The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-09

Newman very serious lecture in the Planters
Banner.
In committee the other day, Broomall said thai
the soul, brain and principles of Washington cor
respondents were for sale.
In q speech in Bedfordshire, Reverdy said there
was nothing in the constitution against female
president. .lI..
The Missouri legislature did the Agreeable to the
womsn's suffrage delegation, and listened to their
speeches. li ar
Gen. Sherman proposes to visit the forts down
the river on Wednesday, and leave for Alexandria
La, on Thursday. r..s-e4c "a
The roads are still horrible, says the Planters
Banner. Cane planting is retarded to the gres
detriment of the interests of the country.
| Halleck was in the habit Of composing verses
without the aid of pen and ink, keeping tkem in
his memory, and retouching them at his leisure.
Rogers, of the Boston Journal, who went to
California for his health returned almost immedi
stely. notliking the climate.
They raise all sorts of sheep In this country.
The South-down thrives down South.-[Courier-
Journal. %
In Concord, N. H., widow woman with So.
600 year income does homework for weekly
wages. flsta..1i 8.sa 81. .-
sign in New York is inscribed: MADAME
-, Clairvoyance and Palmistry; also, Plain
Washing Done" l
Mr.. Swords publishes the vicksburg Herald, and
Mr.. Spears edits it. We can only suppose that
their readers musket an arrow minded-oh,
bother !-[Cincinnati Commercial.
The Washington correspondents, who make and
unmake regulations, are youthful lot. They
generally have more nose for news than brains for
reflection.
II you steal dollar, you are q criminal. But
You can make all right by stealing nine hundred
and nnety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety.
nine more.-[Ex.
The Planters Banner says there is not one
country newspaper off o out Of FIVE in which there
is as much money as may be found in twenty acres
Of good land and pair Of mules.
The Alabama State Journal says: Zone of the
most corrupting nusances in Montgomery is the
great number Of lewd women, who have rooms
over almost every store in the city,
The poet Hslleck argued in favor of monarchy
and an established church. " The ship of state,v
he used to say, "must be governed and navigated
like any other ship, without consulting the crew.
The cause of Weston's being behind is said to be-
the necessity of stopping to rub his ears, these
frosty mornings. The extent of surface to be
gone over consumes great deal of time.-ICin.
cinnati Commercial.
Mrs. Slower and her children left Washington on
the 4th for her home in Tennessee. The presi-
dents wife, on account of feeble health. was un.
able to accompany her daughter, as she had in.
tended.
Gen. Grant was once q tanner. Some people
may have heard of this but SO also was jay
Gould; so was John Scott, United States senator
elect from Pennsylvania and 80 was Speaker
Younglove, of the New York Assembly
Without the stump, says Horace Greeley,
doubt the possibility Of maintaining institutions
more than nominaly Republican. The American
stump fills the place of the French coup detdt and
Of the Spanish American pronunciamieato.
Mexican bandits are q courteous set. Gutierrez,
captain of band in Jslisco. made one of his cap.
tives the present of q billed shirt" and q cigar.
case, and gave him pass which was duly honored
by the next "small psrtyn
Kossuth passes, every day, several hours at the
graves Of his wife and daughter. in the Genoa
cemetery. He is too poor to erect monuments on
them, and has refused all the offers of his friends
to give him money for this purpose.
The following personal advertisement ia from
the New York Herald: Z" II the party who took
fancy to my overcost was Influenced by the in
clemency Of the weather, all right, but if by COM
nerviai vvusdei esioss ram ready TO negotiate for
its return. John Brougham, 325 West Fourteenth
street."
Mr.. E. A. Pollard is "played out.v He ssvs
be made oath that he had done nothing 10 encou.
rage the rebellion because he was told by an en-
ploye of Collector Smythe that be had as much right
to take such an oath as Mr.. Vallandigham or Ben |
Wood would have. Whatever he may have been |
told. he knew that the oath, taken upon his lips
was perjury. de Is not to be believed on OATH |
Louisville Courier ournal.
They have q noval MI for hat Al.
Pine district. Nevada. The altitude of the town |
Is such that 1t Is often enveloped 10 cloud in the
early morning. The citizens 20 into the opeu
Dir in nude state, and by moving about gather
sufficient moisture upon their bodies to
enable them to battle. As water costs ten cents
gallon, the plan is q very economical one. I
Standing In the rotunda the other day. saw
at, coarse, overdressed, simpering female 20 BY.
She Is living under the protection of General
Vocilesabre " said my acquaintance; that is
le keeps her !" ! fell to thinking how applica.
woman, and whether the relation was not the
'rigin OF the word "protectionist /" accepted
~ our Pennsylvania ensioners.-[Washington
.etter.
Detailed accounts are given of PATHS tirst ap.
'earance in st. Petersburg, on the sth of Janu.
ny. The grand duchess and all the court, the
minister's and the high nobility OF Russia were
resent. The widest prices were paid for places,
he stalls being let on an average of sixty dollars
gold apiece. Never before has Patti created
uch furore. h
II has been reported that Grant objects TO riding
, the same carriage with Mr.. johnson on insugur.
ton day. The other day he was quizzed on the
inject, and replied that he supposed 1t was an
stablis he'd fact that the president. elect would
ave to go to the Capitol to be sworn in, but he
as not aware of any constitutional provision
hich required the retiring officer to 60 there to
g sworn out.
A four-column criticism on the opening per.
'rmance at Booths Tbester begins in this way:
II was privilege to help in the Inauguration Of
shskspearian theater, and the inging open Of
le white portals last night was to let food OF
sw glory out upon the sodden city. in which was
promise of lasting radiance, reflected with in.
'eased intensity from a wonderfully resplendent
Inc Emperor Napoleon used to receive every
e