The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-21
EdisorsaI Paragraphs. Etc.


A coal famine Is reported to exist in Boston.
Kit Carson has gone home.
Judge Black is the chief adviser Of the pres.-
dent.
Admiral Fsrrsgut has left Naples and gone TO
Rome.
Daz is spoken of in Mexico as minister to
Washington. -
About seven hundred millions Of letters pass
through the British postofices year.
George Peabody is living at Rome with the
sculptor Story.
Victor Emmanuel is expected to abdicate when
Prince Hubert marries.
Advice to servants of all work" Learn to labor
and to n-lExchange.
Nine. Gazzaniga is shortly to be married to
Signor Albites-
Nine. Lind Goldschmidt has been wintering at
Cannes, France.
Itisa mistake 10 suppose the sun is supported
In the SKY by its beams.-LExchange.
Mrs. Kemble, Janauschek and Max Mareizsk's
opera troupe are in Philadelphia.
Judge Creswell is now assistant editor of the
Shreveport Southwestern.
DR.. r. X. Smith is the editor Of the Galveston
Republican.
Seven wholesale houses in Chicago W Ire entered
by burglars on the night of the 10th. f
Pollard is Disguised with what he spells the
DemOcrstick party.
Many Canucks went to Buffalo to hear Mr..
Dickens read.
A steam saw-mill in Bristol, Indiana, has lady
engineer.
The little invalid Prince Leopold has given
gold ring to his doctor. 81
The astute New York Herald says Farragut, as
candidate, is the only hope OF the Democracy.
A Chicago critic. speaking of the Mephisto of
Mr.. Campbell, of the Richngs troupe, says it is
evident that gentleman cannot play the devil.
The railroad tridge over Beason's Creek. on
the Central road, Texas, has broken in, and the
locomotive is in the creek.
Boston, it is rumored is to have magazine to
rival the Atlantic, with the modest name Of The
Universe.
1t is thought Governor Seymour may still be
persuaded to be the Democratic candidate for the
presidency.
Promenade costumes can be of almost any
color, but pale green at present is most fashion
able.
There is much scandal in Washington about
Republican congressman from Pennsylvania and
a-lady-of course.
The Empress Eugenie, pleased with the acting
thousand francs.
| The Prince of Wales now wears full set Of
whiskers, beard and all. He looks very much
like the British lion about the facet
| Mrs. Ben. Wade reads the old gentleman's
papers and Clips out what they say about her
| liege.
Congressman Ely, of New Hampshire. has four
soDs named Frederick Douglass. Parker Pllsbury
Wendell Phillips and Charles Sumner.
Hon. James Brooks, of New York. has been
confined to his room in Washington q week by
sickness.
DIT. Bellows says the pope of Rome looks more
ss Edward Everett did in the closing years of his
life than any other person he can now think Of.
The president has sent to the Senate the nomi-
nation of Franklin Haven. of BOSTON, for assistant
treasurer.
The president wore a shamrock, which was
brought from Ireland, while reviewing the 81. Pa
trick procession IN front of the White House on
the 18th.
st. Pstrick's Day appears to have been cele.
brated with unusual enthusiasm. Among other
places, it was extensively observed in San Fran
CISCO New York, Brooklyn and st. Louis.
The proportion Of marriages to population is
least in England when the prices of wheat are
high, and greatest when the prices of wheat are
low.
AT recent Canadian wedding the assembled
multitude were greatly enlivened by the spectacle
of the MISREPRESENTATION of the BRIDE
groom dancing jig vigorously.
We have received from d. Appleton & Co., New
York, q capital new steel engraving of Charles
Dickens in contemplative mood, resting his cheek
upon his right hand.
The National Intelligencer estimates that i'm.
peachment will cost the country more than "re.
construction" estimating the expense of the lat
ter at tlOO. 600 year.
Polecat mensgerie, variegated and gorilla, are
the descriptive words to be added to the list of
adjectives characterizng the reconstruction con.
ventions.
The announcement, says Washington CORES
pondent, that the president would be allowed only
until th 23d 10 file his answer, was regarded as
the verdict of conviction in advance and shudder
Was percepuble throughout the chamber.
Manuel Robbgoi is a Cuban slave post enjoying
quite a reputation. he publishes card in a Gu
han paper asking the public to purchase poems.
that be may lberate himself from the yoke of
slavery.
Professor Morse was received with great honor
at the government telegraph bureau in Berlin,
was introduced all around as the {" Father of the
Telegraph" and complimented prOfusely but
justly.
An ingenious lamp for travellers, to use on rail.
road cars and on occasions generally where light
is needed, has been constructed by fitting the end
of cane with reservoir for oil, or a candle
pressed against spring. and providing it with a
handle, constituting cover for the lamp and a
receptacle for snatches.
During an examination Of an ancient town in
Scotland, belonging TO the Bronze Age, body
was found with the soft parts converted into
sdipocere, and well preserved. The burial
clothes still enveloped it, and by its side were
various bronze articles belonging TO the period.
In spite of the boosted Christianity of the nine
teenth century, says the philosophical Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette, it has
BEEN and is still being demonstrated that mankind
is now precisely what mankind has always been,
it only requiring an occasion to bring out and de.
velop the worst features of human nature.