The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-05

committee OF the proposed dinner 10 him VT Oh
was suppressed on accent of his supposed n
popularity.
Bonner promises to lead a movement an ng
New York editors to assume the costs Of the LII eI
suit Of Fisk VS.. Bowles, and save the latter from
any expense.
Professor Graham, of London. thinks he has at
last succeeded in obtaining the metal ny drogenium,
the heretofore unattanable solid state OF hydrogen
gas.
An Illustrated paper represents the New Year
as beautiful boy advancing on a velocipede, and
the old one going out, very drunk, on a wheel
barrow.
The editor of the Planters Banner has received
from Mrs. Porter the present of barrel of mo-
lasses and a demijohn of syrup. bennett wishes
all planters were widows.
Those who are inclined to be FESTIVE under the
ceremonious observances of q well ordered table
should remember that they are checks to inordi-
nate feeding, and favor good digestion as well as
good manners.
California Senator Cassery said in his banquet
speech at New York that the first money he ever
earned was in the capacity of q newspaper re-
porter, and he had vivid impression that it was
The hardest money he ever earned.
The World says it has reasons to believe that
the New York Herald Is sending agents about the
city who represent themselves as commissioners
of the World, and offer for brbe to conceal the
disclosures of short weights and adulterations in
the goods Of the establishments visited.
The New York Tribune recommends the great
body Of mechanics, retail traders, clerks, etc., in
that city, who have some means ahead, to com.
bne in associations of one hundred persons, buy
tracts of land in the South and West, and form
agricultural colonies.
William l.. 0'Callahsn, Catholic layman of
Chicago, being moved thereto by SANDERS against
the Catholic church, challenges Rev. DR.. Hatfield
to public discussion Of the various dogmas in
dispute between the Catholic and Protestant
churches.
The st. Louis Democrat Of the LIST devotes six
columns 10 consideration of the progress of the
river route transportation for grain, and gives an
accurate picture of the New Orleans grain eeva.
tor. Elsewhere will be found letter on the sub
ject by Mr.. Highly.
California lecturer on earthquakes expresses
the opinion that these disturbances proceed from
electrical or magnetic causes. He finds that the
aurora borealis does not appear ia earthquake
year,, ard he urged it as proof that that brilliant
electric display is the safety.vave which keeps
the earth free from tenbl0rs.
Notwithstanding the high price of hothouse
flowers, more than three bushels OF bouquets
were thrown at Mr.. Greeley during his trial of
speed on skates with the mayor of Montreal. One
Of the bouquets accidentally fell in front of Mr..
Greeley and entaDged 10 his skates, throwing him
headlong, but he happily escaped without injury.
The most enlightened physicians are fast losing |
their faith in the efficacy of drugs. DR.. Holmes |
once ked in a lecture TO an audience of |
doctors that it would be better for mankind if the
whole materis medica were sunk in the depths of |
the ocean. Sir Ashley Cooper said that drags had
done more harm than good. Throw physic to the |
dogs.
An exchange estimates merely the time wasted |
In intoxication, and the destruction of property
resulting from the csrelessness and crimes of in.
tOzicated persons at $500, 100000 per annum. |
And it concludes thus "This brings our annual |
taxation for free rum up TO 81 $50 900 900. or
considerably more than the entire principal of the
national debit"
A Radical correspondent of the St. Louis Demo-
crat is responsible for the statement that Gen.
Grant, in a recent interview with a louisiana
senator and judge, vehemently opposed govern.
ment Endorsement of levee bonds. and in answer /
TO an expostulation that "mlons of acres of the
best land in the world are subject to Overflow
let them overflow and let them stay
under water until their owners are willing that
Northern men and Northern capital should come
in and protect and improve them"
The generalization from the facts obtained by
the New York World is that " 10 our day there is
barely one gallon of liquor in a hundred thousand
that is not aduterated or badly rec
li6ed." This may be rather broad statement,
but it is substantially justified by the facts Atall
events, it is undoubtedly ne that even those who
gan afford TO pay the highest prices for liquors. at
he most reputable bars, will, in majority of
Eases, drink an sduterated and poisonous article.
says the World, there is no brandy
or sale. People are paying from twenty-five to
ixty cents per glass for a mixture of fusel.oi
heap corn whisky, and water, or, in other words
What they buy for brandy does not contain single
lrop Of that liquor. These expositions are creatng
omethiDg of panic among the topers of Gotham,
ind the demand for ale and lemonade has been
IeIy materially augmented.
Gen. Lopgstreet has written letter about Gen. |
Grant. He thinks there is no prospect that he
will ally himself with the Democratic party, and
Expresses the opinion that interest, and duty,
nd honor demand that we should place ourselves
D a condition TO support the laws of Congress-
Why Gen. Longstreet will persist in writing these
tupid letters, people in this part of the country
re at q loss to conceive. When he first turned |
oliticlan the public were amazed at the spectacle
distinguished Confederate general Joining the
arty which was making persistent war on the
eople for whom he had fought; but the novelty
the event has now worn off, and nobody, any
)nger, regards Gen. LOngsreet's vagaries with
ny other sentiments than those of sorrow for a
ian who could so belle his reputation, and pity
or a gallant soldier who allowed himself to be-
ONE the victim Of an absurd infatuation. The
adicals seem to think that the accession of Gen.
oDgstreet to their cause will strengthen them in
% South; whereas the truth lie tha. not we men
the Southern Sates will be influenced by him,
I'd the last TO follow him into the ranks of the
nemy are the soldiers who followed him against
be enemy through the struggles Of the war The
tie which has overtaken this distinguished officer
popular esteem ought to be warning to those
nbitious men who fancy that they can turn the
de Of public opinion by a word. II Is to be ,