Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-01-11
BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS.
The CarteriteS Squelched with
BayOnetS.
The Assassination of WheyIand.
Carter Indicted as Accessory.
Order Issued for his Arrest.
Business of the City PrOstrate.

Business of the City PROSTATE.
NEW YORK, Jan. 10.-Wheyland, who
was assassinated in New Orleans last night,
was formerly member of the 3lst Massa-
chusetts Regiment.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 10.-The morning
papers publish the names of several citizens
who witnessed the shooting of Wheyland
yesterday, and who state that the shooting
was done by Policeman Early.
This morning large number of Metro
politanS, armed with Winchester rifles,
took positions on Royal street, occupying
almost the entire street from Canal to Gus
tomhouse streets, and preventing the as
sembling of the Carterites at their usual
place Of meeting.
The Wheyland AssassinatiOn-Carte
Indicted as sAccessOry-Order Issued
for His Arrest.
LATER--The statements regarding the
killing of Wheyland are contradictory. Capt.
McCann testified before the coroner's jury,
so the Republican states, that Mccullough
acknowledged that be had shot Wheyland
in the discharge of his duties as Sergeant-at
arms of the House of Representatives. The
Republican says: When the evidence closed
the. jury, accompanied by Maj. New, one of
Gov. Warmoth's counsel, who had been
present all through, adjourned to a room on
Common street, where verdict was agreed
on as follows:
"That Walter B. Wheyland came to his
death at the hands of certain persons at
present nameless."
This morning Coroner Creagh promulga-
ted another verdict in the same case, charg-
ing Mccullough and the two McCormicks
with the murder of Wheyland, and Geo.
W. Garter with being an accessory before
the fact.
The Governor says that, in consequence
of this verdict, he sent the policemen on
Royal street to arrest Carter.
Remington Rifles.
The Times says the most lawless and
reprehensible of all the acts yet done during
the faction fight now progressing, was that
which was done this morning in the Occu-
patton of Royal street with Metropolitan
police armed with Remington rifles.
Craving for Martial Law.
The Bee says the Federal government
would not only be justified in putting down
the administration of Warmoth, but it is
bound in duty TO cause Su ch a rule to cease |
as that which he has established in this
State. If martial law is juStiiable in any
conjuncture, it surelyis so in crisis like the
present.
Another Proclamation.
Gov. Warmoth issued another prOclama- |
ton to-day, ordering the Garter faction to
desist from further proceedings and COM |
manding the members to return to their |
seats in the General Assembly.
Business at a Stand-ShII.
The Picdyme, under the caption of |
Suspension of Business" in the course of |
its comments SAYS eve are in the midst |
of our too short annual busy season, during |
which, if ever, our merchants must accom- !
plish their years work in order to meet the |
years expenses. Yet houses whose sales |
amount to millions, in the very heart Of the |
city, are obliged to close their doors against |
a mob at midday. Teere is an uncalculable |
loss suffered by our citizens in this man
ner."
In the Courts.
The application of the Governor for an
Injunction from the 8th District Court, re-
straining the CarteriteS from further action,
came up this morning, but was postponed
till Saturday.
Deserted Streets.
There is [no1 material change. in the con-
ditiou Of affairs to-day. Business is dull.
There were very few ladies on Canal street.
At 2 o'clock, the hour it is usually thronged,
not twenty could be seen. There was no
business IN doors. Men are generally worn
out.
Two Men Shot on ST. Charles Street.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 10, p. MA shoot
ing affair occurred on ST. Charles street this
afternoon, in which two persons not 'impli-
Gated in the row were shot, one danger
ousy.
Shopping the Devil for a Witch.
The PicdyIrne opposes martial-aw, and
says We hear with deep regret, that some of
our citizens are about to unite in a petition
to the Federal authorities that a military
Governor and military rule may be sUbsti-
tUted for the present State Executive and
government of Louisiana. They are pro-
voked to this measure by wantOn misrule,
by systematic persecution, ,tS stupendOus eX-
travagance, by multiform acts of oppression,
by adding in offices, by sales of votes in the
Legislature, by ruinouS mOnopolies, by
burdensOme taxes, by ancient civic
franchises trodden on, by deliberate and
persistent violation of the sacred right of
suffrage, and by all the wicked mOckery of
free government which We have suffered for
the past four years. The prOvOcatiOn is
very great, and we as fully Sympathize III
their sentiment as we share in the annoy
ances of which they complain; but we must
warn them against the greater evil which
they invoke as an antidote, believing it to
be virulent poison, and more lasting in
its damaging effects. We want no Magis-
trate in uniform. We would rather bear
years of local misrule than years Of military
despOtism.
Who was WheyIand?
The Times, under the caption of . How
the Legislature is made up" says that Mr..
Wheyland a member Of that branch of the
House which hold their session on Dryad
street, and who was killed on Canal street
last evening, affords an example of the
shameful abuses of the election and regis
tratiOn laws by the constituted authorities.
He was sent to the remote parish OF Sabine,
in this State, "a few days before the registration
of the voters of the parish as Registrar; and
although perfect stranger to the people of
the parish, and it was proved beyond doubt
that nearly all the votes of the parish were
given to Mr.. Smart, one Of the Oldest citi-
Zens of the parish, Wheyland was returned
as the Representative of Sabine, and all the
influence of the administration was en-
plOyOu SuCCcSolIlig W Mt ulul III LLo oCdG' |
1t was in vain that Mr.. Smart brought to
this city and exhibited to the Legislature
evidence in the form of afidavits of the
voters themselves that at least four-iifths of
them voted for Smart. Wheyland was of
the same class as Carr and Dewes, and be-
cause he favored the powers that be must
be seated in the House, whether elected or
not. At the time of his return we called
attention to the outrage of admitting
him as member, but were laughed
at for the impOtency of our protest. Three ]
fourths of the members Of the House which {
Gov. Warmoth claims to be the legal Legis-
lature of Louisiana, owe their seats to this
shameful interpOsition, and despOtic con-
duct of unscrupulOus party politicians who
are sent to the various parishes as regis.
trars, with the express or implied instruC-
ton to return themselves to the Legislature
regardless of the votes of the people, in
order TO fill the assembly with the friends
and supporters Of the State administration.
WarmOth Refuses all Compromise.
A committee from the Committee of
Fifty-one called on Governor WarmOth and
asked him to appoint a committee to meet |