The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-10
EDrroRIAL PARAGRAPHS. Er

Edward Albert is heavily in debt.
Thanks to the officers of the steamship Clinton.
Thanks to Sam Morrow, of the Texas Express.
for fsvors.
Those who do hut fear know not God, for "God
is lOve."-IFenelon.
Beer has gone down to 10 cents mug in Gal
weston.
superfuous Lsgs Mario has become burdente
London opera goers. iatJ
Walt whitman is called /" the great syntscticl
gymnsst of the age"
Leve is sn alchymist that can transmute poison
into fOod.-lCotton.
Geo. Ellis opposite the Postofice, has Kelley's
Weekly and the Chimney Corner, profusely Illus
trsted.
Grand F6te Cbampetre to-day at the Fair
Grounds fof the benefit of the French Society
We are indebted to NJ. Barber, secretary, for
very courteous invitation to be present.
There is gentleman in Paris who appears ct
his club in pair of white pantaloons on the 2lst
Of every March, and he calls that inaugurstins
spring.
for chances but taken them-beseged the above,
conquered the chance, and made the chance
their servitor.-LChapin.
There was duel on Galveston Beach on the
9th. One of the parties was shot through the
right arm, and the other through the lapel Of his
coat.
The Duptial ceremonies OF the Spanish consul,
Mr.. Rodriguez, to the accomplished daughter Of
Mr.. Fauconet, the French consul of Galveston.
took place on the 9th at the cathedral n that city.
The slender conduits of q flower or leaf, the
finest nerve Of an insects eye, are regulated by
many laws. Surely, then, the career of nations is
xrtsh shouf rofut ta1 orh
There is q blind man in the Marylebone Lion
DOM Workhouse, who has been there for seventy
two years. He knows all the Psalms, and leads
the singing.
George Francis Train having prophetically dis.
posed of himself, as president of the United
States, makes this prediction: Before many
years England will be republic, and Benjamin
Disraeli the president thereof"
An old gentleman died recently in Massachusetts,.
aged eighty-eisht. A few days before his desth
be was advised by his physicians to use little
brandy as a stimulsnt but declined doing so, lest
he might acquire a fondness for liquor"
The Atlanta Intelligencer mentions the curious
fact that a negro in Georgia who voted the Demo-
cratic ticke; is turning white. The radicals says
the Intellgencer, claim all the white men that
turn negroes, and we will claim ali the negroes
that turn wblte.
The Boston Advertiser has paragraph about
the ballet, and " how they look at t" at New
Orleans. We imagine they look at II very much
as the Boston folks do--through the strongest
glasses they can bring to bear upon II:
tChicsgo Post
All who have seen Lord Brougham's sutobio-
graphy in MS agree in saying that It's publication
will cause great mischief and CONSERVATION.
| While Lord Broughsm was in stronger mental and
bodily health be was persuaded to lay 1t by, but
| Low insists Publishing IL OF any cost.
Ii IL stated that ushers 60 be attached to the
Washington through trains from Jersey City, N. j..
who will attend to seating the passengers. The
seats are to be numbered, and tickets issued
accordingly, the same for reserved seats in the
| theater.
Mr.. Parton gives, in the last Atlantic, statistics
relied upon by Roman Catholics to prove that Ca
tbolicism is destined TO be the dominant religion
in America. They are, that In the year 1900 there
we're in the country but one bishop, fifty three
priests and ninety thousand members. while now
there are seven srchbishops. forty bishops, three
mitIed abbots, 3l00 priests, sixty five Catholic
colleges, ifty.six conveats Of men, one hundred
and eigbty-nine converts of women, and 800 900
| Catholic population.