The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-03
RDIToKIAL PARAsRApns. ETC.

the New York World.
Memphis has voted to fund the floating debt of
the city.
Gen. Sherman has gone to Cheyenne. Red
Cloud says he will come in aud make peace.
John Milwood, one of the proprietors Of the
Spottswood Hotel, has committed suicide.
Peanut culture pays 500 an acre in North Caro-
lima.
A. T. Stewart has bought him trotting team in
Louisville.
The largest income in st. Louis is slS2 ,OOO-J.
G. Copelen's.
Anthany Trollope has been to see impssch-
ment.
Mrs. Wade doesn't believe impeachment will
succeed.
Ellis, opposite the Postoffice, has the Comic
Monthly for May, Kelley's Weekly and Chimney
Corner.
All the whisky distillerIes in New York have
been ordered to close, owing to the fact that
whisky was selling at less than the tax.
The Rev. F. NJ. Wbitue was, on the 30th ult.,
consecrated an assistant bishop of the Episcopal
Diocese of Virginia.
Robert Boone, son of Bishop Boone, was acci-
dentally shot and killed, at Halifax Courthouse,
Virginia, on Saturday week, by companion.
influential Democrats in Washington are organ
iziDg movement in favor Of Hancock and
Groesbeck for president and vice president.
The pope has sent to Father Gratry golden
palm as a mark of approval of his speech at the
French Academy.
A Milanese pastry cook sent as a present to
Prince Humbert two gigantic pates de JOie-grGs
for the royal wedding feast.
The General Knox mansion, at Thomaston,
Maine, is used as a carpenters shop, and relic
hunters are carrying it of piecemeal.
Fanny Kemble has discovered new character
in one of shakspeare's plays, whom she calls
King Hennery.
The pious Mrs. Hannah More says in one of her
letters that there only two evils in the world
sin and bile.
Pennsylvania paper feels authorized to say
that Tbad. Stevens's health is now better than it
has been for two years, and that he will be
premier in wsde's cabinet-when it is formed.
We were pleased to receive a call yesterday
from our gallant friend, Capt. Beverly Kenon,
formerly of the United States and Confederate
States navy.
Something mysterious and indescriba bly, happy
appears 10 have happened to one of the Plea
yune,s friends Ia a marriage, birth. or the de-
cease Of a rich uncle9
Nice weather of late for pic-nicing, and it has
been well improved. A pleasant picture Of lads
and lasses may almost any day be seen upon the
grass under the oaks of our suburbs.
Miss Lizzie L., daughter Of the Hon. John p.
Hale, was married on April 7th, at the United
States legation of Madrid, to Edward V. Kinsley,
Esq, Of West Point.
Pelican Division No. /, Sons Of Temperance,
are TO give picnic tomorrow at the City Park.
Our cold water friends have our thanks for their
courteous invitation to participate with them.
We are indebted to Mr.. Broughton, clerk Of the
steamer Belle Lee, for the Belle Lee Journal,
printed on board, at Louisville, April 29th. 1t
is a well made up, intelligent and spicy little
| sheet.
We are indebted to Mr.. Edward Gotthiel. chief
commissioner to the Paris Exposition from Lou
siana, for the report of the Hon. N. NJ. Beckwith,
commissioner general and president Of the COM
| mission.
A concert for the benefit of the First Baptist
Church, corner Of Second and Magazine streets,
to aid in paying the debt the church lots, will
| be given in the Coliseum Place Baptist Church,
Tuesday evening.
The Portland Argus, Democratic, gives table
conjectuIing how the first ballot for president
will stand in the Democratic convention. 1t
figures up ITO for Mcclellan, lO3 for Pendleton,
and lO7 for Hancock.
The Indian commission have signed treaty
with the Brules and Sioux, whereby the Powder
River country is reserved to the Indians, who
bind themselves to stop all depredations. The
| Ogallas and other tribes are assembling for the
same purpose.
Brownlow announces his determination 10 call
out militia force TO suppress lawlessness and
violence, which, he says, exists in certain parts
Of Middle and West Tennessee. he does it with
out legislative action.
The governor general Of India telegraphs to
| Sir Stafford Northcote, under date Of Calcutta,
April %, announcing that Mahommed Kahn, the
son of Ameer Ali, has, in the course of the bor-
der war movements now in progress, retaken
Candahar and Khelat from the invading Russians.
Cardinal Bonaparte has Just had conferred on
him, by the pope, the title Of Altezza Emineniis'
Gina. The papal court has also placed at his
disposal for ecclesiastical services four state car
riages. the servants attached to which will wear
the imperial livery.
Ralph Waldo Emersons eyes have been opened
He Judges radcalism by its fruits and says: "The
spirit of our American radcalism is destructive
and aimless-it is not loving, it has no ultimate
ends, it is destructive, only out of hatred anC
selfishness."
A Mr. H. B. Henning, of Clifton, Tennessee, {
passenger on the Memphis and Louisville Rail
road, while in a somnambulic state, deliberately
descended from his berth in the sleeping car
walked through the car to the platform, and at
tempting to step of. fell on the track and was 81
horribly mangled that death must have immedi
ately ensned.
HOUSE IN RUINs.-One Man KIled-An ex
| - yaf
the 26th ult. gives full account Of the falling o
the RUBY Saloon building, on the corner o
Austin and Marshall streets. II fell in about
O'Clock, Sunday morning, and Is now nothing bu