The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-21
Editorial paragraphs. Etc.

Booth and McNicker are playing IN Detroit
Janauschek is in Chicago.
Zoe is in Chicago.
Some newspaper jokists mistake idiocy for wit
Mrs. Gaines is in Washington.
Grinnell goes for Grant.
Thanks to the officers Of the steamer Starlight.
It is ssid light coored silks will be the fashion
the coming spring.
The World Of the 14th devotes a whole page to
Train.
Mrs. Annie Mclean Roach sings at Christ
Church next Monday evening.
The remarkable Filomeno tonight at the Ma
tional
Grand sacred music Monday night at Christ
| Church.
The National Intelligencer has increased its cir
culation of 1000 in 1865 to ls,COO.
Robert Dale Owen is preparing new volume
on spiritualism.
daughter of Lever the novelist, has come out
as a composer.
The Providence Herald heads its trans. Atlantic
news Cabegrams"
The Philadelphia Germans have raised SCI 900
| for their theater.
Mazzolini is paid 100, 900 francs year for three
| years at the Paris Opera.
| Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis has offered 800 for the
detection Of her hoaxer.
| The Prince of Wales will be the last king of
England, republicans say.
Emerson, transcendentsl philosopher, is fond of
good dinner.
G. T. Curtis says he can't think Of going to
| England but recommends that Mr.. Winthrop CO.
The purser of the Matagorda has our thanks for
| Galveston papers of the 10th.
New York judge has decided that cats are
not property.
The Philadelphia Age also wants vallandigham
driven out of the Democratic party.
Twenty-one "ladies" witnessed the mill be.
tween Bean and Riley, at Cheyenne.
Life is the best Of conundrums; for we all have
to give it up.-[M
The st. Louis Board Of Trade recommends the
payment of bonds in currency.
Mr.. Webb's Nicaragua transit scheme hes
failed.
Emerson is afraid Agsssizs book will encour-
age people to 60 TO Brazil.
The farewell Of Janauschek, at the St. Louis
Varieties on Saturday, was an ovation.
The Ohio river is now entirely clear Of ice, bat
steamboat people complain bitterly Of dull
times.
Immense quantities of cotton are passing
through Louisville daily for shipment East, says
the Courier.
The programme Of grand sacred music to be
performed at Christ Church next Monday evening
is given elsewhere.
James T. Brady, Esq, has consented to lecture
ia Boston for the benefit of Henry Giles, the
author.
Madame Juarez was arrested in the City OF
Mexico for fast driving and fined. Juarez thanked
the policeman.
Gladstone is contributing to Good Words series
of articles on "Eece Homo,' for each Of which he
receives $500.
Queen Victoria has sent to every hospital in
Scotland a copy of her journal in the High.
lands"
Boston Protestant girls are sent to Catholic
nuns schools, and the Methodsts are alarmed
tbereat
Commodore Vanderbilt has up to date cut of
over 10000 passes on the New York Central, Hud-
son and Harlem Railroads.
Hobbies says there 10 gentleman at tho Hub
so polite that he always apologies to the scales
he has stepped upon for being in the weigh.
The pending bill to create the Territory of Wv
oming establishes equal rights of suffrage and
eligibility TO Office for negroes and whites.
When young gentleman in Canada wishes 10
pay attention to young lady he usually, if it be
winter, undertakes to kill her with kiudness-by
taking her out and sleighng her.
The publisher Of the first paper in Quebec has or.
nsmented that side Of his building looking towards
the public Offices with huge pair of spectacles,
a sort Of notification to be careful.
The public honors to Admiral Farragut in Flor
ence closed with dinner given by our minister,
George P. Marsh. The admiral had gone on a
brief visit to Venice.
The New York Tribune thinks it would improve
the morals and manners Of undergraduates TO
break up the barrack dormitory system, and scat.
ter The students about.
Gen. Grant, stopped in the street in Wash. |
iDgton for fast driving, clustered, resisted the
officer and went on his way rejoicing. So the |
New York World is informed.
The quantity of idle, lazy, unproductive muscle |
congregated in this city is vividly shown by the
miserable looking crowds of black aud white which
surround Lafayette square at every military pa. |
rade.
-Four or five years ago, when he was on the |
Chicago Journal Mr. Augustus Dickens, brother |
Of Charles, was in the habit of sending to that |
paper for publication brief school-girlish ESSAYS
with his initials signed.
An Indian canoe from Alaska, made OF the |
hide Of a sea lion, has been deposited in the |
Smithsonian Museum, Washington. It is about
twenty feet long and intended TO be used By only
one man.
When the commission making Judge Chapman,
of Massachusetts,, chief justice, was read in the
Supreme Court OF that State, his associates on
the bench, in accordance with a time honored
custom, rose and made their obeisance to him.
Mr.. ". W. Corcoran, the wealthy banker, has
returned from France to Washington with the
body Of his only child. Mrs. Eusts, who died in
France, where her husband, formerly representa-
tive from Louisiana, went as secretary of the
Confederate legation with Slidell.
GeIrit Smith has written a long letter to Fred
Douglass, which is published in the Rochester
Express. He thinks the present unhappy con.
dition Of the country would have been partially
obviated if the government had magnanimously
oaned or given to the South fifty or a hundred
million dollars.
The United States steamship Wampanoag has
arrived at Fortress Monroe from trial trip. She
made the run from Sandy Hook to Charleston in
hirty-three hours. The greatest speed in one
hour was twenty and half miles. the greatest