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We are indebted 10 Senator Bag6y Tor seVera public documents of interest.

 The whgs oflhe Board of Aldermen met on Sa turday, and settled, as they probably thought, a least for the present. the election of a city marshal in their own very curious way. The Advertiser O yesterday gave its version of the matter-but as ! is remarkable for suppressns the very facts that ara material for an understanding Of the 'case VI shall give a correct history of one of the most com cal freaks that was ever exhibited by body of pub lie functionayes

 Our readers are aware that the two boards of tht corporation are divided politically thus: Aldermen wings, democrats; Common Council, demo crats whig joint vote l 1 democrats, which with the Mayor make l2; 10 whigs.

 The late Marshal WALKER, was candidate oi reelection, and was supported by all he whig mem bers and one democrat-ihus receiving II votes Cain was supported by the democrats and received Il votes

 Under these circL instances the Boards met in con venlion last Wednesday,, but failed after 27 ballot ings to elect a Marshal, and adjourned the join' meeting until Saturday 10 renew the effort. On Sa- turday the Common Council was not ready. But the Board that is, the nine whgs, were there, and they passed resolution that MT. Walker had been elected on the 23d. 0fcourse no joint meeting was necessary, and they failed 10 explain why they had consented 10 the adjournment on Wednesday,, and had assembled again on Saturday to continue the voting.

 The discovery they made was, that on the 18th ballot there had been Il votes given for MT. Wal ker and 10 for Mir caiu; there being g members present and none excused from voting. IL would moi have been election by the rules-but under the circumstances, the calm is preposlerous.

 On that ballot, the Marshall MT. Walker, was re- ceiyng he Laois. He passed the Alderman of the Eth Ward MT. Cooper, 1t appears, without re- ceivng his ballot Mr. Cooper being occupied, was uncertain whether he had voted or not. The Mayor asked him the question. He said he was not cer' tain-he thought he had. Councillor Walker, whc acted as one of the teers, then asked MT. Cooper whether he intended to vote ii should appear in counting the ballots thatthere but twenty one He replied certainly. The ballots were counted ant it was found that MT. Cooper had not voted. Ht claimed his right to vote as before-lor Mir. Cain and the Mayor decided that there was no election.

 MT. Hurtel, of the Council to every body's sur prlse, claimed that there election-but 1t was not put 10 any question. The convention proceeded to vote as before, every whg continuing 10 vote foi nine more ballolings for Mir. Walker and the conven ton then adjourned to Saturday for the purpose o ballotng again!

 In thelnterim however, they appear to have learn ed some things new and strange. They discovered that it is proper for legislative body to siege upon an accidental omission to defeat the right of one their members to vote-lod deny him the opportunity to correct the omission and put in his ballo tha such irregular ballot, rejected by the chair, anc the rejection acquiesced in by the convention, and treated as nought by the whole body collectively and individually, may be made valid by minority oi them, voting on another day and in another place.

 Accordingly, on Saturday the Board of Aldermen by the of nine wings revised the action of the joint convention-ruled the decision of the Mayor and the action of the whole body-and their own agreement u that acton nine times repeated ln nine subsequent bailols, be altogether out of order and by their own votes made Marshall which the whole body ofbolh branches together had failed to make.

 How the quiet citizens of our town will like this prank of the Aldermen, we cannot undertake to say. The attempt to smuggle friend into office by shut ting out in convention the vote of a member pres ent, anxious to vote and lenderng his vote, was, in itself very unfair and ungenerous pi pioceedlng.- The convention itself having decided that this should not be, the question ought 10 have been considered as settled ifthere any doubt before. These dssen- tients who afterwards as Aldermen declared in their own Board that the election had been made on the 18th ballot, precluded themselves from the right 10 malniain that position in the joint meeting by con tuung to vote without dissent up 10 the 27h ballot; and they and their friends will be extremely puzzled to shew where they derive any shew of right, legal or equitable, to overiurn in the Board of Aldermen the decisions of order made in the joint meeting of the two Boards, in which they had acqnesced them selves

 Considered as transaction, which 1t Is attempted defend grounds of law, equity and fair dealing, il is utterly f,rcical-as a specimen of the manner in which public trust is discharged t more se- rious matter. It seems 10 assume that my sort of juggery IS lawful to keep iavori,e in office. It is surprising that the really respectable men in that number and there are men there for whom we have the highest personal esteem, should not see the true nature of this scramble to keep petty of flee

 The Advertiser, in stating it's case, wanders into personal attack upon one of the democratic Alder men, who was absent from his seat. Il is game that two might play al, selecting objects carefully, if 1t were not one al which nU body would play Il they could possibly help it. We do not doubt that if we could follow every whig member of the corpo- ration to the places where he drinks and sleeps, we could make out a colorable case of fragrant and fragrant reort, but il would be an ungracious task, and we have no appetite for such researches.

 .l.---All---.-- .-L-. a,as ahsAnt from his post on Saturday, tells his ows story in another column.

 The anniversary of St John the Evangelist was celebrated by the Masonic fraternity of ihis city with the customary display. Al 10 o'clock pro- cession in costume was formed al the Masonic Hall snd marched with fine hand of music through seve- ral of the principal streets to Government street church, where appropriate and eloquent orsion delivered by Percy Walker, Esq The mister of the Grand Lodge of the State, Mir. NORMAN being present. the officers of the two lodges, the Mobile and the Howard, were then duly installed that lunctionary performing the imposing ceremony. The exercises having closed, the procession formed agan aad returned to the Hall where it was dis missed.

 DAN MARBLE, ihe celebrated delineator of Yan- kee chaiacter, has been engaged and makes his first appearance at the theatre this evening He has a taking bill of fare, and the lovers of the humorous