The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-20

The enterprise of driving cattle from Texas to
California is shout to be undertaken.
Capt. W. e. Yerger, OF vicksburg, died on the
18th inst.
Seward left Auburn for Washington on the
18th inst.
Mr.. John Eyeritt, of England, addressed q meet
ing at Memphis on the nth.
The Avalanche says the real governor Of Ten
ressee is DR.. Roynton, Brownlow's son-in-law.
Barnun says he has retired forever from the
museum business.
The New York World, of Sunday, covers six.
teen pages. and is model of modern journalism.
Lieutenant Maury Is shortly to become one Of
the professors in Gen. Lees college.
Earl Russell has just become the grandfather of
twins.
Gen. Franklin ives one of the vice presidents Of
The recent Democratic meeting in New Haven.
At the beginning of the war Gen. Grant owned
three slaves in Missouri.
On holidays the Boston eating shops charge
five cents dish extra.
Agents Of San Francisco brothels get recruits
in New York.
Brownlow has adopted measures to ferret out
the Kuklux Khan.
An attempt is to be made to build railroad
from Wheeling to Toledo.
Forty five million dollars are the assets OF the
Hartford insurance companies.
Limburger cheese is legal nuisance in Pitts
burg.
sickles is to join his regiment at sacketts Har-
Dor.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer Mata-
gorda.
A subscription of 100000 has been raised for
hotel in Springfield, o.
The Indians about Fort Totteu are starving, and
the garrison on half rations.
young lady was killed by lightning at Brooks
ton, Ind, on the 10th.
P. T. BaInums mother died on the 16th inst, at
Bethel Connecticut.
The virginians are feasting on shad, partrldges
snd robbins, the latter selling at so to IS cents
dozen.
One issue of the London Times lately contained
the announcement of the death Of six persons
whose united ages were 52l years.
Italian music boys are purchased Of their
parents and transported to London and New
York.
Admiral Farragut was cheered and compli-
mented at Naples, with grand review of Italian
troops.
The Centenary Methodist Church, in Chicago,
wss dedicated Sunday, and a contribution Of
$50, goo made toward paying for it.
| sickles and Cochrane were serenaded in New
York, Saturday night for their services in New
Hampsiire.
Col. Morpbis has Withdrawn from the Galveston
Civilian, and connected himself with the Houston
Telegraph.
The railroad bridge crossing the Trinity at
Liberty, Texas, is reported destroyed by persons
| in the interest of steamboats, on the river.
The hurricane Of the night Of the 18th passed
over the entire West, destroying property to q
| great extent.
| st. Paticks Day was celebrated with enthu-
siasm at Nashville and Memphis, and various
| places in the West.
| Yates continues, in his sober moments, to de-
| liver temperance lectures with unremittng
| vigor.-lWorld.
There has just been exhumed watery poem
of Poes, written when he was eighteen. It is q
lampoon on a clerk of whom he was jealous.
Lord Derby is said during his illness to have
relieved himself Of an answer to the conundrum
"Why is bald headilike heaven ?'' in these terms
because there is no whig there"
1t is protested that Edgar alias Ellen Burnham
is al alusys has been "he," but failed to dis
cover the fact himself until after his marriage to
another man.
In OsYka, Miss, two negro thieves being pur.
sued and attempting to take refuge in a passing
night train, were both crushed to death under
the wheels.
The proprietors of the large tract of swamp
land lying between the extension of Washington
street and the New Canal are having it thoroughly
ditched for drainage, and it promises ere long to
be very valuable piece Of property.
A writer on the Poetry Of Slang" in ths
Round Table, suggests that q simpleton is called I
"spoon y and a "mui " because spoon touches
a ladys lips without kissing them, and mui
holds her band without pressing it.
Georgia humorist remarks on the story tha
"Ihad. Stevens sent Brownlow word to die hur
rahing,n that "there is no telling just now how h'
will die, but he is certain TO commence hurrahinl
for water very shortly afterwards"
A Washington special to the Cincinnati Com
mercial says that the president, II convicted, vii
90 on speaking tour through the country, com
mercing at New York and extending to the ia
West, during which he will attempt his own win
dicatoD.
The Pail Mall Gazette has an American lette
about Mr.. Dickens's visit, saying that he has mad
much money, but has not done so much as wa
expected OF him towards establishing the era 0
good feeling between England and America
owing to various causes which the letter write
points out.
The Washington correspondent OF the Londo
, Standard observes: "Senator Wade visited Ca
roll Hall the other evening to listen to Mr.. Dicken
The senator had ticket for reserved seat.
could not readily find his seat, and so sat down
, the back Of the house, exclaiming, in voice thi
reached every ear, This Dickens is humbai
any way"
; On HALL Pachas grand cotton estate, nea
Grand Cairo, where nearly hundred thoussn
f. acres have been cultivated in cotton since ls6:
: portable steam engines, on W. eels. are made
do all the plowing. to drive the cotton-gins an
presses, and, when the crop Is made, TO haul 1t
7 the city in immense wagon trains along the con
I mon highway, to the infinite astonishment Of do
: keys camels and Turks.
. Judge Hunter, of the Memphis Criminal cour
1 on the 18th adjourned his court until the 18Th
4 April, because, as he alleges, adequate suppo
cannot at. present be obtained to enforce its pr
. cssses. n this order Of adjournment he col
IT nlars Of the illegal discharge from custody Of