The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-09-09

CORREsPo NDENCE.

Parishes Of East and West :'eliciana,)
to fiji the vacancy caused by the ele7
walton of the Hon. u. T. Nerrick, to
the Supreme Bench, took place yes.
terday. Sufficient return rave been
received to satisfy us, 1t Rattiff,
Esd, Of West Feliciana, TIE old Fogy
nominee has been elected. As you
might suppose. from the result, that
the native American party was loos-
ing strength in this section, think ii
necessary to inform You, that such is
not the case, and explain 30 you The
reasons that have broughk about this
result. The old Fogies feed the day
Of the election to nominate their can
didates for the Legislature, together
with their Parish officers ! A box for
this purpose was opened II each pre-
cinct This brought 70 the polls
every: Democrat in the Parish. It
was gain Of at least fifty votes for
them. Another. reason bf their sue.
cess is, from tho fact that: most Of tho
American citizens had Left this place
and Port Hudson, in eoni,eqnenee Of
the yellow fever being irjtheir midst,
whereas almost every foreigner re-
maiued, and as a matt1r Of course
cast their votes for Rat{iff. Most Of
the Americans that left, slid not 20 to
the polls at all. This csAised us loss
Of not far from fifty vstes Again,
there were large number that voted
against Mr. Smith, thj, American
candidate, because he vAas minister
Of the gospel, believing fiat, that class
should not medd1e with rs,liGcs. These
are the circumstances that have
brought about the defeaf of Mr.. Smith.
Had every thing been equal Mr..
Smith would have beaten Ratlif,
from 30 to go votes in this Parish
The American ticket swill succeed
this fall by about 100 majority. We
have the best men in t,,e Parish, in
the field. B1thell Haynes and @.
W. Jones, havc been dominated on
the Democratic ticket FIR the Legis-
lature. Haynes is one of the celebra.
ted Nineteeners ~ thst signed the
handful proving Gems Taylor to be
an abolitionis. He has just sense
enough to cali himself y Democrat
to go for bis party, right or wrong
Some years ago he was nominated for
seat in the Legislature, and there
happened to be a memker Of bis party,
who had declared he would not vote
for lawyer for any office flor you
must reeolleet that !Bythel has
lawyers license) and Chen asked how
he intended 10 act in tssis case, replied,
II shall vote for Hayj,es-be is not
lawyer enough to huri.' So you can
come to the concluslos in what light
he is held AZ 4 wmsinent man by
those who know him best. As an
humble citiztp, Mr. Haynes is a good
man--beyond that ian say nothing
in his favor. With Nj. Geo. Fl. Jones
! am hardly acquainted. / am in
formed that he made speech to the
Democratic club II; jackson, last
week, when: he made. use Of this Ian
guage: There are letter Americans
in the heart Of Europe than there are
in the United States,' II think those
are the exact words az reported to me.
Comment on the character Of such d
man is unnecessary. The American
people will learn binl a lesson in No
vember. AS for Haynes. he will be
next to no-wheye.
Ed Scott and Willis Moore, were
the candidates for SHERIFF. Moore
was nominated. He. stands no show
whatever. Scott was the one that
should have received the nomination.
There is not morespopular and des-
CRYING young man in the Parish
Moore got the start IL him, by having
got many to pledge themselves to
vote for him in the domination. Had
Scott received the nomination, he
would have carried the full party
vote. Moore can't begin to do #.
VIM. Patterson was nominated for
Clerk. He is good man. end will
make good race. :Skipwith will not
beat him mere thas rs, or 80 votes.
Joseph ;Drawdysis again selected
or Assessor. Ha il an excellent