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New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17
Later from Washington and the North
THE PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS
MISCELLANE EOUS N EWS.

WASHINGTON, Jan. lo-Mr. Wilson introduced
bill to increase and fix the military peace establish
ment of the army. 1t provides that the United
States army shall hereafter consist of seven rcgl
ments of artillery, ten regiments of cavalry and
sixty regiments of Infantry. In addition to the five
regiments of artillery now organized, there shall
be two new ones; one to be composed of colored
and one of white persons officered by selections
from the volunteer officers. Two new regiments
of cavalry are to be Of white and two of colored
persons. In the infantry there shall be eight regi-
ments composed of men from the Veteran Reserve
Corps, and officered by officers of that corps.
There shall be one lieutenant general, five major
generals and ten brigadier generals. The bill was
referred to the Military Committee.
Mr.. Wilson offered the petition of the colored
citizens of Savannah, asking the right of suffrage,
which was referred to the Special Committee on
Reconstruction. ... .- -
A resolution was passed authorizing the print
ing of 5000 copies of General Grants military
report.
the elective franchise in the District of Columbia
The bill was read.
Mr.. Riddle asked that the consideration of the
bill be postponed until Tuesday
| Mr.. Yates moved to recommit the bill to the
| Committee on the District of Columbia. Motion
| adopted. a.
Mr.. Howe offered resolution declaring that the
States lately in rebellion had perfected their rights
| as States, and it was for Congress to say thel
rights should be respected Mr.. Howe proceeded
to discuss the questions of State ghts and seces
sionism, arguing that by the acts of secession
rebellion the Southern States had destroyed thei
functions of civil government.
| On motion of Mr.. Conkling, of New York. thu
| President was requested, if not incompatible witt
the public interest, to inform the House why JEFF
Davis and Mr.. Clay and others were kept in con
tinement.
Mr. Davis of New York, introduced resolution
pledging the House to support the Presidents pla
| of restoration. which referred to the Com
| mt:ee on Reconstruction.
Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, made a speech in favor o
extending suffrage to blacks in the District of &c
lumbia.
Mr. Burris replied contending this was a whit
mans government, and defending the people Q
the District Columbia from the charges OF di:
loyalty.
Maryland Legisiature-Th he Weather.
BALTINoRE, Jan. 10.-The Legislature Of Mary
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Mr.. Claiborne Hardy, who at the last election
was returned both for the University OF Oxford
and the borough of Leomnster, has elected to sit
for the University, and Mr.. Richard Arkwright, a
gentleman of some local influence, has been in
troduced as the conservative candidate tor Leo
minister.
The future wife of the heir apparent of the crown
of Italy, the Princess of Leuchtenberg, is the niece
of the Emperor of Russia. The young Princess
has been brought up as member OF the Greek
Church.
The marriage of the Earl of Sandwich and Lady
Blanche Egerton, was to be solemnized on the 9th
ult. The ceremony was to take place at Hatchtord
Church, Surrey.
Mr. Pensa, the Italian traveller of Messrs. E.
Berthelmes & Co., of Bradford, who some time
ago. when travelling between Naples and Ancona,
had the misfortune to fall into the hands OF bri-
gands, has been released by his detainers on pay
| ment Of 1850. The sum originally demanded to
set him at liberty was G2SO0!
| The four Irish Roman Catholic archbishops are
| at present in London, where, in accordance witt
previous arrangement says the Ulster Observer
| they are in communication with Sir George Grey
relative to the charter of the Catholic University
Gen. Fleury has been appointed master of the
! horse to the Emperor Napoleon.
Mr.. T. Barring is the gentleman recommended b,
| the Court OF directors of the Bank of England tt
fill the vacancy in the direction caused by the re
tirement of Mr.. Goschen.
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred arrived a
Madeira on the 18th ult., on board the Raccoon
which remained for eight days, and then left fo
Gibraltar.
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Arrivals at the Principal Hotels.

