The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-19

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FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 10, 1869.
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sDET01IAE PAHA0BAPMs. ETO.
What win Grant do for Fornsy, SIS
Philadelphia claims . population of 769 $50.
Tennessee promises fine peach crop.
Colorado Jewstt ia on the rampage In st. Louis.
George Peabody wants to come home to die.
Hslstead, Of the Cincinnati Commercial, ID an
applicant for the position Of minister to Turkey.
It was Mr.. Beecher's step-mother who died 70.
Gently. io lr5 az rir1t, |
DR.. Mussey, of Chicago. successfully treats by
drophobia with iodine. M
The st. Louis Radicals are incensed at Grants
slate for that city,
Three thousand four hundred and eighty bills
were introduced into the last Congress.
John r. French il to be sergsant-st.arms Of the
Senate. ~ r a
The Louisville Democrat has become an evening
paper. Lr % OBJ |
Hiram walbridgs is said to stand the best
chance for the New York collsctorship. 4
Hamilton Fish is grandson of Alexander Ham.
ilton. /
Victor Hugo has invited Gsribaldi to take up his
abode ct his house, in Guernsey.
1t Iequires four sections to run Fifth Avenue
church. ' .ls8 r t1an 9-i r4 1
: Thsnks to the officers of the steamers Msta-
gorda and Lsvsoa. sg SIS Is
Sheridan didn't want 10 60 to Louisiana, thank
you. i,, -.,.- r~o, ~ .r.s
Greeley and Motley are understood to be aspi.
rants for the English mission.
Geo. Ellis has Hsrpers Bazaar, Punch, and
Moore's Rural New Yorker. - =
Secretary Borie, of the navy department. says
there are no vacancies in his department. -
Isabella Vaudeville, an attractive widow. has
been sued by E. Birmingham, for ten thousand
dollars damages, for breach Of promise.
The daughters of Andy johnson left the man
sion in better order than 1t has ever been left in
before by an outgoing president.
Parton would like the consulship to Paris or
Berlin, nomnslly pecuniarily, IN order, really,
to finish bis Life of Voltaire.
Stephen T. Clark. financial editor of the New
York Tribune, and formerly connected with the
Express, died recently at Genoa, Italy.
Fisk has offered 81 900 for the New York
Times establishment, and the offer has been re-
fused.
Ii il said that one Stokes severely punished
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., in the yachting en-.
counter ct Delmonico's, knocking him down at one
blow.
II. Boggs. Grants former partner in the real
estate business, died at ST. Louis on the 18th. He
was to have been appointed surveyor Of the port
by Grant. 81. @
Persons who send communications to editors to
M ar nm hal col raj NV I'm
little idea how hard 1t is for the fraternity TO get
their own articles printed.-[Ex. a aIl
The richest man in Vienna is Baron Sina, the
banker. His wealth is believed to be much
greater than that of any member of the Roths-
child family.
Fisk and John Brougham have had falling out.
The former denounced the latter from the stage
sin tones more remarkable for blunt vigor than
for elegance a
The present chairman OF the Partisan Chamber
Of Paris started in life as the driver Of butchers
cart. He was founding, and has never been
able to learn who his parents were.
The Commercial Advertiser defends the appoint.
more honorable than that of Butler, Dix, Tre-
maine. Logan, etc.
- Postmastsr Gsnsral -Cssswsu % cutting on the
heads of postmasters. He has an especial spite
at Kentucky, and says there is but ono postmaster
safe in the State, and that is Nasty, the Confede
rate Y roads man.
The Richmond Virginia Enquirer says The
young gentleman who lost the plain gold ring at
the csn.csn Saturday night, with the inscription
within Kiss me, desrest,' can get his property by
calling at this Office" eli ail.
A late divorce case in Chicago deveopes the
fact that old man, after nineteen years of wed.
ded life, married three other women in rapid sue.
cession, and maintained four separate establish
ments. 'l0 eo.t .rI H1I a.l
Since 1867 the Partisan de,ni monde has re-
ceived quite Q number of sccessions from the
United States, and there are now believed to be
more American women of that class in Paris than
Epglish women.
The grandchid of the Emperor Alexander, of
Russia, recently received Christmas gifts worth
over five hundred thousand roubIes. The little
fellow, sickly, puny child, is not year old and
Will hardly grow up. I t.ai l1l rai
One artist in Paris made five hundred thousand
photographs of Patti since 1866, and sold all of
them to the dealers in Paris alone. More than
twice that number were sent to dealers in the
provinces and in foreign countries.
An American singer, Signorina Maria Cslista,
miss Huntley,) after most successful debut in
Berlin, has won even greater laurels In Belgium,
where she Ia as much praised for her fine tragic
acting as for her extraordinary musical talent.
II is said that all the federal officials in New
York city and Brooklyn, whether appointed by
johnson or Lincoln, are to be removed, and their
friends propose to revenge them BY aiding the
Democrats at Albany to turn out all Radicals
holding Office in city commissions.
1t is stated in the Southern circles in New York
that Sheridan refused to go back to New Orleans
because be was satisfied that bis presence there
would create an outbreak the white population
of that city being greatly excited over the passage
of the civil rights act. r
Van wyck, the famous New York surgeon,
warns the public against the of the velocipede.
He says the severe jar of the small hard seat pro-
duces disease Of the prostate gland, and if young
men wish to preserve their manhood they should
cease the use Of the velocpede.
There has been Stewart case in the British
Parliament. Sir Sidney waterlow, rich London
contractor, has been obliged to retire from bust
ness in order to hold his seat the law imposing o