The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-14
NUMBER l56.
Editorial Paragraph. Etc.
Dickens's manuscript is terror to typos

Owens is playing "solOn Single" in New
York.
The correspondence OF the Herald during the
past year cost over two hundred thousand dollars.
John Russell Young keeps private secretary.
Greeley does his own writing.
"Censure is the tax man psyeth to the public
for being eminent" [Swift.
More than a hundred Catholic priests were
married last month in Italy.
The Polish women generally are considered by
travellers the handsomest on the continent
Train refused all but the ordinary prison fare
when in Cork jail.
Wooden coTnices are answerable for q large
part of the late great fire in Chicago.
domestic habit-stays at home.
country editor says 7. W. stands for Too
Windy, and Fl. G. for Heavy Gasconade.
Mrs. Frederick Seward is suffering from the bite
of pet squirrel.
Beautiful Brooklyn is said to be two-thrds
boarding house. The same is nearly true of New
Orleans.
The New Yorkers are entertaining themselves
with Investigations into Dckous's dUnu-stfv afF.rs
sHti why ne uUnt live with Ms. Dickens.
1t seems by recently published letter that
Gov. Andrew died under the conviction that
GTa0t was an honest man.
There are more homely men in Congress now
than at any time within the memory of "a woman
il Washington"
little lady of two and half years persisted
that cane with crooked handle was " an um-
brella without any clothes on"
A prematurely bald journalist in town, says the
New York Mail, offers a reward of $1,000 for tale
so horrible as TO make his hair stand on end.
The new Democratic daily in Chicago, the Age.
will be issued on the first of March with $3.50, 900
capital.
bill is now before the Massachusetts, IegisIa-
ture which provides that "any city or town may
choose one or more women as members of its
school committee"
They had japanese "deceasedn and Japan
ere funeral at New York on the morning of the
10th. The chief exercises we're bowling aud turn
ing somersaults.
II is confidently stated that the president wouId
very gladly accept the resignation both of Mr..
McCulloch and Dir. seward-but, like Stanton,
they had rather hold on.
The New York Nail has stopped referring to
private personal matters in it's society news. The
Home Journal would consult decency by following
the example of the Mail.
Beecher writes in the Ledger on sugariplums
and rods as moral agents. de fnds the effect
some what similar, only they are applied at differ
ent ends.-LEx.
The Dayton Ledger Vallandighsm's organ. has
a severe reply TO the Worlds attack on that gen.
t.eman. 1t accuses the World of getting its
inspiration from two gentlemen in the West, who
are conspring to defeat Pendleton.
Some of the High Church folks are scandalized
at the friendly way in which the royal lady speaks
of Presbyterian preachers in Scotland and COM
plain that she seems TO prefer the non-Episcopa-
lisn worship to the "church Of her baptism
London correspondent says Train took every
means in his power TO secure his arrest. Before
his departure from New York be caused copies of
The Boston Pilot, containing his choicest insults
against England, to be sent to nearly every Eng
lsh journal and 10 every member Of the English
cabinet.
There is a story told that Seward suggested to
the president thGt he would like to trade places
with Mr. Adams, TO which the president assented,
but Seward having got Adams's resignation re-
fused to give his own until be was confirmed for
England.
We had the pleasure Of cal yesterday from
Mr.. W. L. Barre, late of the Nashville Union and
Dispatch. and formerly proprietor of Bowling
Green (Ky.) Gazette, the Office of which was
destroyed by soldiers in 1862. Mr.. Barre is intro
duced as an experienced and accomplished Jour-
nalist, and we doubt not will prove valuable
acquisition to any paper with which he may be.
come connected.
MACK" has calculated that the frat few
colored senators going to Washington will be
under the disagreeable necessity of sandwiching
themselves between Salisbury and Garret Davis,
or between Hendricks and the presidential son-in.
law, Mr. Patterson, or between Buckalew and
Bayard. In the House there is room for few in
The vicinity of Fernando Wood and John Norris
sey, and one or two may reconcile themselves as
they best can 10 the neighborhood of Mungen aud
Edridge. 1t will CRATE little harshly upon the
colored representatives at first, to be thrown into
such companoDsbp, but they must only exercise
little Of that Christian forbearance which Sum-
ner says has been q marked Characteristic of their
race in its past history. One cannot always
choose ones company in the busy thoroughfare
Of official life.