The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-06
Washington Correspondence.
Appointments--Gen. Grant at the capitol-Fins
Observation-Disclosures for Inaugural
tion, etc.
spsell Correspondence o. the N. o. Crsseent.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., March l, 1869.

| WARRINGTON, ID. u, March l, 1869.
| APPOINTMENTS.
| Matters appear little more tangible this morn
| Jog, and what has been mere matter of conjee.
ture has now become reliable, SO far as concerns
some of the appointments which will be made by
| the incoming administration. For marshal of the
District of Columbia ii is suthOrtatively announced
that Col. Webster. of Gen. Grants staff. will be
duly installed into said position Immediately after
| the Inauguration, Col. Webster served on Grants
staff as a volunteer qusrtermaster, and afterwards
| was appointed second lieutenant 10 the fifth
United States cavalry with detail at headquarters.
| He will succeed Gen. Gocding as marshal of the
District, and if the reports correct be will be-
come the possessor of an office. which, with It's
| salary, fees and perquisites, make a sugar plum
not to be sneeZed at. 1t was also stated last
evening, among the knowing ones, that "Gen."
J. d. Defreese, superintendent of the government
printing, was about to resign for the purpose of
accepting some better position. aud that W. J.
Murtsgh. editor and proprietor of the National
Republican, q picayune sheet Published here,
would be appointed government printer in his
place. If Murjagh shall prove as intensely enter
prising, lol and patriotic in this position his
patriotic confTeres in the government pluudering
business. be will be able, without doubt, to take
bis otium Dig. upon his retirement, nor fur
Their trouble his brains with appeals TO the Masses
filed with loyalty, patriotism, negro equality,
rebel heresy, women's rights and all the other isms
Of hls faDsiicsl party.
GENERAL GRANT AT THE CAPITOL.
The majestic lion, the monarch Of the forests,
the king of beasts, ever produces sensation when
he eppears upon the stage. ALI his subjects greet
him royalty. The striped byeus holds his jaw aud
sneaks away in a contemplate sort of a manner.
The bowling wolf makes himself scarce in an ex.
ceeoingly shors space of time, and the suarling
puppy curls bis tail and pays bis devoirs VITA dog
gish deeorum. All this prelude was forced upon
the mind of your imaginative correspondent by
the appearance CT Gen. Grant on the floor OF the
House yesterday afternoon. He passed from the
hail Immediately into the members cloak room
and there held interview with Bingham, Boutwell,
and Grswold, in reference TO the affairs of Virgil
mia, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia. 1t is stated
that he opposed the proposition to unseat tue
Georgia congressional delegation, aud endeavored
to dissUade Gov. Boutwell, IRON Offering mis- resou.
ion 10 that effect. Whether be succeeded or not
Is matter OF little moment to the Southern Confed
erscy, for whom the Gods wish to destroy they
first make msd," and if these raying lunatics, by
their persistency in forcing upon The South all the
isms Of puritanicsI pulpit as politically put
forth by Hetry Ward Beecher, Wendell Philips
et "a onlHe genus, do not destroy themselves and
their party, it will be because they are not given
rope enough. We therefore heartily pray that
they may have full SWING, even if they swing
from the end Of rope, aud the result will be that
after constructing and demonstrating the South
again and again they will have placed the affairs
of the Scu.h in snch condition and have 30 DISCUS.
ted the public at large that we shall rio ourselves
Of these political excTescenses which nov adorn
our congressional balls, and common sense, iudg.
ment and The wisdom Of craftsmanship shal, again
be csel into requisitioa aad cut thi,
gordisn knot which these eg0tistical idiots
have been sIarling about for the last
four years. We thGll hear no longer the prating
OF the bypocriticsl Bingham, az he stretches his
hands 10 Heaven, and with eyes upiurned IN irue
Sol htmoric STYLE delivers himself "of the gath
cred wisdom of hundred years" The long.
haired Ashley will no longer bore US with his im.
peachment hobby, and the female lobbyists Will
for the future be deprived of the goose and his
golden egg. The bully Batter must gather % his
toga. his silver spoons, asd his congressional
tpoils, speak his little piece and depart. We hsve
-
the actors are played and the quicker the curtain
ia dropped and the footlights exiaguisaed, the
better for the audience. We had four years of
war; then four years of patriotic prsting and plum
deripg. and now if the signs OF the times fore
tell anything, it foretells the downfall of
this great Radical ring, and this LOYAL
lobby who have so periodically pundered US.
"Let us have peace" IL about to be realized, at
7 "a L .cf III
parasites, and it is confidently predicted that be
will. The Senate already doubt their ability to
cope with him, as shown by their action in regard
to the tenure-of-ofice BILL and the House is as
servile as they we're formerly to the domineering
spirit OF Thad. Stevens. IT, with the support of
the whole nation in the policy which he predics-
Ted in his only speech, viz: retrenchment and re.
formation of ell abuses, he shall fail then, indeed
it will be his own fault, the fault of the Senate
which shall seek to tie his hands, and they viii be
held to q strict accountability for the same.
FINE FEATHERS.
Do fire feathers make fine birds If So. then
Washington is filed with them. From morning |
iii night the avenues are lined with the pretty
desrs decked out in all the gorgeous cOors of the
rain bow, and by discrimius fing discerner they
can al be assigned to their respective residences
tive beauties, and the farest flowers OF Baltimore
all have their respective styles; while from !
Chicago, ST. Lcuis, Cincinnati and all the Western |
cities feminine deier al0n is present which would |
not dscredt az Eastern harem. Amidst all this
army Of style and beauty WashingJon's fair ducks
appear 10 no disadV vantage, and any tLstidOus Cd
bachelor who should faIl 10 do homage to their
charms, and should hesitate for = nome. in throw
ing himself al their feet. willing slave 70 Their
winning Ways, prepared at once TO thrust hlshead |
into that matrimonial moose which here appears
in so fascinating form, il indeed Gallons, past al
ceiling, and should be turned cut at once ueon th,
cold uercles of the world, without even a cham |
hermaid 10 dust his room, nor cook to cut his
hash. Hesitate not, ya gay and gallant bache-
lors, seize your prize and bear it of mau-
fully. Who knows but in less than five years your
better half may be in reality wearing the panta.
looms, la Doctor Walker, and here in oar con.
gressiUnaI halls may b. dealing out legislative
enactments and CupId's arrows, all approved and
official. signed Mrs. Csdy Stanton, Mes Anna
or some Other MISSIONER, PRESIDENT !
Tbs not half so improbable a supp0sItion as thar
FIVE years ago, we should have to day some
big buck Niger ss the president of oar
Senate and herd of Congo woody heads snd Yam
kee scslswags, rigaling Bsrnum's Museum. with |