The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-25
NUMBER GIT.
recommends that Southern cultivstors of peaches
make preparations to send their surplus fruit to

recommends that Southern cutivstors of peaches
make preparations to send their surplus fruit to
st. Louis.
The Mobile Tribune's explanation Of the selec-
ton Of the 26h Of April the time for the decora-
ton of the graves Of the Confederate dead is,
that on that day occurred the surrender Of john
sions army, when the last hope of the Confeder-
acy was buried.
Sergeant Bates said he had money enough
offered to him on the route to make him rich for
life but he did not accept cent. The flag he
carried had been taken from the federals at
Chanceorsville, and was given to him by an ex-
Confederate soldier.
Says Agate in his last letter to the Cincin-
natl Gazette 4" Giving the president the benefit
Of doubtful votes, he still falls short Of the re-
quired number. As the case now stands there
fore, there seems no sufficient reason for any sp-
prehension to the deposition of the president at
the close of his trial."
A freedman who left Charleston. South Caro-
lima. for Liberia, few months ago, writes back
the most glowing account Of matters and things
there. He says be never felt free until he
reached the colored mans own republic,n aud ia
quite rapturous in describing the luxuriant fer
tility of the country. He advises oil his friends
W JUN hhi IA VIC new iauu VI pFOuibo.
Speaking of the migratory propensity Of the
New Englander writer in the Cincinnati COM
mercial says be has always maintained that had
Adam and Eve been Yankees they never would
have waited for the Lord to turn them out They
would have emigrated long before, and gone to
fpeculating in wild lands. Que OF these, and
fair specimen, once told him that his idea Of good
farming Was to buy farm, and keep it until
sOme id fool wanted 1t, and then seln
Mobile has commenced the enterprise OF sending
early vegetables berries, ETC., by rail 10 Chicago.
car load Of csbbages. green peas, turnips, Gu.
cumbers, radishes, lettuce, snap beans, onions,
carrots, beets, celery sweet potatoes, Irish pota-
tees, dewberries, parsley. strawberries and
thyme was started for that destination few days
ago.
The Csnt-get.sway Club have indorsed the fol-
loving remarks of the New York Citizen. and
spread them in full upon their journal
One Of the marked follies Of our time is the ten
dency among people TO seek the excitement Of
tTaye.-sn excitement always attended with dam
GER DIRT and Inconvenience, and usually culni-
hating in a morbid dissatisfaction with home life.
The itibersnt unsettled existence which many
people call life. IS really prejudicial to anything
ike comfortable and well ordered condition of
society. II engenders false conceptions of do
nestle duties and unhts the mind and heart for
the quiet pursuits and the substantial enjoyment
Of tranquility. ln many cases the appetite Tor
hayGliBg amounts 10 positive disease, pervert-
ing the functions Of the mind from any concen-
tated and heBlthful Effort; and certainly, so far
a. we may judge OF the tee by its fruits, travel
is not conducive 10 refinement Of manners or the
growth OF pure taste.