The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-12

hats which all three of them wore were the cause
OF their misfortune, the policeman asserting that
as every thief in town wore an Alpine, he had
deemed that, in connection with other items-but
that chiefy-damning evidence of their guilt. Is
it necessary to state that the Alpines were dis
carded at the first hat store or that, with innum-
cradle treats, the victimized three tried to stop
the mouths of their rescuers, but failed, as this
narrative showeth! The moral of this DER true
tale" is, don't wear an Alpine unless you have
your character in your pocket, for you will need
to exhibit II to some Of the blue coated gentry be-
fore you have worn your mountainous head COW
ering week.
hishmen viii be interested in the fact that one
Of their own race, Mr.. James Brennan, an accred-
tied representative of the Fenan Brotherhood, is
now here in the interests Of the order. He is to
speak on Monday evening next at the National
Hall, on Poydrss street, near Liberty. We can
imagine the enthusiastic audience that will gather
around him to hear him tell how speeds the cause
of Irish liberty, and what her sons in strange
lands are doing for old Erin, their home. His ad.
dress will be an interesting one to everybody.
A gentleman, on Saturday last, while mingIing
In The immense crowd which gathered TO witness
General Roussesu's funeral, thinking that there
might. be pickpockets in the throng, took his
watch from its usual place and put il in his panta-
looms pocket. He arrived home with il safe there,
and was congratulating himself upon lis prudence,
when, on glsncing down, he discovered that q
valusble diamond cross which he had worn as a
bresstpin, was gone. The rogues had taken it out
of his shirt bosom.
A committee was appointed at the last session
Of the House to revise the statutes of the State of
a general character. They reported yesterday
that they had intrusted the work to John Ray.
He promises to complete IT by January /, 1870.
Until then the statutes will remain, we suppose,
unrevised.
Paniers were not few on the Boulevard yester-
day. By paniers we do not mean the absurd Gre.
clan bend, but simply that peculiar manner of
arranging the dress behind, which is one of the
most graceful and prettiest of modern styles
Some of the costumes were extremely handsome
and tasteful.
Mr. Wlltz, of Orleans, yesterday in the House
gave notice of a bill removing the slaughterhouses
below the city. 1t has not yet been introduced
and read, SO it is not yet opento comment.
Somebody said last night in the CRESCENT sane
tum that the Alpine hat was a Swiss tile. A
jury-one that was not only de j'tre but de fdcto-
promptly sat on him. Verdict: Temporary elon-
CATION Of the caudal appendage, producing pro-
temssininity.
"Tchune," cried juvenile news merchant on
Canal street as he hawked his last Picayune last
evening.
Oscar Dunn and his associates of the police
board have been and done it. They have pro-
ceeded to velocipedsl extremities and whilst they
cause quiet young men to be arrested by their
myrmidons on Camp street for proceeding quietly
and skillfully along on their two-wheel horses the
circus people are whirling around Lafayette
Square, right under their squashy and homeless
noses, and crowds of spectators impede the pass.
ers by. Oh, Oscar, Oscar sophonesbs, oh!
Cried the young velocipedestrian, Saturday, when
the metropolitan stopped him on Camp street,
near Palmer's, "ah, woe is mel"
Was there ever anything that venomous human.
ity could do to encourage negro outrsges so much
as the prospect Of damages in a court of justice
against the corporation! Here are negroes who
violate every principle ollsw and order-and if an
indignant populace rise up in their might and
wresk vengeance upon them and their chattels-
as soon as the effervescence settles, up comes
suit for damages against the city. Come all We
niggers from the country-leave the plantations
here are your. harvest ields-right here in the
heart of New Orleans; commit your depredations,
outrage public decency, drive honest people to
frenzy. and then sue the city! You can get plenty
of exConfederate officers to plead your claim,
and bleed their fellow countrymen to the last
drop. Come, niggers. For further particulars
see local column, item, Fifth District Court.
Hon. Clifford, the Demosthenes of the lower
courts, sues Baker, the celebrated English
scholar, or, rather, the Admirable Crichton of
this degenerate age, for the psltry amount of one
hundred and seventy dollars, due for salary as
registrar from some date in October to some
other date in November. When Clifford rises,
with spectacles on nose. before Justice of the
peace, climbs up to the forensic trapeze, and
swings himself to and fro on the wings of bathos
and hyperbolical nonsense, the laws of reason and
good taste are suspended, and the mighty Field
draws in his Atlantean shoulders and hides his
diminished head.
W. W. Handlin, who was a Judge in 1864, and
was then removed by the then Gov. Hahn, wants
to recover $4,000 from the State for his salary as
Judge from the time Of his removal until the Con.
stitution Of 1865 went into force, four years, at
5000 per year. He has petitioned the Legislature
for it. He may get it aud he may not.
The death Of that stsunch and energetic citizen,
John Holmes, has created q void in many family
and business circles in New Orleans. Mr.. Holmes,
or Governor Holiness Is he was usually addressed
and spoken Of, was one of the Brothers CHEEKY
BILE; jovial, generous and warm-hearted, ever
ready to sacrifice his own comforts for the COM
forts and happiness of his friends. Louisiana
never had truer or more devoted Democrat or
better citizen.
There is an institution in this city of New Or
leans which is essentially worthy of paragraph
or q city topic. II is the Hancock Club, whose
domici is in the Imperial Building, corner of
Grsvier and Carondelet streets. The club already
numbers over six hundred members. and every
week from fifty TO one hundred of the best citi