The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-05
Ghe 8em Orleans qrestsnt.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST s. 1865
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL ITEMS

John L. Maryl of Fredericksburg, Va. is dead.
qusrtz-INew York Ledger.
General Grant arrived at St. Louis on the 10th
ult., and left for his farm the next day. !; a
Mrs. 0akes, the widow Of Piano Steinway, has
recovered legal possession of the children.
Sanford H. Church has taken the stump for
Seymour and Blair.
Raleigh has negroes on It's police force. and is
indignant about IL.
The Kansas Democratic convention has nomi.
mated Geo. W. Click its candidate for governor.
Gen. Buell. is said to have told Grant be was not
worth the powder to blow him to -.
Ii is reported in Washington that Secretary
Seward has openly declared for Grant aad CJfax.
The Mobile dremen have formed Democratic
club.
The young men Of Montgomery have organized
a Seymour and Blair club.
Five thousand Democrats, white and colored,
attended barbecue at MonteyalIo, Ala, on the
3Oth ult.
The people of Georgia have had meeting to
protest against the maladmnistrauon of city af-
fairs by the military appointees.
Robert J. Walker has declared bis purpose to
support the Democratic ticket. he says he never
had another idea.
1t was Senator Norton and not Senator Morton
who was married the other day to Miss Cortlan,
of Baltimore.
The Ward Brothers have sent a challenge 10
any six oarsmen of England to row I've or six
miles, for $4,000 a side 10 either country
Hon. ]. NJ. Buckley, late assistant attorney
general, has been appointed TO the Office of solicit
tor for the internal revenue.
Geo. II. Pendeton had q cordial rejection at
Louisville on the 3lst ult. He was on bis way to
speak at Frankfort.
General Arthur Perkins, Of Darlington. New
Hampshire, who lost arm at Atlanta, has just
heard that rich uncle in Englsn has left him
$3.50, 900.
IL is expected that Gen. Banks wilfy forthwith
receive the price Of his services in getting the
appropriation through the House, in the shape of
moi nj 40 mi IN
Judge Samuel ID. Bell, ex-chief justice OF the
Supreme Judicial Court Of New Hampshire, not
OF Massachusetts,, as stated by telegraph, died 1T
his residence, in Manchester, recently, aged IL.
A convention of the Democrats party of the
State of South Carolina has been called TO meet at
Columbia on August 9th, 20 nominate electors for
president and vce-president. q
The radicals are complmentng CoiAx on his
foreca in sending Butler with the committee to
Prince Edwards Island TO investigate the cod
fisheries in that distant region This keeps Batter
out of the presidential canvass.
The Democratic State Convention OF Kansas
nominated Geo. w. Glyck, of Atchson, for gov
ernor, Maxwell McCasln, lieutenant governor,
| Wilson shannon, Jr., secretary OF state; G.
Schauble, auditor, and Allen Mccartney! treasurer.
Chief Justice Chase and Mrs. Sprague arrived
at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, on the 3Oth
ult., and were, during the day, visited by few
| personal friends. In the evening distinguished
private citizen gave a select party 10 their honor.
Arms give us arms, t" Is the cry o the carpet
bsggers. Wait till next November. and 10 the
general and precipitate rush of the radical party
towards Salt River, legs will be more IN demand
than arms IN. Y. World.
General Gates who is stopping at the late Wind
sor House on Fourteenth street, New York, has
recently been quite sick. He is one OF the Oldest
officers in the service. He twenty-five years
old in the war Of 1872, and gallautly fought the
British.
Mrs Lincoln expects, on her arrival IN Earope,
10 60 directly 10 Scotland, where she. will spend
some time at the country seat OF Scotch clergy
/ ma old Of thQ Al
will 60 TO the south OF France, and spend the winter
| there, probably at Nice.
Sou CANADA, an old chief Of the 0ttowa In
| dians, died recently, and medal was found hang
ing on his neck, which he had worn for fifty -four
| years, and which was presented TO bin in 1914 by
the British government, for the part he took in
killing and scslping American whites at the River
me Gieysisnu r1eraIu says: rrauH DrsH 1" as
radIcaI lrepuorNsif; NV -ffe "A"T efiltka fe6tf:
| What be will be year from this tine the Lore
| only knows" Let the Herald rest its:uneasy soul.
"a year from now " Frank p. Blair will be 4"
| vice president.
The Feliciana Patriot says: The colored
Democracy are moving right along in this parish.
Clubs are being formed, and they are enthusiastic
in getting members. well posted colored
Democrat remarked to US few days ago, that
the carpet.bagger's day WAS over in this parish ,
and that by the time the November election took
Mace. there would not be one hundred radical
negroes in East Feliciana. Keep the ball NOV
ing" -
Tbad Stevens has written q letter, which has
been made public, showing the question as to
what .thirties should be paid in gold paper,
| has been wisely settled by the passing OF the
funding bill, which action he claims sustaius ms
position, viz: that the law authorizing the issue
| of those bonds provided that they should oe PAID
| in paper, and he urges those holding the i've
twenties TO exchange them Tor the new bonds.
The expose of the csrpetbsg programme Tor
carrying the electoral votes OF the southern
States has produced great excitement In political
circles in Washington. Conservatives express the
, belief that such schemes would secure the wnole
| Northern vote for the Democratic ticket Inc
JaeobDs, however, not Disconnected nelu another
meeting on the 30th. All the radical CongressmeL
remaining in the city attended.
Gems. Forrest, Cheatham, Quares, Palmer anC
| others of the late Confederate army had con
ference at Nashville, on the LIST, with commltte'
of the legislature upon the political troubles In tn
State the result Of which has not TRANSFERRED IN
= chances of a satisfactory solution OF the am
Guilty are good. The inclination 10 call out I'M
militia is abatng, though efforts will be made 81
some of the radical members TO push the measure
!, through the legislature.
A Washington dispatch Of the first says: LEAD
ing radicals are fearful that the etbagger
: won't stick. Several Of this gentry, since thei
ADHESION to Congress, have expressed conserva
= tive views, and are prepared 10 ABANDON thei
confederates whenever their political fortunes ar
!, on the wane. The result in Georgia Is bite
" dill for the radicals TO swallow. They would no
permit Hill TO enter the Senate, but few week
since his political disabilities were removed b
81 Congress. There will be contest over the 40
mission OF Miller"
In the House Of Commons, previous TO prorog'
ton, the speaker said he had received throug
m the United States legation, letter from the Ho
~ VIM. II. Seward, accompanying which was
~ NJ splendid copy Of book entitled A Tribute
or The Nation 10 the Memory Of Abraham Lincoln"-
y, a present from the Congress OF the United Stat'
. TO the House of Commons. Lord Stanley move
q that the thanks of the House be sent to Congress
he through Mr.. seward, aud that the book be place
in the library of the House. The motion was ca
ried mem. con.
Washington specials of the 3Oth say the pre-
ident expresses the opinion that Brownlow W
bring on strife at all hazards, and that he
prompted BY the radical managers IL Is assert
- that The president treated the advances OF q
Democrats leaders coldy and that they will 2
ne support from him. The election OF josh
- Hill gives satisfaction. Most OF the legitima
members Of Congress have gone home. A Il
Garnet. baggers remain about secondrate boar
inr hnnses- eN necilng remittAnces. or hoping