Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-02-05


WI yesterday published a lengthy
telegram from New Orleans, giving
IN account of the result of a public
meeting, held in that city, to a Com
mittee from which Gov. YARMOUTH
made some disclosures verydamaging
20 Mayor CONWAY and other leading
men Of the Crescent City. The Cover
nor stated that he had been offered
large sums for his signature, and on
one occasion had been offered as much
as $4,000 in gold by gentlemen de
sirous of securing legislation for pet
schemes and designs upon the public
curse, and concluded by charging
Auditor WICKLIFFE with robbing the
reasury of $500, 600. We were at a
.oss to divine a reason for this sudden
and unexpected expose by the Cover
nor, and could not trace it to
any assignable cause until our
New Orleans exchanges Of Wednes-
lay reached US, when we discovered
It in the impeachment of the Cover
nor by Mr.. WICKLIFFE, State Audi
tor of Louisiana, who makes up such
bill of indictment as will, ifsustained,
damn YARMOUTH and sink him far be-
low the level ola New York alderman,
below that Of the members Of the
FIsK-GOULD Railroad ring, and
put him on a par with CORBN
Or the others who were inter
asted in the great gold swindle and
/ bubble Of last summer. WICKLIFFE
sets out by charging YARMOUTH with
being guilty of various gross Outrages
in violating the Constitution and
trampling under foot the laws he took
q solemn oath to see faithfully eXecut-
sd, as well as p~erpetrating the most
serious frauds upon the treasury
CT the State; and corruption in Office,
in levying black-mal upon numerous
citizens Of the State, and many other
acts Of malfeasance, corruption and
oppression in Office.
WICKLIFFE sustains these charges
by reciting his own trial on two sepa-
rate occasions at the instigation Of
YARMOUTH, who ne says bribed ju-
rors and s~ubborned judges to procure
mis- conviction; by the evidence Of
the seizure by the Governor, without
the color of law, of his (WICKLIFFE's)
office, official papers and private ef-
fects, only yielding them back upon
pressure Of public opinion and the
courts of the State. WICKLIFFE also
charges the Governor with offering to
release convicts if they would swear
falsely against him; with endorsing
aud shielding criminals from justice
for the purpose of prosecuting him;
with with holding his signature to bills
50 as TO squeeze money out Of the
benefciaries; with receiving 100000
5Or his signature to the bill incorpO-
rating the Slaughter House Company;
with receiving money from the friends
as well as the opponents Of the
Ship Island canal bill-tor his veto
and for his influence to pass the meas
ure afterward, over his veto. He also
charges this Radical Governor with
receiving levee bonds as a bride to
sign a bill for the relief Of a contract
or; with demanding for his signature
to bill No. III, Of 1869, the sacrifice, to
MS lust, Of the virtue of a young
and beautiful lady, who had inter
coded in its behalf; with, assisted
by Others, %defrauding the State
Of Louisiana of over $50, 600 in their
manipulation Of the Sl,5SG, 600 worth
Of levee bonds disposed Of in New
York at 81 cents, when they were
offered SIC. for them in New Orleans;
with corruptly receiving $4,000 from
p. J. KENNEDY, for his signature to
the bin authorizing the construction
Of levees; with defrauding the State
Of Sl42,7 40 by cutting off overdue cOu-
pons from the levee bonds disposed OF
by him and his committee, and never
accounting for the same; also, with
lefrauding the State Of $3.50, by cut
ting of overdue coupons from the
Red back Bonds, delivered to
him by the Auditor in accord
ance with joint resolution Nc.
is Of 1863, and never accounting
for the same. WICKLIFFE also
charges that YARMOUTH, in violation
Of law, has refused to deliver bonds to
the Auditor to have them properly
registered and delivered to those
claiming them; hence, the State has
no official record of said bonds, and
no receipts for the same, and may be,
no doubt has been swindled out of
millions Of dollars; also, that he cor
ruptly demanded and received money
before he would appoint persons to
office, in various instances from the
highest to the lowest Office within his
gift; that he corruptly issued TO the
Mississippi and Mexican Gulf Canal
Company (of which he owns over
nine-tenths), bonds to the amount of
three hundred and fifty-fOur thousand
dollars, in violation of law; that he
corruptly demanded and received
money or its equivalent to sign
the New Orleans, Mobile and
Chattanooga Railroad bill; that
he has defrauded Louisiana Of
over $500, 900; and by his refusal to
protect the State by securing a COM
plete register of her bonds and cou-
pons, has laid her liable to be de-
frauded Of over two million and a
half dollars more, besides untold mil
lions from forgery; that he corruptly
demanded and received $4,000 for
yetoing the first civil rights bill; that
he has in numerous instances bribed
members of the Legislature to secure
their votes for WICKLIFFE's impeach-
menta and conviction; that he corrupt
ly demanded and received money, or
its equivalent in shares of stock, for
signing the printing bill that he has
violated the Constitution by openly
and by armed force, setting the Courts
at defiance and trampling the laws