The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-09

Mr.. Buchansn's estate is computed at $500 600
The wife of Gov. Oglesby, of Illinois, ID dead.
Mr. stsnbery recommends Mr.. Groesbeck for
attorney general.
So light another candle as not to extinguish
your own.-lEx.
Somebody advertises for sn undertaken to make
collins by contract, for the" dead of the night"
The prince of Wales has become very bald, and
they say he will soon be gray. FH9
Geo. Ellis has Leslie's Illustrated, the police
pictorials, etc.
A Mississippi candidate has been fined SIS for
"getting whipped in a street fight"
Voltage, who is single man, is generally con-
sdered honest, but says there are times when his
fingers have itched to "hook " dress. -
The strike of railroad men appears to be delay
ing the mails, and we are indebted to the South.
ern Express Company for late papers.
Some one well observes that it is much safer to
be ignorant of secrets which are difficult and
dangerous to be kept, than to know them 20 '7'o'
POlonius says that when A. Head dies it win be
useless to place obolus' on bis eyes. Old Charon
will pass him across the Styx as A dead Head.
Capt Jerome Napoleon Bonspsrte arrived at
New York on the 4th, in the steamer st. Laurent
on visit to Baltimore.
The prizes to be contested for at the coming
Schuetzenfest, in New York, amount to $4,000.
Gen. Siegel is to be grand marshal. - .r.
H. L. Blow, Dan. Owens. Wm. Lucas, j. J.Greeu,
d.Maubers and Frank Carrier useful attaches Of
the Academy of Music, aud good fellows. have /.
benefit tomorrow "wednesday night. Let them
be remembered.
" There is no price set on the lavish summer,
And June may be had 0y the poorest conner.
Aud what is so rare a day IN Juneg
Then Heaven tries the earth If 1t DO in tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays" .f
The New York Times regards kr. JohnsoDs sp-
pointment of Gen. Scho6eld TO be secretary OF
war as an indication that he il not inclined to con-
time his contest with Congress, but will, during
the residue of his administration consult the sem
tinlents and preferences Of the more discreet and
sensible members of the majority.
Il is said that the locusts which appeared in this
vicinity in ls67 had well defined Up" stamped
upon the back, while those of the seventeen
year persuasion. this year, have an equally de-
nDed ''W" on the back. These cabalisrc letters
have been interpreted to mean peace and war.
louisville CeDries.
French country cure has found new argu.
ment to show the existence of Providence. he
lately said TO bis parisAIoners. who are largely en-.
gagged in raising early vegetables: Perhaps yoa
have sometimes asked yourselves why God did
not give to asparagus two succulent ends instead
Of one. And yet, If it had been so, the eater
would have had nothing to take hold Of in lifting
it to his mouth !" go
The dear sisters Of the Sorosis have come
to grief. Discussions crept in, and some Of the
original lesders-the Carys, Miss Kate Field and
a dozen otbers-have retired, and are quietly
planning another and more modest organization
for the social benefit and art elevation of the
clever of the sex. The name, the lunches, the
reporting Of the proceedings, and Madame De-
morest, the milliner, were the stumbling blocksia
the way of the Cary and Field secsders.