The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-04-07


The New Jersey Legislature adjourned on the
I'd. The bill 10 submit the ratification OF the 18th
amendment TO the Constitution TO q vote OF the
people, failed to become law. .----
The committee on foreign relations Of the Sem
ate have reported against the n eaty Of January
H. with the United States for the Isthmus canal.
This is the treaty Caleb Cushing negotiated.
Miss E. ]. Keichsm, Of Philadelphia. has been
appointed TO q olerkship 10 the,treasury depart.
ment. Miss Ketcham is the frpt colored woman
appointed to clerkship In aay Of the depart
ments by the new administrator.
The New York Sun on the ist! contained long
article ceDsuring Grant for appointing Borie to
the cabinet, because he Is 10 extremely delicate
health, unable to discharge tbe duties Of the
of Grant. The Sun thinks Borie should resign at
once-that he could do so without harm, as Por-
ter lie real secretary OF the navy.
Moses GriDnell. appointed collector Of New
York, Is determined that the provisions Of the
treasury department., shall be fully complied with
in his case. He has not been connected with
mercantile firms for the past eisht years; bat
was, until Friday last, still part owner Of quite
large feet. Since his nomination, Mr.. Grinnell
has made bona ide sales and transfers Of over
thirty vessels. On Friday, the notary who has
attended to Mr.. Ginnels shipping business for
the past thirty years. waited upon him at his
Office and received his signatures TO the bills Of
sale. When the last bill was signed. Mr.. Grin
nell, rapping his hand on the table. sAid, with
smile: "And SO farewell 70 ships.'
Wilson was offered the state department, but
doubted bis ability, and said SO earnestly ami in
good faith. To give him time 70 consider OF II,
Washburne WIS put In, " th a clss. understaad-
log that he was dd interim oBy. Washburne,
it is said, could not resist the old politicians
habit OF dispensing patronage, and began filing
the Office. Whereupon, two gentlemen grew
offended. One was Grant, and the other Wilson,
who positively declined the place. And there.
upon Mr.. Hamilton Fish interve1ed.
ssr~u fc- xf,. c.
stor Fenton on charges Of receiving money for
signing bills while governor. Hugh Hastings, of
the Commercial Advertiser, offers to prove that
Fenton received $40. 900 for ngaing the Erie bill
last winter.
Washington dispatch says that correspond.
encs has been in progress for some time between
certain prominent men In the British Provinces
and leading men In this country. relative to the
prospective annexation of these provinces to the
United States Enough has been developed to
warrant the belief among some members OF Con-
gress that il the matter could be reached 10 an
official way, proposals would eventually be made
10 the United States looking toward annexa-
ton.
The Sun has information that Hamilton Fish
will soon leave the state department and be-
come minister TO England. The story comes from
Mr.. Fsh's intimate friends In New York. II Ham.
ilion Fish Is given the English mission. an entire
reconstruction Of the cabinet liz looked for By
some persons. Mr.. Motley's frietds think that be,
and not Hamilton Fish, Is going to England as mia-
lister penipotentiary.
/ had little laugh over an affair that happened
to clever gentleman here, pending the late
presidential contest. He was at a great gather
ing OF Republicans one night In Philadelphis with
his little boy, an interesting child named Seymour.
In the great crowd OF excited people the boy was
separated from bis anxious faterSal. He searched
10 vain, and at last cried out In soice of anguish
" Seym our Seymour SeymOuf!n Suddenly be
was knocked down. IN teach you to 'rah for
Seymour in this crowdp rossed his assaIsut.
10 Al -. 49, n.
parent. g Then you ought to be kicked for giving
him such mean name, !" responded the heartless
wTetcb.-[Wasb. Letter.
Gen. George Wallace Jones. formerly United
States senator from Iowa, ministry to B0gota, aud
during the early part Of the vdr an inmate of
Fort Lafayette, hiss been nominated for mayor Of
Dubuque by the Democrats.
AT the Rhode Island Democratic State Conven-
ton, held In Providence on Monday last, dele.
gate offered the following resolution, which. after
discussion, was laid on the tables: ResoLued, Thst
TO the Hon. Senator William Hprague, for the
eminent and statesmanlike position taken and
ably maintained BY him 10 his sps9ch ia the Sen.
ate, March l9tb. on the civil service bill, the
thanks Of every citizen Of our codntry are justly
due, and those Of this conventiors be and hereby
are rendered TO him.
Joseph H. Bruce, independents Democrat, was
elected mayor OF Louisville on the Sd. over Jno.
g. Baxter, regular Democratic nominee, by tri-
fling majority.
ter OF st. Louis.
The following nominations have been sent ia BY
the president: o. l.. Long, consul at Latsvia;
VIM. Stedman, consul of 81. JagG de Cuba. The
following TO be secretaries of territories: I. NJ.
wilkins, Dskotah; Ed. l.. Perkins. New Mexico
Jas. Scott, Washington; W. 8. Sciibner, Montana;
O. Bashford, Arizona Frank Hat, Colorado; Ed.
M. Lee, Wyoming s. A. Mann, Utah. The follow.
ing 10 be governors Of territories; A. p. X. SAT.
ford, Arizona; Jno. A. Campbell. Wyoming
Cbas. @. Grove. New Mexico; Jho. A. Burbank,
Dakotah; A. Flanders, Washington.
Some excitement has been csusei among the
Democrats Of Brooklyn by the passage through
the Radical Legislature of bill thch practically
abolkhes the Democratic Comm{n Council, and
hands the government of the city over to q com.
mission composed of half Radicals. Gov. Hof
man has signed this bill 10 nulifv the Democratic
majority in that city, but an effos. will be made to
induce the Democratic officials Ia that city 10 re-
sst its execution.
The Evening Post which has Seen denouncing
Grants administration daily, came out on the Sd
in extrayagant eulogy Of him.