The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-03-07
New Orleans Correspondence.

Governors and Mayors proclamations have q
ot yet been issued; why, it is impossible a
Or any but those worthless and their friends A
o say. am afraid they have concocted G
ONE trick to evade an election, or, if dri- e
'en to the wall, will spring a mine which 9
hall give rise to heightened litigation and +
,eep the present unpalateable incumbents q
n place. Il
The election Of delegates from the differ ID
mt wards takes place on Monday evening. y
Colonel Nixon of tho Crescent is the most h
prominent candidate for Mayor, and there '
8 little or no doubt of his nomination. His
opponents are ex-Mayor john T. Monroe
who was dispossessed by the illustrious
General Butler; ATistide Miltenberger, q
Cotton Factor and old resident; Gerard
Stith, also an ex-Mayor, and now a printer
on the 2 Picayune;" James P. Freret, still
another ex-Mayor, and most excellent and
genial gentleman; and several others
whose names and pretensions are not SO
prominent. @v8sE s-e4l sc ~
Colonel Henry D. Ogden, who acted, in |
Confederate times, as Provost Marshal and
Military Judge in your city, and who has
reputation for all the qualities which can
render man loved and respected, was
added by his friends and admirers to the,
list of candidates for the Mayoralty; but he
positively refuses to run, and Colonel
Nixon will certainly be nominated. The
latter, whose only motive in running is to
abolish the abuses and peculation under
which the poor old city groans, pressed
Judge Ogden to run, offering him all his
personal influence, and the betrayal Of all
the expenses attendantupon the election
But the Judge peremptorily declined the
generous protfer, preferring the exercise Of
his profession and the quietude Of private
| life to the turmoil Of politics and public
business.
Colonel J. o. Nixon is just the man for
Mayor at this juncture. Full of energy
and spirit, active, fearless and indonitable,
pleasing in manner, comprehensive in men
tai grasp, and withal generous, liberal and
Fconciliatory, no man in New Orleans is
better fitted for the chief magistracy OF the
city. -3s e .'.8 s'
| If elected, he win accept the Office from
no selfish or sordid motive; on the contrary
the sacrifice he makes will be far from
compensated by the emoluments Of the
Office.
| am sorry for his sake, but glad for that
Of my fellow citizens, that he has been in
fluenced to run. His election is sure, and
we may look to wholesale reformation in
our municipal affairs at a very early date.
4 The abolition papers Of the North and
North West treat Mr. Johnson's late speech
with acrimony and horror; some even &C
1cuse the President of having been drunk al
the time, and even revive his unseemly
conduct on the day of his inauguration
(which at the time they were SO anxious tt
t gloss over,) in support Of their assertion
, can hardly believe this, but / think there
/, is something under the rose, some menace
E of assassination or attempt to intimidatt
!, him, which reused him beyond his usua
calmness, and brought out that brave def
ance which has cheered the people from
end to end of the whole country. It ma!
have been policy on the part of the Presi
dent to put the nation on its guard agains
the threats which had been made agains
9 his life, and to show malice prepense o,
Q the part of the Radical leaders in cas-
/. those threats were carried out, At an!
rate, howsoever unbeceming and nndigni
d fed in the head ola great nation to de
scend to personalities, the direct charge
I'll against Summer, Stevens and Forney hav
> smitten them with paralysis for time ant
;, checked momentarily their headIong caree
of iniquity and oppression. The Southern
. people breathe freely now; the issue ha
. been declared, and we all feel there
9 enough conservatism in the North, Eas
,. and West to sustain the President to a tr
e umphant yindication OF his course an
l. policy. ,
o, The radical scoundrels in Congress IT
" semble mob who, listening only to pa
g sion, are resolved to execute lynch Law
ia until some one of resolute and command
"a ing character exhorts them to restrai
J their lawlessness. Reason returns and IL
:, storm is calmed-so be it with the zaob
RI Congress. =
y The most notable thing ] have seen
IL New Orleans since the SO called" wind u
III is the numberless gaudy shops in eve,
IT, portion of the city wherein quack med
tie cines are sold. Yankee missionaries, va
Of kee preachers, Yankee morals, Yankee \
~ ligion, are all very detestable in their wa
ut but Yankee quackery is about the wor
10 evil ever generated in New England.
av Every i'll that flesh is heir to has an AM
!; dote ina Yankee nostrum; somebody b
:. said that patent" medicine vendo
= treat the human body as they would tire
'' an old clock, they tinker the machinery
as to make it run in crazy fashion for
Is little while until the whole fabric falls