The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-11
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHA, ETC.

| stewart mas returned 70 New YORK.
Ex-Gov. Melville, of Mississippi, is dead.
Greeley attends Italian opera.
| Commodore Morgan arrived in Mobile on the 9Th.
| Speaker Blaine Is 80.
Seventeen buildings we're recently burned In
Camden, Ala.
The season is backward in Mississippi as well
as in Louisiana.
Stables were used % human sleeping apart
ments in Washington last week.
Thanks to the officers of the steamers Louise
and Matagords.
Stewart is expected to visit Weed in North
| Carolina.
Grant is said to be much annoyed by the Stew
art sffsr.
man partaking Of dessert may be said 10 be
10 the last stage Of consumption.
The bill repeating the tenure of Office act has
gone to the Senate judiciary committee.
Anthony has been elected president of the Sen
ate, pro TEN.
| Booth is to go on starring tour during the &C.
cupancy of his theater by Miss Batemsn.
! There are said to be twelve candidates for the
New Orleans collectorship.
John Ericsson is said to have died recently in
New York Of hydrophobia.
Snow was two feet deep on level in the prin-
| cipal business street Of Portland on the 4th.
| Flour is going down. Now let 1t rise higher in
the loaf.
Attorney General Hoar is grandson Of Roger
Sherman.
The Republican says Menard has fled his
papers for the Hsyten consulate.
Celery is said to be highly salutary in nervous
| diseases.
The new cabinet means business emphsticslIy.
New York Tribune.
How about Stewards business"
Congress probably expects to get rid of the
public debt by piling it up till it topples down.
| [Courier.J Journal.
Don't employ the word mighty" sweet lips, as
mighty sorry" mighty glad" etc. 1t is dis
gustingly vulgar in lady.
A Partisan fashionable novelty is q trail Of
flowers from the hair, caught up at the waist, and
then falling to the bottom of the trail.
| supersttious ,Englishmen believe that person
may cure himself of bos by crawling round
newly filed grave.
At the Inauguration ball Mrs. General Gaines
was sttired in black and gold lama dress, trimmed
with gold fringe, blue bonnet and diamond jewelry.
Washington correspondents note: that Grants
father tumbled down stairs while his was
tumbling up-tWorld.
The Courier Journal says the house presented to
Sherman is as handsome a one Is any he ever
burned.
The telegraph says Gen. Hatch. assistant com.
missioner for Louisiana. will succeed Gen. How
ard as chief of the freedmen's bureau.
If man and his wife go to Europe together,
what is the difference in their mode of travelling!
he goes abroad, and she gees along.
George Peabody writes from London, that If his
now failing health permits, he will return next
year to remain.
1t has been decided that the Glasgow ON.
nibuses are net obliged to carry laborers 10
their working clothes.
The local editor of the Mobile Register very
cordially acknowledges the courtesies of our
fremen to their late visitors from the Gulf City.
The army of crswishers was in its glory yester-
day. Barrels of the sweet little crustacea were
captured in the drains and bitches of the city and
vicinity.
The Times remarks that with military, subser.
Went to civil power, the utmost complacency
under the Sheridan dspensation is plainly man.
ifest.
The Louisville Courier-Journal has got into q
fine new Office, and has a new head. The latter, |
like the old one, is level. The Courier.Journal is
Q great paper.
Maurice Strakosch has paid Madam Rossini |
posthumous mass. He is to produce it in Paris |
with Alboni, and charge Sc admission.
There is said to be an oak tree in the Holy |
Land, still living that was planted by Abraham. |
1t is to be set up at Russian monastery, in |
Jerusalem.
young gentleman Of this city, act. years, a |
passenger on one of the Carrollton cars, wanted
to know of the driver why cars drawn by mules |
auoa lori
swerable.
While q coffin was being lowered into the |
grave, in Weldon, North Carolina, on Sunday, |
colored woman advanced and claimed the
rope used for the purpose as her stolen clothes
line.
A. t. Stewart is said to have a superstitious
faith in luck" 1t leads him to cherish an old |!
apple vendor in front of his store. He would |
avoid commencing the sale of q case Of goods to |
an unlucky person, if he could.
At Grass Valley, California, q curiously consti-
tuted business firm exists. One of the partners
is Fenian and the other a stanch English |
man one is a Catholic and the other Pro-
testant one is Democrat of the strictest and
straightest kind, and the other an ardent Repub.
can.
The telegraph and newspapers have much to
answer for in the matter of the name of the new |
attorney general. 1t has been vsriously given E.
D. Hoare, E. B. Hoare, E. r. Hoar, Eben R. Hoar,
E. lockwood Hoar. Ebeneezer lockwood Hoar,
Ebin Tompkins Hoar, etc., etc. In several in. |
stances he has been COMPOUNDED with his father, |
the late Judge Samuel Hosr, who, If he were |
living, would be much hoar-ier,
The appointment, (of Sheridan to the depart /
ment Of Louisans,) we apprehend, had q larger |
reference to Andy johnson than to I'VE, the |
people," and in this sense ii is not the first time
that we, the people" have been dashed over the /
broad shoulders Of Mr.. johnson. The latter re-
moved Sheridan, and Gen. Grant, tit for tat, /
restores him. Besides this, Grant is fond of /
Sheridan, and, in addition, il was o small tub /
thrown to the big whale Of Radical prejudice
Mobile Register.
The second series of Prof Lowell's "Bgelow
Papers" were inscribed to Judge Hoar. and Hosea /
has written of him
"An' I've ben sence svisitin' the ledge,
Whose gsrding whispers with the rivers edge,