New Orleans daily crescent., 1859-11-17

SEATS IN THE AssExsLY 70 BE CONTESTED.

Arundel, and possibly several Others, are to be
contested, upon the ground that they were elected
~ .ne polling q Illegal votes, and the proof in
uiesc cases VIII turn on the legality Of some ten or
twenty or even hundred votes, there ID not the
| slightest doubt but that the claimants will be
onsted ana the contestants admitted, for the tes-
timony is overwhelming. =
| The bribery and corruption Of the Democratic
| party in Worcester county are set down AZ scan
| dalons. open and unblushing. Even tile editor OF
| the Snow Hill Shield is out in denuneiation ~
| them. s.l.
| In Kent county two officers Of the Custom House
were the ground interfering in the election and
it is reported as high as $50 were paid for one
Democratic vote. Federal money flowed indeed
like water, ali the State and still, with all its
influence, it hardly saved the party from defeat,
| for though the Americans were not walked up to
their danger, until it was too late, yet they came
very recovering their lost ground. The steps
Of these emissaries of the Federal Government
were Marked and they will find themselves in an
uncomfortable situation at Annapolis next winter.
Again, Baltimore county was carried for the
Democracy by notorious colonizing from the First
and Second Wards of the city in the Twelfth Dis
trict, from the bloody Eighth Ward in the Ninth
District and from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Wards in the First District The facts in these
will send the claimants back to private life, beyond
| a peradventure, Democrats themselves being
Judges. In addition to these, large number or
legal voters were wantonly hindered from voting
in the Third District of Baltimore county.
The Hunters Democratic fighting club, went
over from the Seventeenth Ward to the Fifth Dis
trict of Anne Arundel, and by their illegal voting,
succeeded in giving the Democrats foothold in
that at county: COUNTY They were over hundred strong.
In Frederick, too, ample proof of false voting,
we learn, will dispossess the Democratic members
returned as elected.
| After humorousy showing how this will cause
| hitch in the " Reform Programme" }" to throw over
board the city delegation, the Patriot adds:
| We hear it malciously whispered that the Demo-
Gratis are delighted at the prospect as twill relieve
them from the responsibility Of adopting Old Whig
| or modern American measures, which they under
took to carry through, without the remotest expec-
tation they should ever be called on to perform
their promises. Shouldn't be surprised this is so.
| 1t is just like our jocose friends. Indeed it is
eminently probable that they are urging on the
Reformers to demand the sacrifice of the American
| City Delegation as holocaust, for the express
purpose OF throwing off the responsibility Of re-
/ is to be hung midway between heaven and earth,
like Mahonets coffin, by the American contestants
in the counties. If so, opponents display more
| than their usual amount of shrewdness.
| But be this as it may, thing is certain
there is sudden fetch up in Gov. Lowe's Reform
| Programme.
| From the Baltimore Clipper we extract the fol-
lowing pungent remarks in regard to the election
in that city:
After repeated Intellectual efforts to overcome
| by force and fraud legitimate majority of the
people of the city of Baltimore, this locofoco party
| and its deluded allies have again been defeated.
| No one has attempted to defend either the frauds
4 or the violence that may have been used by the
successful party. The facts abundantly show that
violence and fraud were only the results of the in
sane efforts of the opponents of the dominant party
to carry by force an election they were unable to
carry by votes. There can be no doubt that there
has been for the last five years. and that there is
now an overwhelming ma ajority Of the voting popu-
| lation of Baltimore opposed to Democracy and to
everything akin to it. But as an excuse for their
1 defeat it has been the custom of the Democratic
party managers, upon the eve of every election, to
produce by their course such Inflammation of the
public mind as will necessarily lead to some dis
turbance Of the public peace. The municipal cleo
ton in this city Il few weeks ago was the most
quiet and peaceful that had been witnessed here
for quarter of century. Instantly all the appl-
4 ances of incendarsm were set busily at work to
produce different result in November. The col
umns of the anti-American newspapers blazed day
after day with incendiary articles, the speeches o
the opponents of Americanism breathed only in
fammation and evaporation. They all cried fol
peace, but the only peace they were willing to ac
4 cept was that produced by the tame submission oi
the overwhelming majority of the people to the
| dictation of few self-consttuted censOrs. They
| would not have peace without triumph of their
own party, and they wilfuy murdered peace to
excuse their defeat.
And now these instigators of strife-these self
appointed controllers of public opinion and public
affairs, foiled in their attempt to achieve locofoco
victory by snatching the reins of government from
| the hands of the people and substituting odious
despotism OF a chosen few for, if you please the
despotism of the many, are madly rushing their
vndictiyeness beyond the election, to which they
appealed, and endeavoring to introduce social
prescription of those who will not bow in servile
submission to their behests. They urge this pro-
scripton against all the candidates of the success
| full party. They say let the line be drawn-broad,
distinct, unequivocal, in all the relations of life
all the concerns of business, in all the intercourse
| of the community"
| They say of the candidates for Congress:
'' If the times were not so deplOraby out of joint
there wonld not be member of the House that
would extend to either the right hand of fellowship
nor hotel or private mansion in Washington that
would be open for their reception. They would be
met at the threshold of every circle which they
might attempt to enter, with the indignant express
sion-Avaunt and quit my sight !"
And these are the utterances of Democracy of
that immaculate Democracy which has for years
maintained its hold upon the public treasury only
by means of the most infamous frauds and violence
| in elections = of that Democracy which placed
James Buchanan in the Presidential chair by the
most glaring and outrageous desecration Of the
purity of the ballot-box, and achieved triumph
in a municipal election in the city of Washington,
by the bullets of the United States marines-of
most notorious election bullies and ballot-box stuff
ers with public otfices-of that Democracy which
fills our custom-houses and Governmental depart
ments with men as infamous as the worst rowdcs
who have ever figured in the police annals of the
| country-Of that Democracy which clothes with
one Of the highest appointments in the gift of the
| administration, Jehu CLANCY Jones, proved by an
investigating committee of the House of Represent
atves to have been guilty of most disreputable
fraud upon the Government, and snatched from the
prisoners dock of the Federal Court Isaiah Ryn-
ders, the chief of the notorious Empire Club, to
place him in of the most lucrative and respon-
sibe Offices under the Government 1t is the men
who fawn upon Buchanan, elected by the most in
famous frauds, and are proud to place their legs
under the same mahogany with Jones and Rynders,
the representatives of fraud and violence in cleo
tions, who beSpeak a social prescription of such
men as j. Morrison Harris and Henry Winter Davis,
because they are Representatives in Congress from
Baltimore. "Oh, shame, where is thy blush ?''
Even fends must laugh at such barefaced hypoc-
risy, such ridiculous assumptions of purity to
which Democracy is and ever was an utter
stranger.
GEREITr Smiths INsANrTY.-A dispatch Of the
10th from Utica says:
Gerritt Smith shows continued marks of insanity.
No one is allowed to see him. but it is understood
that he refers in his rawlings to the Harper's Ferry
matters, and supposes himself arrested.
The Utica Heraldsays:
We greatly panied to learn that Gerritt Smith,
the free-hearted but sadly erratic phianthropist,
became on Monday last an inmate of the New York
State Lunatc Asylum, where it has been found
necessary to place him on account of marked in
sanity. We learn that he is very violent, and has
exhibited disposition to commit suicide, and that
an attendant keeps constant watch over him to pre-
vent him from laying violent hands on himself. This
result we hear is attributable to the connection of
Mr.. Smiths name with the Harpers Ferry affair !;