The New York herald., 1867-12-15

amp >sn>rny appointed an additional s.ioe de-
ID" the stat Of General Charles Z. smith and filed
position Of acting assistant adjutant gssnerai he
remained che stan OF General smith Until after the
capture OF Donaldson when 40 resi>.ed. Mr.. News
Thirty-seccnd Missouri infantry. aud with it partic
pstod In battles OF Chlckssaw bayou, Old Post Of
Arkansas and all battles about Vicksburg He left
the army and Lou, sana in 1864, and practsed
law at Donaldsonva Hlere ne was clerk or the district
court Mr. Newsham is an extreme radical and one of
the preudices Of The ruling sentiment OF Louisiana as
Applying peculiarly to tae disranchlsed element he 10
csbsrred from the enjoyment OF tho practice OF bis
profession. Mr. Newsham elected to the Conven-
tion against three tickets 10 the nola As an extreme n
arguments carry weight in tho Convention.
John Lynch (whilei, OF Carroll, was born In Castle
derry, Ireland, In February, 1875. We was educated for
a merchant and in 1889 entered commercial house in
Letterkenny, where he remained until 1S42, when he
camo to the United States Disappointed IN getting
employ in mercantile houses, he apprentced him
SELF TO carpenter During the three years OF his ap
premiership Mr. Lynch close student and st It's
member OF faculty obsrlin for three years
Leaving tue college no Identified himself with the
OF popular education 10 Ohio aud FOR ten years preced
ing the breaking out OF the war was superintendent OF
public schools the city OF Crclevlle OHIO In 1865
Mr. Lynch admitted TO the bar but never practsed
law Entering army in 1862 Mr. Lynch participated In
all the campaigns which resulted re-cstablishing fed
eral authority IN the Mississippi valley from Cairo 20 the
Gulf A the close Of The war he purchased plan.a
influential constituency. Mr.. Lynch Ii gentleman OF
fine attanments always courteous IN debate, and a
the close OF the Convention. hr. l.. Is worth several
thousand dollars and has personal interest in the State
William Jasper Blackburn Is a native OF Arkansas
born in 1890 He spent his early life in Arkansas
and Southern Missouri. He entered jackson College,
Columbia Tenn at the age OF sixteen, was an indus
trous student and carried of the honors or his class
but was compelled to leave college without graduating
Returning TO Arkansas he entered printing Office the
Batesvile Ne served his Apprenticeship through and
became the publisher OF the Ns,cs subsequently he
followed the career OF journeyman printer in Little
Rock Van Buren, and Fort Smith. In ls4s he came TO
and founded tho HerdLi al MindeD Darish of
Claiborne which he conducted for many years In 1859
he established the Homer Hiad at Homer Claiborne
parish. OF which paper he is still editor and publisher
He is known throughout the Union as the erce enemy
OF treason and secession from the first, man Who
during the darkest days of rebel rule openly declared by
his pen and voice his detestaon OF rebels. He is
abe debatcr, In personal appearance uneainly and de-
cidedly the Thad Stevens OF this body.
The question OF money TO pay tho expenses OF tho
Convention is one that seriously perplexes the men,
bers There Is not picayune in the State Treasury
Three fourths OF the members are strapped" and
pay for the washing Of their linen, let alone board
bills which in this city are enormous The subject was
brought up day in the form OF ordinance for levy
ing special and personal property, and for
the issuing OF half million bonds by the President Of
the Conye enon to defray its expenses The subject is
urged to take some means at once to raise the wind
Unless they act promptly many Of the poor plantation
darkes will be turned out of tns lodgings and forced
to spend the nights the station house the session
chamber have not yet been able to secure full
statement OF the property owned by members. Des-
londe, OF Rapdes parish, and Bonscgneur OF Orleans
are, believe the only negroes worth farthng. The
formor IS worth about &2o OO0 the latter, perhaps
SIS, ,O00 The white members poor, also, very few
returning any income 10 the assessors Office. sudeng
the millionaire OF 0uchita; President Iaaferro Craw
ford, Mcmillan and Lynch arc the principal excep-
tions
Nine Days Sauandered In Personal Quarrels-
Personal Appearance Of the House-lts
White and Black Mcmbers-The DRrkies
Declare Themselves the Rulers-Mcmbers'
Pay Fixed mt Ten Dollars Per Day-One Man
Ashamed Of His COmpany-Probnbffify of
the Convention Closing In a Row.
