The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-21
EDIroRIAL rARAsRArHs. ETC.

The sultan carries 1900 600 watch.
Bierstsdt has taken a studio in Paris.
Capital punishment: living in Washington Ex
SAKE wears the ugliest hat in Saratoga.
Tostee is going to stay in this country year.
Napoleon is taking the life of Charlemagne.
The king of Sweden is a painter.
Mrs. Commodore Vanderbilt is dead.
Grant was in Quincy, H.. Sunday.
McCoOes bride is a milliner He is miller.
Kirby Smith is studying for the ministry.
Judge Beldin, of Ohio, is dead.
The st. Louis Democrat is again sued for libel.
Mrs. Lincoln is at Bedford Springs.
The New York Herald's Abyssinian correspond.
ent sent fine Arabian horse to Bennett, Jr.
Capt. Comstock, formerly of the Collins Steam.
ship Line, lie dead.
Two cases of Asietic cholera have occurred at
Sing Sing.
Sir Edward Blskely, an English field marshal,
is dead. ...-.
The president has ordered the disbandment Of
the negro militia at Washington.
ExSecretary Stanton is said to be rapidly
reaching state of actual imbecility.
Mr.. Couldock and daughter and Filomeno are
in Chicago.
Menken smoked cigar while New York phre.
nologist examined her head.
The most fatal precipice is always strewn with
1oWeTs.-tEx.
Heenan is said to have made $40 900 on the sar-
stoga races.
Edwin Forrest can pronounce " child" in four.
teen syllables.
church in New Bedford represents s7O,OOO,
COO.
Blair has seven children; Seymour none. Grant
has several children Colfax none.
Three opera boufles will soon be in competition
in New York.
Longfellow has been entertained by Earl Stan.
hope.
William Cullen Bryant talks of going abroad
again.
Mile. Nilsson receives ten sous, or half franc,
for every note that she utters on the stage.
Many pearls (so called) are nowadays made
of steel.
Boston and vicinity is excited over the cattle
disesse.
Ohenbach has written an operetta called Coos.
coletto," which is to be performed at the BOuffes
Psrisiens by the new company.
A nephew of Patti, a son of Bsrili has made a
successful debut as pianist in Philadelphia. He
is only fourteen years old.
The Mnden Democrat is the name Of a new
weekly paper at Minden, La, by A. G.. Tompkins
& Brother.
We have received the Campaign Democrat, pub
Hshed at Shreveport. Messrs. s. II. Calhoun, Col.
J. NJ. Wharton and r. J. Looney, editors.
The New York Express Saratoga jenkins says
Mrs. Bylbert, q beautiful LOuisianian, wore a
striped green and white gsuze de Chamberry.
Lewis wolney, newly appointed assessor OF in.
ternal revenue for New Orleans, received his COM
miss on on the l7,h and was to leave on the Is h
for New Orleans.
The Galveston Civilian announces the arrival Of
" the celebrated European traveller and newspaper
correspondent, Maj. Tom. Ochilree, formerly OF
the Houston Telegraph"
The last definition of the word " demi-mon le, -
! (tbe hslfworldl is the world to which husband
always goes without taking his better half with
! him.
! Lieut. d. C. Rousseau, fifth United States in
faDtry, has been ordered to report At New Orleans
/ for duty to Brevet Major General Rousseau, COM
msuding the department. Lisnt. Rousseau will
sail at once from San Francisco via the Isthmus Of
] Panama.
number Of French residents at Galveston SAT
down to banquet Sunday evening. A band dis
coursed the Aarsellsise, PArtant pour la Syria
| Star Spangled Banner, Bonnie Blue Flag, and
| other pieces. The table was decorated with
| French and American Gags, and the toast to the
emperor and the imperial family was followed BY
| one TO Andrew johnson. The toast TO France
and America, Seymour and Blair" was drauk
with applause.
| The Land We Love for September contains
twelve articles. The leading article, Gen
Prices Report OF his Missouri Campaign in 1854.
has never been published before and is of stirring
interest. The other prose articles are tia Slel
Canal" MARY Ashburton," "Mr. Dickens ant
his Debt Of Honor =" .'Chief Justice Nash of Nortt
Carolina" and {" The Empress Eugenie." The
poetry is from Mrs. L. Virginia French. Miss |. N
! Porter and DR., J. d. Bruins, of New Orleans,