The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-09

of the fund for rebuilding Spring Hill College.
Mr. Phillips lecture about "The Lost Arts" does
no. concern the ladies. They havent lost any.
(Exchsnge.
johnson, and would send Stanton to England IL
his health permitted. Motley will probably go.
The Boston Traveller says the best fsh nov In
he market are smelt. It might have said the same
of the worse ones.-lEx.
Auburn will extend formal welcome to the re-
turning William.
Six cents damages have been found in the case
of Charles Reade versus Sweetser.
The Ksnnucks are emigrating TO the Western
States.
The proper kind of Indian appropriations are
rifles, bullets, rigid laws and no treaties.-l Herald
Miss Palmer, the actress, has become Mrs.
Daniel.
Dexter, Jr., Kalamazoo colt of great promise,
has been bought for $4,000 by the owner Of Melton,
in Detroit.
In commenting on recent speech Of Count Bis
marck, the Paris Presse says: The time Is draw
ing near when Franse will lose her temper"
Major George d. Fee, of Oxford, Miss., the
grand high priest of the Grand Royal Arch Chap
ter of the State of Mississippi. died on the'sd.
The Planters Banner has new Hoe railway
press, capable of printing 500 to 1000 papers
an hour.
Secretary Seward served 20 years continuously
at Wsshington--l2 as senator and as secretary
OF State.
Many parents spoil their children by dressing
them up when dressing down would do them the
most good.-[Ex.
The new South Park of Chicago will include an
area of more than 1000 acres. 1t will be: consid-
erably larger than Central Park.
A member of the Peace Society is ssid to have
objected to live on the earth because it's a re-
volver.
An Episcopal clergyman of Boston, in his pull
pit spoke of r. W. Emerson as "a specimen of
miserable, mutated morality"
A leading Madrid paper says continuance Of
the Cuban struggle will ruin Spain. and suggests
the concession of Cuban independence!
The Palliser shot walks into all tho iron de-
fenses of England. II is thought the impervious
target Of the future will be made of gutta percha
The weather is evidently trying to be as disa-
greeable as possible. The alterations of unsea-
sonable coldness and drenching rains continue.
Rev. Mr.. McFall, late chaplain at Fort Concho,
Texas, passed through this city Monday, en- route
for the North. He will not return to Texas.
The headquarters of the 4th cavalry have been
removed to Austin. Col. Gordon, of that corps,
has gone to Fort Griffin.
The American Presbyterian Church of Montreal
has given call to Henry Ward Beecher. offering
him salary equal to that he receives in Brooklyn.
The retirement of Gems. Thomas and ;Brice is
thought to be hardship on those venerable
gentlemen, as their means of living are now re-
duced to very small figure.
One Of our Goldfish arstocrats is quarreling with
his butcher because he has been IN the habit Of.
sending tender lines to members Of his family
lex.
A gentleman in Boston advertises for horse
" for lady of dark color, good trotter, and Of
stylish actionl" The horse must be young. and
have long tail about fifteen hands high"
In the House of Representatives Mr.. Upson de-
fined the meaning of prinsd fdcie case. In the
language of Vermont judge. as being q case
that was good on its face and bad in its rear.
The Mobile Register says: "Mr. Cresswell. of
Maryland, the new postmaster general, is the only
member of the cabinet that may be set down as
Radical. The rest are eminently conservative.
The mansion of Thomas Jefferson, at Monticello,
three miles from Charlottesville, Virginia. is sadly
in need Of repair, and has been stripped of many
things of interest and value.
Old Wade, instead of asking Colfax to come for
ward and take the oath of office, directed him to
advance and be inaugurated. Smiles in the Sem
ate
The spring meeting of the Magnolia Jockey
Club commences at Mobile on the 22d inst. The
stakes presented for competition very liberal,
and win draw some of the best racing blood Of
the country together.
Gen. Grants opposition to national assistance
in reconstrnctiDg the Mississippi levees is sup
posed 10 originate in the fact that he viii soon
have levees of his own, and will admit of no COM
petiton.-lEx.
Five Of the European sovereigns are bachelors !;
one has been divorced, without going to Illinois
twenty-sx of them are married, especially the
sultan of Turkey six have lost their consorts by
death.
The Spanisrds in Cuba have for some reason
associated flowing female tresses with rebel
proclivities. Ladies, therefore, whe ride ont in
Havana with their hair unconfined and dropping
over their shoulders, are liable to insult.
The Bee thinks the order sending Hancock to
Dacotah and Sheridan TO Louisiana " Ia born of
spite and indicates the litteness Of the mind and
heart of Ulysses Grant, president of tho United
States.",