The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-26

The friends and neighbors OF Hannibal HamIIu.
numbering nearly one thousand, and accompanied
by band of music. met him at the depot al Ran
gor on the 18th, on his return from the successful
senatorial campaign at Augusta. He was re-
ceived with deafening cheers and escorted to his
residence. a
The New York Sun says One reason why We
so earnestly advocate the appointm ent OF the Hon.
Horace Greeley az our minister to England is our
expectation that after he has entered upon diplo-
matte life the Sun will become the leading jour
nal Of the country. As long as he stays at home,
and himself Yields the pen competition IL ditii-
cult but when the Tribune passes under the
control OF young men of genius, without much
experience, there will be chance for others.
The springfield Republican fears that the
Senate nay prove too Jacobinical to consent to
the repeal OF an act that gives them the absolute
control Of so much patronage. Here lies the real
obstacle to repeal, and not in any dsrrust of tho
next president"
Senator Howe of Wisconsin said the other day
to the Senate that if Mr.. Sumner were as full Of
learning he is of reading, he would really suf-
fee for Congress himself.
Minnesota is the carpet baggers' paradise.
Not a single member Of either branch of the
Legislature was born in the State. They are all
carpet-bsggers New York furnishing more
than any other State. Massachusetts, has two
representatives., Vermont four, New Hampshire
STA, Maine six. and Connecticut FIVE, and fourteen
were born in Europe.
The Monroe QLa.) Intelligencer has authority
for stating that the reported conversation between
Grant and q Louisiana senator and Judge, on the
Mississippi levee, was substantially correct. The
senator was Mr.. Kellogg, and the judge. John
Ray. al
Brownlow overhauls his contumacious secretary
OF State, accusing him OF ngratitude and uusound-
ness on the Radical goose.
General Grant declines the Inequalities of Bal
tmore, as voted him by the council on account of
previous engagements. He will receive the citi-
zens, probably. to-day.
A letter is published from General Burnside de-
clining to be candidate for governor of Rhode
Island.
The New Hampshire Democratic State Conven-
ton, on the 10th, nominated John Bedill, of Bath
for governor, and General w. 7. Donohue for rail-
road commissioner. Short resolutions were pass.
ed declaring adhesion 70 the principles of the con-
sttution, and that bonds should be taxed.
A Washington dispatch Of the 20th says the
Womans Rights Convention continues TO be the
scene Of much animation, the black and whits
delegates both taking part in the proceedings, the
women speaking more than the men. There was
a spirited discussion resolution touching ecui
catonal suffrage, which terminated in the adoption
OF an amendment offered by George F. Downingi
that 1t would be an assumption Of power for any
csss to declare what should be the basis Of intel
hgence. resolution that one object of the
Nomsn's Rights movement was to throw addition
al safeguards around marriage and family rela-
TORS, was adopted. resolution that both the
Democratic cry Of ga white mans governments"
and the Radical cry of " manhood suffrage weie
unjust, was discussed at length.