New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-04

MORNING. MARCH
several in the gallery shouted "Storey.
Storey and Cahill responded:

several in the gallery shouted "Storey."
Storey" and Cahill responded:
| Storey, Storey. old and hcary,
You had better mind your horses.
| In lnnghting Hess you'll get IN mess,
| SO stick to your divorces.
! Beckett followed with:
Burnside suppressed the Chicago Times.
| And covered himself with glory,
a. Rat he r., only H mist. mistake he eyer W made
| During the "Shoo Fly song frequent re.
! ference was made to the ArmOry, Captain
Hickey, Storey and cowhides. Miss Thomp.
son sang:
| 81 feel like leaky Ship
And when asked why, remarked that she
had been bailed out of the Armory. This
was rapturOusly applauded.
| After the fall OF the curtain, Miss Thomp-
son was called for, and when she made her
appearance in front of the curtain many Of
| the audience rose to their feet, shouted,
cheered and waved their handkerchie1s.
Miss Thompson approached the footlights,
| and spoke as fOllows:'
"LADIEs AND GENTLEMEN: want to say
| few words to you. This is the first time IN
my life that had to read a speech, but my
head has been really so dreadfuily muddled
| to-day, with being in the Armory large
part of the day, that am sure you will eX-
cuse me reading you this short address:
81 believe, in the eyes OF Chicago law,
have committed a serious breach OF the
peace in vindicating my honor as woman.
| l was forced to it. The persistent and per
sonally vindictive assaults in the Times
upon my reputation left ME only one mode
| of redress. On Thursday last MIR. Storey
| challenged my retribution, and challenged
| the retribution of the gentlemen of my
| troupe, after drawing pistol upon one OF
them when unarmed. The challenge was
! accepted.
Since the law of libel was Intellectual to
remedy my wrongs, the lashes of the raw
hide wiped them out. [Cries of bravo,
bravo" and applause, and voice, "Why
didn't you shoot him?nl They were women
whom he attacked. IL was by women that
be was castigated. LApplause:] Thus we
deied the law. We did what the law would
upon hin which no court could have in.
| fcted. The law and the courts have
asserted themselves. Under the vindictive
influences of Mr.. Storey they have gone fur
ther. He has attempted to overstrain the
| law. Il remains to be proved whether he
| shall succeed or not. tCheers.l
This morning we were arralgned at the
| Armory on q charge which had already been
| twice changed. We were duly Hned and
| the law Was vindicated. In the afternoon
| we were re-arrested ON second trumped-up
! charge. We were insulted in open court by
| the man, Storey. Oar deepest feelings as
| woven were wounded to the quick, and the
| Court did not protec5us. [Applause.] We
| were required to produce eXorbitant bail.
and cur friends aided US with a noble
promptness.
| So much for the whipping affair. But all
| the indignilies, and all the injuries and all
! the annoyaDces which have been inflicted
| upon us by this Pariah of journalism have
| been atoned for by the generous sympathy
| of the Chicago pubic. [Applausel. Our
visit here has been memorable for many
| tions of popular good Will which have
| reached me are far the most memorablesof
all.
| Ladies and gentlemen, thank you from
| the bottom of my heart for your kindness
| toward me and youf sympathy, and, in
| bidding you farewell, permit me to say that
| you will ever have my remembrance, and
| that | feel the deepest and profOundest,
! and the most Womanly gratitude toward
| you all.
The last few sentences were spoken in o
| very feeling manner. When she ceased, q
storm of applause, which aasted for several
minutes. greeted her. She acknowledged
the compliment bys bowing repeatedly.
We have copied the report of Saturday
evenings entertainments from the Tribune,
but the Republican, in its notice Of some OF
the performance, says:
"Hard Tgnaes' and 'Shoo Fly" were so
versiied. impromptu, as to produce great
| merriment on the part OF the audience, who
mostly appeared to be: on the Blonde side of
the latest three days wonder. The follow
ing couplet, patheticslIy sung by Mr.. Cahill
to the tune "Wearing of the Green" was
received with mingled applause and
laughter
"oh, Banyon dear. end did you hear.
From Hen.e.ry Ward Beecher,
Tat ssorsy 9ia i
| The fair Lydia, in her capacity of Jester,
managed to hit off the following:
"Why do feel like leaky ship?" The
audience having given it up, she said, ''Be-
cause had to be bailed out"
| The sympathies of the Chicago press are
with the blondes. The Ecening Post says:
As for the Thompson troupe, it is gener-
ally considered the best existing Combina-
| tion in the country, in this line of business,
| but that is not material, just now; it is,
| however, worth while to note that this com.
pany INDUCES less than any other within
our recollection, in those immodest exhi-
| bitions of the feminine form and gross ges-
| lures, and double entendres in dialogue,
| which constitute so grave a subject of COM
plant in many Of the theatrical exhibitions
of the period. For instance, the Worrell
troupe, the Lefingwell combination of last
year, the three opera boufe companies
which have visited US, and the notorious
Black Crook" "Undine" and White
Fawn" shows, together with the ballet ac
companyjpg. the Midsummer Nights
Dream," And the varieties company travel
ing with the Mafitt & Bartholomew panto-
mimics, have all been more Objectionable in
these respects than the troupe which has
just left US.
From the same paper we copy an enigma:
Out stepped one of our moral guides,
And met two girls, with two raw hides;
They gave him one rae hide-they say
And yet they carrsed two away.
The blondes are now in Detroit. It is lust
to add that the Lydia Thompson burlesque
entertainments were attended in New Or
leans by our most respectable people, and
that the ladies among the audience were
more numerous than usual. Nothing in the
exhibitions here was unchaste or immodest
Mr.. Madge, the bold, careful and dashing
agent OF the treasury department., who came
here in search of an opportunity to reduce
the national expenses by abolishing faithful
and worthy Republicans out Of Office, cut
off two clerkships in the Auditors office,
and proposes q further reduction of FIVE
more on the first of September. Through
his instrumentality one salary in the Audi
tors Office has been reduced from sl7OO to
$1,000, two from $1,000 to $500, one from
$500 to $1,000 one from S1O95 to $1,000 one