New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-05-16
Third Congregational District.

A Democratic candidate for Congress in this Dis
trict will be nominated at Baton Rouge next Mon
day. The canvass for the nomination has been
exceedingly animated, and not altogether free from
acrmony. The most prominent aspirants are the
present incumbent, Hon. Thomas Green Davidson,
and the Hon. Andrew s. Heron, Secretary Of State.
The name of the Hon. John Perkins, Jr., has been
favoraby mentioned in several parishes in connection
with this honorable post but we opine the contest
rests mainly between Davidson and Heron. We're
we to speak as politicians, should prefer the nomi
nation Of Davidson, an old and unprincipled party
hack and scapegoat feeling confident that he could
be beaten while we quite Major Heron could
not but as citizens, cannot countenance any at
tempts to elevate such to office of any kind.
On this topic the Baton Rouge Gazette of the 14th
has the following observations:
On Monday next the dominant party in this State
meets for the purpose Of State and Congressional
nominations That it will prove to be interesting
ings, so far as heard FROM have been OF the most dis
cordant character the contest being between old and
yonng Democracy. Some of the parishes have two
sets Of deegates and each has its favorites for office
The race for Congress in this District will be very
close one. The friends of young sorrel" {Herron,)
are active and full of hope while those Of" old gray
lDaydson are neither asleep or mapping and though
he don't move very fast he weeds mighty wide row
as he goes along.
Posr!OFFIcE ROBBERY BAsrRoP. - Singular
State Of Ataus-The postal business of Bastrop,
in the parish of Morehouse, La, must be conducted
in very curious manner if the following statements
which we find in the Morehouse Advocate of the 9Th
inst, are correct. We think that the Postmaster
General and the proper authorities should look to the
matter and let it be known how parties SO we'll known
and so openly charged with robbng the mails obtain
immunity, not only from punishment, but from legal
proceedings. The Advocate says: ..5l
On Saturday the 23d nit, certain citizens Of this
place accidentally discovered quantity Of letters
concealed between the mattresses in a bed in the
Bastrop post-ofce We believe there were forty let
ters or perhaps more, all broken open and such as
1 contained yaluabes cleaned out. On examination il
was found that these letters had all been taken OF
stolen from the post-ofice. What number had beer
destroyed, or what amount of money these mail rob
bling postoice pirates had distracted tits impossible
to say. The letters found are in all probability but
small sample of the entire quantity stolen, it is no
likely that these thieves put all they had stolen unde
the mattress. No doubt the great bulk were de
stroyed, and those found probably forgotten il
their temporary hiding place--the thieves being a
the time of taking them too drunk to make ava,
with them more efectually So far as ascertainei
from the letters found, about five hundred dollars
known to have been taken. g. r..
Besides stealing money from the public generally
these rasca were base enough to rob their employers
at least those through whom they got access to tn
office, as it appears that they used up about tiv
hundred dollars worth Of postage stamps all of whic
! they must have sold on their account. Not how
satisfied with stealing all the money letters tha
passed through the Office ard such a quantity
stamps they must needs crafty their vulgar curiosit
by opening and reading letters which they must hay
known could contain nothing valuable. Surely sue
a scene of baretaced ylainy has never before bee
enacted in any civilized country, and yet, strange
say, the perpetrators of this infamy walk the stree
in broad day light, as anconcerned as if nothing
the kind had ever happened-as to who they are al
what they are that is secret in Bastrop-inpuni
for the past appears to give them confidence as to Il
future. 'E r "s' .
We would publish the names of those pirates b
that is unnecessary, for as we have said, everybo
: knows them, and besides, we hope, though we a
afraid vanly, that this matter may yet be the ST
:, ject of a judicial investigation.
t As to how far the Postmaster, Col. Livingston
p to blame, or his Deputy, Mr.. Wright, it is not for
to say They both, or at least Mr.. Livingston, kn'
the characters who officiated in the post-ofice a
e NEST undoubtedly, if he did not himself commit,
certainly permitted the perpetration of the CROSSE
! outrage that has ever been practised on any CO.
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