The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-20
Personal AND POLITICAL ITEMS

Ger. Grant voted Tor Buchanan.
The present lord mayor OF London is unduly
sensitive Some Of his acts were criticized in the
Daily News. whereupOn he at once wrote to the
editor that no reporter from that paper would
receive a ticket to the next public dinner.
The bishop OF Winchester, England, has been
seized with another attack of paralysis, aud lies
at Esstburne seriously i'll. The venerable preate,
who is seventy eight years OF age, Is the senior
bishop in the House of Lords.
In the sermon at the funeral Of Thaddeus
Stevens, Rev. DR.. Gray. chaplain Of the Senate,
said that the hero who finished his career at st.
Helena, extraordinary as he was, is q far more
common element in the worlds existence and in
the chapter Of Gods events, than he who slept in
bis coffin this day in the cspitOl."
The lnteligencer is very bitter on the colorsd
military company, which, it says, thrust them
selves in to guard the remains of Thaddeus Ste
vens, and obsuuct the view Of the public, be-
decked as they were in furbeoWs where only the
habiliments OF woe and mourning should have
been seen.
Train, pent up in prison, aud absent from the
feminine train, has been snalyzng the quality OF
love and friendship. He decides in last weeks
Revolution that love Is simply appetite. Friend
ship is true affection Rare as is love, friendship
is rarer, is proverb in Spain. Love is OF the
earth-eartby. Friendship is Of the spiri'-sprit-
ual. The one is of the body, the other Of the
mind Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow We
die, is love. Read, reflect and be happy, that ye
may live, is friendship. Love is q mistress.
Friendship, wife. Love is the kiss OF passion.
Friendship the embrace OF respect"
Young gentleman, named Chas. X. Decker,
ba. lust arrived in Boston, who is likely to make
a sensation. He is smaller than Commodore Mutt.
and of very agreeable expression OF counte-
nance With unusual good sense he has resisted
| all the showmen's sivery Establishments, and pro-
poses to make q livlhood and support widowed
mother by his own exertions, disposing OF little
pamphlet copy of his life and OF his photograph.
He is hissssippian, twenty years of age, rs two
feet and seven inches IN height, and weighs forty
| five pounds and though so small now, he weighed
eight pounds at birth. He is well made and enjoys
| excellent health.
The present able and efficient head of the gene
raj land Office entered the public service IN lSl1,
| curing which time he has grown up with the land
system OF the United States or rather that system
| which is now the admiration OF every nation has
| grown up with him. He framed and moulded it
! into its present beautiful proportion. Those who
| know Jos. S. Wilson know that he IL the land
! ofice-that he alone knows and is familiar with
| all and every part Of its ramihcahOns. Starting
in the humbiest capacity iB the sffice when yet 3
| mere boy, he has gradually worked his way mp
through all its divisions and cub divisions, master
ing each in turn, until he was placed AZ It's head
| While chief of its division OF private land claims
his opinions and decisions, involving all the intr
cacies of the French and Spanish land laws, were
| models in clearness and were 80 recognized Dy
the highest judicial tribunals Of the country
| These decisions often involved titles to i'm
uepse tracts of land included within the public
domain acquired by treaty from France anC
spain.
The following are few Of the most eegan
turDouts seen at Newport this season: Mr.. Bar
reda, Peruvian minister TO France, drives four-in
hand, dark bays, with variety of vehicles; horse
valued at $6500. G. A. Lombard, OF Boston
stands number one, in the eyes OF some. he own
very 6ne light bays, sixteen hands, sometimes four
n.band and sometimes tandem; be has coupe
phaeton, dog cart and jsunting car, also landau
in which be drives avery tine pair OF sOrrels value
az S5OOO His harnesses gold and silver mounted
his coschmen, outrders, ETC., in bright livery, 40
perhaps his turn-outs attract as much attention OF
The avenue as any. Mrs. Paran Stevens, herself
drives pair of elegant coal black stations, IN
low French phaeton. Geo. Griswold Gray, OF Ne'
York, four r-in-hand, sometimes five and SIX. VII
drsy, phseton and dog-csrt value OF horses, 5000,
S. Dexter Bradford of New York, fine bays; tar
dem and tilbury. Mrs Seth B. Still, Of Philade
phia, drives pair of elegant blacks, swit;htaiis
vslue 5000 top phaeton. G. P. Whitmore,
New York magnificent pair Of bays and sorrel
valued at $1,000 each dog.eart and phseton.
| A. Yyse, Of New York, foeru- hand grays, lt
| hsnds. English dray; value, t49OO Robert Maj
land, of New York pair of dark bays. phaeton
value, $500.