The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-27

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Asna Dickinson prefers Colfax for president.
Mrs. Chanfrau has been delighting the Hubites.
Macmillan has arrived in Boston-in wax.
The Louisville Democrat has new dress, and
| looks neater than q pin.
Thomas Dunn English says he wrote Ben
Bolt.r
Strawberries are ten dollars quart in Wash
ington.
Russia has prohibited the importation Of painted
candy.
The British army needs about $50. 900. 900 to
keep Up appearances this year.
Mrs. Colmsn is about to biograph her father.
the late Hon. J. J. Crttenden.
Jenny Hazard, the last Rhode Island slave,
died at Providence recently, aged S.
The Neapolitsn newspapers announce General
Hooker as Fetinne Gio."
Lucien Bonaparte, the new cardinal, is 40 years
of age.
A hotel, costing ss5oooo, is to be erected at
Omaha, Nebraska.
Miss Fanny Janauschek has cleared $1,000 by
twelve performances out West.
Barnum says be won't museum any more; he's
| going to muse himself--l Hartford Coursnt.
Miss Winnie Ream wears wave of fat ring
lets down her back"
A Hancock Club has been organized in New
York.
A new American invention for making light
water.p proof summer hats from Manila paper
palp is mentioned among the recent patents.
Seward. Dickens, Dolby, Anna Dickinson and
| Mary Walker, we're all pent up in Utica by the
food.
| 1t is proposed to consolidate Jersey City and
the neighboring towns on New York bay, in Hud-
son county, j.. into one city.
The prince imperial of France has bought
canoe and has joined the Canoe Club. Wales is
commodore of the club.
| Remember the farewell concert Of Filomeno TO-
night. We doubt if there lives greater violinist
than this young Gillian girl. She appears this |
time in Lyceum Hall.
Agassz tells Boston that fish is good for the |
brain, thereby encouraging the Goldfish aristocracy
OF that town to continue cannibalism.
New York World.
J. 7. Osborn, in the FL Dorado, Arkansas, DEM
ocrat, pronounces W. L. Adams, the former editor |
and proprietor of that paper, to be an q unscru.
pulous scoundrel.n
As proof that women are inventive, Mrs.
Caroline 81. Dali says she has assisted many
women to procure patents and cites the case of
one woman in Boston who has received SIS 900 as
the proceeds of three patents.
1t is reported in the Brownsville Ranchero that
Mrs. Josephine Hutchinson, after whom the
steamer Josephine was named, resoluteIy refused
to leave her namesake while she was stranded on
the Brazos bar, but stood by the ship until she
foated again.
Robert G. Winthrop and George Peabody were
presented to the pope last month, and corre-
spondent relates that his holiness gave them
copies of Photographic likeness of himself,
upon which be wrote, in Latin, quotations from
the Bible. rs f
Apropos of the suggestion of correspondent in
the New York World the Louisville Journal says
that in a contingency which at least may be
imagined our national convention might have
worse reserve than the old sea-dog of the Hart
ford"
General ]. ]. Reynolds, late commanding the
Fifth Military District, is still at the St. Charles
Hotel, and will probably set out tomorrow upon
his return to Austin, Texas. General Buchanan the
present district commander, still retains command
of the District Of Louisiana, and the bureau of
freedmen and abandoned lands, the officer next in |
rank being General Mower, now in comm and at
Ship Island.
Elsewhere win be found an order from General |
Buchanan ordering an election in this State for |
representatives State, judicial, parish and NUM-.
cipal officers, and members of the General A.
sembly, simultaneously with the vote upon the Con-
stituiion, and also providing that any registered
voter may cast bis ballot in any district, ward or
precinct where he has resided for ten DAYS next
preceding the election.
In view of the increase of the crime of infant.
eide In New York. the grand jury. in a recent pre-
sentiment in regard to private asyums for infants.
declare that the law is almost powerless to pre-.
vent the frequent commission of this crime, and
that the only remedy lies in the abolition of these
private institutions and the devising Of some bet
ter plan. The creation of large founding hos
pita, similar to those which exist in all the prin
cpal cities Of Europe. is recommended.
Commenting upon story that Edwin Booth got T
so excited in combat scene, when in this CITY, as
to wound his fellow actor, q contemporary saws:
An old actor has noted these ways of getting ter
rioly excited, and has given as the result of his
experience that the quickest cure for these violent
lights OF genius is retaliation in kind at the time -
The editor OF the Chicago Republican SAYS be saw
Booth horse whip his fellow actors in "Taming
The Shrew," one night, without any regard for
feelings. ,
Tilton is doubtful about the chief iustice and .
IN the Independent sets up with him, so to speak.
and gives him tonic in the following fashion:
: The pride of the Republican party, in pet of
threw away his crown. Others have
fallen as low; but none from as high heaven.
until these rumors cause saddest of eyes to turn
to our zenith and see central star trembling To
It's fall. May God preserve him from such an un. Z
'peakabe calamity. The terrible pressure of fear.
Dr. aftery, or ambition, the last inrmity of noble
minds must be most solemnly resisted" b
That many leading men in the Democratic party.
'ays the Cincinnati Gazette, which may be SUP. a
posed to speak semioficialy, are serious in their
ak about nominating Chief Justice Chase for the
presidency on the Democratic ticket, is not to be =
Questioned; but that this has been done without I
consulting the views Of the chief justice we are
'ble to state is equally true. To use Mr.. Chase az
be candidate of that party would require rad. L
al change in his principles or in the principles Of :,
he men who now represent the Democratic party p
u THIS country. II may be further stated, adds NJ
ne Gazette, that Mr.. Chase has given no en-.
engagement whatever to the leaders who have