The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-22

already visible IN an increased confidence ID
American securities.
Twenty years ago Queen Victoria hated the
Tories. Now she sbhors Russell and Gladstone,
and almost loves Derby and Disrsel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Boucicault made their last appear
ance on the stage In Dublin, Nov. 70. Hereafter
he ID to be wholly literary"
Washington dispatch to the Republican says
"your senators cay they will not allow any non.
resident carpet dagger to be confirmed"
The president lie warmly besieged for Hooker's
late position in the army. The Maryland delega.
ton want it given TO Stoneman.
Stanton has resumed his law practice, and says
he is out of politics.
The Senate has confirmed Charles Ii. Poor as
rear admiral In the navy.
Boston has decided to invest million dollars In
an avenue one hundred feet wide.
Has Senator Sumner invited the Hon. Mr.. Men,
ard. (colored) member of Congress from Louisi.
ana. to take Christmas dinner with him?5 Bos'
ton Post.
special dispatch to the Picsyune says Mrs.
Gaines is drawing charges for the impeachment
by Congress of Judge Durell, of the U. S. Court
in Louisiana, for alleged corruption"
Mrs. Ernestine L. Rose presents her remedy for
infsnticide, which. among other things. proposes
to make the fathers of iegitimate children recog-
ize such children as legitimate.
The Franklin Ua.) Banner is for sale for $1,000.
1t is worth far more money to the public under
the management of Mr.. bennett, and we shall be
sorry to have 1t pass from his hands.
have seen and heard, says Auber, many sing.
ers remember Catalan, Pasta. Mslibran, Grisi
and Sontag; but never heard so perfect an artist
as La Patti; as for her voice, 1t is without flaw.
A story has recently been set afioat that Marshal
Ney was once a captain in the revolutionary
army; and that for challenging Gen. Wayne, Gen.
Washington struck his name from the army list.
The Washington correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Commercial thinks there was no foundation
for the reported corruption in the matter of the
Alaska purchase.
1t is said Miss Evans forthcoming romance was
inspire while the fair authoress was saying her
prayers, when the whole plot flashed through her
mind.
Napoleon generally drives q quiet turnout,
q high carriage drawn by two fast horses,
and generally wears q gray overcost in order to
look like Napoleon 1.
Some of the girls employed in the treasury de.
partment are said to shave compilations like the
creamy tint of autumn apples, and a velvet glis.
ten to their eyes never seen outside of mixed
blood"
The Evening Express says that the friends of
Gen. Mcclellan, in Washington, say that he will
be offered the secretaryship of war by Grant. be
cause of his admiration for Mcclellan, and his
desire to show the country that he is not partisan
very generel qualification is expressed that
Mr.. Stephens has signi6ed bis intention to accept
the chair of bellies lettres recently voted to him
hxr hnaa ~ - - IT.
Georgis.-[SsvanDah Republican.
A New York correspondent thinks the circula-
ton Of the New York morning dailies Is about as
follows: Herald, 65 900; Sun, 47OOO Tribune,
AZ 900; World and Times, $1,000 each; Star. Is.
coo; Democrat, 1000; Journal of Commerce, $500.
In New Orleans the young gentlemen are in the
habit of turning back and looking after sill the
pretty young ladies who pass them on the street.
They should let bygones be bygones.-INew
York Mail.
Rev. F.. Barham Zincke, one of the queens
chsplans, and vicar at a country place in Egg
land, has written book about the United States.
He ssys mericans don't eat faster than English.
men that they are not laxative or inquisitive,
and that they are far more helpful and civil to
each other than Englishmen are.
In his last manaioalIy idiotio bslIssin to the
World, Train says: "Have ordered the hotels in
Omaha to be set on fire. That blaze will beacon
Ireland to liberty, England to her doom. America
to the empire Of the world. Mems sdna in cor
pore sdno. Turkish baths. Tell the truth. No
tobacco. No whisky. Never say die. l still
live.n
Uncle Sam is pre-eminently a self.made man.
His unnatural old mother quarreled with him Ia
his infancy but, like an infant Hercules he struck
out and kicked her shns SO badly, she concluded
to leave him alone. By strict attention to his own
business, be accumulated vast fortune, but,
Specializing deeply in the wool trade. he got into
debt TO the extent of s. 1000 600 0oO.-[New York
Democrat.
A Herald correspondent recently had CONVEX
sation with John W. Menard, the colored con-
gresham elect from Louisiana. he is said to be
o rather prepossessing mulatto In appearance.
He denounced the carpet-bsggers in Congress,
who had snubbed him since his arrival, although
they were warmly devoted to him before the cleo
ton, and he seemed to think Gov. warmoth in.
tended to withhold his certificate.
At the LeEert-Reab wedding In Trinity Chapel
in New York, on the 10th, the bride wore an elab-
crate muslin dress. with an immense train edged
with three rows of futing. The skirt was COM
posed of alternate narrow tucks and pufings Of
insertion. The waist was decoLlete and edged with
lace. a lace unuefWdlSt fastened al the throat.
vide white satin sash passed around the waist,
and fastened behind. She carried large bouquet
of flowers, and q wreath of orange blossoms fas-
tened the veil to the head.
The World has commenced an exposition of
grocers' swindles in New York by sending spe-
cial reporter, assisted by competent housekeeper,
to make purchases of articles of ordinary house
hold consumption and thereafter to test the
weight or measure of these articles by means of
sealed measures and officially verified scales, and
also of employing competent chemist to ana
lyze articles, with an eye to the discovery of
authorizations. The average swindle amounts to
fifteen per cent. of the price of the articles pur-
Commodore Meade, since his release from an
asylum for the insane, published card in which
he says: As the pieces of silver given to Judas
oirpi.yoo the motives Ior tne betrayal the b.
viour of Mankind, 90 did the marriage of my
daughter the morning after my entrapment shed
all the light needed upon that atrocity." His un-
welcome son-in-law, Charles X. Lands, has writ
ten letter to the New York Herald stating that
the confinement Of the commodore was effected
from motives Of humanity and not to promote his