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FEJAICJANNi DEMOCRJAT.' SDITUD 3T hp3OZDIMO43Al COMUIfU. CLINTON, LA. > Morning, November 10, 18 Tan Ta.ssrws.-This company will give - performance at an early date, on which occa dloe the two laughable petit comedies of " Th Toodles," ajd "Dead Shot," will be presented THF ELECTION IN THIS gRItSH. We give In another column, the btmrs fro. the election in this parish, which shows thai theo whole democratic ticket has been eleeted.. a Jasslseme amjority. Iad any one predietas thlt a tt'some six months ago, he would have jen put down as an enthusiast. The knot nothing party, at-that time, flushed with twc .:eoieq had become haughty and defiant, anm confident of their strength, asked no quarte pt ; h&" hands of their opponents. Bat th, pepi have at last aroused from the alumbe Into which thdf had fallen and shaken off the yoke, a lawless faction had placed upon them itd the darkest hour of our political night, w, felt -an arbidi a ssurance that illegal oaths and unaholy obligations could not long blinl tii,'*ho had once breathed the fresh air o feedol , and we therefore waited patiently fo the skies to break again. They have brokei at last, and the parish stands redeemed fron the thrall of political bondage, in which it hea been placed for the last twelve moths. But if we are proud of' the victory, we are not til less pron. of the means by which it he been woe. We challenge the severest scrutiiJ Into'the manner in which this election has beel qwadaeted by the democratic party of this par ish. While nothing was left undone that In 4aWtry and energy could accomplish in an hoc erkble way, nothing was done to which eves a caviller, could even take exception. We have worked in the full glare of day ; no min night meetings, no seeret conclaves, no sittile with locked doors afd barred windows, no re manudiang men of illegal oaths taken at the dead hour of night in remote corners, nc threats and intimidations, no kidnapping, clo settnlg, and concealing freemen, no "hire and salary" for any man's vote. And, as we sur ~y the field and count the trophies we have won, we are proud to be able to say, that by no act of oars has that flag been sullied under which we fought. How hisit with our opponents, those immac. Ulate men who have fled from the corruptiona of the two old parties ? How have they come out of this contest ? If but a tithe of what is reported, is true, it presents a state of things never before known in this parish I Men were transported in hot haste, from one ward to another, "cabbined, cribbed, and confined," strictly watched and guarded, and kept under the basest surveillance, and all for the purpose of purifying the ballot box ! Voters in the sixth ward were hurried off to the seventh, and voters in the third ward were hurried off to the fourth, kept under watch till the hour of voting arrived, and all for the sake of purify. ing the ballott box!' But the most disgraceful scenes were enact ed in our neighboring town of Jackson, by these rampant reformers. On the 1st of this month, the College was opened, and it was announced that the town had become entirely healthy, and students were invited to return. It was suddenly discovered that this announce ment was premature. It was reported the town was still filled with disease, that there were then at least five cases"of yellow fever in it, and runners were dispatched in every direc tion to warn the people in the country not to come in, and all this for the sake of purifying the ballot box! One poor fellow, who had al ways been a member of the democratic party, and who had neyer failed to cast his suffrage with them, had been lately discharged from the Asylum where he had been confined on account of temporary insanity ; but he had scarcely reached his shop, when lie was sudden ly picked up, hurried into a buggy, and pack ed off to the fourth ward, and there kept until he hadl cast his first know nothing obte. and iall for thesake of plrIfy;t, the I.allott box ! But we tire of recounting such things. All, however, would not do. 