The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-11
Ghe Ssw Orleans Grsstent.
editorial Paragraphs, ETC.


c. A. T. lectured 10 Louisville on Tuesday.
Madame Jsnsuschek is to appear in Louisville.
Edwin Adams is at the National, Cincinnati.
Drinking behind the door in Boston Is no longer
necessary.
The debt Of Boston is thirteen and half mil
lions.
Ole Bull half crszed Chicago with his violin last
Monday night.
II. U. Rankin (colored) was admitted to orac.
tice as a lawyer in Memphis on the 9Th.
An old lady, lately deceased in Clifton, England,
used TO take her sleep in a carriage.
Kate Fisher received New Years calls on her
trained horse Wonder at the Metropolitan, Buffalo.
Washington is to have a statue Of Gen. Wads-
worth.
The empress of Austria is having prayers said
for her until April LIST.
Dickens will read from Plymouth Church plat
form on the 10Th.
About $40 600 was collected in st. Patrick's
Cathedral, at Montreal. on the 5th for the pope.
Isaac Humphrey. the pioneer gold miner OF
California is dead.
The purser of the steamship Matagorda has our
thanks for Galveston papers Of the Sth.
The valuation OF the property of the people Of
Ohio is 81 ,l3s, 754 10.
Dio Lewis makes tobacco responsible for much
deafness and bn1ness.
Detroit gave each of her policemen five dollar
greenbsck on Christmas day.
The Danish reigstadt adjourned without reach
ing any definite conclusion in regard to the West
Indies sale to The United States
Two million two hundred and eighty-eight thou
sand and sixty.eight cigars were imported into
New Orleans last year.
Ii is reported that the Indians burned Valley
Station, on the stage route between Denver and
Julesburg, on Sunday lsstl
2 1t was very cold yesterday, without the glori'
Gus sunshine Of Thursday. There was slight
fall Of sleet in the morning.
About twenty.seven miles southwestery from
Ssnta Fe have been discovered the ruins of an
Aztec city.
They have an exhibition of :" the last agonies of
Abraham Lincoln" at an anatomical gallery in
Boston.
The late eruption of Vesuvius is described as
spectacle magnificent beyond all power OF
description"
Col. J. B. Johnson, acting assistant inspector
general, has been ordered by Gen. Hancock to
proceed to Marshall, Texas, on special duty.
Mr. Geo. W. Compton has been appointed sheriff
of Rapides parish in place Of A. j. Sypher re-
signed.
The Rev. Chas. B. smyth, the New York Her
AIDS priest is to lecture on The Press Of New
York, the d. Ds.. the Demons, The Dollars and
the Dickens at Bunyan Hall.
A gambler recently arrested in st. Louis testi
fes that five ''hells" in that city had been pay
ing 500 per month each for "protection''-L e.
the immunity from arrest.
The very doubtful story is told that an earth
quake, on the 9th, caused the sinking of Recluse
Island in Lake George. There is now eighty-fye
feet of water where the island was.
II is reported that Hon. B. F. Thomas will be
appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court of
Massachusetts,, in place of Judge Bigelow, re-
signed.
In proportion as the average intelligence of the
people increases, remarks an exchange. in just
such proportion will distinctive great men grow
scarce.
The Citizen complains of the dullness of Dana
since he was absorbed by the Sun. We want
pepper and vinegar, pickles and pungencies Of all
kinds" says the Citizen.
The Galveston Bulletin disputes the statement
of the CRESCENT that General 7. W. Sherman is
"Port Royal Sherman" aud says he is Port
Hudson sherman" He is both, neighbor Bull
leiin.
The body OF the lady, Mrs. Wilson, belonging
10 Robnson's circus, who was drowned while en-
route from Mobile TO New Orleans, has been
found eighteen miles from the place where she
fell overheard, and has been tendery cared for.
Mrs. Stowe writes of the late Governor Andrew
that the ceremonies on public occasions we're
always irksome aud fatiguing to him, and he
would recreate himself by singing "Johnny
Smokerr with his aids in his private apartments
afterward.
Marriages between Jews and Christians are be-
coming quite commons Jewish women like
Christian husbands, and Christian husbands like
Jewish dowTies and Jewish beauty and bright
ness.
Robinson's great circus has returned to the vi
entity of Tivoli Circle. 1t enlyened the streets
yesterday with a gliaering procession Of
horses and riders, wagons, ETC., the rear being
brought up by the great elephant goTgeously ca.
parisoned and driven in Oriental style.
A Nashville dispatch says Gen. Longstreet was
arrested On Friday, while on his way to Washing
ton, en- an old Indictment for treason. Cd &C
count of q flaw in the warrant, his name not having
been written properly, the general got aboard the
train and was of before the warrant could be
amended.
Early risers Yesterday we're astonished by an
unulual spectacle in New 0rleans-the fall Of
hail. At about halfpast seven hail fell FOL
several minutes, the drops being about the size
Of homeopathic piilules. Three days ago we were
swelterng with heat aud now we have to record
the extraordinary phenomenon here of a hal
storm.
German glass maker has invented telescope
or magniiyiDg glass by which the most Intricate
nerves and vessels inside of the body may be seeI
on the outside. The discovery will probably b.
OF immense benefit TO mankind, as by means oil
tie physician will be able to determine with IN
varying accuracy, the nature OF any parucula
disease, and the proper manner of treating tn
sane.
The act of President Johnson, says the Ne'
York Citizen in replacing Gen. Pope by Ger
Meade gives pleasure to every one-Gen. Mead
alone excepted. In his letter to Gen. Grant pre-
testing against the proposed change, Gen. Mead
Winds up as follows:
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