The New Orleans Bulletin

Booth Guards.—At a large meeting of this workingmen's club in the front of the First Ward, held Monday evening, resolutions were passed urgently recommending citizens to register and aliens to naturalize. This is a Ward where, according to the census (allowing a voter to every five colored inhabitants), they should register, say 400 voters, but the fact is they have had issued to them nearly 700 registry papers up to last evening—showing a very large screw loose somewhere. The main danger, as we have elsewhere shown, is not so much in the refusing registry to our people as in extending registry to repeaters and frauds. It is notorious that hundreds of papers have been improvidently or corruptly issued, and it will be of supreme importance on the 2d of November to see about the votes of the repeaters who intend to cover their villainies with these false papers. We have before us a memorandum from a reliable source which sets forth the way in which the thing is done by colored men from the parish of Jefferson and from Carrollton, as well as many from our own city, and adds "one certain man in the Canton Post Office has registered over one hundred men from Jefferson parish, and has received $5 for each name."