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

About a thousand bales have already arrived
here. and another thousand left New Orleans yes
terday.
at is great pity some enc Of the family
when Mrs. Lincoln first broke out" said an emf
nent member to me, did not have her arrested
as insane. II Only held for an hour, II woud
have given hoe into which We could have crept
and bid ourselves" Piatt.
Week before last twenty nine fashionable balls
in New York were attended by $1,000 persons,
who spent $25 900 IN carriage hire, $4,000 for
suppers and wines, over $4,000 in toilettes and
dresses, and wore jewels that aggregated
$3.50, 600. For last week twenty seven were to
take place.
Among the most distinguished of the Richmond 5
passengers this trip are tx Attorney General Jas.
Speed, Capt. Buckner. of the naval service, Col.
I. p. Swaine, the post conmandant al Psducah.
and Mrs. e. F. Trabue, the wellknown Louisville
poetess and authoress.-T Richmond Head Ligat, off
New Orleans, Jan. 81.
A defendants counsel IN the coprt at Clinton,
La, complained to the Judge that the examination
of witness by the lawyer on the other side was
irrelevant and too protracted. The judge said
that much latitude must be allowed 10 the case.
Il don't care anything about his latitude" was
the rejonder my objection is to his longitude
few teachers of French are needed in the
United States Senate chamber. On the heels OF
Hsrlan's A" dowcher,r Garrett Davis took occa-
sion last Tuesday to inform Conkling that he
Davis was g poor French scholar. and he re-
quested that whenever Mr.. Conking used the
word route be would pronounce it rout," and
not "root.n
One OF the sensational New York papers has a
picture illustrating recent story in .he CRESCENT,
about New Orleans youth who. wiped his nose
on pocket handkerchief which he had insdvert-
emily taken from the side cost-pocket of an elder
ly gentleman sitting next him in horse car.
The poor boy, who is much chsgriued by his mis-.
take and the publicity given to it. is depicted as
the wearer of stove-pipe hat and moustsche.
We observe growing conviction that the CREs-
CENT is little the most readable paper 10 this
part OF the corntry. IN. D. Crescent.
We heartily jndorse the above. aud after "read-
able, we would add reliable and best-l Louisville
Industrial and Commercial Gazstte.
We thank the Gazette for its appreciation OF
modest merit" and it Will allow Us TO say in
return that is the best paper of its kind in the
West.
A lacy who bss received q foreign education
went into photograph gallery, lately, to have
her picture taken, and was sstouDded by the re.
quest of the artist that she should sit on her foot
She Indignantly assured him that she should do no
such thing. why" he said, ut was the COM
mon habit Of American women, and ii gave an
easy attitude to the picture" To assure her that
such the fact, be pointed ont twelve or twenty
photographs OF ladies who were taken with one
foot doubled under them, having assumed the Do-
sition unconsciously, through habit.
The following from letter written by Mrs.
Lydia b. sigourney, April rs, 1851, disposes of
the sensational rumor that her only son is still
living: "May ! speak to you of my SORROWS |?
Ny darling and only son was smitten down on the
oath of last June, by consumption, ia the bloom
and beauty Of nineteen. Having nearly finished
his education, he had begun to be Of great help
to me in my peculiar literary businsss--being a
ready and rapid copyist, as well as clear and
fine writer of prose, even from his eighth year.
At my time of life, approaching sixty. l feel the
shock Of laying my only prop in the grave, and
the reversal Of the order of nature in pressing
my hands upon his closing eyelids, of whom had
said:
"'This same shall lay me in the tomb
And dress my burial mold"