The Daily telegraph., 1871-02-15
A Distinguished Dinner Party''.Why the
M Dinner Was Given. tC,i

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Picayune,. an account of cerimnious
dinner at the st. CHARLES Hotel in New
Orleans, at which there were present
rather singular gathering. A contrib
utor tosthe "BullMin thus accounts for
the dinner, and gently raps on the
knuckles some of our aspiring Demo-
cratic friends for being found in bad
company,-knowing 1t to be such:
Editors B,Nletin:-In my last init
mated that rupture between Gov. War
moth and the Democratic members of
the Senate was imminent. Matters be-
gan to assume so serious an aspect that
it became imperatively necessary to
throw ssoil upon the troubled waters"
and in the same way to assuage the
wrath of the little coterie of Democrats
who held in their grasp the destiny of
Gov. Warmoth's political power in this
State. AS the rampant and terrible lion
is sometimes made tractable and docile
by filling his belly, the idea suggested
itself to His Excellency that similar
treatment of his political antagonists
would accomplish with them similar
result, and hence the secret of
THE HOWARD DINNER,
which took place at the st. Charles Ho-
tel, last Tuesday evening, and described
with such accuracy by the Jenkins Of
thePicaynne. That politics make strange
bed-fellows is clearly demonstrated by
this famous dinner. Mingling around
the "gay and festive board" tipping
glasses and quaffing the red and spark
ling wines provided with bountiful
hand, we find in close communication
Gov. Warmoth and Senator Blackman,
Senator Hunsacker and Senator ThOm-
as, Senator Campbell and Senator An
derson, Representative Ong and Rep
resentatives Stevens, Swords and Mon
cure, Lynch and Bowman, J. B. How
ard and L. E. Lemarie, Col. Carter and
Col. Jack Wharton, Col.Jack William
son and Col. J. ]. O'FallOn, with Col.
Hatch (nOt Frank but the other Hatch)
the Governors Judge Dibble and the
Governors jester and clown George
Sheridan. Here now was motley
crew, in comparison with which, in
point of talent, wit and learning the
names of Ben. johnson, Charles Lamb,
and Hazlitt can only be mentioned.
Now to analyze the cOngenial spirits
that seemed to mingle so harmoniously
on this memorable occasion, we must
begin wit Mr.. j. B. Howard,
THE CHIEF DE CUISINE,
who having exhibited to the entire sat
isfaction of the Governor a wonderful
adaptability for undertaking what no
one else could accomplish for lack ofim-
pudence, temerity and utter unscrupu-
lousness, was selected to act as master
OF ceremonies, and permitted to enjoy
the honor Of having paid for that COM
plimentary dinner to his Excellency
and the Democrat members of the Leg
islature. The Impeachment of that
prince Of Republican theieves who have
infested this State since the war, Ex-
Auditor WickliHe, is still fresh in the
memory of every one, and especially
with Senators Blackman, Anderson
and Lynch, who voted for the convic-
tion of the notorious Wickliffe. These
gentlemen will recollect, among the
charges preferred by Governor War
moth against Wickline on his trial was
"a collusion with one J. B. Howard,
whereby an appropriation of the Leg
islature for the Bureau Of Emigration,
of some ten or fifteen thousand dollars,
was paid 10 the said Howard after the
amount had been previously paid to
DR.. Noyes, the Commissioner of En-
igration, and Successor to Nj. Kath-
man." The truth Of the charge could not
be denied, and yet NE find Governor
Wafmoth, Senators Blackman and
Lynch accepting the hospitalities 6f
tliis Mr.. Howard, and Joining him and