The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-25

street thinks the South has conceded sIl she
ought 10. , Hfe H#
The owners Of vessel destroyed BY the Alabs-
ma have brought in New York suit against the
builder Of the latter, Mr.. Laird.
I'VE most gracefully return thanks, !" etc., says
Q country exchange in acknowledging some favor
or other. i,,-
The official record Of the Menken's burial In the
prefecture of Paris is by the name Of Madame
Barclay, rs years old, rue Commartin &c."
Archbishop Manning snd the archbishop Of
Paris are to be raised to the dignity Of prince Of
the church.
Mrs. Fanny Kemble recently sstonished Mas
sachusetts railroad conductor by purchasing four
tickets for her party Of three, because she wanted
to occupy two seats for the sake of comfort.
Weston says that after six fair trials he ia con-
vinced that walking upon circular track is not
only against his nature, but unnatural to either
man or horse. Hence his recent failures.
Since the return OF Prince Napoleon from his
trip, 1t is reported that he endeavors to persuade
the emperor to secure the Rhinish frontier, even
at the risk of war. NJ. de Monster, it Is stated,
supports the prince In these arguments.
A gentleman who applied at the central tsle-
graph Office in Paris, to have a message sent to
Dayton, Ohio, was considerably iHcensed to be
asked, "Where is Ohio Who's the king OF
Ohio ?"
The most msgnanimous man in Hartford earns
that reputation chiefly because he stepped into
the gutter to give room for q beyy of handsome
girls and modestly refrsined from staring at any
of them.
1t is said to be all up with Mspeson and
Ia l. H. L..
ger, unable to bring the Academy stockholders
to terms, las requested to be released from his
engagement, and the request has been granted.
clerk has been discovered in Washington who
doesn't want bis salary raised, and has written p.
letter to prove that it ought not to be. His So ary
is 1920 and says he earns no more than = ,st and
saves $500 per snnum. His name is ,as. M. Dial.
sell, and be was formerly q memb er of the Il6th
Ohio volunteers.
A. Noise, of Richmond, Virginia, has in his pos
session pair of silver.mounted d1eng pistols,
made in London one hundred and fifty years ago.
and once the property of George Washington.
When Gen. Butler was bottled up in the vicinity
of Richmond, the pistols were buried for safe
keeping.
serious rupture, says Chicago dispatch of
the 2lst, has occurred between the Roman Catholic
bishop, Duggan, and some of the clergy in that
city. The matter has been referred to Rome for
adjustment, and in the meantime the Rev. Dr.
Dunn, vicar general of the diocese, Rev. DR.. Nc
Gorem, Rev. Father Rolls and Rev. DIR. McMullen
are suspended.
Prof. Agassiz and his party are now at Denver,
Colorado. A correspondent writes that the great
naturalist is "fsirly swetering with enthusiasm"
he finds abundant material to sustain his glacial
theory. According to the same correspondent
Gan Brazil was nothing to what he had seen Of
natural beauty and scientific revelation already in
crossing the Plains"
A sensation was created among the uptown
people in New York, the other morning, by the
discovery of the perfect remains of q human foot
and leg embedded in some granite, which the
quarrymen are blasting at the corner Of Tenth
avenue and Forty second street. The granite is
of pale color, and the human remains are per.
fectly black. The questions for the philosophers
and the ethnologists now Are these the relics
of some prmeval man, and was this primeval man
black! So says the New York correspondent of
the Philadelphia Ledger
"Yuba DAM" of the Louisville Courier, con.
cludes an account of Q modern tournament as fol-
lows: The short agony il Hsr Kassht ha.
swung around the circle and reigns up before the
umpire, with his pole laden with captured rings
The grave judges put their heads together. All
is hushed in anxious silence. You conld1't hear
pin drop upon the sawdust. At last the herald
advances, and raising plug hat he proclsims the
knight Of Blank the victor, having conquered 40
many rings in SO many seconds. But he makes no
mention of the heart of Laura Matilda which has
been metsphorically trsnshxed by that pine stick
and rides captive upon its tin point, GROWING
trophy of knightly vslor.