The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-05

| hibt the driving of Texas cattle into the State,
and provide adequate means to accomplish thai
object.
The Baltimore Statesman comedies 10 Reverdy
| johnson high qualities as q humorist. By way OF
illustration it refers 10 his recent ackno wledgment
that there is no d ference between the skulls OF
black and white men nor the State papers of Ii
| beTsDs and Eoglishmen.
The N. Y. Star thinks there s q trife too much
| billiard playing. 1t has seen many man punch
| ing ivory balls by the hour when he should have
been at his business, and many too, spending for
games and drinks the money that should have
been handed over to the family at home.
At his recent lecture at the Cooper institute,
Mr.. Train wore blue swallow.tai coat, with a
velvet collar and brilliant assortment of brass
buttons large rosette 10 which the colors of the
rainbow were beautifully blended. an imaculate
viii wastcoat. and sombre inexpressibles.
Queen Victoria wears her hair, in private, as
Erglsh ladies were wont to wear it five aud twen-
~ years ago on the rare occasions on which she
appears in public, she bands her tresses under q
diamond Golf, after the manner of Mary, queen
Of Scots.
The London Spectator says the English Ian
gusge is feer from the corruptions of dialect and
provncislism in America than in England. Rev
erdy johnson animated as much in one of his
late speeches to an applauding audience of
Britishers.
We are panied TO learn that one of Our most &C
complshed tailors has become mentally dersnged
in consequence Of long series Of Intellectual at
tempts to satisfactorily adapt pair of pantaloons
to the actual developments of the undeniably fine
limbs belonging to one of his best patrons.
According to {" Cousin Nourma,n who tells the
story in late letter from this city to the Louis
vile Democrat, the guests at the City Hotel are
waited on by live German prince who was de.
posed by decree of Prussia, whereupon he
''calmiy laid aside his scepter " and assumed the
waters napkin.
Victoria Is said to bs,a Ritualist. On late &C.
casion 10 the Chapel Royal. St. James, she sent to
the clergyman officiating at the altar a red bag,
edged with gold lace. and containing ''the queens
offering OF gold, frsnkincense and myrrh, in com.
memoration of the gifts of the msgi to the infant
SAVIOR"
Will somebody tell Us the meaning of the lesth.
ern cockades that we see on the hats of coachmen
and footmen of some of the flashing equipages 10
The fashionable thoroughfares? 10 England the
kackshsw denotes, If we are not mistaken. that the
owners of the vehicle are of q certain rank of the
v.
think q p2ttiDg cockade on his coachmans hat
than Of dnarisring the royal arms on his own es.
eutcheon. Nhet can eockade mean in New
York ?-lNew York Post.
VIM. Cullen Bryant, at the Burns festival at
New York, on Monday E,so.' SAD; " wonder
how the poets would look q they could all be
brought together, with their eyes in me frenzy
rolling and some of their number, | fear, s'diY
&ha 1ar - all
street think of them If they were marched in pro-
cession through that part of the city! II an army
of stockholders could be mustered, aud another of
Bedlamites, and third of poets, to which of the
other two would the troop of poets seem, by their
demeaner, to be most nearly related? To that
question, fear, / could not give an impartial
answer"
1t is now quite common, in case one meets
friend casually in company with other gentlemen,
to be introduced TO all of them. Perhaps, while
you are talking with your newly made acquaint
snces, one Of them is seen by two or three of
bis friends, who are also introduced all around.
Thus. while you merely desired to exchange few
words with your friend, you are forced 70 make
the acquaintance Of an acquaintance Of his ac-
quaintsnce-an invasion OF your private rights
which you are unable to resist or TO protest
against. This practice is peculiarly American,
absurd and annoying, and ought TO be frowned on
tions-almosG as much the right Of gentleman
as of lady to decide for himself who shall be
introduced 10 him. New York Mall
The Turkish admiral, Hobart Pashs, distin.
guished himself during our late war as q blockade
runner. Twelve times he is said to have broken
the blockade of Charleston, each time
under circumstances Of great danger, and
in consequence Of this he published his
"reminiscences under the title of Never
Caught" When the Turks, few weeks ago,
htr IN Erafa in nd tn tha
the Russian minister, General Ignsteff made ener-
getic efforts TO retain him az COnstantin0pie. Po-
litical arguments being unavailing, an action for
debt was at last brought against him, in the hope
that be would be imprisoned, or, at all events de
tanned. But this device, too, was frustrated, and
he got away safely. Arriving on board his ship,
his first act was 10 forward 10 the Russian embas
sador together with polite message, his little
work entitled "Never Caught."-[Ex.
A Boston correspondent writes that the custom
of dinner-giviD is passion of the solid men Of
that city. "LoDg experience has made dining
one of the fine arts with rs. At the house of one
of the wealthiest citizens the other day, the party
after remaining an hour or so at one table, arose
and were ushered into another room, where a sec.
ond table, with all its appointments, was laid.
The meal was there finished. The opportunity for
double display of silver and porcelain was grand.
As an offset to this will meatioh club of twelve
gentlemen who dine every fortnight in a little
boat-house on a bridge leading from the city. No
one can become member who Is not an adept at
cooking some particularly delicious dish. They
have no servants, do their own cooking and wait.
ing and have better dinners than ever ate any
where else. The club was founded more than
forty years ago."
Horace Greeley makes this bandly blunt ora
ton to beggars of all degrees: Country friends,
and especially young men. give you facts as
have long observed and studied them. / tell you
Frankly that my interest in your action thereon is
partly selfish; for my soul is weary of these
incesssnt appeals for something to do or, that
failing, for aims. There must, there will be beg
CARS; but need you be beggarsl Even if you
most, l wish it we're in your hearts to stay where
beggars are not so enormously supersbundsnt as
here. l often respond rudely, harshly, to their
solicitations, because cannot help it. Worn out
by appeals to which l am utterly unable to re-
spond-denied opportunity to earn my own bread
by this endless procession of beggars-I often
speak more roughly than | should, because my
patience is utterly exhausted. am not as poor