The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-09
Southern ItemA.

The Mobile Typographical Union have elected
James Risk, an old New Orleans printer, presi-
dent Mr.. G. W. Stoddard was elected cores
ponding secretary.
Hon. John Forsyth, editor of the Register and
Advertiser, has been chosen president Of the con-
servative Clue of Mobile.
The Montgomery Mail having inquired of John
Hardy whether he offered company to Governor
Shorter, John indignantly replies that he never
offered anybody his company-that he never had
any company to offer.
The Mobile Times has removed the names of
Grant and Fessenden from the head of its editorial
columns, as its ticket for president and vice
president.
Judge sharkey is in Washington, to conduct
the case Of McArdle, of the Vicksburg Times, be-
fore the Supreme Court.
There was great rejoicing in Memphis on &C.
count Of the late election. Leftwich, the Demo-
cratic candidate, had ajOrity of 3jl over both
radicals. The whole Democratic ticket was
elected.
Judge Busteed's family have arrived in Mobile.
His health is improving.
We hear that the Atlantic Base Bah Club. of
brooklyn, are coming 10 visit New Orleans and
Mobile, about the last of this month.
detachment of troops has been semitic Bladon
Springs, Ala, to suppress some riotous dem.
Onstrations.
Morgan c. Hamilton, at the call Of some forty
negroes and ten whites, announces himself cam
didate for Congress from Texas, against his
brother, A. j. Hamilton. He is controller of the
State under Gov. Pease.
The remains of the late Col. /. G. Seymour, of
the Sixth Louisiana regiment, who fell at Gaines
Mil, and who was so well known in New Orleans
as one OF our best citizens, as well as the editor
OF our time-honOred contemporary, the CONNER.
oial Bulletin, have been rendered at Macon Ca
Col. seymour was at one time mayor of Macon
and It was IN Macon that he organ zed the com
pany that he so gallsn " led in the Seminole war.
A committee Of his old military associates was an.
pointed TO take charge of his remains, and they
were inferred with all the honors due to his
memory as soldier and gentleman.
somebody In Tennessee is guilty of the absur-
diy of nominating Brownlow for the vice presi.
dency on a ticket with Grant.
The editor of the Goodman, (Miss.) Star had
some Christmes. He says Our friends and pa
irons vii excuse the paucity of editorial matter
I'M, inns week. Our Christmas nogg, together with
little New Years TON and Jerry, /" has so mud.
died our brains that they won't work we'll
The Mobile Advertiser gives Gen. Wager
SwayDe parting benediction on his re moyal from
office, and saws " his name will be a stencil 10 the
memory of Alabama for more than one genera
tiOn.n
A man in Mobile, who tried 10 steal from an
old negro woman some Refreshments she was
carrying to the printers in the newspaper Offices,
was arrested and fined twenty dollars for his
niue experiment. Ii will not do to interfere with
" the rights Of the press"
Gen. Kenton Harper, an old aud respected citi.
zen OF Augusta county, Va, died recently aged
sixtyone.
The Advocate says that day or two before
Christmas young man named Ed. Kitchen, living
on Bayou Barbary, In Livingston parish, was muir.
dered in the woods near his residence. He was
shot through the body and head. A musket ball
passed through his chest, and his head was shat.
tered by buckshot. Near the dead man lay the
carcass OF one OF his hogs. and it is supposed that
the unfortunate man was shot by detected depre.
dators upon his stock. Two white men have
been arrested on suspicion Of having been con.
cerned In this murder.