The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-30

wEDNEsDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 80, 1858
rDITSnIAL rAKAsRArns. srC.


A lady tsller-C orsets.-LEx.
An airSsppsrent-The fog.-[Ex.
Kentucky ladies sometimes 60 fox hontng.
Oyster soup at FIVE cents bowl in New York.
An Ohio town has "buckwheat soirees."
Bever6 Tucker is keeping hotel in Canada.
Bismakck's mother was a commoners daughter.
The rft for the cked-Ar-rest-GEx.
Thank N the southern Exnrsss Cnmnanv and
Iue omc{rs OF the steamer Matagorda.
Texas paper advertises for e" a smart boy
who ia rot lazy about early rising"
A da9delion, full. olossomed beneath the snow,
was pu.ked In Seymour, Conn, the other day.
George Alfred Townsend is called G. so for
short.
Greslsy ikatsd against the mayor of Montreal
and won.
A little wrong done to another is a great wrong
done 10 ourselves.-fEx.
Train says he courted two hours and married in
two days.
The pobTe million Of gold appears to have been
sell.
The Chicago Republican has assumed new
dress and the folio form.
charming young negress" is one Of the
newest. Partisan theatrical stars.
Geo. Ellis has the American Artisan, Leslie's
Illustrated and Harper's Weekly.
Isabsla has purchased magnificent residence
in Psr,s.
Minnie Hauck has been dslighting London in
company with Titiens Ssntley, Sinico and Formes.
A Kentucky sheriff attached q set of false teeth
for taxes.
Gounod has written q new air for the part of
Mtphis,ophaes in " Faust"
The bishop OF London has finally suppressed
Father sgnatius.
APo.tlander is building an ark in anticipation
OF another deluge.
The Worlds Washington correspondent sets down
Ben Wade for the interior department.
PATHS physicians forbid her to sing in public
any more at present.
Train proposes that Mrs. Grant be made mem
Der of the cabinet.
Motto,of Forney-Kn0w all men by these pres
eLts.-[Citizen.
Brownlow is out in favor Of making East Ten
nessee separate State.
II is said that jefferson Davis's case will not be
advanced on the docket.
An exchange puts in plea in behalf of cold
vic.usls.
Anew York paper says some Of our young men
20 to Paris for six weeks and entirely forget their
native language.
New York grocers, with the eyes Of the World
upon them, are rushing to get their scales officially
adjusted.
The Five Points grocery dealers are said to give
better weights than the more respectable ones
of New York.
E.A. Pollard has received $500 from p.ople in
Caroline county, Va, to help him in the prosecu-
ton Of young Grant.
The latest rumors current 10 New York assign
Fessen den TO the state department Welles to the
treasury and E. B. Washburne to the interior.
Rev. Or. Newman disclsims the authorship Of
the letter accepting the challenge to fight with
MIR. bennett, of the Franklin Banner.
The New Orleans Postofice will be kept open
henceforth from A. NJ. until P. NJ, on week
days on Sundays from A. NJ. until IL A. NJ.
The 5000 negroes in New York city are mostly
descended from slaves of the Knickerbockers,
and many Of them bear Dutch names.
A Washington correspondent characterzes Sum
pers latest as melsnge Of dOgmatism, ddsc
tics and ditch. water"
The Most Rev. James Laird Patterson, just ap
pointed Roman Catholic archbishop of Glasgow
is q graduate of Oxford. and was formerly
clergyman of the Church of England.
Butler doesn't see the propriety Of goiag to thu
expense Of q marble statue Of Stevens. The doe
tor has cast in his eye which he thinks will d.
quite as well and be cheaper.-lW World.
The Philadelphia newsboys were treated to
Christmas dinner at the Ledger office, and Mr.
Child, Of that paper. presented about $4,000 t.
his employees.
The Washington correspondent Of the World
says If Mr.. Seward does not seek retention in thu
cabinet. be permits his next friends to seek Il and
urge it in his behalf.
In view OF what the World regards Mr.. Philadel
phia Ledger Childs's persistent self-advertising
that paper thinks "it is high time that Mr.. Georg
w. Childs's hat was smashed over his eyes, and
IL the capacity Of the hat admits over his ears.
A New York dispatch Of the 25th says JOSEPH
Howard, Jr., managing editor. Franklin ]. 0ttar
con. night editor, and John Armstrong, cit.
editor Of the Democrat, and other members o
Pomeroys stan. leave the paper next week.
The Picsyune says ii Is informed that Mr.. Super
visor Creepy, in susPending Mr.. Norcross, sail