The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-26


for Florida papers.
Bull Run Russell's so-called novel is not sue
cess.
A French sayaut undertakes to prove that So'o-
mons Temple was furnished with lightning rods.
The London Times is getting notorious Tor the
blunders in its parliamentary reports.
Thanks 70 the officers Of the steamships b,
Mary and Josephine, for Texas papers.
The ueople of Marshall, Texas, are accused OF
selling eggs by the bushel
The Rjchjugs, Booth, McVicker and Mrs. John
Drew are in Philadelphia.
The Georgia press make loud complaints OF
radical frauds at the late election. 1t is charged
that 500 illegal votes were polled at Macon.
Geo. Ellis, opposite the Postohice, has Kelley's
Weekly, Chimney Corner, Literary Album and
the New York Ledger.
Queen Victoria's Oldest daughter, wife OF the
Prussian crown prince, is now the mother OF six
children.
II is said that Senator Yates would rather see
Andrew johnson succeeded by Ben-Zne than Ben
Wade.
We are indebted to the publishers for the May
numbers of those excellent mothes, the Galaxy,
Lippincotts and Public Spirit.
Sir Morton Peto and Mr.. Lawrence Oliphant
have resigned their seats in the English parlia'
ment.
Our friend and quondam associate in journalism,
Mr.. Charles n. Golden, will accept the thanks of
the corps for generous wedges of his bride loaf,
as Tom Hood was wont to call wedding cake.
The presidents counsel do not consider Butler
thing Of beauty" but they are unan'mors 10
admitting him to be jaw forever
The Memphians were to formally honor the
memory of the Confederate dead yesterday. To-
day is the time which has generally been agreed
| upon for that duty.
| Col. s. N. Moody is out in Texas experimenting
the erection Of shirt signs all over the length and
breadth of the Lone Star state. Buy your
shirts at Moody's."
Butler denies the letter written to Lewis d.
Campbell, of Ohio, soliciting his influence to get
him the war Office after the secretarys death, was
with his sanction or knowledge.
The Deserst News is alarmed lest Paris fashions
should be introduced among the Mormon women,
and is star tied at the possibility of saint being
obliged to pay the clothing expenses of dozen
| wives.
Eugenie sneezed twice while entering a recent
court ball and the Paris papers ferociously rebuke
1 the servants for leaving a window open some
where. Perhaps her majesty had imprudently
handled damp teaspoons.
| The Brandon MISSY Republican has adopted
the plan of publishing an occasional poetical con-
tribution for the purpose of showing the writer
what a fool he or che is. BE has undertaken
hopeless mode of curing hopeless cases.
Among funny theatrical wants published in one
of the London papers is the following: Wanted
for The summer months, good juvenile and light
comedian, first heavy man parties accustomed to
the sensation dramas preferred, that can keep
sober for their business"
Mrs. Sarah Nicholson Moore, formerly of B iti-
more, died recently at Trieste, aged seventy
seven. Few American naval officers have been
in Trieste for the last forty years. who have
not enjoyed the generous hospitality Of her
house.
| Ausons ths rerforuaers IN tho White Orook
is pretty little woman, dressed in neat frock
coat, striped pants and dainty boots, who attracts
attention and admiration for the spirit and humor
| with which she invests the character. No one to
| see her thus would suppose (what is true) that
she is the fond and proud mother of pair Of fine
twins only ak weeks old.-lLouisville Cour., 23d.
young Indian maid, visiting Touring mill in
winona, Minnesota, surreptidously got hold of
the stencils and decorated her white blanket with
"Ellsworth's choice " in bright, red letters, after
which she strutted down street, to the eventual
horror of the bachelor Ellsworth who owns the
mill.
When Mr.. Bancroft was retiring from Count
Bismsrck's ball on mi cdr6Dle evening he encoun-
tered the king, whom he supposed had already
left, on the staircase. Els majesty stood talking
with him quarter of an hour. The subject of it
was the impeachment Of President Johnson, in
which the king is said to take deep interest.
| berlin correspondents, Msrch26, New York Herald
A portion of the Palantine Hill has been pur-
chased by the emperor of France from the ex-
| IL mir ~ orfi atio
eemiDg with statues, affairs, ornaments and rich
marbles. Signor Rosa, to whom the excavations
on this site are intrusted, has just discovered a
large altar, bearing an inscription stating that 1t
was erected by Cneius Domitius Cavinus, twice
vice consul, B. G. So and 10.
The queen of England, as seen while out on a
dive recently is described as locking thinner
than of old, somewhat red of face, with quick,
observant glance of all that was going on around,
as illthe sight struck her as fresh and new. She
was dressed in plain black, and since every one
took of their hats to her, even stranger might
have known that the lady was the queen of the
realm of England.
Our social system in England, writes the London
correspondent of the New York Times, breeds
snobs quicker, as begin to perceive, than any
otheT,system known on the earth. My friend Smith,
for instance, hitherto an excellent fellow, dined
the night before last with q duke. Yesterday
when met him, he adopted tone which nearly
froze me to the marrow, until by singular stroke
Of good fortune a noble earl OF my acquaintance
parsed me on the opposite side of the street, and
nodded to me, by which merciful chance was ion.
mediately restored to Smiths favor. This neither
an imaginary nor an exceptional instance. 1t hap
pens every day TO some one or other here in Lon
don. Dine with 81 eat man and none of your former
friends are good enough for you afterward. Aud
l say that this is feeling-I proclaim it here
whenever get the chance, and rejoice over the
anger which it occasions-that never met with
in all my travels in America, and which, if a man
exhibited there would. believe result in his be-
ing laughed out Of decent society. We
in England have our little ways, and morasts lik %
Thackeray make no impression upon them, and
never will. / can tell you what will do it
though-popular suffrage / When workingmen