The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-24
CITY TOPIcs.

by the members and friends of the New Orleans
st. Andrew Society, to take place on Monday
evening at Richeeu's restaurant. And we'll may
the "canny Scots" look forward with pleasure to
the OCCASION and raise their antcipations high for
twill doubtless be an affair of rare enjoyment to
all participating in 1t. The writer of this had the
good fortune to be present at the last anniversary
banquet of the st. Andrew Society, and the re-
collections he carried away with him of the
geniaty, genuine pleasure and refined enjoyment
which marked that occasion, were such as to ia
duce him to gladly accept any subsequent invita-
ton extended by the same association Next
Monday evening shall certainly find Us at the
| Rchelieu restaurant.
We hope that the good people of our town will
| not forget that tomorrow week will be February
! l, nor that on that evening will be inaugurated a
fair at Odd Fellows Hall, which, because of it's
object, will demand from them all their patronage.
II is to be for the benefit of st. Annals Asylum,
an institution which now furnishes a refuge to
many widows in destitute circumstances, and to
many children half orphans. For years this ssy.
lum has existed in our midst, silently doing great
good work, and only on one occasion, we believe,
previous TO this, has it ever obtruded its
claims for assistance upon the public. But the
financial diasters of last year bore heavily upon
1t, and now. In real need, its board of directors
appeal to the people of New Orleans to come for
ward and give it that aid which, from the char.
ties it has done and is doing it has right to ask.
The fair will be very entertaining one, as each
evening there will be concert and tableaux and
dancing. The ladies who have charge of the
matter are those who will surely make it a sue.
cess, and so when we ask the patronage of the
public for it, we do no more than request them to
do something that they will fnd will yield them
pleasure far exceeding the value of the small
sum-the admission fee will be only twenty-five
cents-necessary to obtain it.
Somebody asked somebody else the other day
if he had read 0uidas last, when the second some
body iDquiringy responded, "What widow do
you mean p"
II was this same somebody that remarked 10 a
friend that he thought that Judge Durel, in the
case of Udolpho Wolf (of scheidam notorety) vs..
Barnett Lion, had rendered snap Judgment.
To say that Canal street was crowded yesser.
day were very faint expression of what it was.
II seemed as If every lady in the city had donnsd
her richest and most tasteful dress and sailed |
forth to enjoy the sunshine, to see the sights OF
the street, snd-to be seen. Surely, if the ele. |
gance and costliness OF the costumes now worn
by the ladies here are any indication of the wealth
of our population, New Orleans must be a very |
aourishing and prosperous city.
We wonder when primitive Christians worship
ed God in caves and catacombs, aud lifted no
their voices in alteration amidst the wild beasts of
the arena and in the whirling flames, at how much
they estimated the value of pews in those early
temples. We imagine, though, that rents were
not very high then-not near 80 high as now,
when, as we were informed the other day, pew
costs as much as an opera box. But then, it is to
be considered that they did not enjoy opera music
in church in those days, and now we can hear
" La Belle Helene" and martha" in our
called-churches, which was a
privilege those benighted individuals, who lived
30 long ago, did not enjoy. So on the whole
we suppose we who have to pay for the
Gospel, considering that we get so many extras
with it, really get it as cheap as those who OBJ.
tanned 1t without money and without price. Still,
we cannot help but think how astonished those
men who listened to the first sermon on Chris
tanity ever preached-that on the Mount of |
Olives by the Great Preacher would have
been charged an. extra high price for front
'eats, as we modern Christians are. Well, the
world moves, and doubtless our ideas are far
ahead of the men who lived in the dark ages.
when tithes were unknown and pew rent had not
been invented.
We are happy to notice that the enterprise of
orming q gymnsstlc club, undertaken by few
7oung men in this city, bids fair to be complete
uccess. Several meetings have been held, the
asst of which was on Friday last, when constitu.
ion and bylaws were adopted. A large and con-
Ienient room has been engaged and work has
'een commenced to fit it up for a gymnasium.
The prospects now are that by the lst of Febru.
ny, or perhaps a week later, the gymnasium will
'e ready for use. 1t is the intention of the club
o admit no one to membership under the age Of
Z years, though subscribers will be received of
II ages. We commend the institution to all the
Dung men Of our city. The advantages of con.
tant and regular exercise are too patent to need
iscussion here. Through q membership of this
Tub, or q subscription to it, young man can OBJ.
ain all these advantages, with the guarantee be.
ides that he has become one of an association
OmpOsed Of the most respectable young men of
be city. long life and useful one to the Gym.
astic Club.
We had almost forgotten our old ACQUAINTANCE, I
!. L. Shelley, of the ambrosal locks, whilom the '
gracious correspondent of the New York Tri. 5
une, when we caught a glance of his eide 8
hiskers in the Senate chamber on Friday. If i
ur memory serves us correctly, Shelley disap- c
cared from New Orleans on the eve of the t
lection. Whence comes this vulture of i'll omen
lis quintessence of carpet.baggery? We can v
ply surmise that from the midst of the hocks of b
ormorants and buzzards las Mr. Flood used to '
y in the Board of Assistant Aldermen) which b
over around the Capitol at Washington, Shelley I
robably returns to resume his position as clerk c
some legislative committee. But what use
tempting to chastise him? Ndtluam erpslas +,
rcG, tdnlen uSque recurTet.
One day last week a middle-aged gentleman got c
to difficulty with one of the colored police I
en- whose duty it is to keep clear the gang and 8
oorways Of the Senate chamber, and addressed n
lie metropolitan in somewhat uncompmentary b
rms, calling him id scsswsg. The dstur- b
ince was quelled with few words of explana- Il