ST. CHARLES HOTEL Covert, MI statfer-
ance, Miss; P J Edwards; W Hackett, 7; Mr.
and Mrs Tocusley, st Louis; G Hindi, Mobile;
F J Bright, England Il Hollins; 4 J Kohn7, Ga;
H Floweo, La; Mrs W H Ross, Mobile; Hill
mer, N Y; Weilson, Glasgow, Scotland; Dow
ley N Y; Mr. ahd Mrs J D Champlin, city; L W
Pettitrul, Miss Pettitru, Miss a Pettitrul, Ala;
Capt w Mesney; Anderson, Bayou Black: 7
Case, N Y; DIR O'Nei and wife, Ark; u Gar
rett; R J Lakeland and wife, St Louis; Mel
son, Johns, W H Childress, Tenn; W Fry, Tex;
Mrs. Hayns hshma m06s S5 as hses1 aad Ts hsa
Louis. ..-s.
ST. LOUIS HOTEL NJ Blanchard and wife,
Miss G Thorn, Va; Miss E A Blanchard, Miss c
Blanchard, Miss S Blanchard, Miss E Blanchard,
Miss Blanchard, E Blanchard, Miss; W B Rat,
lift, B Cox, Fl B Boatner Assumption, La; Il
Bayley, city; R L Brandon, Miss; r S Robertson,
Mobile; P W Ames, F Talbot, Boston; @ Bge.
lowe, Chicago; Parsons; Miss E Stirling; NJ
Swan and family; A Mourele, Paris; A Hamilton
city; A G Maxwell Baltimore; W 6 Seward, Md;
| CITY HOTEL-FM Sawyer, Ark G A Handuer
Ky; Mrs. l Hackett, Wis; Schultz, Tenn; N
Ignacio, N Mex; G Byrne, N Webster, El:
Bidwell, Conn; LOOMS, n 7; Capt Heath, La
| 0 Smith J B Kirk, La; NJ Chapman; D King
La; W E Demoss, Tenn: A Hall and wife, Ala
DR. H Maxwell J Drayton and wife, Dr. Dray
Mrs L P Brady, 7 B Bender, " P Smith, Ala
| l. NJ Caldwell, Tenn; S Evans, Mobile; A G Rn
dolf, Montgomery; N Tolbort Texas; W Keating
NJ I Hartwe, St Louis; J Mcleod, La; H R John
son, Miss; T Wilson, 7 G Smith, city; II I Wick
ers Cherry, Archibald, La; Miss Oldin, No
biIe Nennire, N D Bagby, L Lord, La;
Bigelow Texas.
ST. JAMES HOTEL-Mrs Holt, Miss Clark, NJ
Cameron, Texas; Mr. Van Alstyne and wife, 7
! Shoemaker Col W Lowry, Miss; g Archer,
4 G Trawick, Texas j 6 Matthews, A A Glover. {
j NJ Davis, Arlington, G W Roberts, Capt
Finnegan, Capt Dixon, A Coleman H Rootherford
Mobile; A Huggens, Ark; W Low, Miss; P W Ames
F NJ Abbott, Vicksburg; G Mcleod, Miss; A TaI
pan, yicksburg; McElam, La; j Busby an
wife, Ark; J. Ford, Burns Ala, payit
son, Mobile; Thompson, Mobile, Alabama
t Marx, Mobile; G Shonberg, Selma; Mrs NJ
Trigg St Louis Mrs . Slaton, W ? Baugh, J
:, Daniel, Tex; Garrett Ala G Schyl, Gun
ningham, L Buckson, T 7 Butler, Mrs Campbell
, S l. Bean, LaGrange, H S Williams, Ala; Mr. wi
ceer and wife, Ga Mr. Newell and wife, two Mis-
! Lockharts, two Mr. Lockharts, two Mr.. McCleary
Ga; S Lamar, Ala; Richley. Texas; J
Aston, G P Newell, Ga ; D Langdon, Ala
5 ] Paine, Ala; I Breithright La; o Errets,
! McCracken, J 6 McCracken, H McCracken, II
Bedding; Taylor, Ark; Edmonton, Texas;
> Whitford, Ind I A Dow No; + Schoefer, K.
E Hull Mobile; E Solomon, St. Louis; G Big
low, Chicago; J NJ Davis and wife, San Francisc
G w Malen and wife, Jackson; Morse, Ky.
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rribune,s washington special saws: General R.

