The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-24
POLITICAL ITEMS. ETC.

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| A Washington dispatch of the 18th says Gen.
| John A. Rawlins, chief of staff to Gen. Grant
arrived here with his family, tonight from Dam
| bury Conn.,, where they have been spending some
| weeks. Rawlins is 10 improved health. and Will
be the guest of Gen. Grant till after the Inaugural
don. Everybody regards him as one OF the sound
| est advisers of the next president.
New York dispatch says: The Republican
factions in this city increase in bitterness. The
| Times warmly assais the Senate-and Senator
| Morgan in particular-for opposing the repeal OF
the teDure.ofofhce law. and the Evening Post de-
nounces the Tribune insincere 10 its expressions
of az proyal Of Gen. Grants speech.
Standing apart from the breakers, in the quiet
waters Of the Democratic side of the hall, was
Fernando Wood; calm, imperturbable as Pa
tienee on a monument smiling at grief" His
cOuntensnce, however, was no more 20 be pene-
trated than an iron mask. Tall, slender, sinewy-
such was the grace of his movements that one
could not help wondering whether the vertebre
really extended his whole length. Like an extinct
volcano among the warning elements be stood, his
white mustache GROWING his upper lip as belt
of snow crowns the mountain peak, while his
whole presence seemed 20 suggest the words:
Bury me quick, boys, so that immortality may
speed upward, mounted upon the back OF this
ecstaiic joy."-[WsshiDgto Letter.
James I. Bsbcock has been nominated for
Congress from the second district of Connecticut,
by the Democrats.
Tie New York Sun gives dramatic recital of
the origin of the citizens movement to clean out
the bands of scoundrels that have been preying
upon them almost with impunity. The Sun tells
that "early in this month party of gentlemen
were seated about q handicapped table in the
parlor of fashionable club house on the Fifth
avenue. Sofa-bottomed chairs, plOsh settles aud
a thick velvet carpet were bathed 10 the mellow
glow of softly shaded gasghts. Heavy lace cur
taiDs dropped from gilt window cornices, and an
elegant sideboard stOodin one corner of the room.
Walters in full dress answered the faintest finkle
OF silver hand bells. The conversation of the
~ Wac led on in a
were sober. even sad. II was evident that the
topic under discussion was OF extraordinary in
terest The evening Heightened. The room be-
came blue with the fragrant smoke OF dozen
choice cigars. And still no smiles swept over the
sober faces at the table. The tiny hands
OF the clock crept to the hour of mid
night, but the murmuring conversation
still continued. Gestures we're frequent
and occasionally an energetic sentence was
spoken in q sharp, business-like manner. The
walters threaded the group noiselessly, aud dis
appeared as soon as their orders we're filed. DC.
casionally diamond flashed from the bosom OF an
excited speaker, or sparkled from fingers which
were impatienty drumming the marble before
their owners. One O'Clock came. The business
OF the conclave was accomplished. Walters
brought in oveTcoats and canes. The party
Omitted down stairs, crept within the carriages,
dripping 10 the rain OF the door, aud were driven
to their homes. All this at the Manhattan Club
house." And so the burglars and garroters are
getting from twenty to forty years each in the
peniteniisry.
The Republican convention Of the first con.
eressioDal district of Connecticut nominated Ju-
bus L. Strong for Congress.
"Tbe organization of the next Congress-" says
G. A. T., lis good settled, interested gossip
10 the contrary Notwithstanding. Henry ID. Wash
burne will be sergeant-atarms in place of Ord.
way. the present incumbent had nearly said
incubus. Jas. G. Blaine will be elected speaker,
and be will be the only officer taken from New
England. Edward Mcpherson will be made clerk
by right Of chaste and honorable service, perfect
integrity and higo-min0edness."
AWasbingtOn correspondent says tina. anecdotes
Of Gen. Grant are becoming quite the staple of
talk. They all have very sharp application.
Speaking Of the tenure Office act the other day
he made this very characteristics illustration:
an is 10 reason because you have found it neces-
sary to put curb bit in the mouth Of one horse
that you should try it on another"
Philadelphia youths, Of Is years of age and up
ward have held a meeting and resolved that they
are fully competent TO exercise the elective fran
chise.
Butler feels that he has made q mistake-no
more; for the higher considerations Of right and
wrong seldom OF never occur to him. he hoped
10 gather around him the whole radical wing OF
the House; on the contrary, he has split it in
twain, Shellabarger and the rest going of in ter
ror and disgust Those beings who hold TO Butler
are despised Of himself; the constitutional para
sites Of the nearest noise people who walk ia the
dark to the frightened protection of their own
whistle, and chatter by day in terror of silence
which bequeaths them 10 the consciousness of their
moral non existence.-[ Washington Letter.
The Washington correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Evening star says al have il from what
may be termed an official source, that Gen. Grant
having extended to Vice. President elect COlfax
the usual courtesy OF naming one person for
cabinet appointment, he has selected John d.
Defrees, OF Indiana. He at present fills the posi-
ton Of public printer here.
The tenure-of Office law ought TO be repealed.
IL can serve no other purpose now than to prevent
Gen. Grant from making the removals which he
may deem essential to the public service.-N. Y.
Times.