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

for the majors arrest, and although the officer OF
police acted With courtesy and kindness, Major
- was subjected to great deal of inconve.
nience and loss of time. 1t turned out after all
that it was somebody elses dorg that was after
piece of black meat.
Thanks, thousand hearty thanks and good
wishes, to those charming ladies', Msscsmes Will
lisms and Bradley. for the generous supper they
sent last night, through all the rain and storm.
The editor and proprietor of the CRESCENT directs
the local to thank the ladies', and particularly
Capt. Williams and Father Cornelius, for their
warm invitation to him to visit the fair last even
ing.Elt was his intention to do SO, but the food
rendered it absolutely impossible to venture on
the journey. Most of those employed about the
sanctum had been weather.bound all day, and
were as hungry as wolves. The bone turkey, the
sugar-cured, the delicious salad, came to them
like mama in the desert and the glorious
old cognac that washed the substantials down
was fit for an emperor, or even the Olympian
Jupiter. The writer told his coadjutors how
beautiful and smiable the fair hostesses are, and
how hospitable Capt. Williams and his friends,
and his faint description ADDED zest to the FEAST
Ike mustard to roast beef. Again we say thanks,
gentle ladies'; thanks, Capt. Williams; thanks,
Father Cornelius, and all the other true.hearted
people IN the fair Marigny street. The fair
continues, We believe, during the whole of the
present week, and orr readers will find it only
two doora from tho Iiae of the Dauphin street
cars, and as delightful place Of amusement as
any they ever attended.
Polonius was rewarded with q smile yesterday
for saying he had broken of all connection with
the clerk of the weather on account of that
Individual being too partial to water.
Three Of the august national wards Just down
from Catahoula arrived in the city about ten
O'Clock yesterday as deck passengers on q stern.
wheel steamer. After sumptuons repast on
fried buffalo, which they gobbled at the hospitabe
board-no, gunnel-ofa peripatetc restaurateuse,
who stuck to her post on the leyee, notwithstsnd-
ing the drenching rain, they made their way, after
numerous inquiries, TO the State House. They
entered the Senate chamber; they heard the word
question from an Ethiopian senator they roll.
ed their eye.balls. But when the mighty sage
who presides over the deliberations of the Assem-.
bly, rose up in his sable majesty aud Numbered
out, All them that's in favor" etc. their knees
gave way under them, and their awe Was equal to
that Of Balasm when he listened to the Inspired
oratory of his jackass.
A certain youth in this city short time since
went 10 party. Now, in this there was nothing
wrong, as several youths of this city, certain and
otherwise, have recently gone to several parties.
But when this youth got to the party he, as was
not unnatural, invited one OF the gentler sex in to
partake of ice cream. The ice cream was soon
procured, but, alss, spoon was lacking. Instantly
the youth fastened 10 procure one; glance,
however, at the supply of spoons arranged for
use, disclosed the melancholy fact that they had
all been used. Toe youth looked around for a
servant but no servant was visible. WHAT was
TO be done The young lady waited for her
spoon-s clean spoon-all the spoons had already
been used, and there was one to bring clean
spoon; suddenly bright idea flashed across him.
His young lady should have spoon, and clean
spoon, in spite of walters and everything, a. once;
so the youth quietly picked up dirty spoon,
turped his back to the young lady, and with a
celebrity and thoroughness truly remarkable,
licked the spoon clean, then turning around, with
a graceful bow presented it to the demoisele.
Here our little novelette, closes.
A French paper tells story of an old married
man on his death bed. "We shall meet again
soon," said he, in a trembling voice to his wife.
Brushing away her tears, the prospective widow
turned TO an attendant and whispered, did you
hear the designation the old wretch has made with
me Iii only another proof of his sefshness."
The rain storm and its attendant floods yester-
day were prolific in incidents. Horses broke away
from posts where they were tied and dashed
nadly through the flooded or muddy streets. One
came tearing out Julia street toward the New
Basin, and when near Dryades, being confronted
by man endeavoIiug to stop him, stumbled. fell
on bis side, and in that position slid like lightning
along the slippery pavement distance of fifteen
twenty feet, then regained his feet AMI went on
again uncaptnred..
Many people were detained for hours in doors
by the waters, which to the depth of foot or
more, converted streets into canals, even in some
cases invading the ground floors of the buildings.
Along quiet street, when the storm was at its
height, passed young gentleman Of color, very
sleek, very black, and quite stylishly srrsyed in
checked Cashmere trousers, black sack coat aud
bran new hat which he shielded from the falling
rain by monster cotton umbrella. He was wad.
ing bravely through the torrent, was this son of
Ham, when alas a mis-step-and lo-he was
seated in the turbid water, splashiDg about like a
porpoise, while the cotton umbrella was borne
away upon the tide. Not word did he utter
He spske not, he moved not, be looked not
around" for moment. Then rolling up the whites
of his eyes in the silent anguish of despair, he
rose, dripping like Cytherea from the waves.
Alss, what change. Those fancy check cassi.
meres were forever shorn of their luster, and as
the unfortunate, recovering his umbrella, moved
on again, cold and chopfalen, and still speechess
with disgust, his gait was indescrbably ludicrous
The streets yesterday, during the food Of rain
which continued for hours, might have been taken
for the canals of Venice. but for the muddy con-
sistence of the waters:
There is glorious city in the
The Sea h in the broad the streets
hboing and flowing; and the seawssd
Clings to the marble of her palaces"
In times of slavery no Southern slave owner
would make his negroes perform any filthy work.
Mark the change: Every reader must have noticed
hundreds of negroes, men, women and children,
the nation'e varda nickinc at heana of ofai IN