The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-28

| The mast 10 abundant in Tennessee.
Gold closed in New York yesterday at I3fI.
Our newspaper mail failed yesterday.
The spirit of the press-New cider.
rice mill has been started at Brookhaven.
Now is the time-To advertise literally.
Boston has snow birds.
Velocipedes are interdicted in Central Park.
The Louisville market is well supplied with
chestnuts at 20 cents per quart.
Turchin, late infamous brigadier, was natural.
lied last week in Chicago.
Italy claims that German beer and American
fancy drinks are demoralizing the nation.
DR.. M. Perl, of Houston, Texas, has received a
patent for new mode Of preserving meat.
line of vessels has been established between
Jacksonville, Florida and Havre.
The Bessemer Steel Works at Troy, N. Y, were
burned on the 10th. Loss 500, 900.
Thanks to the officers of steamship Matagorda
for late Tsxas rapera
Quebec has a seminary old enough to celebrate
its two hundredth anniversary.
The Selma, Rome and Dalton railroad is now
complete within four miles of Rome, Ga.
James Gordon Bennett is said to be worth
So 100000.
The restoration of Salisbury Cathedral is ad.
vancing satisfactorily.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer Louise for
late Mobile papers.
1t is estimated that the Republicans spent
81, Goo. eco in carrying Pennsylvania.
Ladies are fogged if they wear black or gray
dresses in Poland.
Terre Hautean won fifty barrels of -four on
the election of Mr.. Voorhees,.
The Canadian girls are afflicted with distemper
of the spine called the "Quebec wrigglen
The Agricultural Report for 1867 is now going
through the press, and will be ready for delivery
about the time Congress meets.
Notwithstanding her eighty years, Lady Frank
lin has made the fadguing ascent of Port de ve-
nasques.
Gen. Kirby Smith has not gone to Californis.
He is hard ct work with his school in Newcastle,
KY, and succeeding with it.
The first stone of the projected palace of fine
arts at Vienna was laid last month by the empe-
ror of Austria.
Since the lst of January there have been 1872
steamboat disasters on the Southern and Western
waters.
Sir VIM. Abby, who died lately in London left
s., 5,0Co, 900 in hard cash, besides a magnificent
library. The stamp duty on his will was s67 900.
1t has been calculated that it would require five
thousand and eight tons of gold to psy the
principal of the government bonds in coin.
Breeds Island, in Boston harbor, has recently
been sold to R. S. Stevens, of Attics, New York,
for $500 900.
Kate Rentz, who accompanied the emperor of
Austria TO the Italian war, now keeps a coffee.
house in Msntua, which the emperor bought for
her.
shate Gilmer, a colorej man Of Montgomery,
Ala. publishes card to the citizens of that State
denouncing the Radicals as a set of "low.down,
unprincipled jackasses."
The Chicago Pork Packers Association re-
solved that each barrel of mess pork shall hence
forth be branded with the name Of the packer in.
stead of the word =" standard" as formerly.
box of Boston letters, recently lost in the
mail, has turned up in New York, nothing being
lost except the interest 81 900 900 being con.
tanned in it, while lying idle.
The phosphate rocks, founed along the Ashley
river, near Charleston, are attracting considerable
attention. More than 1000 tons had been shipped
from Charleston previous to lst September.
The great tidal wave, which started in Peru on
the 18th Of August, was felt throughout the Aus
tralisn colonies very severely next day, but no
serious damage is reported.
Thurlow Weed & Co., of Albany, N. Y, are to
put up mammoth printing establishment in that
city, which will cost 100000 and have an acre of
flooring.
Massachusetts,, with a population but little more
than one million, has bank circulation of s57,.
$4,000. Illinois, with population of more than
two millions, has bank circulation of only 49,.
544 600.
The waxahschie Argus says that there has been
large, ferocious looking animal prowling upon
the western outskirts of that town for several
weeks. 1t is pronounced by some to be Mexi-
can lion, and by others TO be cougar.
Fifty five dollars buys asplendid Grover & Baker
family sewing machine at ls2 Canal street. Ma
chimes warranted five veara Hemmar tueker