The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-19
"HEAD~ RETURNS HOME.

HOTEL DE- VEAL, Jan. Is, 1868.
Col. NiJon-" Leaves have their time to fall ;"
and fall has its time to leave! / accordingly took
advantage of time which waits for no man and
but few women and arrived at the City Hosel
just as the sun was dawning over the top Of the
halfway house." and rejistired my name, (X.)
has been said that "a rolling stone gathers no
moss" but this can't refer to me, for gathered
Morse to myself Immediately on my arrival, with.
out any personal difficulty, and without re morse
deposited my pill.box full of secondhand cloth
ing and took a room with the remainder of the
Democratic party.
The first day of my arrival devoted to the in
speetion Of the CRESCENT Office. sud some Of its
contents ! found some good "forms" therein,
but a number Of hard cases" in the compost
tiOn room but the cOmpOsitOrs will " stick" by
them if nobody else does.
The second day attended the convention with
Felis Oates, and saw several Americans, some of
whom differed from the others. The convention
was whanged to order by an American" and
the NJ. C.'s (members cODvention) set down to
hatch up something One n. G. got Eggstatlc,
ard thought the proceedings in New Orleans
courts were folcl. He was as excited as though
he had just been taking cocktail; hens he
talked until he was fairly "gin eout." The Crane
however, is hardly to be considered as a game
chcBen ...I
ON looking over the convention and seeing how
many were scent to IL, AS my friend Felis says,)
found that some of the jeWery worn was Pinch
back. 1 don't intend to run any Riggs on this
body, but ] think, take il altogether, " it's big
thing on snideri" They hsvn't been able to
raise sufficient COULD yet TO pay expenses, so
what they have done 30 far has been Scott free.
They will have to Steele something soon, or go
without the necessary OF life. Although they have
their own Baker, some OF tSem are hardly well
bred men. There ought TO be Lynch Law for
some of them who get up and blart an hour for
the sake of hearing themselves talk and over
awning the deluded and ignorant bipeds outside
the rail. One NJ. c.. talked himself hoarse,
used up the personal pr0noun " /, and that other
useful organ, " ear" and then called for all the
lis and nose In the housen. Then, sticking his
hands deep into his pockets and shouldermg his
elbows he proceeded to walk up and
down the aisle with q hermsphrOdite AIR of
Hamlet snd Weston. He was evideRtiy preparin 9
for Snaer. The Members are not all Schwabs,
nor Drnksrds but taken as q body. 1.-THE sconwen.
ton nav be characterized as Ne wsham. There
is no Roland in il, and If there was wouldn't
give him for an Oliver who as In II. uthark a
Cromwell has riseni and when he Is Tor gotten, as
he will be- and sleeps In dul cold marble, as
be must do, the question comes up before the con-
wention. will it be eohite marble and will ne De
buried IN the green Meadows meath the Under.
weed and be forgotten as he ought to be ! or wall
be, like BsnQuOs Ghost. so often mentioned In me
convention, refuse TO " dozen gu All, these Is,
indeed, one Of the dzTk(yj ages.
AgBin las Felis says, there was some Cooley
labor in the convention, but viii not say that he
was lsbo1ing 70 csuTie favor. Let the Butler do
that IL he wants 20. sitlA ssell'E Il 2 =, -
There we're several speeches made, in which
the words " black and tam were heard 30 often
that YVES tempted to write dog gereE f'ass "a
All the foregoing, in relation TO the convention,
is sarcaustic and not Intended to influence theli