NEw ORLEANS, Dec. l. 1867.
Ten days Of the Convention. Ten days Of commIngng
OF ''white spirits and black" CRITIC spirits and yellow,
and the State Of Lousiaua-or rather its inhabitants.
who had but secondary voice in stufng this
blage with terate materiAl-foot the bill Of half mil
lion OF dollars while the Convention is not much
the conclusion Of the labors for which 1t called TO-
gether by military edict than 1t whom the huge,
ignorant African called TO the chair the 23d Of
November, 1867. ! have sat In this Convention for
ten days have listened the wordy corporations"
Of its members, and, in the language Of . member
Of the worldwide Jones family, Il disgusted with
the exhibition" That there white gentlemen OF
character In this chequered assemblage there
in negroes OF remarkable intelligence and ability,
faithful chronicler, bound to admit. Yet, when
look around the house and behold away back thsre
ON the left negro, who servant in the Washington
artillery was one Of the most bitter enemies Of the
ousy Yanks, who used to offer indignites 10 federal
soldiers that the white rebels Of that command dare
nos attempt; when turn TO the right and hehold a
coiored man. who acted s spy for his rebel masters
when . dirty white man, who in 1860 or
the violent rebels too cowardly the field
negro-worshpping party when look 10 the front and
left and see a man who commanded Confederate COM
my eyes to The third tier Of seats on the right and they
rest upon white man who called upon ths women OF
the South TO arm themselves 70 protect their virtue
from the maraudng yankee thleves,n and grandiio-
quenty exclaimed, eyes, hang the last one
Of them:" when / behold men in ali parts
Of the Convention sitting beside such soldiers
Newsham, Mcmillan, Twiteheii Reagan and Iners-
ham, who bounded the rebels murder and outrage
is any wonder that exclsm, .'God help LOUISIANA II
such frame her constitution I" For ton days have
listened to the "loyaty OF these doubly ydsted loyal
lists their harangues TO the poor ignorant plantation
hearts than the men who in this convention would
them to advance their own filthy ends turn from the
contemplation Of the panoramic before in dis
gust and sorrow. Lot me say more, here find white
men, who within the privacy OF tho clubrooms embrace
the dArky and drink applelack and cocktails :, his
and ''scratch his back" when they have selfish ends
gain see them again the street, when they meet
their ricnds and brohrsu, and they invariably give
them the cut direct These the men, forsoon, who
howl oudest IN OF negro equality before the law,
who quote from the constitution, li men created
free and equal &c vet outside Of the sacred pre-
cncs OF this body, which Ia opened daily With sprar
give the negro wide berth.
To their credit be said there are intelligent colored
men In the Convention who know these men. negroes
who cannot be driven Of old by slave ca,chers and
Bonseigneur and Bortanneau with, before this conven.
lion closes its sessions show that although their skins
tinted with African blood they OF superior
hood than the miserable scum who would use tncm.
A state Constitutional Convention! What farce
Nincy.eiRht white ahd black men not one IN ten OF
whom to-day pay weeks board in adv ance sitting
in counsel frame organic laws the great State
Louisiana. OH that Ben Wade, Zsck Chandler. Wilson.
Butler aud Chase who for negro equality before the
law, could be transported here for hour and
what and hear what hear II 10 all very well for
them 20 harp upon negro suffrage and negro equality
huf at fhafru nll un tne In b2x hal
20 frame, the Bob Ridleys, Old Dan fuckers, Dandy
inns and Ncoiemuses OF the cotton fields take their
seats In the Congress OF the United States and
shall see q different state OF things. Negro
sufraSs may BE- all very we'll n education made
the basis, but the idea Of calling Convention
Of from the sugar mills and cotton fields make
laws and impose upon the descendants OF Reyo