The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-30

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while the latter are broad and without any hole at
all.
The Herald's Mexican correspondent gives a
list Of subsidies alleged to have been paid by
Macmillan to the American press in his behalf.
It includes the Chicago Tribune for $4,000 and the
st. Louis Republican for $1,000.
The Senate pension committee, says Washing
ton special, will report bill giving Mrs. Lincoln
pension, and fixing the amount $4,000 per annum.
Her personal appeal, in the shape of a petition,
created quite sensation.
know little sensitive plants of children. who
| are no more understood by those who are daily in
their angel presence, than the Saviour was by his
cfuciners. Children. who. mentally, morally and
i physically, are being tortured in their several
Gethsemanes to the death.-(Fanny Fern.
General Grant was to visit New York this week.
says Washington dispatch, ostsnsibly to attend
fashionable wedding, but really to consult and
decide whether Attorney. General Evarts shall be
| retained or ex Mayor Opdyke made secretary of
| the treasury.
letter in the Ledger speaks of horse whose
| grand display was inperpendcular travelling. If
he had used all that amount of fierce speed In
horizontal action he would soon have been lost to
view from the select committee of village urchins
who ever beheld his performances with wonder
ana deIight.u
Speciality of the present London season is
tne AT HONE" parties given by Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Matthew'S, at their residence in Brompton
Mr.. Matthews receives his guests in a dressing
gown and smoking cap, and all the theatrical and
artistic notabilities of London are present.
The average attendance at the New York Tam
many fheater since the first night has been about
5000 people, and nearly a third of these have
dropped in after 10 O'Clock, after the other
theaters were out, thus making Tammany sort Of
nighteap, to be taken before going to bed.
There were but three interments In the Calves
ton cemeteries last week One an infant week
old; one man, sailor accidently killed, and one
from suicide At the rate of mortality since 1867,
remarks the Civilian, people will find it necessary
to go somewhere else to die, or the island will be
overstocked in few years.
The secret of Grant suggesting that there should
be no Inauguration ball, says Washington spe.
cial, is now ascertaned to be that the negro soci
cites were about to overwhelm ii with their odor-
GUS presence. The colored gentlemen demanded
equal privileges from the committee IN charge,
who were afraid to decline and dared not acqui-
esce. Grant relieved the perplexed committee
from their dilemma by his letter.
The New York World has allowed itself to be
sold to the extent of copying from the ST. Louis
Republican long account of 'preuistoric re.
MAINS" Runic inscription, bas reliefs, etc., ante.
dating the time of Christ, discovered in chambers
connecting with an ancient tunnel running under
the Mississippi river near st. Louis, and supposed
to communicate with the great mounds in that
vicinity.
The staff of the Paris National Guard having
advertised that the position of drum.major in that
part of the French militia is vacant twenty or
thirty men, over seven feet in height, have come
to Paris as applicants for the place, and they are
daily promenading on the bouevards to the great
disgust Of all small Parisians, who now look
shorter than ever.
James Fisk, Jr., is said TO be negotiating for the
Olympic and Niblo's Theaters. He wants to |
monopolize the business of amusements, it is |
reported though his friends say he is getting con-
troll of the theaters for speculation. Mr.. Fisk |
has renewed his quarrel with the press by with |
drawing advertisements from the Commercial |
Advertiser, which abused him like a pick
pocket.
Commissioner Wells, says "Gath," is a medium
sized, thick.set man, with light beard and hair
and a fiorid complexion, and he wears spectacles.
His look is that of medical college professor or
surgeon. He was educated at Williams College,
in western Massachusetts,, and became profess
sor of chemistry in another college OF high rank
Afterward he filled the place of professor at Har-
ward and editor of the Manuel of Scientific Dis
covery. In these intellectual positions he was so
laborous a reader and student that he lost the
sight of one eye almost entirely.
Once when was exceedingly poor and needy,
writes Horace Greeley, in a season of commercial
revulsion and "panic," / opened a letter from
Utica, and found therein five dollars, which the
writer asked me to receive in satisfaction of loan
of that sum which / had made him-a needy
stranger-on an occasion which he recalled to my
remembrance. Perplexed by so unusual a mes
sage, and especially by receiving it at such time,
when every one was seeking to borrow-no one
understanding to pay-I scanned the letter more
closely, and at length achieved a solution of the
problem. The writer was patient in the State
Lunatic Asylum.
Arsene Housssye, the celebrated French critic,
in his recent work on Female Beauty, speaks in
very complimentary terms of the prepossessing
appearance of American ladies': We have
beautiful women in France, and so has
every other nation, but of one thing
am quite sure, that no people can
boast of more beauties among its women than
the North Americans. Go to one of their even.
ing parties, and, unless every corner of your
heart is already occupied, you are certain to fall
in love. You will hardly meet there young
girl but that is attractive in the highest degree
The charms of the women of all other coun-
tries seem to be blendid in the Americana. She
stands peerless among her ssters.n
The Lawrence, Mass, American, (Gen. Banks's
dstrict of the I'D inst. referring TO the contro-
versy about Banks having been ordered to super
sede Gen: Grant, says: " We happen personally
to know that the official autographs orders are
now in possession Of Gen. Grant," Gen. Banks is
in Boston. He says that the story that he was or
dered to supersede Grant at Vicksburg is true in |
every particular. General Haleck signed the
orders, by direction, probably, of Stanton. Banks
kept il secret, and never even told his wife, and |
the story was started In Grants headquarters,
when II was made public few days ago. Grant
sent tw general officers TO Banks and he delivered
to them the orders he had received while at Port
Hudson. The orders are now in Grants posses.
sion, and will be given to the public soon.-[Cin.
cinDati Commercial Nth 4