The niissing poll-books of the third
ward still hangs around the head of John
Fitzpat.ck as a night-mare. " As the
.tr'es of office or-sotmething else-are
fast turnlilg his hair gray and making
hin an old man, it is not probable that
he cain stand the present pressure much
longer; and as t,~e Federal grand jury
have ordered the obsequious Caveu.ac to
prodnce the missing bhooks, or properly
account for their loss, .he sleep of the
Democratic leaders, is not tihe rest of thP
innocent. Whenever the time arrives
thatjnries wil act up to their sincere
convictions, and judges intelligently and
honestly administer time law, a fearful
account of crime and venality will be
reckoned up against the leaders of the
Irish Democracy of Louisiana.
On Sunday morning a half-breed, in
Ieritiing evidently the vices of both races,
without any tlluo1 rating virtuie, after
braining his witfe with an axe, resisted
a9;rest with such determination that two
police officers are iunder medical treat
eient for the wounds which lie ililicted,
luckily, one of them wtas ble to draw
his pistol anid only escapled a probable
death-blow from the murderous axe by
shooting himi. The ball uentered the
stIauchl of the infiriateld Negrb, alnd is
thought to have ranged uip ward, he is -
mediately fell, and all were then taken
to the Charity HIospital, the police for
medical treatment and the negroes to die.
