The daily Mississippi clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-04-22
Correspondence Of the Clarion
LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS.

New ORLEANS, April 18th, 1866.
Last week was busy political season, and
the great loOked-for election of Delegates to
the Parish nal-Democratic-Whi
ican-Anti-Radical Convention took place
and the Convention was itself held, and
made its nominations. There never were
delegates elected heretofore when so large Il
vote was given. They represented "A larger
and more united constituency than we ever
had in this city, and though there were in
some wards as many as nine, and in most as
many as three printed tickets proposed for
suffrage, and though the choice was a close
one generally, the delegates themselves were
regarded to be men of higher strain than
than are usually sent to such places.
The Convention met, and made its nomi-
nations. The candidate for Sheriff is the
ever-popular, and now doubly so, Gen. Har-
ry T. Hays; and old DR.. Deleny, one of the
oldest and most trusted of our Creole physi.
clans, a registered enemy, etc, is chosen for
Coroner. So far, so good; but when the
choice fell on that clever young gentleman
| Charles Luzenberg, son of the old Doctor,
] long deceased, for District Attorney, rather
| than Col. c. A. Bradford, the former incum-
bent, and who resigned to go to the war and
! when, by the subsequent voting on the six
| clerkships, it was found that there had been
a terrible amount of trading and trafficking
to obtain this result, there ensued sub
| sequently, and exists now, an amount of
| dissatisfaction hard to overcome
All the gentlemen selected are very good
men; some Of them possess much merit, and
many of those who think they should have
the places are not near so unexceptionable /;
but there are many mistakes made in the
choice. For instance, the Democratic ticket
does not contain the name of any one of
| known antecedent democratic position; in
the next place, no Irishman is put on the
ticket, though Captain O'Rourke, with one
arm gone, was offered for the I'd Court Col
Hanlon for the 4th 1t. Croly, with both
arms gone, for Coroner, etc; and if Germans
are to be found on the ticket, they come in
for the smallest tax-collectOrs' places.
In the mean time, the "working-men" have
called a meeting to nominate candidates.
This is a most contemplate Yankee snare
/
under Northern emissaries, who have come
out here to stir them up to such demands as
will drive home manufactures, ship-building,
etc, from the South, so that despite the pre-
ference to have work done here and to build
up home industry, our men who build houses
or ships or steamboats, or engines, or any
thing else, will have to go away from here
to get them.
These "wOrking-men" are taking adj
vantage of the dissatisfaction caused by
the badly adjusted ticket of the National
Democracy, to construct new one; but
they have done as badly as the others In
the first place, they take Mr.. Charles Bien-
venue as their candidate for sheriff. Mr..
Bienvsnue is one of the kid-gloved aristo-
Gratis spoken of in the text" a man who
never worked in his life, not so much from
excessive wealth, but from horror of in
dustry and the dust of tod, though he now
declares himself in favor of making eight
hours "a legal tender" for days work.
What phrase! In the next place, he signed
I the ordinance of secession, and yet became
a union man during the war, to hold the
lucrative Office of sheriff, given him then as
a reward---In the third place, he submitted
his name to the convention just mentioned,
and failed to get nomination, after resolu-
lions passed that those who did so shonld be
bound to abide them.
think the new party has made worse
beginning than the other, as its very head
must stink in the nOstrils of all honest men,
notwithstanding his lavender and pomatum.
In addition to this, the popular Milton Relf
is running for I'd District clerk, and four
others for the 9th, and two three for
Coroner. These offices all pay well, but will
not pay these Independent candidates.
have told you all this because you will
not see it in the papers, which are silent
from pecuniary considerations, and because
our example may be of some use to you.
The next thing of moment now, and the
most so to you, is the triumphant election
4 of the Board of Directors of the jackson
railroad and the consequent election of
Gen, Beuregard as President, and Col. Viii
liams as Superintendent. Gov. Wells APP
4 peared like an evil spirit at the last mo-
ment, but saw how the land lay, and cast
his vote for the stockholders candidates.
Mayor Clark followed, and thus the vote
was unanimous. There was jolly COLA
ton spread on the occasion, at which | met
mary Mississippiaus, among Them Gen.
Writ Adams, of your city now or formerly.
He had on a different suit of clothes from
4 that in which I saw him last, and did not
look anything ike as gray ssaf ssss
i 5. 1t is raining now; fine weather for
4 GREENS.
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