Tribune's Washington special says: General R.
Clay Crawford. who is reported to be at Browns
Reed, is raising an American division for Mexico
He is a citizen of Tennessee, who was, about q
year or eighteen months ago. dismissed from the
service by court martial upon charge of stealing
money from bank in Rogersville, Tenn. He was
some years ago at West Point as cadet, and was
dismissed after two years study. He subsequently
went into Nicaragua with Walker, and about the
outbreak of the late war was in the Virginia pen
Tertiary for some oitense. He was a captain of a
battery of artillery in the Union service, fraudl
ently secured muster in as Lieutenant Colonel
of the regiment and also of colored regiment, to
neither of which he was mustered up to the time
of his dismissal His chief of staff was Lieuten-
ant Colonel of a colored regiment, and was dis
missed at the same time last summer by court
martial for gross offense. 1t is not believed by
those qualified to judge that Crawford or Reed
have recruited single man. 5szS %
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SOUTHERN INFLuEscE. The New York cores
pondent of the Cosmopolitan of London, makes
prediction and sticks to it,:
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-The editor Of the New
York Times affects to laugh at my prediction in
your columns that, at no distant day, Lee, Breck-
inridge and other heroes of the late COnfederacy,
would become the leading statesmen of the United
States. Butt only predicate my prognostics from
facts that pass before my eyes. A. H. Stephens,
late Vice President of the Confederacy, in passing
through this CITY, is visited and welcomed BY our
most influential citizens. Gen. 10 Johnston is no
sooner registered at the New York Hotel than he
is visited by all the leading "nobs'' of the Fifth
| Avenue, and feasted and feted like prince; and
should Gen. Lee or Gen. Breckinridge drop m on
us, their presence would create a popular Jtrore.
Does the Times doubt ordeny it?
| And why is it that our people are so ready end
eager to pay homage to men SO recently in arms
against the United States? 1t is Simply owing to
to the fact that large portion of the better class
of the Northern people deeply sympathized with
the South in its late struggle for independence
while the right Of coercion, denied by many lead
3 ing Northern men as well as newspapers and po-
tcal conventions, is still latently doubted by all
who were educated in the State Rights school
,, Besides this the personal character and military
achievements of the generals above mentioned
7 have surrounded them with the halo of military
glory which always takes the popular heart So
in answer to the sneers of the Times permit me tt
re peat the prediction that the prominent heroes O
the South have only to bide their time to become
the popular idols of the people Of the Union.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17

SECRETARY SEWARD AND MS JoURNEY.-.The
proverbial ingratitude of Republics is fast dsap.
pearing from this great and glorious country OF
ours, and better and brighter era as reearos
those who serve the people in pubic capac'ty ~
dawnng upon us. Happy era! time WE lhas
when the exhausted energies OF secretary OF
State needed relaxation and recuperation the Sec
retary had to 20 to some medicinal spring at his
own EXPENSE. and repair his bad health at so much
per diem out of his own pocket. The enhghten-
ment of Ammo Domni 1866 inauguratea 9 more
creditable state of affairs however, and cabinet
Minister or Chief Justice suffering from dyspep-
sia supper induced by the cares Of ONCE OF the
solcitudes of the next Presidency, taps his bell,
and nresto up comes man-of-war from Hamp-
ton Roads, splendidly fitted up, and placed at the
disposal Of the enervated servant of the Republic
ready to make steam or set sail down the coast,
m the Mississippi, or any place else.
The freedmen can be visited at Charleston and
instructed as to their political rights ally hint
can be thrown out in Savannah on the subject of
universal suffrage, and few cotton plantations
can be purchased at cheap rates in Alabama,
solely for the sake of testing the great free labor
experiment. And all this time the cares of office
are being forgotten, and the official hands are
being restored to cupeptic and healthy state.
And say that this is q great Improvement on the
old condition of affairs, when exhausted Cabinet
Ministers were compelled to use Holloway 3 pills
and Schenck's pulmonic waters at home, or to dip
in the pillows OF the Atlantic at Cape May. or wash
in the healing waters of White Sulphur at their
own expense ! All hail to the new regime that
makes man.of-war weigh anchor at the bidding
of an antibiious Secretary or an ndigestiye Chief
balmy airs insure his convalescence!
fCor Gin, Commercial.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17

SLIGHTLY M1sTAKEN.-A writer in the Journal
of Yesterday in a letter from Lebanon, Kentucky,
says that the editor of the Courier " has been
guilty Of treason,' and owes his life through the
clemency of the government" This is mistake.
We owe our life--tirst, through the favor of God
second, to a remarkable exemption from all cpl
demic, infectious and contagious diseases; third,
to regular and abstemious habits fourth, to a
clear conscience sixth to the fact that we did not
happen to get in the way of bullet or cannon
bail during the war and finally, but not ex-
haustivey'' for the reason that we have not here
tofore died. The cemency" of which the cor
cause of our extraordnary merits and enterprise.
Believing that republican government was good
thing, we endeavored to make two out of one, un-
der the impression that the more of good thing
thought it but Justice to give US certificate of the
fact that we did make the effort. And that is
what the Journals correspondence call clemency'
How absurd !-[Lousville Courier.
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&atts and cGirtions.

