The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-20
ED1roHIAL PARAsHArns. ETC.


The St. Louis police are Hunting the tiger"
with destructive intentions.
Reverdy johnson, Jr., will be secretary of lega-
ton TO London.
We were favored with another agreeable rain
yesterday.
Grape and lace neckties of various cDlors are
now becoming very fashionable for gentlemen.
daughter OF Horace Greeley belongs to the
Sorosis.
The ex gardener Of King William, at Berlin, is
now employed upon the grounds Of Mr.. Hun, at
Winons, Minnesota.
The Homer Had alludes to contemporary as
4" the hedgehog fugleman of the tory bugle around
on the brick corner"
Ia Chicago, on the 18th, the Germans were wild
with excitement over the Sangerfest. The city
was decorated in a most elegant manner.
A half witted white fellow proposed marriage
to a muatto girl near Nashville, whereupon she
broke bis jaw with hoe.
Franklin Pierce is the only ex-president of the
United States now living Mobile Tribune.
There is one (Fil-) more.
The Baton Rouge Advocate suggests to Western
beet growers to invest in genuine sugar producing
lands in Louisiana.
Bishop Eastburn has resigned the rectorship of
nearly twenty-six years.
An embroidered silk robe, which once belonged
to Marie Antoinette is on exhibition and for sale
in New York.
writer in the Revolution estimates the num-
Der of women of ill-fame in New York city at
ten thousand.
The telegraph informs US that Henry A. Wise
and Chief Justice Chase visited the African
Church in Richmond together and heard divine
service.
Madam actavia Walton lie Vert has quite re-
covered from the severe accident she received at
Niagara last summer, and is now able to go into
society again.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel D. L. Montgomery,
commanding the troops stationed at Point Isabel,
was killed on the 10th by the accidental discharge
of pistol which he was examining.
Col. Dupre, formerly connected with the Men,
pbis Avalanche, Bulletin and other Southern pa.
pers has become attacked editorially TO the St.
Louis Times.
The Chinese ambassadors at Washington spent
Sunday in smoking opium quietly in their rooms.
Minister Burlingame, being a Christian, rode out
in four. horse carriage.
There is a dangerous hole in the bridge crossing
the Washington Avenue drive about midway. 1t
will probably not be covered uutil the city has
round bill of damages to pay.
The blood stained panks taken from the spotin
Ottawa where Darcy MCGEE fell, have been
burnt, and the ashes sent to Montreal, to be de-
posted in his grave.
The devotons of Methodist prayer meeting in
New York, an evening or two since, were dis
turbed by brothers coat taking fire from lighted
pipe placed csrelessly in his pocket. He left the
room hurriedly in a blaze of glory, which re-
quired a large pail of water to extingush.
Gen. Buffers portrait adorns the last number
of the Magazine Iluste. The portrait represents
fine looking man with huge whiskers, and clad
in GOLDEN broidered uniform. He has a pair of
large eyes that do not squirt at all, and in his
hand he holds Turkish saber.
1t is quite time for it to commence in New Or.
leans. The city is overrun with ours consuming
the substance of the poor, and rendering it haz.
ardous TO life to proceed through the streets on
horseback. Bring forth your poisoned sausages.
o policemen!
Charles Dickens has arrived in Paris to super.
intend the last rehearsal of his drama IL Abime
at the Vaudeville. 1t will be produced on S4tur-
day, the Both. Great expense has been gone TO
in mounting the piece. The view of Mount st.
Bernard is said to be of the fnestscenic effects
that has been produced on the Paris stage.
At present says Washington letter, General
Butler has passed the epthet terrible :" he is
simply amusing. Nobody has any fear or admit
ration for him longer. He is Washington town
character merely, like Beau Hickman, John Multi
gan, or Joanes, the white horse of the secretary
of state.
We are indebted to c.. H. Mouton L Co., cot
ton factors and commission merchants at los
Common street, for several luxuriant cotton stalks
from the plantations of Cow Brothers and Vale
rien Lsborde. of AvOyelles parish. They are Of
vigorous and healthy growth and abound with
blooms and bos, some of the latter being of IN
usual size for the season. They show no signs Of
depredations by worms.
We learn that Mr.. Henry 7. Brooke, for so
long a period connected with the city press, aud
whose devotion TO city interests Is so well knOvu
whose memory is Of itself an inestmable chr0U-
icler of it's history, is candidate for the place of
custodian Of the city archives. more cOmpe
tent man could not be selected, nor one whose
peculiar bent of mind aud past employment 80
well fits him for such pOsitiOn.-[Picayune.
1t gives us pleasure to indorse the above, and
to add our testimony to the rare qualifications of
Mr.. Brooke for the position alluded to.
mentioned to You short time since that AL
eXauder Dumas was under contract to Ullman TO
lecture this next winter in the United States.
saw the written engagement, but there was a
clause in it which seemed 10 me at the time as
likely TO interfere with its fu6ment. In the Last
paragraph Dumas stipulated that in case of ILL.,
health, attested by his physicians he might post.
pOne his departure for America till next year.
That opportunity has been afforded him. In su.
perntending the rehearsal Of his play, " La
Comtesse de Chamblsy,n the other day be fell
and broke one Of his ribs.-[Par letter.
Amelia Howard, of Crosby street, New York,
advertises in the Hamburg papers for three vel
educated young goveTnesses of agreeable appear.
ance." Crosby street, New York Is not good
place for young governesses of agreeable ap.
pesrance " to 90 to. The philanthropic Amelia
Howard requires all applications to be accompa.
MED by the photographs of the young ladies'. 1t
s doubtless, one of the countless tricks by which
good.looking German girls are inveigled to the
hsunts of vice in New York and other American