The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-19
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REPoRToRIAL BREvITEs.-Brev. Lieut.. Col.
Gentry and Brew. Major B. B. Keller have been
appointed by Gen Buchanan, secretary and assls-
tant secretary of civil affairs respectively.
A slight fire in the cgsr store of NJ. Deande,
No. 10 ST. Charles street, on Friday night, was
exungolshed without serious damage beyond the
breaking in of the front doors and windows.
The temperature, yesterday, as shown by The
Thermometer at G. Duhamels, corner Bienville
aud Charities streets, was as follows: At A. M.
62 degrees; IL NJ. 81 Pm. 20; 6 P. N. IS.
United States Commissioner shannon, upon
complaints made yesterday against commissioners
OF election J. r. burns. BOnneval and Cavanaugh,
had them arrested. These gentlemen we're ac-
cused of partality 10 receiving votes, and upon a
statement OF the facts being made to General
Buchanan, he Immediately ordered their release
and restored them TO their Official positions. Mr..
shannon was, furthermore, ordered to make no
more esssysin the way Of using his judicial posi-
ZION for partisan purposes.
The day passed OF very quietly yesterday. We
did not hear of disturbance at any of the polls.
few nights ago the residence OF Mr.. Harrison,
No. IFS Apnunciation street, was burglariously
entered and robbed Of gold watch and chain.
The efficiency of the deputies appointed by Dr..
Avery, the sheriff to preserve order at the polls is
appreciated by all good citizens. aud his impair
TALLY in selecting those responsible officers
mends him TO the regard of the whole public.
Several negroes were put under arrest yester
day by order Of the commissioner Of election, on
charges of fraud and perjury in voting or attempt
ing to vote.
The district and recorders courts, which have
sill been taking a during the last two days,
will resume business again tomorrow.
THE ELEcTIoN.-Of the forty.seven polls in the
city there were but few at which the count was
completed at midnight last night. 1t is regarded
as certain that the Democratic party has ma
jOTiiy in the city, and even in the parish, which
includes Algiers, where it ia reported the radicals
have majority OF seven or eight hundred.
The Official returns viii be made az headquar-
teIs TO Gay. Until these returns are made, We are
left TO coDjectures, based upon the tallies of par
ties who watched the polls and make their esti-
mates, mainly, upon the superstition that every
whire vote Is a Democratic vote and every cOlOred
vote is q radical vote.
No one computes the Democratic majority in
the city at less than thousand. and other esti-
mate run up 10 two thousand, and even as high
as three thousand.
General Buchanan will not allow partial returns
to be published, and the result in the parish can
not be asceftained from official sources until re-
ports are in at headquarters from the commission
era Of election at every poll.
II was reported last evening that the parishes
of Laiourchs, ST. Landry and East Baton Rouge
had gone Democratic-ihat IA, against the Consti
tuton-and that the parish of st. Bernard was
nearly a tie on the question. These parishes
were considered stronghOlds of the radical party,
by reason Of black registrations therein largely
outnumbering white registration, and. if ths re-
ports he true, it gives hope that the Constitution
may be defeated.
ELECTION FRAUDS.-Iti is now a matter of pub
lie notoTiety that negroes were brought here in
large numbers, from other parishes and taken to
e. the polls to vote in herds. Ii is vain TO COM
plain of such an outrage, for the Congress to
TO which appeal would have to be made, to OBJ
NiB redress. framed their last supplementary re-.
construction act, evidently with the purpose of
enabling their radical emissaries to commit such
frauds.