New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-11-28
From the Detroit Daily Advertiser.
DoEsTICK GOES TO LECTION.
New YoRK, November s, 1854.
1Q01 Narrow street.

~ New YoRK, November 8, 1854
1O0l Marrow street.
Lection day, big placards, posters, music,
notices. split tickets, rum bules, banners, bon
fires and lager bier; saw great many flags
with appropriate devices; noticed one in par
ticular, the whisky faction had it, coat of arms
as follows: Within the American shield, two
lager r-bier casks supporting rum bottle ram
pant; Irishman azue, fat t-on-his- back ant, sus-
tanned by wheelbarrow eouehant; sinister eye
sable; in base, demijohn between two small de-
canters in the distance, policeman pendant
from lamp-post standant; motto, 'sComing
events cast their shadows before let the NJ P IS
beware On the diverse, ticket for city Off
GERS, and opposed an American quarter dollar,
motto: &c Exchange no Bribery ssFaugh ma
Ballah,'' &C Go in and VIM
1t rained as if it was raining on bet; went
to the polls, wanted to vote, wasn't particular
who for, if he only had the biggest flags and the
/ most bullies; was little puzzled after all how
to do it; had read all the political prints to find
| out the best man, but in judging from what the
| newspapers say concerning the different candi-
| dates, the various factions in this city enter
tained peculiar ideas about the requisites neces-
sary to qualify man to fill public station.
| Not an individual is ever nominated for any
Office who is not eulogized by some of the public
| journals as drunkard, liar, swindler, incendi-
ary, assassin or public robber. Assuming, from
the wonderful unanimity of the papers on this
subject, that these amiable qualities constitute
| the fitness of the nominees for places of honor,
trust or profit, | have endeavored to analyze
| the gradations of criminal merit, and discover
| exactly how big rascal q man must be to
| qualify MIN for any given office. The result OF
| my Investigations is as follows:
No one is eligible to the office of Mayor of this
| city unless he has forged d draft and got the
money on it; and, on at least two separate oc-
casions set fire to his house to get the insurance
Candidates for Aldermen qualify themselves by
carrying revolver, getting beastly drunk, and
stabbing policeman or two before they gel
sober. A Common Councilman must drink with
the Short Boys, give prizes to the firemen's tar.
get excursions, carry slung shot in his pocket
and have personal interest in Peter Funk
auction shop. A Police Justice must gamble 8
little, cheat considerable, lie good deal, and
get drunk ssclear through" every Saturday
i night. If he can read easy words and write his
name, it is generally no serious objection; bu
thek now Nothings will not permit even this, OF
the plea that the science of letters is Of foreign
origin A man who can pick q pocket scien
tifcally will make a good constable. Aspirant
to minor offices are classified according to de
sert; but no one who has not, at least, COMMITTEES
petit larceny, is allowed place on any regula
ticket As to offices of more Importance shoult
say, from what can now judge, that no mai
can ever be elected Governor of the State unles
he is guilty of successful burglary, compli
s Gated with midnight murder The rival can
didates in this present crisis had called eac
other all the names, and accused each other 9
all the crimes, imaginable for the preceding 81
weeks; Boggs had been denounced as the plum
derer of orphans, and seducer of innocen
! maidens, and the pilferer Of hard earned cor
pers from the poor. Noggs, according to hi
: charitable opponents, was pickpocket, a sheeI
: stealer, Peter Funk and an Irishman.
The candidate set up by the Know-Nothine
= to claim votes on the plea of his being an in
maculate American, was proved to be the chill
| of French father, and a Prussian mother, an
| to have been born in Calcutta-it was asserte
that he commenced his education in the nortl
Z ern part Of Ethiopia, continued in Dublin, NJ
h finally graduated at Botany Bay. Hoggs, wi
$, had once before held the office he was now str
wing for, it was asserted, had solemnly promis
to pardon all the murderers, iberate all Il
IL burglars, reward all the assassins, and prese
all the shoulder. .hitters with an official certi
: cate of good moral character, which should al
testify to their valuable and highly commend
= BILE exertions in the public behalf. scroggs,
,r yirtuous to be severely handled, was mere
mentioned as having been formerly a swind
er and a member of the Common Council. Got
the polls, man with blue flag urged me to
:. for Boggs; man with red flag said vote
= scroggs; man with white flag with black |
ters sang out " Go for Hoggs little boy pull