The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-04
Editorial Paragraphs. Etc.


Banks is willing to 20 500 200, 900 for Cuba.
Garroting is again coming into vogue in London.
Another fine day for sport at the Metarie
Course yesterday.
Trinity Church, New York, is now called a
cathedral
Chevser Wyckoff Is married. A Brooklyn
lady is the victim.
The United States treasury has $50 900 900 in
gold.
French paper supposes that whale may be
only an snteduvian sardine.
1t is said Dickens employs three clerks to send
printed answers TO applicants for autographs.
II is said Gen. Meade is in full accord with the
president.
The removal Of Generals Pope and Swayne is
denounced bitterly by the radicals.
twenty-five thousand pounds of raisins were
produced by one farmer in California last year.
Hon. Ferguson Blair, president Of the council Of
the Province of On tario, died Sunday night.
Thaddeus Stevens insists that his health is not
so poor either his friends or his enemies think
General Butler has been defeated in his great
lawsuit in New York about his brothers. will.
The Louisville Journal advises the president to
turn Grant out of the cabinet. The New York
Tribune advises him TO leave OF his own accord.
II is said pencil writing may be fixed almost as
indelibly as ink by passing the moistened tongue
over it.
Thad. Stevens is engaged in the preparation of
a speech in favor of the Alaska appropriation
bill.
There is no foundation Tor the statement that
Grant was opposed TO the removal of Pope, says
special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Vermont Democrats are TO celebrate the an.
Diyersary of JacksOn's New Orleans victory with
grand banquet at Montpelier.
The new English minister, Mr.. Thornton il is
understood, will come with full authority to re-
open and conduct, to a successful issue, the tire
some question of the Alabama claims.
Movements on foot n the Episcopal churches
Of Boston to change the character of the music
from quartettes TO choruses with supplied per-
formers.
Two psrtridges have domicled themselves
among the trees upon the grounds OF Major Dill,
in the village of Phillips, Maine. They permit
visitors to approach within rod without exhibit
ing much alarm.
AT noon yesterday the denizens Of Camp street
were startled by the appearance of two locomo-
tives with broad wheels and steam up, progress
ing slowly and noisiy through that thoroughfare.
They were probably on their way to the Fair
Grounds.
The New York Tribune contains letter from
Gen. Hancock correcting certain statements of
Col. WyncOoD relative to the burning of an In |
dian village at Pawnee Forks, and to the killing of
six Cheyennes at Cinerone crossing.
Information is received that the Stockholm |
newspal er, the Volksblatt, advises the Swedish |
government 10 follow the example of Denmark, /
by selling to the United tates its West India is.
land, ST. Bartholomew.
Gen. Logan is preparing a bill for Congress to |
establish a civil service bureau in Washington,
consisting Of board of examiners, whose duty it |
shall be to decide upon the qualifications of all |
applicants for places in various departments.
A Washington correspondent Of the New York |
Times says, that when General Meade heard that
the president contemplated putting him in Pope's |
place, he sent word to the president begging him |
TO abandon the purpose, and stating that he was
an awful radica-more radical than any of them.
The New York Post suggests that the cable hes
not told US what the London Times thinks Of Col.
Parker's mysterious disappearance, the condition
of the New York streets, nor of that most con.
trOverted and important subject-the cause of the
milk in the cOcOanut.
There was lively scene on the Canal street
shell drive Thursday evening, caused by the
owners and drivers Of fast nags returning from the
afternoons sport az the Metairie. The same
may be witnessed this evening, and every pleasant
evening hereafter, during the continuance of the
races.
The elephant at RObnson's circus is blessed
with an unfaling appetite. A careful compute.
tOn of the amount of apples oranges, cakes, etc.,
which pass from the hands of admiring boys into
his trunk, and thence into his expressive NAV,
would be very illustrative of the stomachic ca.
pacity of the playful creature.
William b. Astor will pay tax this year on
100000, besides personal property tax on
$50 500. A. t. Stewart is taxed upwards Of
$25O,OO0, nearly one.quarter of which is derived
from his personal property. Cornelius Wander
bit pays on 81 100000 personal property, aud
about $780, 900 tax on his Harlem Railroad city
estate.
That is a sure though slow mode of suicide
which places man, otherwise capable ia any
government position. Read what thraIdom forced
the patient pen Of Hawthorne to record: :" / pray
That in one year more may find some way Of es-
Gaping from this unbest custom house, for Il is
very grievous thraldOm. ! de.est all Offces-all, |
at least, that are held on political tenure"
Exchange.
The Montpomprv Advartisar says. 90 Tba fooI |