The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-10
Special COrrespondencs of the N. o. Crescsntl
WASHINGTON, d. c., March ;, 1858

THE PACIFIC RAILWAY.
| Mr.. Judd, Of Illinois, introduced Monday into
the House Q joint resolution in relation to the
proper completion of the Pacific railroads and
their branches, which was passed without
division. 1t has leaked out through various diff.
ferent channels that the Central Pacific is what
might be called big fraud; that mile upon mile
has been laid wit5c-t any grading or any grading
to speak of, and that in some places the grades
are so heavy that part of train will be going up
bill while the rest of 1t will be coming down, and
in fact ii has been built with reference 70 only
thing, that is. cover over as many miles as pos.
sible with rails, no matter how they are laid and
without even constructing the appearance of a
road bed, simply to secure the royal subsidy 30
travagantly voted them for the construction Of
railroad and not q tow path. 1t is also m.
mored that in some way or other the managers
| of this great nstional swinde have In some mys-
FERROUS manner put money in their purse-not any
trifiDg sum, but an out and outer, regular royal
revenue, all acquired of course in the honest trans
action Of an honorable business. To be connected
| with the Pacific Railroad is sufficient nowadays
| to Indicate your standard. You are of once set
| down as an East Indiamsn, and your banking &C.
| count is supposed to be unlimited. While these
accounts of the Central Pacific have scarcely been
whispered, louder complaints have been made
against the Union Pacific, though with less cause,
it would seem. That this latter road needs the
passage OF such bill as Judd has introduced to
further the completion Of IT, to furnish an equiya
lent for the enormous subsidy which they have
received. no one can doubt, especially If the re.
ports which leak out in regard to it are correct
A joint resolution was also introduced by Raum
declaring valid certain declarations of the consti
tutional convention of Texas, Incorporating the
Inter-0ceanic Railway Company, which, on mo.
ton of Boutwell,, was laid on the table.
THE LOUISIANA MEMBERS.
The only member of the House elected at the |
last November election who has yet appeared in |
the city is the Hon. Mr.. Ryan. l believe the |
others are expected before the fourth. Mr.. Ryan |
is stopping at Wizards. The impartiality with |
which their appearance will be greeted here is al.
ready foreshadowed By the action of Mcpherson, |
clerk of the House, who has refused to place their |
names upon the roll-call for the Forty-fr Con-
gress and that they will meet with the same treat
ment at the hands of the committee to whom their
credentials will be referred, cannot be doubted.
Already one Sypher has expressed himself to the |
effect that he should contest the seat of ST. Martin
from the New Orleans District, and also that, from
the opinions he had obtained from various mem.
bers of the House, he thought there would not be
much difficulty in his retaining his seat. The ex.
preston OF an opinion in regard to the merits of
his contestng such an election is about as fair a
sample as need be shown of the remarkable i'm.
Partially and justice which shown by this domi.
nent party in regard to the fairness of any elec-
ton which is referred to q committee. They ask
but one question Is be q Democrat, or is he a
Radical, scalawag or carpet Dagger, and that de.
cides it. Mr.. Carpetbsgger is seated, and the
next thing in the programme is a patriotic loyal
howl, loDg-winded discourse upon Justice re-
trenchment, reform, swing at the id rebels,
a shouting for negro equality; and then we ad-
journ, take drink all around, and so we 90. This
is the regular routine of business" only this and
nothing more"
PARDoNs.
The president has issued psrdons for Spangler
and Arnold, charged with completely in the sssas.
sinaton Of President Lincoln and the close of the
same administration that consigned them to their
prison cells at the beginning of its term of Office
witnesses and grants at its close their release.
No better vndicatiS7 OF them is needed, and the |
sghtness of the evidence on which they we're
convicted and their co-conspirators hung, is
lucidly shown by the remarkable charge of But |
ler's, in his attack upon Bingham, whom he called
the murderer of an innocent woman" When |
rogues fall out the truth appears. Victims were
den snded by these blatant heroes and patriots who
for four years had fought the battles of their
and terrible battles-in the halls |
of CODgress-in the execution of shoddy con- |
tracts-in frauds upon the government-in whole
sale plundering OF the treasury-and the result |
was that farce Of a trial, that bloody tragedy, |
resulting, as Butler says, in the murder Of ar emo.
cent woman, the execution OF others, and the |
consignment 10 dungeons of those other unfor- |
Inmates who were made the scspegoats of these
orstorical and honorable loyslsts.
GRANTS HEADQUARTERS.
All of the faithful-faithful ofice.seekers- |
have watched with anxious eyes that old sombre. |
mddle-aged brick building. donomi.
mated as army headquarters, while few of the
more eager, more blatant ones have dared to
charge on it. Rumor hath it that they came
away with q flea in their ear. In other words
hat they were grossly shubbed-that their en-
reaties for bread and butter were contemptu-
,usly ignored, and curses loud and deep were
aunched at this renegade from party, as they Bit
erly denounced him who had dared TO slight {
heir claims-they who for the last six months had
wandered like vagabonds up and down the coun.
ny shouting patriotism, oyalism, and all the other
SINS OF the age; they who had rected in such !
rsgic style heartrending scenes in Southern life,
murder Of Southern loyalists, wholesale butchery
If defenseless negroes who had cursed the re.
'els till their throats were hosrss, and with the
orch in their hand, murder in their heart,
md the most bitter invectve and living | ]
nsredicGons In their mouth had cried .fet us |
ave peace" He, Grant, after all these super.
uman exertions-after all these innumerable
les and inventions of theirs which barely succeed
d in electiDg him-hsd given him them the cold
boulder. Was there ever such base ingratitude! 0
Vas there ever such an example of back. sliding
heir very existence depended upon their getting
finger in the pie-a suck at the bottle-a grab p
{ the treasury-snd now their man has gone p
ack on them. They couldn't see it. He had q
aid "Let US have peace" and their idea of that "
emarkable sentence was that they were to have "
in nunderin or hava q r;aca If ,lrr5o. | Ct