The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-12

bottom dollar on Seward. He will either beat the
emperor of China's best, or perish.
Nowadays black is so much worn that it is not
considered out of place at any time. With
pretty bonnet and shawl or mantle it is full dress
enough for any occasion, and in black lady can
not be oVerdressed.
The New Orleans correspondent Of the Mobile
Tribune wonders that the crowded seats of the
smphitheater at the Fair Grounds, on the day of
the tourney, did not yield more money than was
reported.
One DR.. De La Rsvele, who was announced to
lecture in Yicksburg, Tuesday evening, made his
appearance and electrified the audience By stating
that they must excuse him, for he was drunk.
He then left. --,-
The New York Sun remarks: "Mr. Pendleton
has never advocated Reputation, nor anything
which could be construed as reputation, and he
ought not to be held responsible for the extreme
views of friends of his over whom he has no con-
I troll
Gen. Lee has written letter to the editor OF the
Yale Courant, denying the truth of the recent &C.
count of alleged outrages by students OF the col.
lege of which be is president, and saying that he
had hoped the previous denials by others had
satisfied all fair-minded persons.
The Mail believes in little women As a rule,
it says, the little woman is brave. When the
Emphatic giantess falls into q faint or goes off
into Mysteries, she storms, or bustles about. or
holds on like a game terrier, according to the
work on hand.
picture in the last numoer of Judy represents
two little girls talking to each other over the title
Not to be beaten" The first one says, with
pride on her brow: "Ah, my mamma has car
rage " And the second replies, with more
pride on her brow: "0h, that's nothing; my
mother can take her teeth out and put 'em back
agsin!p
At Pesth, Hungary, the Count d'Andrassy gave
ball a fortnight ago, at which the Emperor
Francis Joseph was present. Among the dis
tnguished guests were Pulszky and Klapka, and
at least dozen Hungarians whose death war
rants were signed by the emperor a few years
ago. In lS49 the emperor himself was hanged
in efigy by the patriots who followed these
leaders.
1t is the intention of the queen on the return of
the court from Scotland to give series of state
breakfasts, at Buckingham Palace, and the first
will take place upon the arrival of the duke of
Edinburgh. The breakfasts will be given within
the ROya Gardens, at the palace, and the mar
quees and tents are now being erected and pre-.
pared in readiness for these festivities.
Speaking of the Chinese presentation TO the
president and cabinet, correspondent says [:
Gideon Wells made the most profound impression,
and whether the Celestials took him at first sight
for the priest of the oracle or the real ruler of the
nation can not be ascertained. One thing, how.
ever, was plain, that his magnificent milk white
Tbibetisn lama beard was the cynosure of every
Monaghan eye.
lady in Broadway, New York. recently at.
tacted considerable attention by her singular
costume, which consisted of complete suit of
white-white mohair dress, trimmed with papings
of white silk, and white crmped fringe, white hat
and white kid boots, white parasol and white
gloves. She also sported costly white lace
handkerchief and white cuffs, fastened with tur.
quos buttons.
few days since the papers gave what pur.
ported 10 be an account of the robbery at st,
Louis of the actress Lolita by her father, Mr..
CTabtTee. On Wednesday night last an officer of
the metropolitan police, whose name the police
authorities refuse to give arrested Mr.. Crabtree
in this city and conveyed him to police headduar
tiers. Soon after bis arrest the wife and daughter
OF the accused called at the police headquarters
and declared there no truth in the report of |
the robbery, and the prisoner was accordingly
released World 9th.
The public that reads magazines now, says the |
Round Table, is the public that reads ANNALS
formerly the same mysterious public that has
borne the name and fame of Upper to every
quarter of the inhabiable GLOBE and is at present
occupied in exhausting countless editions of Nor.
wood - the public that sets L. E. L. above Mrs.
ByowniDg, and compares Mr.. Whitman to Mr.. |
Carlyle the public that considers Mr.. SAKE |
second Hood, and has made "Kathrina" passi- |
BILE the insatiate public in whose behoof and |
for whose benefit the hapless critic is daily de-
luged with oceans of metrical balderdash.