The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-11-09

81 The NoTEi IN THE THIRTEENTH PRECINCT,--
81 is the general impression that very large mum
berof illegal votes were polled at the late election
in the Sixth Ward of the First Municipality. Ger
tain ii is, that the vote this year is much larger
than the, one in November, 1913. On Monday the.
gubernatorial vote in the thirteenth precinct was
917; while at the presidential election the votes
for the two party. tickets amounted to only 55f.
According to the appordonrnent Of representa-
tives made by the last Legislature one REPRESENTS
tlvswas allowed for 575 votes, and two We're, 10
consequence, given to the Sixth Representative
! District Of Orleans. Now 937 is the largest num-
Der that could, under the superintendent, be repre-
scented BY two members, it being 375 multiplied by
two aud half But the vote given. in the Sixth
| District last November amounted TO 791, and it
was, at the time, considered very large one. AT
the election last Monday the vote in the Sixth Dis
triet-aud. the increase was mostly in the Sixth
Wardof the First Municipality amounted to l214,
which number, according to the rule of apportion-
ment adopted by the Legislature last year, Would
give four representatives in the House. Here then
we have the extraordinary fact-if all the votes il
the Sixth District be legal-of a District which il
only half represented in the very first Legislature
that meets after the apportionment Is made.
ButsWe presume there are few creduIots emo ugh
believe that all those votes 10 the thirteenth pre-
einet were Fightfnlly given. Nay, it is currently
\ reported and generallb believed, that number Of
persons noteutted to vote in shat precinct openly
offered themselves to the highest bidder and aetu.
ally voted, If such was the case it is time for the
honest men Of all parties to step in and prevent
such frauds on the elective franchise. If votes are
to be bargained for and sold at public auctlon-il
men are found base enough to yield up their intel.
est in the public welfare for the sake Of patry
private adEaniage-itis time for every man who
wishes well to the Republic 10 demand that the
bailotbox be pufged from such dangerous ans
. destructive votes
The purity Of the ballot-bo1 IS matter above
and beyond questions Of party. For can clear
thing come out of an unclean! Can any measur,
mo matter by what party il is adVocated--b
beneficial to the commonwealth when it is carriet
out bya destruction. of the fundamental puncipl,
T Of the government? And does not corruption 0
i popular suffrage work a corruption Of popuarsove
reignty : Can a man be loyal to the government
which he believes is begun in fraud and is main
tanned by corruption If,then, we wish the law
of the majority to preval--if we desire all excust
for rebellion and treason to be Temoved--we mus
guard sacredly the purity Of the elective franchise
81 and prevent all votes, improperly Influenced, from
} going into the .ballot-box. ,s-s ~
One word to our wing friends in regard to the
policy they pursued in the appointment of Inspec.
tors. 1--we look at the matter merely as one ofex
pediency, setting aside altogether the question o.
right, it is evident that the wings injured themselves
by peFsevsring in the course they took. II is neve
to the interest of any party to excite suspicious o
its honesty and fair deang and it is the sheeres
folly or the most ridiculous Quxotism for party t.
have its motives impugued when it intends to &C
!, justly and uprghty. Hence the wing party acte,
foolishy when it refused to appoint fair proper
tiunof democratic inspectors and the pufer,rhe in
f tentions Of the party were the more egTegous wa
the folly Of the course pursued. The impocy 0
the wing appointments is clearly seen from the re
, suit inthe thirteenth precinct: for the increase il
+ tue democratic vote of that precinct is more thai
n the increase in-ths wing vote. Yet the wings ar
e estoPped from charging corruptions on the demo
3 Gratis, for there was no democratic Inspectors
u Hence, the wings have, justly unjustly, to bea
the burden Of the increased and Illegal vote give
4 in the Sixth Ward. -,
FROM Ell PAso.--An express arrived here (SaI
4 Antonio) few evenings since from FL Paso j
g twenty-fourlays by way of the Concho aud Fred
, ericksburg. Ttle train, underline command Of Ma
: ioF Van Horn, had safelyreached El Paso previoI
ito the express leaving, as had also Lieut.. Bryal
who was sent ont to survey the route by way Of Il
t head Of the COR6ho The pactiCability of estal
fishing good wagon road on both Of these routes
= l through country with an abundance OF water an
, grass is now fully demonstrated On'the upper
ConchO route the California emigFants who le
with Capt Thompson metwith no difficulties wha
ever-except those. incident to a route which ha
never before been travelled; nor did the train NEE
, with any distinctions by way Of the Leenas an
I Las Moras. Mr.. Gardner, who left our city som
months since for FL Paso in company with one 9th
er gentleman, went through in fifteen days. Hi
companion having left him at the head Of the Leon