The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-17
EDITORIAL PAKAGRAPHs. ETC.

Congress has commenced night sessions.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer st.
Nicholas.
For "capacious rain" in yesterdays CRESCENT,
read "cOpious rain"
The United States Senate has postponed the bill
protecting naturalized citizens abroad.
The Democratic camp fires are burning all over
the country.
"Flirtation chairs are summer hotel furni-
ture.
On the day of adjournment the New Hampshire
legislature met at O'Clock in the morning.
The Apaches have stolen thirty thousand dol
lars worth of cattle In New Mexico.
The NaEajoe Indians have all been transported
TO their new territory.
Geo. Ellis has Harper's Bazaar, Literary Album,
and the Spirit of the Times.
The new radical paper in New York-the Com
monwealth-is a triae stupid.
Gov. Seymour's friends, who sought him imme-
diately after his nomination, found him in tears.
New York wants public baths as much as New
Orleans.
The mayor of Southampton treated Farragut
to feast from lO4-pound royal sturgeon.
Cuban doctors say this seasons pineapples are
dangerous TO health.
thousand dollars Injecting house."
To work insatiably requires much less mind
than to work judiciously.
Annie E. Dickinson is safe in England. She
bore letters from Beeeher to Bright.
A hundred Canadians have arrived in Farming
ton, Me-, to help the farmers make hay.
George Francis Train is said to be writing his
autobiography. he does nothing else.
James Russell Lowell is engaged upon a long
poem, an incident of the war.
Brigham Young says he is the only idler in Salt
Lake City.
True sensibility leads Us to overcome our own
feelings for the good of others.
1t seems to be very hot everywhere except in
New Orleans.
The MOniteur says France will encourage re-
form in Austria and Turkey.
The heat in New York on the 18th and 18th
was the greatest in that city for forty years.
"Black Crook" McDOnough has sued Forney
for libel.
Elsewhere is an abstract of Chase's plat
FORM"
Governor Wise is not altogether satisfied with
the dead issues" part of the Democratic plat.
form.
Nearly hundred cases of sunstroke reported
in New York yesterday. The heat up North is
terrible to think of.
Beecher thinks Chase is like his greenbacks.
promising more on the face than they are worth
in gold.
A wave on which many poor fellow has been
carried away is the wave of a lace. edged cambria
Observation-Disclosures.
1t is well to sit at table with Thoroughbred
persons, because then you always have grace be.
fore meat.
The Mormon president has found in Salt Lake
the spring of perpetual youth, for he is always
Young.
The president, cabinet and foreign rninisters
have been invited TO Reverdy Johnson's banquet.
i'll Baltimore.
The London Times uses seventy tons of paper
and two tons of printing ink in a week. No
wonder it is heavy" paper.
Plon Plon was snubbed by Little King Louis of
Bavaria, who went out hunting and left his guest
to find hotel for himsef.l
The Texas convention declines to multiply the
Lone Star State, except by direct congressional
authority.
Claimants of seats excluded from the North
Carolina legislature are allowed mileage and pay
up TO yesterday.
The defense OF the Columbus prisoners, charged
with the murder of Ashburn, opened strongly yes.
terday.
The United States Senate yesterday passed the
bill postponing the payment of the direct tax in
the late insurrectonary States to next year.
Belgrade advices say that Prince Something
or other, suspected of completely in the murder of
Prince Michel, has been cited to appear before
court.
A dinner was given in London on Thursday
night to H. W. Longfellow, by Bierstadt, the
artist, at which Gladstone, Farragut and others
were present.
Gov. Seymour's physician advises him to visit
Europe during the presidential canvass, but he
positively refuses 70 absent himself unless i'm
peratively called away by ill-health.
The Revolution, edited by Mrs. Susan B. An
thony, says: 1--WE have kept our babies out Of
sight many time, for fear tobacco.chewng
friend would kiss them"
Several cases of valuable statuary and works
of art have been shipped on board the United
States supply ship Guard at London, having been
purchased by Admiral Farrsgut in Italy and other
parts Of Europe.
In Oswego a little girl picked up half a lemon on
the street and undertook to eat it. A torpedo
which had been placed in the lemon exploded,
tore out her teeth, burnt her tongue, lips and
fingers, and injured her face.
With every days exodus Northward sorrogful
faces multiply among the csn't-get.sway frater.
nifty. Many who remember the bright faces,
sunny curls, and the graceful forms Of three little
sisters, who were wont to bound along the side
walk opposite st. Patrieks Church, will now look
in vain for these miniature graces, who have gone
to win smiles and admiration elsewhere.
1a OIL, III
said to be indebted to the Postofice Directory, |
for most of those extraordinary names of ladies |
and gentlemen which, of themselves, give no |
little character to his creations. He might have \
searched long there without finding name more
than that of Gustavus Adolphus
the owner Of which, cab-driver, an.
peared yesterday before Mr.. Arnold, in answer to /
/ summons"
1t is curious historical fact, remarks an ex.
.hange, that Jefferson and Hancock, whose names
IRE so popularly associated with the Declaration |