The New Orleans crescent., 1868-08-22
EDITORIAL PAEAsRAras. ETC.

A rose coral watch-chain Is spOrted at Saratoga.
The Swiss export glacier ice. = sEypLI
7. Tlton abuses Gen. Halpins.
Thanks TO the officers Of the steamer Cuba No. 2.
Gen. Rawlings is about again.
II is said Gen. Wool will vote for Seymour.
The king Of Portugal has spouted his jewelry.
Lawrence Barrett is playing Hamlet in Sau
Francisco.
Mrs. PartiDgton shllabar has written thren-
oiy on Miles 0'ReilIy. -.r.
Gold closed in New York yesterday at ll3i to
l43I.
Gems. Rousseau and Hancock visited the prssi-
dent on the 18th.
We are indebted to Mr.. Charles Bruff for Cali
fornia papers.
Mr.. Vsllsndigban has been nominated for Con.
gress by the Democrats of the third Ohio district.
outin Illinois ths farmers have taken TO shoot
| ing Texas cattle on sight.
The mayor of Mobile has appointed Hon. @.
W. Rspier city attorney.
If disposed to be exactng. let your heaviest de-
mand be upon yoursen.-LEx.
Ink has been called the black slave that waih
upon thought.
There is a heroic innocence as well as heroic
cOursge-tEx. Uv
Fried eels. boiled oranges and snaIs form q
japanese repast. r.
Tbs French have improved" the Dunderberg
so that ber speed is only six knots an -four.
The police pOunced on Dickens in Ireland for
Fenian. ,.a. ..
Tomahawkn y defines vOx pop. as a cry for
iced ginger.
Crowds of young men besiege Burlngame con-
cerDiDg openings in China.
Long Branch, it is said, "bristIes with scan
dal"
f,h;oano "a a. T,d;an xro-d .i,o;f,,;,. 1. u-o..
place.
Col. J. A. Brigham, of Massachusetts, who on
Saturday cut his throat and stabbed himself in
eleven places. died on the 18th. .te
There are 100000 beggars in France three
hundred of them annually die Of hunger and
| cold.
"A primitive three-penny piece Of 1861, one Of
the earliest and rarest coins of New England, was
dug up on street corner at Salem, the other day.
Fifth avenue family returned from their sum-
mering on the 18th to find that their house had
been robbed Of lO,O0O worth Of property.
Tbree.wheeled wagons are the latest novelty
in the vehicle line. The drivers seat, separate
from the wagon body is over the front wheel.
Bishop Beckwith's residence at Macon, Ca, is to
have MAnssrd roof and tower, in the French
style.
81" General" John L. Swift has resigned the
deputy colectorshp Of Boston to engage in busi-
ness. BE is stumpng Maine for Grant and COL
fax.
The Radical mayor OF Mobile, in q message to
the City Council, recommends the tender Of the
ctys liberty aud Inequalities to the Democrats
candidate for the vice presidency.
The Monroe Intelligencer, which is reputed to
be Hon. John Rays paper, says the Legislature
of Louisiana proposes to cast the electoral vote
of the State, and thereby save the valuable time
- rt--.-.sOu
The Revolution says: "Our colleges, and es-
pecially Harvard and Yale, are disgrace to
American civilization. 1t is high time that at least
half the students were girls and half the profess
sors women"
The Galaxy for September has the following
table of contents: Exit Grale, !" "The Annals Of
Angling,'' " The Mystery of Mrs. Brown, }" "when
Dreams Are Truest,' "Facetia OF the War"
| "The Answering Voice." "For Life" "Beech
Y daIer "Midsummer," CHOLERA land It's Oriental
s jurces, ;" Words and Their Uses, )" 'Miss Faitn,
TGreat Awakenings, !" Galaxy Miscellany"
| G. A. Townsend, the Radical but readable
| newspaper correspondent, who has no admiration
| of stoneW all jackson. says Gen. Lee is the i'm
mutable respectability that cannot disprOve, dim
nish nor despise. Striking out Of sight his original
treachery, he is the most perfect union of man
ners, honors, morals, prudences, that have ever
| studied. Here at Lexington" continues G. A. T.,
| "be seldom mentions the II Is history else
where, silence TO bin. His administration Of this
college is a more perfect success II possible than
| bis handling OF an army. He takes the personal
bond of very many of the students that II they
ever become able they will pay for their tuition.
His life is in his scts, not in his character. Aud
vet with all this owned, there is no man ! dislike
more in the South In the light of republicanism and
the American future. In that straight carriage.
mellowed gray hair and composed face that is
| ever beautiful now, there is no confession OF sym
| pathy with democratic aims, no American SALEM
ces Of characters subjects content only in the
church and the State, not citizens equal aspira-
ton and popular pulse. His pride Of race makes
him sensitive to his word and honor, and he held
Virgina's disapproval TO be worse than Americas.
While he is no genius, his soldierly olearness OF
head and tboroughness % obedience exempt him
from the in6rmities Of more brilliant minds. He
fails with grace and cOnquers with dignity. His
pane In the South is more potent than Washing
toms was after his victorious war. But Lee Is .
negative great man; an executive; no statesman
and no generazer. / was told by one of bis
aides-de.csmp yesterday Of a scene at Antetam
The aide was ordered by Gen. Lee to take COM
maId, and, while on the way, he saw Robbie Lee,
the generals STRIPPING son, riding the lead
horse in the Rockbridge Artillery. He told Lee,
on his return, Of his sons position. They've
made driver Of him, major, have they' he said.
with stwiDkle. We'll, think he'll do 'fhere's
Robbie, now, general cried the aid. The bat
terry came by, horses sweaty, men grimy, wagons
shiyered. The boy said, In q sort Of undertons:
Pa, are you going TO send US IN again.! Yes,
nv son. 20 in!' The battery went to the front at
gsllop."
The extensive car manufacturing shops Of the
North Missouri Railroad, In 81. Louis, were totally