The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-18

Maggie Mitchell is playing in Chicago.
Accounts from the Idaho mines are ell golden.
Commodore James Lanman has been confirmed
rear-admiral on the active list
Philadelphia sent million gallons of coal oil
TO Europe last week.
Dickens reads the last time in New York on the
10th inst.S
The fruit prospects in the West are not SO Sc
verely damaged by the frost as was apprehended.
The South is like an egg-whites with yolk,
says the Louisville Democrat.
Montgomery mourns the fall Of a venerable
sycamore planted there nearly half century ago.
Why might carpenters believe there is no such
thing as stone? Because they never saw it.-IEx-
New York has 235 900 smokers, according to
the account Of q reformer.
George Peabody has been presented BY Gen.
Dix to the emperor and empress of France.
Dizzy is said to owe his success to his thick
skin.
lunatic on the Buffalo Express says that Van
der built the road but Daniel Drew il.
Gen. Early writes to Virginia that as hs can do
no good there he prefers Canada.
Paris is to receive large supply Of game from
Russia through the summer.
Miss Scott Siddons will visit this country, pro-
The New York Weekly Tribune received in the
last thirteen weeks SO GIL subscribers.
The real estate sales in Chicago week before
last. amounted to s750,000.
Some of the De Soto planters have been pre-
pairing 10 plant tobacco.
Judge Busted arrived in Mobile, on We'd
nesdsy.
If we desired to apostrophize the weather, and
IL
should say, " Come inso the garden, Mud"
One of the Abyssinian captves, a lady, has
written for q side saddle.
Bethel, Conn.,. has eighty septuagenariaus in
population of 1000.
Austria paid $4,000 to get MaximiIian's body
back.
Monograms in the place of door-plates are the
latest style.
Brigham Young has sent an order to Philadel
pla for sixteen sets of harness, gorgeously orna-
mented.
Five hundred young Italians are to hold tour
nament at Florence for the amusement Of Prince
Humbert and his bride. f'
Workingmen, vote the whole Democratic ticket.
The Democratic party is the party of right, Of
liberty, of justice, of the people.
Mime Ristori will appear for the last time in
America at the New York French Theater in May,
in the character of Scr Teresa.
Blot is now the director Of the Rumford Food
Laboratory, in Boston, and confines himself to
putting up pabulum in bottles and cans.
Walter Brown. the oarsmsn, who has o talent
for getting himself into trouble, has been vallop.
ing wizard and running away from arrest
The queen has been pleased to signify her in
teniion to give cup TO the Royal Thames Yacht
Club, to be sailed for during the ensuing summer.
The Mansfield (Ls.) Times complains that the
little boys Of that town carry deadly weapons to
protect themselves from insult.
Galignani's Messenger prints notice of the
birth of a son to j. Smith, in Paris, with the re-
quest that New York and Chicago papers copy.
Hugh Morgan, wealthy lumber merchant of
Cincinnati, leaves 100000 to the children of q
deceased brother. His death occurred on the 18th
inst.
Wendell Phillips reiterates his declaration that
the habits of Grant are not such as would tend to
make him fitting president of q temperance So
ciety-nor of anything else.
The "trooly loil" mendicants viii try to crowd
the polls with their adherents, SO as to keep the
decent people away. 1t is an old game, but the
authorities will not let IT be played this time.
The coming season promises to be prosperous
one at Long Branch. One hundred new cottages
have been erected there since last year, and the
choice rooms at the hotels are already engaged.
Letters from Paris say the emperor never looked
better; never showed himself more frequently in
public; never seemed stronger on his legs or
fonder of exercising them.
TheNew Orleans correspondent of the Memphis
- |.rI..I L.. a. r,lso L. 4ho
Metairie races, as elegant and beautiful d.
whites"
Thomas swears that he used no violence in try
ing to get Stanton out of the war Office, and in
the same breath he admits there was pocket
pistol " used by both of them.-[ Chicago Post.
The Laureate's friends charge the publication
of his recent twaddle on his wife, who is said to
have fshed them out from his waste basket and
sent them to the printer.
The comic troupe from our Opera House
opened in Chicago on Monday. The papers
praise the pretty face and manners of Lambele,
but are not enthusiastic over the general merits
OF the troupe.
Cardinal AntonelI autographed to NJ. de Bis
marck to know If there was any "inconve-
nience" in the king of Hanover going to live in
Rome. The answer was brief and to the pur-
| pose" Rome or elsewhere, it don't at all mat
| teri
fast young Chicagoan in Paris, favorite Of
the ladies, one of the best dancers in the city,
and profusely extravagant Of his money, ended
his career the other day by drowning himself in
the Seine, leaving pile of debts behind him.
Ernest Renan has just published q volume on
philosophy ofpoltics, which is calculated to create
in the political world as much sensation as his es-
says on the philosophy Of religion created in re-
| ligious circles.
An Official report from the United States mint
| at Philadelphia shows the amount Of money
coined during the month of March to be $751;, 69l,
| of which there were gold coins to the amount Of
sos $50, silver s22 52l, and the balance in copper
| coinage.
The controller Of the currency has information
that three hundred savings banks In the New Eng
land States and New York, etc., having one mil
lion and seventy-seven thousand depositors, hold
100000 COO in United States bonds and SIS 900 0OC
in national bank stock, as investments.
AT q large auction sale Of Southern securities
| In Charieston on the l4th there Was noticeable