The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-16

| i've years old, which proves to be exactly in the
present STYLE"
The New York Herald calls Theodore Tton
the molssses of journalism, and Wendell Phillips
the vinegar.
| Butler was serepaded in Washington the other
evening by crowd of colored people, and made
q speech in which he pronounced for "equsl
rights" etc.
At fair in New York, pretty young lady
went up and asked Grant if he would give
her kiss. No, MISS" said the general, "
won't"
| The New York Times Gays the plots Of the
Thanksgiving theatrical plays in that city
" consisted of all the indelicacies of the sea.
| son.
! John C. Hamilton, of New York, son of Alex.
Hamilton, father of Gen. Schuyler Hamilton and
| fathern law of Gen. Henry W. Haeck, is men,
| toned in connection with Grants cabinet.
While in New York on the sth. Gen. Grant was
closeted for an hour with Gen. Mcclellan. 1t gave
rise to q confident prediction that "Little Mack"
would get the war portfolio.
The Indian bureau lobby are organizing to de-
feat in the Senate the bill which has passed the
House transferring the bureau to the war depart
ment. They will probably fail.
A Canadian clergyman tells how he once dined
with Beecher and was talked at SO much that he
couldn't eat. He tells it innocently, not imagining
| 1t 10 have been an economical piece of business
on Beecher's part.-t Boston Post.
Elsewhere will be found abstracts Of the an
nual reports of the secretaries of the army and
navy, and the report of General Grant, in which
he recommends the transfer Of the Indian bureau
to the war department.
The gorilla has :. bagpipes" under his arms. con-
HI
pressing these with his arms he can make a noise
more terrible than the uproar of thousand rag.
men.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, while recently making
some purchases in a fancy goods store at Frank
fort-on.the. Main, tainted away. She was removed
to her hotel where, at last accounts, she was
lying in precarious condition.
The women who drew Lord Cavendish's carriage
to the Peak Forrest (England) Liberal meeting,
during the recent English canvass, were all wo-
men who advocated female suffrage. and every
one Of them wanted Cayendish to back her.
Detroit Tribune
The New Orleans correspondent Of the Calves
ton Civilian says that the gambling houses of this
city employ as "ropers in" men of former for
tune and responsibility. who have been cleaned
cut by the fortunes Of war, or by lighting the
tiger" themselves.
The Memphis Ledger proposes that conven-
ton of the railroad managers who are interested
in the building of the Southern Pacific railway, be
held in Memphis, on the 5th of January next, for
the purpose OF appointing suitable parties TO re-
present the enterprise in Washington.
The Cincinnati correspondent of the Bulletin, in
speaking of the good treatment extended in that
city TO the members of the National Board Of
Trade, says seven the courtesies Of the ceme-
teries have been rendered" city contem-
porsry intimates that dead-heads might have ex-
pected as much.
1t is alleged that Russia got only IS coo 900 for
Alaska and that the remaining 1000, 900 went to
journalists and lobby men. We copy from the
Washington correspondence of the Worcester
(Msss.) Spy. the editor of which is a member of
Congress, some of the particulars of this great
theft.
The jury in the Cole case found the prisoner to
be perfectly sane q moment before the murder
and also moment after, but were in doubt about
bis condition at the moment of firing his pistol.
Under these circumstances, the judge directed
them to give the prisoner the benefit Of the doubt.
and they accordingly brought in verdict Of
acquittal.
DR.. strahan, who has practiced for nearly forty
years as physician and surgeon in the Scottish
county of Stirling, having large midwifery prac.
tice, says he found, to his establishment, that
among the working classes, L. e., the agricultural
laborers, nine out of ten women, when married,
either had had illegitmate children or were in an
interesting condition " at the time of marriage.
At Grants reception at the st. James Hotel in
Boston, one young man approached the general
with very deferentia air, seized his hand in both
n. A.. ha1ro honf 40 anI
kissed it. Stepping one side short distance, he
stood gazing at the general with q tender admira.
ton, until moved along by too practical police
man.
Mr.. bennett, of the Franklin Banner, has made
the proposition TO Rev. DIR. Newman, editor of
the New Orleans Advocate, to discuss the
question of the murder of Pope and Chase I" in
the columns of their respective papers. He also
proposes that he and the parson meet and settle
their differences of opinion "in good solid fist
fight" He thinks such an exercise would operate
in the case of the parson to " work of this extra
loyal and religious spleen, and spite, and bile"
Solos by Alboni, Patti Nilsson, Black, Gardoni,
Tamburini and Fsure composed the magnificent
musical tribute Of respect and sorrow at the fune-
raj of Rossini, to which. says hearer, we lis
tened with feelings of profound sympathy and ad-
mirstion. My pen is powerless to convey to you
even faint conception Of this musical perform.
snce. Alboni had not been heard in years; when
her magnificent voice, in perfect unison with the
clear ringing tones of Patti, poured forth its rich
melody on our ears, we were literally entranced
and breathless with establishment aud rapture"
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