New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-10
Maggie Hays passed up at |, the America at and
the Luminary at 9 AM. River rising.


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From Yesterdays Evening PapersI
WARRINGTON April 9.-The Department of
state has received dispatch from the United
States Consul at Funchai. stating that one thou
sand poor, honest and wellsked laborers in rails
ing cereals, vine, sugaT-cane and gardening,
desire to come TO this country If one-haf their
passage money could be advanced by contractors
/ here, to be repaid in labor. I
The President has just issued the following cir
cuiar to the heads Of the departments Interference
to the appointments to office:
III eminenty right and proper that the govern
nent Of the United States should give earnest and
substantial evidence of its just appreciation ofthe
service of the patriotic men, who, when the life Of
the nation was imperiled, entered the army and
navy to preserve the integrity Of the Hpion, de-
fend the government and maintain and perpetnate
uninpaired IFS free insttutions it is therefore a.
reeted, first, in the appointments to office BY
the executive departments OF the general
government and the branches of the public service
connected with said departments, preference shall
be given to such meritorious and honorably dis
charged soldiers and sailors, particularly those
who have been disabled by wounds received or
disease contracted in the line Of duty, as may Pos
sess the proper qualifications. L.,. -ssf
| I'd. That in ali promotions in said departments
and the several branches of the public service con-
nected Herewith, such persons shall have the pre-
1 Terence when equally eligible and qualified over
those Who have not faithfully and honorably
| served m the land or naval forces of the United
Slaves ANDREW JOHNSON. e
NEw YoEK, April s.--The Custom House stats
1 Ics SNOW ths following shipments to the Souths
curing Marcn sporting powder, 81 600 pounds;
eapdgss sa nsss saa sa,aa 500 o
j The Tribune.s Washington sneeial savs AIex -
ander III. Stephens continues to receiye. mans
calls from the admirers Of his course the past ave
to an early admission to the Senate, and saws Is
1 shall go back Wednesday. He has not tha siight
est doubt but that he will have his seat gwen hin
i in the Senate. Mr. Stephens estimated the COM
ibs sEe: cotton crop 0f he South e shiss ailss
1t is generally expected the President in few
i days will release Jefferson Davis and Clement 6.
Clay on parole. There is no probability Of their
ever being tried for participating in the conspiracy
4 by which Lincoln was murdered. IA 4-s5fs i
| tits not unlikely Congress will agMn call for the
| testimony which is known to but few persons.
Judge Holt has expressed his opinion in writing.
that it was enough to convict them, and no one Is
more surprised at their not being tried.
The Secretary of War has called upon General
Banks for his report of the battle Of Cedar Noun
tain, Va, and the siege Of Port Hudson, which
| The general land office in replying to soldiers
and others, says there is no law granting land or
bounty land warrants to soldiers or sailors engaged
in the late war against the Confederacy the acts
Of March 8, 1865, and May a. 1866, applying only
| to persons who had served in the army or nasy
| prior to those dates. 5+ t4ss
The homestead act Of May 20 1862, amended
March 81, 1866, grants h0mesteads of 160 acres to
soldiers sailors and citizens, residing thereon five
years-soldiers and sailors to count their engage
ment in the service a. part Of the residence re-
1 quired.
/ New YORK, April "a correspondent says
Quantren, the guerilla, is farming the Island Of
Cuba. lsa'1 ts7lefisefl A3f }f''s@
The Herald's Washington special says consider
able sensation was manifested in that city yester-
4 day by the death of two eolared people of one
family, with oil the symptoms Of cholera. Their
| habitation was extremely Witty. At3Fs+a9s
| Major Walker, of the 9th United States regular
4 cavalry, makes statements highly encouraging in
reference to tie social condition of South Carolina
He represents there is no sign Of idleness or dis
trouble in the State lately resulted from the deprg
ldatons of guerrilla band calling themselves reg
ulators or reformers, which is likely to be put
down by parties whom they have plundered.
New YORK, April 9, II M.--Gotton quiet at 3sc.
i Gold 1861. =s 3F9is tt3 ssfadisg t1Goi6 a4&