New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-03-30
The 1ndependentn Humbur.

Inc independent aumbug.
Well, the independent humbug has exploded and what
has been its result 1t has annihated the democratic
party In this city it has aroused the most embttered
passions of the wings and has cast distrust over all
Humbug," did call it? No, compared with it. humbug
Is harmless it was downright political swndle Meas
ures and devices resored to by the in
| the afair-by those who undertook the dirty-worl-
which, by the way congeniato their tastes and
leehngsthat would have disgraced Robert Macares man
jacques strop or picayune chucka-luck player on
race track But in what did they exhibit their indepen
In this that they flched from the tickets for
Aldermen of both parties anumber of names which thew
strung together and with that erontery which always
characterzes charlatans proclaimed this group
an independent ticket Now defy the Wizard of the
North himself by such hocus pocus operation as this to
make my friend Capt Stockton for instance less of
whg or more of an independent than they found him
or my friend Alderman Sewe less democrat or more
OF an independent that he before they placed him on
their notorious ticket But the subterge too trans
to waste time in exposing it. Indeed the preteuce
already abandoned by those who made most capai out
OF It, and the day succeeding the election they classified
those elected the independence se as wings and
| democrats respectively. The only independent now
claimed by them is Mr. Robb and he shall be much
mistaken he does not will glide from the ndepeu-
pedestal where stands solitary and alone to the
whig benches
But the foules and asest deception pracced by these
| modern Mokannas, shrouded behind the veil of indie
pendence that in reference to the nominees for AS
Aldermen These they protested to be satisfied
with at least they made public independent selec
tion from among them. But what did they do? Wbv
by the distribution of of thousands of tickets
formed of tens of thousands of combinations the indie
pendens thrust in the of every one thew man.
aged to elect their vorites and to defeat every DEM
ocratc Assistant in the First District Second Municipal
lty) and majority OF those in the Second Third and
Fourth They for example, would put the names of the
democratic nominees of the First Ward on the demo-
cratic tickets for the old Seventh Ward those of the
Ihrd on the tickets Of the Fourth and thus they man
aged their game throughout the city such tickets so
far as the AS stant Aldermen went proving to be mil
lily when they came to be counted Was not this base
and contemplate swndle? But this is not all They
promised not to interfere with the nominations for min
isteria ofces-for offices to which salaries atachyet
on the eve OF the election may say they bring out
candidate in opposition to John Duncan, the regular
nominee of the democratic party for Treasurer and in
doing so, accomplish their object-they defeat him
may be told that their purpose to defeat Mr. Garland
but they well knew that by thus arousng the vigilance
of himself and his friends they took the most certain
method of securing his election and the result shows
that they did not reckon without their host
They protested to be the special peculiar friends of
John l.. Lewis, too; and they befrended him with a
vengeance Does any believe that if there were M
Swiss Hessans about treachery and corruption had
not been legitimatized by the independent wrenners
and that on the day of the election democrats
permitted to meet their old open honorable oppo
nents in fair combat their gallant standard would
have been struck down. he has been in the fight Not
one believes it whig democrat nor even that
animal known to political biologists as an independent
They talk Of their strength-their strength Look at
the vote given for Judge Bright the only candidate whose
name they did not steal from either party Though thew
Struggled his name to every wing democratic ticket
that it possible to place he just got in the whole
city Lafayette included 1016 votes BIS less than Mr.
Duncan the defeated democratic nominee So much for
the strength OF the independent party.
Now who the witches that mixed and stirred I'm
the ingredients for this independent cauldron which has
caused this
9 Bubble. bubble, toll and trouben
why, they are known to- and may well add appreci-
aed by our citizens of all parties but their fame alas
does not equal their nooretyor who does not know the
Judge and the Doctor? ~ Oh what holy cause in
dependence must be, that finds two gentlemen low
ing each other SO well-two such honest, honorable
gentlemen fraternisng in support of the
same cause When two such WORTHLESS were seen heart
lily cooperating in the purpose-the Bolts and the
Tyler of NewOrleans under the same blanket-was it
at all wonderful that poor honest easy independent cit
zens should believe that with the the independent
party the Millennium had arrived for here was to be seen
not the lion lying down with the lamb but the serpent
in companionship with the hyena.
But enough of this Let us leave physc and law to the
pleasure OF their in the independent buggy and
wait with Impotence the movements of the independ
ents y in the new Council Board HosrsrAs
ANOTHER DIFFICULTY WITH ENGLAsD.-It is stated that
grave misunderstanding or INSTRUMENTATION of the
oregon boundary treaty in relation to British
vgang the waters under the United States jurisdiction
within the boundaries and along the Oregon Ter
rtory the occasion Of correspondence which is lust
now going between Mr. Wtbster and the British Min
lister at Washington, Mr.. Champion The second article
Of the treaty defining the boundaries between the two
countries, grants only the right of navigation to the
Hudson's Bay Company and all British subjects trading
with the or much Of the great northern branch
Oh the Columbia River as is within the boundaries of the
United States and from the point where that branch
meets the main stream of the Columbia out of the ocean
with free access into and through said river or rivers
being understood that all the usual portages along the
inc thus described shall in like be free and open
There other stpulatons in the treaty touchnp
he point at ISSUE other which reserves to the
United States Government the exclusive right making
uch regulations in regard to and navigation
IN those waters as it fit and agrees that British
uhjecs trading with the Hudsons Bay Company shall
pc upon the same footing, with their vessels and mer-
handse in navigating those waters as citizens of the
United States
MARINE DIsAsrEn--The brig Mary Ann, Capt Means
Surry, Maine, which left Camden Mel on the 10th
december last for Charleston burnt on the th
anuary in lat SO deg "a min, Ion SO deg 05 mn her
argo which consisted chiefly of stone lime having be-
ONE wet and set her fire. Fortunately the American
ark Brothers. from Baltimore fell in with her the same
and took off the Captain and crew. whom she carried
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