The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-16
EDITORIAL PAKAeRAPHs. ETC.
Corn is knee high in Florida.
Louis Phillippe's sons are all grsy.headed.

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Collector Of Internal Revenue Stockdale has
been confirmed by the Senate. lti
II 10 believed that the appointment Of Rawlins
as secretary of war is only temporary.
The News says Galveston wants a frstclass
club room and theater.
Three Enelishmen have made the trip from Lon
don to Brighton (ffty miles) on velocipedes.
One wing of the Kansas State House at Topeka
has already cost $4,000.
Tennyson was recently presented golden
wreath in Paris.
VIM. Ross, an old Boston merchant, died re-
Gently, eyed 81.
Henry Ward Beecher's mother died on the 18th,
at the age of eighty.
Geo. Ellis has the American Artisan, Southern
CuItivstor for March, and the Police News.
Michael Hahn wants the mission 10 the Neither
lands.
R.M. Orme, editor of the Milledgevlle Recorder,
is dead. o.
Flown Talk announces that " fashionable
dresses are all the rage"
Mrs. Mary Walker was at the Inauguration ball
in Bloomer costume of green satin.
Mrs. Laid, aged los years, died in Hartford on
the 1lth.
MIR. James F. Wilson, it is said, was offered q
place in the cabinet, but declined. Mr.. Wilson is
understood to aspire to the Senate.
A daughter of Capt. Wirz is a governess 10 an
English noblemans family. She is reported to
be an accom- pIished and refined lady.
A foreign letter says the conduct of Mrs. Lin
coin on the other side of the water has been lady
like and retired.
In an Oregon paper births are noticed under
the head Of 9 come marriages, " fixed to
stay" and deaths, gone"
The prince and princess OF Wales, duke OF
Sutherland and the rest OF them are having very
jolly time indeed in Egypt.
The weather again suddenly turned quite cold
here last evening. In Richmond yesterday the
mercury fell from Sc to "a in seven hours.
The president has appointed one of Stephen A.
Douglas SONS to be his assistant private secre-
tary.
Hsyden's Imperial or Third Mass in D, price so
cents. may be obtained at Werlein's, so Baronne
street.
A report prevails that General Scho6eld will be
assigned to the command of The Pacific coast, vice
General Halleck. Also that he will succeed
sheridan in the West.
Dumas pere, has been lowering his dignity by
reading tour in the provinces with Vieuxtemps
and Carlotta Patti, and is now writing culinary
articles for hslf.penDy papers.
A diligent reader OF Scripture has discovered
that the velocipede, anc the one. wheeled variety,
was predicted more than 200 years ago. See
Ezekiel i, 1921.
There is q strong movement in England for
Maine liquor law. The people yearly consume
one thousand twenty-five millions of intoxicating
liquors, paying thereon a tax of ga, 900.
AT the Inauguration ball John MorrIssey's wife
was Respondent in black velvet, point lace and
diamonds. Mrs. Senator Morgan's diamonds,
however, are said to have outrivaled hers. Mrs.
Morgan ought to be happy.
II is related of Grant that he sacrificed fine
cigar and q comfortable smoke out of Difference
to lady who had obtIuded herself into his private
car, when he was on his way to camp on the Rap.
pahannock.
The Mobile Register is inclined to believe that
Gen. Grant has lost his best cabinet appointment
in Mr. Stewart, and yet it seems to have been the
appointment more distasteful than any of the rest
to the Radicals.
An exchange asks, "if Jay Cooke were placed
on the witness stand and asked on oath what in
terest the Hon. Hugh McCulloch had while secre-
tary of the treasury in governing securities in his
At his Baltimore reception ex President John.
son said he felt more pride in being an American
citizen tonight than he would in being inaugu.
rated president over the ruins OF a violated Con-
stituiion. His deliverance was the greatest case
of emancipation since the war.
The editor of the Plymouth Rock, who was re-
Gently in this city, writes to his paper that exhi.
bition No. 2 Of the Louisiana mensgerie is called
" Senate" not exactly upon the principle of the
Roman tyrant who was said to have I" a senate at
bis heels" but because there are heels at the
head Of the Senate.
The politicians have been greatly disturbed By
the manner in which President Grant suubbed
General Carl Schurz, as il leaves them il great
doubt as to what influence they to have in con-
trolling local appointments. senator" Schurz
boldly protested against the appointments as pro-
posed by the president, and Tor his trouble re-
ceived the consong reply: Il know the people of
Missouri better than you do, general. Washing
ton Letter.
al would like to tell his exceIlency," says
Dom Piatt, (Rep.,) land, as | ask no favors,
either directly or indirectly, could do so without
suspicion, that the men the people delight TO
honor and have confidence in, time and again
the men who stood firm in the hour Of danger, and
by their wisdom and enegy not only saved the re.
public, but made Grant himself famous, now
openly smile at his pretensions and laugh at his
discontinue"
There are many developments of the resources
of the city which everybody sees TO be practical
BILE, yet which our capitalists hold back from
touching. The bar of our river and a New Or
leans and Pacific railroad are two great foci of
commercial interest at this time. IL is evident
that our city is interested in these questions
almost beyond a computation in dollars, but pri
waite enterprise is afraid to move. Is there
nothing within its legitimate chartered powers
which the city government could do towards set
ting the right movement on foot in each Of these
particulars I'm. o. Morning Star.
Advices from Bogots announce that great dis
satisfaction exists there with the stipuations of
the tresty recently negotiated BY Mr. Gushing for
the construction of the Darien canal. The
grounds of this dissatisfaction that the treaty
is negotiated in the interests of the Panama Rail
road Company, and instead of promoting the early
construction OF a canal across the American
lsthmus, it lie so contrived to prevent one from
being built.
Dom Piatt says Salmon P. Chase has, in reality,
all that his face expresses-snd that Is a large