The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-16
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL ITEMS.

Hon. d r. Morrill, has seen renominsted fol-
Congress by the Republicans in Pennsy vanls.
The Democrats of the fifth district Of Kentucky
have nominated Boyd Winchester.
The New York Berald's latest presoenus
ticket is Grant and Blair.
The Democrats have about 1000 majority il
| Montana. =,
next cabinet. Il will in reality be harder to pu
him 10 than it was TO put him out.
Ii is said that the meaning OF the mystical let
tiers 81 g. A. R." has been discovered. They stand
for Grant and Rom.
Ouilp thinks the November election will be
considered Flsy.Grsnt % observation-disclosures
Post.
Mr.. Queen. the stake. holder, has declared the
NcCoole -Coburn fight a draw, and handed the
latter, who was present, his half Of the stakes.
Murat Hslstesd of the Cincinnati Commercial
is talked of there as a Republican candidate fol
Congress. If be can afford TO go TO Washington
| be will make an excellent NJ. G.
One Of the comic papers represents salmon Z.
| Chase on little island in the Mississippi river,
| looking after two steamboats, named 4" Democ-
! rscy A" and RepublicsDism" which have left
| him behind, and are steaming out of sight.
| The gallant General Buell., who saved Grant and
| his shattered army from an inglOriOus defeat and
utter destruction at Shiloh, or Pittsbnrg Landing,
avows his support of Seymour and Blair. 80 says
| the Maine Standard.
In Memphis. On the llth, the grand jury fonnd
a true bill against Hon. T. A. Hamilton, State
senator, for perjury in having taken the test
oath. He was an officer of the Confederate
| Sstes.
! Danes Life of Grant contains a chapter ent-
! tied, General Grant as a sJesman." Prentice
says: Not more absurd would be, in pisca-
| tory work, chapter entitled The Sardine as
| Whale"
The Democratic Congressional Convention, for
the FIRST district of chigsn, nominated Hon. NJ
! J. Mills, ex mayor If Detroit. In the fourth dis
! IT CT, the Demo- rats nominated Lyman G. Mason,
| OF NuskegOn.
~ a ID. nnbi;oor Ctota o,rvant;on 90 To,no..oo
nominated d. W. c. Senter aud aarace IL. Harri.
son candidates for presidential electors for the
State at large Jno. B. Rogers candidate for Con.
gTes for the State at large, long term, and T. A.
Hamilton for the short term.
Rev. Isaac :. Kalloch, late Of Massachusetts,
but more recently editor of the Ottawa (Kansas)
Journal ANNOUNCES himself as an aspirsnt for
Congress, a. the successor of Hon. Sidney Clarke
whom he wishes to ste defeated. Both are Radi.
Gals.
Henry A. Fowle, chronicler of small beer in
magazines, and author of historical novels Of the
Jacob Abbott sort, is a regular contributor 10
All The Year Round, by special invitation Of Dick
ems. All beerists 30 to the dickens, sooner or
later.
" Hans Patrick LeConnor,v the nom de plume
of arep-rter for the Z. Louis Times Democratic
was recently mObbed and badly beaten by the
Radicals at Springfield, Illinois. Fie. gentlemen
you ought to be moderate" LET US have
peace"
The late John Wilson has produced ia Boston
typography ever issued from the press. He was
the author OF a work on punctuation, and Of sew
eTal on other subjects, and was an honor to the
craft. Harvard conferred on him the degree of
b. A., in recogn milton of bis sklll-as printers
Someb dy who saw Gen. Grant at st. Louis
experimenting the loading Of couple Of wagons
with trunks TO go out into the country, where his
family were 10 spend the summer reports him as
saying: have moved an army, aud have
moved family, and Of the two it is easier to
move the army"
Very philosophical is the Irish Republic when 1t
says: I" lrishmen in American politics must work
from the American standpoint, and that il is their
citizenship that entities them to vote and shout
and not the fact of their being born in Ireand.v
That one sentence gives in nutshell the whole
theory OF adopted citizenship, and is worth ten
times as much as an ordinary convention plank.
