The New Orleans crescent., 1868-01-17
Editorial Paragraphs. Etc.

The debt of North Carolina is So. .69s. 900.
Pitkin is not to figure as a congressional candi.
date. He was beaten by sypher.
1t is said Dumas (colored) will be an independ-
ent radical candidate for governor.
A Times special says that Stanton did not draw
salary for tine time he was suspended.
DR.. Tbos. @. Durant has gone to Europe, to in.
terest foreign capitalists in the Pacific road.
An exchange says the ladies would rather face
mad bull than not have their dresses gored.
Putnam announces the third edition of the first
number Of the Monthly.
Adyices from Csprera state that the health Of
Garibaldi has much improved.
Senator Pomeroy is said to pay $4,000 for
Paris parlor furniture.
Mrs. StonewaIl Jackson has received SIS 900
from the sale of the life Of her husband.
Isaac L. Allen, the attorney general of Iowa,
has become hopelessly insane.
Rogers, Of the Journal, is the richest newspaper
man in Boston.
pious Lordoner has sent nine tons Of tracts to
Chicago.
Texas sent about 10000 beef cattle to New
York last season.
The Mormons are constructing a new fort at
Cove Creek.
An inventor proposes to use wood, instead Of
per.hangings, for the walls of houses.
The purser Of the Laura mas our thanks for Mo-
bile papers.
mountain Of tin has lately been discovered in
Madison county, Missouri.
very serious calamity threatens the Demo-
cratic party Joe. Brown, of Georgia, is trying
to get back into it.
NJ. A. Southworth has purchased the New Or
leans Republican newspaper from s. l.. Brown &
Co., and assumes entire charge and control of it.
The picture gallery in Stewards new house is
illuminated by three hundred and twenty-five
burners. which can be instantly lighted.
The president is reported to be determined to
suffer no further dminution of his prerogatives in
the appointment and removal of military officers.
A life Of John NJ. Daniel is in preparation by
his brother, Frederick Daniel, who lived with him
in Turin.
The radicals have made the following con-
gressional nominations: First district, J. Fl. sy.
pher second district Simon Jones third district,
J. P. Newsham.
George Peabody requests that the church
erected by him in Georgetown, Mass, shall be
used for religious purposes only, and by the ortho-
dox Congregationalists.
There is a novelty in dress, in Paris, which is
called "mask veil, !" which copeeals ugliness and
gives the aged all the semblance Of youth, as
long as it is kept down.
Mr.. Durant urges "rapidity of movement under
the reconstruction action" He thinks every
days delay now increases difficulties and dan
gers"
According to the Mobile Tribune the case Of
Col. MeArdle, of VickRburg, has been so placed
on the docket that it cannot be reached for two
years to come.
The late Bishop Hopkins was in 1927 nominated
as assistant bishop of Pennsylvania. By his own
vote he elected his opponent, the Rev. Dr. Onder-
donk.
Van Rensselaer,, the "Patroon" of Albany.
has given notice to bis tenants in that city that
on the lst of May he will add fifty per cent. to
their rents, which have heretofore been very low.
Young Lady-"Ah, really, Mr.. Splurge, can't
think how you manage TO paint with such taste."
Mr.s.-"simply by holding my palate in my hand,
j assure yOu."-lJudy.
On Wednesday, Judge Durel ordered Mr..
Bricken, lawyer practicing in his court, to take
his seat, because he alluded to the legislative de
psrtment of the government as the "so-called
Congress"
A few days ago, Mrs. Cooke, in Madison county,
Alabama, put arsenic in her dough by mistake for
soda the consequence of which was the death of
the whole family-hersef, her husband and three
children.
Robert Tyler, son Of the ex-president is editor
of the Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser, in
which Office, an Eastern paper says, " his beauti
fnl and accomplished daughter, Letitia Christiana
Tyler, is engaged in setting type"
General Pope called on the president on Satur-
day. and thanked him for relief from an arduous
and thankless task. A. ]. was gratifed of course,
that he had been able to render the general so
signal service.
By party vote of ffty-two against thirty
seven, the Ohio House of Representatives has
passed joint resolution resembling the ratification
of the pending amendment-the fourteenth arti'
cle-of the Constitution of the United States.
The Mail has the following cheerful paragraph
about our city:
The pleasantest places in New Orleans are the
cemeteries. II is well they are such, for residents
are mole likely to go there than anywhere else.
The president signed the whisky warehouse bill
on Saturday. On the same day whisky is said to
have sold in New York. with certificate Of pay
ment Of the two dollar tax, at one dollar and
twenty cents per gallon.
Mr.. Walter Philbrook, the cashier of the De-
posit Bank Of Mobile, has mysterious disappeared.
The bank will be closed for few days in conse-
quence of this circumstance. So says the Mobile
Advertiser.
During the present month the grand duke Of
Tuscany is to marry the Princess Alice de Bour-
bon, second daughter of the duchess of Parma.
The parties belong to the retired list Of Italian
sovereigns.
A correspondent of the New York Tribune,
who knows whereof he speaks, makes the startling
revelation that the number of lives lost in the
Angola disaster was nearly twice as large as has
hitherto been stat ed, being sixtyeght instead of
thirty nine.
In New MeIleray. Iowa, the monks of the Cis.
tercian order are building monastery, which is
to cover nearly three acres-much larger than any
similar pile in America, and equaled. in size,
only by few in Catholic Europe. 1t is to cost
$500 600.
Victoria takes quite naturally to the business Of
raising fine sheep and oxen. The British papers
laugh at the manner in which she punches the
oxen and obese sheep in the ribs and talks of
their fine points with all the sangfroid of a con.
noisseur. She has taken prizes for fat oxen.
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