The daily Mississippi clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-04-22
correspondence Of the Clarion


Last week was busy political season, and
the great looked-for election of Delegates to
the Parish Observation-Disclosures
icau-Anti-RadicaI Convention took place,
and the Convention was itself held and
made its nominations. There never We're
delegates elected heretofore when so large a
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 a higher strain than
than are usually sent to such places.
The Convention met, and made its uomi-
nations. The candidate for Sheriff is the
eyer-popular, and now doubly so, Gen. Har-
~ 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 ineum-
bent and who resigned to go to the war, and
when, by the subsequent voting on the six
elerkships, it was found that there had been
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
Of
the places are not near SO unexceptionablc
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 ORourke, with one
arm gone, was offered for the ID Court. Col.
Hanlon for the 4th; 1t. Croly, with both
| arms gone, for Coroner, etc; andif Germans
are to be found on the ticket, they come in
for the smallest tax-collectors' places.
In the mean time the 'sworkingmen" have
| called a meeting to nominate candidates
! This is a most contemptible Yankee snare
These working men" are banded together
under Northern emissaries, who have come
out here to stir them up to such demands as
VIII 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
OF ships or steamboats, or engines or any
thing else Will have to 90 away from here
to get them
These "workiug-men" are taking adj
vantage of the dissatisfaction caused by
the badly adjusted ticket of the National
| Democracy, to construct a 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" man who
| never worked in his life, not so much from
| excessive wealth, but from horror of in
| dustry and the dust of toll, though he now
! declares himself in favor of making eight
hours "a legal tender" for a days work.
| What phrase In the next place, he signed
/ 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 shonId be
bound to abide them
think the new party has made a 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 2d District clerk, and four
Others for the 9th. and two OF three for
Coroner. These offices all pay well, but will
not pay these independent candidates
l have told you all this because YOU will
not see it in the papers, which are silent
from pecuniary considerations. and because
cur example may be of some use to you
The next thing of moment now, and the
most SO to you, is the triumphant election
of the Board of Directors Of the jackson
railroad, and the consequent election of
Gen. Beuregard as President, and Col. Will
liams as Superintendent Gov. Wells APP
peared like an evil spirit at the last mo-
ment. Int 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
many Mississippians. among them, Gen.
Writ Adams of your city now or formerly
He had on different suit of clothes from
that in which saw him last, and did not
look anything ike as gray.
1t is raining noW; line weather for
GREENS.
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