The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-30
EDITORIAL PAKAGKAPHs. ETC
"L,Africainen again tonight.

"L'Africaine" again tonight.
Thanks to the officers of the steamship Liberty
for an Havana paper and other fsvors.
We are indebted to Major Nc Knight Asa Hartz)
for thoughtful courtesies.
The Fort Worth, Texas, Chronicle expires with
its fifth issue.
Rev. J. Blair Dabney, of Lynchburg, Virginia,
is dead.
Bishop Beckwith preached in Macon last
Sunday.
Geo. Robertson, Esq, an old Charleston mer-
chant died recently.
Mrs. Prentice, wife of George D. Prentice, died
on the 26th.
Our editorial tooth was filed yesterday by DR..
James Knapp, dentist, with some rare maple
sugar all the way from the State of Maine.
country exchange expatiates upon the de-
lights of beefsteak at breakfast, "while gently
manipulating it with your mssticators.'
Stewart proposes to treat his lady customers to
lunch of recherche substantials and fluids. That
department, at least, will be patronized.
New Orleans is divided into two classes, the
first class being those who have appeared before
Commissioner Shannon, and the second those who
| have not.
Evelyn, in his last letter from New Orleans to
|
about dinner of Rompano at Lake "Rout-
chartrain."
A Washington dispatch says several radical
| Congressman express themselves as Disguised
with Grant, and regret the prospect Of his nomi-
nation.
Good butter is now worth from sixty to seventy.
five cents pound in Galveston, while Texas owns
more neat cattle than any State in the Union, and
it costs nothing to feed them.
Mr.. Leroy NJ. Wiley, once occupying prominent
positions in mercantile associations in Charleston
and New York. died recently on his plantation in
Barbour county, Ala.
When certain facetious doctor was asked how
| they could commemorate the discovery of ether,
| he replied: Every simple. One pedestal Two
statues. Morton here! Jackson there! Underneath
the simple inscription: To Ether"
| The body of Gen. Paul ]. Semmes, who fell
CALAMITY fighting on the disastrous battle-ground
of Gettysburg, in 1868. was reinterred in Colum.
bus, Ca, recently. Though buried nearly five
years. the face could be easily recognized. The
lineaments of tthe features, the mustache, and
the general outlines as well as the expression,
were very natural.
"whst he DONE" is an elegant and familiar
| phrase of Gen. Butler. "To who did you say
| it," says Mr.. S:anbery. We want a national
! grammsrian. A fact is always more or less true
| by being i'll said. The mal-pronunciation of a
| word in a sentence is almost great an Ofeuse
to the perfect standard Of truth the perversion
| of the fact. Truth, like law, has IFS own tastes
| and phraseology. To say what ne done " Is to
tell lie, because il is to affirm an impOssibiity.
| man could not " done" anything, any more
than he could "gone done " it.-IEx.
The body of Gen. Walter H. Stevens, who died
of yellow fever in Vera Cruz, November II, 1867,
was recently reinterred in Hollywood Cemetery,
Richmond, with Masonic honors. Gen. Stevens
was a native of the State of New York, gradna e
of West Point, and when the war commenced in
1861, an officer Of the United States army. Be-
Iieving that the South was right, he cast his lot
with our people. He held the position OF chief
engineer in the Army of Northern Virginia, aud
the defenses around Richmond and Petersburg
will always be monuments of his skill.
There has been good deal of wranglng and
bitterness of late between the "hgh" and {" low -
members of the Episcopal Church in Philadelphia
as well as elsewhere. As usual in such " church,
discussions, the contest has been carried on in a
peculiarly acrimonious spirit. fragrant exam
pie Of this is given in the case Of st. Mark:
Church, Philadelphia, in which a bitter quarrel
has for some time been going on between the
"highn and Glow" members Of the vestry and
congree alton. The matter, so far as regards
Philadelphia, was brought to a crisis the other
day at st. Marks church by an election for yes
trymen, in which the rituaIists were defeated.