'Tie pople Imave risen up in their streagthl, and their voice for the first timeo in twelve moanths, Ihas been heardl, unstied and free, carrying dlismay into the ranks of these jobbinIg patlriots. Even that model of a know nothing high priest, thie ex-m:iyor of Jackson, who hlas been sweltering in the cause from the first day of its introduction in the parish, has fallen in tihe general rout, and what makes the fall still worse, it was dome by a " cussed furriner." Uov. Pease, of Texas, has issued the certifi cate of election for Congress to Colonel Matt Brown, Democrat, who has been elected by a majority of 12 votes Ilis scat will probably obe cotestd by his comypetitnr, mNy. LI ITI RtETt1R1B. Ear toiýo s.+Derblgnny,. 47, 4Wiese life, 490, Pond, 84, Davidson, 464. 'Pike sadVal K. W's. elected to the legislature. Majority against removal, 1018. NEw ORLatNs.--The Democrats have elect a ed 8 of 98 members to the legislature. Der bigny's vote in the city and t Algiers g 4960, Wicklife's 46388, Hufty's for sherif 421, L Bell's for sheriff 4714, Hunt's fbr congress, 9688, Taylor's 9748. These returns, eolusive of Demoeratic ma n joritiesin the 7th dnd 91h precincts, where the t ballot boxes were destroyed, and, exclusive of 7 the protested Democratic vote, amount to d several hundred Democratic majority. Demo ' eratio majority In 7th and 9th precincts aseer V tained to Io about 849. 0 The ballots in the 7th precinct were counted d before the box was destroyed. Wicklife's ma ir jority there was 919, Bell's 949; securing SBell's election by 249 majority, and reducing Ir Derbigny's majority to 292. * Allowing for the known Democratic majori . ty in the 9th precinct, Derbigny's majority in ' the city and Algiers, will, be about 50 votes. s The seats of several of the know nothings d claimed to be elected to the legislature, and f many on the Parish ticket will be contested. r Eustis majority over Fabre for congress in u the city, 848; Hunt's over Taylor, 49. 0 Bell's majority for sheriff, including the votes I of the 7th and 9th precincts, 260. 4 JarraRsoN.-Derbigny's majority, 201, one e precinct to be heard from. I DespatchA received at Baton Rouge from y New Orleans, give Derbigny a majority of 1 n in St. Helena, and Pond 15. Livingston is r" set down at 188 majority for Wickliffe' and * one precinct to hear from. Majority iu Terre. bonne for know nothing state ticket, about 40. n St. Charles reported 41 democratic majority. e CoNConRDI.-Derbigny, 145; Wickliffe, 55; J Pond, 146; Davidson, 53 S SrT. Ta AurNY.--Poud, it is reported, has re ceived 175 majority; as no other particulars e accompany the report, we are inclined to doubt its authenticity. Fos REMxovAL.-On the question of the re I moval of the state capital, the vote of the par ish of Orleans is 8887 for removal, and 91 agaihst removal, exclusive of the 7th and 9th precincts where almost the entire vote was for r removal. Sr. BERNAno.-Returns from two of the riv er precincts of the parish of St. Bernard, the first and second precincts, give the democratic ticket a handsome majority. These two pre cincts have heretofore given a mqjority of about eighty against the democratic ticket. New ORLEANs.--In the fourth district the Democrats elected their whole legislative dele gation. In the first Representative district, r the Democrats also elected their legislative ticket, and one member to the Legislature, (M. C. Dunn,) in the Second Representative I district, thus giving thetn six members of the Legislature above Canal street. F Lafourche official returns give Wickliffe 245 - majority, and Taylor for congress 270. Assumption gives 515 majority for Wick like, and whole democratic ticket elected. Taylor, for congress, 450 majority. St. Landry is reported to have given 200 majority for Wickliffe. LivlnsrooO.-The Baton Rouge Advocate has received tihe following particulars: Demo cratic ticket has about 100 majority. David son's vote 349, Pond's 192--Davidson's major ily, 157. One precinct to hear from, whichmjs pnrobably Democratic. Whole Democratic ticket elected for parlsh officers by a large majority. Official majority for Derbigny in St. James' parish is 150. %l'he whole K. N. parish ticket elected. AscENSION.-The unofficial returns give a Democratic mnajority in this parish of 178. InnBeR.LE Pannrs.