The New Orleans crescent., 1868-09-26
EDITORIAL. FARAsRArHs. Ero

Bennett always retres at nine.
Womsn's rites-msrrage.-IJudy.
Can two weak members make one rm,-[Ex.
Chicago has an eyel,ss child.
Gold closed in New York at 1924 to 1423.
Jack Frost is at the head Of q coal ring.
Howell Cobb was in New Yerk last week.
Butter is going up at st. Albsns.
1t is proposed that base-ballica be substituted
| for the word diabolical.
Some daily papers talk of introducing veloci-
pedes into their Offices for the reporters.
lunatic on Baekwell's Island stands behind
door all day to avoid notice.
The reported destitation of the widow of Audu-
bon is contradicted.
Thanks to the officers of the steamers Louise
and Frances.
James 8. johnson has Joined the N. Y. Mail as
publisher.
The convention which is to decide the fate of
Ben. Butler, meets next week.
Many a seemingly happy wife counts the hours
with the beads of her tears.-LLouisville Journal.
Lopez, the betrsyer Of Macmillan, is in San
| Francisco.
The World has tried women as compositors and
emphatically gives it up.
Mr. Justin Mccarthy, editor of the London
Morning Star, has arrived.
Kirby sold in one week FIVE thousand Grecian
Bends.
The question of moving Yale College out of the
city now agitstes New Haven.
Tho % line afnrm - In annposad fo he ahnnt
ready TO commence.
Bonner smuses himself with doctoring the feet
Of sneent play yed-out horses.
| Winner clothing was not uncomfortable yester-
day.
Helen Western and Chsnfrau are playing in st.
| Louis.
Bsysrd Taylor is worth $50 900, and owns three
shares in the New York Tribune.
Napoleon is experimenting with petroleum fer
gunpowder.
Bulbs of the Japanese lily can be obtained for
$50 each.
There is large Catholic church in Atchison,
Kansas, every brick CT which contains particles
OF gold.
To no creatures, says Parton, is drunkenness so
loathsOme and temperance SO engaging, as to
seven tenths of the drunkards.
One of Brownlow's Radical friends calls him "an
| iron man." The devil has a great many such
irons in the fire.-[Louisville journal.
England pays her premier 10000. and her lord
chancellor fl0,CO0, while the lord lieutenant of
Ireland receives s2O, 900 annually.
To crib valuable articles is generally crime,
| but there is no harm in cribbing babies. saws
Prentice.
James Gordon Bennett has a daughter of II,
who, with James Gordon, Jr., will share all the
| cid mans wealth.
1t Is said that Jerseyman or darky can eat
his weight in watermelons, aod then squeal with
hunger an hour after.
, Mr.. John Il. Appleton, of Portland, has been
elected professor OF chemistry at Brown Univer-
siiy at Providence.
Barnard Cass, an uncle of the late Lewis Cass,
died recently in Hllsdale county, Michigan, in his
ninety fourth year.
Some of the small farmers along the Gentilly
Road have been, for a month past eating new
rice grown along the border of the swamp.
A couple of deer were seen in the swamp near
the lake few days ago. A lucky hunter bagged
one of them.
A youth in New Hampshire who was prevented
by his mother from slaking his fierce thirst with
decoction Of tobacco, split her head open with
anax.~
Mrs Stowe saws manv drunkard has exDeniad
than suffices to carry an ordinary christian to
heaven.
| General Butler asks whether the war must be
fought over again. Well, If it must, and if Fort
| Fisher must be captured over again. we suppose
that he VIII De on hand with his terrible powder
| ship.-[LOuisville journal.
Full reports of the speeches of Col. Hatch and
Gen. Hays, delivered at the Opera House We'd
nesdsy night, were telegraphed to the ST. Louis
Republican by the special correspondent of that
enterprising paper.
The N. Y. Herald interviewed" Ben. Butler
at the Astor House the other day. Ben. thinks be
will win, otherwise all "rebels" will rejoice. He
considers the contest in his district party rather
than personal one.
The contributors to Lippincott's Magazine, for
October, are: Mrs. R. Harding Davis, Rev. 8. W.
Dufield, Robert P. Nevin, Charles Aster Bristed,
Miss Louise Dorr, Watson Ambruster, Paul Il.
Hsyne, Walter Wells, January Searle, Lucy Ham.
ilton Hooper, c. B. Austin and Margaret E. NJ.
Ssngster.
The Atlantic Monthly, for October, has the fol.
lowing articles: Inebriate AsyIums and Visit
to One, Petroleum in Burmah, The Man and Bro
ther, The Two Rabbis, Kings Crowns and Fools
Caps, st. Miehsel's Night, Edmund Brook, The
Face in the Glass, Loves Queen, Bacon, Free
Produce Among the Quskers, The Finances of the
United States, Pandora, Reviews and Literary No
tees.