The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-22


works out for wages, aud can do as much as
many young woman. - ~ ~
There are said to be about 1900 bales cot
ton at Jefferson, waiting shipment 10 New
Orleans, 1000 at Marshall, and 5000 at Shreve-
port.
II is asserted that. with possibly one other ex.
ception, Mr.. Trenholm is the only man 10 South
Carolina who has what would pass for respect
able income from his property.
If we could forget, says the New York Times,
all that we have ever read Of Mrs. Browning,
Tennyson and others, we should like Mr.. Tilton's
verses very much.
A little girl in one of the Sunday schools of
Bangor, Maine, last Sunday. recited the verse,
{" Blessed are the dress Makers" thus innocently,
no doubt perverting the Scriptures"
Hon. Austin L. Rogers died at his residence in
Worcester, Mass, recently. he was widely
known in political circles, and has been a mem
Der of the executive council.
General Jacob Irwin was elected State treasurer
by the Pennsylvania legislature on the 18th. The
Democrats voted for Hon. William V. McGrath, Of
| Philadelphia.
Paris gossip reports Napoleon petulant, and so
| III tempered, that his ministers endeavor to go
on with public business without consulting him
| Wnen IT is possible 10 dNOlu IL.
Adyices from the seat of war in Abyssinia rep
resent the English hurrying steamers of to Bonn
/ bay for more troops. The arrival Of Gen. Napier
was to be followed by active operations at once.
Prince Napoleon is said to have written g
| pamphlet on the foreign and domestic policy OF
France, the appearance of which is awaited with
impotence by the Psrisians.
In San Francisco it il noticed. as one of the
4 Il al ~ huna ria hat
lsrce quantities of choice Siberian sables have
been received in that market at one half the for.
mer price.
John Mitchell protests against the intercession
Of the president in favor of the condemned Fe.
mans, on the ground that it would be an acknOw-
ledgment Of the right of the British government
TO punish them.
On account of the propensity of councilmau to
use inkstaDds for arguments in their discus
sions, those useful pieces Of furniture have
been securely fastened to members desks in the
Council Chamber in Brooklyn, New York.
The manager of the Cha,alet made a dry joke
just before the production of the last indecacy,
"GuIver" Being asked if he was going to
have fulldress rehearsal, simply impossible
said be.
1t is stated, upon authority of those who have
heard, that a cat, when her tail is pinched be-
tween door, utters the vowels a, e, l. o, u, with
great distinctness. If the Injury is prolonged.
she gives " and also.
The New Yo,k Tribune, looking to the condi-
tion Of things in the South, exclaims Root, hog,
or die.' But there are no hogs there to root.
The niggers have stolen them all-every squealer
and grunter.-[ Louisville Journal.
The extreme cold weather has formed an ice
bridge below the Falls of Niagara. and hundreds
of visitors are crossing. The ice is Of great
thickness and solidity and bids fair to remain for
some time. Visitors nov have an opportunity to
walk safely over the madly raging current
beneath, and at the same time get fine view Of
the falls.
l hate, says Greeley, to cay any thing that seems
calculated to steel others against the prayers Of
the unfortunate and necessitous; yet an extensive,
| pIotscted experience has led me to the conHlu-
sion that ne-tenths Of those who solicit loans Of
strangers or casual acquaintance. are thriftess
vagsbonds who will never be better off than st
present, or scoundrels who would rot pay if they
we're able.
Mr.. Edwin de Leon, in the New York Citizen,
states fact Of some interest in connection with
the celebrated seizure of Mason and Shdell from
an English steamer, and the general expectation
that the British demand for their release would
be refused by the United States government, aud
that a war with England would follow, which was
quite cel tain to secure Confederate Independence.
Mir. Yaueey, it seems, did not share in these san
gune expectations of his colleagues; he said he
"knew Mr. Seward too well to hope that he would
commit SO suicidal a blunder, and that the diff
| Guilty was sure TO be tided over"