The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22

necessitate an extra session, which would
cost the State 100000, instead of the
pitiful $1,000 or $1,000, which the committees
asked. Mr.. Lowell, speaker Of the House, then
arose to register bis opposition to the bill. he
| didn't want the House to be bull.ragged-that
was the honorable gents worldly the Senate, he
wanted the House 10 dc right regardless of the
Senate. As to the committees for whom payment
was asked, one of them, at least the committee
on elections, was one of the greatest frauds that
| ever dsgraced a republic. The committee had q
| clerk, who to Mr.. Lowell's own knowledge, had
| gone out on the street and got men to come into
| the committee room and sign certificate of hsv
! ing served as witness, when be, the clerk, re-
tanned half the fees. great part of the expenses
of that committee were thus made up, and large
portion Of the certificates Of indebtedness issued
by them do not represent particle of service
done to the State. We have given this little alb.
stTact to show what some Of our model legislators
think of others, and to display to the community
that they think no more highly Of each other than
they ought to think. The bill did not pass by vote
Of SIS to Z. What will come next it is impossible
to say. The Senate will doubtless make another
effort, for it is question of money, and the love-
ly creatures will never leave the trail while such
scent lies. We look with interest for the next
move in the game between the two houses.
A stery is told in theatrical circles to the effect
that in the battle which nightly RACES for
few moments on the St. Charles Thester stage, 10
the military drama of I" FREELY" the turbaned
and scimetar- bearing Arabs. the moustacioed
grensdiers of the French line, and the fiery
Turcos and Algerines who mingle together in the
deadly fray, are most of them genuine boys in
blue out on leave from camp for the night, and
only too glad Of such an opportunity for sport.
Well, night or two since, when, in the fifth act,
platoon of them came out, as usual, to shoot the
condemned soldier, Louis Victor the story goes
that the veterans aimed lower than the aforesaid
condemned actually desired them to. singeing and
scorchiDg his eyebrows to an extent by no means
comfortable in :" make believe I" shooting.
We might have known that the command of
two such men as Hancock and Rousseau in Louisi-
ana was plain intimston to us that such a state
of affairs would not last long; and now VS. have
the sad realization of such forebodngs. Ger.
Mower, who swept his scythe so numerically and
with so little discrimination in the latter part of
1867, has been ordered by Gen. Buchanan TO re-
sumo command of the State. There are, how
ever, two pshistives TO this piece of intelligence
so unwelcome to our citizens. The frat is, that
Gen. Mower may have learned wisdom in the in
terval which has elapsed since he last commanded
here; and the second is that the civil poweris
10 the sscendancy, and officials are no longer mere
Jacks-n-the- box to be showed up or down at the
bidding of military dictator. This last consider
alton is a very powerful one. If any thing could
reconcile Us to the idea of the continuance of the
present bastard State government in Louisiana, it
would be the reflection that by its existence we
shall be saved from the exercises of the caprice
of a partisan general commanding. Let US hope,
however, that the first amelorating circumstances
of Gen. Mowers advent-his greater wisdom over
last year-may be the predominant. We would
! fain wish for good things from Gen. Mower. even
though the chances for disappointment seem so
very great.
Yes, there is no doubt about Il. Another ''riug''
has been formed, and in :. City Topics" that
| column devoted to the exposure of vice and the
encouragement OF virtue, shall its birth be chro.
nicled. The parties Of the ring' are on one side
all the hack drivers in town, and on the other the
clerk of the weather. The agreement IS that the
clerk shall have rain every night on which great
party or ball is to be given between this and Mardi
Gras, with an extra hard shower on those eve.
nings on which the most brilliant affairs are to
come of. By this the hack drivers will reap &
handsome harvest out of compulsory party goers
who are unable to walk through the wet. What
the clerk gets from the hack drivers as a qtid pro
quo, we have been unable to ascertain but to be
anything like en- adequate compensation for his
servcesi should be something very handsome. he
has certainly far keptt bis portion of the agree.
ment with punctuality and thoroughness truly
delightful to the drivers and truly disgusting to
the unfortunate drivees. From present prospects
he will discharge the whole of his bargain it will
give occasion for many voice of wailing to rise
from impecunious jewellers.
great many of our readers will be interested
in the fact that this evening at the Lyceum Hall,
DR.. Crane, Of London, will deliver the second of
a series of lectures on The Laws of Life and the
Nature and Treatment Of Disease" DR.. Crane is
a stranger here, bat brings with him the highest
testimonials from eminent medical men as to his
professional skill. The subject will prove an in
teresting one to everybody, and will doubtless
be handled with ability. Admission will be free.
We urge general attendance, for we think that
many of our readers may be instructed and all
OF SUteItdlltU.
One of helocas of the CRESCENT was sincerely
pleased, last evening, at meeting Richard Ester.
brook. a man who needs no esquire or other ap.
pendage to his name either in New Orleans itself
or in Louisiana. Many householder, and every
coed Democrat must remember and will cheer
fully welcome Dick Esterbrook back, who used to
be one Of our best architects. but who is now
planting cane, and manufacturing sugar on the
finest plantation in Louisiana. At the end of the
war Edmond j. FOrstall, with his uaerring judg-
ment, selected Capt. Esterbrook to manage his
immense estates ih st. James and the neighboring
parishes. and the number of hogsheads and barrels
made, and the discipline and good feeling of the
negroes as well as their anxiety to be re.em.
ployed, show how profitable it is to have kind,
intelligent and honest man at the head of a great
plantation. We also wish to say that Richard Es-
Textbook is not only the manager of Mr.. Forstall
but his partner in the profits of the plantations.
Judge Cooley, of the Sixth District Court, is de-
termined 10 rid his docket of the suits which have