The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-15
personal AND roLITIcAL ITEMS.

Ohio registers fully 40, 900 "white- boysin-blue
Mr.. Pugh puts Ohio Democratic.
senator Doolittle claims he will be reelected.
Four Radicals clamor for Stevens vacant chair.
Grants home, Galena, Is Democratic.
Thibodsux has q " Sieedman Club
North Carolina Holden is reported making
overtures TO the Democrats.
Radical motto" Wen fight it out on lynn II ii
takes all summer"
Sumner has not yet indorsed the "white-
washer"
The Democrats of the fourth Massachusetts,
District have nominated Peter Harvey for Con-
gress-
met In convention at Walkesha, and nominated
Gen. A. E. Paine for Congress by acclama;ion.
The National Intelligencer of the 10th inst. pub
fishes three closely printed columns OF prominent
"converts - from Radicalism TO Democracy.
The Democrats of the fourteenth congressional
district OF New York have nominated stephen L..
Msyhew, OF Scohairie, for Congress.
The Democrats of the second Missouri district
have nominated Mr.. James J. Lindley for Con-
hon. l.. F. Trisbee. OF West Bend. Wisconsin,
has been nominated for Congress by the Republi-
cans of the Fourth District.
Abjah Mann, former Nj. g. from New York,
and contemporary of Van Buren,, Butler, Silss
Wright, Marcy and Michael Hoffman, and one OF
the most remarkable men Of his State, Is dead.
The Democrats in the second district OF Minne-
sofa. where the Republican spt has occurred,
Ao'C ~ 1A-A4oO-t cA A~AA--SePN-
lis, for Congress.
The ThIbodaux Sentinel mentions as striking
feature of Radical procession in that town, four
teen old women shouting and throwing up their
bonnets.
Governor Seymour was serenaded at Albany, II.
Y, on Wednesday night, in response TO which he
made brief speech, stating that he had received
from sll sectious of the country the most earnest
assurances of success in the present canvass.
colored caterer Of Boston, named Smith, has
given private dinner, al which assisted SUM-
Ier, DR.. Bellies, of Boston, DR.. Potter, OF Grace
Church, in this city, Moses kimball, OF Boston,
and eight others.
Itis reported that Raphael Felix has engaged
Mile Schneider for the London season of 1859 for
fifty representations The repertoire includes
" Bsrbe Bleue," LA Granie DGchesser and two
other operas, both new. The salary will be about
$1O,o coo In gold.
Helen Eekert, girl Of sixteen. Of Easton, Penn
syyanis, weighs now over i've hundred pounds,
and is unable, from her great weight, TO get out
OF the house. she is evidently the "girl Of the
period" as a fnll stop has been put TO her per-
ambnstions.
Conn ander letters, of the steamer Swartsra,
who has lust arrived from Liberia. says that the
leading members of that government are of the
opinion that enfranchising smancipated negroes Is
irjudicions. They are not allowed TO vote there
unless they are educated.
Religious Radicalism, In Boston, is horrited at
the blasphemy OF q conservative doctor OF divin-
ity who Is reported TO have declared that the
success OF tDe BemOcfduc party WOulu De tne sue
cess of the Christian religion. II is only Wade and
Wilson that loilty permits to utter the counsel of
the Almighty. --------- ------------------
The president has received a memorial from
citizens of Mississippi calling attention to the fact
that, under the reconstruction act, and the pre-
sent state of affairs there, there is no one author
lied To issue a proclamation for the election Of
presidential electors. The governor elected by
The people has been deposed, and the military
commander, General Gilem, does not ind au-
tboTiiy IN the law from whence he derives his
pOReIs TO act TO warrant his interference in the
matter in any shape.
hon. Samuel Hambeton has been nominated
for Congress by the Democratic convention Of the
first district of Maryland. The fourth district
Democratic convention, after baoting unsuccess-
| fully for two days. has adjourned to meet in
| Frederick City on the 22d inst. Major David X.
| Brown is announced as an independent candidate
for Congress from the third district; and Wm. l..
Nacauley from the same district is announced as
the candidate of the workingmen's or labor
reform party. Gov. Swami Is the regular Demo-
cratic nominee in the third district.
John ID. Barclay, of the commissioner of GUS
toms, has lust celebrated the sixty-fourth ami
yersary of his entrance clerk into the treasury
department. He was appointed by President JET
feIson, and a relic Of the clerical convenences
Of the day. preserves in his desk portion OF the
cesk-furnture given him on taking his office, Sep
ttmber H. 1854. He is yet hale and hearty, aud
continues to discharge his usual round of Official
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