The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-13
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King.at-dlms-G George Peabody, Esq.-tJudy.
Secondhand furniture-wades csbinet.-GEx.
At Dubuque recently Rev. Lyman Whiting
joined three of his daughters in wedock.
Europeans assert that the emperor of Russia is
drunk most of his time.
Albert II. Psysen, of Massachusetts,, takes the
highest honors at West Point this year.
81. Louis, Chicago and Cincinnati papers failed
to come to hand last night.
Swiss papers say that Jefferson Davis is gcSng
to take up bis abode in Geneva as seon as his tisl
is out of the way.
hour glass, the quicker will the sands Of her life
run out Elk.
A bunch of three keys was lost last evening in
the lower part of the ci y. The finder will confer
favor by leaving them at the CRESCENT Office.
$3.50 steam yacht, which will run 500 miles on
ton Of coal, has just been launched at Newark,
NJ.
The Bay St. Louis Gazette records the death of
a gentleman, whose Christian name was Cam.
We trust the departed is as happy as the biValVs
ef the same name.
On Change forcibly observes that summer
stagnancy is paramount" and that Z" it is not of
much use to talk Of commercial matters" How
about the flags and the habitues, neighbor?
1t is estimated that the railroads of the United
States have cost thousand six hundred millions
of dollars; or about tEo.thirds of the amount of
our national debt
To what order of architecture do the columns
Of newspaper belong! Not, certainly, to the
Doric, Corinthian or Ionic, but sometimes, per.
hsps to the lronc.
Continental critics speak very favorably of
"a md Duf - NJ N
Der Of both are sold in Germany and France.
Hsrper's has larger circulation in Northern
Germany than any English magazine.
Mr. JEFF. Clark, of st. Louis, has just imported
from the south of France four draf. horses of
Norman stock-twO stations and two mares.
They are of fine size and with remarkable mus
cular powers.
The Rev. DR.. Breckenridge, in his speech at the
Albany ratification meeting, pointed out the
Roman Catholics of New York as the enemies OF
the radicals, and said that if nothing else could be
done TO redeem the disgrace of New York, the
city should be burned!
The introduction TO the late work of Alexander
Il. Stephens is bitterly criticized in the German
and French papers. They say that this introduc.
tion shows that Mr. Stephens must either be vastly
overrsted in the United States or that bis mental
faculties must be on the decline.
Mr.. GoatheTd says it is great waste Of time to
read Dickens. He is trying with Indifferent sue.
cess TO "wade through David COpperfeld." Mr..
g. is man of department, never has any doubts
about anything, and leads the conversation at his
boarding house table.
Some very stupid persons did all they could to
convince the Emperor Francis Joseph that, by
signing the free school law and the civil marriage
act he would endsnger the life of the pregnant
empress. II is refreshing to think of the ans Err
which Joseph the Second would have made TO
such ridiculous insinuatiOns.
Theirs said recently to an Engshman that if
another Dante should write another Inferno, he
has DO doubt he would mention among the dread.
full penalties inflicted in that hot place the reai
ing of Scotts Life of Napoleon and Aison's His
tory of Europe. He said he always felt i'll at
ease when anybody mentioned these two "exe-
cradle" books to him.
Some of the Italian papers berste Ullmann
soundly for the humbug by means of which he
tries ~ puff up Carlotta Patti. They say that he
sends to the illustrated papers portraits of Car
lotta for which some pretty Partisan lorette must
have sat; and they also object to Ullmann's styl.
ing Carlotta IAN angel of beauty, grace and
melOdy.n