The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-26
PERSONAL AND roLrrIoAL ITEMS


GreenviIle, Alabama, raufies on Monday.
Gov. Seymour has suffered from throat disease
during the past week.
Gen. Rosecrsns returned to Cincinnati on Mon
day last.
Hon. VIM. Bigler, of Pennsylvania, is seri-
ously i'll.
six thousand attended the Seymour and Blair
ratification meeting in Savannah.
General Enthusiasm and General Grant do not
run on the same ticket.
Joseph Meeks, an old merchant, and one of the
founders of Tammany Hall, died on the 2lst,
aged 81.
fhurlow Weeds paper says: " 1t seems impos.
sible for the temperance society to reclaim Chan.
dler or 10 make decent man of Simon Cameron"
Holly Springs Illuminated marched and rejoiced
over the nomination OF Seymour and Blair last
Saturday.
Grants Jew order may not have been a wise
one, but it can't be denied that it was jew.di-
cious one.-ICbicsgo Post.
= The most eloquent speaker in the North German
Parliament is DR.. VIM. Lowe, for several years
resident of New York.
All the magistrates elect iu Shelby county, Ala.
are negroes, and not one of them can read or
write.
Gen. Singleton has been nominated for Con-
gress by the Democratic convention OF the fourth
district Of Illinois.
-Four thousand people attended grand Demo
cratic barbecue at Bartlett station, Tenn, on the
3d.. Addresses were made by Coils. Avery and
| +. M. Yerger.
The returns of the late elections in Oregon indi.
cate that the legislature will be constructed as
| follows: Senste-Democrats II, Republicans 10.
House-Democrats %, Republicans 10.
A number of influential negroes in Nashville
are getting signatures to petition to the legis-
lstuIe which meets next Monday, to enfranchise
the whites.
| The female Blondin of California, Mile. Rosa
Celeste, whose terrific feats on the rope and wire
| have rendered her famous, is now on her way
from California to emulate BlOndin in crossing
| Niagara Falls.
| Gen. Frank P. Blair fought in more than two
score battles, any yet he is denounced in I'M.
| measured terms by the men who stayed at home
| and sold shoddy cloth, bad coffee, and paper oil
ored shoes TO the soldiers. Such is radical 10y.
| atty.
"unIted at their official meetings in singing
coarse and uproarious songs, and no Wing at each
| other like so many red Indians" They will howl
| worse In November
ga committee, composed Of J. G. Brown, A. NJ.
| LOoney, ID. C.. WhitthOrne and others, left Nash
| vile for Knoxville on the 23d, to present peti'
| ton TO Governor Brownlow, asking him TO recon-
| mend TO the Legislature the enfrsnchlsement OF
the white population now denied the right Of
| suffrage.
The New York SUM- whose editor in chief is a
| Republican, says that its conclusion, looking
calmly ard impartially at the whole question, is
that the Democracy mast carry New York il
spite of everything. such must be the conclusion
| OF every unprejudiced mind.
The Springfield Republican is outspOken on the
course of Thad. Stevens and Gen. Butler in rela
ton to the funding bill and the finances gener
ally. OF the latter gentleman 1t says: We war;
| him (Butlerl that he will have TO pitch his ten
somewhere out of Massachusetts,, if he expects L
go back to Congress, unless he stops short Ia hi
| present career"
Senator William Pinekney Whyte, who sue
ceeds Reverdy Johnson, is native of Baltimore
and q leading member of the Baltimore bar. HI
is in the prime of life between forty.hve and fifty
and is considered one of the most able men in tn
| Democratic party Of his native State. He come
| from an old Democratic family. His father wa
an active jackson and Van Buren, man, and at on
time was collector of the port Of Baltimore, an
held various other public offices.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Journal Of Commerce communicates tn
| following incidents from life at the capital :
riding ON one OF the street cars by City Hall
| yesterday, large collection OF negroes stand
ing about the building and lying under the shad
trees attracted our attention and led TO inqulr
OF the driver as to the occasion of such crow
of unemployed colored people. He replied
They are waiting for Office under the new cit
adm iDistraton.'n
A brother of the late N. P. Willis Is said to be
present in Melbourne, in business as a boOtmakel
BE has the red hair and the features Of the Will
family, and is good deal like the lately decease
| poet. His own story is that he ran away froI
, | home in a whsler when very young. and has II
NAMED away ever since. Two or three years az
| some American. gentlemen in Melbourne lent hiI
500 to set him up in business, tsking boots in pa
ment of the loan but he has not so far, been yer
, successful. He is, it is alleged, undoubtedly,
| brother of the late poet.
, The New York Commercial says: "Gov. Sc,
mour is not to be beaten by being called col
perhead, or Frank Blair to be distanced in Il
race because he is a revolutionist Ridieue Sc
: mour as some Republican journals may, he is u
: most popular man in the Democratic party. tt
man who, under the intense pressure of disloyalt
brought against him in 1864, could poll ovt
: $50, 600 votes is more TO be feared now than
was in 1854. Eternal vigilance is necessary
elect Grant,"
The Lewistown (ATsine) Journal (Rep.,) says
Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton comes out OF the Ne
+. York convention with a.recOrd and position
unsullied as pure gold. His letter there ma
t public and which we publish elsewhere, Is that
b. a high-minded and unsefsh man, willing to star
). where his friends and the party place him, and
enter with zeal npon the work Of insuring success
He is ready TO give his personal services duriI
9 the campaign toward securing the triumph of 9
! ticket, and Immediately telegraphed to Govern
: Seymour to that effect. The Democracy Of 4
country of all shades of opinion, can not but no
: George II. Pendeton in grateful remembrance"
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