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New Orleans Correspondence.


l. New Orleans Correspondence.
THE secret Cfrcu2ar-Soule turned Asstaor--R ow n,
the sorehead gathering Bobtaiis desert Bobtoik
Tile local Offices and K. ". aspirants-7Augs
/ eersus Crcoles-71e Fau6oury 81. Mary to be
counted out-7hs uiguana falling to pieces and
the Goat Club lamenting--Stih in the batk-
ground, Summers ia tie SHADE, and all raising
the hot place generally.
New ORLEANS, August 4, sol
have just been shewn one OF the secret circulars
addressed by the committee appointedin pursuance
tof the resolution introduced by Soule and adopted
at the last meeting Of the State Right Club, which
resulted i'll its dislnemberment and to which
alluded in my last.
1t is mandy PANTY in its style, and has none Of
that terse, vigorous saxon about it, which arrests
the attention and oblges the reader to follow it to
the close, but tame and spiritless and shess its
paternity Enthusiastically. Youcould hardly believe
that the writer of this appeal to the pure Denocra
cy, invoking their aid to save the party had voted
an open ticket for the American party in June
last q! But it il the truth This circular letter is
signed John AstoD, W. r. Crane, Chas. Bienyenu
and James Gardette, two Of whom are displaced
federal officers, and one Of the other two is disap
pointed applicant for the place OF tde-waiter OF
| Inspector of the customs. They close their ad.
dress to their country friends in the following patr
otto manner: eve desire to have your5yiews on
the expedieney OF offering in opposition to the
! bogus state ticket, dictated to the Baton Rouge
Convention, ticket Of truly independent, honest
firm and patriotic State Right Democrats and upon
the best mode of submitting it to the people" In
this letter they do not spare Maj. Herrons friends
but say "tiey were transformed into plant iustru.
ments' and Enormously sold or exchanged Their
votes, and that when Slidell failed to make bar.
gain "the bastard majority would interpose to
exclude and reject Delegates" &C., Sc. Tae mem
bers Of the committee who have the power Of ap.
pending their names to this address are but little
known here as prominent men of the Democratic
party and to the Democracy Of the State at large
are absolutely strangers. They have never distin.
gaished themselves in any Democratic contest in
the city or state, but on the contrary two of the
Sgners fought against'us in our darkest times and
never joined our banners until victory had dispersed
our enemies, and with the battle won and our op-
poneits in the dust, the Democratic party was as
founded at the important accession they had OBJ
tanned to their ranks by the appointment of one of
the gentlemen in 1853 to a high Federal Office in
the city. The first signer was once resident Of
your parish and you know much more Of his ante.
cedents than | do, but l am Of The impression
that he has always been a Democrat This address,
Tor various reasons given in my last, does not meet
the peculiar views of the True Delta, nor was it
printed at that Office and was the actual rock on
which the Democratic State Right Association
was split in twain. But one of these secret circu.
lar has found its way back to the city, and it is re-
garded as too much ola gem to be resent to the
country or would nclose it to YOU'LL can lay
my hands on any other copy you shall have it.
Take it all in all it may b, considered remarkable
document, displaying the same amiable mood its
author maintains against Sdell and his friends, as
was displayed by him in his speech III Odd Fellows
Hall OF the 9th Of April last. If this appeal, With
the endorsement of those distinguished gentlemen
whose signatures are attached fails to arouse the
country Democracy, all hopes Of an opposition
ticket fall to the ground, and Hyams will have to
fume and fret until November, because he has
no antagonist to punish or to worry to death for
his temerity. 81
: The armistice and unexpected peace between
the European beigerents have come upon us in a
heap, and il the Telegram is reliable, Soule will
have to seek some other channel for the invest.
ment Of his, money. The reiocings Oh. the Boule-
wards on the return Of the Emperor and his army
from his Italian Campaign and the free Uosr, that
will be given to the Bourgeois OF Paris in the
Champs Eysie commemorative Of the success Of the
French arms and French diplomacy over Austria
must, whilst crushing the hopes Of the Roayhons,
be alike disastrous to Soule and his hopes Of pro.
6table OUTLAWS Of money.
There has been no change up to this tiGe-in
the intestine feuds Of The Salnulites-there is going
to be a severe and embttered struggle for the
flesh pots. The Creole Know Nothinss are claim
ing every thing. They have had the Sheriffalty in
the person of Parker who is French Creole on the
mothers side--they have had the Coroner and
four OF the Clerkshps out Of the FIVE which the
American party carried. Charles claiborne wants
Auld's place, the only Democratic Officer, so does
Relf, another Creole, whilst that intense American,
Col Poindextcr, is also striving the nomination
Parker is too much Americanized for the American
party-the next Sheriff must be a French Creole
and SO must the Coroner also FIVE out OF the six
Clerks. VIII the Goats with their police and
Thuggers submit to this division? Will the "Tau-
bourg ST. Mary" which covers all above canal
street and which has been the scene of three.
fourhs of the outrages at the polls and the theatre
of all the Irish murders, stand by and see their
power depart from them! What will Red Bill say!
What will Bob johnson say? What would the
Ghosts of the murdered Abe Phillips. and that lay