New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-22


busy BIS who propose to improve the shining hour
in the radical hive this fall
How doth the little busy B.
Improve each shining honr
And gather money all the day, etc.
It is reported in Providence, R. l., that the wife
of a mot very distinguished United States Sena
tor is about to apply for divorce.
James Bennett has been arrested in indianapolis
with the hearts of five rich widows in his posses
sion. Amount of income not stated.
The Troy Press says that Thurlow Weed has
knocked Mr. Greeleys hat so far over his eyes that
only the philosophers boots are visible.
Major Pollard B. Lee, formerly on Generals
Braggsand Joseph E. Johnston's stats, is lying at
the point of death, in Memphis, from disease con-
tracted while in the army.
R. NJ. I. Hunter is living quietly at his place in
Essex, Virginia, attending to farming with great
energy, and striving to retrieve his fortune and re-
pair the losses inflicted by the war.
The professorship of civil engineering in the
University of Georgia, made vacant by the death
ofGeneral N, L. Smith, has been rendered to Cen
eral Gusts Lee, eldest son of General R. E. Lee
The st. Louis Times says with great pitch !:
John A. Logan says he wants to fight the South
ern people with sword in one hand and torch
in the other. Fie! John. What hand would you
do your stealing with?
| General Richard |. Page, Of Norfolk, Virginia,
has been pardoned by the President. He was
formerly in the United States navy, but joined the
Oonfederates. His pardon was granted at the re.
quest of an admiral il the United States navy
George A. Barber, of Detroit, Michigan, chal
lenges any printer in the world to trial of speed
in composition during ten hours, or for six days of
ten hours each, for $1,000 to s5O0O-solid straight
natter-the match to come off three months after
the acceptance of the challenge.
An English letter writer says that Gerald Massey
is passionately immersed in spiritualism, and is
indeed, himself a medium. He confdes to his
friends that every idea in his new book on Shakes.
pears sonnets was obtained directly from the
ghost of Shakespear himself.
Jack Hamton's qualification for the radical
nomination Vice -President, which he is ear
nestly seeking, is the little fact stated by the
Houston Telegraph, that, " after the war com
menced, he applied to leading merchant of Cal
weston for money to raise a company for Confede-
rate service.n
Mrs. Jefferson Davis was in New York last
week.
Mr.. Punch calls Napoleon the European umpire
and commission merchant
1t is reported that Surgeon General Barnes has
improved somewhat since last accounts.
Sam. Jennings, rich old miser, died recently
in Ohio, leaving fortune of s2O0O0OO which his
heirs are already quarreling about.
Fred. Douglass was admitted to the secret meet
ings of the black-and-tan conventionists. They
knew he would keep dark.
Capt. Ferguson, member of the Canadian Par.
lament is to be court,martaled for cowardice
before the Fenian enemy.
Hon. Henry Order, member of Congress from
the Third District Of Kentucky, died at his resi-.
dence in Warren county, in that State, recently.
DR.. Horatio Seymour the sculptor, has gone to
Rome to execute, under an order from Congress,
statue Of Alexander Hamilton.
An English writer says q President johnson has
done more public business in one year than Queen
Victoria has done in twenty mine and has done it
better.
Baron Mackay, of Holland, and Sir David We'd
derbun and Charles Dalrymple, Esq, of Scotland
have been spending day or two in Providence,
the system of public schools
King Victor Emmanuel has invited the whole |
corps to accompany him to the ancient
City of the Doges on the day he will make his
solemn entry into Venice
Gen. Grant has accepted an invitation to be pre-. |
sent at the annual meeting of the Society of the |
Army Of the Tennessee, which will be held at
Cincinnati on the 18th of November
The trustees Of Dartmouth College have voted
to confer the degree of LII, D. on Daniel Clark.
This is partial remuneration for Clark's loss of
reelection to the URited States Senate ant-a re-
ward for his intense " love of his country