
fell back upon the precedent furnished Dy Mr..
Lincoln, and asked bis excellency how be
found himself" Without replying directly
10 the inserrogatory, he asked me in return
If It were true, be had just been informed, that
IL was then showing. Feeling, by this familiar
sort Of talk little emboldened, bat still some
what timid. ] ventured TO repeat the important
question at first propoupded. To this No then
gave evasiye answer, to-wit: That day or
two ego be caught "a violent cod"-(l mus now
be particular TO record the very words -ana that
ii had fallen on his left jaw" inducing what Is
commonly called the "to0thache.n Upon ex-
pressing sympathy. aud remarking that had,
when younger, exper .enced sinlE sensation,
he opened his mouth, and called my attention to
the precise locality. l then iniimated that l was
no dentist when his excellency put upon me
q pair of quizzical eyes, and said, you
know deysh well how 10 draw tooth
when il suits you, and that without me
asked me how got hold Of the story about the
chickens, but before had an opportunity of IN
rIddling that knotty affair, he drew my attention
to The facetious account, gwen In verse by Dean
Swift, OF his important roadside interviews with
Harley, afterwards Earl Of oxford. Being now
perfectly at home, as il were, modestly referred
TO the reports with which the public had been re-
called, of his private conversations with I" mem
bers of the press n-and asked II they could be
implicitly relied upon. les !" said he, emphatic-
ally, ard with his right hand forefnger he pointed
over 10 the direction Of his left shoulder. Not
being entirely satisfied with this nOn-committai
mode OF communication, boldly repeated the
inquiry, upon which he theoretically said that
they were damned pack Of hes from Alpha TO
Omega. l then minated to the pre- ident that
i had question to PROFOUND which was not
Only of the utmost importance, but its very nature
required the strictest secrecy. Looking around,
and perceiving no one else present, except one
legged messenger, who had lost limb by the un
relentiDg inroads Of frost, and learning that he
was besides, deaf post, assumed assurance
enough 10 inquire whether il was true that he had
ordered the Maryland militia TO sustain him 10 his
mediated coup detGt, which | was impatiently
expecting. ] did this In very low tone OF voice
in plain words, in what is called q whisper.
"Why, my dear sir, - said the chief magistrate
"such a report is a mere device Of the enemy.
There Is no coup d'etdt contemplated. and If there
were we should not require the aid OF soldiers
We fight with parchment, and | will continue on
that Ike If ii lakes me all summer" At this
pleasant hit at Grant who hear to-day Is pretty
much IN the condition" that stanton was yester-
day. backed out of the presidents reception
parlor, bowling as | backed. x.