--This parish has gone Democratic by a majority of 174 for Wicktiffe. Marks an.l Ilcerroa run considerably ahead of tile ticket. The ntews from this parish secures tile election of J. I)Duntan Stewart, Denn., for District Attorney, by a majority of 88 vote a The, following are tile rcturns from Ibervillh: Wickliffe, 174; Ilenron,, 205; Moise, 187; Oreneaunx, 200; Mlnrks, 108; Bard, 204; Woods, 201; Stuart, 164; Davidson, 1 (0. Jos. Irwin, imndtpendeint eladdiate for Slleriff elct'ted by 30 mllajorlity. Sr. lImIE.A.--Th e following are the nunjor ities in this pirish. Wlckliffo 1, Mouton 3, Hlcrron 1, Greneoux 1, Marks 3, Moise 3, Stillman 1, Pond 15, Strickland, for Repre sentative, 15, Williams for Clerk, 38, Kemp for Sheriff 15, Womnack, for Assessor, 29, Parker, for Coroner 29, Carter, for District At torncy 82 over I. F. Thompson, and 143 over Chilclers, Against Removal 443. MIssIssRlm.-Anmnite county gives Hillyer 1T, naa Wilkinson celnty, 8 majority: ASrT FJLICIANA. ourniaxon, 1. 2, 5. 6. 7. 7, 8. Total R. C. Wickliffe. 34 48 100 11 140 51 12 29 420 (ibis. Desigay, 88 . 78 I0 114 84 88$6. a9g LT. 00VllTOL. ,. E. Mouton, S3 43 100 12 1 88 1 12 39 419 Lttls Texnda, I2 23 73 19 111 85 33 38 88t8 330'T OF STAT. A. S. Herren, 34 43 108 18 140 51 12 28 424 Re.ert J. Bale, 8 18 70 19 114 3 ,6 8 86 6.'E. ,Greneaux 32 43 100 12 130 5 12 2) 410 J. V. Daraldd, 586 2 78 7319 116 t 86 868 AUDITOR. S. F. Marks, 84 43 104 12 137 49 12 28 418 Walter Roeasma 88 24 70 19 11 8I 836 38 15 ATT'T OQNLURAL. 3. Warten MoleN 84 48 100 13 140 51 12 29 422 Randall Hunt. 83 28l, 73 19 116 ll 85 88 367 STAT UiPaRiNT'T Samuel Bard, 33 41 100 12 136 81 11 29 413 U. D. Stillmas, 88 26 73 19 118 38 88 35 871 onaEaInI. 3d D. T. G. Davidson, 92 89 98 11 184 50 1I T 397 Preston Pond, 40 26 72 21 120 86 838 3 884 DIST'T ATIORI2T. W. F. Kernan, 35 43 101 17 152 58 12 29 442 G. M. Miller, 82 23 70 16 101 33 31 35 341 LorlrLATnas. Bythell Mayne., 9 41 102 11 140 SI 18 28 416 Geo. . Jones, 84 40 100 18 134 62 13 27 412 Sam'l Norwood, 82 26 75 22 120 84 84 88 877 F. W. Ward, 87 25 72 20 112 81 31 85 363 BLRtllPP. W. W. Moore, 30 40 106 10 141 51 12 29 419 John East, 34 25 66 21 111 85 8 35 360 Wo, Patterson, 29 42 99 11 129 51 12 29 402 Henry Sklpwith, 87 24 75 21 126 88 83 35 387 Joseph ilrawdy, 81 42 102 12 142 51 19 80 422 Jambs A. Scott, 86 3, 71 21 112 34 38 88 382 CORONE. T. L. McGhee, 35 42 99 11 1 651 13 27 418 M. W. Hughes, 82 28 72 19 11 35 82 6 861 Agalnst removal 69 66 170 80 248 85 45 64 745 For " 2 6 7 WARD OFFICERS,-ELECT. WARM. Jmaurls . caxrTaUnu. 1. J. C. Jackson, Randolph Chick, 2. W. D. Isyle. Richard Tqrbeville, 8. G. W. Catleit, A. R. Toadvine. B. C. Gordon, Richard Germany, 4. Abel J. Norwood. (no return,) R. R. C. Carman, T. B. McClendou, H. B. Chase, .J. R. Stokes, 6. H. H. Knom Win. Akers, 7. L 8. Yarborough, Wm. G. Brown, 8. G. A. W. Stedman A. J. White, THE RESULT. After one of the closest contested political races ever run in East Feliciana, the democra cy have won a glorious victory. Every State and Parish candidate, from Governor to Cor quer has received a majority. This victory is the more important from the fact that the de mocrats conducted the canvass from beginuing to end upon principle alone. Not a personal issue was raised in a solitary instance. . It is glorious from the consideration that it was won in defence of the constitution and the rights of our naturalized citizenp, as secured by that sacred instrument. This election shows to them that there is still a party in this union, who regard the plighted faith of our forefath ers as still binding upon them; that still ad here to the principles and doctrines adopted by those illustrious worthies. They can still feel that the home of their adoption is not a promise to the ear to be broken to the heart. But that it is a home, where law, justice, and order, still reign, and guarantee protection to them, in all their rights, civil, religious, and political. Never was there a greater error committed, than the attempt made by the self styled American party to found their platform upon the proscription from office of our natu ralized