The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-19

John d. Stiles has been nominated Democaio
candidate for Congress from the district compris-
ing Lehieh and Montgomery counties, Pa.
Robert II. Newell (0rDheus c. Kerr.) publishes
a card in the New York Tribune, concerning Adah
Menken, his late wife. expressing sympathy with
her virtues and asking charity for her errors.
Miss Berner, OF New York. is the acknowledged
belle at Kssingen. She is blonde. blue-eyed aud
petite, and appears every day on the promenade
in a small carriage. which she drives herself.
Mrs. Burdell Cunningham, who has died thirty
four several violent and natural deaths, and yet
lives 10 tell the chequered story Of her life, is in
Lapoz. Mexico.
4 Mormon elder was recently presented with
nine boys and five girls on the same morning. He
would have made good colonist in the early
stsges Of our provincial existence.
Mile Julia Hsson, the new prima doEna, is
young and very handsome, aud has magniheent
mezzO.soprano voice, OF extraordinary richness,
volume, sW eetness and heXibity.
Mrs. Stowe threatens us with another novel.
Couldn't she be prevailed upon To stow IL away
along with the other rubbish in Uncle Toms
CbbinW
W. Markers, late doorkeeper of the United
States House of Representatives, Is before the
public in a long and telling letter, in which he
renOuDces Radicalism in all its phases and forms.
The Democrats of the Belfast. Maiae. district,
have nominated Hon. Arno Wiswel OF Ellsworth,
for Congress. and VIM. H. Simpson, editor OF the
Republican Journal, elector.
Frank Blair is expected at 81. Louis next
Thursday and the Democratic clubs are preparing
to go mp to Alton on a steamboat to meet and
escort him home with a torchlight procession.
Henry Reed, late Of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
intends in connection VIM. NJ CORY and Charles
Reemelin, well know n politicians OF that CITY. 70
start weekly paper there, to be called the
COmmontr.
Young aud accomplished Jewess, Of New York.
who has been long studying for the stage, will
soon make her debut at one OF the Broadway
theaters under an assumed name. She Is the
daughter Of a wealthy importer.
The Auburn correspondent OF the Herald says
that Secretary Seward stated he could not consls-
tently support seym mour, and il is bellevedrom the
drift OF his conversation, that he will support the
Ssme one has burgled the residence Of Mrs.
Jared Sparks, in Cambridge, and has conveyed
| $1,000 worth of silver plate. No connection De.
tween this removal and Buffers recent return 70
| Massachusetts. A seal, once belonging TO Wash.
ington. was also taken, happily not learned
A washington dispatch of the I4th says: "A
| letter received here to day from Montgomery says
| that Alabama cannot hold presidential election
| for the reason that the new Constitution OF the
State provides for the complete registry OF voters,
| and that the Legislature has adjourned thOut
| passing any law TO effect q registration. The
| governor may convene them TO remedy the defect,
| but this is believed TO be doubtful now"
Does the name Of Grant furnish any guarantee
| for the future of the Radicalsl The people are
not ready to believe il. Grant is politically only
| promise and a possibility. Respectable men
| are not willing TO doubt his honesty or his up
| for success in such strife as be must control 10
save the people from his party. He may prove
| capable; be may not, and II Is time when the
pecple cannot trust their future 10 such chance
| IN. Y. Herald.
Some time ago Mr.. Stevens resolved 20 pur-
chase a burial lot, and he had nearly concluded
for the purchase Of one IN q cemetery At Lam
caster, Pa, when, bearing accidentally that col
ored people were not permitted to be buried In
the cemetery, he withdrew from the purchase
He subsequently bought large lot in the Get'ys-
burg Cemetery. Some person asked him why ne
had provided himself with so large tract OF
ground in a cemetery, he being without a family.
| q Well y he answered, {" ! will not need mnch OF
| Il myself, but some poor devils may want a last
resting place some time. and they can turn In be-
side me-"
Nashville Dispatch, of the l4ih, s,ys: "O)b-
| cliation and compromise between the party in
mower and the disiranchised masses IN Tennessee
appear 10 be at an end. The indications now look
TO a reaction Of bitter and relentless prescription
on both sides. Arguing from the stand point that
the rebels Of Tennessee have left nothing und0ne
in the way Of entreaty, appeal and compromise 70
secure equal political rights with their late slaves
and that all approaches and petitions nave peer
met only with scorn and contempt, the Nashville
Banner tomorrow morning will strongly advocate
relentless prescription against the Radicals, dis
countenancng all intercourse with them What
ever either socially or In business, and THIS IS Y
he rent nm until the Radicals 1T to extend SUI
| fraoe 10 the disfranchised In the present TEN
. neT of the public mind throughout the state
| here ia yery little doubt that this policy will b
inappurated and carried out and the bitterness o
! feeling now existing will be deepened and inten
| sized. On the other side the legislature is pusf
; | ing matters after vigorc MS fashion"