The New Orleans crescent., 1868-11-19

| Dresden. The saxons imagine her to own 81 the
| grain elevators.
Thanksgiving service 10 God for the choice OF
General Grant was held last week in Springfield
church. - f-,
A monthly magazine, the Bible Repository, has
been established ct Salem, Mass, to advocate the
| doctrine that the righteous only are immortal.
The Detroit Free Press observes that however
| the name of the Maid of old Orleans may be
spelled, Bankss maid of New Orleans is Dark.
We want white government for white men,
and the States left to a control Of their own do
mestic insttutions.-[N. Y. Democrat. lr
The New York Express thinks " rum is going
rapidly out Of fashion," because Jamaica ex-
ported this year only 10000 puncheons.
The cigar lighter" manufacturing business out
of office begging letters goes briskly at Gen.
Grants headquarters.
A female child in Vienna, three months old, has
its left arm covered with dense, brilliant black
hair like fur.
In South Carolina 500 0o0.acres, more than half
the improved land of the State, are offered for
| sale.
"As we journey through life let us live by ths
wsy,n is the motto of the New York :" Turtle
Club"
Miss Rye has Just arrived in Toronto, Canada.
with ninety.two English girls, all with the ruddy
hue Of their native climate on their cheeks.
A recent meeting in Chicago has decided that
the theater and the opera house must be abolished
or the government will collapse.
Beventy-two persons have already been
| nounced as /" sure " Of appointments in President
| Grants cabinet. fa fIsrt $50 ra..
A lump of coal weighing two tons was exhibited
| at the fair at New Lisbon, o. 1t was excavated
near that vicinity.
From one. third to one-half more canned fruit
and vegetables have been put up this year than
last.
The receipts Of gold in New York during the
first ten months of 1868, amounted to sSs,59s, ,7S5,
of which $50, ,l2O,l75 were from California and
s6,473,5s3 from foreign ports.
Sunday schools had no existence in Germany
eight years ago. Now there are 66, with ii ,299
scholars, and in the German cantons Of Switzer-
land 10, with 1858 scholars.
A liberal citizen of Worcester, Mass, by name
John Boynton, some time ago gave one hundred
thousand dollars as q fund for instituting free
school Of Industrial science in that city.
A New York paper suggests as means OF pay
ing the national debt that every offce-seeker pay
dollar week towards its liquidation until he
gets an office.
George Ellis, news dealer, Old Levee street,
has laid on our table the Army and Navy Journal
of l4th November and Frank Leslie's Boys and
Girls Weekly for November 81.
Heliography has been suggested as the correct
word to use in order to describe the process OF
taking pictures and hkenesses by the light of the
sun.
Mr.. G. W. Dill, of Morehead City, N. O., has
raised this season from three.quarters of an acre
of ground, no less than 1861 bushels of sweet po'
tatoes.
A letter from the city Of Mexico says trade
remains dull and all the cotton factories have
pended work. leaving thousands of workmen
without employment.
The Providence Journal prints long list of l5S
persons, corporations and estates assessed this
year for $50 900 or more. The rate of taxation is
sl2 on the $1,000.
Oliver Dyer has just lectured in Philadelphia on
the wickedness of New York. The people of that
city seemed to enjoy the recital, and evidently are
glad that they are not as bad as other folks, es-
pecislly New Yorkers.
At the California State fair there was great
display of seeds. One exhibitor selected speci
mems of $50 varieties, and of cereals, and sent
them nicely packed as present to the king Of
Prussia.
During the last racing season in England, end.
ing with October, three horses won SIG, ,575-
Formosa $l3O,0l5, see-saw ssO,765, and Paul
Jones sl5,7s5. They are all the progeny of the
famous horse Buccsneer.
The tax on whisky legally belonging to the gov
eminent is about $50 900 600 now and was more
than $3.50 900 900 last year. One.sixth of this is
paid in who has stolen the rest!-[N. Y. Even.
ing Post.
The one hundredih anniversary of the birth Of
Israel Jacobsod, the Berlin Jew, who labored SO
faithfully to remove the disabilities imposed on
members of his faith, was celebrated in that city
recently.
Secretary Seward is reported recently to have
sent q secret agent to st. Domingo to make ar.
rapgements for the purchase of the Bay of Sa
mama measure which he will strive to perfect
before the expiration of his term of Office.
Mrs. Hole-in-the-dsy, widow of the chief OF that
name, with an infant eight months old, is seeking
employment in St. Paul. as domestic. She was
before marriage. laundry girl in . Washington
hotel.
Gen. Henry E. Reed committed suicide in Louis
vile, few evenings since, by shooting himself
through the head. Gen. Reed served with dis
tinction In the Mexican war, and has been mem
ber of the Kentucky Legislature and the Confed
crate Congress. Financial troubles were the cause
We have received from the publishers Lippen
colts Magazine for December. Contents : DorcaI
Bentley; Terrible Voyage The Garden o.
Adonis England and Napoleon ILL., The Art Of
Swindling; A Pearl of Great Price; A Contribu
ton to History; Songs of the Slave; Lonely Spot
and Places; Claims of the Anti-Bondholders ant
Reply; The Young Priest; Charles Loring Elliott
Using Strength tc Advantage; In Utroque Fidelis
Our Monthly Gossip; Literature Of the Day.
45 bales cotton at auction this day at IL O'CLOCK
A. NJ. on the evee foot Of Customhouse street, By
| Chss. 7. Nash, auctioneer, saved from wreck oi
steamer Gen. Quitman ex Wild Wagner.
ATTENTION, MARBLE DEALERs.-Mr. Charles H
CARRIER sdvertises to arrive $50 tons Italian marble
blocks and slabs Of the favorite mark W. W. and
W. For sale in lots to suit purchasers.
The Pail Mall Gazette says: I" To young gen
temen beginning life, the story of Lord Albert