The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-04-26
Correspondencc Of she Clarion.
LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS. !

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!. LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS.
D .,4 NEW ORLEANS, April 18th, 1866
> Last week was busy political season, an
/ the great looked-for electionof Delegates t
the Parish National-D emocratic-W hig- Amer
ican-Anti-Radica Conyention took place
and the Convention was itself held, an,
made it's nominations. There. never wer
delegates elected heretofore when SO large
vote was given. They represented q large
and more united constituency than we eve
had in this city, and though there were il
some wards as many as nine, and in most a
many as three printed tickets. proposed fol
suffrage, and though the choice was clos,
one generally, the delegates themselves wer,
regarded to be men of higher strain thar
than are usually sent to such places
| The Convention met, and made it's 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 Gutenberg, son of the old Doctor.
long deceased, for District Attorney, rather
than Col. G. /. 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
terrible amount of trading and trafficking
to obtain this result, there ensued sub
nd 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 positions 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 meeting to nominate candidates.
This is a most contemplate Yankee SNARE
These working men" are banded together
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
hey have done as badly as the others. In
The first place, they take Mr.. Charles Bien-
7enue as their candidate for sheriff. Mr..
3ienvenue is one of the kid-gloved aristo-
rats spoken of in the text" man who
lever worked in his life, not so much from
wealth, but from a horror of in
lustry and the dust of toll, though he now
declares himself in favor of making eight
tours "a legal tender" for a days work.
What a phrase! In the next place, he signed
he ordinance of secession, and yet became
union man during the war, to hold the
lucrative Office of sheriff, given him then as :
reward. In the third place, he submitted
is name to the convention just mentioned, l
nd failed to get nomination, after resolu- :
ions passed that those who did SO shonld be !
onnd to abide them. |
think the new party has made worse |
eginning than the other, as its very head
lust stink in the nostrils of all honest men, :
Notwithstanding his lavender and pomatum.
n addition to this, the popular Milton Relf c
running for I'd District clerk, and four
theirs for the 9th, and two or three for :
oroner. These offices all pay well, but will a
OF pay these Independent candidates. s
have told you all this because you will I
OF see it in the papers, which are silent
ON pecuniary considerations, and because v
III example may be of some use to you. a
The next thing of moment now, and the :
ost so to you, is the triumphant election .
the Board of Directors of the Jackson |;
lilroad, and the consequent election of a
en-. Beuregard as President, and Col. Will
AIMS as Superintendent. Gov. Wells APP 7
sared like an evil spirit at the last mo- il
ent, but saw how the land lay, and cast
IS vote for the stockholders candidates.
ayor Clark followed, and thus the vote
as unanimous. There was jolly colla- I
ON spread ON the occasion, at which / met a
any Mississippians, among them, Gen. e
,irt Adams, of your city now or formerly
e had on different suit of clothes from q;
at in which saw him last, and did not la
ok anything like as gray. L
1t is raining now; fine weather for II II
GREENS. r.
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We hear much about breaches of contract