The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-04-07


| York for San Francisco soon.
IT. as ID stated, the Cubsns have secured two
/ monitors, there ID thought to be no reason why
p! they should not capture Havana.
Ellis has Day'sDoings, Sporting Times, Yankee
Notions for May, Appleton's Journal No. 2, the
Country Gentleman, Hearth and Horne, Rural New
| Yorker, and Southern Cultivator for April.
Holland has abolished the stamp duty on news
papers, and to make up for the deficiency thus oc-
cssioned, has raised the duty on liquor. sing
ularly wise people-the Dutch.
| juvenile thief In New York, arrested for steal
ing briar-wood pipe. alleged IN excuse that he
was $50 hungry" Grant ought to intercede for
| him.
| Rev. Mr.. Balch, 'bscksiding Universalist
clergyman, who has established q new religion
among the Chicagoans, announced as his subject
for last Sunday, Oxygen and the Holy Ghost. |"
The Louisville Courier-Journal SAYS the friends
| Of Hon. Pierre soule have written TO DR.. Chip
| ley, superintendent OF the Eastern Lunatic Asy.
lum. at Lexington, to engage apartments for Mr..
Soule in the asylum. .,.-.s- f.7-e
| Mrs. John Jacob Astor celebrated the coming
Of age of her son, on the Slst ult, By furnishing
Mr.. Brace, Of the Children's Aid Society, with the
amount required to provide one hundred orphan
boys with homes in the West.
Prince Arthur interfered with the University
| boat race By ordering bis steamer where it had
no business. The English papers erumble dis.
Loyalty, and one ansrchic print suggests, blasphe
mously, that he ought to have been ducked.
Two white men. Thompson and Blackmore.
were executed at Sherman Texas, on the 10th ult.,
| for the murder of stranger named Wilson.
| Hanging for murder is said to be getting fashion.
able in Texas.
The Picayune suggests that Jefferson Davis be
| placed at the head of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road enterprise. Mr.. Davis writes from London
that be iswe and intends to return to this country
| this spring.
The schoolmate of Alexander Dumas, who was
pronounced by bis teacher far more gifted young
man than Dumas, is now proof reader at Clsry's
printing Office, in Paris, at salary of $500 francs.
Dumas visits him occasionally.
Tilton's Independent says that Grant "cares for
no great idea" that he is Gifted to station which
| is one placed too high for his genius," and that
the Radical party "will gradually grow weaker
and weaker, and their opponents stronger and
stronger.n
The prince and princess of Wales have Just Wis
tied the great Temple of Karnak, in their voyage
up the Nile. The Avenue of sphinxes and the
| Obelsks and the Temple Of Pharsohs, thirty GEN.
turtles in dust, were illuminated with magnesium
| wire.
Lamartine got his political reputation by mot
on the tri.color, and be is likely now to have Q
| posthumous religious ditto. Somebody asked him
if he was not spending too much money in adver-
tising his publications. No, the good God himself
needs advertising; else wherefore church-bells.
The winnsborough Sun says child of Capt W.
Il. Gillespie, of Sicily Island, was killed last week
by negro girl, in whose care the little one had
been left. The deed was done with pistol. which
went of Notwithstanding it had no cap on the
| tube.
The Prince and Princess ofiWales have just visi-
ted the great Temple of Karnak in their voyage
up the Nile. The Avenue of Sphinxes and the
Obesks and the Temple OF Pharaohs, thirty GEN.
turtles in dust, were illuminated with that fixed
lightning, the magnesium wire.
Some Of the lumbermen on Dead River, in
northern Maine, finding it impossible to get their
teams out Of the woods on account Of the deep
SHOWS kill their cattle. Ia one instance driver
killed fifteen horses, rather than leave them to
starve.
woman with child entered Photographic
gallery in Newburgh, N. Y, the other day, and
previous to placing it for picture the woman
subjected the child to a vigorous spanking. The
artist interfered, when he was informed that she
vas only trying to get up fine color in the
childs face in order that 1t might be represented
| in the picture with blooming cheeks.
Gottschslk has secluded himself momentarlly
fsom the world, in small hamlet on the banks Of
the Rio de la Plata, not many miles from Buenos
Ayres. where his life is devoted to study and COM
position. During his absence from the United
States, he has produced symphony for orches.
ira, a triunphsl march; also, a tsrantella for
| piano and orchestra.
Attorney General Hoar is a Unitarian, Secretary
of the Interior Cox is Q Swedenborgian, Secretary
of the Navy Borie is a Catholic. ex-Secretary Of
| State washburne Is Universalist, Secretary OF
State Fish is a Dutch Reformer, ex-Secretsry
Stewart is Presbyterian, and Postmaster General
Creswell eschews churches altogether.
Cleveland is proud OF citizen woman who has
hsd seven husbands within eight years. One was
killed in the army and another In a street fight.
| The other five survive. she having been divorced
from four of them. Her daughter has been twice
married and divorced, and is now ready to snap
up third man before her seventeenth birthday
| comes round.
| Sprague has another chance to pitch into the
lawyers of Congress, If be wants to, with Ger.
tainty of having the laugh upon them, for the
ing the secretary of the treasury to anticipate
the payment OF interest on the public debt. when
there was q statute in force already allowing that
very thing.
| believe animals live beyond this life. Heaven
| would be barren place TO me without any ami
| mails. believe the horse, half fed and pounded
all his days. has, in the justice of God, just as fair
q chance in the hereafter as the man who pounded
| and oppressed him. believe that whatever is,
| can never. in some FORM cease TO be. Shakespeare
| was not right. "To be or not to be'' Is not the
question. doubt IL anything with consciousness
will ever lose that consciousness.-l Professor
| Cunning.
In letter declining to attend the Baltimore re-
ception Of ex-Presdent Johnson. Secretary Sew
ard said: 'I cordially thank the authorities for so
kindly remembering my association with the great
statesman Of Tennessee during the period in
which emancipation was gained, while the integ-
rity Of the Union was saved, and the Consultation
was not lost.v