The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-01

wallet containing $4,000 in counterfeit currency
in Philsdelphis the other day.
1t has been suggested that one of the reforms
Of society in which female clubs can lend power
full sid is the observance of early hours at social
gatherings, parties ard balls.
1t has been estimated thas the demand for gold
for ordinary commercial purposes, including pay.
ments OF customs, amounts to only $40, 100000 q
week.
At the expiration of the present administration
Secretary MeCulIoch will go to Europe to take
charge of q branch of Jay Cookies bank to be
established in London.
The Newark Advertiser heads the account Of
the recent Erie speculatiOns and Daniel Drew's
connection with them, "Daniel in the Lions
Den"
Learning that Cincinnati saloon.keeper has on
exhibition the first greenbsck ever issued, the Bos-
ton Post in alarm, asks: +" Who will show the last
one,"
During the first fourteen days of November
the transactions of the Gold Exchange Bank in
New York reached the enormous aggregate of
81, $50, 900, 900.
The commissioner of Indian affairs reports that
the number of Indians now within the bounds Of
the United States, exclusive Of those in Alaska,
is about 800 900.
UT. c. Meatysrd, of Rock Island, lately de-
ceased, not long since married a daughter of Geo.
Lunt, of the Boston Courier. He was on the staff
of Gen. Buford.
1t ia stated since Fisk, Gould & Co. became
managers of the Erie Railway, it has cost the com.
pany 100000 for executive, legislative aud
legal services.
Stealing bridal presents from the table on which
they are displayed is becoming common. Last
week a detective, in full evening dress, at a New
York reception, caught q thief in the act.
The house in which Percy, author of :" The Re-
lques of Ancient English Poetry" was born, In
1877, in Bridgeworth, England, has been restored
by its present owner, Birmingham grocer of an
tiqusrian tastes.
La Perine, the little girl in the Kiosk, op.
posite the grand hotel in Paris, coins money in
consequence of the sudden celebrity which the
enthusiastic articles of the Gaulois and Figaro
have given to her.
Thanks to the officers of steamship Crescent
for late Galveston papers; to the officers Of
steamer Louise for late Mobile papers, and to the
officers of steamship Harlem for late Indianola
and Galveston papers.
By mail we have Frank Leslie's Illustrated"
for Dec. 5. and the Little Corporal for December.
The Little Corporal is a very neatly printed and
illustrated magazine for boys and girls, published
by Alfred L. Seven, Chicago, for one dollar a
year.
From Ellis, Old Levee, we have the last num-
Der of Punch, and the Southern Farmer for De-
cember. The Farmer is edited by DIR. NJ. W..
Phillips, of Chstawa, and is one of the best agri
cultural publications in the whole country. Every
farmer and gardener in the South and Southwest
should read it.
A concert and lecture in aid Of the Artemus
Ward Monument Fund was given in Portland
Maine, on the evening Of the 10th ult., under the
auspices of our contributor, "a Head" The enter
tainment was excellent; the music delightful;
and the Portland Argus of the next morning says !:
"a Heads " colloquial discourse was mixture
of sentiment, fraternal sympathy. and his own
peculiar humor, which poor Artemus once de-
clured 10 the writer was quite different from that
of anyone's " in the business" Head is q curious
compound, end In his writings and lectures wesves
q ange admixture of the ludicrous, sartirics
and pathetic. BE appeared in faultless evening
dress and opened with some very funny illusions
as to his audience and his musical experience
which was worse than Mark Twains ACCORDION
exploits. His lecture was chiefly devoted to
sketchiDg the life of Ward and the relation of
amusing episodes therein not heretofore made
public, the whole interspersed with Heads quiet
and quaint humor, of which, the little taste we
had, made us all wish for more.