The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-08
Ghe gem Orleans Grestent.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 8, 1868.
Editorial Paragraphs, Etc.


Renan has finished his " st. Paul.
1t is refreshing to learn that there was a very
large turnout on the flags yesterday.
"Luca Iii Lammermoor last night at the
Opera House.
Mayne Reid is writing for the Providence Jour.
nal.
We are indebted for Galveston papers to the
obligipg purser of the steamship Mstsgorda.
The World says Dickens wears 80 much chain
to enable him to survey his audience.
Prentice rather thinks that Gen. Grants politi-
cal cigar is burned to pretty short stump.
Several inches of snow fell at Monroe on the
30th ult.
The New York Mail devotes column to Dick.
ensania.
Gen. A. P. Stewart and Mr.. r. Ten Brock were
in Louisville Saturday.
Whitelaw Reid formerly Agate" of the Cincin.
natl Gazette,) is in town.
An Indian burial ground has been found in
Detroit.
Wales gave flOO for the wounded Garibal-
dans.
CeciIe Rush and Edwin Adams are at De Bars
Opera House, st. Louis.
The North Carolina pea nut crop is estimated at
100, 900 bushels.
According to the New York Herald Satin was
the first puritan.
Aregro boy caught bald eagle which attacked
him at Prince George Court House.
General Meade was born in Cadiz, Spain, in
1916.
veteran Observer " thinks we have no great
man.
The first frost Of the season appeared in st.
Mary's parish the 3lst of December.
Dickens was offered 800 600 in gold to read one
hundred evenings in New York. He declined.
Governor Baker says the Planters Banner, has
been eminenty successful without being a
swindler.
Purser j. C. Caro-, Of the steamship W. G..
Hewes, has our thanks for a file of Galveston
papers.
A man was seen on Natchez street yesterday
dressed in q full suit Of white linen from top
to toe.
Two girls in Iowa offer to walk to Chicago in
five days for $500. They can do it If they don't
happen TO meet man on the way.-tEx.
Geo. Augustus sala joined in the New York
mode Of observing New Years day, and enjoys
rather cynical laugh at it.
The spiritualists claim to have a printing press
in Philadelphia which has no other moter than
spirit power.
white man killed negro on Saturday week
at Van Buren,, nine miles from st. Joseph, in this
State. He was arrested aud lodged in Jail.
Queen Isabella is in unsuccessful quest of q
person to marry her eldest. The queen was a
belle, and her daughter Is a belle. Ah!-[World.
The Nation says that the ballot is a great
thing, but the natural man Graves also beefsteak
and potatoes"
The alligators are out summing themselves. Some
of the nations wards have been thrown sky high
nh ~ in he pnhla Of min
them.
The largest yield of sugar on one plantation in
LafOurche last season, was $50 hogshead; Of corn,
5000 bushels; Of cotton, 70 bales; Of rice, 225
barrels.
There is a sensible merchant in Western town
who makes present of a years subscription of
his town paper to every man who buys goods of
him to the amount of S25
gentleman boarding at a prominent hotel
complains that some of the rural guests transfer
their knives directly from their mouths to the
butter dish.
"Frolcks of Puck" is the name OF holiday
spectacle at Louisville. The entire costume Of
the principal female performer is said to consist
Cf a fig leaf.
The New York milkmen thought to escape the
law by diluting their milk with ice instead Of
water. 1t was nice point, but II cost them fifty
dollars Elk.
steam sawmill in Bristol, Ind, is managed by
q man and his two daughters. One of the girls is
engineer and fireman, and the other helps her
father lift the boards and roll the logs.
II is proposed to try the experiment of propel.
ing cars on our street railroads by means of
CINE put in operation by compressed air. The
machine is said to be nearly completed.
The statement of a city contemporary that A. I.
Stewart totally ignores every principle Of hon
Csty and honor in business" will be rather new
TO habitues Of the Gags and enyrons.
There was thin crust of fee on the ponds in
Tenebonne, on New Years Day. Ia East Felici.
ana, on New Years Eve, ice formed half an inch
thick.
The ladies are wearing huge rings on the left
side or backs of their dresses for the purpose of
holding the ends Of the loose sashes which they
wear.
Canada, among other extravagances upon be-
coming Dominion" paid a thousand dollars
for the two maces used in its House of Parlia-
meIt.
A Bohemian in New York. learning that the
walrus in the Geological Gardens Of London eats
ten quarts of oysters day made application for
the situation of walrus at Barnum's.
In her Monthly Magazine Mrs. Stephens says
woman Of sense would rs soon be put TO sea in a
man-of-War made of shingles, or take up her
residence in a card house, as dream Of attaching
herself to a lady killer
An order from military headquarters directs
Breyet Brigadier General ]. A. Potter, major and
qusrteImaster, to proceed to Austin, and resume
his duties as chief quartermaster of the district
Of Texas.
Come and set here, squire! was the vocife-
rous invitation heard all over the dining room Of
one Of our hotels the other day. A gentleman
fresh from pastoral scenes had deserted one of his
neighbors at the other end Of the table.
The proprietors of the Galveston papers have
rebelled against the dictaton Of the Printers
Union. In future they will pay only sixty cents
q thousand for composition. In consequence OF
the above the printers have started in Galveston
q new paper called the Dispatch.
The New York correspondent of the Philadel-
mia IeSger heard A. T. Stewart had A letter