The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-19
roLITIcAL rrEMs, ETC.

Of the case and reciting the various considerations
moving the executive to grant the same, which
are chiefly that there now appears to be some
doubt as to the completely of said Mud in the
conspiracy, be only rendering aid By attending TO
the wounds Of the chief conspirstor that The
medical profession of Hartford county, Nd, have
satisfactorily shown that IL was the professional
duty of said Mudd, as physicsn, 10 attend Booth
tentive to the sick at the Dry Tortugas during the
prevalence Of the yellow fever at that post last
SUMNER saving the lives of many officers and SOL
diers beside that of Mrs. Smith, the wife OF Sur
geon Joseph Smith. United States army, who him
self died of the fever. IL further recites that his
pardon has been recommended by thrty-oine
senators and members of the House OF Repre-
eentatives, by over three hundred of the officers
and soldiers of the Dry Tortugss. and others.
Mr.. Emmett was q little premature in his views,
but great men are always ahead of the masses.
This settles the point as to who first nominated
Gen. Grant, and If he heeds our suggestions, Is
be should do to insure the success Of his admins
tration. Mr.. Emmett will receive the New York
collectorship at least against Mr.. Dana, Mr.. Fred
Conkling or Mr.. Marshall o. Roberts, Herald.
Short weights have spread from trade into poll
tics. Here Is Pratt, senator from Indiana. chosen
to that dignity on the express and, so far as con-
lecture can go, on the exclusive ground that ne
weighed 400 pounds avoirdupois. Now he has
been Put upon q standard scale, and turns out TO
weigh but go. When q senator of the United
States elected for 400 pounds falls short l30 cheat
ing has really come TO pretty pass. We shall
have to send The World commissioner to Wash
ington to weigh few random Radicals and report
the result.-tN. Y. World.
Mr.. Colfax il the first man at Washington who
has had the courage and good sense to stand mp
squsrely before Gen. Butler, without being brow.
beaten, siienced by mere brutal clamor or Sc
duced into competition with the blusterer on his
own ground. The result Is what ia usually seen
in such cases. As soon as the firm word was
spoken which showed that Mr.. Colfax was neither
~ ffo1 ruifh fha al
of the fifth district dropped as If he had been hem
strung.-I Boston Advertiser, Rep.
The N. Y. Times ssrcastically remarks "T The
clearness and accuracy with which the president
of the Senate ruled the points OF order raised BY
Gen. Butler, on Wednesday, must have inspireu In
the mind Of that belligerent statesman fresh re-
grets at the failure of his favorite project Of i'm
peaehment. Its success would have made Mr..
Wade president Of the United States pro tenn,
and The whole country would, in that case, have
had the benefit of the brilliant intelligence and
peremptory energy which are now conhned
within narrower limits"
A. c. Hubble, native Of Arkansas, and stu
dent in the College of Arts of Kentucky Univer-
sity, died in Lexington last Wednesday. Though
very poor and cripple from white.swelling, he
determined to struggle on till he completed his
education. Starting from his distant home with
nothing to depend on but two bales Of cotton, he
and his brother worked their way to Lexington.
He laborec and studied By turns TO exc out a liv.
ing and en- education. He progressed finely in
college. but his leg becoming still more painfully
diseased he came 10 Cincinnati TWO weeks ago and
suffered it to be amputated.
All that told you Of the hunger among the
people for Office il being verified. Washington Is
being filled up 20 overlooking, and the mails come
in groaning with applications. / hear the same
story from all quarters. % can not get time 70
myself TO eat my meals, - said distinguished mem.
Der TO me, the other day; a" am disturbed il my
sleep. These people crowd about my rooms. fol.
low me to the house, run me into the closet.
never saw anything like it. not only as to number,
bat to pertinscify. / can not explain-l can not
say mo- to any purpose. The business makes
life a burden."-[W Washington Letter.
There seems TO be quite a disturbance in the
navy itself over this proposition TO make sec
rotary out of a naval officer. There seems TO be
the usual amount Of Jealousy and heart burning In
that department incident to all organizations
made up by pure humanity. And Porter, the one
generally spoken Of as the one likely to be select
ed, is more unpopular than any other. Quite q
number Of distinguished naval gentlemen curse
and swear a. the idea OF putting old Boress, as
tLoy are pleased 10 call him, 10 o position 10 pun
ish his enemies and reward his friends. They say
they would much prefer civilian, for then they
would at least, get impartial JUSTICE Washing
ton Letter.
The recent telegraphic announcement from
Washington that Senator Yates had again made
his appearance in q costume resembling that OF
the Georgia major. Whose favorite parade dress
consisted of q shirt collar and o pair Of spurs,
has not yet been contradcted by the senator 8
fiiends. On this occasion the Illinois Dem0sthenes
is said 20 have added a revolver to his otherwise
rather limited Announcements. But even that ad-
diton must have been an improvement in relation
to the moral effect of the spectacle.
The following conversation is reported between
two irreyerent little boys in the streets of Port
land, Me-. Johnny, do you see that game,
looking cid cock going along there" g You
bet--Who is he?" That's Pitt Fessenden ~
"Who is he Pr "He's the man that kept 'eni
from hanging the president. Ben Butler and bis
fellers were going to string Andy johnson right
up in the Capitol, when Fessenden pulled out .
big butcher knife and swore they shouldn't do Il
unless they walked through him. So they
quit ~
Speaking of the scene in Congress at the vote
counting Mack" says: 1t looked for all the
world like crowd of sporting men quarreline
over an umpire's decision al horse race, Oh per
hsps more like crowd Of roughs in dis
putstion over foul " at q prize fight. / will
not Ensemble the fondly cherished hope that ono
Of the many clencbed fists raised in denuncistiof
of Butler on the one side, and Wade on the other
would be put to better purpose than assanlting
the innocent air, or blscking the eye OF unot1end
ing space. Such demonstrations. however, mus
have leadership, or the end in noise only. Butler
played leader till he reached that point where
buster must end and blows begin, and then he
turned back, and retreated faster than he had ad-
vsnced.
II is argued by some that that part of General
Grants remarks relative to the removal and APP
pointment of officers will probably determine the
Senate in the disposition Of the bill to repeal pr
modify the tenure-of-ofice act. The Senate has
had q taste Of power under that law never hers
tofore enjoyed by that body. which it will be losh
to surrender and 1t Is not now believed that the
Senate will agree to repeal of the act and pos
sibly not even to a modification of it, until General
Grant discovers bis mode OF getting rid of and ap-
pointing officials.-I Washington Letter.
The Worcester spy. published oy Radical
congressman, thinks "General Butler has an une-
qualed capacity for making himself offensive TO
the people who have any regard for the decencies
and proprieties Of life !" and pronounces the cere
mony of counting the presidential votes "a con-
fused and disreputable brawl."
Even the New York Tribune has discovered
that the tendency Of capital TO investments in
government bonds, and the disposition Of capital
lists to engage in insurance and other non-prodnc-
tive occupations in preference to manufacturing
and other ordinary business enterprises, operates
TO the prejudice OF legitimate industry. The
high rate of interest realized by investors in
government bonds, is not only an oppressive tar
upon labor, but prevents capitalists from under.