The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-20
EDrroxrAL PAKAsKArHs. srC.
General Pillow lie very Ill.
Zsvistowski is in Philsd elphia.

A cigar making machine has been invented
The Dumases, pere ct fls, are sick.
Macon, Ca, has been having Italian opera.
Napoleon has opened the French medical
schools to the homepathists.
Good opinion follows all the ladies of the White
House under the passing administration.
monthly satirical journal. to be called the
Capitol, is threatened in Washington.
The American managers give Patti no peace.
Fisk's agent is beseging her in ST. Petersburg.
Carlotta writes letters to Macmillan every day.
They are said to be charmingy composed.
Workman has been reelected mayor Of Mon
treal.
A Buffalo bootst is making pair of 5000 boots
for Gen. Grant to wear on Inauguration day.
San Antonio has had mas. meeting, which re-
pudisted the /" Constitution of West Texas"
Mrs. Cady Stanton made speech on the st.
Louis Change on the 18th.
Gen. Breckenridge was at the Clarendon Hotel,
New York, on the 10th.
Ninety.six thousand bales Of American cotton
in Liverpool yesterday.
The Vicksburg Times has seen new poeteh
gem entitled "The Fles,n which the editor thinks
is likely to create sensation is the literary world.
II the New York Evening Post uses folding
machine, we must say it does its work very in
differently.
Henry Razor, "shavern OF los years, died in
Rowan county, somewhere, lately. very proper
age to have his edge taken of.
The Great Eastern has taken on board nine hun.
dred miles of the French cable. About thirty
miles are manufactured daily.
The New York Jenkinses say that Grant appear
ed with g black silk hat and pair of brown KID
gloves on the notification occasion.
Mr. johnson will be treated to procession by
the German Democrats Of Nashville, on his arrival
there.
II is said that cultivating our soil one inch
deeper would add $50 900 OOOa year to the wealth
OF the country.
We are glad 10 know that Dom Piatt, the racy
Washington correspondent, has "lovely young
wife" with him.
The New York Herald says Pike is quietly look
irg around for a new opera house site in that
city.
Citizens Of Madison county, Kentucky, are sab
scrbing TO purchase residence for Mrs. John G.
| Breckenridge.
The Boston Advertiser calls Mr.. Mullins of Ten.
nessee and Ben Butler "two lovely cherries,
| moulded on one STEM"
Geo. A. Townsend more than hints that Ben
| Butler was laboring under the influence of that
champagne breakfast at the time he was rails.
ing - in joint session.
Secretary Seward has granted leave Of absence
10 several of our ministers abroad, including
I Reverdy Johnson, who desires to return home
| for short time.
The most beautiful young lady in Madrid, is
Msrshsl Serrano's ilegitimate daughter. She is
| nineteen years DID, and was educated in the
choicest Partisan schools.
Christina nilsson has caused a very handsome
house to be built for her parents in her humble
Swedish birthplace, and otherwise provided fol
them.
The opera balls in Paris this season were more
iicentious and wild than ever before. At least
ene-third of the men attending these balls are
said to be policemen in disguise.
The Austrian emperor, on the 2Sd ult, gave 9
dinner in honor of the Prince of Wales visit to
Vienna, to which the king and prince royal Of
Hanover were invited.
1t was the marquis of Bute's refusal to pledge
himself against secession to Rome that terminated
his proiected matrimonial alliance with the, Pres
| by4s.:-- nUuse Of Argyll.
We learn that q dividend of ten per cent. has
been declared in favor of the creditors of Jacob
Barker. i further dividend of ten or fifteen pei
cent will probably be declared.
| Henry Austin Bruce, the British home secretary
is welshman, whose family name is Price. Being
rejected in the Welsh capital. having adopted the
name Of Bruce, he was elected without opposition
in the Scottish constituency of Renfrewshire.
The Smith.Plumley affair is before one of the
Galveston courts in an action for perjury brought
against PIumley for swearing that on previous
beIigerent occasion he had no slung.shot, and did
not know what slung shot was.
Miss Goudbout, of New Brunswick, and Miss
| Dean, Of Chicago. skRted for $500, on Thursday
at Buffalo. Miss d. was the winner. And of suct
are the women of Goods country."-[Pic.
Not much. "Miss Goudbout" has since beer
arrested for seducing chambermaid.
A barrel at Baton Rouge which had once con
tanned whisky was recently found, lined with
debris Of red pepper pods and tobacco leaves
which had probably given flavor to numerou
punches, cocktails, smashes, etc., quaffed by sd
| miring bon wants.
| II il believed &c DC prootsoses. .nitA tha Ten
nessee and Alabama rivers by canal, so tina
boats leading away up in East Tennessee, on tn
borders of Virginia or Western Carolina nigh
come down the Coosa, thence to the Alabama AM
on TO Mobile.
Black double-breasted frock coats, light Gun
mentionables,n Lord Stanley scsrfs, showing tn
edge of white vest, light gloves and pink il
the left button-hole, is now the correct, fashion
able and stylish ball, reception, dinner and visiting
costume for modern society men.
The identical anvil and sledge hammer used i
Yorkshire, England, by Rev. Robert Collyer, o
Chicago, have been purchased and taken to tina
city. They will be presented to Mr.. Collyer, an
afterwsrd, probably, placed on exhibition in tn
art gallery
Daniel Pratt, "the great American traveller,
and rrepressible spouter at woman's rights cor
ventions, is Just now keeping Providence on
grin. He sung " Roll on, Silver Moon" the othe
night, the audience joining in the chorus Wit
immense gusto.
The queen Of Belgium, perceiving that her nov
deceased son had, during his illness. specia
taste for the harp, amid her melancholy dutie
learned to play that instrument quite well, an
thus soothed the young prince in his agonize
moments.
Sir Robert Peel, the eminent British statesman
By dint of hard labor, acquired the faculty of as
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