The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-05

OalVeston mas zOOOO Souls.
The LsGrsDge Brignoli troupe is in Cincinnati.
Disrael sticks like Stanton or Yates.
d Dewberries are drug" in West Baton
Rouge.
Senator Wilson is getting shaky" on impeach-
ment
Felis Oates wants to know II q man who writes
on parchment is necessarily on the rampage.
The rabbits are death on peanut vines about
Baton Rouge.
COL Geo. H. Sweet has retired from the San
Antonio Herald.
The Mobilians were to have q Bayou Msnchac
meeting yesterday noon.
Col. Morphs, of the Houston Telegraph, is in
town.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer Lizzie
Hopkins.
San Francisco is thinking of a suspension bridge
a mile long over the Golden Gate.
Madame de Stael was an accomplished billiard
player.
The absorbing topic during the late heavy rains
the eaTtb.-IEx.
Thanks to the Southern Express Co. for New
York papers.
Patti is said to have written that she is coming
here after marrying the Marquis.
Mr.. John Mullaly returned to New York after
an extended Southern tour.
The forthcoming fashion agony is said will be
pictorial pantaloons, illustrated with street and
ballroom scenes, etc.
Another Washburne is coming to Congress.
This one Is Minnesotian and brother Of the
three others.
1t is rumored that VIM. B. Astor is about to erect
a magnificent hotel in New York city. 1t will be
called Astor House, Jr.
Mrs. Fanny Kemble recently refused an offer of
$40 600 cash for eighteen dramatic performances
in New York.
"Why," asked F. o., pointing to parrot, SIS
that bird like honesty /" and without waiting for
reply, said Because it is the best poll-i-see."
Robert Bonner pays Fanny Fern five thousand
dollars per annum for her contributions to the
Ledger.
One of Bsrnum's Circassian girls was recently
married at Little Falls, n. Y, to the keeper Of
restaurant.
Mr. Bonner moved the Ledger establishment
into his new marble building on his forty-tourth
birthday.
Harvey D. Parker, the Boston Delmonico, is on
a tour through the South with a number Of Hub
merchants.
The Louisville Courier suggests to Butler that
he might make the president vacate the White
House by igniting powder ship on the Potomac.
Geo. Ellis, opposite the Postoffice, has the N. Y.
Clipper, the Baltimore Home Journal, Frank Les.
lies Illustrated, Police Gazette and Police News.
The pope has asked Archbishop Manning to
convey to Gladstone the papsl thanks for his
course on the question of the Established Church
in Ireland.
Ole Bull visited Windsor, Vermont, some days
ago simply to play for the mother of one Of his
old friends in this country, E. W. Stoughton, of
New York.
Mr.. HaIstead, editor of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial writing from Washington, says the impeach-
ers are upon the defensive rather than the
offensive.
Mobile Democrats differ as to the policy Of
sending delegates to the National Convention.
At a late meeting they expressed distrust of the
Belmont ring"
In codici to the will of the late Col. ]. Heron
Foster, of Pittsburg occurs this singular request:
1t is my special request that none of my family
shall wear mourning in consequence Of my DEATH"
G. A. Townsend says Of Mr.. Groesbeck's
speech: "He did not acquit Andrew johnson,
but lie probably made himself Ben. wade's sue
cessor in the Senate, in case the latter becomes
president"
A very curious tree is in flower In the Botanic
Gardens Of Brussels. 1t is called the rose of the
mountains (Bro,onea brdndiceps,J and is in fact
rose tree sixty feet high. 1t is O native Of the
province of Caracas, in Colombia.
At the last concert at the Tuileries one of the
Empress's shoes came Of ard in trying to recover
its possession the other shoe came off. The empe-
ror was obliged to stoop and put them on. This
incident made them very merry.
A stalk Of cotton and one of corn are growing
in front of one of the principal stores in Brook
haven, Miss. The editor of the Brookhaven Jour-
nal refers to the fact as cheering omen of plenty
and prosperity in the future.
Nothing is thought Of, nothing is talked Of, at
the French court but the approaching ceremo.
ny of the prince imperial's premiere communion.
By the clergy throughout the whole of France
the day is to be spent in the observance Of reli-
gious rites-by the people in holiday making and
rejoicing.
An illustration of the amount Of confidence in.
duged in at Washington in Buffers character for
honor and honesty was afforded by the little cpl.
sode which occurred in the impeachment trial the
other day, wherein one of the counsel for the
president-Mr. Nelson-refused to trust him with
certain papers in his hands unless he would make
public pledge to return them to their proper
custody.
Two days before he was assassinated, darcy
MCGEE took an after dinner nap. On awaking he
narrated the following dream: al dreamed was
standing by the Falls of Niagara, and saw q boat
containing two men sailing down the rapids, and
approaching the brink of the cataract. Seeing
their danger and apparent ignorance of it, l
rushed forward to warn them. The boat turned
round and proceeded up the rapids, and went
over into the gulf beneath"
agate, writing on the 9th ult. says: The
panic about the probable failure of impeachment
still affects good many Republican circles in the
capital. Some Of Mr.. Wade's special friends are
among those worst frightened. Unless my infor-
nation is utterly at fault, their fears are abso'
lutely without foundation. Mr.. Grimes will pro.
badly vote against impeachment-in fact, he said
as much to-day to brother senator, but it seems
difficult to name three other Republicans likely to
go with him. Delays, however, will doubtless be