New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-17
"A Lesson of the Elections.
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l[lsron the Natinnni Intellieencar j

tbe Aprll session.
a Lesson oG the elections.
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from the National InteigencerI
The radical organs allude to their recent sue.
cesses US positively overwhelmingly because
they were achieved, as asserted, Tin the face of
an ofieial patronage welded by an unscFupnious
executive, amounting to nearly three hundred
millions of dollars " They argue from this as
sunp ton that the result is nulqaestionably pop
ular verdict ganst the conservative policy Of the
fresiaent This argument is as defective as the
premises are false. Unfortunately for the coun-
Try and the administration, this vast official pa
tresages the medium Of almost incaleuable poit-
1891 influence, was not tWieldedn by the execu-
tEe, but was left almost exclusively in the hands
OF the radicals, and was by them used industri-
ousiy, energetieaiy, aud unscrnpnlously III the
achievement Of their recent victories.
Inc result mphatically teaGhes the lesson that
this vast patronage had been s.wieldedii by the
President, as vas done BY all his predecessors and
as had come TO be the established prac tce of ma
honaI entives. there would have been few radi-
ca fietories in the last election to record. 1t is
useless TO deny that this patronage exercises a
great influence on elections. Every oficeholder
ia a political worker. We have heretofore shown
by q mininiHna alculation, that this patronage is
Y worth 20 she party exercising it, at least from
70 forty fhansand votes 10 Pennsylvania, and
from forty to fifty thousand in New York Iii
New hampshire Connecticut Illinois, Ohio, Indi-
3naand other States the influence of this patron
age bears d corresponding ratio 1t has been n
friends Of President Johnson, that he has declined
to follow the example of all his predecessors, and
inltted almost the whole of thisVast patron
aa t9 remain IN the hands OF radical partizans,
to be by them 'Wielded' against those who were
supporting the policy of his administration.
AM iyslsDf the result of the recent elections
III varioHs localities shows eonelusively that
Wherever this patronage was enjoyed by support
egssof5 The administration, there were great CON
aerFatYe gains, and that Whereyerit had been left
u tle hands Of the radicals large radical gains
vs. 9Fe realized. For instance in the city of Phil.
adsipAia, where d considerable portion of this
patronage ha1, only q few weeks before the
alseiisn, been transferred to conservatives tile
radical MAI efitY was reduced more than onehalf
and q tae city Of New York, where similar
course was pursued, the conservatives gained over
eleven thousand votes: while wherever else in
those 8 ites the radicals were left in undistnrhed
possession of the public offices, they succeeded i'll
aitee ing q heavy increase in the radical vote. 1t
ls plaln deduetion from these facts that, if the
Renewals mad been made Id tile same proportion
thTuug hout these and otheF States the small ma
orities By which they We're carried by the radicals
WDuld have been converted into much greater con
seryatipe majorities.
An 4araination Of the results by the light of
these facts proves that, Withgery few exceptions.
The radical victories are attributed mainly il not
antrely, to the possession aad unserupGious use
ahy the party of this vast patronage t4amountfng
10 nearly three hundred millions Of doars.if by
their own computian. They have enjoyed, and
6tt continue to enjoy nearly the whole Of
shia patronage of the administration theF
continually denounce and are striving to break
dDwa; and yet the President who has left
ID their hands these elements Of vast political
power, has been, and is still daily abused by those
VI l9sate thus fattaning at the public crib, quite
JAS fefaely as If he had followed the example
q tls predecessors and taken the Offices from
taaEa
Hffa gBsrFsA i P AeIFIo RAILRoAD OF CAL1FoR.
NE Ibe President OF the Central Pacific rail
Foad of California has transmitted report to the
Seeresafyof the interior. Is srepresents the road
j AR completed and running to Cisco, twelve miles
THstof tne summit of the Sierra Nevada, making
distance Of forty-four miles from Sacramento,
Kea6tDg at that point an elevation Of about six
teal hundred feet above tide water at Sacrament
tos The grades are necessarily high to surmount
tbs aHlnlnlts which Is seven Thousand feet above
the sea level after which it is without any undu-
latil ales, The rise being constant. The high.
est grade used, the minimum authorized bylaw,
ls ane hnAared and sixteen feet per mile, of which
there are three and half miles. Trains are now
run over this portion vi the road nc the rate of
twenty five miles, and freight trans at the rates of
twelve miles per hour. force il now engaged
IA cnnstFne4ing d tunnel, sixteen hundred feet in
length, at the summit Of the Sierra Nevada, and
one8ot nina hnndred-feet seven miles east of the
summit, The examinations aud surveys Indicate
3 Ehe valley Of the Hamooldt, recommended by Gen.
4 u IL. simpson, united States corps of engineers,
Chief engine er department OF the Interior as the
most desirable route for d railroad through the
State Of 81 evada; and BIZ making q long section
To the n0rthwafa ii Is believed that Salt Lake can
Be reached in less distance by following the valley
up this TTar To It's source than by any other prac.
ticabe Tonte During the year1 1867 it is expected
that the road viii reach 20 the big#hend of the |
aruekee. to which point the road has been perna.
nentIy located distance from Sacramento Of
one hundred and ninety-hye miles. The company
Ias exp ended on the road and equipments, and
Ear inaierials purchased aud now in transit from
New guFk to San Francisco over sl2 50O0, 600, and
IL I'll confidently peeted hy them that the road
wilbe completed TO Salt Lake City next year.
EtgsfGs KANE AND FHE Plan no AssAssINATE
gHE ri STIEa PREsIDESg AaD gARlNRy.A Wash
ingt5n dispatch Of the sth, says
Acting ensign a. j.. Kane, United States navy
arrived lsre3 Yesterday, having been summoned 10
appear before the secretary Of state and secretary
al llse navy in relation to certain charges made
Against him BY Mr. Pecks our lalnisfer 70 haytl,
III which III is stated that he saved President Gef-
4EaEd tat Hay and his cabinet from assassination
iii giving up certain letters that had been iii.
tftsfed f0 him bv prominent rebel of the Hay
sen rGpubiie. The letters contained plan OF the
Campaign and assassination, according to which
sie princilaI arAellais and magazines of Port au
EfIhee were to be hloEn up and the city destroy
#eI biz iire. The charge of dish0norabla conduct
against acting ensign Kane is that no received a
EeMaT farliia services from President aeiifard in
The snft og H95 Goa in gold There is no truth iii
she statement tiat he Ia under arrest as he isstop
ping al the Kirkwooa House, and to-day had an
intss Jew with Secretary Seward.
-ss---e-
LetteFs from Berlin announce tho marriage
d'Ile Marie Teglioni to the Prince Joseph d.
iaalsehggaiz-
Memphis paper of the list inst. says that Pres.
asAt Johnson has intlmatsd an intention to visit
taiaf city III aBo or three weeks.