The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-04

he London Times cleared s. 600 900 last year.
Filomeno plays tonight at the Opera House.
+ Rev. Rober Grattan. 40 nnmixed African, has
been admitted to the Ohio Wesleyan University.
An epidemic has broken ont among the hisziz-
sippi mules. N
Rev. DR.. Sears. general agent Of the Peabody
Fund, has been visiting the Charleston schools.
Cen. Longstreet has taken mp his residence In
Huntsville, Ala
Ole Bull has been giving q concert in Plymouth
church.
archbishop Manning has ordered Gregorian
chants to be substituted for choir singing.
A farm. II is said, can be bought in South Caro-
Ina for the price Of spring overcoat in Phils-
delphia. f
The Louisville Courier regrets to learn that
hundreds Of young men are leaving the interior
portions of the State for the far West.
Some mean scoundrel wantonly killed one OF
the pet deer running in the courthouse yard in
Canton, Miss.
The Montgomery Mail reports the Alabama
crops doing well. The negroes who work at all,
are quite industrious.
In Columbus, Geo, on Monday night, Geo. W.
Ashburn was murdered in his house by party OF
men 10 disguise.
Inc iate tsens W 8tklus, says tuo Dolou bput0
Comet, was . cousin Of the late Gov. Allen, Of
Louisiana.
The Baton Rouge Comet says Archbishop Odin
resembles the pope. as the editor of that paper
saw him at Rome in 1851
Chss. A. Dana has been riding out with Bonner
The result is three of four articles in the Sun on
| 'Bonner's stables"
VIM. B. Wright, Of Buffalo, is the coming poet.
R. W. Emerson has read bis forthcoming book.
and approves it.
Felis Oates wants to know whether the sale Of
market stalls for ten years will justify the sale Of
decade meats and vegetables.
| A handsome lady in New York. aged Is, now
enjoys the privilege of fourth husband, having
been three times divorced since she was eighteen.
A. T. Stewart and Clafin & Co., of New York,
have made large reductions in the prices Of cali
| co prints, and their establishments are beseged
by retail buyers.
1t is said that the president refused to employ
| O'Conor or Reed as members of his counsel be-
| cause they had acted as counselors Of Jefferson
Davis. .f@
The song Tramp, tramp, tramp" was COM
posed by prisoner confined in the Iowa Peniten-
tary, and was first written on the walls Of his cell
with charcoal. 1t has Melted the publishers
thousands OF dollars, but not cent to the writer.
The venerable Archbishop Odin, administered
| the sacrament of Confirmation on Sunday last to
over three hundred communicates in st. Joseph's
| Church, Baton Rouge.
The eldest son of Lola Montez, who occupied
distinguished position in the Bavarian army, has
resigned his commission having inherited con-
siderable fortune from the ex-king of Bavaria,
perhaps.
! On Friday week, three miles south of Marshall,
! Texas some person unknown discharged fresrm
through window al Miss Douggie Ewell daughter
| of DR.. Ewell, the ball INJECTING q serious wound
on the siee Of her head. The perpetrator of the
act is unknown.
Mr.. Richard Grant White, in his paper on
swords and their Uses' in the current number Of
the Galaxy, takes up the cudgels in defense of the
common use Of the word some, In the sense Of
about, which many critics have lately condemned
as improper.
A New York jenkins writes that miss Kitty
Van Nostrand. of Brooklyn a belle Of the brilliant
order, remarkable fer her conversational powers,
having been known to entertain twenty gen.
temen ct one time Ia to be married on the
l6th."
The latest discovery in the science Of names Is
that no candidate for president or vice president
in whose name there occurs capital C-thers
have been eleven such-was ever elected, while
the names Of nine of the seventeen presidents
ended with an n. The moral will be evident to all
having boys to name.
At q ball ia Boston, recently, lady tainted and
the attentive jsnitor rushed for his camphor with
which the lady's face was thoroughly bathed until
she recovered. Then it was ascertained that the
1 horI had hoa ok fror hofff ~
lage and the lady felt too much stuck up, remarks
an exchange, to stay any longer.
At the late levee Of the president, representa-
tive of the French legation, decorated, perfumed.
| glcved, immaculate, carried Ia his hand little
jeweled opera glass, and when any of our fair
country women, with bare. dazzling shoulders,
came within certain distance of his august per-
son, instantly the glass was leveled to an exact
angle with the parts exposed. Puppy But were
not the parts exposed for people to look at? And
| was not the polite Frenchman compimenting the
ladies as they desired.
An improved racing hurdle is before the sport
ing public. 1t presents the appearance of a close
board fence, the boards standing on end. They
are hinged at the bottom to base of timber, and
there is no other rail or string piece. The upright
boards are held In position by stays of gutta per-
cha. If horse hits in going over. the stay gives
| by stretching, and down goes the board, 80 that
it is really no more an obstacle than the paper
hoop the acrobat leaps through in the circus.
A Lexington, Va, letter says:
Gen. Lee was recently confined to his room for
| some days. but he Is now performing his usual
duties. | think there lie very perceptible change
| in him since he came to Lexington. This life OF
| confinement does not agree with him. He lacks
that lehtness of step and brilliancy Of eye that
| MAJ 10 i'm. rrLo he I.I -.
fiery legions st Charlottesville, or even on that
| mournful day when he surrendered his war worn,
but veteran soldiers Of ths Lost Cause.