Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1855 — LOUISIANA ELECTION. [ARTICLE]

LOUISIANA ELECTION.

, The Jwmlt in Ncio i gcotiys Proceedings!—Budlot Boxeg I Dcgfroyffll! ... i! i 'Pho mail list night brought us New Orleans paper, of the 7th-insL iheyttro-afu i 1 in I rin ihrttiihi td -Jhe • elcc turn news in that State, udutlp, we oujiUii destitute of interest,\4h«| telegraph having already advise.Fus ’ that thv-Dernocrats had stfccre:h*dby‘ a decisive majority. In New. Orleans. the K. N/shuve a nominal majority ot some three or four hundred but they secured,it by the most.infamous conduct. V uters- were threatened an I intimidated, naturalized citizens were frightened uhd driven from the. pij|fs’< two men were shot and killed, and live others bally wounded, and ym, after all this, finding themselves still in the minority, and determined to succeed, thcK. NTs proceeded to the Seventh and Ninth Districts, which were known to have decided Democratic majorities, and seizing the ballot-boxs, poll-books and tallyliats, trampled them under fool and then burned them. The votes, however, had been partially counted mid the officers of election would certify accordingly. Exclusive of these two districts, ilufty, the K. N. candidate forSherilf has seven majority. Willi DeiHoemtm eompe Utor is elected by upwards ol 30.) majority. Excluding the votes in the broken boxes, three or four K N.’s arereturiiej io tiie legislature. I'ne full t ole, however, elects Dem ic. ati by decisive majorities. I'iie New U, Ivans Ucc, a’strong Know Nothing paper, denounces life outrage in the; very rtrongest terms. Wo have not room this morning for the details of the • outrage, but i will eudearur to lay tiie.u before our , i’ea .1; r ; - n >;-ro.v,- e-; . •..— ” Tur aXeTv" Turk Secheta:ir o? Sr.-vr;:.— I'he New York 1 'ribanc.t avs : •d i’.ev. J. T. Headley, th.’ ad r , who ims just been elected iS* crel;%: j ot that Slate: Joel T. Headley, the miv Score- ; tary of ►State, entered upon active life, we believe, as a Congrcgariunal e 1 ergyman, brntjwoa-Kfr the pulpir; Wfrfr eign travel and more congen-. -dal-—l+torary —-pUi-s-uit*-.— Tlis letters , f rom Europe to t.he Ti i'ranc .-ome t-n or twelve years ago, espe dally those from Italy, were, con 4 lerably above ; the average of travelers' kill r«. lie passed tlivn.ee to historic-riulit-ary pens clings, in the ‘-olm.'d an I limn dcr ’ style since run into the ground by the Ker. John iS.-Ur Abbott in hire' Life of Napoleon. Air. Headley is a graphic, agreeable -writer, who is understood to have made a decent' competence by his works, on which ■ he now lives very comfortably jut! out of Newburgh. He is a fair pub- ; lie .speaker, an 1 in private life is; much esteemed. He is not a driver! at work, and the cdli-’C he has a-j cliived will suit him, being one of' moderate exactions, Mr. Headley; was rather Whiggish in politics of; old, but never took any part in e-; lections beyond voting and we think ; sometimes neglected even that, lie may b»* forty years of age.— i