New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-11-28
NUMBER 229.

uiy coat tali ana whispered, - vote IOF NoSGs,
man challenged my vote, took off my hat, held
up my hand, and swore to ell sorts Of things,
told how old am, where get my dinners and
what my washerwoman's name is; got mad and
did little extra swearing on my own account
which was not s.down in the bill, ? marched up
in grand procession Of one, and poked my
vote in the little hole. The great excitement
was on the liquor question. IL was Noggs, and
no liquor shops, or Boggs and a few liquor shops,
Scroggs and plenty of liquor shops, or Hoggs
and every man his own liquor shop Voted for
Hoggs, for feel perfectly justified in taking an
occasional toddy, when all Wall street is per-
" tight
Noise on the corner, niger boy playing big
drum, candidates presented themselves to the
sovereign people for inspection; Know Nothing
man on native jackass, cap of liberty on his
head, and his pantaloons made of the American
flag with the stripes running the wrong way
candidate, who wantsthe Irish vote
and Dutch suffrages, entered borne on mortar
hod, barefooted, with q shillelah in one hand, a
whisky bottle in the other, Dutch pipe in his
mouth and q small barrel of beer strapped to his
back. Cold water man stood on a hydrant with
the water turned on, and had his pockets full of
icicles. Whisky man brought in drunk on q
cart by admiring friends, who besought the
crowd to do as he did, go it blind. Special de-
putty who wanted to be appointed policeman was
very active, he arrested an apple woman,
knocked down q cripple, kicked little boy,
looked the other way while his constituents
were picking pockets, and took little match
girl up an alley and spanked her soundly for
presuming to show herself in the street without
shoes or stockings on his hat, Sc Sic itur
ad Gstra." Go it, or you'll II never be star.
Irish woman, with bag of potatoes on her
head, came up to vote-she said Dennis was
sick, Drunk but as Mr.. Hoggs had paid for
his vote, she had brought it herself, in order
that it might not be lost. She was, with diff
Guilty, choked off by the heroic aspirant to the
civic star. Whisky men began to fall behind,
messenger sent to Wards Island, and one to
BlackWelfs ditto, for aid. Fresh caught Irish
man came up-been but fifteen minutes off the
ship &c Pauper's Refuge" but was brought up
by the bullies to vote for whisky man chal-
lenged him -he swore he was twenty seven years
old, had always lived in this country ten years
in Maine; eleven in South Carolina eight in
Maryland, and the last nine years of his life he
had spent in this city. Said he was a full
blooded American; that his father was New
Hampshire farmer and his mother Mohawk
squaw; that they had separated three years
before he was born, and had never seen each
other since.
Inspector, who was o friend of whiskey man
received his ballot paddy had slipped in two
on the book taking the oath.) His kind friend,
took him by turns into eighteen different wards
in every one Of which he deposited q whisky
vote, and swore it in; after the polls were CLOSED
and he couldn't vote any more, he was sent to ths
station house for being s'drunk ard disorder
ly." Eated with their success in this instance
the b'hoys now bought up newly imported
Dutchman. who could only grin idiotically ant
say 'yaw." Inspector asks: Are you q
voter p :" Yaw.'' 8. Are you twenty-one year,
old % .Yaw." Do you live in the city p
interposed, evidently with the desire of ridicu.
ling the august proceedings, and asked: ss Have
you got thirty -one wives ?"-another man asked
if he had his hat full of sour -krout-and third
was anxious to be informed if he could stand on
his head and smoke a pipe, and balance potato
kettle on his heels; to all of which he p1acidly
responded: "Yaw.. Inspector hurried to the
rescue, and put the test question: ssDo yor
| vote for Hoggs'' and receiving the same com
placent &c yaW," he took his vote and showed hin
aside
| ALI sorts Of odd customers came up to deposi
| their ballots, but it is remarkable fact that
| they wanted to vote for Boggs, Seroggs o
Noggs, or in fact, any one but Hoggs, they wer
sure TO be crowded, showed and hustled, an
generally left the room with bloody noses, an
their ballots still in their hands. Fun gre'
| fast and furious; whisky man ahead, bu
wanted tremendous majority; the pauper force
Of Wards Island, visiting the city for that oc
| casion only, came up and voted. Almost tim
to close the polls, but the Inspector kept the bo
open twenty minutes after sun down to receiv
the votes of sixteen promiseuous rascals, VIII
had been habeas eorpns-ed from the Tomt
particularly for this occasion only, and VII
voted, every man, for Hoggs.
Polls closed; intense excitement; bonfire
built; squibs, rockets, guns and Chimes
crackers; liquor scarce, the candidate havin
cut off the supply as soon as the voting wa
over; crowd sat down in bar-rooms and engine
houses, and crowded about the secret rooms t
get dispatches; about IL o'clock they began
come; it was soon evident that Noggs wa
beaten; Boggs was distanced, and Scroggs wa
nowhere; it was Hoggs every where; Hogs
the street; Hoggs in the tavern, Hoggs at tn
bonfres; Hoggs for ever; no one but Hoggs
triumphant Hogs; victorious Hogs; high ol
Hoggs, the peoples choice.
This morning Noggs's Typographical orga
announced the utter ruin, and speedy annlhila
tion of the country under the destructive rul
of Hoggs and it asserted that honor, honest
and truth had left the nation. Patriotism an
deceney had deserted, hand in hand. and this
the outraged Goddess of Liberty had taken Q
her night-cap, pinned up her petticoats, put q
| u palf OIL C0WuluG DOOtSs Huu p1u StcIn
farewell to fallen, degenerate Columbia
the other hand Hoggs's papers rejoiced over tt
defeat of the allied armies. Bade Noggs, Bogg
and Scroggs an affectionate adieu, and CO.
signed them to oblivion and then rejoiced tn
they had chosen ruler SO capable as the gl
rious Hoggs. the proud. far-seeing, generou
liberal, independent Hoggs, who guaranteed
the people their daily gin and nightly riot
Hoggs the magnanimous-Hoggs, who stan
up to the popular creed--unlimited whisky
Hoggs, who remains true to his alchoholic i
stincts--Hoggs, who battles for the peopl'
rights-Hoggs, who has SO nobly earned t
title bestowed upon him by the lager-bier sho
whose liberty he has secured, and the whisl
dens whose morality he has vouched for-Hogs
sc Defender of the faith, and leader of the fait
full" Yours, one sidedly,
/ @. K. PHILANpER DoEsTIcKs, P. B.
P S. Hurrah for HoGGs.
Q KIP. D., P. B.
P. s. Junior. And unlimited whisky.
!, @. X. P. d., P. B.
i FIGHT BETWEEN MuNGooZE AND Con