The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Watkins are playing In Charleston
Spring wheat In Georgia has suffered from frost
Edwin Forrest IA i'm Cincinnati

The elder Grant says Ulysses never swore.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer Crescent
Jenny Hazard, the last of the Rhode Island
slaves, has died at Newport, aged sc.
BY a fashionable young married woman-Ths
latest thing out-my husband-IPunch.
FeIis defines editorial anmosties as Paper
cholers.
Mrs. Yelverton was to read in Savannah OF
the 9th.
Flour guardin'- Sentry duty in the commissary
| department..
v hat portions of the body are the best travel
| eTs! The tvo wrists.-lJu Judy.
Sumner wants Alaska scientifically explored
before it is paid for. .s1
Prince Philippe is in New York to promote
German emigration.
The cart (e) before the horse-The bill of fare
at q horse bsBquet.-lFun.
Superb seighing in New York oa the 4th.
| Central Park was all Of buzz.
The Marshall (rexss) Flag is now trying the
experiment of a daily issue.
| Motto for inveterate wine drinkers "a port
lite and sherry one."-IJudy.
The National Intelligencer claims a daily circu-
lation of 5000 copies.
| Thanks 10 the Southern Express Company for
New York papers of the 9th.
lar ? For collateral security.-lFun.
o. s. Fowler is in Washington. He will ex
anime the heads OF the government
"Hsve you paid the tax on yourincome. Pat?"
"No, sur" "And why noty" Because ms
income patible with my interests"
Tie house Of Mrs. James X. Polk, in Nashville,
has been burglsred, but the burglar was alarmed
and little was realized.
There is a vague rumor that General weitzel
may succeed General Hancock in the command
of this district
There seems to be new secret political aud
social organization in Tennessee, known by the
queer name of the "Ku- Klux-Klan.'
In the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane il
one patient whose mslady was caused by tight
laciDg.
The World wants to know when Edward A.
Pollard is to commence as one of the editors OF that
paper.
Mile Sarah Felix, sister of Rachel, is a vender
Of hair dye, and has sold one hundred thousand
bottles.
number of Purim maskers were arrested in
New York on the sth, by order of Superintendent
Kennedy, while parading the streets in fancy
dresses and wearing masks.
The fourth representation OF the "Grand
Duchess" was erroneousy announced to take
place at the Opera House last night. II should
have been announced for tonight (Thursday.)
The ptiful sight is daily witnessed a. our mar.
kets Of poor women leaving for home with empty
baskets, rather than submit to the ruinous dis.
count demanded on city money.
California is said to be overrun with people
from all pats of the world, who have no money
IN Cpf any he ala hat i. I.
for labor in any department.
The irreverent Hobbies remarks that clergymen
who concentrate all their piety into a voluminous
white choker are not apt to move the world
great way of its pegs.
Some one has said that in his photographs Mr..
Dickens looked as if he had FIRST been put under
an exhausted receiver and had his soul pumped
ont of him.
1t is said that the Rev. Carpet-bag Conway is
the author Of the late dispatch from this city to
the New York Tribune, containing at least two
stories without the least foundation in fact.
The Paris Continental Gazette, paper printed
in English, republishes from the CRESCENT our
translation Of the Emperor Napoleon's letter to
the mayor of New Orleans.
Country editors who cannot manage to find and
publish one or two local items, might as well save
themselves the trouble and expense Of sending
their papers to this Office.
We hear Of United States Official in one of the
Louisiana rural districts, who, during weeks
visit to this city, run up little bill of 5000 at one
of the hotels.
Mr.. j. W. Carlton, clerk of the steamer Rose
Franks, will accept our thanks for copy of the |
Jimplecute extra, containing full account of the
recent destructive fire OF Jefferson. Texas.
Dickens has been dining the creme de Ia creme |
of the Northern Merdti. 1t would be graceful in |
him to pay similar compliment to the reporters |
among whom be commenced his literary life.
II is Iumored that Rossini was instrumental |
lard orcbesiral) in breaking off the match between
Patti and Caux. The real firm is not Patti & |
Caux, but Strakosch d Co.-lWorld
A number of hitherto unpublished perform |
ances of Artemus Ward are soon to appear,
edited by the owner of the Biddeford, Maine, |
Democrat.
Mrs. Fanny Kemble has been so annoyed by |
people coming in late at her readings, that she |
has given her agent instructions to close the doors
at o'clock.
The Empress CarIotta has addressed TO the pope |
a touching letter, imploring his prayers for the
soul of her unfortunate husband. The letter is |
written in very good Italian, and exhibits no |
traces Of the late lunacy of the empress.
Mr. Croly, managing editor Of the New York |
World, in en- article, in Putnam's Monthly, on |
newspapers, says a marked feature of the coming |
leading journal will be its complete abolition of
the dead head system. We hope so.
Commodore NJ. F. Maury, formerly of the "Na. |
tional Observatory" at Washington. the Mobile |
Tribune says, is expected to return soon from |
Europe, where he has been since the war, aud &C.
cept a professorship in the Virginia Military In |
stitute at Lexington. |
The Springfield Republican thinks the president |
has got altogether the best set Of lawyers on his |
side; and that they will be able to bother and put
10 their trumps the managers Of the impeachment |
on the part of the House; none of them are first
class jurists, and one or two of them will be as |
much out Of place as wild bulls in a china shop.
OF Judge Chapman's elevation to the chief |
place on the supreme bench of Massachusetts,
lions Herald says: 1t has been said that the |
occupant Of this seat required four qualifications
he must be Unitarian, graduate of Harvard,