The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-16
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Beecbers pews rent lnis yeAf iof MANY eSV'"0''
Jenny Busk r. singing with success In Baltimore.
Fox hunting Is fine in Virginia.
LOFTS opera troupe is in Louisville.
The sultan is threatened with consumption.
An old bachelor at Pittsfeld, Mass. was pre-.
scented with q census report, on New Years.
Prentice wonders old Grant never taught
"Ulyssr how to talk.
The Webb sisters, it is said. are to play 100
nights on the Pacific coast for SIG, 00O
sprats are sold for manure in England at six
pence bushel.
Mobile Is in pleased futter over the arrival Of
the "Black Crook"
Hon. Thomas Ewing is opposed to taxing
bonds. /.
To make a mice cream. Stick a pin in the
The snews of the war oflce-three thousand
The purser of the Mary has our thanks for
Mobile papers.
We are Indebted to the purser Of the steamship
j. G. Haris for fayors.
morning paper thinks Forrest "can hardly be
considered very great as Vb'ginius
is the man who writes amoving tale necessarily
wag III Mail.
The MOrmOns are beginning to have divorce
suits.
The Connecticut State convention of the g. A.
r. has nominated Grant for president.
severe blot to bad cooking-Pierre Blot:
DIR. Charles Jewett is opposed to the growing of
hops on temperance principles.
A. Miner Griswold is lecturing on Indian
Meal"
Twenty Turkish baths for as many dollars in
Boston.
An exchange suggests that the government
might as well sell its forts as its iron clads,
Another grain elevator and barge with 1900
bushels of wheat have arrived.
Mr.. Stewards title Is to be Secretary of Estate.
Cabbage boiled in a beg is nearly as ane as
caulfower.
been placed onrunners.
The governors of Maine and Connecticut dis
agree upon the question of taxing bonds.
Aggassiz predicts thirtythree snow storms this
winter-lEx.
Then the clerk of the weather in this section
viii have to hurry up his cakes.
1t was reported on the Gags Tuesday, while
the operations of the telegraph were temporarily
suspended, that Congress had abolished cleo
triciiy.
Gen. Lee is reported as saying that the course
of Gen. Hancock was the first dawn of hope he
had seen for the people of the South SINCE the
termination of the war.
Letters held in the Mobile postofice, on account
of postage not being paid, for j. A. Patmore, VIM.
Kelly, John Herrin, Bostick & Seymour, and E. F..
Goulson d Co., all of New Orleans.
We are opposed to violence but it is a matter
of perpetual surprise to us that somebody hasn't
n. of ,f,a Ia
COMPOUNDED thrashing. He persists in publishing
the names of persons engaged to be married.
To London one of the great curiosities is its d.
rectory.-[Philadelp Ledger.
In New Orleans, ditto. We propose to send
our copy of Gardners last to the agricultural
department of the State Fair.
The foremen of the fire companies entered
for the proposed race at the Fair Grounds on
Tuesday, are out in a card complaining that the
committee of arrangements did not do them
Justice.
At musical festival down east q chorus
from Mozart's Twelfth Mass was sung. cousin
from the country (of eourse) was, present, and on
the way home, discussing the music, exclaimed
AThe piece liked best was that chorus from the
Twelfth Massachusetts,"
The Mobile Times says that Apologize, the
radical nominee for lieutenant governor OF Ala.
bAma, stole during the war certain valuable deeds
bonds, etc., from the residence of the Hon. Jacot
Thompson, in Mississippi Mr.. Thompson'I
lawyers now show a receipt from Apologize fol
three hundred dollars, he having kindly consented
to give up the papers for that sum.
The delightful social historian Of the Domestic
Spy, speaking of New Years Day receptions
says az Mrs. Judge Roosevelt received with Mrs.
exPresident Tyler, Mrs. RonaIds, and Mrs. Whit
ney, most beautiful widow, from Philadelphia, "
and that "Mrs. Roosevelt had a most bountful
table, and dispensed the hospitalities in genuine
Dutch STYLE"
The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore
Gazette says the prospects of Grant have been
essentially damaged by the recent development
that his real name is not " U. S." but Hiram U.
Grant, and remarks that when he shall have &C.
cepted the infamous radical platform of negro
supremacy he must erpect 10 hdUe his lcltole con-
dict miiitdry ciUa and social, laid bare to an
admriug, or, il may be, TO disguised world.
Prof. Agassiz's summer home IL quaint little
brown house on the wild northern shore of Ma
liant, standing in the middle of an entirely uneul
tivated acre, without even the semblance of a
pa,h TO the door. A rough fence or stone wall
inCloses the lot on three sides, with tangle OF
wild roses, brambles and golden rod growing on
the lee of it. On the fourth side the uneven
grass ends abruptly at the edge of a sudden de-
clivity, az whose base the great rocks against
which the sea dashes-
srEDs FOR rHK Planters OF LouIsIANA.-Ths
following letter 10 Mr.. VIM. s. Pike, president o
the Louisiana Commission Of the Paris Exposition
shows that our energetic commissioner at Paris
Mr.. Gotthel is sdll devoting himself to our inter
ests, and has forwarded a collection of seeds Of
different kinds to the city, to be distributed among
our planters: ,t
PARIS, December Is, 1867.
Exposition;
Dear SH-Snce the close OF the Exposition
have occupied myself in making collections OF
seeds OF grain and cotton from other countries
which think will be of great interest to our
STATE.
Considering that your time is much occupied in
your banking heuse, have thought proper to
send the collection, contained in large box, to
onr colaborer, Mr.. Price, of the firm of Price,
Hine Upper, for distribution among the
planters of Louisiana with whom Mr. p has ron