New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-11-20

$4,000.
Patrick oiRourke was preparing for shooting
excursion in Philadelphia. the other day, ard ne
| cidentallY dropped his powderaask in tub Of
water. Being Of an economical disposition he
concluded to save his powder by drying it. Ac-
oordingly, pouring it into fryingpan, he held it
| over the fire for while, and shortly afterward
| picked himselfup in the back yard, feeling some
! what fatgued, with his hair, beard and eyebrows
/ sfnged OF as closely as if ont with a razor.
| Letters have been received from DR.. Mayo G.
Smith, who is one of the colony that sailed from
Maine, in August, for settlement at Jaffa-an-
cient Joppa-in the Holy Land. They had good
passage of forty-two days, and landed October 4,
| the Turkish government favoring the project, and
allowing them to land their merchandise free of
| duty, The colony consists of one hundred and
fitty,six men, women and children. They have
carried their church, school-house, saw-mill,
store, cts, and have charming site for their set
| Element.
There is a trle Of unconscious humor in the fol-
lowing grave statement from the Norwich Comm
| Bulletin The statement as to the late Rev. Mr..
Gillette, of Bradford having left fortune Of one
hundred thousand dollars when his salary never
/ exceeded six hundred dollars per annum, gives
the idea that this large sum was saved from that
income. This is incorrect. Though always very
economical, the foundation of Mr.. Gilettefs for
tune was his wife's property That is entirely
lucid, and quite exhausts the subject.
/ General Wool, General Granger and General
Steadman were in New York last week. The
papers also announce General Buckner as at the
| Southern Hotel-but this is slight mistake, as
General BuelSner is in New Orleans.
\ BreYst Major Alfred Foot, a son Of Judge Foot,
Of Geneva, has been retired for physical disa-
biity.
Nj. II. NJ. Dexter, Of the senior class, has been
awarded the medal for the pest essay in the Yale
Magazine.
james Mason, ll-known stoeplechase rider,
1 latelg died in London.
An oldrieh Englishwoman has falleninlote with
Medium Hume, and left him all his money. He
viii now be a circulating medium.
BroWnell, who got commission in the regular
army for killing the man who killed Ellsworth has
been sent to Minnesota.
Albert NJ. Van Kleeok, for five years postmaster
Of Ponghkepsie, fell in an apopleetic ftin Main
street a few days ago, and died III few hours
afterwards.
The celebrated japanese traveller, DR.. Won Ste
bold, died at Munich on the 18th October, of ty-
plus, at the age Of seyenty-one, He has left a
!
rich collection Of manuscripts.
General Neag1ee answers the gentle schell, who
has sued him in San Francisco for 100000 for
breach Of promise, by setting up-frst, that he
never promised to marry her; and secondly, that
he has discovered her to be of a loose character
Senator Guthrie, Of Kentucky, though GONZALES
4 cent, is still confined to his house.
The Salisbury IN. CO. prison property was sold
I A1lE
| to Mr.. D. 81. Helper for the sum of $1,000.
The wife of General Wool is recovering from
her late illness, and her return to health is conf
IDENTIFY looked for.
Major Warburton, who started about six months
ago on an exploring expedition to the northwest
ern part of Australia, arrived at Mount Margaret
onthe 18th of July. News was received in Ade-
laide that the whole party were safe and WE'LL
Major Warburton was to start Immediately for the
exploration Of No Mans Land.
The Paris France says there is much talk in
the Duehies about the financial embarrassments Of
the late pretender, the Prince of Augustenburg,
Since the beginning of the Dutch conflict he is said
to have spent four millions of thaIers (S3 900, 0O0) |
Half of this sum was advanced by his family and |
partsans.
Letters have been received in Glasgow from DR..
the African traveller, dated May l.
1866 The doctor was in good health, and prose-
cutting his mission in Africa successfully.
The fortune left by Count Baccochi, who re-
Gently died in Paris is estimated at $500 OOO 1t is
inherited by his son and two married daughters, |
allliving in Corsica,
John Stuart NEIL is busily employed ID editing |
the collected works Of Buckle. This willbeavery
valuable book, and all thinking men will look for
it with great interest.
Among recent arrivals in New York were Prince
Doria and Duke Grazioli, of Italy, G. A. Trenholm,
late Confederate secretary of treasury, Gen. B. F.
Butler Hon. John Firth, of Sheffield England,
Baron de Malorte and Count Thun, of Mexico,
Capt. Parker and Capt. Maxwell, Of the British
Navy, and Gen. Simon Cameron, late secretary of
war, senator, etc.
General slocum has taken up his permanent
residence in Brooklyn. A correspondent says, al
saw him and General Howard in Mr. Beechers
SundaY.i'
Dr.. Rowland died recently at Utica, New Y ok.
He established the first Welsh periodical in this
country.
At Leavenworth, Kansas a gentleman named
Michael Przybylowicz, is running for the legisla-
tnre.
The Approaching session of Congress-.
IT'S PROBABLE TEMpER-THE PRESIDENTS COURSE.
Washington dispatch of the 14th, to the New
York Times, says:
The reassembling of Congress-an event now
less than three weeks hence-is the absorbing
topic Of interest here since the elections. Much
speculation is INDUCED in as to the probable tenn
per of that body when it again convenes Many
seem to think that il will start off fercely with
red-hot inyectire against the President, and the
most radical legislation by its clear three-four
majority over the PRESENTS veto. But a ealmer
survey Of the prospect induces the belief that
while Congress may reassemble with vigorous
determination to pursue its chosen line of policy,
there will be no occasion and very little desire to
indulge in passionate diatribed against the execu-
tive,
In nothing can Congress afford to be more mag
than in its temper. The late canvass
ought to have exhausted theyocabulary Of oppro-
brions epithets and the store of profftless decla
nation. There is something so grand in the com
pleteness with which the loyal people have in.
iorsed Congress, that it can richly afford TO be
totally Indifferent to provocative action of any .
Kind, should il be offered, and it can equally well
afford to avoid any unnecessary invitation on its
part. And this may be done, too, not in the hope
1f political compromise or Cancellation, but in the
cause of the dignity Of the government which