The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-05
EDITORIAL Paragraphs. STE.

Another beautiful day for the races yesterday.
St. Louis lost s2,777 500 by fires last year.
Ben. Wsde says Everything has gone to -"
Two very excellent disciples of burnt cork are
Richard Davis and AID. Ryman, at the Academy.
Joe Johnston wss the favorite among the sport
ing ladies' at the Metairie Friday.
Gov. Baker was born in Connecticut and Ken
lucky according to two Of our city contemporaries
cd fox was caught recently near Rome, Ca,
measuring four feet from tip TO tip.
Worcester, Mass, makes half million envel-
opes daily.
Louisville has lost by fires in the past ten years
81 9GG ,G24.
Montgomery Blair is said to be coming out
against Grant.
East.
Wendell Phillips says the Republican ship is
drifting before the wind without compass or pilot.
The Emperor Napoleon and the prince imperial
are going to visit the pope.
Smallpox prevails to an alarming extent in
Chicago.
Five thousand collars of Nashville city bonds
sold by auction on the 3lst ult. at so.
1t is said Gen. Wager swayne will be ordered to
duty on the Plains.
beautiful suburb of Jefferson City is one of the
most exhilaratipg sensations attainsble.
The people of Chicago expended i've hundred
and eighty-fve thousand dollars for theaters and
operas the past year.
Gen. Grant, Lieut.. Gen. Sherman. Senator sher-
man and Gen. Harvey went to the thester together
10 Washington, New Years eve.
Senator Howard is to apply balm to the presi.
A. 40 h
Carnot.
Pitkn has congressional aspirations. The Tr-
bune prints letter asking him TO be candidate.
Barbis is winin'.
Adelna Patti is to be married to the Marquis
de Caux, an officer Of Napoleon's imperial house
hold.
The Pail Mall Gazette regards the influence of
newspapers as no greater now than it was a cen
fury ago.
A Richmond butcher on Christmas day pre-
scented to sixty widows Of that place splendid
rcass Of bee'.
The Mobile Register says the theatrical bust:
ress in that city is depressed, and needs Ristori
tive. Mobile needs a little Of the leg itimate.
In Kinds county, Miss, during twenty-five
months, marriage licenses issued for six hun.
dred whites and one thousand blacks.
Gen. Giem, who temporarily succeeds Gen.
ord, is said to be one of the most conservative
officers in the army.
five mey credit telegraphic dispatch from
Cairo to Cincinnati paper, giving an account Of
FIRE, "Mr. Lyon lost his whiskers, and his wife
had a shawl burned on her back"
The tax in New York city last year was nearly
22oOo,oOO, which sum is paid by 100000 property
holders. The New Yorker pays s2.67 on every
SEQ.
II would appear that the winter Of lS6s has
been indefinitely postponed. The beautiful days
and nights which now succeed each other have
hone Of the usual characteristics of III e season.
The manatee or sea COW, recently on exhibition
In some Of the Atlantic cities, died a few days
since at Jacksonville, Fla, from the effects of
the cold weather.
There is said to be every indication in Europe,
Canada and the Eastern States, that 1865 will be
remarkable for the movement of population west
Of The Mississippi.
Somebody has been abusing the elephantine pet
Of the circus by perforatng his hide with pitch
fork but his appetite for the luxuries Of earth re-
mains unimpared.
French wit says that the gibbet is species of
aattery TO the human race. Three or four per-
sons are hung from time 10 time, for the purpose
of making the rest believe that they are virtuous
A Chicago paper says the man who has self-re-
spect will not make Anew Year'scall upon alady
with whom he has no acquaintance, even with
friend, unless he has been especially invited to
do so.
Touching the late railway disasters, a cores
pendent asks: "why lot have two tianges on the
carwheel instead Of oneg Any obstruction that
unseats the wheels of one side could not then
easily unseat those Of the other"
A country editor says: "New York Is q hercu.
lean, obloDg, municipal bladder, stuffed with
feveTish sensuality, nervous energy, crab-eyed
shrewdness, spasmodic fits of piety and para
lytis strokes Of abstraction"
The English papers state that the Cunard line of
steamers will receive a subsidy of $50 900 for car
rying the mails between Liverpool, Queenstown