New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-15
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isplay of Tuesday night was net much of y y
hover or, if it was, it was rot observable to /
lie naked eye in this city. We would not insinu- l
.te that the horoscope of the astronomers was
wen for once at fault, aud charge the nonappear-
tnce of the meteors solely to the enyous clouds OF
logs which have ruled of late.
1t looks very much as though Richard Fl, Dana,
Jr., fbbed when he said that no portion OF the
annotations made by Gov, Lawrence, in either OF
his editions, has been used or referred to in the
Of his (Dana's) edition now published
of Wheatons Elements of International Law,
If he tells the truth, it is strange that he should
have made ne identical typographical errors as as
were made in Gov. Lawrence's edition.
A call is published in Washington for q mass /
meeting 10 welcome Congress on December lst'
The cal is not signed by those who will ee made
the haspiest by the advent of the national repre-
saptatiyes. Their names would not look we'll n
print
Tie Great Eastern, since there are no more At
lantic cables to be laid, is TO be employed the
ea.1ing season in bringing Americans to the In
ternational Exposition. She can be fitted up 70
| bring three thousand passengers each trip in as
much comfort as is possible to enjoy upon the
4 rolling deep.
Il
which is supposed to engage NJ ALouster the new
minister, is to bring about aunon of the Christians
i in Turkey and Greece with Rome; to offer to the
4 nope in exchange for Rome, Jerusalem; 70 maze
Il Jerusalem the center Of the new dspensation as
it was Of the old In this case, Italy can have
Rome as wen as Venice, and complete her unity.
There is something in this idea that appeals to The
Imagination, but there may be some slight dill
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In view of tie vide spread distrust Of the good
faith Of Congress in the matter Of the eonsttu-
tional amendment aud reconstruction, the New
York Times suggests that at its next session Con-
rress give to the South tile guarantee formally
and specifically, that those States whichadopt the
: amendment shall thereupon be entitled to repre-
: sentation in Congress.
4 We see that Gen. Tochman, formerly Of the
Confederate army is conducting an emigration
enterprise from Poland to Virginia. Gen. Toch
man, during the war, was recognized as the lead
ING spirit among the Poles in the service of tht
South His present scheme is a branch of th
business of the American Emigrant Aid and Home
stead Company, Of which he is director TWEEN
: ty-seven families something like a hundred an
fifty persons-are announced as en- route fror
Poland to Richmond, where dn spottsylyani
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tract of $500 acres of land has been secnred f.
them. They contract to pay s. an acre, payabl
j at the end Of six years.
to The Boston papers say that the bonds Of th
i'd Irish republic that were issued in that State ar
ID being collected by law firm in Boston, and tha
N the parties who issued them will be held respor
sibe for so doing before the courts of the State
is The poet-laureate Of England has joined til
l. md hos
subscription to the fund for his defense, whie
10 has now reached the aggregate Of $4,000. This
of the fourth great literary name which has take
n Mr. Eyre under its protection Carlyle, Ruskin
e Kingsley and Tennyson.
il Proposals for an immense contract for furnish
ing stationery are advertised by the commissions
of internal revenue. The contract will amount t
about s., 100000, the bids to be in by the 15tl
n inst, and to be for supplying stationery for th
. year ending June 80, 1867 to assessors and col
. lectors throughout that part of the United State
lying east of the Rocky Mountains, and embraces
: 240 collection districts.
i Some youngsters in Lynchburg were mucl
+ agitated the other day upon disinterring the re
J mains Of a monkey on lot recently occupied b.
circus.
The New York World advises the President t
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+ questions, and digntied abstinence from pushin
"A controversy in which he is powerless.n
Some one happily remarks that politeness is ii
! art of making selection from what one thinks.
i The London Times says that the negro race, il
y vested with full political rights, must be magi
zine Of mischief IN Jamacat appears that the n,
i groes would imbibe, at days notice, any absur
q delusion as to the authority and wishes of tb
: British queen, Of the commissioners or anybod
L else; but what they were always looking for w
y y something to be given them, or something to
done tor them, or some laws to make them O
rich, happy land owners, and tax free foreye
it Such men are not citizens, call them so as v
Will.
7. The workmen in the lake tunnel at Chicago i
y ceiveda terrible and excusahle fright tAe 9TH
se day, by the falling Of a mass of earth, and Il
W rushing in of considerable stream of wate
su They hurriedly made their exit by the way of Il
he shaft, and reported the tunnel destroyed.
~ proved, However, only a s'pocket' in the san
d The tunnel is nearly completed.
= The New York Postsays it taffrms unhesitatng
in that 'tthe most popular act which could now
to performed, would be to try and hang not only j
~ ferson Davis, but Alexander Stephens, and two
r. more conspicuous authors of the treason in eve
Ia State" The author Of 'Thanatopss y is getti
70 cheerful in his cid age.
TheRuggestion has been made by several of o
contemporaries, originally, we believe, by Il
~ " La Crosse Democrat, that national convention
" The Democratic party shall meet ia Louisville
le the sth Of january next for thepurpose of effe
!, ing thorough organization, and the adoption
II sound Conservative and constitutional platfor
upon which the entire party, from Maine to Ca
foraia, can rally ana battle with energy and ze
be Ehe New York chamber of commerce is to gi
~ a grand banquet to Cyrus W Field. On that
s casion Mr., Field is expected to tell the story
4. the gnaat undertaking
n. Galyestonist 70 have two hundred barrels of cla
q, shells from the banks " the Trinity, where til
!, are inexhaustible
y The Jackson Mississippian calls Col. Wood,
s, Brazilian emigration fame, Col, 3-W. Wood
4 Will somebody hold the editor of the Yieksbu
s. Times? He is threatening to reopen the Ii
ii .'crnel war!a
The Mobile Tribune threatens Moody, the "sh
king not exactly to make mouths al his sist
but to hur 'roeksa at one of his signs stuck up
i. Mobile, he dent send the editor some shirts.
! The authorities Of Galveston are engaged in /