The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-19
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REPoRToRIkL BREvITIEs-Brev. Lieut.. COL
Gentry and Brew. Major B. B. Keller have been
appointed by Gen Buchanan. secretary and assis-
taut secretary OF civil affairs respectively.
slight fire In the cigar store OF NJ. Dellande.
No. 10 St. Charles street, on Friday night. was
exuhgsisheo without serious damage beyond the
breaking In of the front doors and windovs.
The temperature, yesterday, IS shown By The
thermometer at @. Duhamels, corner Bienville
and Charities streets, was AZ follows: At 6 A. NJ.
62 degrees; IL n. 81 3 p. N. 20 |; 6 p. N. So.
United States Commissioner Shannon. upon
complaints made yesterday against commissioners
o. election ). r. burns: Bonneval and Cavansugh,
had them arrested. These gentlemen were 90.
cused Of partiality In receiving votes, and upon
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. IiS
The day passed on very quietly yesterday. We
did not hear of disturbance at any of the polls.
few nights ago the residence OF Mr.. Harrison
No. IFS ADnunciation street, WAS burglariously
entered and robbed OF q gold watch and chain.
The efhciency of the Deputies appointed by Dr.
Avery, the sheriff to preserve order ct the polls 10
appreciated by all good citizens, and his impair.
TALLY in selecting those responsible officers, COM
mends him to the regard of the whole public.
Several negroes were pul under arrest yester.
day by order OF the commissioner Of election, on
charges Of fraud and perjury ia voting or attempt
lug 10 vote.
The district and recorders courts, which have
all been taking recess during the last two days,
Will resume business again tomorrow. f
The ELEcrIoS.-Of the forty seven polls ia the
city, there were but few at which the count was
completed at midnight last night. II is regarded
as certain that the Democratic party kas ma
jori'y in the city, and even in the parish which
includes Aleiers, where it ia reported the radicals
have majority Of seven or eight hundred.
The Official returns will be made az headquar-
tiers to-day. Until these returns are made, we are
left to conjectures. based upon the TALES of par.
ties who watched the polls and make their esti
mates, mainly, upon the superstition that every
WINE vote Is Democratic vote and every coored
No one computes the Democratic majority in
the city at less than thousand. and other esti-
mates run up TO two thousand, and even as high
as three thousand fA ti'3 : (
8 General Buchanan will not allow partial returns
to be published, and the result in the parish cam
not be ascertained from official sources until re-
ports are In at headquarters from the commission
ers of election at every poll. it III s,.l
IL was reported last evening that the parishes
of Laiourche, St. Landry and East Baton Rouge
had gone Democratic-thst ia, against the Consti-
tution-and that the parish of st. Bernard was
nearly q tie on the question. These parishes
were considered strongholds of the radical party,
By reason Of black registrations therein largely
ontnumbering white registration, and If the re-
ports he true IL gives hope tina. the Constitution
may be defeated. eal ~ sLi lo a GU I
ELECTION FnAuDs-It is now matter Of pub
lie notoriety that negroes were brought here, in
large numbers, from other parishes and taken to
t. the polls to vote In herds. Il is vain to com
plain OF such an outrage, for the Congress TO
10 which appeal would have to be made to OBJ
rin redress. framed their last supplementary re-
construction act. evidently with the purpose OF
enabling their radical emissares to commit such
frauds.