The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-20

II Raiiroad EXCLUSION Perham is dead.
Oakes Ames is rer ominsted.
4 xpessant herb-Mint OF money.-CEx.
French ladies are taking to the velocipeds.
Whisky and fuel are very high in Galveston.
Poor Carlotta flies from imaginary poisoners.
Japan is largely importing large guns.
The Virginia Radicals have cut Hurnicutt.
Bob Lincoln and wife go to Europs.
Washington has 23s policemen.
Portland's valuation is $2s, ,565, ,322.
Alexandra Dumas is writing q Life Of Christ"
Cora Pearl has resppsared in Paris.
Boston INDUCES in monogram doo,.knobs.
Tight trousers are still the fashion.
The president proposes 10 visit England.
Louisville hoteh- are crowded.
Richmond has he'd o recent case Of starvation
The rolling season has commenced 10 Rspidess
Gold in New York 1874.
A. T. Stewart pays his lawyer 25,coOa year.
The Shreveport Sosthwe stern, one Of our ablest
eouthern exchanges, has become daily.
Senator, late collector, Kellogg, arrivedin town
recently.
Brooklyn, from its numerous boarding houses
is called 4" Haehtown.r
Ths Mobile Thester was to open Monday night
with the " Honeymoon"
A New York congressman is using his frackto
send around patent medicine circslars.
A Paris belle has Q silver bathing tub worth
$4,000.
A bottle of wine 400 years o,i was recently pre-
sented 10 municipal banquet in France.
Gen. Sickles intends retiring into private life
after the election.
Nearly the entire Republican press Of the United
States is opposed to the re election of Butler.
Wales is to leave his delicate wife in Athens,
while he goes up the Nile"
Lieut. Churchill, of the Gath infantry, died in,
Jackson Miss, on the l4th.
Mrs. Scott Siddons was to commence readiDgs-
in New York on Monday.
London correspondent says England Is drift
ing into republicanism.
The freedom of the city Of Einburg has been
rendered to John Bright.
Fifth Avenue has an aristocratic rouge ct noir
tiger.
A French chemist proposes q viper's bite as an
antidote to the bite Of mad dog.
Mrs. Kemble complains that politics interfere
with her readings.
Bismarck is popular landlord. His estate
covers some 16. .000 acres. .-
The Paris Charivari represents the moon fortify.
ing herself against the armsments OF the earth
Corn is rotting in some parts of Kentucky FOR
want of stock to eat ii.
Ten Paris papers offer premiums portraits Of
Henri Rochefort, editor of the Lanterne.
sIandering an old misunderstanding against
Time.-[Ex. +.fr- Fa rr1 |rr n
Concord, N. H.. has manufactured two veloci-
pedes.
T-ls6O- X Drake sells 2,25O,OoO bottles of
bitters year. 80
"Beautiful foreveru lotion is now offered for :
sale on Broadway.
Cashmere furniture is rapidly superseding reps
and brocatelle.
Janauschek appeared as Mary Stuart and
Catherine III in New York.
The Pittsburg Journal invites men of talent to-
settle in that smoke.covered city, and ssysi will
just SCOT 'em."
The French minister of fine arts wants to find .
substitute for the national song Partant pour Ia.
| Syrie " nr
The Mobile Tribune don't want the editorials of
| New Orleans newspapers sent to Mobile by the
| telegraph.
| Seward is reported as saying there is not dam
word of truth in the late matrimonial gossip
| about him.
Miss Kellogg was to appear as Margaret In the
third act of Faust" at the New York Academy
of Music Monday night.
| Mr.. Forrest resppeared as King Lear at Niblo's
on the 18th, and was warmly received by his old
| admirers.
The difference between Dana and Butler In the
eyes of the Gloucester fishermen is like this: Dana
Is q marine. and Butler Ia an ultra marine.-[Ex.
| Major Tom 0chitree, arrested for stabbing .
man in Galveston, has been admitted to bail in.
| $4,000.
Thanks to the officers of the steamers JOSEPH. /.
| inc, Morgan, Juniats, Louise and Era No. g. am
to the Southern Express Company. aa
The New Memphis Theater was to open Mo- a.
| day with Charlotte Thompson and Qhsod0 70
| Hamilton.
One of the inundated. an intelligent gentiem IN.
estimates the aggregate losses Of small props rty
| holders in New Orleans, who suffered by the late
| overflow, at half million of dollars.
| The N. Y. Mail unpleasapty says that We airing
large hat jaunting coat, tight trousers, 40 car
| rying small umbrella, Goes not make sn Ameri.
| can snob foreigner.
| An exchange says. if the top, Of en rot cut
Off at this season. or later. is placed in aucsr Of
water, with few bits OF charcoal to su eeten it.,
1t will form radiated feathery plant BY no means
unworthy to grace lady's table. lr
| Agenteman who has just returned ir' I'm Europe
says number of fast New Yorker, drive the
most showy turnouts in the Bos de h, ,ulogne, and
cause comment enough to crafty the most ram
pant vanity.
There was political discussion at Boutt6 eta
ton, en- the Opelousas Railroad. Sunday, between
Gen. steedman and Col. Race SrI the part Of the
Democrats, and Gen. McMlsa and Capt sberi-
dan on the part of the Republicans. The Utmost
harmony and courtesy characterized the occasion.
"We started early to asc end Mt. 0llvet, 10 be-
hold the sun gild the ui8ar cts aud towers of the
devoted city. from the place where memory,
stirred by q Thousand associations, should ex alt
the mind ss well as The eye to the inspirations of
the scene. Well Is the voyager repaid for long
travels. horrid roads, apteduvisn cookery s4uslid
companionsiip and The importunitia %, of begging,
thieving Arabs. Well would it have repaid you,
| oh man Of commerce and the crueibe and well
night yoa have been reminded OF youF own city,
for here, painted upon a board nailed against Que
| of the h1ge ancient olive trees, under which the
sacred martyrs toiled for the sins Of the
world, eighteen hundred years ago, those
familiar figures. 8. T.-1S60-X We do MOI know
who da it, bu, no doubtsome poor invalid traveller,