Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1867-06-06
POLITICO-MILITARY MIDDLE.

torial seat and appointing Thomas
J. Durant, Esq, to fill the place
Wells seems very 10th to part com
pany with the office, its emoluments
and honors, and evinces disposition
to hold on to it. He and his ad
visers are getting up a protest tc
send on to Washington, hoping
thereby to effect the double purpose
Of sustaining Wells in his position
and effecting the displacement Of
Sheridan as Commander of the Fifth
Military District.
| 1t appears that Gov. Wells and
others had made application to Presi
dent johnson for a revocation of the
order of Gen. Sheridan concerning
the removal of the Wells Board of
Levee Commissioners, and that the
President thereupon ordered a sus-
pension Of all further proceedings
in the matter until further instruc-
tons. This order was conveyed to
General Sheridan per telegram dis
patched by War Secretary Stanton
This interference with the Generals
arrangements, it is supposed, in con-
nection with other objections to
Wells course generally, led, to the
summary official decapitation of the
latter. In his answer to Secre-
tary Stanton's dispatch, Sheridan
takes occasion to denounce Wells in
the most unequivocal manner, as a
"political trickster and dishonest
man." He speaks of him also as
having turned Union men out of Of
fee and appointing in their stead
rebel soldiers, and as having skulked
away during the July riot of 1866
He says he has watched him since,
and "his conduct has been as sinu-
Gus as the mark left in the dust by
the movement Of snake" Pretty
hard ticks these enough to make
any "galled jade VINCE" but the
Governors hide is tough enough to
stand it all without showing much
indentation. The loss of the "emolu-
ments" is likely to prove the hardest
blow.
In the meantime, Mr.. Durant the
newly appointed Governor is at
Washington and it is contended by
some that he will not "accept." He
has always been a firm, upAinching
Union man, with radical proclivities
and his appointment would doubtless
suit the radical party about as well
as any other. Although of cold
exterior, bordering upon repulsive-
ness, and Of an ascetic temperament
which seems to partake of the mis-
he is nevertheless man
Of learning and ability, and has we
think, a mind sufficiently his own
not to be overswayed by prejudice
or favor, and therefore not likely to
submit to the bartering away Of the
gubernatorial honors and privileges
for a consideration or bonus to those
who have "axes to grind" Should
he "accept the situation" and be-
come duly installed as Governor, we
shall hope to find that we have not
him. The road will be
open to him for vast Improvement
in the administration of the civil af-
fairs of our State, and we trust it
will be his aim to prove himself an
honest, just and impartial Execu-
i've, thus disappointing agreeably
he many who seem disposed to look
upon the change as only humping
'ut Of the frying pan into the fire.
Immediately following the order
Gov. Wells, came another
rom Gen. Sheridan removing from
office Mr.. A. Bellanger, street com
missioner Of New Orleans, and APP
pointing in his place Mr.. William
Baker, one of the Registrars for the
First District. The cause alleged
.or Mr. Rellanper's removal. ia dpra-