The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-13
NUMBER 232.


An exchange "regrets an erroneous mistsks ;"
Itsly's paper money is engraved here.
Mrs. Kit Carson is dead.
Adolphe Renard, of ST. Louis Is dead.
Gen. Sheridan and Col. J. w. Forsyth wsrs ne,
st Louis on the 10TH.
Reverdy johnson is reported to say the presi-
dent viii be convicted.
ExPresdent Buchanan's illness is pleuro.pneu-
monis.
Forney's Letters from Europer are reviewed
with infinite derision in the English journals.
Harriet Beecher Stove announces new novel
in London. r
The SON will make hair grow on the baldest
heads. So say the California miners.
DR.. Hayes thinks Of continuing bis Arctic explo-
rstions.
"The Copperhead" Is the name Of a new DEM
ocra,ic paper at Ouumws, Iowa.
Southern radical print says Senator Wilson is
a profound scholsrs''
Lsmartiae says he is better than dozen dead
men yet.
Mr.. Everitt. Of England. has been talking to
the people of Richmond about the physical de-
velopment of Virginia.
Flora Temple, the celebrated trotting mare,
dropped foal on April 3Oth. Flora is % years
old.
who, like himself keeps his hand upon the hilt OF
his sword.
Ii costs folks five shilIings sterling 10 be born.
married, or to die, in the London Times. The
other papers do 1t for half the money.
In the dirt removed from Broad way there is a
considerable percentage of iron that has been
worn from wheel-tres and horse. shoes.
Miles 0'Reily has bought tobacco farm of
al
Richmond.
Geo. Ellis, opposite the Postofice, has the New
York Clipper, Police Gazette, Police News, Hsr-
per's Weekly and Leslie's illustrated.
The wits in Washington have q clever story that
Butler and Nelson fought duel, that Nelson was
shot through the brains and Butler through the
heart aud that neither of them were injured.
Some New York incomes: Robert Bonner.
1888 All; James Gordon Bennett l67 coo; Moses
Taylor $29S coo; Delmonico Brothers, $4,000;
August Belmont, s94 OO0 Robert Hoe, slO0,s5l.
Gen. Meade has written letter to friend in
Buffalo, asking his assistance to procure eontribu-
tons to rebuild the Protestant Episcopal Church
of Atlanta.
The new fashioned jockey hats are exceedingly
pretty and stylish, and many New York bellies
have already discarded their bonnets and donned
these jaunty little affairs.
The editor Of Chicago paper remarks that
half the people who attend musical entertain
ments in that city "don't know the difference be-
tween symphony and sardine."
The English in Abyssnia were obliged to make
boots for their foot.sore elephants before they
could climb the mountains with the batteries.
The effective force of the invading army, when il
advanced from Lake Ashangi, was only 45OO men,
~ ia thae foII.
more than double that.
The two chief curnsiiies At the DaIavan Houss.
Albany, just now are: first, the member Of the
legislature who took $50 600 from the Vanderbilt
party to make report in their favor, and then
s2l 600 from the Drew Erie side to vote against
it; and, second the one solitary member of tue
legislature who had been so careless as t. have
the lobby money traced directly into his pocket.
People who visit Central Park this season, says
the Mail, are TO have an opportunity to drink pure
country milk, as is proposed to place eight cows
in the dewy pastures there. According to Darwin
these will grow to be very remarkable animals,
not only on account Of the excellent and abun-
dant food afforded, but because of the delightful
scenery and well dressed crowds by which they
viii be constantly surrounded.
The Boston Traveller says "To an inquiry how
one of the bank presidents in this commonwealth
had made his fortune. the reply was: Mainly by
economy When rendering an income return
this gentleman's attention was called to an appa-
rent omission. Have you more than one gold
watch p asked the official. Not one-a useless
expense ANY carriages, sir p Il don't indulge
in one.' "A piano, think you have p 'sir wish
you to understand own nothing that does not
draw interest,""
De Tocqueville says Of the newspaper "a
newspaper can drop the same thought into q
thousand minds at the same moment. newspa-
per is an adviser who does not require to bs
sought, but comes to you without distracting your
private affairs. Newspapers, therefore, become
more necessary, in proportion as men become
more equal individuals, and more TO be feared.
To suppose that they only serve to protect free
dom is to diminish their importance I; they main
tain civilization"
The London Spectator says that Sir Robert
Napies, in his Abyssinian expedition, compelled
81 lofty African desert to yield water by an Am
ercsn device not twelve-month old half
dozen mules" 1t says, care drawn up, loaded
with thin steel tubes. Tap tap, tap, goes a ham,
mer, rigged up in five minutes, and In ten the
curse Of Africa has been conquered as II a new
Moses had smitten the rock, and pure water for
an army is spoutng among the stones"
According to Boston letter to the Chicago
Journal, Charles Dickens's brother Augustus was
a scamp, and his brother more than once aided
him when his dissipation and oxtravsganoc threat-
ened ruin and distress to himself and family. He
finally was obliged to leave England on account
of a dshonorable action which he knew bis brother
would not forgive, and with his exile all inter-
course between the brothers ceased. The real"
Mrs. Augustus Dickens is at present residing in
London, where she has lived since her husband
deserted her. She is blind, aud in all her afiic-
tons she has had the active and substantial sym
patby of Mr. Dickens.
Mr. Gladstone has threatened to introduce
bill suspending all appointments in the Irish
church. That bill would scarcely pass through
the House Of Lords. where Disraei has major
ity; or If 1t did pass both ho1ses, the probability
is that on the ground of its interfering with her
nrerocatiye as queen and as " defender of the