The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-28
TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY %. 1858,
EDITORIAL Paragraphs. Etc.


Gen. Godfrey Weitzel ia In Louisville.
John Smith has started paper in Canada.
Napoleon is rifng his cannon.
Cincinnati is to have the Grover Opera troupe.
Prof Dimitry will lecture to teachers every
Saturday at the Normal High School.
Mr.. Seward, having become tired Of cannon
balls has now directed his attention to canni-bss.
The Round Table says 1--WE are all rogues to-
gether, more or less"
Brownow recommended the Tennessee legisla-
ture to adjourn as q measure of economy.
According to MACK" drunkenness among
congressman is disgusingly prevalent.
Booth and Miss Mcyicker arrived at Chicago on
the 22d.
'Under the Kerosene Lamp" Is O clever theatri-
cal burlesque at Woods Theater, Cincinnati.
The Nashville Banner has department devo.
ted TO capital "small talk"
Look out for earthquakes now in the Feejee
islands.
Ristori sailed for Havana on the 23d. The vexed
matter is at last settled.
The Washington Artillery Company have sban-
doned their project Of charity ball. The mem
bers are to organize charitable association.
The Herald inveighs against the "gas mon
opolyn in New York. The Herald Is fond of talk.
ing about itself.
The notorious Chevalier" wyckof first visited
the United States as the agent of the famous dan
seuse Fannie Elssler, nearly thirty years ago.
Among the men who have been mentioned in
high circles as suitable candidates for the pres:-
dency is the bon. Caleb Gushing.
Connecticut is to turn out coaches with india
rubber bodies. II would be capital material for
omnibuses and street cars.
George Law has entirely disappeared from pub
lie life, and so has every other kind Of law, OBJ.
serves the Nashville Banner.
five acquire the Feejee islands, Barnum will
be able to procure future supplies of mermaids
free Of duty.
There may be truth in wine, as the classic
proverb says, but II looks as If there were nothing
but fraud in whsky.-lEx.
1t has been openly asserted by certain rsbid
radicals in Washington that they have accom-
plished their desires in regard to Gen. Grant
killed bin of as an available candidate.
The Cincinnati Commercial says it cannot mag
inc greater political blunder on the part of the
Republicans than making Grant military dictator
Of the Southern States.
In EDglishville, Kent county, Michigan, COW
disgorged hickory stick, twenty-five inches long,
through her side. She had drawn it into her
mouth by string while eating hay.
DR.. Howe, Of Boston, says he knows Of thirteen
blind children, in q neighboring county, the de-
cendents Of one blind man, who married his
cousin.
Gen. Grant wore an unrufilsd appearance, as
.. usual.-[Jenkins at Colfax's reception.
Not strange, considering that rufiss are out Of
Some people ask IL farming win pay. Certainly
IL win, If properly conducted. In the aggregate
it must pay, else all other vocations must be
abandoned.
jenkins says Mrs. Grant is sensible but not so
pretty as Mrs. Patterson. At q late reception
jenkins was observed in a corner with eyes as
big as saucers, and holding q note book behind
him. De once to sally from his corner
and follow lady like piek.pocket, to note her
dress and Its trimmings, lodging occasionally
when she turned her head in conversation.
In view of Mr.. Stewards mortgage on the Fejee
Islands to secure payment for sailors eaten IT be.
comes question at what sum he estimates the
value OF each mariner who was gobbled Also
whether he counts them according to their phys
CAL their moral, their nautical or their ntellectua
worth. Probably their physical. good, Jolly,
fat tar, smelling strongly Of garlic ought TO fetch
round price-one island atleast. A lean and hungry
one would, of course, bring less. We trust the
schedule Of prices which Mr.. Seward has estab-
lished win soon be published 10 an anxious world.
Let us not burst in ignorance.
smack" says the number of senators who, &C,
cording TO the private opinion Of one or more
other senator's, are totally unfit for the position
they occupy Is astonishingly large. In the House
there is better state Of feeling, principally be-
cause members are only elected for two years,
during which time the little imp Of malice and
nnchsritsbleness cannot attain q very large
growth. He says Fessenden thinks Sumner Is an
idiot. and Sumner is fully convinced that Fessen.
den is q monster Of some sort or other. The lat
ter calls the former i'd fool, ;" and is trying
TO prevent his reelection, thing which Samner
tried in the case Of Fessenden. CONFESS and Cole,
OF California, are nearly mortal enemies, and so
of Yates and Trumbull, Of Illinois. Wilson, Of
Massachusetts,, is generally popular.