The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-20
POLITICAL ITEMS. ETC.

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Wendell Phillips, in the Anti-slsvery Standard.
| expresses alarm at the apathy of Congress over
| the constitutional amendment about universal
suffrage. He thinks !: ought to precede questions
o: finance and other matters, aud should be set
ued at once. He urges Gen. Grant to break his
bsbllual reticence and speak in favor Of such
amendments, and says that Grants friends cannot
90 better service to the country than By urging
him to such q course.
The nomination of Carl Schurz for United States
senator in Missouri. was made in the Republican
caucus by 50 votes to 40 for Ben Loan aud Ia
scattering.
| notable petition in favor of the passage of
Jepcks' civil service bill, will be presented to
Congress. IL is signed by ex Governor Bullock,
most OF the judges In Eastern Massachusetts,, the
faculty OF Harvard College, the mayor and nearly
Six hundred of the leading citizens Of Boston.
The Republican caucus nominated Lieut Gov.
Cumback for United States senator from Indiana.
The vote stood, Cumbsck 81, Newcomb s. Frazier
| Z, scattering 10. Gen. Gresham was nominated
for agent of the State at New York by scclama-
ton.
Senator Drake has gone 10 Washington. He ia
greatly disappointed at the failure to have Loan
nominated for senator and his hostility TO Schurz
has senated him from the most influential por-
uon OF the Radical party OF Missouri. Schurz's
electlon by the Legislature is considered certain.
altDough there are rumors of a combination be-
tween the Democrats and disafected Radicals,
with view to the election of some conserva-
tive.
he Springfield Republican, in an article on
" The Maine Senatorshp," says that " Mr.. Ham.
lin succeeds by bis superiority in dealing with the
crude and coarse elements. of local politics: by
what may be summed up best perhaps, as 4" dry.
shirt demagoguesm " and also by adroitly turn.
ing TO bis account the present general unpopular.
ity IN Maine OF MIR. Fessenden. between himself
and whom there could naturally be no sympathy,
and who preferred the reelection of his present
colleague" Not very complimentary to Mr.. Ham,
In.
ference 10 woman suffrage in his message but
speaks earnestly of the great and unjust dist arity
between the wages of the male and female in.
stTuctors Of our youth, and if women are more
generally placed upon school committees a. he
advises, it is safe to assume that this injustice will
not long exist
The Democratic members Of the Maine LeVis.
lsture have nominated as their candidate for
United States senator Hon. A. Il. could, of Thorn
aston.
The message of Governor ClaAiu. of Massachu-
sets, gives the State debt at $26,5l2 $780, The
average pay of male teachers 10 the State is
s72 80; that of female teachers s27 81 There
are lis savings banks in the State, having reve-
nues and deposits to the amount of S97 40S. 800 81;
the increase in the last year was sI4 407 752 63.
The governor says the experience of the license
law has been very unsatisfactory. The increase
of drunkenness and crime during the last six
months, as compared with the same period in
1861. is very marked and decisive as to the ope.
rations OF the law. In regard 10 national affairs,
the governor declares in favor of a national con-
stiiutiOnal amendment, making suffrage impartial.
He says: Deny one man in Maryland his rights
as the suffrage or any other national matter,
ami the citizen OF Massachusetts suffers as well as
the d,franchsed in Maryland. Let it then be
made part of the constitution that suffrage on
national questions shall be the same n.every part
OF the Union; establish it in the organic law and
no change of parties can ab:idge the right; en-
b ace the present opportunity and the nation will
reap the full fruit of the victory"
eAA e.
governor of New Hampshire, was born 10 Biller-
ia, Massachusetts, Auu St &c. 1911. In early life
b. worked IS an engineer on the Chesapeake and
Ohio Central, aud afterward on various railroads.
He Is now president and general manager of the
Northern New Hampshire Railroad, Concord and
Claremont Railroad, Old Colony and Newport
Railway Company, Dorchester and Milton Rail-
road and South Shore Railroad He is also presi.
dent OF the Sullivan County Railroad. manager
and director of the ContoOc0ok Valley Railroad
and director of the Nashua and Lowell Railroad,
Mount Washington Railway, Northern and Pas
sumpsc Railroads.
The Connecticut Republican convention will be
held at New Haven, February 3. Marshall Jew
ell, brother Of the Massachusetts speaker, is the
most prominent candidate for governor. The
Democrats are said TO be slmost unit in support
ing United States Senator Dixon for the governor
sup.
Massachusetts House was a defeat Of the more
radical sdvocstes Of a stringent prohibitory law,
though many who favored such a law voted for
him. Judge Pitman, who was chosen president
OF the Senate, was the prohibition candidate.
The clergyman-Rev. B. F. Clark, of Chelmsford
who preached the election sermon before the
Legislature, took strong ground against imprac.
ucaole laws in conflict with well established prin.
ciples in political economy aud human nature
Mr.. Clark. as the Boston Advertiser says ia being
subjected to storm of criticism such as few men
in his situation have had 10 encounter
Thirteen members of the Wisconsin Legislature
signed call on the candidates for the United
States senatorship to define their political views.
Mr.. Carpenter was expected TO indicate his char
scter and political reputation. He and Mr.. WASH
burne determ ned to fight the battle squarely, pre-
Ierring that either should be elected than
either OF the other two candidates. Mr.. Wash.
burne's friends claim forty votes sure