The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-30
EDITORIAL PARAsRAPas. ETC.
The artist Elliot is dead.
Raymond has returned.
Charleston is in fine health

The artist Elliot is dead.
Raymond has returned.
Charleston is in fine health.
The South Carolina rice crop is promising.
Hoop skirts are to be little larger this fall.
Upper is still writing rhymes about Canada.
New Jersey has 500 boiler works.
Tennessee owes $4,000, 900.
Perfumed corsets are coming in fashion.
St. Louis is to have porphyry pavements.
Prussia can count l44 mionaires.
Victoria has thirty people travelling with her.
FilomeDo is in Boston.
Sculptor Mead has pretty Italian wife.
Gold closed in New York yesterday at l4lE.
Thanks to Mr.. W. s. Pike and the officers Of the
steamers Josephine Clinton and Annie Wsgley.
Chief Justice Chase is visiting Senator Sprague,
In Providence, R. /.
The New York merchants are expecting heavy
fall trade
Commodore James Q. Armstrong, U. s. NJ, died
at Cbarlestown on the 25th.
Capt. Thomas Surtis, an old Charleston pilot is
dead.
MIR. scanland, Of the Natchitoches Spectator, is
in town.
The old National Intelligencer devOtes two
columns TO prize fight.
Crinoline and psDiers are not going out Of
fashion.
There are eight thousand Mormons at work on
the road between Salt Lake and Green River.
ara-aa-ruirsr hnakAt of mnrtar hia haad
Burlingame's Chinese embassy are all Confucia-
nists.
Liverpool is at last allowed to have street rail.
ways.
The Cuban policemen are armed with short
lance, pistol, a whistle, and lantern.
Napoleon gives thousand francs to the Cob
den monument.
A monument to Thaddeus Stevens is already
suggested.
The belle who eats with her knife is the OBJ.
served of all, etc., at Saratoga.
An exchange finds it an amusing sight to see
row of young ladies all eating corn as they would
perform upon flute.
Senator Sprague has imported two Shetland DO.
MES, which are as small for horses Is he is for
Senator.-IWorld.
Napoleon is not exactly well pleased with the
part which the empress has taken in bringing about
the Pstt-De-Caux match.
The London Art Journal speaks in high praise Of
Bierstadt's midnight view Of Vesuvius in eruption
taken in January last.
1t is reported in Rome that Cardinal Bonsparte
will be appointed by the Pope to the Archbishop
rio of Basendorf. Trannsylvania, which will make
him primate of the United Greeks.
There is no fcundatisn for the rumor that the
Chinese embassy wished to put up at the Ameri.
can House because the landlord was Rice.-lBos.
ton Post.
To-day Dexter is to trot over the Fashion Course.
1t is reported that Bonner has agreed to give
$4,000 to charitable institutions if his horse don't
Ill n.Tn
fastest time.
At the Philadelphia yearly meeting of the
Quakers, member in good standing in other re-
CARDS, was not allowed to speak, because his hat
aud coat did not correspond to the fashions of
William Penn.
AT recent distribution in the Col eye Of g.
Barbe, the son of Cavaignac refused to accept a
prize from Napoleon III. He remembered that
the emperor imprisoned his father, who saved
Paris from a reign Of terror in 1913. The affair
created great stir in the school.
Married, in Salt Lake City, 10th inst, in the
presence of the Saints, Brigham Young to Mrs j.
R. Martin, Miss Emily P. Martin, Miss NJ. L. PEN
dergast, Mrs. r. NJ. Jenickson, and Miss Susie p
cleveland, all of the county of Berks, England.
No cards.
The Sulphur Springs correspondent Of the Rich.
mona w mig writes as 1OLOWS:
Gen. Rosecrans was in the ballroom tonight.
and was escorting lady. Generals Lee and Beau.
regard we're at the same time promenadng with
two of the bellies Of the springs. By way of p.-
renthess, both Of them are great gallants. Alex.
II. Stephens. of Georgia Gov. Pckens, of South
Carolina MIR. Conrad, Of LOuisana Gov. Let
cher, A. II. ii. Stewart, Allen Caperton, Rev. J.
l.. NJ. Curry, formerly member Of Congress from
Alabama. are among the visitors here wno have a
national reputation.
A supposed dead man in Norfolk, Va, was
reused from his trance by the tinkle Of ice in
tumblers Of mint julep the bearers were fortfy-
ing themselves for the long walk to the grave.
He sat up in bis coffin and demanded drink, and
the funeral ended by the mourners all adiourninr
TO the house of the resurrected man, where jueDs
passed round long enough to almost accomplish
for The whole party that fate from which the first
one had so miracuously delivered their host.
We think it quite safe to say that the demonstra.
ton last night Of the conservative clubs Of New
Orleans and vicinity exceeded in combined magni-
tude, elaborateness and enthusiasm, any similar
affair Of the kind ever witnessed in the United
states. The procession, glowing with myrads Of
torches, lanterns and transpareucies aud gorgeous
with banners and club costumes, put entirely in
the shade any previous demonstration we ever
witnessed in any campaign. North or South. The
fact that it occupied one hour and fifty minutes.
marching at quick time, in passing given point
viii convey some idea Of its immense length. De.
scrption can convey but poor idea Of its msgni-
ncence or OF the admiration and enthusiasm which
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