raE LIFE OF B. F. B.--Parton, with his facile |
nen. tas written an elaborate biography of B. +.
q. md, with fertile imagination, has draped him
IN the mantle of greatness, but the volume is too
large to be generally read these busy times, and
besides, the work is incomplete because many
eyents in which B. F. B. figured conspicuously
have transpired since it was composed. Therefore
Is that we have undertaken to epitomise the bio
sraphy of that noted parsonage. We did think of
Introducing it as muttuns IN parro, but the objec-
ton presented itself that although the chapters
are brief, we might be suspected of the vanity of
supp osing we had made little of much, whereas we
had made much Of little
Life of Is. f. II.
- 1h. CHAPTER I.
What he said Mt the Charleston Convention
Break for Breckinridge.
.T7I.... CHATTER II.
What he thought when Mr.. Lincoln was elected
Blue for Ben
Having changed fTSnt he advises Mr.. Lincoln
after the South seeded ::
Berth for Ben.
CHAPTEg ".
How he felt when he got the berth:
Boiling for blood ."r.
CHAPTER v.
What he did in that highly enthused condition:
Bolted from Bethel.
4 What he said when he got to New Orleans:
" Booty for beauty. 'aa
CHAPTER VII.
How his courage was illustrated in Order No 8
Bullied ieminines bravely.
CHAPTER VIII.
What he made New Orleans do:
Bleed for Butler.
CHAPTER TX.
His sad thought ON leaving New Orleans:
Balance for Banks
-,...-. 81 CHAPTER X.
What he got them to do at the North on his re.
turn
Blow for Ben.
s-.s CHAPTER yI.
Remarkable exclamation on being assigned tt
duty under General Grant to take Richmond:
Beauregard fronting Ben II!
CHAPTER XII.
The course he decided upon:
Bottle for Ben.
Opinion of General Grant:
Beauregard for bottling.
CHAPTER XIV.
Having gone to Fort Fisher and made a recon
noissance of the work with powerful glass, will
which he coudntse see at very great distance, HI
FERNS his opinion:
Blasted ferocous breastworks.
U.a CHAPTER XIV.
Idea suggested by view of the guns of tn,
fort and privately mentioned to his AID, with
wink:
Batteries fire balls
His resolution after making the reconnaissance
Benjamin forbear
CHAPTER XVII
He promptly issues an order:
Bout face bully boy with the glass eye.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Returning to James River, his opinion of tn
situation is very decided
But for Beauregard!
CHAPTER XIX.
Grant having noticed him in his report, he pre-
poses to reciprocate: .....,
For the Petersburg notice-Bottle for bottle.
For the Powdershp notce-Bast for blast.
CHAPTER Xxx.
Enjoying his Otium cum dig at Lowell he count
up his plunder and makes tacetious observation
Bully for Ben!
CONCLUSION,
The character of this remarkable man may thu
be summed up: Ben flies battles Ben fears bu
lets-Ben fancies bottes-Ben inanciers bravel.
His great success is owing to his strict adherenc
to two maXms:
Battles for boobies and Booty for Ben"
And this is the end Of the biography Of Benj
min Facnorous Butler, sometimes designated Bea
Butler, but erroneously, because there is no sue
.r heaSf
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17

A QUICK REroRTA late well-known member
of the Scottish bar, when a youth was somewhat
of dandy, and somewhat short and sharp in his
temper. He was going to pay visit the coun-
try, and was making great fuss about preparing
and putting up his habiliments. His old aunt was
much annoyed at his hustle, and stopped him by
the somewhat contemptuous question: "Whaur's
this your gaun, Robbie, that you make sic a grand
work about your claes?" The young man lost
the deyil.'s "'Deed, Robbie Them was the quick
answer, "ye need not be SO nice; he'll jist take
s1yaas ypn nra ~
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17

Olive Logan, the actress, has gotinto the courts,
and is seeking divorce from her husband, Henry
A. Delille. She has been playing for some time
past at her brother-in-law's theater--Woo
farce of i'Sam.n Her husband, Henry A. pelis.
is a gentleman of fine talents. Hes the New I orA
correspondent Of the London Telegraph U. Az,
gustus Sala's paper) Some years ago he s.s.a wss
and it was while occupying that position at Paris
that he met Olive Logan and married hef,E ne
then came to this country. and was engaged ed.
torialIv on several of tile New York papers. He
is the Translator and aaaptor of several elegant
plays-arlong Others of Rachel the Reaper,a He
6asnot defended the suit OF his wife for divorce,
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17
WASHINGTON Goss1r.-wrtes the Washington

