The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-17

Liverpool or London, sight drafts for any reasona,
BILE amount. Agood many people in New Orleans
will be happy if be succeeds in "hquidating his
liabities.n
AL sorts of hypothesis, says the Cincinnati
Commercial, are being constructed In Washing
ton-except the probable one that they have
acted ike honest men and sworn jurors-to &C.
count for the conduct Of Messrs. Fessenden,
Grimes. Trumbull and others in declaring them
selves against the conviction Of the president
on the articles Of impeachment. q.
Chicago has certainly got ahead Of New York.
in that it has heard the best OF Oenbschs operas,
"Orphee aux Enfers,n which was produced there
q few nights since.-[N. Y. Evening Post.
The Chicago Tribune smacks its lips over the
Posts compliment, but both omit to mention that
sOrphee aux Enters" had q successful run 10 New
Orleans before il was produced In the West by Q
company from our own Opera House.
A story is told by Congressman Chandler, OF New
York, which shows that the great English novel.
st, now on visit at Washington, Is taking notes.
gentleman on horseback passed Mr.. Trollope,
and, by accident, the horse despatched the Eng
lishmsn with mud. The gentleman refined up and
apologized. "No matter, sir,n said Trollope,
but would like to inquire If your horse has q
| name, and If not, ! would name him." Certain
| ly,u responded the gentleman, you can name
him. "Then, sir ;" said Trollope, T" name him
Donnelly.n
| Prof. Blot ia now superintendent Of the Rumford
| Food Laboratory In Boston, and is sending ont
the richest Of canned SOUPS for the trade Of
fashionable grocers. These soups are made un'
\ DER personal supervision by French cook,
Of mock turtle, of tomato, of vermicelh, oxtail,
| and pea soups, are prepared In hermetically
sealed cans, and warranted to keep for years
the cans being sold by the dozen, at prices rang
ing from three to six dollars per dozen quarts.
These soups are ready for use by merely warming
over hot water, and contain three times the nutri
ment OF ordinary soup. l-a sllcf
writer from New York 70 Rochester paper
takes exception to the Tribune's reference to city
correspondents of country journals as "seedy
Bohemians;n he thinks they are not more seedy
than the editor Of the Tribune, and cruelty rakes
MP the follow ing old adver sement from the New
Yorker when II was edited by Mr.. Greeley:
To Editors and Pubkshers.-The conductors
of journals desiring correspondent In the city Of
New York are respectfully apprised that arrange
| ments for daily, semiweeky or weekly letters
may be effected on advantageous terms by I'D
dressing line to the editor OF the New Yorker
Commercial, POLITICAL or general intelligence vii
be given IS desired, and the utmost exertion made
70 forward early news.
The students Of Trinity College, Dublin, I'D
dressed q memorial to e-Pruoe Of Wales, ask
ing that they might be allowed credit" for thet
approaching examinations on occasion of hi
royal higbuess' visit. To which remarkable re
quest the princes secretsry replied, courteousl.
acknowledging the communication, and convey
ing bis masters regret that he could not compl
with the request, possessing, as be oonceives, n
power to interfere in matters of such nature.
The good sense Of the response would seem to 10
dictate that the prince is once more 10 the hands
competent managers. Ai 49,