The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-23
WEDNESDAY BOOMING. DECEMBER %. 1865
EDuroHIAL PARAGRAPHS. Ere.

Gounod is becoming insane.
TIE watkinses are playing in Savannah.
No Northern or Western mail last night.
Matilda Heron 10 said TO be fifty.
soroses are forming in Iowa.
Deer hunting is lively in Minnesota.
New Bedford has velocipede rink
Miss Cecilia Crisp is at the Galveston Thester.
Miss Price is playing in Houston.
The velocipede has arrived. One was seen on
Csrondslet street yesterday.
Last month the Atlantic cable earned $3.50 a
day.
New Haven ha1 tavern called Astor House,
Jr.n
Nine cents apiece is all they charge for eggs in
Nevada.
At fair in Portsmouth. N. r., ia pumpkin
pie nine feet in circumference.
America will declare war upon turkey Friday
next.
Mcclellan haa declined the presidency of the
California University.
Strawberries in this market are only So bas.
ket.
The Texas asylum for the insane is entirely in.
adequate In size and comforts.
Montreal has mounted its fire engine on run.
ners for the winter.
bend.
Emma, the colored pianist. Of Mississippi, is
threatening to come to New Orleans.
Frederici's German opera troupe sung in vicks.
burg Monday night.
The American people earn about 81, 500, 900 900
year.
The latest novelty is a seal ring with portrait
OF the owner in cameo.
he . lad fau,
ct present-ENew York Express.
Rosecrans was escorted to the halls Of the
Montezumas BY fifty soldiers.
Thanks to- tpe officers Of the steamer Bien-
lie.
A Houston dispatch says: " Belle Boyd is here
reporting for tie Picsyune.n
No stone maiaza the grave Of Sam Houston, at
Huntsville. Texas.
Boston is to, have free evening concerts in a
hall this winte..
One reportey and three editors were elected
TO the new iish Parliament.
Judge L. d. Evans ia said to be the ablest man
and Jack Hamilton the man Of the brightest
genius" in the Texas convention.
The gentleman who hasn't Did polite"
has been postmaster at Lynville, Pa, for forty
years.
The remains; Of the late Prince Albert have
lately been removed to the private mausoleum
Victoria has built in Windsor Park. I'd
A.foreign correspondent says the writer's for
the Pail Mall Gazette are all peers, and even the
printers devil Ia o baron's son.
Tie edtort o! the Houston Telegraph have re-
ceived present of wedding cake with the name
of their paper inscribed thereon.
Thr World says Mr.. Belmont gave $1,000 to.
wards the expenses OF the Democracy in the
late election.
A tame DEER in the City Park at Charleston,
South Carolina, attends church regularly every
Sunday, taking his place in one OF the pews be-
side lady.
What IL the use,r asks the Boston Post I" of
buying postage stamps of going to Congress
when Won can purchase o smile Thanking
stamp for three dollars"
A Washington dispatch says that Supervisor
Creecy has suspended E. NJ. Bouligny, collector
of the second Louisiana district, for alleged
malfeassnce in Office.
A Madrid dispatch Of yesterday says I" the
United States envoy to purchase Cuba is daily
expected" TIE same dispatch says, The gov
srment announces its determination never to
abandon Spanish province"
A Southern lady, residing in New York, who
n to become bride shortly, has received very
handsome bridal robe, linen, etc.. worth sew
eral hundred dolArs-the gift and workman
ship Of Nam Betsey,n former slave Of the
family.
George Ellis has the Nation, Scientific Ameri
can. Round Table. American Artisan and all the
pictorials. Ellis has received from London, the
book entitled, "Mr. Sprouts: His Opinions.r
Mr.. E. has added an invoice Of new books to his
circulating library.
Brick Pomeroy has written long. charscteris-
sic letter to one Of the lady editors Of the Revou
ton, swing his notion Of woman's sphere, etc.
The letter appears In the Revolution, and il fol-
lowed By long reply from Mrs. Stanton, who, In
part, sgrees with Brick's views. and in part dis
sents therefrom.
A conservative correspondent Of the Chicago
Post, who had been disgusted BY the woman's
rights advocacy Of Train, Mrs. Stanton and MIRA.
Anthony, oonfsnes hat h. Aas been converted 10