New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-29
Local. Intelligence.

REGISTRATION AND ITS DIFFICULTIES
The Assistant Supervisors Of Registration
finally completed their labors in registering
last evening, and the crowds of procrasti-
majors who crowded the offices at the last
moment ought to be lesson, on future oc-
casions of this kind, to the tardy TO attend
10 their duties as citizens in time. The as
sistant supervisors have certainly had a
most thankless and disagreeable task to
perform, and we have no doubt but that
they done their duty conscientiously and
correctly.
They have been constantly annoyed by
political wire-workers, and have been OBJ
structed and badgered in every possible
way that cunning and ingenuity could sug-
gest. Some have been dragged before the
courts and others have been treated to al
most all manner Of personal abuse and
threats.
In the First and Second Wards the gen.
.lemen ON duty have probably been the re-
cipients of the most constant and petty an
noyance. This was undoubtedly occasioned
by the fact that they strictly adhered to the
letter and spirit of the law, and made no
Illegal concessions to friend or foe. Hessrs
Davis and Hubert, in the Second Ward,
have been necessarily annoyed by parties
who were too ignorant to know their own
residence, who were dubious OF their ma
tivity, who wanted naturalization papers,
or who had illegal ones. Failing to regis
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come properly prepared, several of'the city
papers were repeatedly called into requis-
ZION to abuse them.
In the First Ward, Mr.. Murphy, the
assistant supervisor, was, no later than
Thursday, dragged through nearly column
of one OF our dailies on account OF. as the
law required, asking questions of a gentle
man which the latter did not care to answer,
and finally, as the applicant declined to
prove that he had recanted, after having
served as a Confederate colonel, refusing to
register him.
We are informed that notwithstanding
every obstruction met with in the Second
Ward, the ward will be carried by the party
Of progress and reform by from five TO six
hundred majority.
An INCIDENT OF NATURALIzATION.-o
the last day but one of registration, a hand
some, burly Jamaica-born Englishman pre-
sented himself for naturalization, before the
Judge of the Second District Court Of the
parish of Orleans His statement, in BRET,
was that thirty years ago, i'll the city OF
New York, he had bought property tnow
the best part of the Fifth avenue), and that
in order to do so, he had declared his inten-
ton of becoming citizen Of the United
States.
Nothing could exceed the courtesy with
which the Judge listened to this preliminary
explanation. He paused in the midst OF
naturalizing some thirty or forty dagos.
Then" said the applicant, Il became a
merchant of New Orleans, and l have WITH
NE two gentlemen who knew me aS SUCH
twenty-five years ago"
As he spoke he pointed to TWO OF the
wealthiest creole colored men Of New Or-
leans standing at his back.
The Judges face fell below zero, and he
az once commenced a most rigorous exami-
nation.
Said he to witness No. /: How long have
YOU known Mr.. -!
Answer-Wby, l was his clerk twenty
FIVE wears ago, when it was tarring and
feathering to employ colored CLERK.
To witness No. 2: How long have YOU
known Mr.. -y
Apswer-I let him a house twenty-sevcn
years ago.
Ouestiop-Do you know him TO be man
OF good moral character
ADswes-I know him to be most uneH-
ceptionabGe gentleman
QUESTIONABLE you prepared 70 say 'lsl
he viii vote for the administration OF the
government OF the United States IN the way
j! ought to be administered
Answer-Ah! mats as yoN ttt"h; kho"
be vote. the same way as me out III tne
way it ought to be adm uistered," 0'01 Us
you Minh
The Judge darted lightning OYER his spec
tacles, but passed the papers and started lof
-he clerks office, " to see a III an.
Meanwhile the applicant was handed
over to the tender mercies OF the juvenile
clerks of the Office for the colupfetion OF
his papers. His sole uneasiness lay IN the
anticipation of renouncing his allie siaAce 10
The Queen of England.
iudge his exultation when he foul'o ZIG
;r+eIIicent deputies calling upon INN 70 E-
nounce all allegiance to 1.-THE government ~
Jamaica"
He did so at once.