The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-31
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WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH 81, 1859.
xDrroRIAL rAnAexAPns. ETC.

Gounod is IN Rome and very religious. -
The Chicago Tribune lie now worth 81 900 900.
ExPresident Pierce was in Boston recently.
Michael LATTER, of Shreveport, is dead.
Fruit is promising in the Teche couutry. 81
1t is said Tennyson's habits are bad. h. W..
Gushing Is mentioned for the English mission.
Fremont has added $1,000 to the Humboldt mon
ument fund.-.
Partisan ladies' walk very much on their toes this
season.
W. R. Haynes has purchased the Iberville
Pioneer, Radical. rr irU "A
Chambers are killing horses and mules In Ibervile
parish. - - ra
J.. NJ. Mcfarland, Q prominent merchsn. Of
| Tyler, Texas, is dead.
The editor of the Chicago Republican can't get
the Chicago collectorship.
| Geo. Ellis has Hearth and Home, Days Doings
and Sporting Times. "
| Emma Stebbin's colossal statue Of Columbus
has been presented to the Central Park. Is
| Thanks to the officers of the steamers |. G.
| Harris and Josephine. r Wiz
Dolly Davenport is spinaily affected, in st.
| Louis. s. t..s
President Grant and family will occupy Lester
Walsck's cottage at Long Branch next summer.
| A Thomas cat recently entered the Office of the
Algiers Independent and made pr Of galley Of
| " live matter" - 1f9 ii I0ii
A wsg suggests that a suitable opening for
many city chors would be, " Oh Lord, have mercy
| on us miserable sngers.'' n
Dean Richmond is to have granite and mar.
bic msusolenn erected 70 his memory at a cost
| of SIS, goo.
tits whispered in Washington that Mrs Grant
is in that interesting condition IN which Isdie, who
love their lords delight to be. 81
| The insurance companies have never paid the
insurance on John Wilkes Booths life, and his
mother has never applied for the money.
The New Iberia Times, edited by Rufus L. Lin.
scott and John Y. Gilmore, is the name of new
! paper from the Teche.
Collector Grinnell has received about 5000 ap-
plications for Offices since his appointment to the
| New York collectorship.
The Imperialist is the name Of forthcoming
| New York journal to advocate making the repub.
| lie an empire.
DIR. Hill. late president Of Harvard, has been
called to the charge Of an Unitarian church in
| Walthsm.
Philadelphia has Last Man Brotherhood"
consisting of thrty-nine printers. They hold an
nual festivals, to be kept up until the "last MANI
has to sit at the table alone.
| Ou Tue zIu UeD. ClODemdn leSueu IN OrQer re-
moving Gov. Wells and assuming the duties of the
Office himself. Mayor Burgess, OF Petersburg.
| was also removed from office.
The Evening Post says Prince Louis Of Bour.
bon, who recently married 10 New York. is q d.
rect heir to the Brazilian throne in the pres
| ent emperor dies without heirs.
The Galois newspaper says that Emperor Napo-
| leon has demanded sn explanation Of the king of
n a IN
| troops in the Western provinces. .,sI. II
Queen Victoria signi6ed her Partially for John
Bright by commanding him to appear at her
first court, and the right honorable Quaker ap-
pesred "done up in gilt lace, velvet swaiiow-tail
| coat and cooked hat under his arm.
The fashionable female lip ia very pale, a:ccrd.
ing TO the latest Partisan accounts. Coral color
ing is quite gone out OF fashion, and the expires.
sion Of the elegant mouth is that of WEAKNESS and
| scorn.
Hundreds of soldiers of the regular army sta
toned in Dscotah are married to Indian women.
These women, it is said. make faithful, ,vrtuous
aud industrious wives. The soldiers rarely desert
them.
Washington special to the Picsyune of last
evening says Senator Kelloggs Memphis and
Ell Paso Railroad bill was killed in COMMITTEES
to-day, and that Dan Sickles has been appointed
minister to Mexico. sds ~ Ere rsr-
A New York dispatch of the 9th says the cur,
rency shipped to New Orleans during the week
was 500, 900 to national banks; $3.50 goo held for
security; for circulation 1852 440 100 for deposits
50 ,24l 1885, Total currency issued to date $780,
400 s96.
Colonel Albert G. Ramsey, who died Ia this city,
on the 9th. at the age OF .yfour, was for many
years the correspondent OF the New Orleans Pc
ayune, under the signature of " Broadway He
was a gentleman Of rare scholarship and high
character, and Of genial temperament. which
made for him many friends herein. Y. Mail.
The New York Evening Post continues its de-
nunciation Of the recent federal appointments for
New York, and attacks Senator Fenton at great
length. Il intimates that Gen. Merritt Is scanda-
lousy corrupt, and that no part of the work of
collecting the customs and revenues can be safely
inirusted to his hands.
The New Orleans Tribune says Mr.. Blackburn
misrepresents bis colored constituents. The Tri-
bune is displessed because Mr.. b. said il was ~
burlescue on manhood and personal decency to
contend that because citizen is your equal be-
fore the law and at the bsot-box, he Ia therefore
your equal and must needs be your associate in the
social circle"
In copying our special dispatches on Saturday
night clerical error occurred, which made 1t ap.
pear that Meesrs. Underwood and Chapman have
been nominated for assessor and collector OF the
First, instead Of the Second Internal Revenue Dis
trict, as telegrsphed TO us from Washington. As
there Ii no vacancy In either Office In the First
District, the error is scarcely calculated to mis-
lead any ne-tRepublican.
Fisk continues his theatrical and operate specu.
Lotions. His latest enterprise is the leasing of the
N. Y. Academy of Music for the early production
of Wallace's "Lurline," under the direction of Max
Maretzek. The spectacular scenery of the opera.
painted last year for Pixies Opera House, has
already been transferred TO the Academy. The
parts have been distributed to the principal MEM
bers Of the Italian Opera Company and the re-
hearsals of choruses and orchestra are being Wig
orously pushed forward.
A list OF disasters 10 the fishing feet on
Georges" though rather somber record, pre-
sents some lively features in connection with the
names OF the vessels. Thus we learn that "Fanny
Fern lost her mainboom.r Poor Fanny We
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