The New Orleans crescent., 1868-06-23
EDITORIAL LPARAsRArHs,E ETC.

| Senator Morton is psrslyzed worse than ever.
| ltcost $3.50 900 to refurnish the Astor House.
Quarantine season has commenced at New York.
| Spregue does not support Chase for presiden,.
brother of Kit Carson was in the Confederate
amy.
Australia is whispering of separation from
| England.
Fifty dollars viii buy quite pretty bouquet in
New York.
1t is said that Evsrts will accept the attorney
| generalship.
The Illinois editors have gone on little bum
to St. Psul.
One of the sins of an enlightened age is
| Medicine Elk.
Alaska soda" is the latest name given to
cooling beverage.
st. Paul is putting up one million dollars worth
of new buildings.
Ristori bade farewell to Washington in ELIZA
beth " on the l7th.
Thanks to the Southern Express Company for
New York papers.
The head cook at the Astor House has a salary
of over $4,000 year.
California paper nominates Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher for president.
Drawing. rooms - One of the regular apartments
Of a dentist.-[Exchange
Thanks 10 the officers Of the steamers Joseph.
ne. 81. Mary and Louise.
Boston is to give a reception to the Chinese am
bassadOTs on a grand scale.
Straw berries are quoted in the New York mar.
ket at about "a cent SLICE"
Eighty per cent. of the Atlantic cable receipts
come from the American side.
The international bridge of Buffalo will be iron,
100 feet long, and cost s7l7 900.
They had grand military review in Washington
for the delectation of the Celestials.
Mosquitoes recently drove bear from hi,
swamp into the city Of Tallshatchie.
Burrgame's Chinese were surprised at the
simplicity of the tomb of Washington.
Mrs. LeYert attended meeting OF SOross the
other day. She is probably member.
There is a dangerous hole in the bridge cross
ing the lower canal on Common street.
The Revolution estimates that 500 900 a week
are spent on the social evil in New York.
New York proposes TO establish labor bureau
for the benefit of persons seeking employment
Windmill Phillips is blowing" at Reverdy
Johnson, and calls him the Maryland go between.
Henry G. Willston, one of the editors of the
Commercial Advertiser, died in Brook yn recently
Gen. Besureeard was lately the guest of a
wealthy retired Southern merchant at Staten
Island.
The Mobile Tribune says the New York World
newspaper is not Democratic, but mere spy in
the camp.
1t is said John C. Breckenridge has been sued in
Paris by boarding house keeper tor a debt of
2COO francs.
The wedding dress Of the daughter of the queen
of Spain was all lace and pearls, and she rode to
church in a tortoise shell.coach.
1t is stated by the New York Tribune that
General Rousseau is to be appointed by the pre-.
sdent TO succeed General Meade.
Massachusetts appears to have a more wanton
arrogant and greedy lobby connected with its leg.
islature than any other State of the Union.
The Chicago Illustrated News has ended in fail.
ure, the managers of the paper having expended
Sl0O OOO without being able TO establish it.
John R. Thompson, Esq, is writing in New
York for the Mobile Sunday Times. The grace.
fulness Of his pen is as noticeable as ever.
Sidney Howard Gay, Esq, formerly managing
editor of the New York Tribune, has become ed
tOrally associated with the Chicago Tribune.
The Mobile Sunday Times is a great paper
with little or no bosh" about it. Its New Or
leans correspondence is not its worst feature.
An egg tester has been invented in England
1t is contrivsnee to throw the light into the egg
so clearly that if there is chicken in it he will
wink.
The Chinese embassy are exceedingly polite to
the ladies'. They not only take off their hats to
them in American style. but their shoes in q
Celestial manner.
The report that Lester Wallack has sold his
thester and will, hereafter reside in Europe, is
wholly without foundation, as he has made all
his arrangements for the autumn season.
The so-called U. s. Grant, whose name, &C
cording to his papa, Is Hiram Ulysses, wrote him
self on the records of the Military Academy al
West Point, the other day, as Ulysses Hiram.
rural editor who saw a negro cruelty beating
his sister, says he postponed interfering with the
matter for the purpose of seeing how far the fe
low would carry his brutality. Very considerste
J.B. MeCullogh, Esq, widely known as the
brilliant enterprising and energetic correspou-
dent "Mack.'' of the Cincinnati Commercial. has
accepted the position of managing editor of the
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Pic. says to compare a real peach or
pear to painting seems like poor praise" and
then actually proceeds to say that some Of these
fruits lying on its table care as beautiful as the
most finished painting"
A cluZen OF fOTuahu naVlng procured from
Paris door mat made of steel wire, with the
word Salve" (welcome) wrought in the center,
a visitor, overcome by curiosity, nnocently asked
the host what kind of sslye he manufactured.
DR.. Frank Hamilton publishes in the Medical
Gazette strong protest against debarring from
all public offce such medical practitioners as
served surgeons, or in any other professional
capacity, in the Confederate amy. He calls on
Congress to modify the iron-c ad oath of July,
ls62, so far as it applies to them.
Here is another sgeravston to Col. Green, of
the Boston Post, from the Pic. of last evening:
A gentleman residing in Jefferson City this
morning gathered quite a number of luscious
ripe figs of the Celeste" variety. The alter.
nate showers and sunshine of the past week have
had al almost magical effect upon this delicious
iTuit Think Of figs aud cream for breakfast in
June, ye den zens of a blesker cline
During the reception of the Chinese embassy in
the national House of Representatives, the dele
gate from Utah was introduced to one Of the inter.