The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-22


Grau's German Opera troupe is in Savannah.
Thanks to the officers Of the steamer Idahoe.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer Morgan.
Minnesota has caught the hop fever.
The spiritusIisis are in full blast at Chicago.
Conking is said TO be the best looking man in
the Senate.
The rich senator from Rhode Island is known
in the reporters gallery as +" Little spraguey."
1t is said that the firm of Phillips, Sampson &
Co. sunk $4,000 in the Atlantic Magazine.
Thanks to the officers Of the steamer St.
Merry.
Bismarck sleeps like marmot throughout
church service, and what ia more, snores.
The Mississippi river is open above and below
Lake Pipin.
Ristori is coming back from Havana. She will
soon get to be an old 'stori.
Fessenden is said to spend his evenings in
whist playing, but is always ready for debate.
Yates thinks tie conviction of the president
very doubtful. nW
We hear favorable accounts of coming crops
from every part of the country.
Democratic paper in Washington dominates
Chief Justice Chase for the Presidency.
Thanks to the Southern Express Company for
bunole Oh late papers.
The probable line of defense in the trial of the
president is prefgurcd else where by the Washing
ton correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette.
Secretary McCulloch's late letter to the chair
man Of the finance committee, is given in another
column.
The proprietors of the Boston Post have Just
paid $4,000 for property upon which to build
new publishing house. w
The London Times says a more popular man
could not be sent from America to the British
court than Geo. B. Mcclellan.
Lucien Bonaparte, one Of the new cardinals,
WAS grandson of Lucien BOnapsrte, brother of
the first Napoleon. IS
Further particulars of the great storm show
that it was unparalleled in extent and destruc-
tiveness.
The presidents counsel, il ia said think the evil
dence Of General Rousseau absolutely necessary
for the defense. It is believed he can be sum
moned from Alaska in about three months.
London correspondent says the poet laureate
appears to be collecting all the discarded scraps
of his waste paper basket, and selling them to the
magazines, as some people clear out their ward.
robes once year.
Abiding to steyens's late reflection Of oysters
in the Senate chamber, the New York Times re-
marks that the Souih is only Mr.. Stevens's meta
phorical oyster which, with ancient Pistol he says,
+" with sword will open."
"Mack" Gays Fessenden may be called
conservative Republican, which is man who
svears the thing is wrong yet does it, and jusfes
himself in the belief that as a choice of evils
between that and Democracy he is choosing the
least.
On the 18th the president formally attended the
funeral of William Slade much respected col
ored man, who has been for years the ste ward of
the executive mansion. Mayor walIack and other
local celebrities were also present. The deceased
was quite wealthy.
The journalists Of Oberlin, Ohio, call barber
a tonsorial professor" winter is spoken of ~
" Mr.. ]. Frost;" surprise party is entitled
'' an amicable invasion:p burglars are dubbed
g modern adepts," and the public speakiug
10 the college is called, The Monthly Rhe.
torical.n
Celeste and Boosey, says a sharp writer in the
Chicago Tribune, do not go to the Italian opera
because they like it better than English, but be-
cause it is fashionable. Do you want proof Of
this FRA Diavolo" is one of the most popular
Sf foreign operas, and yet erman's interpolation
IF simple English ballad, sung in English, creates
more enthusiasm in the most fashionable audience
Than all the rest Of the opera combined. These
people like the English best, but for the sake of
fashion they will endure musical msrtyrdom just
Is woman will let her back hair stretch her eyes
o her ears, or let corset put her on half ratons
# breath for the same reason.