Southern shield., 1855-01-06
From the Detroit Advertiser Doesticks Goes to Lection.
NEW YORK, November 8, 1854. ,
 701 MARROW STREET. {

AiCo, pdutO4o, bo1lAlCo, nHu ldSCI -OlCA saw great many flags, with appro- priate devices; noticed one in particu
 lar, the whiskey faction had it, coat of arms as follows: within the American shield, two lager beer casks supporting rum bottle rampant. lrishman azure -fat-on his back ant, sustained by 8 wheelbarrow couchant--sinister eye sable-in base, demijohn between two small decanters-in the distance, po
 licemen pendant, from a lamp-post standant--motto, "Coming events cast their shadows before: Let the NJ. P.'s beware" On the obverse, ticket for city officers, and opposed an American quarter dollar-motto, ''Exchange no Bribery" "Faugh ma Ballagh, "- "Go in and win.''
 It rained as if 1t were raining on a bet-went to the polls, wanted to vote, wasn't particular who for, if he only had the biggest flags and the most bull lies, was a little puzzled after all how to do it; had read all the political prints to find out the best man, but in iudg- ing from what the newspapers say con- corning the different candidates, the various factions in this city entertained peculiar ideas about the requisites nec- essary to qualify a man to fill a public station. Not an individual is ever nom- mated for any office who is not eulo- gised by some of the public journals as drllnkard, liar, swindler, incendia- Try, assassin or public robber. Assu- ming 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, I have endeavored to an- alyze the gradations of criminal mer- 1t, and discover exactly how big ras- cal man must be to qualify him for any given office. The result of my investigations are as follows:
 No one is eligible to the office of Mayor of this city unless he has forged draft, and got the money on 1t, and on at least two seperate occasions, set fire to his house to get the insurance. Candidates for Aldermen qualify them selves by carrying revolver, getting beastly drunk, and stabbing police man or two before they get sober. A Common Councilman. must drink with the Short Boys, give prizes to the fire mems target excursions, carry slung shot in his pocket, and have a person. al interest in a Peter Funk auction shop. A Police Justice must gamble a little, cheat considerable, lie a good deal, and get drunk "clear through" every Saturday night. If he can read easy words and write his own name it is generally no serious objection; but the Know Nothings will not permit even this, on the plea that the science of letters is of foreign origin. A man who can pick 6 pocket scientifically will make good constable. Aspirants to minor offices are classified according to desert, and no one who has not. at least, committed petit larceny, is al lowed a place on any regular ticket As to the officers of more importance l should say, from what I can now judge, that no man can ever be elected Governor of the State unless he is gull ty of a successful burglary complica- ted with midnight murder. The ri- val candidates in this present crisis had called each other all the names and ac- cused each other of all the crimes inn aginable, for the preceding six weeks. Boggs had been denounced as the plum derer of orphans and seducer of inno- cent maidens, and the pilferer of hard earned coppers from the poor. Noggs, according to his charitable opponents, was a pickpocket, sheepstealer, a Peter Funk, and an Irishman. The candidate set up by the Know Moth ings, to claim votes on the plea of his being an immaculate American, was proved to be the child of French father, and Prussian mother, and to have been born in Calcutta-it was as- serted that he commenced his education in the Northern part of Ethiopia, con- tinued in Dublin, and finally graduated at Botany Bay. Hoggs, who had once before held the office he was now stri- wing for, it was asserted, had solemnly promised to pardon all the murderers liberate all the burglars, reward all the assassins, and present all the shoulder hitters with an official certificate of gocd moral character which should also tes- tify to the valuable and highly com mendable exertion in the public behalf. Scroggs, too virtuous to be severely handled was merely mentioned as hay ing been formerly swindler and a member of the Common Council.
 Got to the polls; man with blue flag urged me to go for Boggs; man with the red flag said vote for Scroggs, man with white flag with black let ters sung out, "Go for Hoggs"- "-little boy pulled my coat tail and whispered ''vote for Noggs''--man challenged my vote, took of my hat, held up my l