The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-21
NUMBER 2l3.
EDITORIAL PARAakArHs, Ero.
apoleon III was sixty yesterday.


Paris. wears diamonds worth $4,000 in gold.
Tennyson has written longer, and let US hope
better poem, called Lucretius.
Stevens is said to speak feebly by the aid Of
raw eggs and brandy.
II is reluctantly admitted that stanbery, as con-
ductor of the presidents case, is failure.
The reports of the condition of the levees are
favorable.
1t is reported that Colonel Dom Piatt is about
TO take charge of the Cincinnati Times
Earl Rose, of the big telescope, is to have spub-
lie monument in Ireland.
The New York printers contributed $1,000 to the
Artemus Ward monument.
Anna Dickinson has abandoned her lecturing en-.
gsgements, her voice having failed.
Cyrus n. McCormicks income, s202 ,3O6 81, is
the largest in Chicago. l
Bonner says that he never asked man or a
woman to write for the Ledger who DIDN'T ulti-
mstely do it.
Yates is like an oyster-opens his mouth when
he is bad, and is continually IN liquor.
Lou syie Democrat
Several Virginia papers copy, with warm in
dorsements, the eulogy in the CRESCENT Of the
late lsmented Judge Semple.
Stevens is said to be artstically kept up with
small and frequent doses of sIewed terrapin and
old port.
Abyssinian swells do up" their hair with
butter, and carry umbrellas to prevent the sun
from melting it.
The London Saturday Review praises the
speeches of hon. R. G. Winthrop, and says they
surpass those published by any other American.
Boston lady is so fond of music that she has
an Italian organ artist play three cents worth
before her house twice a week.
A Worcester, Mass, paper advertises for an
able bodied man to shovel snow from now till the
lst of November next.
Tupper wrote seven stilted stanzas on the bones
of some assumed martyrs recently dug up at
Smitbfeld. Subsequent investigation disclosed
the Iemains to be those of a pig
Tie Boston Advertiser says Mr. Seward has ex-
pressed to some friends an intention of making
very extensive foreign tour after tke downfall Of
the present administration.
Teegraphic wires are being laid down at the
back of the high altar in Notre Dame to receive
the pOpe's blessing for the prince imperial on
the occasion Of his taking the communion.
The great trotting horse Fearless was burned
70 death in her stable at the Fashion Course.
on Saturday week. Her owner had recently
declined sl6,O 900 for her. F.
Charlotte Thompson's mother, Mrs. Clisbia
Thompson, died on the 1st instant, in Rockland
county, New York. She was the widow Of
the late Lysander Thompson-ths eccentric
comedian.
The marriage of Miss Kate Dix, daughter of the
American ambassador, and Mr.. Walsh, well.
known merchant in the Japan trade, took place in
Paris on the 18th. A large number of American
and European nOtsbilities we're present.
Tha hal arfD doa tba
father aud mother. and in the afternoon drives
out with the finest span of horses in town, think
ing it an honor to be able to prepare a meal Of
victuals. This her sister bellies declare shock
ing"
Fifteen or twenty little fellows, four or five
years old, had funeral, procession, sermon and
ell, at Corning, N. Y. last week. over the body
Of defunct rat. Rev. Mr.. Niless boy preached
the sermon, and an editors son took notes and re-
ported the ceremonies.
What do you think of impeachment" said
gentleman to a radical, a night or twoago "well,
III tell you. It's like the boy who was digging
after woodchuck like blazes. A man who was
passing inquired: What are you doing, boy."
Diggin' for woodchuck. You don't expect
TO get him, do your Yes, STREE. must have
him we're out of meat!'"
B. F. B. and Chandler, of the Senate, were
walking up the avenue the other day, when Butler
broke out "Well, Chandler, you have heard me
called id rascal often enough, but did you
ever hear anybody call me d-d fool ~ mot
exactly" replied the amiable senator, "but
often heard you called 'spooney, Ben." "whst
sort of a spooney ~ said Ben, not taking the
joke. why, a silver spooney of course.D
London letter says: In the fashionable
world the chief topic is the prevalence Of blue in
bonDets and dresses All the miners' windows
are dressed with blue. Blue is to be the color of
the season. But London is nearly year behind
Paris and New York. 1t il almost year ago since
your special correspondent at the Bois de Bou-
logne races telegraphed that blue was the pre-
vailiDg color.n
Sergeant Bates had an interview with the presi-
dent on the 16th, and detailed the events of his
trip, while bearing the flag from the Mssissippito
the Potomac. He states that he was warmly well
coined by all, rich and poor. high and low, all Of
whom expressed the desire that he should see the
president and convey their blessing to him. Bates
told the president that he could raise thousands Of
men in the South, even those who have been in
the rebel army, to fight for the Union.
The New York Tribune says: Half dozen
nave hhcduJ htlemptcu tne
Life of General Grant, and now-like the ghosts
of Macbeth
"' The eighth appears. who bears glass.
Which SHOWS me many more; horrible sghti'
The eighth is the 0ctogenarian Veterinary OBJ
server, the cabalistic +. ID. NJ, whose hippo
phagic appetite must be sated upon 'the man ON
horseback. The prosecuted general may well
exclaim:
What will the line stretch out to the crack Of doomr'
Thd New York Tribune called Gov. Seymour
"a liar" and being taken to task for the brutal
epithet, defended itself on the ground that lying
was more ungentlemanly than the accutat 90 OF
lying. Why, asks the New York Times, on his
theory Of epithets, does he not Ego the whole
fgure," and use them mixed" as well as
straightr" Why not head his editorial A." GOp.
Seymour as id liar" or make it even
stronger than this If he thinks the case deserves
it? He would find il just as easy to vndicate the
one, on the score of taste, as the other.