New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-02-26

Washingtons and thirteen Abraham Lin
coins voted in Houston at the late cleo
ton.
Ex-Governor Ford, of Ohio, the World
correspondent says, will probably receive
the nomination to the Office of commissioner
Of patents.
A rebel recently made speech at Griffin,
Georgia, in which he said that "the negroes
should not go to the ballot box unless they
waded through blood
The St. Louis Democrat which so earn
estly opposed for a time the nomination of
Grant to the presidency, now says the
clouds that obscured his fidelity have rolled
away.
The former publisher of the Boston
Daily Mail, John N Bradley, died recently
in San Francisco, from starvation. The
Mail has not been published for several
years.
The latest advices from New Hampshire
report the prospects Of the Republican
party to be greatly improving, with
probability of carrying the state by an in
creased and not by reduced majority.
One firm in Boston has purchased nearly
all the rough rice to be had along the
Southern coast, and intend holding it with
view to monopolizing and governing the
market
The early life of General Grant is to be
described in series of letters to the New
York Ledger by his father, Jesse R. Grant.
The first will appear in the next number of
the Ledger.
The weekly Echo, the FIRST number of
which has reached us, is another added to
the list Of obstructive papers published in
Louisiana. 1t bears the date of Lake
Charles, parish of Caleasieu.
The Empire Parish says: Our orange
crop, it is feared, will be total loss this
year; it is estimated that the loss in this
parish will amount to at least one million
of dollars.
The steamer Leonidas left Cincinnati for
New Orleans Thursday evening, with near
ly 600 tons of freight, and engagements
for 100 tons more, consisting of hay and
flour, between Cincinnati and Louisville.
The Columbus (0hio) Journal says this /:
Information direct leads us to suspect
that the Democratic politicians who have
taken stock in General Hancock as
"policy" man will not make expenses.
The general isn't stamped for that market.
The last of the family, sixteen in number,
of Colonel ]. ]. Diamond, formerly of the
Houston Journal, has gone to the tomb.
He was boy of fourteen, and had never
recovered from yellow fever, disease by
which the remainder of the family per-
ished.
The Alabama representatives in congress
recently elected by the voters of that state
are: First district, Francis W. Kellogg;
second district, Charles W. Buckley; third
district, B. W. Norris; fourth district, c.
W. Pierce; fifth district, J. W. Burke; sixth
district, Thomas Haughey.
The president is preparing an answer to
the senate resolution calling for copies of
all orders and instructions given to Cen
erals Pope and Meade for carrying ont the
reconstruction acts. It will bring to light
some pretty important matter from Gen
eral Grants pen, showing that his positien n
last fall was the same as it is now.
The recent course Of General Hancock
at New Orleans is under review at army
headquarters. The members Of the com
mon council who were removed have for
warded their statement of the matter in
issue, and their formal demand for a rev9-
cation 81 General Hancock orders in the
premises. The general himself has for
warded additional information as to the
common council question.
A prominent merchant of Boston was
found one morning last week nailed by the
right ear to the doorpOst of DR.. GSnnett's
school for young ladies, in Pemberton
square. How or by whom it was done is a
mystery, and the victim will make no ex-
PLANTATION in regard to it. As he is a lead
ing member of one Of the principal
churches Of the city, the affair has caused a
great deal of scandal.
General Sherman has sent kilograms to
three or four different persons at Washing
ton protesting against his new military ap-
pointment, and conveying the idea that he
feels almost insulted by johnson. He says
his confirmation would be an insult to
General Grant. Leading members of both
houses are warm in his praise for the maa-
ner in which he resents the imputation on
his manhood and his friendship for Grant.
The bill for the gradual reduction of the
army, reported by Senator Wilson and
passed by the senate on the 18th, provides
that no more second lieutenants shall be
appointed, except from graduates Of the
military academy, that the grades OF regi-
mental commissary, sergeants, regimental
hospital steward, veterinary surgeon, and
regimental cemmissary, in the regiments of
cavalry shall be abolished; that the num-
Der of corperals in each company shall be
reduced to four, and that fourteen of the
military bands authorized by the act of
July, 1866, shall ct once be hOnorably dis
charged, The bill, if it becomes law,
will, 1t is said by Mr.. Wilson, effect saving
OF two millions Of dollars per year IN the
expenses Of the army.
Areport Of the Southern railroad COM
mittee was made last week, on the strength
of evidence which came into the possession
of the committee by accident, and revealed
an attempt on the part of certain parties
to buy up the right to transport mails over
all the Southern roads at from $loOto $3.50
per mile, there being apparently an under
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