The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-12
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL ITEMS.

1t is proposed TO run Andrew johnson for gov
ernor Of Tennessee.
General Grant arrived in Chicago on the It'll,
and took passage Immediately for Galens.
Drums are now ornamental with likeness of
Grant. better man to beat doesn't exist
Gen. Morgan, Gen. Forrest, Judge Scruggs, Col.
King and others addressed large peace meeting
at Memphis on the 6th.
The Democrats have nominated Hon. Warren
p. Noble, Of 1ifin, as candidate for Congress
from the ninth district of Ohio.
General o. Lagrange and John B. FELTON, have
been nominated for electors at large by the Cali
fornis Republican convention.
The Missouri Democratic convention nominated
Z. A. Lewis, Washington Adams and E. 81. Morton
for judges of the Supreme Court.
Grant having been in the tanning business for
80 long, his mouth is so puckered that he cannot
make speech lex.
Gen. Z. KIRBY Smith will open q military
academy for boys at New Castle, KY, on Sep
TENDER 10th. Sd go F-T
Mast, the artist, began bis career with Frank
Leslie at IS per week. He was only Mast then.
Some people now think him nasty.
Captain VIM. Hart, Democrat, was elected mayor
of New Albany on the 4th BY majority Of las
Chss W. shaw, Of Biddeford, has been nomi.
mated for Congress from the First District of
Maine. by the Democrats.
Greeley says "scrstch Democrat and you will
ind rebel under his skn.n The csrbet baggers
are too dirty to scratch.
o. l.. Grant, brother of the general, is out in q
card saying that he won't vote for Seymour.
Dreadful
The First Congressional District Republican
Convention Of California has nominated Frank NJ.
Huxley for Congress.
James Gordon Bennett. Jr., manages the New
York Herald on board his yacht. Hence, the
The question :" can Democrat be saved ~ Is
seriously put by Q correspondent to the Advance,
. religious paper published in Chicago.
Horace Greeley was the first csrpet-bagger. In
1850, at the Chicago convention, be was the dele
Mrs. John Tyler is the only widow Of presi
dent upon whom Congress has not conferred
the frsnking privilege.
The proposition to confer upon Horace Greeley
the sffice Of city register Of New York, made
vacant by the death of Gen. Hslpine, meets with
general favor. t..a- --f
Prominent Kentuckians are urging the president
TO remove Gen. George H. Thomas from his com
mand in Kentucky and Tennessee. No promise
has been made in reply.
The remains of the late Very Rev. B. ]. Spauld.
ing were followed to the grave In Louisville BY
nearly 10000 persons. The ceremonies were very
impressive. r.-.I
The election Of municipal director for Yoke.
hama. Japan, on the 10th of June. resulted in the
success Of Z. S. Benson, American, over h. l..
Boyle, British.
lie Grand Lockwood, ESQ, has bought ten mar.
BILE statues Of Larkin G. Mead, at Florence to
decorate the magnificent grounds Of his new
palace at Norwslk, Connecticut.
Beverly johnson has taken with him as fpditre
d'hotel Wormley, the well known caterer. and in
tends to regale his London visitors with canvas
back ducks, terrspin and crabs. ..
The Democrats of the twelfth Ohio district have
nominated Philip Van Trump, the present iucum-
bent, for Congress, by acclsmstion. The Repub-
lcaDs nominated Nelson j. Turney, of Circleville.
Senator Doolittle telegrsphs that he sidressed
o very large and enthusiastic meeting at Mil.
waukee; that Seymour is gaining rapidly every
dsy.
that great change is going on in the ranks and
file of the Radicals and that the electoral vote of
that State will probably be cast for Seymour.
TheIRsdicsls. have made savage attack on Ssy-
mour and Blair, but it does not compare with
tler attack upon the treasury. This is the heav.
lest assault on record.
The president has accepted the resignation of
Commissioner Rollins Internationally, and the
latter has been advised by his friends to surrender
the Office.
The New York Tribune and Philadelphia Press
have both q serious attack Of the old "slave-
power" fever. 1t has visited them prior to every
election for years.
Grsnt, ct any rate, is good.natured to his poor
relations. He submits to Dent, and the other
day, at Maysville, gave rebel cousin $1,000 to
start bar with.
Mr.. Charles L. Wilson. proprietor of the Chicago
Evening Journal. was married on Monday week
at Cambridge, Massachusetts,, to Miss Caroline
Fsrrar, Of that city, daughter Of the late Isaac
Farrsr, of Bangor. Maine,
A large part of Nashville was illuminated on the
night Of the SIh, and there was an immense torch
light procession In honor of Seymour and Blair.
AT least is 900 persons we're on the square at one
time. The affair passed of without disturbance.
A Washington's dispatch states that a favorite
negro servant Of Judge Chase was held TO bail on
weighed into the judges library and treated to the
judges wines.
Happiness is the lot of man. Minister johnson
escaped the silly scylls Mrs Lincoln to be pre-.
cipitsted upon the Charybdis Colorado Jewett,
who took passage in the same steamer with him.
self.-IWorld.
Ii was the intention OF Mr. Halpine's friends 10
run him as the Democratic candidate for Con.
gress in the Ninth District next autumn, ia place
of Fernando Wood. OF his election there could
have been no reasonable doubt.
w. W. Cleary, private secretary to Jacob
Thompson while Confederate secretary of the in.
terror. arrived in Cincinnati on Sunday week from
Canada, on bis way to his old home, Cythisna,
Kentucky. This is bis first visit since the war
II is said that Edwin NJ. Stanton will take the
stump for Grant and Colfsx, but will be able TO
make but few speeches In consequence of i'll.
health. The first will probably be at Cleveland,
Ohio.
Lewis wolaey, lately appointed assessor for a
New Orleans district and confirmed by the Senate,
has not been commissioned by the president
The cause for-Tithholdng his commission has not
transpired.
Major Mcdonald, the well known chief clerk OF
U. s. Senate, unfortunately discharged q gun while
endeavoring to Brighten some little girls from his
garden. Several shot took effect in the neck and
shoulders Of one child. The matter is in the
hands Of the police.
Petitions are pouring Ia by the dozens, signed
by Radicals and 'rebes," earnestly imploring the
Legislature not to call ont the militia. They will
all be treated as those praying for universal suf.
frsge, that is, with an indifference bordering on
The last story Of domestic infelicity from Chi.
cago-Ferdinand o. Cross, as breaker of hearts,
a hero OF mock msrrsges-three Of 'em-a forger
Of certificates. hirer Of false priests, bigamist
and jail bird. Chicago turns out this style neatly
and regularly.
BOtts's present complaint is water on the chest.
For many years il has been wind in the same re.
gion; just now John Minor is the guest of DR..
Sheppard, who keeps Q wster-cure-but not a
wind cure-in Brooklyn. Bolts will stump Viz |
ginis-for Grant We are happy to ssy.-I~orld. |
The empress of Russia is at Kissingen incoqnito |
as the Countess Barodinsky, and has hired hotel
for herself 81 the rate Of rs 900 forms week.
This Is In emulation Of 9 private American, the /
late Sam. Colt, who similarly took exclusive DOS.
session Of hotel in Moscow for some weeks.
Vanderbilt had one Of the engineers of his ,pe. |
cial train removed from the Central Road, because
that functionsry did not take him fast enough bat
stopped to allow an overheated journal to become