The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-11

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Some of the Blue Noses want to be annexed.
Bolts says he is opposed to reputation.
A well one hundred and ten feet deep has been
sunk in Mobile. atts $3.50
No artist has appeared in Havana for years that
has created such a .fi~ere as Ristori.
Titon discourses Independently upon the
criminal In the White House." - :.
Bsrnum has lost three museums by fire. He Is 10
build another. Phineas is second Ph@aix.
Lady Fitzmaurice is called the haadsomest wo'
nan in England.
The Irish asylums for the insane treat their
patients successfully with the Turkish bath.
Barnum's Museum was burned merely because
the hydrants in the vicinity were frozen.
sprague lneditates building large cotton FAC
tory at Wilmington, Delaware.
II is said Beecher receives copy OF every new
book published.
Garibaldi has sent his photograph and auto
graph to Wendell Phillips.
The first Kemble reading in New York yielded
slllO.
colored person was the largest buyer at the
sale of cir Frederick Bruces effects.
H. G. says the rumor Of the death Of I. W. Is
untrue.
Thanks TO Mr.. Charles Bruff for. California
papers.
Ben. Wade has Just been designated by the Nor
folk virginisn as blasphemous old light-wood
knot"
Col. o. L. Shepherd, of the 18th infantry, has
been appointed TO the command of the "sub-dis-
trict'-whatever that is-of Alabama.
DIR. Cummings has recently had the kindness to
postpone the destruction of the world for period
Of one million years.
The New York Tribune complains that nearly
all the Associated Press reporters are 10 hearty
sympathy with the Democratic party.
Notwithstanding It's rather mixed politics,
Flakes Galveston Bulletin is one of the most
piquant papers that comes to our table.
Lord DeIby's valet has committed suicide by
cutting bis throat in consequence of an unre-
Quilted affection for one of the noble earl's female
domesties.
"Msckr says Boutwell, has all the bitterness Of
Sumner without his idocy. Boutwell, was once
Democratic governor of Massachusetts,, and
Halter of AbolitoDists.
II is said to be within the range of possibilities
that Dexter will make his appearance in public,
perhaps for the benefit of charitable institution,
sometime during the coming summer.
The marble columns Of the building Ia Philadel-
phia once used for the United States Bank are to
be given away to be recut into soldiers monu
ments.
Speaking Of case of death by heart disease
New HamIshi editor says the autopsy re-
yealed extensive cardiac disease, hypertrophy
complicated with aneurism of the aorta just be-
low its bifurcation."
new prima donna. Madame Agatha States, is
beaming upon New York. She has acquired dis
tinction in Italy, Paris and California, aud has
soprano voice of great volume, sweetness and
sympathy.
Scion Robinson, Of the New York Tribune, now
in Florida, writes that be has found Florida sugar
cane Juice sweeter than that of louisiana A
sugar grower in that State told him that six gal
Ions of juice would make one gallon of syrup.
The Chicago Times devotes over eight columns
to an account of the first reception Of the Chicago
Academy of Design, at the Opera House. The
wealth, beauty and fashion of the city were gath
cred on the occasion to witness the largest collec
ton Of works of art ever seen In the Northwest.
Hamlet" new opera by the composer
Thomas, is to be produced in Paris. 1t is as
serted that the music of one of the scenes is so
fine that the orchestra. after playing it through
for the first time, laid down their instruments and
INDUCED in uproarious applause.
In that part of Northern Maine known as NADIA
waska, 1t is said that all debts are paid in shingles
and buckwheat. Cakes of the latter article are
served at the tsverns in the section, some Of
which have been found to measure two feet in d.
ameter.
The editor of the Turf has RECALLED his palate
with a new and most appetising dish in the shape
| Of green ham skinned, boLed aud reduced to a
pulp, properly favored, forced into sausage
shaped bags and slightly smoked, then sliced and
| broiled.
Bsysrd Taylor, writing from the place in Ger
many where meerschaum pipes are made, says
that only one meerscbaum in ten is genuine, and
that nine smokers out of ten therefore, will strain
their cheeks and trouble their souls in desperate
efforts to obtain a color which, alas they can
never get
A German newspaper tells of o most touchingy
simple will that was left recently by a German
| clergyman of Reifntz. IL consists of this line
only "My soul to God, my body to earth, and
my money to our Deaf and Dumb Hospital" The
properly of the deceased, who has led most
| vigorously abstemous life, amounts TO $35, 600.
| CONSOLATION OF Dr.. bEcKwITH.-rhe follow
ing official circular, in reference to the consecra
/ fion Of the hiahoD elect of f.aor0ia ia nnhshed