The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-16

Gold closed in New York yesterday at Ia.
Julian Romea, the famous Spanish actor, IL dead.
One oyster lays 2,0oo. 900 eggs.
Boston is to put up twenty drinking fountains.
Nothing official from Maine.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer I. G.
Harris.
Congressman are requested to assemble in
Washington on the 2lst. Il n eTN
Reverdy johnson has been presented to the
queen.
whalen has been found guilty of killing D. Arcy
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An Illinoisan won goblet at the Vienna Shut-
zenfest. .frVkrr
Whoever invented PIanchette is reportei to
have made $50 900. ll1s
Pretty bows for the neck are made of wide rib
bon friDged out and gathered into a rosette.i
Four hundred millions of people, II is sai6. uss
wine. little more grape, Captain Bragg Ex.
A Cincinnati humanitarian " has invented q
carriage where the horse rides inside.
Mr.. Edwin Booth recently purchased tome
" cloth of eold," for his new costume in "IS che
lieu,n at sl2S per yard.
The New York Post prints an extraordinary
amount and degree of bosh under the he'd Of
minor items"
over a sweet little baby-snd the baby %ows
back again. m re f-. y
Charles Dickens has commenced new stiry-
short one, however-in All the Year Roun.i. en-
titled The Autobiography Of Boy"
Sergeant Bates proposes horseback tr5p to
st. Paul, wearing his Montgomery sash, an5 car
ryipg his vicksburg flag.
The fashion of exchanging photographs has
been entirely done away with, says the n. Y.
Mail. ~frr,r Is
The Chicago Post imagnes that the Mandsrins
will be beheaded upon their return for not visit
ing Chicago.
The cadets at West Point say there have been
only four pretty girls at the Point this sum
mer. N - .l
The diocese of Sahara has been created, where
upon the Boston Post remarks, Some ecclesias-
tic will now receive his desert"
Napoleon is making so many French senators
of small caliber, that the French are beginning
to call the senate the second Hotel des, In
valides."
correspondent of the New York Herald, who
went to have talk with Brownlow the other day.
found him fiat upon his back, and scarcely able to
speak above whisper. but implacable as ever.
Matilda Heron is to devote her attention to the
instruction of young ladies for the highest rank Of
the drsma. Terms from one to five hundred dol
lars per quarter. Poor pupils will be instructed
for nothing.
A movement is in progress among our fellow
citizens of foreign birth to purchase homestead
for Gen. Henry A. Wise, as a testimonial of graft.
tude for his services against political prescription
of foreigners.
The Picayuue understands that W. @. Gray,
ESQ.,, who has been for upwards Of twenty years
connected with the revenue service, and who was
sent out by the treasury department to reorgsn-
ze the customhouse at this port after the war, is
to be the chief deputy of Collector Fuller.
The second number of the Evening Delta;is an
Improvement even upon the first. The arrange
mept of its matter and the spirit and tone IL its
original paragraphs and selections, including q
concise summary Of the spirit Of the mosning
press, are all quite up to the metropolitan sand
ard Of afternoon Journalism. fl'
Anegro member of the Virginia convention be-
coming enamored of q German girl employed in Q
Richmond groggery, and the passion being lreci-
procated, applied to the girls father for pefnlis
sion to make her his wife. This being refused. the
black Lothario sent her away and is determined
to follow and make her his wife.
A New York Herald correspondent has also
been button holing Gen. Forrest he is repyfted
as saying: " % IT"
have seen enough of war, and those who: are
the most boisterous now and cry out for was you
will find are the very men who did not participate
in the last one and would not Join either side in
another were il to occur to- morrow nor could
they raise corporal's guard In the entire State to
help on the strife they clamor for. These tsnen
remained al home during the late conflict, and
made money out of il, and are quite willing that
like source of profit should be originated as
quickly as possible. The people of Tennessee are
for peace. The x-sodiers are for peace, and are
anxious that peace in the full sense of the term
should again visit Us.