The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-26


One Of Thad. Stevens's admirers writes that the
impescher plays faro an hour every evening for
mental recreation and not for the love Of
gambling, as no seldom be.s more than $50 at
time.
just think Of it-eighty colored members in the
House Of Representatives OF South CsroI.ns.
lmsg CINE the effect on hot day. tsuch Is South
Carolina often has, with a heated debateb and
closed doors.-IN. Y. Day Book.
Washington dispatch says Stanton has lately
violated the law requiring him to send all orders
through the general commanding. Proof is posi-
tive that in several instances he has dsregarded
this law, and issued orders.
The successful trip of the steamer Job Boat to
Dallas has demonstrated the prscticsbility Of
navigating the upper Trinity to advantage, and
given new hopes to the people of that wealthy
region for the immediate improvement of their
commercial facilities.
Scanning the horizon with impartial vision, re-
marks the Brownsville Ranchero with touching
faith, leads us to conclude that now. just now, a
new era has dawned upon the Republic of Mexico.
We believe that the revolutionary period has
ended.
young scion of the best stock In the British
nobility is in jail at Buffalo for defrauding
hotelkeeper. He lost his money by Sir Morton
Peto, and come over here to recuperate on the
strength of his lineage, with only four dollars in
his pocket.
II is said Wade has been consulting medium
for some days past. who has invariably told him
he would not be Andrew Johnson's successor, nor
could she discover any chance for him at Chicago.
Mr.. Wade now owns up, and pI ofesses entire con-
fdence in spiritual communications.
Models for an iron barge, says late dispatch
from ST. Louis, which will carry grain on the
Western rivers, are shortly expected from Europe,
where, it is said, they have been tried success.
fully on shallow rivers. The premium will prob.
ably be increased TO $1,000. Several insurance
companies have expressed willingness to con-
tribute,
The reports show that Conway occasionally
burst upon the attention of the Chicago conyen.
ton. The ass is reported to have said 81 sup
pose that it is part of the settled policy of the
Republican party today, to have the South come
into the convention Union.end foremost" Which
astute remark appears to have elected "lauSh.
ter.n
The London newspapers now reaching America
are filed with congratulatory notices OF the re.
turn Of Mr.. Dickens to England. His speech in
New York, the scenes on his departure from that
city, the afectiOnate farewels of his friends, are
all published in full; and the London press speak
Of the cordial greeting he received in America
and his excellent treatment whilst here as cement
ing still closer the bond of union between the
United States and Great Britain.
Mr.. Kit Williams, of Galveston, SAYS the News.
has mule whose right eye-ball contains a NINA.
ture serpent about two inches and half long.
nd NH
keeps a constant motion, as if endeayoring to
escape from his confinement. 1t was first thought
to be a hair, which, when soaked in water, as.
sumes the appearance of reptile, but it has in
a few days increased in length so rapidly that
this theory does not seem to explain the phe.
nomenon. The mule is still able TO see with the
eye, but his owner fears that if the snake grows
much larger the eye will be destroyed.
There was something of a struggle for the honor
of nominating Grant at Chicago. As Logan pro.
nounced the name the ladies sitting in the upper
box, on the right Of the stage, set at liberty a
pigeon with blue wings, red breast and neck, and
white tail. Truly strange Bird if the observer
had not known the feathers were painted for the
occasion. Immediately after the frightened bird
had found refuge in some nook, a magic scene CD.
peared at the back of the stsge-a picture OF the
Great Captain was unvaied. female figure
by his side pointed to another seat, while the
words " match him" appeared over the pictures
A song followed the result, and the venerable
Grant shed tears of gratitude.
Celt and Saxon, who are very much nearer in
blood relationship than are the white man aud
the black, could not, in EDgland. make up State
a common government, in which each were TO
take part; one race ruled. Norman and Saxon,
who, by going but few years back. could trace
up 10 common ancestry, could not make I'D
mixed government of the two until intermarrsge
bad efiaced the distinction between them. The
distinction cannot in this instance be eff4ced even
10 time, for the mulatto continues to be black.
If all the Southern population became mulattoes,
that would not solve the difficulty: for the muIat.
to, as race, will not live. Ii is practically not
race, but, as its name imports, a mule. Ia the
mixed governments now proposed for the South
the effort is to be made in spite of all the warn.
ings Of history, to blend together the two races
which are the farthest apart in nature, and the
most unlike of any two races in the world. The
white man of this country stands at the head of
civilization 1.-THE black almost at the foot of the
list of savages.-[ROu Table.