The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-25

Maggie Mitchell Is a mother.

Judge Morrison, of lndiaoapons, - oeso.
Mr.. Dumas, of this city, ia competitor for the |
mission to Hayti. nou Il
privileges at the palace of Isabella.
The World thinks Grant aspires TO second
term in the White House.
Fashionable folks are congrstuladng themselves
upon the fact that white kids are "going out"
The cost to England OF the Abyssinian expedi
| ton is likely to mount to s50oOO,ooo.
There is to be bazaar for the benefit OF the 81
| Vincent Orphan Asylum.
Scion Robinson says Florida pork is not fa1
enough to grease itself.
Philadelphia is to have marble statue Of Wash
| ington.
The New York street commissioners are making
war on horizontal flag poles.
Ex-Governor Hartman, of New Hampshire, -
| probably to be appointed consul to Liverpool.
Two well.dressed drunken women sraced the
| streets of Mobile the other day. -lltc
Geo. Ellis has Moore's Rural New Yorker and
| Harper's Bszar.
| Lieut.. Cow Dunn left for Washington last
evening.
Eighty-two miles will complete the Pacific Rail-
road.
A dead reckoning-cs ones funeral
| expenses.-lJudy.
A German chemist has discovered prussic acid
/ In tobacco smoke. -------------------------
"Fiying the blue pigeon is London thieves
slang for stealing lead off house roofs.
The Claiborne parish cotton factory has re-
| Gently divided nearly $4,000 profits among It's
stockholders. trsa
Rev. DR.. Osgood, of New York, has resigned
the pastorste of the Church of Messiah on account
of ill.heslth.
A colored minister who was expelled from the
Georgia Legislature has been lecturing in New
York. v s-f
Miss Van Lew was appointed postmistress of
Richmond as q reward for her kindness TO federal
prisoners in that city.
Geo. Ellis has Godey's Lady's Book, Merry.
mems Monthly, Hearth and Home, Sporting
Times and Days Doings.
surgeon in q distant place is said to have re-
moved tumor weighing sixtythree pounds and
thinks of presenting it to Gen. Grant.
T. Bieelow Lawrence. son of the late Abbott
Lawrence and consul general TO Italy, died sud-
denly in Washington on the 2lst.
New York Plaf has come out for the ready
money principle He has caused the arrest of
Bohemian who swallowed a pancake and cup of
coffee and had not the needful.
4 Dom Piatt says the venerable Senator Davis
uroposes a new amendment to the Constitution,
TO be called the sixteenth amendment, that will
make brothersin-law ineligible 10 Office.
The bishop of New Jersey refuses to lay his
hands. in the ceremony of confirmation, upon the
piles of false hair which decorate the summit OF
young Iades' heads.
About million and half of dollars have been
RENTED from Cuba to a private banker in New
York. the interest on which is to be donated to the
sick and wounded of the patriot army.
Speaker Blaine is said TO have ruled of the
floor the tramps and footpsds who dsgraced
journalism, and made himself positive master OF
| the situation.
The pretended Governor of Louisiana has signed
the mixed school bill. THIS is a measure OF
, speace." The little wool heads are to be pigged
in along with faxsn curls, and the white man foots
! | the BILL World.
Philadelphia paper presents itself with great
. effect in the role OF BuDsby, when it remarks
spropos to the new edition OF Mr. Carlyle's works
| that " when he was If not unknown, at least moi
. popular nobody cared to bay them"
Nevada is exercised over a musical hen of the
black Spanish breed, which will sing st her mis-
tress' command, ard after uttering the first notes
: will spread her wings. stretch her neck and pou
, forth strain that lacks nothing ia earnestnesss
{ however much Ia melody.
i The burglar Wilson, who pleaded bis own case
0 before q Hartford jury, the other day, when re
q ceying the admoniuon of the judge, preliminar,
# to the sentence. cut it short BY excaiming. ID
It. give me my sentence don't want any lectur'
hereIn
d The St. Louis Republican is unkind enough u
I perpetIate the following: An enthusiastic lad
Correspondent, writing from the capital, speaks 0
| zen. Logans complexion as brilliant owe.
For PHYS sake, and Tor the sake of the lady 0
~ | that name do not let him come TO be known a
, | Olive Logan."-lAaii.
The new two cent daily, the Boston Tribune
! will make its appearance about the first OF mex
>. month, it is thought James NJ. Usher. Gcverno
10 Clsfin, and other moneyed men. are said to De q
al the bottom of the enterprise, and rumor give
Charles G. HazeweIl, Charles N. Taylor, and Co
=, onel Conwel editorial positions upon 1t.
|. In some of the Washington churches last Sur
a dsy the pastors read brief address from the ca
o. ban ladies in New York, asking aid and sympi
4, thy in behalf of the revolutionists in Cuol
Among the listeners to the reading, at the Metro
ct politan Methodist Church. were President Gram
L. Vice President Colfsx and Chief Justice Chase.
ID Burlingame took his Cathayans in Paris on
/ evening to the Mabille, and the next to ball {
he the highest tone. The Chinese demonstrated wit
" the ladies at this latter, the ground, or of tn
,. ground. that they did not rear their legs to th
IS, same altitude as the performers at the other a
8, sembly.
H. Old Mr.. Mullins, of Tennessee, who has gor
~ home from Washington to bis native mountain
O. never said half The comca. things newspaper co
d respondents credited him with. His only troub
was propensity never to finish his sentences, az
b. always to round up his speeches with an extrao
Id binary funny shake of his head.
e' The London Saturday Review says Of Horat
~ Greeley. that be seems 10 have just that impe
10 feet degree 0. knowledge and that one-sidedness
. Judgment which are necessary TO fanaticism.
as clings to various prejudices-persoaes social ar
NJ pouticsl-with something of a sical web
~ mence.u
sr. At Rockville, on Sunday evening last, while 4
nd venerable W. A. Smith was preaching IN u
be Methodist Church. small bird was seen httii
ON around the room, when suddenly II began to GIRO
above the minister's head and rested on MS rig