The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-06

Banks has been renomnated for Congress.
Emerson, Allen and Manning are in Louisville.
The Baltimore Opera Troupe are at Louisville.
Chase is said to be ruddy and reticent.
Carleton is at the Louisville Theatre Comique.
President Hill, Of Harvard College. has resigned.
Gen. E. Kirby Smith has gone to California.
Theodore Jones, artist of Cincinnati is dead.
Jacob Finn, an old judge Of Cincinnati. is dead.
Broad street, Mobile, was flooded on the Sd.
Gold closed in New York at lao to l403.
The Mobile Register would have government
pitch in for Cuba.
The Perry statue was unveiled at Newport on
the lst.
A sl6O000 cathedral has been commenced at
San Antonio, Texas.
New York has clock that runs by electricity
from the earth, without works.
Melvin Foster has beaten John Berry at bl.
liards.
Rev. Father Schneider, the founder of St. Mary's
College, died in Montreal on the lst.
Camilla Urso and Josefns Flomeno were at Ole
Bulls concert in Boston.
Bishop Botier is non-committal on ritualism in
his annual address.
Nr. Prentice has not been discharged from the
Louisville Journal, and is neither broken down nor
poor. so says the Journal itself.
The Evening Delta closed its career yesterday,
ending with the nineteenth number. II was smart
and reads BILE, and we shall miss it.
The Natchitoches Spectator is dead and Mr..
Scsnlan has sought 1.-THE cool and refreshing
shades of retirement"
The Bay St. Louis Gazette is reliably informed
that since the the {" my stcrious music Of Pos
cagoula' has ceased.
Miss Janauschek will appear at the New York
Academy Of Music on the fifth, in Schiller's play
of The Bride of Messna."
Thanks to the Southern Express Company for
New York pspsrs of the 29th ult. 8 day later than
we have yet been favored by the mail.
AT the wedding Of her son, Mrs. Abraham Lin.
coin was attired in deep mourning, without any
jewelry or ornaments whatever.
At the Amherst Agricultural College the Fresh
men work two days in a week at the corn and
potatoes and the 6ophomores three.
The Buffalo Express says that drumming in re.
cruits for the army of the Lord in Kit Burns pit
is ratty plan.'
CIV. McCranie, the able editor of the Ouachita
Telegraph, was nominated for Congress yesterday
by the Democrats Of the fifth Louisiana district.
Abbott's Napoleon iii " is called q rare work
by q semi-l1srary paper of Boston. III this means
that ii is not well done, We agree.-tWorId.
On the occasion Of an eclipse in Virginia a
colored individual became greatly eIated. F" Bress
de Lord" said he, "nigger's time hab come at
last, and now we's gwine to hsb black SUM-"
The blonde beauties, Alice and Kate Logan,
(sisters of 0live,) are much admired at Woods
Museum, New York, where they recently made
successful debut.
The pictorial newspapers are already publishing
illustrations of the South American earthquakes,
taken on the spot" They represent affairs in
very shsky condition.
The English people have come to the conclu.
sion that the House Of Lords is too large, and
they propose to give it up to state ceremonials
and move into the peers robing-room.
A correspondent of the New York Times sug.
eests the word halogran for photographic dis
patch through the Atlantic cable-uiold, from the
Greek word d.0losis, sea, and gram, from the
Greek graDlma, letter.
Handsome bows of satin striped ribbon, fringed
out upon the ends Byzantine scarfs, tied in wide
bow-knot, also frinsed out, are worn at the throat
and give the touch Of autumn color, crimson or
scarlet and gold, which the black or neutral tinted
costume demand, says Jennie June.
The Louisville Journal of the 1st contains g
long and eosspy account Oh Wedong 10 NAM
moth Cave the contracting parties being Mr.. Ben
jamfn H.p~Ss.Past, iawysr Of Nebraska City,
Nebraska, and Miss Ellen Campbell, OF Hopkins
ville Kentucky.
Miss Kellogg wiz make her first appearance
since her return from Europe, on Monday, 0cto
Der l9, st the New York Academy Of Music. Mr..
Strakosch opens his campaign with series Of
concerts. Whether the fortunes of war will per-
init him TO indulge in the costly luxury Of opera
remains yet to be seen. He has engaged q new
baritone, Petrel and Lott, the tenor, and Susin.
the basso, and Madame LaGrange, who sailed for
New York in the Vile de Paris on the 24th Of
September, is also to join his company.