New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-08
LATEST FROM NFW-ORLEANs.

We s,e advised by private dispatches received in
this city that the Vigilance Committee Is IN tu pos
session Of New. Orleans. Mayor Waterman had re-
signed Samuel II. Kennedy, wealthy produce
dealer and commission merchant, was acting as
Mayer under the authority Of the Committee Ills
authority is sustained by over three thous and cizens
1t is sald that Judge Theodore Hunt and his brother
Randall Hunt, and several Others. had been notlne9
TO leave the city, or remain at their peril It's expected
tina five or Elk of the Leading Thugs would be ex-
eeuted. Meor Beauregerd will be elected Mayor Oh
resign. Leading citizens who have participated IN
this moven ert will then take office under him.
THE MI NICIPAL ELECTION.
From The Netp- Oriean, Tue Delta, May 81
One week from to day the people will be called upon
70 elect Mayor aud other city officers, and We have
the unusual satisfscnon indeed the unparalleled one
of seeing the inhabitants OF New Orleans thro wing
aside every other consideration, personal and POLITICAL
on this cocsscn but the great and noble one of obtain
ing servants who, in all things, will faithfully aud wen
promote the public veal. We DO longer sect the wealth
the intelligence the business enterprise, the nechan
cal .k or the honest labor of the place split up and
divided in favor of this that or TIE other political lac
tion-tradpg with the rutlisDs of Galatln street., or
the associate nudeIers who intest our strets-put
spontaneous ard general uprising OF al classes ana
descriptions Of decent men, animated by the single
determination Of freeing our city from she RUE OF
rufiianisn and it's ana credit from the ruin
which low 80 apparently Threatens them.
Men who embraced, three or four years ago, know
Nottrgism as political principle. abandon ii now,
that they ftd 10 be only the embodiment OF huge
crime and if their convictions IN regard TO what con-
stuted the first basis Of that secret nz aion nave
unc ei gone little change they have OF least been con-
WINGED that tie mode by which il wH soughsto make
item succe sstul must be abandoned. TITS We forsaw
and pointed out fom TIE first for experience had de-
monstrated 10 our mind most concusyey, loog before
Know nottingham assumed form and substance, that
even open political stion, Ike tie ola defunct
Wig or the dsiIegIated Democratic psrty Of TO gay
couc not long resist the persistent efforts OF bad de-
signing men 10 convert them into machines i,r tner
hi ~ 10 ii =
rg Jury Of the great mass Of the people, Shcse ~
oustia and useful avocatons left them neither toe
time the inclination 10 couuteract their schemes and
their advces. We al saw how Democracy bee eIne
in the bsrds Of few INSCRIPTIONS, shrexd, han edu-
Gated, audaciors fellows in this city, al iIstru-
uent OF abuse only less wicked and disgust
ing, because less savage, than the fluggey
which now has It's daily or weekly victims
Lere; howpsiG rsry elections were slw.)s eontroled
by gangs Of hired drunken buIs, sometimes OF ICY
ejgr sometimes Of mixed and sometimes OF 10 known
origin Whatsoever; Row only certain personf OF those
whom they might idcate, could reach through sucn
machinery any public positions how the expression Oh
opinion at public meetings. other places where can
didates usually were expected 10 announce and eA-
pound their principles wss denied 10 every one VINO
did net receive the Endorsement Of the scondre caoaI
who arrog6ted 10 themselves the right u cOntfOiibg
all elections and appointments jus: as is az present
dOIe by the same agencies al Washington To-Day ana
low, natural result Of al this, knowN cthingsm
sprung into existence, and almost Lmediaey there-
alter lei Uf der ire very same sCr. u bol nu7eu ~
exact influences when had previously brought about
| tie destruction Of the Democratic orgsDiZGiOn.
Many Ct the more prom muTderefs oil ,o,as!
first graduated in Galatn street in the seventh fre'
cDet, in the Third Fourth Districts as etcien'
operators al ward meetings. city conventions aId gen
eTsl elections. They bsTgsned 10 gIye on e!scuon
day, 70 many votes fer so much money in pahd psi'
and not content with receiving munihoert wages ior
their infamous services, not unfTeiuerty demanded
and obtained they still do, places under the Fedora
| State or municpsl Government. Our readers do moi
| require to be told that, 10 we've, or BY whom prsc