The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-15

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The Courier-JourDaI pitches into Josh Billings.
II is said Gushing is authorized to buy Cuba.
Ben. Butler occupies Thad. Stevenss old seat.
The Paducah Herald is to be issued daily.
A free university is to be established at Iuka.
Louis Gaylord Clark has been Injured by fall.
Yates is to launch universal suffrage bill.
Maine Blaine wants the speakership.
Francis Joseph wants peace.
o. A. Brownson is recovering.
Chicsgo expects a million hogs this season.
Gen. Marcy believes in killing Indian savages.
Ex.AttorDey General Lynch has arrived in towe.
Cut-throat weather all day yesterday and all
nieh hit last night
1t is said Colfsx will resign the speakershp and
take his bride TO Europe.
Col. Dom Piatt is the Washington correspon.
dent Of the Cincinnati Commercial.
Patti is TO sing in Russia this and the two follow
ing seasons.
Boutwell, is mentioned as Grants secretary of
the treasury.
The Southern Express Company afford us New
York papers Of the 10th.
Elsewhere are copies of two bills introduced in
Congress by Senator Kellogg.
Mrs. Alice Oates is no relation of Fes of that
| ilk.
Last Friday was the Oldest day in st. Louis for
thirty years.
Thanks to the purser of the steamship Lsvaca
| for Florida papers.
| We have the Honduras Gazette, of Nov. IA, by
tie steamship Trade Wind.
Joe Howard, Jr., is warmly euogistic of Brick
| Pomery.
the guest Of Richard Schell.
1 Tall ia ha In,
York.
Houston will have cock fighting during race
weeK.
II. Grsu.
monument to Robinson Crusoe is to be erect
| ed on the island made famous by him.
Eugene is gong to give the Napoleonic dy-
nasty another chance for perpetuity.
Geo. Ellis has the American Artizan of the
9th.
" Had we have " etc., is the elegant language of
contemporary.
spirituous beverages.
There were $50 deaths in New York last week
and l67 marriages.
There are $40 secret political policemen in
Paris.
spinner PITCHES INTO copper ana ulckel currency,
calling it sinking. poisonous and irredeemsble.
The Russian Grand Duke Nicholas brother Of
the car, will winter in Paris.
Isabeils's useless husband Is charged with an.
propriatipg &c., 600 belonging to a church.
The Davenport brothers have lost their money
married French wives, and got the consumption
Hawthorne's "0id Msnse' at Concord, Mass.
is for sale.
Roberts, the new Spanish minister at Washing.
ton, is very handsome and of English descent.
Earl Russell is seyeptysix. He has been in par
liamentary life fifty five years.
Elsewhere will be found extracts from the re-
port of the secretary of the treasury.
The horse railroad is to be extended to the main
entrance OF the Fair Grounds on GENTLY road.
Gen. Beau Neill has been ordered to convey Of.
fetal documents to Washington.
Elsewhere is q sketch of Mr.. Dayiss spesch at
bennington.
In another place is statement of the public
debt.
The Board of Trade of Marseilles, France, wants
the coat of arms of New Orleans.
Dickenss eldest son is trying TO "run " All the
Year Round
Elihu Burritt had his pocket picked of fl50 and
papers at public dinner in Birmingham.
The name of Jefferson Davis is the first in the
book OF visitors at the Massachusetts, Historical
Society, and that of U. s. Grant is the last
Ole Bql was aboard the steamship United States, |
which collided with the America but escaped un- |
scsihed, carrying his fiddle with him.
Fiske, the champion of stock gambling in New |
York used TO drive a pedders cart in Vermont |
and New Hampshire.
G. A. I. has had peep at Wsshington's will, |
and finds that the great man knocked one g out of |
the word aggregate.
1t is saidiE. B. Washburne, of Illinois, is to be
secretary of the treasury. Per contra, it is said
Grant has not decided upon his cabinet.
Mr.. Laird was greeted during recent visit to
the Liverpool Exchange with hootings and cries of
" What about the Alabama"
Longstreet was-upon the floor of the United
States Senate On the 7th, and was presented to
several senators by Mr.. Kellogg.
Ill year old negro visited Port Gibson the
other day. He remembered Washington, as a
matter of course.
/" That senators of the United States grow rich
in their places" says the Round Table, is noto-
rious.u
The secret of safety on the veocipede is equiI-
brium, and that, at first, is only to be gained by
boldness and speed, as in skating.
Ole Bull played TO the deaf Duke of Devon
shire by connecting his violin to his auditors
teeth with string.
A negro convicted of rape in Yszoo county,
Mississippi, has been sentenced to the penitentiary
for life.
Whilldn, of Flakes Bulletin has removed his
personal sanctum to Austin, where he is watching
the convention.
Republican congressman say Grant has given
an opinion on both sides of the Indian bureau
question.
Elk Deputy Collector Stockdsle has gone to Chi
cago on business connected with the grain-for-
warding business.
The New York World has added an eghtcylin.
der press TO its printing resources. and claims to
be able to print so 900 papers in an hour.
The president and several foreign potentates
have condoed with the surviving Rothschilds on
account of the death of James.
Lee. Mass, is becoming deserted by emigration
10 the West.-[Ex.
Peter wants to know II he is to understand by