New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-01

The number of votes cast ct the March cleo
ton was 1l,TS5, before the approach of summer
had thinned the city, and upon an occasion when
each party strained its strength to the utmost
With the enormous gain in those precincts of
the Second and Third Districts, what would
nave been the vote at the late election had
here been no falling off in the others' Why,
ftteea thousand four hundred and ninety
,otest @~.
To makeit clearer. we will sum up the reduc-
ion and gain as they occurred in the several
Districts
Falling off in the First District us
Eve precincts of the Second Dis N,
Falling of in the Nineteenth Precinct, Third Dis
sailing off In the Fourth District ............. 748
N Total falling off 1856
Increase in two precincts of the Second District 462
Increase six precincts of the Third DISTRICT. 1880
Total increase 1852
Now if we add these two amounts to the num-
her Of votes polled, we have what would have
been the vote had there been no reduction in
any of the precincts, and can form some faint
idea of what it would have been had it expert
snced the same augmentation in the other pre-
cinets that it did in those Of the Second and
Third.
Now if We deduct the falling off and the
fraudulent increase from the vote polled in
March, we shall undoubtedly have the number
It legal and the number of illegal tickets:
rhe number of votes cast in March 1l7S5
Falling off in several precincts. $3.50
increase In the others looZ- 92os
Number of votes legally poled. 6577
Now deduct the number legally polled from
the number reported, and we have the fraudu-
lent vote:
.cga Vote Observation-Disclosures. 6577
Illegal vote. 37o5
This,sit will be observed, does not take into
ccount the proba blity that in most Of those pre-
,ncts in which an increase has been reported
here has been an actual decrease of the legal
7ote.
Deduct now from the whole number of votes
iast for the road the fraudulent ones and those
cast against it, as follows:
Eor the road .............. ..............., 1919
Against the road 1908
III
md we have the only majority that can be
claimed for the ordinance without the illegal
ballots. If we then consider, as we above stated,
the probability, nay, the certainty, that in most
Of those precincts where an increase is claimed
there has been an actual diminution of the legal
vote, it must appear to the most obtuse under
,tanding clear as monday that this ordinance
has not received the sanction of the popular will
nat it has been passed by the force of bribery,
raud and corruption, the all-potent influence
IF money
A careful investigation Of the above facts and
igures will surely dissipate all doubts in regard
20 the truth of the charges made by the pro-
,rietor of this journal against Messrs. Egerton
Hennen. Those most rare managers have
proved themselves quite equal to the task they
undertook And now the public should know
who pays the expenses of their dexterity, 1t is
confirmed by somewhat better evidence than
rumor that about one hundred thousand dollars
nave been expended in the passage of the ordi-
nance, and it is fair question-and one which
40 doubt the Taxpayers would be glad to hear
Observation-Disclosures this money comes from the
poeketsAof the railroad company or the vaults of
the public treasury. And that grand and ex-
ensiye Northern firm, of which the pious John
Egerton is :" the full partner here,'' will, we
have no doubt, be wonderfully built up by this
slever financial operation-for now we are salts
fed that can be its only proper name. And
.hould the senior partner chance to be sort of
second Dombey, or as gody as &c Brother Eyer
tom pretends to be, how will he fortify himself
round about with his dignity or elevate his as
tonished optics when he learns what coadiutor
of Satan he has sent among an innocent people !!
We have but little more to add upon this sub
ject at present. The correctness and truthful
ness of the figures we have set down above are
ndisputable; no man can deny it. We are
satisfied that fraud and other dishonesty can be
established sufficient to vitate and set aside this
election, and we sincerely, earnestly hope that
m injunction will be placed upon the issue Of
the bonds until the legality of this election shall
be tested by a Court Of Justice. The financial
condition of New Orleans at present is not such
rs to render the mourning an additional debt
Of o million and a half merely pleasant joke,
and we appeal to those of our citizens upon
whom the burden will rest most heavily to
make one last effort in behalf of their own rights
and the rights of the city.
NAVAL STORES, BUILDING MATERIALS, ETC
Messrs, A. Delagrave & Co., No, II Magazine
street. have the largest supply of the above in
the city. Contractors and others in want OF
such articles would do we'll to call on them be.
fore making arrangements elsewhere They
have also large supply of Guano on hand in
lots to suit purchasers.