New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-27
TeIegrnphic Items.


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Ginnls Of commissioner to the Paris expOsitiOn:
Geo. NJ Beebe, collector of internal revenue for
Nevada Geo. W. Clark, postmaster of Iowa
City, Iowa
There was another crowd Of visitors at the
White House to-day, and the President was Ell
gagged continuously hearing their suggestions and
petitions from 10 A. M, to O'Clock this afternoon.
Among the audience were several members of
Congress and few delegates to the Philadelphia
Convention, who have been seeking an interview
with Mr.. johnson for several days. large num-
Der of the delegates and visitors left in the trains
this evening, and it is hoped that the President
will have comparative quiet.
POstmaster-gen Randall has gone to Elmyra,
New Gork, TO take leave Of his family, who are on
the eve of departure for Europe.
An order of the secretary Of war, directing tue
provost marshalgeneral to turn over the anaiis ~
his bureau to the adjutant general on Lhe zotn
inst, was promulgated to-day. |
Representatives of the Democrats from al! tle
Northern States have called upon lne f!eslueut
within the past five days ana they UNANIMOUSLY
concnr in the recommendation made by the New
Hampshire delegation to the Philadelphia cOnyen-
ton that the federal offices be bestowed upon
conservative Republicans only. The Democrats
do not ask for office, but request Mr.. johnson to
relieve such officers as oppose the policy Of the
administration or abuse the President personally |
and, it may be added here, that the Democrats
are not applying for preferment, and as yet none
have been appointed.
An official dispatch was sent from the war de-
partment to-day, to Gen. Ililson, now in Saco, |
Me-, instructng him not to return to his command
in Georgia, but to come TO Washington. As | |
have before stated, Gen. YiIlson will succeed |
Gen. Howard as superintendent Of the freedmcns
bureau.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-There is official author
ity for DENYING the statement that the secretary
Of the treasury has given instructions that no
money shall be paid out Of the treasury under the
provisions OF the civil appropriation law for add
tional appropriations to soldiers As soon as the
regulations governing the payment agreed upon
by the commission shall be furnished to the treas
ury department, and not until then, will be pre-
scented for the decision Of the secretary the ques-
ton Of whether the law carries with 1t an appro-
priaton for the law specified.
Com WinslOw, commanding the Gulf squadron,
under date of August 10th, informs the navy de-
partment that there is a decrease Of cholera in
| the ironClad fleet at New Orleans. The ITALIA
| poosa had been exempt from the disease. i
| painful disease called the dengue, though not
dangerous had attacked and Frustrated the men
Of the Chocura at ApaaGhicola, but the vessel
| had arrived at Pensacola with the hands
| Rear Admiral GOldsbOrO writes to the navy de-
partment, under date of Clerbourg, France,
| August 18th:
This place is entirely free from cholera, and
has been so since March. The disease does eX-
lat, however, at this time quite seriously in HoL-
land and is particularly fatal at Antwerp. In
stead, therefore, of ordering the Fr0lic 10 Flush
| ing, to have her bottom cleaned and painted, /
have concluded to have it doEe here and Vice Ad-
miral Raymond, who is now the project maratime
at Cherbourg, has been kind enough I'd place one
of the dry docks Of the navy department at my
disposal. Size goes into it to-day. Nothing could
exceed the gracious manner Of the admiral on tile
occasion. As you are aware, he Is quite well
known in our country, and his bearing toward Us,
as well as that of tile officers Of his command, is
as friendly as possible
Col. Walter Barrett chairman Of the committee
to present to the President The proceedings Of
the johnson soldiers Stale convention Of Penn
sylyania, had an interview with tie President to-
day, who, on receiving copy ct the proceedings
thanked Col. Barrett, and through him the soldiers
! whom lie represented, for their course and par
l ticularly for the kind manner in which they re
; ferred to him in the resolutions.
Official information reached here to-day tina
! the U. S. steamer Mahaska, eight guns, has let
! Pensacola for Tampico, in accordance witt
e instructions founded on the Presidents proclama
ton relative to MaXimian's blockade.
