The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-12
NUMBER l54.
Editorial Paragraph, Fac.

| Di0Aens uineu on sunday week with Sumner.
The Prince of Wales will visit Ireland in April.
In Italy the gold premium is fifteen per cent.
Dickens returns to England in April.
Another good day yesterday for venders of hot
cbestnuts.i
The Northern and Western mails failed last
night.
Mrs. Yelverton's readings are pleasing the
Charlestonians.
st. Loais will make mighty effort to have the
Democratic National Convention there.
| We are indebted to the navy department for it's
annual register for 1868.
Thanks to Mr.. G. E. Cormier, purser of the
| steamer Agnes.
The late severe weather in kentucky did no
| great harm to the fruit trees.
Head, who smokes, is trying the Parton cure
| four drinks of whisky and water after each pipe.
The Nashville Banner urges the cultivation Of
the castor bean in the Southern States.
The Louisville Germans are moving for q
theater.
Caetuses, fifty feet high, are among the fora of
\ Arizona.
The horse Bashaw, Jr., was sold for sII 80 a
pound.
London philanthropsts are looking after the
starving dogs in that city.
The Tomshawk is said to be cutting out Punch
! with its cartoons.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer Belle
| Lee.
Tennyson IS to receive ten thousand dollars for
| twelve poems.
President johnson has accepted an invitation to
visit Baltimore and partake of banquet, at which
| he will make speech.
You are my lost, long BROTHER" is the last
reading at the Varieties Of passage in Rose
| dale"
| We learn from the Gazette that good deal Of
lumber is going from Bay st. Louis to the West
Indies.
Mr.. Hay, the American charge d'aGAires at
Vienna, took no part whatever in the funsral Of
Macmillan.
A Paris actress fell rear the footlights, but es.
capped injury from the circumstance that she had
nothing on which could take fire.
At his hotel in Cork Train aided the detectives
by protracted readings from his pro-Fenian
speeches.
The members of the commercial convention in
Boston we're received at the State House by Gov.
Bullock, and banquetted by the Board Of Trade.
Twenty thousand starving Christians in Tunis
obtained their chief and almost sole relief from
the liberal charities of the Hebrew population.
Hon. F. Corwin may be the next Republican
candidate for governor of Illinois. Gems. Palmer
and Logan have withdrawn from the field.
The Ranchero says there is no bar in Texas that
can possibly excel the Brownsville bar in point Of
talent and legal ability.
The New Orleans correspondent of the Cincu-
natl Commercial wields a graceful and interesting
descriptive pen.
1t was colder at Bay St. Louis, during the late
cold snap, than for fifteen years previous and the
people had no Thermometer, either, says the Ga.
zette.
In the last two years. $40 600 900 worth Of grain
was raised in California against s, 500 900 worth
in the preceding two years. Eighty per cent. Of
the last years crop went to Great Britain.
The Cunsrders have taken an important spoke
out of the New England wheel. and all the Young
JellOlces will soon be flying out OF the "hub."
Nashville Banner.
Bishop Atkinson, of North Carolina, heard
Brougham make speech in the House of Lords,
and says it was hardly more than senle twaddle.
The noble peers made unseemly haste to avoid
hearing him.
Despite the terrible weather Monday small
audience attended the concert at Deutsche Com
psny Hall, for the benefit of Mount Olivet Church.
We trust the musical treat there presented
will be repeated before larger audience.
Edward &. Towne, the late pastor of a Unita-
rian church in Medford, Mass, has resigned his
ecclesiastical charge, and dscaiming the title OF
reverend, is now on the staff Of The Chicago
Tribune.
Prof. Newman, Of University College, London,
has rendered LoDgfelow's "HiaWatha" into
Latin verse. Here are two lines
az hnibus oggibbavaiarum,
seoibus Dacotsrum."
'"And the Pharisees came also," remarked the
blind man as Head and his friend halted before
that unfortunate person while he was lingering
the raised letters in his Testament, at the Fair
Grounds gate.
The Pail Mall Gazette presumes that Boston,
for some time, will bear the same relation to New
York that Edinburg, in the Walter Scott period,
did to London and then, after q certain lapse Of
time, literary talent will obey the universal law,
and grsvitate 10 the metropolis.
A dark reddish stone which abounds in North
stonington, Conn, has turned out to be glass ina
natural state. Near the same place q lot Of disin-
tegrated quartz, in the shape of white sand, and
Of great value in the manufacture OF flint glass,
has been discovered.
A writer in Public Spirit claims that to us mise
rable victims of glorious civilization, masked
balls are healthy tonic. There is a streak Of
outlaWTy running through everybody, which il it
cannot find harmless outlet, will seek one that is
not harmless.
A correspondent of the New York Tribune,
shocked at the terrible, and, he says needless,
torture of criminals by hanging, suggests that
hereafter they may be made to touch a wire COM
municating with twelve Leyden jars, when death
by electricity W. uld be instantaneous and pain.
less.
The Tomahawk caricatures Prince Christian.
the husband Of Helena, by depicting an unpieas-
ant little man perched on the back Of the British
lion and tugsiDg away at his name. Underneath
is written, set beggar on horseback, or
translated from the German"
Mr. Joseph watts, Jr., OF the Liverpool firm Of
W. C. Watts Co., is visiting his friends in Ken
tucky. after absence Of four years. He wasa
fellow passenger on the siberia of Minister Thorn
ton. The voyage was a rough one, and Mr.
Thornton was once washed ont Of his bed. Rash-
ing into the cabin he washed thence