citizens; and those who helieve in the Catholic faith. It is wrong in every light in which the subject can be viewed. No party can stand long upon such glaring errors in their political creed. It was foreseen and pre dicted from thel first. IION. F. II. IIATCH. We learn that this distinguished gentlemen, has been defeated by fifteen votes in St. Hele na parish. His defeat we look upon as a great loss to the democratic party in the ensuing leg islature. His fluq talents, winning manners, dignified deportment, and sterling democratic principles gave him an influence among the members of the house that few could exercise. We doubt not he would have been a very prominent man for speaker, had he been cho sen as relpretentative, should the house be dem ocratic. lie made an able and efficient mem ber, and acquired a reputation for industry and capacity, during his term of service, that won for him a prominent position beforb the last lemocratic convention at Baton Rouge, as a 'andidate for the second office in the state. We deeply regret his defeat. Such a man can tot long remain in retirement. "JULIAN."-This correspondent of the Bat on Rouge Comet, should write another letter telling the readers of that paper, why his proph eiesi have not been fulfilled, in regard to .the "cndidates of the deilocrutic party, and the election in this parish. If his ingenuity, be equal to his will, we have no doubt he will suc ceed in convincing them that he only made a slight mistake in his calculations. Like most other know nothing predictions before the elec tion, the result has completely demonstrated, that it was made, without any dlata u)pon which to foed it. Bragging acd boasti, in ' ose thiig, the reality anot.her Try ytur hand agaiu "Julian," trhaps tOu will Jo better next time. ig There appears to be little doubt, says the True Delta, of the election of Miles Tay lor to Congress, from the Second Congress ional District. From reports received from the interior last night it was calculated that Taylor could ahord to be be beaten six hundred votes in the city, and his election then consid ered safe. As the vote now stands, Taylor, instead oAbeing beaten in the city, will leave it with a small majority, ELECTION RIOTS IN NEW ORLEANS. The following, is from tile New Orleans Courier of the 7th instant: We can scarcely trust ourselves to speak of the disgracefs4 and outrageous scenes which at tended our election the day beforo yesterday. Law was a mockery; oaths without respect; passion unbridled; outrage unrestrained. Men who had taken oaths to act according to the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this state, had evidently forgot. ten that there was ether law or constitution outside the wigwams o which they belonged, as know nothings of the strictest set. The leg. islative and judicial power of the state were set at defiance, and in their stead the dictates and ritual of the "Order" reigned supreme. Nevertheless, there was an appearance of good order and harmony at most of the pre cincts during the forenoon, and up to the close of the polls. The first disturbance was crea ted at the eighteenth precinct, third district, by some well known ruffians, who, according to the Information we have received, took pos session of the approaches to the ballot-box, and not only announced their intention to car ry out the Louisville theory that natives had the right to vote before the adopted citizens, but also imitated their peaceful and orderloving brethren in that famous city, by actually pro hibiting any man whatever, but a native from voting at all during a considerable period. A man was shot at, and was wounded In several places. He was said to have offended very grievously against the know nothing ideas of propriety; which all who know anything of the delicate and refined sensibilities in that respect of those who usually represent the " Order," on such occasions, Is no very hard thing to bring about. With the exception of an occasional knock down at several other polls, nothing of a very serious nature took place until after they had been closed. The result, so far as the leading " patriots and sons of the soil" could ascertain wds, we