The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-20

sermons apprehensions. 1t is stated that the king
of Belgium did not touch any food during the last
three days.
Bishop Beckwith, Of Georgia, was about to
preach to an outdoor gathering Of Ethiop- Amerl'
cans in thar State, recently, when he stepped
behind shed to put on his vestcres. darby
or two discovered his movements and crying
aloud, "Ku.Klux, Ku.Klux!" stampeded the
crowd in ten seconds, cleared the field and LEFT
the bishop with his thoughts.
Capt. Virus widow lives in Kentucky, with one
child by her union with him, and two by her
former husband. A daughter of Capt. Wirz, by
his first wife, is governess in an English noble
mans family, and judging from her letters, Is an
accomplished lady. She, as well as her family
here, have been constantly urging that the body
of Capt. Wirz should receive Christian burial.
There is much certainty, says the Memphis Ava
lanche, of q freshet next June or before. Not
only have there been heavy SHOWS and rains gen.
orally over the Northwest, but throughout the
Rocky Mountain region. So deeply have the
SHOWS fallen within few days past that the like Is
not remembered by the oldest inhabitsnt.
General Grant has stated 10 some of his army
friends that in case several of the bills pend
ing, providing for general mastering out of off.
passed, he shall certainly provide such with good
civil Offices He sees no justice in discharging Of
| ficers who have given the best portion of their
Mrs. Surratts body was decomposed to a shriv-
| eed pulp of mummy, and q worm befriending
| skeleton. The head was turned aside as 3y the
wrench of the rope; the CATERS on her feet were
in mouldy preservation; the hair was luxuriant as
| in life The relics were pat in coffin and inferred
| north of the city in shady cemetery, where her
grave will often be the inspiration OF thrill or
| Observation-Disclosures Letter.
| All the world is familiar with those elegiac
verses to brakes memory, beginning with "Green
be the turf above thee" When these were first
printed, some of the journals, in copying them,
substituted /" sod" for turf" and others grass"
+" think, ," said Hslleck, they will get it yet,
Green be the peat above thee"
MIR. Booth played Charming trick upon the
ticket SPECTATORS last week. He let them buy
as many seats as they chose for the first nights,
and then refused TO let them sell in front of his
theater. The house on the second night was half
empty, though the places had all been sold. The
| speculators seem to have resolved to let Booth
alone.
An extraordinary ceremony occurred on Sun.
| day in the Jewish synagogue, on Harrison street,
in Chicago. Miss Mary Gilmore, an intelligent
\ young lady, of Yankee psrentsge, publicly re-
| nounced Christianity and embraced Judaism. A
large congregation witnessed the ceremonies. In
the evening Miss Gilmore embraced Jew, being
married in the same synagogue to Bernard Berliau,
| q wealthy business man in New York.
The Edgefeld Is. C.) Advertiser. in describing
the Hun. raj of Gov. Pickens, says: "One most
touching feature was the fermentation of the for
mer slaves, who locked to pay the tribute of re-
spect. Prominent among these, standing in one OF
the upper corners of the church, with his white
head reyeren.ly bowed, was 'Old Harper his
body servant, whose fathfulness to his master
through fifty years had never known change"
1t is supposed that some fellow invented the
velocipede as an Improvement on the readmiii.
In both the motive power is the same-leg; but
the velocipede is locomotive, while the tread
mill is stationary engine. The velocipede Is.
however, only an ambulatory treadmill, the forced
use of which would be about the same as the
constant tramping upon treadmlll. AS means
of locomotion it will never be greatly used, for
the very simple reason that few people care
about working their pssssge.-[New Bedford
Mercury.
II was lately stated that band of revivaiists
paraded street in London singing song to the
tune of Tommy Dodd,'' Of which the refrain
was "Come to God" But this is not more frisky
lhan the use a hymn written by "a noted London
lay preacher, and included in published collec'
ton of revival songs. There are six verses, Of
which no one will care to read more than the first
| ave given my heart to Jesus,
| And mean 10 keep SO!
| If the devil wants to have IL all,
| I'll tell him Not for Joe.'"
There certainly is some explanation needed OF
the singular travels of the corpse of Mrs. Gamble
who died in August, and whose remains have
since then been exhumed, carted from Greenwood
Cemetery TO Piermont, from Piermont to the Ne
tropolitan Board of Health Office, from there tc
the Morgue, and after remaining in that recepta
| Gle for the unclaimed dead, threatening foyel
for disease was subjected for the third time to the
medico-legsl investigation of coroner's jury, and
for second time to the last services OF the under
taker and grsve-digger. What does all this mean
Is this "crowner's quest law g'-lNew York News
A Washington correspondent of the Bostol
Advertiser says: "a friend who was in Ascension
church at the marriage of Miss Bessie Blair witt
Gen. Comstock, told me he saw Secretary Sewar
leaning against one of 1.-THE pillars, while two o
three New York reporters, close to him, wer
passing their Jokes in his hearing. Billy Seward
| as live y one exclaimed. 'As fresh as a twenty
year old y said another. How do you like Billy
to think about - with reference to somethin
supposed to be oie~srasahle to the statesman
Ten minutes, Billy, for reflections nv o~yus
bridget etc., etc. Such sallies of impertinenc
procured no change in the countenance of tn
gentleman assailed by rowdes."
On the 18th, in the Tammany Theater, NeV
York, policeman was seen marching out prii
oner, who had been detected in the act of cuttin
off one of those beautiful blonde chignons that dec
crate the heads of the New York bellies. The e1
element for the moment was intense, and ever
fair one present was observed extending he
digits that portion of the Uranium usually orna
mented by such appendages. The victim beonge
to the Lydia Thompson troupe, now playing a
Niblo's Garden. The villain who perpetrated thi
outrage, has lately arrived from Paris, where thi
class of thieving is carried on extensively. II !
supposed that during the past few months he ha
amassed nearly IS 900 at his trade, and at the tim
of his arrest seven long pair of curls were foun
in his pockets.
About thirty months ago an inventor in New
York, while seeking some means of making bar
rel slaves impervious to petroleum, ACCIDENTAL
used piece Of marble TO wedge the barrel b