The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-30
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ATURDAY MORNING. JANUARY 80, 1863.
EDITORIAL PAnAeRArns.. ETC.

The Quaker City has but few Quakers.
Charles Sumner is ifty-nine.
Weed thriyes in Charleston.
Dion Boucicault Is at work upon four new plays.
The greasers steal the telegraph wires in Mexico
Steamship Morgan is in town.
The Pic. thinks shell roads have had their day.
There is almost an epidemic of scarlet fever
among children in New York.
Rschel's second son is a clerk in a French gas
Office.
The "wickedest man" is trying the temperance
lay in New York.
Mrs. John Wood is managing the most aristo
cratic theater in London-the Royal st. James.
Whoever has square rod of ground, make il
produce something. rs -.r
The London Times, with its full supplement
contains 10000 lines, or 5000 words.
James Russell Lowells new volume of poems
is highly praised in England.
Victor Hugo's new work is said to surpass any
of his writings for the past decade.
Boston is building an iron brig with circular
tanks for transporting molasses in bulk.
Max Strakosch says that Carlotta Patti will
visit Cincinnati next fall.
Geo. Ellis has the New York Ledger, American
Agricultural and Literary Album.
Hefty-Noble's argument agans. the ship
canal.
The Monroe Intelligencer says Mr.. Ray is not
interested in that paper.
The Nstchitoches Times says JEFF. Thompson
was alwsysa humbug. Go after him, JEFF.
Jason Meadows has been elected mayor of
Mansfield.
Mrs. Swisshelm denies having written abusive
things about Winnie Ream.
Tho richest how in America vzac not J;llad az
reported.
Cigar color is the favorite tint now with the en-
press Of the French.
Where By silence you mean to deceive it ia
1ying.-lEx.
The doctor takes issue with those who denounce
feticide as a crying evil.
Gen. Grants favorite saddle-borse, says the
Chicago Tribune, is a handsome black pony,
taken from Dick Taylor's plantation.
Strange that paper with so many excellen-
cies as the New York Ledger should be disfgured
with 60 many abominabe, unmeaning wood.cuts.
Mrs Jas. Gordon Bennett is at Wiesbaden, and is
stalking notes. for a work on the watering places
of Europe.
Ad interim Thomas has gone to Little Rock to
look after the welfare of his fellow cor pses.-
IChicago Post.
A Paris correspondent of Cologne paper says
Prince Napoleon has renewed his iaison with
Cora Pearl, whom he deserted two years ago.
Queen Victoria has sent copies of the magnif-
cent new edition Of her book on the late Prince
Consort to all the crowned ladies of Europe.
Seventy. five thousand cartes de viste of Mrs.
Lincoln have been sold by one dealer at Frank
fort on. the. Main.
Seventy.two newspapers are at present pub.
lished in Madrid. OF these only fifteen are worth
reading.
II is not to be wondered at that man for forty
years editor of paper in Kentucky is now raw
ing maniac.
'Our little mayor is the disrespectful alluson
of city contemporary to the chief magistrate of
New Orleans.
There were only seventy.seven thousands bales
of American cotton on hand in Liverpool yes.
terday.
Walter Brown, the champion sculler, has now
the lehtest racing boat in proportion to size, yet
constructed. II is 80 feet inches long, and
weighs only "a pounds.
Gossipers say Victor Emanuel lately visited
the pope, and wept when they parted; and that,
although the utmost pains were taken to prevent
Napoleon hearing thereof, the story leaked out.
Congress has abolished the use of stencil or
stamp franks, by which big darby, with mus
cusr arm could cheat the postofiice out of $50 an
hour.
Sothern will come over next fall and play at
Edwin Booths theater in October. His terms are
clear half of the gross receipts, If they reach
$1,000 per night.
Mr.. II. b. Clafn thinks that, inasmuch as he
pays taxes in New York on 5000 900, he is excu.
sable for taking the liberty Of sending his son to
the Free College of New York
We have again been graciously remembered in
the way Of q basket of delicious -, but note
accompanying the gift admonishes MS not to say
anything about it on penalty Of deprivation Of
further supplies.
The New York World has discovered that horse
tongues are sold in that city - beef tongues The