II During the confinement Of Col. SWeight an
u companions in Libby prison, some of them
u though indifferently provided with drawing mate
! rails so well initiated United States notes as t
. find ready purchasers among the rebels in eA
Il was received by the U. S. treasurer to-day, til
u owner Of it innOCentiy supposing it would be re
= deemed by that officer.
G A Herald special says: I have it from goo
authority that Secretary Stanton will not resig
until he has given to Congress at its next sessio
his report of the operations of his departmeL
during the recent rebellion. He will receive
. foreign mission, it may be to Spain or Russia
Il WASHINGTON, Aug pa letter from Secrt
: tary Seward to General Kirkpatrick, minister
Is Chill, is published, setting forth the policy of til
United States concerning wars in adjoining reput
i lies. He says: eve maintain that the republ
Is can SYSTEM which is accepted in any one OF thos
: States shall not be wantonly assailed, and that
!, shall not be subverted as an end of a lawful W.
y by European powers. In wars waged betwee
~ nations in friendship with ourselves if they al
II not pushed, like the French war in Mexico, to Il
y political point mentioned, we do not iQteryen
s. Spain assured us that she would net carry her va
Is with Chill to that point ana are ready now an
" henceforth to holdSpain to this agreementi four
T. necessary
IL, FROM NEW YORK.
Is NEW YoRK, August 22.-Reports of ycsterda
showed slight decrease in the number of ne
IN cases of cholera in this city, and a rather MOI
as severe mortality from the same cause. Thel
n were twelve new cases and eighteen deaths I
as ported in Brooklyn The disease continues
Decline and hopes entertained that it will di
IN appear at an early day.
of Gen. Sckles commanding at Charleston, havir
n inquired of Mayor HOLMAN whether New Gol
w was an infected city, DR.. Harris has replied, u
nv hesitatingly, that this city is not infected
In The two wings OF the Fenian Brotherhood we
d, busly engaged at their respective headquarters
he this city yesterday Mr.. Stephens received pc
ce sonal report from two young Irishmen, who hi
re- Just arrived from the old country, where they HI
ng been confined in Mountjoy prison. They repo
IN the organization to have become stronger TIL
Ter ever since the suspension of the habeas corpr
is Col. Roberts is deeply engaged in correspondent
is to the approaching Congress in Troy.
nd NEW YORK, Aug. 22-Col. Roberts has issu
a circular to the Fenian Brotherhood, contradit
to ing certain malicious assertions that the BROTH
ts hood is to be used for political purposes. All su
oy- assertions, he says, are base fabrcatiOns.
In New York, Aug. 22.-The Journal du Hav
Jus of August s. says that news come from variC
3D. quarters that Russia is making great concent
of tons of troops on the frontiers of Germany a
it. this military manifestation appearsGdesigned to
eat ercise pressure on Prussia. The Russian lo
IN nails make use of language tending to confirm
the authenticity of the Intelligence in question.
Let considering the situation which Prussia has j
< to created for herself in Germany, the Muscov
an, press declares that Russia does not fear the
It'll, tension of the Hohenzolerens but that she oul
Use, nevertheless to direct her attention to it.
nch The Moscow Gazette, the journal Of M. kataE
deyotes to the question remarkable article.
following are some of the principal passag
the Nothing in Russia, for the moment at least fe
lers Prussia, even with her needle-guus; but if t
adj power places itself at the head of all Germany
cute Russian governn ent will hnd it impossible moi
1nal come to reckoning with State become so C
Id a siderable. The sound policy of the Statesmen
Dted Russia can never wait for combination nv VIII
1hia Prussia might become dangerous neighb
ting therefore Russia ought to take time by the
dis lock-"
of Here is the great point of the article the VIZ
,e to of which enjoys a moral authority in Russia
ions that of the government. He says: "No,
tive policy of conquest peculiar to Count Bismarck
re- not terrified us, but the augmentation of
tired power of q neighboring State, and above all
here conditions of European equilibrium, which are
GER aessantIy VARYING imposes on US the necessit