The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-27
CITY TOPICS.

City Topics has to say feel when they learn that |
in this State of Louisiana an effort is now being
made to give TO them the privilege of marching |
side by side with Sambo to the ballot box ! And |
yet so it is. Yesterday proposition was intro |
duced into the smiable body which now controls |
the State 10 amend our Constitution by striking |
out the word male, and in other ways 30 |
altering that model document as to |
place women In every way on the same |
basis as the sterner sex. There is not the shadow
of chance let us assure the trembling maids and |
matrons who read this paragraph, that the propo-
sion will ever be seriously entertained but still |
we chronicle the fact that 1t has been made to |
show to the fair ones what danger has threat |
ened them, and how somebody wanted to assimi |
late them 70 Anna Dickinson, E. Cady Stanton, and
others of that ilk. Let them be thankful that ii is
not probable that the bolt will fall.
Marching orders for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,
were received by the First Infantry by Thursday
nights Washington mail. creating, ii may be sup
posed, 10 little futter among the gallant men
who, since the month Of September, 1868,
period OF five years and half, have been quartered
among us. Few of our readers grown to mans
estate but what have, at one time or other, felt
the significance of those two words marching
orders" involving a severing Of associations,
perchance cemented by time; a casting aside of
all local ties; reminder to the soldier that he Is
not his own, but his country's. It Is with regret
that we chronicle the approaching departure of
the first regiment, for its officers, from that gal
liant gentleman soldier Buchanan down to the
last assigned subaltern, have shown themselves
well worthy respect, while the rank and file have,
time and again, by their promptitude and disci
pline, served as bulwsrk Of granite against the
assaults of reckless, unprincipled partissns.
News from the First will always be welcome in
New Orleans.
The annual ball of the Hebrew Benevolent As.
sociation took place on Thursday evening at the
Mechanics Institute and was in ell respects a
most brilliant and successful affair. As early as
nine o'clock the neighborhood, which had been
so long suled by the occupation of the building
by the mongrel Legislature aud the street encum-
bered by the newly enfranchised seekers oflodice,
hadsbeen converted into scene of brightness and
merriment, chserfully greeted by the denizens of
Dryades street. Mechanics Institute had
been chosen for the grand festival on ac-
count of its superior capacity over the
other halls of the city, and yet about
10 O'Clock the two thousand seekers of pleasure
present were so crowded in the ball room that
dancing became impossible, and hundreds reuc-
family surrendered the floor to the more deter
mined votsries of Terpschore, to repair 10 the
supper room below, and from that moment the
double staircase and the vestbules were the only
portions Of the building where circulation was
possible, and became the scene of torment for
unmasked vsit0rs by the wicked viyanders,
marehionesses, soubrettes, paysanaes aud hun
dreds of dominoes conceang the fair forms Of the
wearers. We will not attempt to describe this.
| one Of the greatest balls Of the season and en-
tireIy as complete in its management as the great
| Hebrew ball which took place two years ago at
| the Moresque Building. As everything undertaken
| by our IsrGeiiah population for their poor, the
ball, in a pecunary point of view, was all that
| could be desired, and deserves the emulation OF
other classes of our people at this time, when our
charitable institutions in great need Of assist
| ance We publish the names Of the officers Of the
| Hebrew Benevolent Association: j. Sandsck,
| president A. Lehman, vice president; P. Thai
heimer, secretary L. Phelps treasurer; NJ. Gold
| man, messenger. Trustees: W. Davis, Simon
| Leopold, Solomon Marx. Henry Levi-to whom
we owe our thsnks for the pleasure they have pro
cured Us once more in the succession Of years.
That was a very auspcious Inauguration of the
"Camelia," a new saloon at l42 Canal street
opened by our old-time friend, Mr.. j. E. Mcguire
which took place yesterday. crowd Of Mr.
Maguire's friends gathered to do justice to the
lunch spread on the occasion, and in glasses oi
champagne punch to drink prosperity to the
"CameIiau and its proprietor. We acknowledge
70 having participated in the lunch, but would also
add that when the time came to pledge the healtt
| of Mr. Mcguire, il was with increased gusto tina
we quafisd the sparkling wine. Success and al
manner of good things to the "Camelia."
Anewspaper should be photograph taken in
! stantAn eosaly of passing events. It must, 20 b'
perfect, embrace blotches and evil. as well O.
beauties and good. Hence rea ders must not bt
surprised TO find in il much that is dstasieful ant
much that is contrary to their own ideas. Al
these things must be embraced, and the journals
s not responsible for the news he brings, for h'
does not create it. A newspaper is a pot.pourr
Of many ingredients, containing something that i
particularly agreeable to the palate Of everybody
and something that is particularly distasteful
Stin everybody wants it and everybody finds it
as q whole, pleasant.
newspaper ia o garden Of flowers, and Ike
garden, sometimes has useless and ugly plant
in it.
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each one, however, although slowly evolved ou
of its predecessor and merging intofts successor
remains view Of itself.
The lateness of the hour at which we writ
precIudes us from doing justice to the entertain
ment given by the pupils of Nine Carnatz's inst
tuition last evening, at the Minerva Hall, on Cli
street, yet we must find sufficient time TO compl
ment the lady directress Of this aourishing instu
ton, which now numbers over one huRdred Of tn
sweetest and prettiest misses that this city cor
tains. and her assistants, Misses Devarennes an
Guesnon, in the French department, and Mise
Boyle and English, in the English department
Mr.. Firman, professor Of sciences and mathG
matics, and those excellent musicians, MN
DruiIhet and Mr.. Van Huiiien, in the musical dt
partment, for the proficiency exhibited by thei
pupils. The programme was as follows:
La Fele du PAsteur Chorus, with solo)-BoI
desc. =,
| CZerDy.