The New Orleans crescent., 1869-02-10

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Gated, with prospective opening for females
colored and plain" -s-s......-z---.
1.-THE Angel on the Iceberg" is new London
religious book. ssThe Cherub on the Volcano"
and "The Sersphim on the Earthquake" are ex'
pected soon 10 come out. q
A Minnesota paper speaks Of q contemporary
as "the nondescript newspaper concern !" Wnicn
is published by the senile slinger of unssvory
English and crazy crotchets." at ztylR
Seine one poured water into the letter.oox IN
the postofice In Framington, Maine. a few nights
since, and in the morning eli the letters were
frozen into solid mass.
Hsrper's Weekly wonders that the South does
not rebel anew, when it considers the miserable
vermin who have been sent down there as govern
ment officials.
We are in receipt Of the Richmond Head Light,
published on the 9Th, of Memphis. 1t is racy
and interesting as usual, and contains several kind
complimentary illusions to the CRESCENT corps.
The Thibodsux Sentinel has returns from fifty
seven plantations, giving 5769 hogsheads. Plan
ters complain of injury to the seed cane, and OF
unfavorable weather for planting.
The young men Of Chicago are said to be clas-
sined according to their skill as velocipedists into
the {" timid toddlers," the "wary wabblers," the
go-it-gracefuls y and the fancy few"
Supervisor Creecy Hospitality received host OF
friends at his rooms at the ST. Charles Hotel yes
terday. Several gentlemen not unconnected with
the whisky ring were fitting about in the
vicinity.
The Winona (Minnesota) Republican remarks
that +" the most forlOrn- -anoieat maiden that ever
wore the willow for q recresnr lover is happy and
contented compared with the mstron who has
taken husband for better and found him worse."
"Awln exclaimed an English cockney to
Western traveller in England, "speaking.sw Of the
law Of primogeniture, ave you hentail in Amer
wica?n "Hentail!" said the American, looking
ct his interrogator with curiosity; "No sir, we
have the cocktail In America, and q very popular
drink 1t is" o-A n
Anna Swan, the Nova Scotia giantess. the be
loved and exhibited Of Barnum, has sailed for Eng
land. She is q worthy girl. and, in proof of her
perseverance,, 1t may be adduced that, at the early
age of twenty -one she has attained the height of
almost nine feet, which many people live to three
score and ten without reaching.
Mis- Kellogg has been haunted from town to
town out West by stage struck young lady who
wants to be prims donna. In Chicago, Miss
Kellogg took pity on the girl, permitted her to
buOW Ou ucI fOiCc, auu uicOo'cAOu niuciOoh RfO-
Dizzy. The successful debutante is Q Miss Abbott,
and her patron has promised to see her through.
The electoral vote for president Is to be counted
this week in the hall of the House in the presence
Of the two houses Of Congress. The president Of
the joint convention will be President Wade, of
the Senate. No attempt win be made to throw
out the electoral votes of New York and Louisiana
on account of alleged frauds. as mas been intims-
ted. The electoral votes are In. 30 says Wash
ington special to the Conrier-Journal
We learn by private letter from Fort Concho,
Texas, that regimental headquarters of the
fourth cavalry, the finest similar organization in
Texas, have been ordered to proceed thence to
Austin. tis rumored that all the companies of
the fourth now stationed at Concho viii be semitic
Fort Griffin or Fort Richardson, and that Fort
Concho is to be garrisoned by brunettes," ss the
colored troops are humorously designated on the
frontier. 81 81 -.tf q f-.ir ft. \
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press
writes: Yesterday, in Q street-car, counted
nine men with their legs orossed-nine muddy
boots raised two feet in the air-nine serious
annoysnces to every one entering-the whole nine
doubtless believing themselves to be gentlemenl
Why is it that 80 very few Americans sit in such
places like gentlemen' What physical weakness
affiics them that they are always compelled to
twist themselves into awkward and ungAinly sttti-
tudee y, Iaf rstaal aira taH' i.