The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-14

does If be only believes. The Episcopslisns don
, care what man does or believes II he only b
longs to their Church.
Rev. I. W. Hieginson writes to the Independent
Observe any clergyman when he Is chsttiu
with bis Pensioners 10 the street, about the con
ing election, or Deacon JOnes's rheumatism, Q
the prize OF apples. His voice Is animated hi
nodulatioD varied his gestures emphatic. Go &
hear BIN the next Sunday and very possibly hi
voice is 0rone, his mOduationls dead level, AM
his gesticulsiion that OF q windmill.
A Frenchman has perfected small steam 10
combile for one person for the streets and com
mon roads, by which a man may for half thu
money, and in half the time make his daily visit,
OF business or pleasure. With this mode Of loco
motion his dignity viii be saved, for there are foul
wheels and cover, and it does not took as cheap
as veocipede.
Carl Benson says that one OF the first things
that struck me in England twenty years ago
was the earlier development of English lads And
there can be no doubt that this physical improve.
ment is owing to equtasion and other athletic re-
creations, which our people had the sense to take
up, and the diatetics,- sbou, which the last gene
ration went half crazy, had proved disastrous
failure"
| 1t was highly commendsbe on the part OF the
Unitarian minister at Swsmpscott, on Sunday,
(says the Boston Transcript when he said before
reading hymn by DR.. Vets, that as he entirely
disbelieved one line of it, and thinking his hear
ers also would, he requested them In singing, to
substitute, as others had done, " How weak and
frail are We" for " What worthless worms are
We"
The war about "the music of the future" has
sprung up with fresh vigoT and bitterness since
the production Of Wsgner's last opera, the "Mei-
steTsinger." Many of the European critics have
praised II in the most wholesale manner exhaust
ing all Of their epithets Of admiration One sturdy
critic, however, Dr. Hanslick, Of the New Free
Press OF Vienna, gives the opera an overhauling
which will not be much rellshed by It's friends
They are playing in the South German provn-
cial thesters a farce entitled, " Andrew Johnson
or the President in Hot Water" Senators Ross
Fowler and Henderson appear on the stage, each
carrying big bag supposed TO contain gold on
opening them the senators find that the bags are
filled with leaden bullets. Ben Butler and A. j.
have violent alteration In the course of the
play end the denOuenentis the Goddess of Liberty
scourging the whole crowd from the stage.
Here is the latest fashion bulletin: On the |
grand boulevard Canal there was moderate ex. |
hbition OF erinoline. IL is 20 be regretted that
some of our residents of the fair sex have COM |
I'M ed themselves to the head gearing or apology
for bonnets. No doubt II is not very COSTLY But |
II has great squirting toward bareheadedness
and the delnt monde of Paris. The inquiry is
when will these Choetsw fashions be followed by
another? They remind our old citizens of the /
hoad-trmmiDgs Of the aborigines who paraded
the streets of our city forty and fifty years ago
Creeks, Chickasaws, Chocaws, Seminoles aud /
fanoango head trimmings.
A Frenchman has an invention to enable mar
sons prematurey buried to inform outsiders of the
Ru he hurfa ind |
communication with the living by means of a tube
fixed over the mouth with funnel.shaped month.
piece, the other end projecting from the earth or
stone shove. " If the individual, - ito ouote the
prospectus, " finds himself uneasy in his posi-.
ton ~ he has only to demand the attention of
the guardians Of the cemetery, which he can
easily do, and his case will be attended to At
once." The inventor thinks no family ought to be
without one of his tubes.
" Monadnoek," of the New York Times has
lined with the lord provost of Edingburg, vii.
IAN Chambers, of the publishing house. Among
hose present whose names are familiar to Ameri.
ANS were Sir James G. Simpson, Bart, Sir VIM.
Johnston, Mr.. Emanuel Deutsch of the British
nusuem, and author of the Talmud articles in the
Quarterly, DR.. Findlater, editor of the Encylopa.
liz, Prof. TAFT, and others. The dinner was wor.
by Of the Scottish capital. There were five kinds
4 fish, including trout from Lochleven and white
ait from the Thames. From the clear turtle soup
o the fruits and ices, every dish was success.
he meats were hot, the champagne was cold
nd the whole went on like clockwork Neither
aris nor New York could have done better, only
bat the latter could have given few dishes
'hch have not found their way to these high lati.
ldes.
Carl Benson, in some interesting foreign remin.
ceDces contributed to the Turf, saws he vas
uch impre ssed by the difference between the
al men and the ideas which he had formed of
lem beforehand. Rogers generally supposed
} be the essence of sarcasm, was an amiable old
enuemsn with soft and winning manner. Words.
orth, red faced and blue coated, looked. in all
at weight, the ideal of jolly country squire.
I'D when he CHANGED to speak Of Goethe whom
; dld not admire so much as some people dol he
led primitive Saxon that will not bear repeat A
G in print Macauley, in spite Of bis fine fore.
ead had so plain and farmer.ke an appearance :
at person not knowing who he was would
I've been tempted to pass him without second
ance. Finally, Count D'0rsay struck him az L
le OF the most vulgar looking aud worst dressed
en- he had ever seen in good society. p
The house of the Barings was founded bv the
andiaiher of the first Lord Ashburton more
an Ibs years ago. The present head, Mr., 2,
urges is not far from sixty years OF age. 4
is still in the prime of his powers and bids fair ii
last about twenty good years. There is no
an of greater mark on Change. His tall figure.
ghtly STOPPING, grizzly hair, smoothly -shaven :
ce, fine head, keen eye, white neck. cloth, quiet
ess and afable manner, as he. stands in his =,
ual place at midday leaning agaios. o,o - -
lssive pillars Of the Merchants Exchange ara
familiar as the statue Of the old Duke 10 the
slness men Of London. He is always seIfpos. %
sed. His memory never fails him. Apparently On
perfect ease, his eye and ear are awake IN P
cry topic OF commercial news. To stranger. !
nited for the first time to this great bourse of
world he would seem, in contrast to the
xous faces and earnest gestures of the crowd del
De simple uninterested observer; and vet he sn,
urhs 70 blsnopgate-street at O'Clock fully in Co
med OF the Drinaa Of aas | W