WASHINGTON GossIP.-Wrtes the Washington
correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger:
Bets are making that Campbell will never get
any nearer to Mexico than Washington nor does
it appear, as has been eroneously reported that
Mr.. Seward is anxious for him to go. The appeint-
ment is viewed as sort of tub to the Monroe
doctrine whale, which must be appeased, 1or ap-
pearance sake if nothing else.
The chances are more than even that the Joint
Committee on Reconstruction will make no report
at ALL There have b. en- good many changes
among the members who at first favored the ap
pointment of the committee, and should report
therefrom against the admission of the Southern
members see the light, it would receive q
cross fire that would be to Kill it, The probS-
bities are that the committee will smother their
Indignation rather than run the hazard Of re-
lection of their report.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17

In THE WRONG PLAoE.--An old Methodist, very
great at responses which were not always ap-
propriate, but always well meant, went one day
to hear popular preacher. The preacher, usually
lucid, was rather perplexed, and felt it himself.
He labored through the first part, and then said /:
,"Brethren, have reached the conclusion of my
first point" .l-..a
Thank God" calculated the old man, who sat
before him, profoundly interested. in voice that
was heard in every part of the large church.
The last part of that sermon was harder 10
preach than the first.
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Mobile Advertiser.

A soldier who, in going from Baltimore to Rocl
Island, had met with four accidents, was on the
fifth occasion in car that completely turned over
Making his way through window, and gaining al
upright position, he looked around him and coolly
inquired: F" What station is this - He though
this was a way they had of stopping.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17

Loss OF Tue BoAT.-We learn that the tug
boat Thomas Sparks, Frank Philibert, pilot, came
in contact with the lower distractions in the Bay
ON Friday night about II o'clock, and was almost
instantly dashed to pieces. The boat is tot,l
loss but her machinery may possibly be saved
None of the crew were lost. We'a unable tc
learn any further particulars. a-5 ctr
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17

gentleman flom Texas says it is not knowr
what has become of Senator Wigfail. 1t is con
into Mexico, and if in the United States, his 10
cality is secret. Many believe that he is dead.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17

JERusALEM.-Th improvements which are lax
tance around Jerusalem there are extensive plan-
tations of young olive trees and in and about the
city the new Buildings are both numerous and
to have footing in the Holy City. The Russians
support the Greeks, the French the Latns, and the
English tthough not aYowedy as a natioB) patron-
ize the Jews. whose interest will probably become
the ctronpest eyentually. III -7--E|#
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17

COULDN'T SEE THE. PLor.-In King Williams
time, Mr.. Tredenham was taken before the Earl
of Nottingham on suspicion of having reasonable
papers in his possession. :" l am only poet,'
said the captive, "and those papers are my
roughly y-sketched play" The Earl, however, eX-
amined the papers, and returned them saying
=" / have heard your statement and read your play
and as can find no trace of plot in either, you
NAV ro free -
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17

An editor heads his list of births, marriages and
and deaths thus
Hatched, matched and dispatched"
We remember another who headed them sevf-
rally, ''vsitors," "boarders" and I" Travellers -
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17

German papers state that the sand bank in front It
| of Helgoland rock has been lately inhabiteu Dy
the ground and make it prey to the waves. me
sand bank is not only the bathing place OF 'ie
numerous visitors that resort to Hehgolanu IN IN
summer, but also most valuable protec"ou Vi
the shaky rock against the sea.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17

"Will you take the life of General Grant or Ad
mira Farragut this morning. asked newsman
to an elderly lady who had stopped to look over
the publications of his STALL
Z" Law, me, no !" she replied they may live
to the end of their days, for all of me. hain't
anything ag'in 'em."
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17

John Naylor, of Hilgay, died October 80, sup
posed to be llO by his eldest sou, who is 49, but
would seem to have been lit from baptsn al
register AT Wolney, England. Naylor retained his
faculties until about six weeks before his DEATH
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17

81 am happy to be still virgin" said the old
maid to the young bride.
"Yes," said the young bride to the old maid,
"a virgin on fifty should say" Cruel
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17

Mr.. G. Halleek, the founder and for many years
proprietor of the New York Journal of Commerce,
died in New Haven, CT, recently, aged sc years.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17

They manage things funny in California--mili
tary funeral, for instance. After burying the de-
ceased, the band comes back and serenades the
widow.