Radical exchange accuses the Democratic
party Of insutiDg the Germans whenever Grants
alleged addiction to stimuants is mentioned.
Such straWs show the animus of the party and the
real Wsy The Radical wind blows, as our Radical
friend Of course implies an affinity between q
German and drunkard.
1he f26 the following vas sd0netns9 BeSofsSd
That IN reducing the wages of government en-
ployes, Gen. Schofeld, secretary of war, has NOT
proved himself ereDd TO workingmen: and
thdt II economy IS TO be the order of the day
it should commence with the generals, aud not
the pIivates.
Wsu-De.pe ("Pretty Bird ~ daughter
of /" Dandy" the mead chief Of the Winnebagoes
ueO on me 4th instant OF Injuries sustained ia the
rescue of her child, at the La Crosse depot in
Wisconsin. Her injuries rendered amputation ne
cessary, but as she would not submit to the one.
ration her lite could not be saved. Four DAYS of
mourning ceremonies were held by the Winneba-
goes over the remains.
The Rev. Joseph G. Lovejoy, a well known
Democratic orator assaulted George Fisher editor
OF the Cambridge Chronicle, near Boston, on the |
10th, IL consequence of his failing to extOrt an |
immediate apology from the editor for some sar.
castle comments on one Of Lovejoy's speeches. |
But three or four blows were struck, as Fisher
made no resistance and retreated as soon as
possible.
Greeley comforts himself by saving the Senate |
viii keep the President in order which admits |
that Seymours election is assured Having been |
forced TO admit this unwelcome certanty H. g. |
casts about for nugatory means. Be it remem- |
beTed, that when Seymour goes in, he goes i'm IA |
the incarnation Of the peoples will and any |
SeDate-though stuffed with carpet baggers as a
tenth rate sausage is with dOg-that dares TO dis
regard hat will, bad better call on the rocks to
hide it, World.
The Louisville Courier has returns from ninety.
nine counties 10 Kentucky leaving only thirteen |
small mountain countless which last year polled
only 5000 votes, about equally divided between
the two parties, TO be beard from. The figures
show gain Of % 763 Democratic votes over Ia.t
year, and q decrease in the Republican vote of
$500. StevensOn's majority thus far is SO 1877 !
and it will probably exceed 80 900, but will not
vary 100 from that amount. Bakers vote in the
state will be about 20 600 and SteVensons about
ll4OOO.
Ada Webb, the youngest OF the well.knoyn
Webb sisters, has retired from the stage, and
will be married early in September, in Brook.
lyn, 10 Mr.. Skes, young gentleman of the
Pacific slope, who il possessed of cOnsidera Die
means, and who is said TO have the healthy in.
come Of 5000 q month from an enterprise in
Virginia City. The fair Ada intends accom-.
anying her husband TO the golden shores Of Cal.
lorna.
The body of Gen. Hspine was laid out in mill.
tary uniform. The coffin was of rosewood thickly
studded with silver screws, and at the sides were
Xix heavily plated handles. The upper half of
the casket was of glass. Below the inscription
there was dreped an American flag, and near Il an
othceTs shake and sword. The remainder of the
space was occupied by wresths and crosses of
immOrteles. On stand at the head of the cofin
vas harp of immOrtees, with the words " Ire
lands loss y ingeniOusy worked 10.
package directed TO Mrs Lucretia B. Cushing
Lewiston, Maine, from Fort O. F. smith. MOntant
Territory, reached the st. Louis pOstofice lately |
IL contains the scalp of " Bear-that- grabs - a !
Sioux Indian chief, who was killed recently 10
skrmish with some soldiers near that post and is
sent TO Mrs Gushing by some relative in the army
BIS present Fifteen cents postage is due on the !
scalp, and 1t is detained by the postmaster there