The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-27

OF hoooken, VINO, Wnen ne REACHES MS lnaJoi'J'
will be worth $3.50 ,OOO, 600, BY the advance OF his
estate in New Jersey.
Probably the oldest tree on record is cypress
at Somma, in LOmbsrdy, that was known to be
standing when julius Cesar lived-nineteen hun
bred years ago. 1t is one hundred and six feet
high and twenty feet in circumference.
A Boston paper says Mr.. Burlingame, when in
this country, said the emperor of China would
take stock in the Darien Canal to the amount OF
eighty millions, and supply ali the laborers
needed.
Msgruder, Besuregard, Prior and three other
Southern generals were present at the Manhattan
dinner to Gen. Breckenridge. Speeches were
made by Breckinridge, Magruder and several pro.
minent Democrats, and kilograms were received
from Southern officers unable to attend.
Weston turned up at hotel in Buffalo last Sat
urdsy. He is only ten days behind bis schedule
time, and has nearly 4847 miles more to walk, at
the rate Of Sc miles day. seven newspaper
men," general managers" ETC., accompany
him; also q buggy and : two horse carriage.
The pedestrian wears q gorgeousy bedizened
naval suit.
The statement is made that nearly $50 Mormon
families reside in Williamsburg, N. Y, each family
averaging ten members. Thirty of the heads of
families mentioned have plurality of wives, the
largest number, eleven, being SEALED to las
eivious cid cues Of sixty.three. The youngest.
fairest and favorte Of the number is only thirteen
years of age. She is already a mother.
General Butler, having harvested "a good
thing" out OF the army, proposes that there shall
be no more wastes, no more swindiings, no more
sinecures even in that department. He ia a tribe
rough, perhaps, on officers who have grown old
and kept poor in their country service; but bis
zeal for economy and honesty is most commend
able. We can hardly have too much of IL from
that quarter. And for the poor old officers
whom he proposes to turn adTift, they should have
known enough to have improved their opDOrtuli-
o and made hay while the sun shone.-lS Spring,
Repub.
Beecher surprised bis copgreg CATION on Sunday
by appearing in church. He did not preach, but
offered up the opening prayer, after which he
made a few remarks, saying no one knows what it
is to suffer until he reads what the papers say
about him. The press had pronounced him dan
gerously i'll, which was untrue. He though. it
strange that he should be denied the right to
have cold three days unmoestsd. He ssw no
occasion for the newspaper fraternity to hunt a
man down because he happened to have cold.
contemporary recently said "To caricature
the medical profession has been constant trndi-
tion among French wits since Aoliere and Boil
leau.n 1t would seem that the practice is not OF
French origin. There is passage 10 the Bible
which is not unlike some more modern hits st the
doctoTs "And Asa, in tha thirty and ninth year Of
his reign was diseased 10 lis feet until his disease
was exceeding great; yet in his disease ne
sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.
And Asa slept with his fathers" q ChTon. xvi,
l2-[Boston Bulletin.
The Pic contains poeieal tribute to Eugene
Tisdale. Here are two werses:"
think I'd know thee, should meet
Thee in the crowded hall or street.;
For in thy face thy thoughts must stay,
Pure and brisL. as the veil of day.
There's music in thy every word.
Like distant notes of singing bird:
Which seems ever on wing, at play,
Feeds on flowers and floats away.
Wen take it straight" Eugene
Train has written The following to Omaha at
large:
l gave Dursnt your letter, but he is one of those
obstinate cusses that nobody can manage. lie
funs his OWN machine; has the selfreliance of his
satanic majesty, and builds railroads as fast as
q horse can trot. l never yet saw man who had
any influence With him. good Turkish bath in
the Cozzens House would shut up all your doc
tors. Drug shops are only whisky chops. Omaha
is a disgrace 10 the West. There are moro stink.
ing rat holes, beer shops, whisky dsns and gin
palaces alongside Of your churches than in any
other city. Why don't Gen. O'Brien and nv Fe-
man friends get up some more Father Matthew
societies? Let rs reform the rum drinkers of
Omaha by circling up from the bottom. Irish.
men don't begin to drink as much as Americans.
Omaha is becoming regular Five Points in its
midnight haunts. And as We are TO have one
hundred thousand in five years. / want to N axe
our city the most moral place in the West and the
headquarters of reform.