The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-02-03
AFFAIRS IN LOUISIANA.


The state Turned Over - the Grant Rad1-
caIs-MansTeid Buys Up tho White Radical
Circumstance Dead and Bmried-Enects OF
the stanton Observation-Disclosures Not scared
q Bit-Further Conservative Orders In Esse
New ORLEANS, Jan. 10, 1865.
The turmoil ut Washington has had it's little
counterpart here. Stanton's entrance into tho
War Office has revived all the scotched snakes of
radical fanaticism in the Gulf Department. II
Stanton regains his lost position why not
Sheridan The Convention, which had begun
to droop its head, plucked up courage
and set to work on the equal social
rights constitution with redoubled energy, Mr..
Mansfield at once pumped down q good round
sum for the delegates over due board bills, and
thus gained them over body and soul. He next
bought up the Republican, the white radical organ
here, put new editor in Office and turned il into
. black and tan organ, and now remains master
OF the situation.
Chaplain Conway, respecting whose administra-
siana the HERALD OF June and July 1866, had
not = little to say claims to be the wire.puler
II the Convention. He Ia nowhere. Mans
field has outgeneraled and outbid him.
Conway was sent down here to talk the
negro element into Chase nomination. He got
up Loyal League mass meeting of negroes, with
cheers for Chase sandwiched between every two
speeches. The Loyal League has gone under, and
Conway has sunk into the negro nominee for
State Superintendent Of Education. For that post
his principal qualification 10 that during his term
Of Office as Freedmen's Bureau Commissioner no
reduced the district schools Of Louisiana from
state Of the highest efficiency to . condition
Of chaos and imp0tency. Mansfield ~ smart
man. He got the best Of both Banks and
Butler In operations, and Conway was only very
small game to him. 30, rs matters stand, the
State is committed to the Grant party, wh0sesocal
mouthpiece 10 Mansfield.
But the course taken BY General Hancock in
t.o utaeo nf ebA otru
endangered the radical earthworks. OF negroes
under age, Of negroes born in Africa,
Of white men not qualified by residence, there
are % many on shs ssssy s1ss T Nm these are
whose votes were illegally refused under Sheri-
dams circular are added the scales will be turned,
and the constitution which the Convention 10
this danger seems too remote Of present to excite
much alarm. The Convention has quite recovered
from the scare into Which IL was thrown BY the
sepulchral warning Of Judge Cooley. one Of
Of the radical party North were numbered; and
by the declaration q Pinchback, colored
delegate, that the nigger osmel was loaded down
break its back. Supplied with present funds and
occurred against future want BY The published
avowal OF the General In command that the tax
laid By the Convention !: authorised By the Recon
goes merriy on. In day or two more shall be
able 70 send you tho result Of It's lsbors.
General Hancock maintains Q bold front. and
has little fear OF being legislated ont Of his posi-
ton. II might hazard perfectly unauthorized
observation IL ~ that Hancock shrewdly suspects
Grant will have word to say when Congress
comes to legislate generals out OF their commands
TOR their political proclivites. That Is a prece-
dent which need not stop at major generals, but
might be extended 10 generals.in chief should the
NEXT Congress 20 democratic. To-day Hancock 10
ont with two new orders indicating no falling Dack
lie reasserts the supremacy OF the clvl Jaw even
while declaring the legality Of the Reconstruction
Convention tax. This declaration, by the say
will secure the pcaceabic and prompt collection
OF the tax which otherwise would never pave
realized ten thousand dollars. The old disfran.
ohised citizens show . commendablc disposition TO
fall in with everything which inc conservative
masses of the North and Hancock az their spokcs.
man recommend. The Democratic State Com
mittee have organized for the National Democratic
1onveutiou and with the exception OF an indis-
croct premincncc given TO one or two worn out
nolitcal hacks their proceedings have thus far
been marked by moderation and wisdom.
IL il expected that in day or two General Han.
bidding the assembling Of the Legislature, and
will allow that body IN meet In order that they
mar grapple with the gordan knot OF state 6nan.
ces This will cause another howl 81 Washing
ton But the necessity Is peromptory. The de-
moralization in all departments Of city and State
finance exceeds everything since the collapse OF
Confederate scrip. City notes Of larger denomi-
cent; the judges salaries are three quarters in
arrears; other State officials Of the respectable
class are ia similar plight. The radical nomis
nees Of Sheridan and Mower have grabbed all
the money and they are Just now on the rack,
disc losing one against the other, such fostering
mass OF rascaty and corruption % was never
dreamed Of