New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-10-19
DoLvGS OF THE DfsaFFECTED.
TROUBLE IN THE w1ewAN.

TROUBLE IN THE w1ewAM.
No little conformation was created among
the leaders Of the dsnocratic ciiqses and fac
tons down town, when yesterday information
reached them that Mr.. Thos. G.. Mackey. the
wing candidate for Congress from the First Dis
trict, had declined running. With a decided
majority in that district for the democrats,
they had felt extremely secure while Mr..
Mackey was in the field that he was only con-
testing for the doubtful honor of being defeated,
and that they would run Mr.. Dunbar in with
scarcely show of opposition. This consumma-
ton, they were convinced, would not be the less
probable from the fact that the Hon. Charles
Gayarre was an Independent candidate in the
same lists, feeling assured that the hard-sheil
democracy would not vote for him, but would
stick to. the ticket under all circumstances.
They were willing to concede that he would get
few votes, but with their decided majority they
could afford to spare these, and still have
| enough of the "true steel " left to secure the
election of Mr. Dunbar Immured in their cit
| adel of victorious numbers, they felt secure
from the engines of the diminished wing ranks,
and laughed at the puny javelin Of the indie
pendents.
What must have been their onsternation
when they learned that Mr. Mackey, unambiti-
Gus Of the reputation of obtaining only a re-
spectacle vote, had abandoned the canvass,
leaving the field to be contested by Mr.. Gayarre
Ia gentleman in many points not Objectionable
to the wings, and who had before secured a very
strong detachment of the discontinued who had
determined to vote for him in opposition to the
candidate of the ruling clique They were
dumb founded and overwhelmed Many who
had before laughed at Mr.. Gayarre for his pre-
sumptious attempt to oppose the DEGREES of the
Sanhaedrim in thus placing his claims in juxta-
position with the anointed of "The Faithful"
| now began to think that he might be danger
GUS competitor Some even went so far as to
admit that with the aid of the disaffected wing
Of the party and the coalescence of the wings,
he might stand chance of being elected. 1t is
difficult to estimate the paling of hope that took
place in the bcsoms of the leaders when flashed
upon them this disastrous probability. One of
| them retired to the privacy of the Committee
room to consult ways and means to avert the
threatened disaster, and another exhibiting de-
| cided symptoms of nausea was put to bed.
But Jagateile aside, there is more in the re-
.renleh' u MI MaoAey anu 'ie -
WI. uayarre than our oPPoneh's are Wiling W
AUNT ne Is no hiue-nouhu democrat' oa' on
many Oh the great questions Oh tne Jay IS eA-
tremeiy favorable to the wings de would not,
Il elected oppose tarlt Tor the protection OF
inc sugar interests. Ia the matter OF the estao-
hsnment OF navy yard In Neworleans, he wouid
\ IL n a. Al
not STAND idly IN the House, after bill Tor the
purpose hao passed the senate, and from mere
inertia ana inattention permit 1t to fall still born,
as was done by his predecessor Neither would
ne prooaoiy oppose the declared poicy OF the