New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-20
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We need hardly remind our readers that the
greatfair "Opens the Agricultural Grounds to-day.
It is the duty Of every citizen to do generous
share toward securing the success Of the enter
prise and giving it all desirahie eelat.
ThePresbyterian Index allRdes to CHRIST Church, |
in this city, as having been ingeniossy contrved
so as to prevent the largest possible number Of
the congregation from seeing OF hearing what
goes on about the pulpit
The Richmond Times emphaically denies that
the people of the South entertain any prejudice
against Northern men, per sc. In the ranks Of the
famous Washington Artillery, of New Orleans,
says the Times, were many Northerners, and one
cf the best soldiers we evsr saw, who was never
known to shirk fight, was Connecticut school
teacher in the 18th Virginia Infantry,
There is a praisewortEy project on foot to re
store the old church in Hampton, Va. The anti
quarry owes it to the historic past Of Virginia to re-
store this monument Of colonial days to some
thing of its former condition.
The office Of representative to the Msssachu-
sets Legislature, to which Richard H. Dana, Jr.,
of Cambridge, has recently been elected, is the
first which he has ever received directly from the
convention Of 1854.
Il
4 the Washington Republican says it is satisfied
| now, as it always has BEEN that the Democratic
/ party went to Philadelphia for no other purpose
than to obtain place and power and not on ac-
count of any love they hsye for President John
son or the policy of the administration Chat if
the copperheads of the Chicago Times stripe had
not thrust themselves upon the Philadelphia Con
4 yenton, and intruded themselves into every town
ia
/ afterwards to poison the politics of eech State
4 sgainstthe administration and in favor d extreme
radcaism, the restoration policy Of Andrew
johnson would ere this have been yindicated and
recognized at the polls by the honest American
people. The misrepresentation of such infamou:
journals has retarded restoration and produced
the present misunderstanding between the Presi
dent and Congress.
The LynehbuTg News remarks that the dis
grace inflicted Oh Massachusetts,, and on the Amer
lean Congress, by the election of Spoon Butler
to seat in that body il only partially atoned bI
the Intelligence Of the election of two negroes
the legislature, one from Charlestown and on
from Boston. This fact furnishes slight indica
ton of returning selfrespect, and lows that the,
are determined to have more res pectable dele
CATION in the legislature than in Co ngress
the probable election of Horace Greeley to til
United States Senate with cor siderable favor
Hisrecent expressions on the 81 de of toleratio
and humanity have made him m any friends anon
the conservatives in all parts of the country.
i A number Of physicians in I taris have decide
that steady employment on ewing machines
! Exceedingly detrimental to the health ana moral
{ of the female operators. The objection is only
) those machines which are worked BY the fee
!, Who will discover a meteor less Objectionable?
| The Petersburg Express says that souther
men are enlistng in the l2tla infantry, stationed
that city,
Prentice says unless the Associated Press i'm
proves its dispatches, we shall have to abbreviat
It's title and call it the ASS Press.
Emma Maddern has been great attraction t.
, the thsater-goers Of Montgomery.
The Boston Post, hither erto regarded as among th
, nostoFthodoxo of Democratic papers, and defender
ofSoathernrghtsi announces itself in favor of Civ
ing Suffrage to the negroes on the same terms a
tits given to the whites.
The New York Post hears from Washington
that few Republican members of Congress arr
busyng themselves with movement to stayt
4 off is to say to deny--the suffrage to the
ool0red people Of the District of Columbia, anC
i that among the leaders of the movement are
members who do not hesitate to demand negro
suffrage inthe Southern States.
\ The Washington Star of the 10th, says:
4 Through out the history Of American politics II
4 notable an instance Of pertidy as that Of tbs
Democratic party leaders, in their conduct to
wards the SoGthln the late elections, is now herr
4 on record. The upshot of their selfish policy i
!. that they have rendered tile President utterl,
powefless to stand between the South and thi
schemes Of the extreme radical leaders. Fortu
natelg it is yet in tie power Of the South to de
poseSthose leaders from The control of the poliel
OF the Republican party in Congress. Her accept
anGe of the proposed constitutional amendmen
Wiil accomplish that object beyond redemption
, and n.that way only can it be done.
AdYices by the last steamer state that wher
{ Joha Bright was addressing crowd in Dublin hi
was Interrupted by such cries as sFenianism for
ever Three cheers for Stephens, and "Hu1ral
for Lord Edward Fitzgsrald.n
The New York World of the 10Th urges The
President.to issue proclamation of universal am
nesty and pardon, and &z2s: "If the PresideD
had at tanytme pFev1ousA he elections published
4 Ezeh an amnesty as we now recommend, the radi
A Gals would have pursued him with a noisy hue anC
cry for his sleniency to rebels. But the time whef
such an Gntorg could do any mischief is past, anC
the PRESIDENT ought at once to relieve himself
hom ah tAe ef barrassments resulting from appli
eatlons tar lneayldual pardons. We deem it i'm
4 poftant thathe should publish such an amnesty
fnow before themeeting of Congress lest that body
should repeal the section above quoted, and theI
deny Inc aathorlty OF the President to take any
further action. The radicals want to keep the
Remaining casesas the only means they have left
| Of terrifying the South into a4ratifcaton of the
pending orsome more Objectionable constitutional
amendment. Thepresidentlshould promptly take
this weapon out Of their hanGs.
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The good ladies of the Third Presbyterian
Church, with their friends from ether churches,
have undertaken labnrious tSsb-nothn0 less