The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-25
POLITICAL ITEMS. ETC.


Gazette says: I" 1t is evidently the fixed deter.
minstion Of the dominant party in Congress u
wipe out the Congressional Globe, and to turp
over to the public printer the publication Of the
daily proceedings OF our great national Sanhedrin.
IL has been shown by figures land ii is said that
figures won't lie) that the government will save
by this change in the mode Of printing congres.
slonal proceedings at least one hundred aud afty
Of the first year. during which the army Of jobbers
may be organizing for their assault on this branch
OF the public service but, after the first year
what field for public plunder' win be offered id
the mammoth printing department :"
late Washington letter TO the Baltimore Gal
zette says:
Undoubtedly leading Radicals have become
decidedly more cheerful within a day or two
past. stated the other day that the ''slaten had
been divulged to some of them. II Is now confiI
IDENTITY stated that the makeup receives the spproy
baton of such differently classified men os Sumner
and Stanton on the one, hand, and Bingham and
1rnmbull on the other. Indeed, IL is predicted
with more than usual audacity, that at least two
OF these worthless will themselves occupy con-
spicuous positions, although heretofore regarded
as sntipodes to each other in the classification of
wings" Speakiny of the names "now freely
bruited about by Radical psrtsans of persons
who are to compose the eabinet,n the Intelligen-;
Ger Of this morning significantly remarks:
There are blood-stains of cruelty upon the
SKIRTS OF one named for most exalted place and
OF another little can be said other than that he 10
nothing outside of narrow and malignant pro-
scriptiyeDess."
Itis understood that President johnson viii take!
no part In the ceremonies of the Inauguration and
will vacate the White House at once. and leave
town as soon as possible for his home in Tennes-
see. He will doubtless be the conservative caudi-
date for governor of that State. In the meantime
be will probably visit Europe.
Let Others hail the rising SUM-
The other leg of the couplet is not applicable:
Tor MI. johnson will yet give his present tormen-
tors trouble enough. Take II all 10 ALL the retr-
ing president has Gin his high ofice,n done "as
wei wen as could be expected With the counsel
wonders; and will yet do morel Seward lied to
him TO the last. Il will seem scarcely creditabIe
10 some, but 1t Is nevertheless fact, that not
week before the latter went over, body and soul,
to the Radical candidate, Mr.. johnson assured the
willer of this that not q member of his cabinet,
to bis knowledge, entertained the remotest idea Of
supporting Gen. Grants pretensions.
Washington specials of the 10th say the piesi-
Gent has become indignant at the contemptuous
manner with which the Senate treats his recon-
mendations for Office, and threatens to refuse to
sign any more bills. he sent four TO Congress to-
day which bad become laws without his sig nature
After to-day the constitutional ten days In which
be has to sign bills expires, and every bill which
he does not sign fails 10 become law. There il
likely to be good deal of the time of the 4Ist
congress taken up in repassing the bills of this
session.
A coIored man. J. 8. Richardson, of this CITY.
has addressed a note to Mayor Bowen chairman
OF the committee on the sale of tickets for the in
auguration ball, stating that number of bis COL
cred friends from Philadelphia and New York
would be here on the 4th of March, and asks
whether any distinction on account of color Is to
be made in the sale of tickets. Mayor Bowen this
morning wrote him saying: " That any person of
respectable character and standing in this oommu-
nifty who applies and pays for ticket to tie inau-
guraton ball, to be held in the north wing of the
treasury department. will not be denied, at least
so far as my action is concerned. The question of
color never having been raised in the committee
csDnot, OF course, decide for them."
The Washington correspondent Of the BaIti-
more Gazette says II Is broadly admitted that
the party in Congress is an incongruous OBJ ut
terly powerless of good. Mr.. Fessenden yester-
day distinctly declared that the Republican
Jory in the Senate. could do nothing at ALL"
And this was said in reference to the mudlle res.
pecting the constitutional amendment!
But If the Radicals as party are at irreconcila-
BILE loegerheads, distinguished individual senators
have lost none of their effrCntery. Senator Sher.
man, who 1t is now supposed viii be the new sec
retary of the treasury. and who s a burning and
shining light in the crooked path of tergiversa-
ton, recently said that when it is recol-
lec,ed that this gentleman engineered this
very law through Congress, and afterwards
voted for the condemnation of President
Johnson upon articles of impeachment for a
violation OF their provisions, admitted to be ex-
lremely doubtful, this piece of self-stulti6cation
would DC refreshing II in any manner uncommon
with Senator Sherman. 1hsve known him solemn
ly to declare that nothing could ever induce him
10 deprive any one, rebel loyal" of the right
Of Suffrage while according 1t universally TO the
negro population of the South, and have known
Ibis same man in less than twenty.four hours
afterwards unblushiugly to vote for and defend a
bill prescribing this very enormity.
Beyond the passage Of the fifteenth amendment
giving negroes the right to vote and hold office
throughout the Republic'), the bill granting
Mrs. Lincoln q penRiOn of 45000 N annunn FOR
life; the bill to compel the commingng OF white
md negro children in the public schools here; the
Dill little further tightening the screws upon the
states Of Georgia, Arkansas and Louisiana; bills Z
urther recoDstructing Virginia, Mississippi and /.
Texas few private jobs with money in them,U :
Ind the annual appropriation bills" there will
be no more measures Of great public importance
got through Congress this session.