New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-29
5 sT5,pnAy MoRNIS3 JULY 2g 1854
See FIRST and Fourth Pages
The acertituds y Of the Bribery.

Inc the uncertainty 1nsTeoi. IN ehis iesPooe
the bribery is reasonably enough in the predica-
mont Of all worldly things, because it is well
known that there is nothing certain but
death 4
The uncertainty which we discover IN the
Egerton scheme Of bribery and corruption-we
are not disposed to gaiyanize the corpse of At
terney D. N proceeds in part from
the very certain statement upon oath Of Alder
man Conant that /" friend mentioned to MN,
that il he would vote for the Railroad ne should
have a check for $1,000" The uncertainty
that this was designed as bribery and corrup-
ton is painfully obscure. Alderman Conant
viii not disclose the name of his friend. He
was not indignant, nor sanguinary. But he
coolly and unaccountably supposed &c that the
money was to come from parties connected with
the road Why Mr. Conant-su you do
not suppose Brother John was &C cognizant OF
, any promise made''? He swears piously that
he was not, 50 what can you have supposed 5
: Some further uncertainty, or, to speak in the
Language Of the deposition, wanto I. certitude'
in the bribery, is to be deduced from the very
certain, indignant and sanguinary statement
upon oath Of Alderman Place. How could you
feel so resentful towards brother Dolbear, merely
because lie said in d complimentary manner,
that ssyour observation of the previous day was
q very proper one We should have been fu-
rious enough, were We told that any observation
of ours was not proper one, and in such case
might, perhaps, have entieed our honorable
colleague to the altitude Of third story
window, or, indeed, q tenth story window, were
it not for the uncertainty Of there really being
any tenth story windows in town. And what
could you have supposed, Mr.. Place, that led you
to the meditation of such awful and certain
butchery as outing Mr.. Dolbear's or Mr..
Egerton's throat"s Surely pious Brother Eyer
ton is not to be connected with the uncertainty,
to the complete exclusion Of the remote philan-
thropist Of modest disposition, whose muni6-
eence seems to be matter Of the most perfect
g gertrude" We wonder where he does re-
side Brother Egerton does not know; he says
he does not, and swears his pious oath upon it,
Brother Egerton Sc does not, directly or indi-
rectly. know any thing" Brother Egerton is a
g know nothing" Of the real sort Then why
should you-Why did you, threaten such terri
BILE carnage where the uncertainty was so great
and the g certitnden so little What had Bro
ther John done, that led you to believe he could
be SO naughty as to send Alderman Dolbear to
syou to compliment you upon your & sensible OBJ
servationp = Why, we know, that sensible obser
Nations are habit Of yours, and now that you
are cool, we have no fears in saying 50 to you
quite privately, or. as Brother Egerton would
probably express it, entyenous
5 Yet further uncertainty, or, to speak in AL
dermanic phrase, s. incertitude'' Of the bribe-
~, is to be learned from the equally certain aft
davit of Alderman Cooper. 1t is wonderful with
what vast uncertainty these certain statements
are pregnant This afiant was urged by
4 Mr. Barkley, Of the Assistant Board, to vote
for the road" Mr. Barley told him he could,
by doing so, make something handsome 2
namely, 20 nice piece Of property over the
Lake, and gold watch for his wife, This is a
4 certainty, pregnant with uncertainty. Amiable
Alderman Barkiey $50 solicitous for his Al
dermanic friend, so disnterested- can be
more obvious than that Alderman Barkley, like
brother Egerton, knows nothing of the remote
4 philanthrophist Of modest disposition, who
suppresses his name, and that Alderman Bark
10y ul0 uUb, duu Wuulu HUI ulDis0u dGCGpb--lt
would be no use asking him-'s something hand
some,' namely, ''a nice piece of property over
the Lake, and gold watch for his wife" u
we thought we could be mistaken, we would in.
quire whether the " nice property !" is improved
and III good repair, and whether the sc GOLD
watch is not a galvanized article, instead of Q
genuine English lever.
titude Of sscertitudes and incertitudes'
connected with this investigation, and in trutl
can scarcely ourselves distinguish either from
which. We take it to be sscertituden tha
Aldermen Dolbear and Barkley, together will
the unmentioned friend Of Mr.. Conant, know
something, and that the pious President Of th,
Pontchartrain Railroad Company knows no
thing. But we may DO wrong, because we ar,
very much confused, Sand it is possible thai
Brother John Egerton knows almost as much al
the honorable members Dolbear and Barkley
the former Of whom vas, In the midst of his hon
orable and useful public career, in imminen
jeopardy Of sudden exit out Of life through
& & second story window, ? while the latter proba
Z bly, escaped similar peril only by reason 0
the admirable seIf-eum1aand of Mr.. Cooper
the praiseworthy moderation Of whom, we com
mend to the serious confederation Of his NOR
irascible friend and colleague. Alderman Place
But whatever dubisty nay surround these ap
parent eertitudes," we take some of the &c in
certitndes . to be well established, and beyon
dispute We take it to be clearly uncertai
whore that liberal and philanthropic friend {
Railroads resides, and what his name may bs
some of whose property is situated over tn
Lake, and some of whose matches have bee
mysteriously, but with unexampled generosity
placed at the disposal Of the aforesaid Alder
men who know something. This great Tn
known, whose magnanimity of mind is equale
only by his modesty Of disposition, excites in i
IS a powerful. but we hope, under the circum
stances, o pardonable curiosity. We are il
ciined to think the distinguished President hin
selfth perg man. We should-from the know
ledge we have Of his liberality and honesty, |
well as his reputed resources peculiar moe
GRAFTON and modesty Of his temper, as well as h
pioushabits- candor and explicitness, as we
&, as his freedom from all hypocrisy disinte
iestndness, as well as his entire ignorance Of d
craft and evil practices, which constitute him Il
very perfection Of knote-aaotking isnt--we shou
suppose that this mysterious benefactor was