The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-04

mentary fsvors.
Gen. Rousseau will soon leave Washington for
New Orleans.
The "wickedest man" in New Orleans is a
woman.
A base.ballist on Staten Island had his life
accidentally batted out of him the other day.
Thanks to the Southern Express Company, and
the officers of the steamer Reindeer.
The wife of Gen. Thomas H. Benton died at
Marshalltown, Iowa, on the 18th ult.
The Mail complains that the "tiger" has taken
up his residence at Long Branch.
The South has more than two millions and a
half acres of corn more than it had last year.
Jubal Early is at Niagara Falls. Breckenridge
lives about twelve miles from the falls.
Thrty-fve icebergs were seen of Newfoundland
the other day.
There is talk Of a tunnel between Scotland and
Ireland.
An Irish residence for the Prince of Wales il a
dodge for Dublin his income.-[Ex.
Prince Napoleon spends $40 900 year on his
table.
The worm is ravaging on the cotton on the Sea
Islands and in Florida.
Col snallwood has been designated to take
charge of the postoffce in this city.
The Florida legislature has passed bill empow-
eriDg that body to choose presidential electors.
A Philadelphian has a sunshade and fan for
horses.
Nilsson won't come over to this country with
Mapleson, but Kellogg will.
Epcures in Paris are eating pies made out of
the larvss Of eockchafers.
A Boston military company was beaten by
New York one in a late competitive drill.
New York has population 200, 900 greater than
Philadelphia, and $4,000 less dwellings.
Flora Temple recently mother, is % years
old.
People at the villas along the Hudson, are imi-
tating Victoris's garden breakfast party.
There is a rumor that the brother of Albert
wants to marry Victoria and that v. is willing.
Meteorologists are predicting an unusually cool
August.
Only 10 deaths in Savannah during the week
ending July 81.
Bleeding Kansas " has gone to extracting
the blood of the grape.
Carpetbsgs, as travelling convenience, have
fallen into disrepute.
Eugene has the smallest waist In Europe. The
queen of Spain has the argest-at present.-[Ex.
Zachariah Clay Taylor Abraham Isaac Lear il
the name of a son of Missouri.
lie Drapeau, of DonaIdsonville, is now printed
in English and French.
The Clinton Democrat has just concluded its
fourth volume.
The Celestals will not leave for home till Sep
TENDER.
Gov. Warmouths speech, yesterday, to an ex-
cited crowd of negroes is universally commended
as exactly the thing for the occasion.
A terrible and fatal panic, caused by fire
alarm, occ 1rred at concert in Manchester, Eng.
land, on the night of the LIST.
Fanny Fern tells the girls that the beaux desert
them because they (the girls) are SO deucedly ex-
pensive.
The national temperance convention blame
ply sicians for their frequent alcoholic prescrip
tons.
A Maine girl swallowed an acorn last winter
and coughed it up the other day, sprouted into a
young oak tree.
1t is said an English firm hopes to attract
Southern patronage by taking Mr.. Davis as q
partner.
When Napier went to visit the queen he had to
walk from the station to the castle. Vic. has only
200 horses.
Train was in court again on the Both ult., but
the court refused to hear him until he got his pa
pers in proper form.
The Mail says many watering place ladies are
anxious 10 have their costumes reported in the
papers, and the Mail grati6es them.
French yfettiVetoniste says the lawyers Of the
United States are the most talented actors in the
world.
The carpet.bsg governor is not War mouth
but War.moth. Let him be careful and not get
his wings singed.
Catswba grapes, raised and put up in Alabama,
are in our market at seventy five cents for box
Of four pounds.
! The discovery of a mineral spring mot asea.
serpeut) near the Hotel Hosch, Bay st. Louis, is
| announced.
Geo. Ellis, opposite the postOfice, has the
Police News, illustrated News, Irish Citizen,
Irish People, National Industrial Advocate, New
York Clipper and Leslie's illustrated.
| The charming summer weather with which we
have SO long been favored has Of late been greatly
enhanced by the most gloriousy cool and moon.
| lit nights.
Rev. Vermilye, Of New York, son Of the sexton
of an old-fashioned Dutch church, is worth a
quarter of a million, and is the richest clergyman
in the United States.
Talleyrand' g memoirs are said to be exceedingly
trashy and hardly worth publishing. They are
| replete with scgndalous stories, IN st of which
| are already generally known.
The following butchery is attributed to Reverdy
Johnson, in his complimentary dinner speech:
"where'er | may roam. howe'er blest | may be-
My spirit instinctvely turns unto theen
The Bay st. Louis Gazette is soon to regale its
readers with the names OF those indebted to that
Office. 1t will be agreeable warm weather read
ing for the parties concerned.
Gen. steedman, as will be seen by the Sunday
| dspatches is on his wav to New Orleans tn re.
sumo charge of the Office of internal revenue in
this collection district. He has many friends
here, and will be cordially welcomed.
Colonel Edmund Rice has invented what he
calls new bayonet, but what is in fact trOwel,
intended 10 enable infantry to intrenoh itself rap.
idly. Two hundred tentative trowels are in course
Of construction at Springfield.
The following which are clipped from West.