The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-16
CITY TOPICS.


The skies were clear, the sun bright, ths streets
clean and the fair sex out In all their bends. But
it seems we are not to have more than one day Of
clear weather during all this winter. Last night
was lowering with clouds, and lurid in the west
ern horizon. which was lighted up, probably,
with some burning 'prairie. A nastier, rainier,
wetter, more dlsagreeable. and generally disgust
ing winter has not been known in New Orleans
during whole generation. The gardeners in the
neghborhood of the city are deepening their
draining bitches, and still have stsgnant water on
their vegetable beds. The sugar planters hold mp
their hands in depreciation of the almost incesssnt
foods. The clerk of the weather is objurgated on
all sides as q son of Shitan-a regular cur.
The very latest exhibition of carpetbag mod
esty found expression in resolution offered in
the House yesterday by man named Brewster,
supposed to represent the interests Of Ouachita
parish, which ordered that committee of one
member of the House be appointed to "investi.
gaten the commissioners Of bankruptcy for the
State of Louisiana. In vain the speaker tried to
persuade Hon. Brewster that the State authorities
had as much to do with the affairs of United
States official as they have with those of the
English government. Brewster remained fixed
in his conviction that he, if appointed commit.
tee, could discover something to lay before the
House. The resolution was adopted. Brewster
got the coveted appointment. All we have to
say about the subject is that il the United States
commissioners in bankruptcy or any other United
States officers, give Mr.. Brewster or any other car
petbag investigator one item of information, they
will display that lack Of common sense and worldly
wisdom in which they have not hitherto proved
themselves wanting. A contemptuous silence
would be the best treatment to such presumptu-
Gus Intermediates.
st. Valentines Day came on a Sunday in this
year of our Lord. eighteen hundred and sixty
nine, but the young folks, not to be done out Of
their amusement by any such whimsical ffeak OF
the calendar. turned over to yesterday the respon
sibilities of the occasion, and as a consequence
all day long fairy messengers in the shape of stout
African servant girls, or rudy faced coachmen
were hurried hither and thither by their young
masters and mistresses' carrying the missives
gilt edged, laced, perfumed and inscribed. What
a 1uttering of little hearts there was when the
door bell rang with what eagerness was the
snow white envelope seized and torn open with
what varied emotions of disappointment or salts
faction were its contents scanned.
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tribution and delivery clerks found themselves
Just little buster than usual, and that the de-
mand for drop letter stamps was such as to mate
rally increase avuncusr Samueps receipts in that
quarter.
series of funny incidents occurred at the
opera on Sunday night, during the performance
of q roaring French farce. A young lady, who is
loved BY her uncle and guardian, besides having
several suitors, is placed in q large trunk by one
of the latter for the purpose of facilitating her
escape from her tyrant uncle. The young lover
absents himself for few moments, and second
one walks in to hear the piteous wailings of the
fair one confined in the box; he extricates her
from her udicrous position, and substitutes
stuffed bear which is in corner of the room, and
elopes with the young lady. The first lover re-
turns with couple Of porters, the trunk is being
taken, when little boy, about nine years old, in
one of the open boxes, rises to his feet and shouts
out at the top of his voice e" She amt in there !"
causing roar among the audience. The old
uncle returns and discovers that his niece and
bear are gone his bear was stuffed with bank
notes, his whole fortune; he cries. means and
demeans himself like maniac. Where is my
bear u he shrieks. A little girl. scarcely seven.
whose anxiety is at its climax, shrieks
out to the astounded actor: LOOK in the
trunk, it is there % and the audience again bursts
out into another fit of laughter. Finally, after
the many vicissitudes attendant upon such plays,
the duenna of the opera, Nine Cave, finds herself
boxed up in the same trunk, and in the attempt of
one of the actors to rescue her, the lid falls
heavily upon her head, almost prostrating her. A
deathlike silence succeeds to the hilarity Of the
spectators, and their faces acquire solemn and
smpathizing appearance, until the lady, having
recovered from the shock, denotes by smile that
she is not seriously injured, and issues from the
trunk with the agility of gszelle, to the great re-
lief and satisfaction of everybody present.
The civil equality bill passed its second reading
in the House yesterday. 1t was amended 30 as to
make it take effect on the LIST of April, 1869. in.
stead of after its passage; piece of sharp prac-
tce on the part of the black and tans, who, as
they value their personal safety, naturally do not
desire to be in session when 1t is attempted to put
it into practical operation. 1t comes up to day on
its final passage.
The closing exercises of the convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church held on Sunday night,
at St. Paul's Church, we're very largely attended.
The sermon was preached by Rev. W. F. Adams,
rector of st. Psul's, who chose as his theme the
necessity which exists for the church to have reg
ular revenues. Bishop Wilmer then delivered q
short address, setting forth the duties of Christian
men In this age of atheism and rationalsm. The
collection which was taken up was devoted to the
benefit of those clergymen who had attended the
convention, the bishop observing that there were
more than one clergymen in the diocese who had
not been able to attend the convention, simply be-
cause they had not the means to pay their pas
sage to New Orleans. He also announced that
hereafter in all the Episcopalian churches in this
city monthly collection will be made, ene.half
| Of which shall be devoted to the aid Of country
| missions and one half to the furtherance of city
| missions.
Gov. Humphreys, Of Mississippi, arrived in the
city on Sunday morning, with Mrs. Humphreys and
famil y. He will remain in the city with them for
few days, we understand, and is staying with bis
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