The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-31
WARRINGTON eOssIP.

Washington dispatches of the 9th to the St
Louis Republican say:
THE PRESSURE TO coNFlRM LoNGsrRKEr
I so sire ng that his chances are considered better
Southern Radicals say that if he is rejected theil
occupation is gone.
REDUCTION OF PUBLIC DEBT.
II is believed that the public debt statement for
the first proximo will show reduction of about
81 900, 600.
PENSIONS PAID-cusroM RECEIPTS.
The March pensions paid amount to SIS 900, 900,
and the custom receipts, will, it is believed, cover
an amount exceeding $40. 900 600 for this month.
FIFTY CLERKS.
Were discharged to-day from the treasury whose
places will not be filed. In the printing bureau
Of the treasury department about 20 females and
some is male employees have been notified that
their services will be dispensed with after the first
OF next week.
sEyEsTY-FIvs FEMALES
Employed in the folding room az the government
printing Office were discharged to-day. An add
tional number have been employed for some time
upon the agricultural report In pasting on the
illustrations-s new feature. This work being
completed necessitates tbs present discharge,
which, however. only reduces the force to the
regular number.
EMPTY HoNoRs FROM THE PRESIDENT DECLINED.
Hon. W. 8. Rankin, Of CovIngton. KY. was
lately made the recipient of empty. honor from
the president, which he promptly declined. His
friends urged him for assessor Of the sixth dis
trict. The president said he had promised the
place to Mr.. Tyson, but Rankin could have Is
for two or three months as q vindcstion of him.
self, he having been elected by johnson. Mr.
Rankin has declined the honor.
FISCAL AGENCY OF THE CRY OF NEW Or.
LzASs.-We direct the especial attention OF inter.
ested parties to an important announcement which
is made By the Southern Bank through our col.
umns this morning.
1t will be remembered that when the finances of
our city were materially crcumscribed and public
confidence in her ability to liquidate her obligs.
tons was being sorely shaken, this honored insti.
tuition, actuated by noble motives In behalf of our
community, and DESTROYS of Sustaining the past
high reputation of our metropolis, came magnsni-
mousy forward and lextended the hand of sssis-
lance.
In her present capacity, as the abeve will indi-
cate, she notifies the community that all past due
coupons Of the bonds Of the city indorsed by the
New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Rail-
road Company and by the New Orleans, Opelou.
sss and Great Western Railroad Company, Will be
cancelled on the first of May on presentation ct
their counter.
Already number Of these obligations have been
taken up, and holders of the remainder may be as
sured that the promptitude which characterized
the payments Of the past win not be found want.
ing in the future.
This commendsble action on the part of the
bank bears with il its own record, and the bene-
fetal results arising from II pecuniarily will be felt
and appreciated. Our city will now soon be re.
leased from her embarrsssments, and commerce,
inspired By the change win lift her pinions high
above the ominous cloud which now boyen over
our prosperity.