The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-21


Thomas Wallace, of Petersburg, Va, is dead.
| Petty-eoterie is suggested as a name for the
| ladies' club in New York.
Starvation is making hippophagi of the Blue
Noses.
Buchanan, the poet, calls Csrlyles works d" the
insecere brutalities of our German Scstchmau."
1t is denied that Stewart wanted Grant to with
| draw.
Henrietta is the name of young James Gordon
Benefits yacht, his mother and his sweetheart.
The English revenue from dog licenses is ST.
| 100000.
Gens. Gordon Granger and Kirby Smith were in
Portland on the 18th.
Geo. Ellis has all the New York illustrated
| papers, good and bad.
Mr.. D. Redmond corresponding editor of the
Southern Cultivator is stopping at the City Hotel.
The Montgomery Mail claims to have originated
the term petbagger."
Dio Lewis has bought house in Beacon street,
Boston, for s5l 900.
Disraeli is said by the Jewish Messenger to be
an Unitarian.
Thanks to the officers of the steamship jose
| phiDe.
The commencement ball Of General Lees col
| lege will be given on the 18th Of June.
Mrs. Judd is said to contemplate lyceum lectur.
ing on the strength of the peculiar notoriety she
has recently got.
Green, the reformed gambler" has been ar
rested for embezzling $4,000 of Z" lone widows
| fortune, ;" in Athens, Ohio.
The best way to show that " there Is life in
the old land yet" is to put plenty of corn and
| oiher seed into it.
Weston says he can walk 40 miles in the open
air Nit laaa fati ba n mill in
hall.
The Hancock Literary Association has made
bound from the merits of albert Hastings" to
those of steam and electricity.
The New York Mail says two daughters of Gen.
Hood are at fashionable boarding school in that
| city.
Several casks of the whisky which went over
Niagara Falls have been recovered at Lewiston in
a sound condition.
1t is said the merchants Of Liverpool are watch.
ing the growth of our through grain movement
with deep interest.
Many of the young members of the New York
stock and gold exchange, says the Mail, dress
quite as deliberately for business they would to
attend q reception the opera.
The editor of the Pic. has been the recipient of
| a bouquet which. he says. seems a to have i'm
bibed somewhat of the revivifying presence of the
fair donor"
Matilda Heron has opened dramatic studio on
Murray Hill. New York. She proposes to edu-
cate "young ladies' of the arstocracy" for the
stage.
The following is the latest fashionable intelli.
| gence from the Turf, Field and Farm: d" Last
week we chronicled the birth of a daughter to
Flora Temple, and this week we record the birth
of a full sister to Dexter"
7 A physician of Breslau announces to the Acad-
envy Of Sciences in Paris that he has succeeded in
Illuminating the cavities of the living human body
by means of electricity, so as to render their inte
rior Visible to the ply stefan.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune compares Grimes to a hedge hog,
and complains that Trumbull smiled and looked
different from the light, fresh boy-his son it
may be-wbom he caressed" Is there no asylum
for idiots in Washington?
Among the stupid things talked of by the dis
appointed impeachers in Washington and Chica
go is proposal to get a resolution passed in the
| national convention accommodating Chief
Justice Chase and the senators who voted against
| impeachment.
There is a rumor sfoat in Paris that the sultan
was so well pleased with his late visit to the
western capitals that he is going repeat it this
| summer, and will probably extend his trip to the
United States in the history of which he is said to
take great interest He likes to make sea voya-
ges, and the distance will not deter him.
The Pic. devotes a chapter to the way the New
Orleans ladies dress, and intimstes preference
for the perfect simplicity and ariness" OF the
costumes Of the creole. or downtown ladies', al.
though cOnfessing that "Prytana street, Just
before and after sunset, furnishes spectacle of
| rare beauty"
The New York Times, noticing the growing
trade between the West and Atlantic cities by
way of New 0rl, ans, says, that " if our through
railroad companies do not pay more attention to
their roads and less TO the stock market they will
find formidable rivals starting up 10 the transpor-
tation line"
Before the adjournment Of the American Medi-
| cal Association, the president took occasion %
contradict without qualification, a story that the
| association had, during the war, adopted resO-
| luton advising the government 10 declare medi.
cines and surgical instruments contrabaad of war.
| No such resolution was ever even introduced.
| This fiction was the cause of strong opposition
| among the New Orleans physicians to inviting the
association to hold its next meeting in that city.
IErchAngr
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, writing Of the
WOmsns Club in New York, says it is proposed 10
admit gentlemen to the galleries, to listen to the
speeches, and to hear "the pale, thoughtful brow"
the silken mustache," "the flowing locks"
the manly gait and form" toasted in prose and
verse.
Rev. B. NJ. Palmer, NJ. D., formerly Of Columbia,
8. c., but of New Orleans our readers will be
| pleased 10 learn, is now in Charleston, and will
| preach to- morrow Sunday morning, in Central
Presbyterian Church, Meeting street, and To-
| morrow night In Glebe street Church. DR.. Palmer
as pulpit orator is second to none in the United
States, and his numerous admirers will need no
mOniton from 10 avail themselves of this oppor-
| tuDity TO hear him. Charleston Mercury, 18th.
Didier, who has died leaving great fortune
| composed mostly Of the enormous indemnity the
prefecture Of Paris made bin for demollshing his
property to strsighten street left large egacies
to Dumas, About, dsnseuse, and two paiRters,
one of them for "a service which be rendered me
twenty years ago, and never alluded TO after.
wsrds." The artist was questioned about the
service but was in the dark as to what il could
have been, except that Dider was al ways talking