The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-30

that he did so upon q single charge, and one
which he would refer to Mr.. Rollins for his maj
order thereon.
The Washington Worlds correspondent gives
the following cabinet slate: State, J. l.. houey
or VIM. b. Seward; war, John N. Schoneid'
treasury, E. B. wsshburne or o. 2. Morton; ia~'
F, T. Frelinghuysen interior, Ben. Wade; navy
Jos. l.. Hawley; postal John A. kssson.
In a late British periodical mater fsmilias gives
her experience of the good effects OF spanking
her niece. and a tender father tells how ms
daughters were benefited by wise application
of split.Ieather.
washington correspondent says Dick Yates,
in a moment of communicativeness button'n oiea
him in the Senate the other day and declared.
/" Wash (hic) .burne, Threcretary (hic-eho oil
the sbres'ry. Big thing He made me inc ,
ub.. am-an' made Grant what he is"
Its reported that Bowles intends to bring suit
against james Fisk, Jr., for conspiracy and false
,mnrisoument, laying damages at sloO,ooo. FIX
!. s,a,aa 20 be 40 worried by the eensure OF the
press that he has concluded to withdraw MS sur
sas;ns, the Springfield Republican and New York
Tribune.
7, said that Lor don barber once had sign
| in front of his door, on which was representa-
! ton of Absalom suspended from the branches OF
an oak by his hair, with the following couplet IN
| derneath:
| "If Absslom hadn't worn his own hair,
He'd meier been found q hanging there"
The poet whittier, In q letter to the New Eng
land Society of Washington, says he heartily sup
norris the motion Just made by New England
senator. TO remove the disabilities Of those at pre-
90. aiss-spchissa In the Southern States. aut
make amnesty and suffrage universal; and h
also expresses his belief that majority Of tn
Northern people also favor such action.
Gambling, says @. F. Train, is respectable now
The man who gets drunk and swears the hardes
and runs away with another mans wife, and cal
plsy well at faro, will grow up as proud ex
ample to the young men Of New York, goo
| Christian and reiormer, and hundred carriage
will follow him to Greenwood from Grace Church
for he is prince in trade and gave to charities
Washington dispatch to the Cincinnati Com
mercial says there is no longer any doubt tbs
General Grant is in favor of the repea OF the ter
ure of Office act. He lately stated to some Coz
gressmen who called on him, that while he shout
not pretend to say at this time what he though
hest 10 do or not to do, he still believed il woul
be judicious to repeal the act.
A New York reporter says the New Eoglau
dinner was gotten up with the artistic excelleuC
of the culinary art that distinguishes all OF DE
monico's efforts in that line, and tods topped
,cih the divine blessing, invoked by the Rev.
!: Hitchcock. Washington correspondent writ
that the celebration of Forefathers' Day at Il
capital ended with the doxology aud dancing
A nice Swiss woman named Jeanneret, thirt
two years of age, whose employment was tn
of nursing the sick, has just been found gull
of nine murders. She was clever woman, wi
a highly nervous and exctable organization, al
she seems 10 have had no other motive for
: crime than morbid love of the excitement
murder and grim delight in witnessing the 81