The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-06

to command bis guard. Proud and soldier-like In
every act and thought; exqoistely sensitive to
praise, endowed with rare command of men, and
with the highest talent for the execution Of orders
upon the field of battle, there is great reason to
distrust any measure which involves Q wrong to
him."
The New York World has discovered that even
oysters are subject to manipulation by dishonest
tTadesmen. Large or fat oysters bring the high
est price In the market There are dealers selling
at stalls by the quart, or peddling by measure
from door to door, who buy up all the SMALL re-
fuse stuff they find aud soak it in solution OF
soda. The effect is to make the oysters swell up
to q remarkable size. and to inexperienced buyers
they can easily be palmed of as Saddle Rocks"
The fraud is not discovered until the oysters are
cooked, when, to the establishment of the house
keeper, the great, luscious bivalves dwindle into
the most insignificant dimensions. Buyers can
detect the "sdulters,ed" oyster readily. The
genuine Saddle Rock" has a white, firm appear
ance-the imitation is yellow and soft.
The New York Post says: "The two Spanish
gymnssts who are now performing at the circus
are 1.-THE, active young men--as sll gymnasts must
be. They are dressed in the garo peculiar to their
cinatipg description in the favorite song of the
brilliant and dangerous young man of the flying
trapeze.' In their feats they have acquired the
great art of concealng art-of performing feats
of immense difficulty with apparent entire ease.
Their speciality--the double trapeze-is something
quite new here. From perches at the extreme OPP
poste ends of the circus building, they launch for
ward simultaneously, sweeping through the air
until they gain the middle of the arena, whenlthey
leap from one trapeze to the other. changing ira.
pezes at the same moment. This change of base
they perform first forward then backward, and
then with an intervening summersault. Nothing
in the whole catalogue of gymnastics is at once
more graceful, yet thrilling than this. No per-
formers have yet appeared here who have so tho
roughly learned to fly without wings" Bdwel
viii make a note of this.
When young Twitchel convicted OF numbering
bis mother-in-law, was sentenced, last week, in
Philadelphia, to be hung, the judge asked him the
usual question why judgment should not be pro.
nounced. At this juncture, while everybody waited
in silence, McCully, the steadfast friend of the
prisoner who had been sitting close by the rail of
the dock, uttered q suppressed cry and sank from
his chair in swoon. Many imagined that the
prisoner himself had been overcome by the terror
of his situation. The whole room lifted on tip-toe
TO ascertain the truth. While some of the officers
of the court shouted order and silence. others
FASTENED for water, and made quick efforts to re-
viye McCully. minute suffced to accomplish
this, and then again all was still. Twitchell had
watched the faintiDg of his friend, himself un-
mored, at least so far as the muscles of his face
and bearing were concerned. He now answered.
rather instinctively, the call of the clerk "All
that / have to say is that | have been tried and
convicted of crime of which / know nothing"
He spoke no other word, but stood calmly look
ing at the judges.