The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-25
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY rs, 1868.
editorial Paragraphs. Etc.

Charming weather, again.
Ali quiet on the Potomac.
Alaska produces crabs six feet long.
Brick Pomeroy is seriously i'll with fever.
The New York legislature has appropriated
$3.50 900 for the Brooklyn poor.
1he Vicksburg Evening Telegraph has sue.
cumbed to the hard times
Elk Governor Ellsworth, Of Connecticut, is
dead.
Hoffman is not o candidate for the Austrian
mission.
Garibaldi intimates an intention to "pitch in y
again next spring.
The breach between Russia and Turkey is
widening
The Londoners have a Fenian fright at every
fog.
Louisville boy sneezed out thorn, and cured
hemorrhage of the nose which was killing him.
Portland has completely risen from the ashes Of
the great fire Of 1866.
Whittier, the poet. is SO Ill that it is feared he
cannot recover.
The New York Tribune pronounces against the
bridge'spanning Broadway.
The depression in New England has thrown out
Of work about 100000 people.
Mr. Lincoln appointed five of the eight judges
radical congressman are afraid to trust.
Women are pronounced the most extravagant
Luxury in the world, with the single exception Of
the publication of a newspaper.
The Citizen accuses Sweetzer of the New York
Mail, Of writing a severe thing about Dickens in
the Northern Monthly.
Horace Greeley, in the Independent, gives at
length his reasons for preferring Chase before
Grant for the presidency.
Letters in Mobile postofice for Mummy, Luling
4 Co., and Mr. Robertson, New Orleans, and Ben.
Holman, Shreveport, withheld for postage.
s. S. Cox writes to the New York Tribune that
he never advocated leaving New England "out in
the cold"
Later information received from Africa re.
gardiDg DR.. Livingstone, confirms, it is thought,
all the previous reports of Lis safety.
Governor Brownlow has issued proclamation
declaring null and void all registration in Shelby
county, Tennessee
The following is the latest from this city:
Thirty thousand people have fallen victims to
the epidemic in New Orleans.
II 10 said that Grants failure to keep faith with
the president in the Stanton matter is to be as
cribed to the fact that he was "slightly oblvous"
The latest French idea is to print newspapers in
chocolate ink on pie crust. After the news is
read, it is then eaten and dgested.
Miss Prunells, in the columns Of a contempt
rsry, declares she will never put her feet on a
steamer with such an indicate name as "Belle
Lee"
At Niblo's Theater, week ago, the audience
gave three cheers for Gen. Grant, then three
heartier ones for Andy johnson. The Herald
thinks this a significant straw.
The New York Citizen thinks the attempt to get
rid Of Gen. Hancock is I" the most infamous of
the many infamous measures Of the present infa.
nous Congress-"
French savsnt who has urged the theory for
q long time that man ought to live TO the age Of
two hundred years, has recently died when only
seventy eight. The New York Times intimates
that he did not live up to his principles.
The Chicsgo Times occupies nine columns and a
half with description of a charity ball held in
the Opera House of that city on the night Of the
10th. Over twelve hundred persons participated
IN the graneest dress party ever held in the West
The practice Of eating horse flesh has been in
troduced in London. IL maht be a good thing to
Try u at Washington. IL our radical friends could
manage il, they might get Gen. Grant to indulge
a little more freely in table talk.-IN. Y. Times
The officers OF the internal revenue department
of this district VIII hereafter recognize ne mark
upon cotton, except the metallic tag mark, and
any person who inserts tags except the regular
government weigher, will subject himself to heavy
damages.
A Paris correspondent says steel and gold are
worn on everything, even at balls, where fancy
ornaments are as much in fashion as gems of the
fret water. Ornaments Of steel dust on gilt look
like diamonds set in gold and glitter more than
many precious stones.
The two presiding officers Of the Maine legisla-
ture are cousins, their mothers having been SIS
tiers. They were both born in New Hampshire, are
within year of the same age, were classmates
and chums in BowdOin college, are both lawyers,
and had each served four years in the legislature
before the beginning Of the present term.
The Echo de Nice, in speaking Of the grand ball
at the opening Of the Casino de Nice on the 9th
ult., says, q rule, the Americans were the hand.
and In IL.