The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-29
NUMBER le9.


Forrest is playing in Louisville.
| Thanks TO the officers Of the steamer Francis.
The Houston Telegraph has been enlarged.
| Pauncefort, the actor, has been Mormoniz,d.
| Heller is diabolizing successfully 10 London.
Only lol 900 valentines passed through the New
York Postoffice this year.
Mayor Holman has vetoed the Nicholson pave
ment.
Gas is still flowing from the well on Grsvisr
street.
House tonight.
Jefferson Davis and family are expected at
Louisville.
ExGov. Ford, of Ohio. was seriously i'll at last
accounts.
Mrs. Kembls reads in New York next Mon
day.
Dr. r. r. Gilbert has started spicy advertising
sheet in Galveston.
Louisville is talking about erecting !" "magnif.
cent opera house."
Lieossnant Henry H--Hayss, Of vicksburg. IL
dead.
Negro outrsges in Mississippi are too numerous
to be particulsrzed.
The Tennessee House Of Representatives has
adopted resolution sanctioning the determine
ton Of Congress to impeach the president.
Minnesota. Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Ohio.
Iowa and Kentucky are counted among the States
which viii support Pendleton.
Texas paper speaks Of Father Taylor, of the
Boston Bethel, as a brother of the late president
Of that name.
Atthe charter election in Cairo. on Tuesday. the
whole Democratic ticket was elected by Eve hum
dred majority. A. G. Golden was elected mayor.
Some one wisely remarks that all, without ex-
ception, is comedy or tragedy in politics. that IA
to say, In the government of men.
Up to yesterday morning city money was firm
and advancing but under the influence OF General
Grants order q reaction is looked for.
In view Of the news from California, II Ia su0
gested that Congress had better hurry up the
Pacific Railroad. ara.a1
1t is thought by men of calm js6gment that it
would. require standing army Of 500 900 men
to carry out the radical plan Of reconstruction.
Wilkins propounds the following conundrum.
"wbst has Gen. Grant to do with the aldermen Of
New Orleansi"
Rev. DR.. Tying. Sr., insists that hostility to him
is the motive to the persecution OF his son by the
stubbs- party, and that for like reason another
son, now deceased, was also persecuted.
The Paris fashion cf having male modiste ia
said to be adopted by one establishment in Bos-
ton. II is clsimed that men have better taste
relative to the female figure than women.
The New York Citizen thinks Gov Fenton viii
be vice on the radical presidential ticket It
thinks Chase and Gen. Hunter would be the most
formidable ticket the radicals could put up.
An elderly gentleman named Diggs wasrelieved
of thousand dollars while two polite gentlemen
were assisting him to alight from a car at the
Vicksbure depot on the 18th.
The interest Of Gen. Albert Pike in the Mem.
phis Appeal having become complete at the ex
pration Of his years engagement as editor In
chief. the proprietors will hereafter be known as
" Albert Pike & Co." f-arf
Zoe, one of the best two year old filIies in the
world. by Young America, out OF Blondes dam.
by Abdallah, and Cavalier, eldest born, and most
famous son Of Hambletonian and Widow Machree.,
are dead.
IF you hear Of "a dear, good creature OF girl
who hssn': an enemy in the world,r or q man
against whom word was never uttered - make
up your mind that both are very soft specimens OF
humanity, and are Ia great danger Of being trod.
den upon unless they sing out.-IEx.
Every reason, says the Journal OF Commerce,
which is sdduced by the true friends Of humanity
against granting the suffrage to the paupers and de-
based classes Of England tells with far greater force
States.
The Bee impliedly denies that the organ Of the,
colored people has the largest circulation Of any
paper in the city among those who read French,
srd says that the award at the Postoffce was
made upon interested statements which the Bee
had no opportunity of controvertng.
The Washington Intelligencer says that 1t is
proposed that the business men Of each State call
a commercial and financial national convention
which body shall represent the true and vital
interests of every section Of the country, North,
South, East and West, to take action regarding
the financial and commercial interests of the
country.
The cream Of the colored population of HART
ford, Conn.,, had a stylish bah on the 2lst. The
were printed in gold on satin, and the
bill Of fare at supper opened with baked trout
and scslloped oysters, and after thoroughly ex-
ploring carte that would do honor t. Soyer or
q Blot, wound up with grapes, almonds. brandy
peaches, etc.
On the oath the streets OF Chicago were hlIed
with the spectacle of the butchers pageant, a
grand csvalcade OF the fraternity. some hundreds
strong, bannered and scarfed, with music in front
and rear, the turnout being in honor Of the tri-
umph of the butchers over the monopoly given to
certain parties by the city to establish and main
tain slaughterhouse.
Sergeant Bates. bearing the asg which be Is to
carry through rebeldom," arrived ia Columbus,
Georgia, on the 25th. Hc was met by the mayor
and other citizens, and rendered the hospi,altes
u the city. The Enquirer learns that his recep-
lion along the route from Montgomery to Colum-
bus was everywhere kind and respectful, as II has.
been In ell places in the South. At Crawford
v arm welcome was extended to him.
r. King Cutler writes to the Times "to indorse
he late action Of the president of the United
states, and to express my unqualified ccndemna-
ion Of the Illegal, unwarrantable and partizan
conduct of General Grant, Secretary Stanton. aud
he radical members Of Congress and Of the pro-
seedlings on impeachment of the president and to
sive il as my opinion tha; the same are illegal.
unjust and revolutionary in character, and will
prove shame ssd disgrace to the nation, and, a.
sincerely hope. prove the civil and political