New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-09-26

Gen. Custer declines nomination for Congress
in the First Michigan District.
4 Out of nine counties heard from in the recent
local election in California, seven have gone fol
the administration ticket. The telegraph dis
patches, which are in the hands Of the radicals
make no mention Of such significant facts as these
Senator Cowan, ex-Governors Johnston and Big
Her, of Pennsylvania with several other prominent
Pennsylvanians arrived in Washington on the
18th, and on the 18th had special audience with
/ the President, Secretary McCulloeh and Postmas-
ter General Randall, with reference to the Phila-
delphia appointments. The following will proba-
bly, be announced: postmaster, Charles NJ. Hall,
vice O. Waidron removed; naval officer, J. R.
Flanagan, editor Daily News; deputy surveyor of
| the port, Thos. G. Mcdowell; director Of the mint
Wm. Millward, vice Jas. Pollock, removed treas.
urer of the mint, Chambers McKibbin melter and
refner of the mint, J. H. Taylor. By telegraph
we learn that some of these appointments have
already been made. a4H8sa
Mr. G. 7. Post, member Of the radical CEN
! tEal committee of Fillmore county, Minnesota,
ileayes the concern, and in a published note says
e. am for the whole Union, without congressional
4 restriction, except the right Of each House, TO
Judge " Of the election returns and qualifications of
| its members.h am for the Union the late war
| was prosecuted to preserve. indorse the recon
struction policy OF President johnson, and an
prove the declaration of principles of the late
Philadelphia convention, and hope to see them
sustained by the American people.
= A quiet card from ex-senator Richardson, OF
Illinois,
TO the Editor of the Quincy Hera7d-I sec,
from the Jacksonville Sentinel, that Gen. B. NJ
Prentiss, in speech made at jacksonville few
days since, insnuated that President Johnson was
accessory to the assassination of the late Presi
dent Lincoln. He also, as reported said he was
backed in this suspicion by g the opinion of Hon,
William A. Richardson" as expressed to him.
self.
If he made the statement in references to me, [
declare hmto be a base and infamous liar.
". A. RICHARDSON.
Quincy Ill., August 81
The Richmond Examiner says that the building
up of radical party in the South will be a very
uphill business, for no political organization can
be constructed without some respectable material
as nucleus.
Breyet Brigadier General James F. Hail. late
colonel First New York engineers has written a
letter stating his approval Of the Cleveland (sol-
diersO convention, on the 18th inst. He has al.
ways been Republican, but opposes the radical
elements Of the party, and thinks 'there never
was more shortsighted policy or fanatical folly
than was displayed by Congress in attempting to
place the party on the narrow, sectional and IN
constitutional basis now declared BY them"
"a Norfolk, Virginia, paper announces that
convention of the loyal Union men of North
Carolina" was to be held in Raleigh, on Thursday
the goth day of September, g to consult together
cnithe present condition of the country.s
Major Gen. Rawlins, chief of staff to General
Grant, thorough conservative, has been waited
upon by delegation Of gentlemen from Illinois,
rendering him the nomination for Congress for the
State at large, in opposition tothe renegade John
A. Logan. The general has not yet made up his
mind in the case.
Gov. Morton refused to attend the socalled con
yention at Philadelphia, His organ at Indianapolis
says it was not onaocountof Fred, Douglass being
a delegate as some malicious persons insinuated,
but on account of the press of private matter u
Col. Benjamin H. Smith, Democratic and CON
seryatiye candidate for the goyernorship of West
Virginia, has challenged Coy. Boorman to discuss
the political situation throughout the State Boor.
man sentword in reply that he was "not pre-
pared to make any answer"
The Democrats Of the eighth congressional dis
trict Of Indiana have decided not to nominate
candidate for Congressman, and commend to the
suffrage Of their party John Purdue, the nominee
Of the johnson Republicans.
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