The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-17
POLITICAL IrEMs, ETC.


Anew York special OF the 9th to the Clncin.
natl Eoouirer says A gentleman who breakfasted
with Gen. Grant this morning says that ne VIII not
announce his cabinet until the 9TH OF March, ad'
ding jocularly, that Mrs. Grant viii not know who
are selected till then.
Nv informant also states that the principles of
Jepckes civil service bill will be put In force as
far a. may be under existing laws In selecting in
cumbents of minor officers, and the whole mat
ter of appointment will be condded to the va
rious cabinet Offices in their respective depart
mens, subject to the casual revision of the
president, but each cabinet officer Ia held
wholly responsible for his department, the same
as general In the field is answerable for his d.
vision.
Ny informant is pretty confident old Ben Wade,
of Ohio, will 20 into the cabinet 80 balm to bis
feelings, badly lacerated by the impeachment
fasco and for which Grant admits himself TO have
been largely responsible. Grant expresses him.
self very hostile to President Johnson, personally.
and there IL no prospect OF the restoration OF
friendly relations between them.
The Evening Post has column leader attack.
ing Congress for its extravagant ineHciency and
jobbery.
The New York Times says We guess that Grant
Is likely to make this his last visit to New York.
The terrible way In which the politicians and
ofice-hunters bored him on Saturday must have
made the city almost intolersble. They put for.
ward their "claIms" with an impudence beyond
anything previously attempted.
Several politicians assert that General Grant, In
indicated his intention to make Lathrop Motley
secretary of state General Schoheld secretary OF
war and Charles A. Dana collector OF the port Of
New York. He was sounded upon the treasury
At Lansing, Mich, on the 10th, the Republican
State Convention recommended Hon. L. NJ. Cooley
for Judge of the Supreme Court. Jas. 81. Nc
Gowsn, Of Coldwater, received the nomination Tor
regent OF the State University. 80
The chsirmen Of the Republican and Democratic
State Conventions of Vermont, have united In
call for convention of freedmen of Vermont, to
be held at Montpelier on the 18th inst, to nom.
nate ticket of thirteen persons to constitute
council of censors to be voted for the last Wednes
day in March, agreeaby to the State Constitution.
The Round Table of the 1lth, claiming to speak
by authority, says II is known that the treasury
has been offered to A. I. Stewart, who declined
ii. The state department has been offered to
Charles Francis Adams, and he has taken the pro-
posal into serious consideration. Should he re-
FUSE Motley is the next choice. The war depart.
ment has been rendered to Gen. Mcclellan, and
so far neither accepted nor declined. Hamilton
Fieh has the option in the latter case. The navy
department, declined by Admiral Fsrrsgut. has
been offered to Admiral Porter, who is pretty sure
to accept it. Strong efforts have been made for
the appointment of E. b. Washburne as minister
to France, but they almost certain to fail. 1t
is pretty well decided that M. I'll. Grinnel Is to be
collector Of New York, and Chas. A. Dana either
surveyor or navy agent.
In the House of Representatives, on the 18th,
was his fortune, thirty-three years ago, TO be
named, in conjunction with gentleman from Ten
nessee, to count the votes for president and vice
president of the United States. A difficulty SINH.
lar to that Of yesterday sprang up. The State of
Michigan. without Congress authorizing it, had
proceeded to organize State government; but,
said Mr.. Thomas, looking at Butler as he spoke,
Calhoun, who was the mischief-ma Of that
pose resolution in the case of Michigan similar
TO that passed by Congress in the case of
Georgia.
The New York Tribune says: at is perfectly
well known among well informed persons that
Gen. Grant gave q jealous and effective support
to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, urged
senators to vote for bis conviction and profoundly
regretted his escape from that measure of
Justice"
Hon. James W. McMaster, Judge of probate
court of Rankin county, Miss, has resigned, aud
DR.. T. G. CstchiDgs has been appointed, by Gen.
Gillem. to fill the vacancy.
At New Haven, Connecticut, Stephen W. KEEL
logg was nominated by the Republicans for Con-
gresham from the Second District.
Mullins, the great Radical orator of Tennessee,
is not SO fecitous with his pen with his tongue.
He recently dispatched paper containing his de-
NAL of responsibility for the dissipation of the
with the following directum in his own unmis.
taxable hand, write-so says the editor: " Edetor
Nashville Banner pleas publish within Denyal as
marked" The Denyap" was published.
Inc washington ctarp WHICH PROCESSES 10 De
inside on the new administration, says that the
choice for secretary of state lies between Adams
and Motley that Dennison is to be postmaster
general again, and Wilson, Of Iowa, Is to be
attorney general.
No little amusement was created in Washing
ton by the nomination by President johnson of
Judge Lewis Dent, q brother-in.lsw of Grant, as
minister to Chill. The outsiders say that il the
eouth American missions are consolidated, as now
proposed in Congress, with view to legislate
Fitzpatrick out of that to Chilli that Grant intended
TO appoint him to the new place, and that John
sons nomins ton Of Dent is little malice to mix
things. .r-r ~
Dom Piatt says: "If we had in Congress an
active, intelligent and consistent opposition, our
people would be more careful. As it is they
plunge headlong on, and by their numbers and
noise magnify their power. This is bad for any
organization. 1t Is especially bad for ours-we
cess. We cannot feel our way along, and keep,
through sympathy, In accord with the masses.
Our leading men are students, and labor under the
impression that II they can only make the argu-
ment they must have the voters, and In making
argument they shoot over the heads of the men
they seek to influence" t4
Gen. Grant is said to have told the New Workers
who bored him with suggestions as to the forma.
tion of his cabinet, that he had "some notion of
getting New York to run the whole government
by contract from the 4th of March,"
j. n. Congdon, Republican, was elected mayor
of Binghampton, New York, by majority Of $50,
over ]. A. Beznice, Democrat.
The Michigan Republican State convention, held
at Lansing on Wednesday, renomnated Hon. l..
M. Cooley for Judge of the Supreme Court. Jas.
H. McGowan, of Coldwater, received the nomins-
ton for regent of the State University.