The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-21

Grant to another department. The cause Of the
rupture is not known"
At his q and party the other night. Ben. Butler
said to party who were talking of Mrs. Surrstt;
" She was an innocent woman. 1 sent persons to
military commissions when intended them TO be
convicted When wished them acquitted, did
it myself"
According to writer in the Chicago Times, 9
strong minded female Of Boston MRS Howe. has
discovered that it is 'polsrity" ihas MAKES sne
difference between the sexes, and that when
man loses his polarity" he becomes woman!
She says: "You cannot destroy your poisri,y'
your native centrally and circumferenu2Ay WIN
ont destroying yourself" Jes so.-lEx'
In the Presbyterian convention at Cincinnati on
the l7th discussing the kind of preaching needed
DIR. Thomas made the following remark: =" Take
away the pulpit; come nearer the peoples re-
move the Formally Of the ministry. We build up
these buIwarks of Satan, the pupiss. Twenty
wears ego kicked mine out SO az to get nearer to
my people,"
Mr.. Beecher's strenuous denial that he men
toned once in his pulpit that it was damned
hot day" is met by several people with reitera-
ton OF the statement that each one OF them hearo
him ssy ii. Under these circumstances, there Is
nothing left for him but repentance, and pro-
mise not to practice profanity any more, except
in the bosom of his family, or among his eonn-
dental friends.-[N. ! World.
OF all piteous things in this world, the most
piteous is TO see o nobis nature touched with m
temperance. His struggles. his longings. his en-
deayors his short determinations, and his downward
pluppes again, cannot but excite the deepest
sympathy of every feeling heart. such an one
is like men in the surging pillows OF the sea,
succeed in reaching the sh Sr are struck by re-
When Bingham was rolling out some of his
roundest periods in reply to Buffers attack on the
Senate Butler said. al always did like that speech
of Bingham's." Soon after Schenck got of the
joke, and before the congressional laugh had fair
ly subsidized Butler repeated the same little joke
again. The sandusky Register remarks: I'VE
always did like that joke of Buffers and
| Schenck's."
The other day, in private company, says an
| English paper, a medical gentleman amused his
friends by lighting can&es with bis breath as fast
as they put them out. A cigar, which was very
nearly out being presented to him, be breathed
upon it, and it fared Up into flame. He subse-
quently let out his secret, which was that short
time before he had been inhaling oxygen gas.
| Last evening most affecting incident occurred
at the Walnut street Theater, one which will long
be remembered by all Of the vast audience. In
| the " Irish Tiger" Mr.. Williams sings the song
| Pat Mslloy," the second verse of which the late
| Mr.. Brady wrote for biTn. Coming to this verse
| when his departed friesd wrote the lines of the
verse, laughing the while, upon scrap Of old
| paper on his hat. He Gould not 60 on. He apol-
ogzed to his patrons Ga the tears rolled down his
cheeks, and they gave him their sympathy.-lPhil-
adelphia Press, 18th.
The funeral of Sol. Smith took place in st.
Louis on the 10th, and was numerousIy attended,
large delegation OF Odd Fellows being present.
The following leading citizens were also there:
Daniel G. Taylor, John G. Priest, Ben DeBsr, DR..
Forbes, George Jones and others. Seven sons OF
the deceased were present and acted as pail
bearers, by his special request previous to bis
decease. The funeral cortege left the house at
half.past 10 O'Clock, and escorted the remains to
Belefontains Cemetery. Rev. DR.. Elliott, Unita-
risn, read the services at the house.
| PFAu.-Pftu frequently few fashingly, frant.
cally, fearfully from "ay" to footlights-hinging
far fetched fandangos-fabed feats of fabulous
| force! A fantastic feather for February-forcing
| fearful feelings trOn furious facity-far, fat.
fscie (f far frona fragile) farfamed Pau forbids
frowns from forty frolcsome foreign fellows, filed
full from feasting. Fair fascinating females, fall
tering for fear of false falls, feel fanting-forget
ting Pfau free from fear fails notforgesting, for
sooth the fancy fuRleman, friend and familiar
forgetting Pfau's fresh, free, facie frigidity
freezes his fexors fairly Trapped Festive for
Pau !-IMobile Register.
Dom P, speaking OF the row in joint session
says: al never saw anything of the sort before
/ enjoyed so much. My only regret was that Il
: did not 20 q little further. Had it get to blows
and the Dignity Dough heads OF the Senate beer
: well punctJred. should have enjoyed it all the
> more. Think of q promiscuous rump.kicking In
general, on the floor of the House, and the grave
and reverend seignora returning in procession tt
!. their chamber; the Old horse feeling his bat
tered head to see if it were yet there; John Sher
: man with black eye; Charles Sumner trying t.
look unooncerned, with his senatorial nos,
: smashed and his senatorial coat-tails gone; Dicl
Yates and Salisbury missing, and all more or les
damaged in person and dignity. How il woul'
have made history and choice letters!"
Baltimore dispatch says: "The remains of tn
assassin Booth were not inferred on the 18th, bu
= will be to-day lSth), in the presence of Mrs
Booth, Edwin aud james Brutus Booth. Hun
j dreds of people viewed the romans yesterda
d afternoon. There is nothing but bones left
!. Upon one foot was On old army shoe, and on tn
other boot, cut open at the top. This covere
8 the left foot, the leg having been broken in b
It leap from the stage box of the theater after
d. had assassinated Mr.. Lincoln. There is dispC
W sition to get up a demonstration, but the famil
bitterly oppose any thing Of the sort, and hay
l. arranged TO bury hiDl beside his mother. Severi
70 Baltimoresns have contributed to defrsy the e.
d penses of the reinterment of Payne for who's
10 remains there has, as yet, been no claimant"
The Boston actor, Shewell. whose wife CAV
- him such tremendous scolding that he utterl
N broke down in his part, and was consequently di
2. charged from the Boston Museum. is beginning ,
e. realize that a virago Is a splendid thing to have
the house. He is now the lion at Selwyn's The
\ ter, in the same city, and has revived the drool
"a ing fortunes of tho house. When he made b
a. first appearance at selwyn's he was greeted vii
IA the longest and loudest applause which ev
shook the house. 1t was not lessened when,
10 Young Msrowe, in "She Stops to Conquer"
ID spoke his first words "a tedious, hot, and u
is comfortable time we have had Of it," The aud
rs ence saw peculiar appropriateness in the word
: and testified it by hands and feet. Again ar
again rose the applause. The play was stoppe
le and aspeech was demanded aud given.
I'd Mr.. W. W. Nevin, in his article on the "Rev
K luton in Cuba" in Lppincott's Magazine, say