should judge from what snhseq|uentvl took place, any hut satisfactory. There w;. actually danger that they had failed in their efforts to carry the city by any maiority at all, much less by their boasted our. It was nec essary to save the credit, as prophets of their orators and organs; and hence the immediate question was, how to effect that great end. We thihk there was but little time occupied in delilberation, before it was resolved that as the seventh and ninth precincts doubtless contain ed larger anti-know nothing majorities than any other, they should in turn be stormed, and their vote thereby, if polssible, destroyed. The attack was begun at the ninth precinct, 111and1 took place, we hear, about 9.1 o'clocnk, P. s.. Everything was perfectly quiet, and the coin missioners and clerks were engaged in counting the votes, when all at once a number of melt, who, according to our informant, were genteel ly dressed, and who were not rowdies, in the usual acceptation of the term, made their ap pearance in the room. After several of them had had some conversation, in all under tone, with one of the coimmissioners, two of themr rushed at the ballot box, while their acquain tance was stooping ovir it, seized it, threw it into the air, and whinl it fell, joined with their companions in tramlplilg in to pieces, and kick ing the ballots which it contained, about the room. The box contaiined 405 votes, of which there was an average Demnocratic majority, ae cording to a count mnade by two of the coni missioners, of about 180 for the democratic candidates. No loud words were used; the thing had evidently been concerted, and as soon as their work was accomplished, the valiant patriots retired. The destruction of this bal lot hox, scunred, as the performers thought, the election of Messrs. Eggleston and Devall, know nothings, to the house of Representatives, over Messrs. Gordon and Le Blanc, Democrats; but of this, we hear the Legislature will have something to say. Several hours had elapsed before any furthemr operations occurred. There was probably some doubt as to whether the seventh precinct would give so large a democratic majority as to en danger the success of the " order" in the third Representative districtwich, with the fifth and sixth it composes. At last, however, it was decided that the famous Democratic Malakoff must be carried. But few persons were in it when the invading forces arrived, and the door was burst opon, the ballot-box, the poll-books and the tally-lists seized and converted into a bonfire before the door. The knights of the order had, however, waited too long, for the whole vote received for Governor and Sher. iff had been counted out, the tallies compared and summed up, and the result so far as those offices are concerned, declared Wickliffe had 213, and Bell 249 majority. The commission ers, and clerks, will, be able, therefore to make certificates for the returning officer on that point, as was done last spring at Cincinnati, and Mr. Bell will niot, we imagine, he deprived of the beoncfit of the vote cast there in his favor. i A A 'ew York paper suggests a nation al subscription through the churches and other wise, for a fund towards building at Norfolk, a suitablO monument to the memories of the 'loctors aed nDursH who have died there. TIB LAT OANVAll IN THINNSSg1I Pes*aps in the whoW history of polital parties in TenaieSee, where of all plan political excitement runs highest there nes. er was a more thorough and vigoroa u vass than the recent one, which Serp ted i the election of Andrew Johnson. m.l ly did every candidate for the legilaj stump his county, but almost every un it the state who had ever particlpetl d'pol. ties made one or more speeches. Ma" of the able speeches which this sotateot elicited we have published, and from ethir we have taken extracts; et we hub, o means exhausted them. We have~ . Ished reading an excellent one de. by Colonel Hiram Tilman. of Meln.m which know nothingiem is di most masterly style. It would aforl pleasure to lay the whole speech beI readers, but it is impossible for usto lish all the good things that have are being said upon this subject; we t' content