The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-13

EDITORIAL PAKAGR ArHs. ETC.
There are more Irish in America than in Ireland.
Thanks to the officers of the steamship Mata-
gords for late Galveston papers.
Gold closed yesterday in New York at 1851 to
1859.
Thanks to the officers of steamer Louise for late
Mobile papers.
The Yarmouth Fish Company has declared q
dividend OF sol per cent"
In Huntington, Macs, wild cats and gray wolf
flourish, and the farmers sheep perish.
II is estimated that last season over fifteen
thousand nvslids and tourists visited Florida.
son Of one of the sismese twins has settled in
southwest Missouri.
One negro murdered another at Ocala Fla, last
week, for the purpose of getting his horse.
Michigan Masons intend erecting q Masonic
temple, in Detroit, at a cost Of 81 100000.
Tie ests blished religion in Jamaica costs
f26 325.
Melbourne. Australia, completed its thirty-third
year of existence on the 10th of August last.
The cities of Wilmington. N. c., Macon and
Columbus, Ca, and Montgomery, Ala, are all
lighted with wood gas.
The Mobican Indians in New London county,
with ell the modern improvements.
An English minister warned those OF his congre
cation who voted for John Stuart Mil not to come
to the comma union table.
Two Cincinnati Presbyterian Churches have had
their attendance and finances increased one.third
since they adopted the free seat plan.
A firm in Indianapolis received two thousand
pounds of butter and two thousand dozen eggs in
two days of last week.
The Grocers' and Marketmen's Protective Union
in Springfield, Mass, numbers fiftyseven men,
bers, and has on its books SIS I" dead BEATS"
The New York Times thinks that popular 7"
lecturiDg is not half as profitable business as
brick laying or car.driving.
The Californian tells the story of an old maid
who learned to smoke cigars because, as she said,
it made smell as though there was man around.
The seizure of 1867 yards Of superfne black
silk, smugged through Canada to Port Huron, is
reported.
Madison, Indiana, boasts of three of the largest
boundaries in the State, and all of them running
full time.
OF the SOL 479 COO Of registered bonds issued
during the fiscal year, nearly s27,OOO,OOO were
issued in exchange for coupon bonds.
between Selma and Montgomery by the lst of
November, 1869.
The property destroyed by the late Limitations
in Switzerland is estimated at about l0.00O,OOO
francs (s2, o00,O0O).
c. E. Elwsll, Swedish newspaper correspon-
dent, is at Toronto, on a mission from the Swed.
Ish government in reference to emigration and
commercial intercourse.
The Benton, Elite, Ours, Once Week. Grand
Duchesse and Park Avenue, are the names of the
sociables " organized for the winter in New
York.
The Havre Chamber Of Commerce has passed
| an ordinance in virtue Of which smoking is for
hidden on all vessels laden with or carrying pc
| troleum.
A gang of robbers In tie vicinity of Shelbyville
Ind, are in the habit of calling upon farmers q
night, and by threats compelling them to surren
| der their treasures.
The employe IS Of the Menasha (Msss.) Tub ant
pail factory have submitted to areduction Of q
per cent. in their wages for the winter, rathe
than have the factory closed.
Five Jewish priests. from New York, visited tn
Springfield (Mass) jail, a few days ago, to divorce
from his wife Jew sentenced to two years in tn
Jail for theft.
In Baldwin county, Alabama, several marriage
are null and void, having been performed b.
a disqualified justice. A genuine magistrate
actively engaged in the work Of reconstruction.
Geo. Ellis has Just received an invoice of choic
new books for bis circulating library. A most az
ceptabe Christmas present to your wife or swee
heart would be a receipt for years subscriptio
to it.
The New York Daily Bulletin comes to "a er
lsrged and very much improved in appearance
Its increased size enables the editor to ad
| several new features which will commend it to
large circle of readers.
Mrs. Clark Whittier, wife of the weIl-know
specially physician, obtained divorce in 5
Louis on Friday, with alimony Of sl2 ,0o0 per al
mum for four years, SIS, 900 at the end of tbi
7 time, and permission 20 resume her maiden nan
of Camilla Wall.
From George Ellis. Z Old Levee street, we ha,
the Southern Cultivstor for December. publisht
at Athens, Ga; price 50 per annum. The Guilty.
tor has been published twenty six years. and
one of the best. as well as the Oldest agricutur
periodical Of the Southern States.
The excitement about Mr.. Parton's tobacco Al
wine articles 10 the Atlantic has not ct subside
IL seems that on the 10th inst, Leypoldt Ho
Of this city, will publish an answer to Mr.. Parto
in a volume from the pen of John Fiske, ii.
IL. b. de asserts that It does pay to smoke, al
that the coming man will drink wine. The volur
will contain the latest conclusions of science, a
promises u be an effectuai disposal II AR. "a
tons fallacious arguments.-[N. Y. Mail.
Miss Jennie Engel as the Naiad Q1een, NJ
Alice Oates as Merry Idex, j. S. Edwards as
Hubert. Billy Cavansugh as his Esquire. in U