The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-24


1t is said Bsrnum is to have museum in London.
Tennyscn is In Paris.
Sheridan IL in st. Louis.
Hunnicutt's paper is dead. a-s
Gottschalk is prospecting In Buenos Ayres.
Matilda Heron has quit the stage to resppear as
q lecturer.
They Couldn't stand Perepa's low-neck dress in
Salt Lake City.
Some one has erected monument over the re.
mains Of Aaron Burr.
Don Pistt thinks Grant 10 as much in the dark
regarding his cabinet as anybody else.
"Cousin Nourma" writes New Orleans letters
to the Crystal Springs (Miss.) Argus and Crisis.
Mr.. sypher sends us copy of his eulogy of
the late Thsddeus Stevens.
Train spreads over nearly mortal page in the
World of the 18th.
Edwin Forrest has been playing in Boston, in
his most muscular parts.
The Worlds commandment to the New York
grocers: Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Young denies that he il to resign the manage
ment ofthe New York Tribune.
Mills political economy-Expecting the electors
to pay their expenses.-GPunch.
Rossipis wife used always to call him "my im-
mortal"
Japanese Tommy was killed recently in q battle
in his native country.
Helen Western died in debt to the landlord of q
hotel in Washington.
Brigham Young fixes the proper length OF Ia.
dies dresses.
Velocipedagogues are starting "veocipe.
distutes."
Two homicides of negroes by negroes are just
reported in Mobile.
When is man thinner than single! When
he is shaviDg.-[Ex.
A gold nugget, the exact shape of snail shell,
has been found at Boulder.
Mr.'Dckens has begun in London q new series
OF readings.
1t is rumored that Weed has sold his interest in
the Commercial Advertiser on account of feeble
health.
The great OK presented to Gen. Grant, left Bos-
ton on the goth for Washington. where he is to be
roasted and devoured on the 4th of March.
The Pintes name the locomotive smoke wsg.
on" but the Shoshoues less happily call 1t heap
wagon, Lo boss"
The cauonization Of Princess Elizabeth Louis
XVIs sister, is proposed by the Roman cardi.
mails.
John Adams, when vice president, wore sword,
and walked the streets with his hat under his
arm.
Ben Butler was seen to smile the other day. HIS
mouth is said to have resembled oyster with the
delirium tremeps.
lady who wears q panier asks the New York
World to 'look at the disgusting fashion of tight
unmentionsbles for gents"
Washington dispatch says Gen. Grant freely
expresses himself as opposed to the Edmunds bill,
or any other bill demanding Georgia to provisional
government.
The New York Evening Mail has become joint
stock company. Charles HI. Sweetzer has gone
out. Several well known journalists are about to
form connection with the paper.
"Abramo Lincoln Giovanni Booth" is the title
of play now acting at q Naples theater. The
sensational scene is the leap of a slavs-girl from
a third story window.
horse given by Mr.. Bonner to Dr. McCosh. the
president of Princeton, has been stolen from the
stable of the latter, the door of which has since
been securely locked.
At the wedding of daughter of Gen. James
Barnes, of Springfield. among the gifts was a gor-
geous ore from Mr.. George Peabody, who is re-
lative of the bridegroom.
The spire of the new cathedral in Pittsburg is
to be surmounted BY hollow iron cross. fourteen
gas jets.
John N. Genin, who became celebrated as the
purchaser of the first ticket for the Jenny Lind
concerts, and who has made and lost half Q
dozen fortunes, has recently, by the death of an
uncle, come into possession Of nearly $500 900.
Geo. Ellis has the Belgravia Annual by NJ. E.
Braddon, the Christmas number of London Society,
Hsrper's Weekly, Nick Max, Boys and Girls
Weekly, Holiday Pictorial, Clipper. Comic News,
Jolly Joker, Merryman's Monthly, Literary Al
bum and Chimney Corner.
Your true carpet Dagger. says q Washington
correspondent, hath 10 modesty, AID it was
amusing to see him select for his individual repre-
sentative corpus places tina. Butler. 5chenck or
Washburne would have been glad TO get in the
recent drawing for seats.
The result of the conference which has just been
held at ST. Petersburg by the commissioners dele.
gated by the great powers of Earope, to investi-
gate the subject of employing inhuman APP
plisnces 10 war;" is agreement that in future
no explosive projectiles weighing less than 400
rrammes, are to be employed By the contracting
States."
Doctor Cox, of Ohio, physician Of thirty years.
standing, asserts that beer Is most pernicious to
the physical constitution. The children Of beer
drinking parents succumb readily to disease; and
cases requiring surgical treatment, ulcers and
sores are much more difficult Of management in
eerdriDkers than even with consumers Of
whisky.
A correspondent OF the New York Times says
that jefferson was saved from pecuniary embar-
rassment on'y by the Monticello farm that Madi-
son, after mis- retirement, with difficulty kept up
respectable appearance at Montpelier, and that
his widow supported herself BY the sale Of the
wreck of personal Effects" that Monroe be-
came absolutely destitute" before he died
that jackson had hardly money enough to enter.
tain visitors at the Hermitage; and states other
facts showing the painful impecuniosity Of presi.
| dental incumbents.
A CHANGE OF INrEREsr.-We were informed
yesterday that negotiations were pending, which
contemplated q change Of interest. Col. ]. r.