The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-29

The Commercial Advertiser continues % in
| weigh against political corruption at Adams and
washington, and the apparent insensibility OF the
| pubic 10 II. ii having been suggested that the
| United States Senate should investigate the fraye
charges against Fenton before permitting him to
take bis seat. the editor says
| The Senate will DO nothing of the kind, for the
simple reason that there Is no longer any poliscal
| morality, and public virtue is so demorslzed that
the greatest rascal is recognized in financial and
political circles as the smart fellow and the
| statesman, as In the cases OF Fisk and FentopS
| The will of James NJ. Brewer of Troy, lately
| deceased, has been submitted for probate. His
| property smounts TO about $1,000. he divides II
equally between bis wife and two children. 1t is
oaieo June, 1865, IL very brief, and contains the
Following provision, which is said to be perfecilv
CHARACTERISTIC of the man: AZ wish the guardians
Of ny children TO see that they are brought uD in
the Protestant Episcopal Church. or in other words
me ChuTch OF England, and wish them TO be
tinntm." ""o"
1t is reported that friends of Governor Fepton
are soon TO publish In the Tribune, over affidayts
q complete expose Of Hugh Hastings political
life at Albany. They promise startling reyela-
IONS, ard declare they will silence his abuse Of
Fenton forever.
A Washington paper says that some of the con-
sentative Virginans here waited upon General
Butler with reference to affairs in their State and
that the general avoided the direct ouestions and
ADVISED them TO cut up their large landed estates.
ana Divide them among the poor whites and
D.scss. as tne pest way TO surely and perfectly
The New York Tribune exceeds the fac.s a
nuIdred weight or so when it says OF Senator
Pratt, of Indiana "He is about forty YEAR Of
age and weighs about four hundred pounds and
VIII no doubt prove to be the most weighty menu
Der of The Senate since the days of Dixon n.
Lewis, Alabama's great senator"
Inc Columbus Journal pays the following com
pliment TO the new Indiana senator: Garrett pa
Wis has voice ike three weeks fan rain amt
Pratt can wash him high end dry with one squirt"
The same reckless sheet says: 1.-The truth ia the
pulsaions of Walt Whitmans rhythm are nlore
IKE The ebb and flow of the tides than ike the
Placid even, steady beating CT tie ordinary poet.
zeal aftery" Perhaps the lunar force that cDn.
trolls the tides aforesaid. also stirs Waits rythr,
makes him yawp, IN fact.
hon; Matt. II. Carpenter was, on the 26th.
elected United States senator from Wisconsin.
j. FL. Stockton was elected United States sena
ter on the 18th from New York.
The New York Sun has correspondent Win
claims positively that this will be Grants cabinet
treasury, s. @. Boutwell,; secretary of war. John
A. hawins; secretary of navy, John A. Grisyold:
secretary of the interior. J. A. j. CreswIl: most
master general, j. r. Hawley attorney general.
John z. Wilson. e~'
deputation of Quakers was before the Senate
indian committee on the 18th, urging the sdoption
OF peaceful measures to the Indians. Thev are
decidedly against the movement to transfer Inc
bureau TO the war department, where the Indian
MIL MIL ss snosSssd to WHIT pFsatE Fen sSes, a ~
other military officers are dealing with the Indians
A dispatch dated at Hartford, Conn., saws the
State conventions will soon be held, and the can
didates for governor will be the same as last year
Messrs English and Jewett. There is some talk
Of the Democrats nominating Senator Dixon for
in Congress from the first district.
n case this is done, the Republicans will en1eayor
o get Ten. Hawiey to run against him.