The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-13
NUMBER l7s.
his person. not even gold shrt-b uttous." and upon
his " shirt-bosom nothing glittered brighter than
agate buttons" What are we to believes


his person, not even gold shrtb uttous." and upon
his =" shirt-bosom nothing glttered brighter than
agate buttons" What are we to believes
He never told his cabinet
But let grim silence, like corn i the foot.
Torture their anxious souls he smiled in thought;
And with rare and prudent understanding (of
he sat sat Ike fellow holding four kings and an
ace,
Calm and serene. = New YORK sun.
The Legislature of Mexico having put it into
the catalogue of crime for male human beings 10
appear in the streets devoid of trousers, the De-
troit Free Press remarks that their rigor viii
crush any ministerial aspirations which Senator
Yates, of Illinois, may have cherished with regard
10 that country.
A correspondent Of the New York Post sug-
gests that the victinized stockholders of the
Erie Railway may find ample consolation in ac.
miring the splendor of the new apartments of
Messrs. Fisk and Gould in the Fisk Opera House.
"what can be more consolatory to the stock
holders?n says he leth him be admitted by ticket
The pSiYisSe v Rt vea4iag tAsBaRgeds. ilssdug.ss
Whitewater Wisconsin, was delivering college
yaledictory address a short time ago, when, in
taking his handkerchief from his pocket, he pulled
out pack Of cards. which fell to the floor.
coatu The worthy divine, who sat in front OF
his promising son. was more confused than his
hopeful scion.
Mr.. Greeley is retaliating slightly on the editor
of the New York Sun for the hard rubs the latter
has been giving him under the pretence Of friend
ly pufery. In the Washington dispatch to the
Tribune, it gravey announced that Mr.. Dana in
formed his friends in Washington that it was i'm.
Il. fraIo awht
which had been anticipated as one of the most at
tractivs features of the inaugural ceremonies
AT. Stewart has commenced the erection OF
an immense hotel having front Of two hundred
feet on Fourth avenue, and two hundred and
ten feet each on Thirty.second and Thirty third
streets, New York. The first floor will be rented
for stores, and the property is to be managed In
the interest of the working women. Board is TO
| be furnished as cheaply as possible, and the ac-
commodations will lbe excellent. Two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars has been already ex-
pended, and 1t is expected that the work will
cost over s2,OOO,OOO.
| The New York Home Journal says that "the
newest idea in watzing insists that, instead OF
| claspipg the lady's hand, or even her finger tips
the gentleman shall bend his left arm at about the
| same angle with which fashionable girl carries
her parsso, the lady supporting herself BY placing
ter hand against his arm in the hollow OF the ell
bow. Thus he carries her around delicately, with
out any of that contact which condemns the
round dances. This mode is introduced by sln'
gular set Of exclusives, but its proprety must
commend it to ALL"
What was the color Of the gloves worn by Grant
At his Inauguration? The correspondent Of the
Herald says he wore corn-colored kid gloves; the
correspondent of the World says he wore canary
coored kid gloves; the correspondent 81
the Times says he wore straw-colored KID
gloves; another correspondent asserts that
he we're Bismarck colored kid gloves; the
correspondent of the Tribune gives no information
on the point-probsby because the new constitn
tional amendment forbids all determinations o
| color.
Southern writer, who has just had an iuter
view with Mr.. George d. Prentice, says he II
not the man he was ten years ago. Indeed, hi
genius is gone, and his. person is mere wreck
His family is broken up-wife dead, one soI
killed on the Confederate side, another settled ol
a farm down the river-and tie old man, vergini
on threescore and ten, cooks his breakfast ant
dinner in his little room on the third floor Of tn
Courier building, and lives only in conversation
about the past. This man once welded an i'm
perial power with his wit and his music. Nov
the,world has whirled past him, and he lies on th
shore mere stranded wreck.