The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-07

Moist yestefday-very.
The telegraph wires ere down.
r Horace Greeley is in town.-[Nsv York Mall.
A contemporary has eaten sweet, juicy meat
which tad been canned seventeen months.
A"Ku Klux Khan store" il advertised IN Cam
Ton. Miss.
Mccarthy is Champagne challsyins IN Macon,
Georgia. ts IS 81. e fo
Brick Pomsroy says the president WIN be Inn.
peached. Again
Elsewhere is copy Of the tax rcpealbHl, which
Il now . law. n 4n III f,s ~ ot.s
For accounts Of crop prospects in Alabama,
Louisiana and Texas. see another page.
Owens Scion Singled the Baltimoreans on the
Sd snd departed. so tllst
otjects heretofore mistaken for ghosts were
probably members Of the X. X. X.
Bishop Wilmer. Of Louisiana, preached in Rich
moud on the 30th ult., a c4a 4a.Qt
Sweet face at the wiudow-ever to be remem-
bered. G. L. W.-[Herald personal.
Dickens says he found his most apprec'ative
American audience 10 New Haven. s,4f
Pomeroy compares Logan to q private on
parade, and Boston blsckleg out airing his dog.
9 Historicus.r whois much derided By all the
London papers except the Times, has rival in
Mysterious - of the Pail Mall Gazette.
We have no teIegraphic news this morning, but
conclude that we present to our readers paper
Of varied and spicy interest. tEs
We feel justified in calling the attention Of the
public to the funess and interest Of our river news
department.
The Galveston papers discuss the merits Of the
French opera troupe very inteliigenuy, but who
ISIS. M" OF the Civilians"
The New Orleans Elevator Company expect to
have completed, in Jefferson City, grain elevs-
tor capable of holding 500, 900 bushels.
The gale last evening took the blue glasses out
Of tho Brobdignsgan spectacles over thinner
mann's door. ,.s IS ss &. ..+.s
Geo. Wilkes is said to have been the chief agent
in patching up treaty Of peace between Grant
and Butler. ,..>..,4
Butler, in his speech, as he delivered ii. at
tributed the words "Father, forgive them, for
they know not what they do" to "stephen the
martyr ss..s
Henry Steinwsy, seventy-two years old, and
senior member of the well known firm of piano
makers, lately danced quadrille with Mrs. Rein,
of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York.
James Gordon Bennett, OF the New York Herald
has forbidden any Of his editors reporters to at
pain of dismissal. Horace Greeley will preside.
The Mail says George Francis Train is collecting
material for new paper, to be edited by E. Cady
Stanton, who has recently bought the only share
for sale of the Werld.
10 Jefferson was spending last week in the
Mammoth Cave. tits said that be had an artist
with him who was sketching the most striking
views of the cave, with view to working them
into new sensation play.
The township elections in Michigan, and the
vote upon the new State Constitution occurred
yesterday. The unfortunate interruption of tele-
graphic communication delays information of the
result there as well as.in Connecticut.
The New York World says: Judge Chase has
no more chance of the Democratic nomination
than he has Of ascending to heaven in chariot Of
fire, like Elijah. We counsel everybody to Dor.
row no trouble on that score" n
Col. BENNETT of the Banner, has recently made Q
trip to Pattersonville, and finds everything lovely
and the snserine bird at lofty eminepce in that
place. Psttersonvile yields oranges, rice. sugar
and moss.
Somebody having thrown q brick at q negro
meeting house in Franklin, the Banner navely OBJ
serves that the colored fraternity. have the same
right to get up religious excitements as white
folks.
Gen. Cochrane was 30 exasperated because the
laugh came in at the wrong place in speech to
a Republican audience in Connecticut, that he
fared up and called them set of pumpkin
heads.r IContinued lsughter.l .r -s +
The New York Mail says Calvert vaux, the
architect of Central Park says the children Of
New York shall have IL in their power to have q
drink of pure milk, and has purchased forty cows
whose pastursge will be on the grassy slopes Of
| the park, where grows the rhododendron.
The Springfield Republican remarks That
| Old Pub. Func., Mr.. Buchanan. was taken fol
| the head-waiter, while attending Q royal levee
when he was minister to England; and the fact is
| in black coat and white cravat he is the perfect
| type OF an old British butler, who has come dowI
In the family with the plate and the coat Of arms.
The storm made lively work along the leve'
last evening. The rain came down in torrents
| and swept through the streets in sheets Of water
While the sun was yet high in the heavens dark
ness prevailed to such degree as to render ga
| light necessary. Before sunset the clouds brok'
away in the west, and q wonderful food of "a
dance Illuminated the huge masses of thin vapo
in the skies, forming scene Of almost magics
beauty and magnifcence. fits
The dress which Mrs. Adams wore at th'
queens last court, and which excited 30 much ad
mirstion, was as follows: " Dress of mauve pouI
de sole, trimmed with pelisses q 10 Louis XIV il
mauve and white; with unique Of white dentelI
de lame, looped with msuve lilies; train from tn
shoulders of white satin, trimmed with tulle an
bouquets Of mauve lilies. Head dress Of lilies
feathers, and long tulle veil; ornaments, diamond
and pearls"
London correspondent says: 81 dropped J
yesterday at Madame Tussaud's famous wax
works establishment, to see the American grou
on exhibition. found Presidents Lincoln an
johnson and Generals Grant and Mcclellan stand
ing ris-d-uis in q corner, and more grsceless sc
of scamps never set eyes upon before, and neve
expect TO again. trust may never meet such
quartette anywhere Of q dark night"
The United States government having seize
1900 casks of sherry wine belonging to Lacave
Echecopar. Q Spanish house ia New York., 70
alleged fraudulent undervauations by the mpor
ers, a lawsuit was the consequence. The agent
Of the Spanish house, in laboring to prove tbs