The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-26


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/ Rather slim show Of maskers yesterday.
Cyrus W. Fields has gone to England.
! The real phantom saIl-a mock aucion.-TFun.
| Gsribaldi has expressed his antpathy to Fe.
| nianism.
| James Young. brother Of John Russell Young,
| represents the Tribune at Washington.
| Quilp suggests hair pins as the only sure pre-
yentiye Of hair falling OIL x. -
One third ofthe deaths 10 New Orleans last year
were caused by yellow fever. ts-<.,l -, ~
1t has cost nearly three millions Of dollars 70
supply the national banks with notes.
In oil the American national cemeteries are the
remains of s2s. 900 soldiers.
John Morrissey has . bog IL years old, Who. he
bets, wilIwhip any boy Of his age in the country.
Peach and plumb trees are in full bloom in the
city Of Houston.
srFrederick Bruce left personal property to
the am cunt Of 100000. 1890
Professor Faradsy's widow declines the assist
ance prodered to her In England. rse -
1t is said that Alexander Dumas has made nine.
teen million eight hundred thousand francs with
| his pen.
Mr.. Milne. the eminent vocalist Of Glasgow,
Scotland, carries rough-looking stick which
once belonged to Bonnie Prince Charlie.p
Argument against tight fitting apparel for
ladies-The loose habits of Venus. the model Of
female beauty grace and fascination.
The Repndiator Ia the name Of new paper at
st. Louis, which advocates the non-psyment of
the bonds. '
According to Elizabeth Cady Stanton. one
lady objected to Chase because he had no heart;''
she said he was as "cold as q clam.n
Two thousand Of his fellow citizens,n of Chi
cage, have presented to N. II. Crosby, founder of
the Opera House. an elegant service Of silver.
The manifesto ofsthe elder Tying is to the effect
that the ecclesiastical action at present going on
is in the highest degree illiberal. -
George Francis Train has been presented by
deputation Of Irish ladies with the edible locally
known as " drsheen,r but avulgarly called
blood pudding .,,te ,.l.e 81
when Rossini was informed that Patti was to
marry marquis be held up his hands and ex-
claimed: Adelaide Patti should never marry
anything less than an archduke or q tenor"
Gen. Mcclellan has gone to Florence from Vi
emma with his wife, whose health requires the
change. The day before his departure he was en-.
tertained at dinner by the Archduke Albert
nJohn Bright's room hang pictures of Wash
ingtons Franklin and Lincoln, and framed auto
graph Of Washington.
The president gave dinner party to the men,
bers Of the National Democratic Executive Com
mittee, which was attended by about forty per-
sons. tstt
The great Erie quarrel Increases in interest.
The attorney general Of the State has iuterfered.
and Mr.. Daniel Drew has been suspended from
his position as treasurer. Tli Ifsn
The London Star defines the difference between
he Ifob oil. If NJ
the New Workers spend sixpence and get really
expensive got-up piece Of vice, the Londoners
spend penny for q coarse, vulgar, foolish sham.
The British Devil Is essentially clumsy spiritn
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is insisting on max /
ing manly beauty test OF merit ia the selection
Of candidates for political preferment. 1t is q
very short-sighted policy for an advocate of
woman's rights, like Mrs: Stanton. to adept; for
il women are ever made eligible to Office would
she be willing to abide the chances of such q
test If So she ia very dsinterested or very vain
or very beautiful! Whichs-[Chicsgo Repab.
Speaking Of Charles Francis Adams, minister
to England. the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser (Thurlow Weed) says: " 1t is entirely within
the range Of possibility-if not probsbilfty-thst
the unexaupled destiny.may be reserved for him
Of filing the presidential seat occupied b. his
father and grsnfather."
The frowel prepared for presentation to the
Duke Of Edinburgh, on occasion OF laying the
foundation stone Of . new town hall at Melbourne,
is made entirely of gold, both blade and handle.
Where the two join, the trowel is ornamented
with pearls and turquoises on the other end, the
handle has on It dukes coronet, set of with
diamonds and emeralds. ....,..... ............se.
After remaining in Melbourne Q short time.
Prince Alfred went "up the country" where
upon, the whole country "got drunk and kept
it up until long after the prince left. At Mel
bourne, the prince was measured for q pair of |
boots. The entire adult male population then
tried to play the part of Cinderella's sisters. and
to squeeze their feet into boots made after the
same measure. The mayor of Bsllarat, it is re-
corded succeeded in effecting fit, and has since
reaped in corns what he sowed in suffering.
According to one Professor Delisser, q series of |
celestial and terrestrial phenomena IL at hand. On
the night Of the 9th of February, in the western
heavens, there win be q conjunction OF the moon |
with Jupiter and Venus; and three nights later
Jupiter win pass Venus by only twenty three
seconds Of degree. The result of these con-
functions and perturbations will be atmospheric |
electrical discharges, heavy gales,
high tides, earthquakes, and nobody knows what |
besides. Moreover, the whole year will be fesr.
full for its storms. foundations, eruptons, quakings
Of the earth, etc.setc. ~
In California Yankees marry Digger Indians.
lrishmen marry Chinese, Portuguese marry Ma
lays, Mexicans marry Sandwich islanders. Eng.
lishmen marry Apaches-besides all this we have |
the usual mixtures Of French, German. Irish.
Spanish and English, as In the Eastern States.
What will be tAe final result d Here is question
for the ethnoogist--such a question as no scien.
tifc men Of any age have had as yet to study. Is
here the beginning in California OF unity Of na-
lions and OF languages Ike that to which the
Arian dialects and those who speak them are
Traced! Who shall ssy what manner of nation
may come from the mingling Of the races-who
hall say what territory they will control, what
numbers they will boast, what language they Will
'peakg Who shall say how long they will rule
'pon me earth, single naton-when will 1t scat
er again to the four winds III Ex. 1851