Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-30


the New Orleans and Jackson road Is
stlast ended. The last notes between
the parties are as follows:
NEW ORLEANS, April 2G, 1870.
General G.. T. Beauregard!
Dear SiT-NOters representing the
majority of the stock in the New Or
leans, Jackson and Great Northern
Railroad Company having met yester-
day in the Office of the company and
elected a Board of Directors, it is the
desire of the directors so elected to
neet at one O'Clock to-day for the pur-
pose of completing their organization.
T>Ney think the Office Of the company
the pr,@oer place Tor the meeting, but
as thew haze heard tisat you are Op-
posed 10 lis beilsE held there, the OBJ
ject of this note is TO SsceTlain Shetn-
er their information is c0irect--llld II
so, the undersigned respectfully re-
quest you TO inform them Of the fact.
This note is addressed to yen by re-
quest OF a number Of the directors.
Very respectfully yours,
(Signed) 80
HAYS & NEW,
RANDOLPH, SINGLETON & BRoWNE,
BILLINGS q HUGHES.
The reply is as follows:
Messrs. Hays & New, attorneys, etc, New
Orleans:
Gentlemen: Yours of the 26th in
slant is received. You are mistaken
in suppOsing that there was any elec-
TiOn of a Board Of Directors on yes
terday at this Office.
The parties to whom you refer we're
q mob of trespasSers, who have been
held to bail for the trespass they COM
mitted, before the Recorder Of the
First District.
They will not be permitted in future
10 enter this Office on any pretence
whatever. / remain your Obedient
servant, G. T. BEAUREGARD,
President.
From the New Orleans Times, of Thurs
THE CASE BEFORE RECORDER
HOUGHTON.
The charge of trespass and violent
entry iRt8 the Office of the Jackson
railroad. made by General Beaure-
gard, the former President OF the
jackson railroad, and Mr.. Williamson
smith, a Director, which has been
amusing the public for the last two or
LhftS Ohgri ICOSlNSu yCStNlNag ~
1nal cOlfO de grace before Recorder
'P0HghtOn, after occupying the atten-
t,orS OF that committing magistrate,
In spit9 OF his protests, for a couple
of hours. As ths prosecution and the
tremendous ch.SrgeS OF conspiracy,
Violently, forcibly. wrOngiHlly, ETC.,
Of doing something or y, her uhpieas-
ant, have been heard a gre@tt many
times in Injunction and railroad cases,
most of the spectators were prepared
20 view the matter as a joke when
the case came on trial, more especi-
ally when the first witness and affiant
had concluded his evidence, and
smilingly whispered to all parties to
quit their fOOlishneSs and come with
him to the Fair. The matter, hOweV
er, was not altogether regarded in this
light by the prosecution, and worldly
spectators Of a practical turn were not
a little astOnished to see with what a
persistency the suit was followed up
long after il had become obvious what
would be a matter of course dispOsi-
tiOn of il.
The general tendency of the evil
dence was to make use of army
phrases, or to consider the matter in
the light of army regulations, and one
could not have long to listen before
discovering he was in the presence Of
those who had made military history.
Thus Mr.. McCOmb, who has hitherto
been supposed to be a gOOd-natured,
prosperous capitalist, with a rather
polite way of taking off his hat and
shaking hands, was spoken of by
prosecuting counsel as a ''ringleader
Of a mob" and sometimes in bOlder
flights of rhetoric dignified into the
commander of an invading horde.
After hearing all the evidence, pro
and con, in the case, the Recorder ad-
mittfd that there might have been a
conspiracy, and a very well gotten up
one, too, Il it was necessary to get
possession Of the road, but did not
think the fact amounted to much
when proven.
Counsel for the prosecution was still
iuuuiring into some railroad stocks,
when Recorder HOughtOn, with a
restless shake Of his cushions, OBJ
served that he had listened 20 all Of
this long enough.
Mr.. Freeman - without noticing
the waning enthusiasm Of the Re
c0rder)-I shall show that no notice
was given by Mr.. AcCOmb (the ring
leader of these mem TO 90 into the
Office with his band of men and get
possession. This conspiracy was an
outrage against two States, and con-
trary to their peace and dignity.
Recorder HOughtOn-If the con-
spirScy was really put up, and did not
result n any violence, | have nothing
Ia do with it. General Beauregard
states that he could have put these
men out, and he did not do it. Con-
seauently, as they were allowed to
remain, there don't appear to have
been much violence. My mind Is
matse up.
General Freeman-Why, sir, you
have not heard my evidence. if this
i not violence, what is?
Recorder Houghton-If l had $780,
600 OF stock, and / went iRtO an Office
10 vote it, aud was told to go away,
there coufd hardly be made breach
of the peace cut OF 1t.
The crowd. niesnwhile, and the ac-
cused, who seemed Ike the Recorder
to have made up theiF minds how the
whole matter would end, now COM
menced oOZing through the door amid
rather obvious regrets Of prosecuting
counsel that he had ever appeared in
The court at all. Recorder HOughtOn
having dismissed the case meanwhile
was descending his tribunal, and end
Cd the scene by vOwing, in an aside,
that se had listened to that stuff long
enough, and did not care about re-
naming until midnight, where there
Nyas after all no case.