The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-10


New York is pronounced clean az last.
Hon. Gerritr Smith has given Oswego So 900.
Gold closed in New York yesterday at 144s.
Jenny Lind lives in strict retirement.
The Princess Dsemar writes sonnets.
The embassy has cost Boston SIS, 900.
Dan Rice is doctor
Only three deaths in Galveston in eight days.
Gov. Dieh Yates is on the Radical stump.
Kehoe, introducer of Indian clubs, is dead.
Gen. Lee il handsome penmAn.
Three. cornered visiting cards are in vogue
among would. be fashionable New Workers.
The Mail says few real ladies promenade Broad
way. ..--
Striped and spotted linen for gsntlemen's wear
is quite "a. hionsble in New York.
King william is still urged to take the title OF
Emperor Of Germany.
Thanks 10 the officers of the steamers Texas,
Clinton and Josephine.
Wooden soles for boots and shoes are becoming
fashionable.
II is said that there are but 100000 Indians
left.
"Stove pipes" are very Frenchy in style this
fall. ..
married ladies' is beau he.
stewart has commenced proceedings against
house in Cincinnati for little bill " Of ss5 o0o
The deaths 10 New York last week were i've
hundred and ninety nine.
The receipts of the billisrd.tables in Paris are
| s22 ,0OO 600 per snnum.
A brother of Gen. Burnside has been refused
registr alton in st. Louis for disloyalty.
con ise critique on the new pianist lately
| arrived from Europe. Z" Last bat not Liszt"-lEx.
Lacy hostess TO guest. who negIects drinking
his tea " ls your tea all right!" NO, ma am,
| il is all left."-IEx.
Alex. II. stepbens's door-plate is on exhibition
at Boston. Other Interesting relics can be seen
| at Gen. Buffers Lowell residence.
| Madam Rachel, the famous London restorer OF
| beauty, intends coming ID Amerca.-lEx.
She will find plenty to do.
A cynic thinks that the virtues of the waters oil
many Of the fashionable springs are greater than
the virtues of their patrons and he doesn't be-
lieve much in the waters either.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial
visited Fort Pillow the other cay in company with
Gen. Forrest, who narrated the circumstances at
tending The capture of that place.
Kit Burns, the notorious rstpit keeper in New
York, has invited Henry Bergh to address biz
audience at the next rat king, and promises u
protect him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson always jots down AM
thought or fancy that comes to him at any time
even rising from his bed at night to do so. Oh
one occasion he got up at two in the morning
when his wife asked, " Are you ill, husband
"No, my dear, only an ides."
Encke's comet Is now visible through a glass
1t is located near the consultations Germini AM
Cancer, and can be seen between o'clock AM
daylight in the morning. After the latter part 0
September il can be seen with the naked eye iron
Q in the evening till 2 in the morning.
The Herald has taken another flop and prophe
sizes Grants election. II says Seymour shout
have nominated Chase, and had the power Of ia
auguratipg a conservative triumph In the pres
dental election, but his ambition was too much
and his ssgacity too little, for the occasion.
Here is peculiarly French description OF tn
PEOPLE of Bavaria: 1.-The Bavarisns are happ
people. They have money, which make happ
ness, and q king who makes music. They drin
much and often, and smoke as they drink. The
sleep long, eat i've times day, and make Low
between their meals"
An ingenious German residing in Newark, Ne
Jersey has constructed a conn in which he pc
mits himself TO DC buried, and efssr remsnin
under ground for any length of time, digs himse
up again, and energies cheerful and perspirin
amid the applause of the spectators, who are pei
mitted to witness this intensely humorous pc
Torrance for the ridiculousy small price of ift
cents per head.