ourself, therefore, with the kilo,. ing extract, appealing to the democacy' stand firm and retain the ground they ,e gained; also paying a just and well-merited compliment to President Pierce and hiad. ministration: "But, whatever course our oppoqts may see proper to pursue, let me say to you, democrats, ' stand by your eolete. Never desert your noble old party and ih glorious principles, for the party of the country. It has carried us safely theog many trials, and it will carry ns thromi many more. Beware of all federal a.ad olition tricks gotten up to deceive and dJ. lead you. And let us, by all means; gen. men, stand by the present glorious and pa triotic administration of the country. It has been eminently sound upon all the greet questions of the day, both of foreign aA domestic policy. It is an administration worthy of the earlier and purer dale o the republic. Franklin Pierce, aided by a patriotic cabinet, has taken the constitatm for his guide, and'has kept the ship of ste consistently on the republican tack. li deserves well of the south and of the whole country. When unwarranted attempts were made to deplete the treasury, wheth. cr by the Collins line of steamers, the is. digent-insane, or the French-spoliation bills, he promptly interposed his veto, and the saved the people friom being defrauded oeat of millions of their hard earnings. When the honor of the country was threatened with insult by the forcible seizure and ile prisonment of one of her citizens by a fe sign power, he promptly interposed the strong arm of government, causing his in. mediate and unconditional rolease; tbhi showing to the world, in the beautiful Ia. guage of his inaugural, 'that American cit. zenship, mustbe regarded everywhere a an inviolable panoply for the security of American rights.' "It is mainly to the power and iuflueuee of the present administration that we of the south are indebted for the repeal of the Missouri restriction, which opens the Tcrritories of the government to the south and her institutions, thus in all probability giving us a new slave state in Kansas, and restoring the equilibrium between thenoqo and the south. And yet southern poll. cians and southern journals are found o0 posing this administration. In some quar ters they seem to have exhausted the voctl ulary or billingsgate in slandering and abr sing it. Well, perhaps it is their vocati$g so to do. Lot them rave, for the great body of the southern people have decided other wise. Yes, the southern states, in the re cent elections, show by their increased dem ocrantic majorities that they endorse thee a ministration of Franklin Pierce and TI nessee, that went against us three years ago, is now for us by ten thousand majority. It is believed that she will like the demo cratic family so well that the will never; again part company with us." ILLINOIS DEMOCRACY. The democrats of Illinois met in large numbers in Chicago, and had a very enthi elastic meeting, addressed by several dit tinguished speakers. The following read lutions were passed. They breathe the puro national constitutional spirit, like those of the Democrats of all the north. ern as well as southern states. The Bee, which perseveringly asserts, in spite of cop: tradictory evidence, that northern demo0 crats are unsound upon questions involving southern rights, basing its assertions upon random articles found in the Soft shell Op guns of New York, will, perhaps, condo scend to read what the Democrats of Illi. nois say, and to compare their platform with that of the Indiana Know Nothings, which we also publish: PLATFORM OF TIHE ILLINOIS DEMOCRAO1ý Resolved, That the Constitution of tMi United States is a political contract be tween the people of independent sovereigti ties, which bestows paramount authority to the extent of the powers delegated, but leaves those not delegated to the states reb pectively, or to the people; that a vigilant guard against the centralization of the re served powers is essential to the preser" vation of our institutions; and that congres has no rightful authority to establish, ahol ish or prohibit slavery in the states or ter ritories. RrsoJoesd, That we re-atrm the tims.heCi