New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-05-26
NATURALIZATION STATISTICS

We earnestly invite the deliberate attention 81 all
respectable citizens the community native
or naturali2ed the disclosures which are made by
1.-THE following statistics the subject of naturaliza-
i ton in New Orleans They have been prepared with
great care and labor and vouch for their correct
4 ness in every important particular.
The record is, indeed, d startling one. The enor.
nous increase sought to be effected in the vote Of the
city, in the short space comprehende in these statis
tics, Of itself furnishes subject grave considera
| ton. The manufacture Of upwards of d thousand
voters on the eve of an election, must naturally lead
every patriotic mind to make the inquiry whether an
accession of citizens SO vast SOL hurried and at
time and under circumstances SO suspicious, can pro
mote the public welfare, and aid in giving expression
to the fair and legal voice of the people The fact
that the number Of Of naturalization said to
have been rendered on q single day, is, in some
instances, solarge that no human power could in so
short aspace OF time have heard the evidence made
the examination, administered the oatls and rem
dered the Judgment which the law exacts in every
case IS enough of itself to cast discredt on these
recent atons But when it is observed that
many OF the certificates issued by the Clerks Of the
Courts, are based upon no records Of judgments
Whatever that most of those issued during the vaca
tlon OF the courts were issued at q time when no
Judgment could have been legally rendered that not
one OF the pretended judgments of naturalization Of
Judge Reynolds or Judge Robertson is signed by the
Judge, although the law makes it indispensable that
every Judgment should be so signed before it can
produce any effect whatever. When, we say, our
readers come to know that none of the requirements
nay not even the forms of law, were observed in the
great anxiety Of certain judges and their clerks to
swell the force Of Locofocusm and to manufacture
voters, wholesale gratis the large number Of natural
izatons per diem becomes at once readily accounted
for and the true and legal value Of these patent Ger
tifcates as readily ascertained. IN hi,
IL our readers feel at all anxious to witness the
naturalization process in full operation, they can be
gratied to their hearts content during the remainder
Of this week, we make no doubt by calling Of most
OF our District Courts, at 10 O'Clock precisely any
morning. &
We make no doubt that that very intelligent lumin
airy, Judge Robertson in view Of the fact of his hay-
ing three hundred persons or more remaining untried
in j and in view Of the recent demonstration in Mr.
Hunts great argument Of the utter want OF jurisdic
ton IN his court over any other than criminal mat
ters will distinguish himself by lending helping
hand to the good work We hasten to lay before our
readers without further comment the following sta
tstics, taken from the records of the courts n
provide for the Government of the Cry
the Administration of the affairs thereof approved March 18th
- have this day appointed the following named gentle
preside Inspectors Of the election take place
s for com NJ Rs sFee
Aldermen fifteen Of Board Of Assistant Alder
men, the city New Orleans according the provisions
I said act to-wit: AT the
I. First Precinct-Wiiam G. Mullen. . "
III Second Precnct-Benjamn Bloomfield.
~ Third Precinct-Dr. Ames.
Z Fourth Precinc-Henry D. Ogden,
Il Fifth Precinc-H. Judson.
: Sixth Precinct-R. W. Adams.
Al Seventh Precinc-T. D. Harper.
} Eighth Precinct--M. Scott.
: Ninth Preeinct-F. A. Bettnger.
Tenth Precnct-H L. Peire.
III ri Eleventh Preoine-H. r. Grandmont.
III Twelfth PreGinct-C DeViiers
II . Thirteenth Precinc-P. Maloche
I'll Fourteenth Precinc-F. NJ. Crozat.
II Fifteenth Precinct-M Dodart
7 / Sixteenth Precinct-P. o. Labatnt
n Seventeenth Precnct-Charles Fagot.
+ Eighteenth Precincts. S. Ref.
- Nineteenth Precinct-George Hooper
Twentieth Precinct-Georee Lugenbihl "
s Twenty first Precnct-N. Sinnott.
tTwenty.seco Preenct-John S. Whitaker.
i .s Twenty third Precjnct-George Puryis. =
my2s JNo. L. LEWIS, Mayor.