The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-07

SUNDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY !. 1859.


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EDITORIAL PARAaBAPMs. ero.
Jsnauschek is coming. esH ns..
E. B. Washburne Is better. sa.ri
Fresh shad in Goldsboro, NC.
Respectable women paint In New York.
Morrissey Is Ill. .......rr
The business Of Stewards retail store averages
$loO, 900 day. ..... ..a-ls .-.s. ,,l.''-
One woman in two months ran up Q bill Of
1000 at Stewards store. trtt
Twenty-Five hundred dollars is the highest salary
paid to any professor in Harvard College.
George Alfred Townsend writes that Winnie
Resm's statue Of Lincoln is "good and literal"
The Blue Budget, the Echo, and the Shadow, are
the latest newspaper enterprises in London.
Geo. Ellis has Punch, New York Ledger, Chin
ney Corner, Budget of Fun, Harper's Weekly,
Sporting Times, and Hsrper's Bazaar.
In an Indiana jail the female convicts outnum.
Der the males three to one. $780,.
Heating cars from the locomotive 10 to be tried
in Pennsylvania.
Minnesota exported s,s74.l2l bushels Of wheat
last year. -...
The French vineyards give employment to eight
million people.
Garibald's novel, they now cay, was written by
somebody else. .............
Over five thousand horses were killed in Berlin
last year for human food. rsi sfae
1t is estimated that The Hoosac tunnel VIII cost
Massachusetts, 81, 100000.
Boston has two potatoes on exhibition, for
which il asks $50 each. ... q h
Buffalo has enjoyed q skating match between
two young ladies' for $500.
Coliax popped the question 1900 feet above
the sea. a.......... .......s.ar.t -s
Charleston has just had wedding with twenty
eight bridesmaids-all in the market.
Gen. Sherman was at the st. Charles Theater
last night.
A Washington special to the Republican rays T.
J. Durant is crowding strongly for q desk in Gen.
Grants Cabinet.
Weston passed through ST. Adams, VT, on the
I'd. A sham Weston was mobbed in Vermont
town. s..-........ ...-.... a.3
Inmates of country poor houses in New York
are served with putrid meat and svill, and sub.
jected to tyrannical punishment.
Alvin Adams, the ex.express man Of Boston,
has just paid Bierstaat in Paris, $4,000 in gold
for one of his latest and largest paintings.
The Paris correspondent of the London Star
writes that Jefferson Davis il dangerously i'll from
Baron Erlinger, the husband of John slidell's
elder daughter, will visit New York and Washing.
ton with his wife and sister.inlaw in April next.
| The market price of New York legislators dur.
ing the recent senatorial contest was quoted at
$500. y at ...-.....--.. a.a.s.l sr
Minister Dix was allowed to make twenty.six
Americans happy by invitations to the first ball at
the Tuieries, but some 600 were doomed to black
despair.
The Rev. Dr. Mublenberg, who wrote 81 would
not Live Always,"is now seventy-fve years old.
This is alamentable example of difference between
precept and example.
The New York Evening Post predicts a revival
Of the madrigal, as the next form of popular mu-
steal entertainment. Opera bouffe is on the wane
and niger minstrelsy thing Of the past.
Richards, speaker of the Tennessee House of
Representatives, is q sensitive plant. Being
charged with corruption, he resigned his position
as presiding officer, weeping copiously."
Members of the New York Legislature found on
each OF their desks the other morning large cake
| of soap. Whether an advertisement or hint,
| does not appear.
The emperor of Austria has sent a magnificent
misssl. enriched with exquisite miniatures. as o
present to the pope. This chef d'euure employed
nineteen artists for ten days.
The Missouri woman's Suffrage Association
want "male" struck out of the Constitution Of
that State. They object to the name, but not to
| the thing. -.t i-tas M
Private advices at New York from Cuba say new
reinforcements are continually arriving, and that
three regiments Of infantry and two batteries are
| expected this week.
Washington Avenue, one of the few remaining
roads fit to drive over, was quite animated last
evening with fine double and single teams. among
which a superb span Of fast trotting chestnuts
were especially noticeable.
as Do you mean to tell me am liar ," sternly
demanded Jack of John Thomas; eff so. i expect
an immediate apology -" IT," (hic,) returned
]. T., al have said anything I'm sorry for, (hic,)
Pm id glad of it!n (Roars of laughter and
the apology accepted.) hIe
There Ia said to be negro boy in Hampstead,
Texas, about seven years old, who reports that he
has been commissioned from above to preach the
gospel of Christ. Recently he made q public
effort before an audience of educated gentlemen
including Bishop Simpson of the NJ. E. Church
South. It is said that his sermon was effective.
| A correspondent speaks of Chandler's late re.
eent;on in washington: The floral decorations
swung in profusion from ceilings, arches and walls,
and gave to the rooms look of fairy land--while
the ladies poured along in toilets that defy de-
scription. The sweetest music vibrated the per
fumed air, while reconstructed Africans irrupted
in white gloves, and made Indigestion attainable.r
Secretary Browning las given formal recep-
ton to the colored messengers of the interior de.
psrtmeDt They were found to be numerous, and
with excellent appetites. They thanked the sec.
rotary for his unprecedented courtesy, and the
secretary made a little speech, warning them
against demagogues, and telling them they had no
warmer or more disinterested friends than the in
teligent classes Of the South.
Alexander Dumas has not forgiven Rossini the
refusal Of that recipe for maccaroni. he has just
published his account Of the affair. in which he
says that Rossiui was " no gourmand." and more
over that he was selfish, stingy, lazy and ma
lcious. He adds that his laziness commenced
when Meyerbeer made such success with "Ro-
bert lie Diable.r
The Springfield Republican objects to the COM