New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-11

have been for some time kept on a United
States revenue cutter, the Wilderness, in
order to be beyond the jurisdiction OF the
State authorities. and avoiding the service
OF writ compelling their attendance i'll the
Senate. These allegations being made
known to the government at Washington.
| Governor Warmoth has been notified that
they will be promptly investigated. The
prospect OF violence being threatening, Gen
eral Emory, commanding the United States
troops in the State, has offered their SER
| vices to the Governor to assist in preserving
the peace, an offer which the Governor has
| accepted.
| Yesterday, when the facts were only
| partly known, the enemies of the admins
tratiOn made haste to hold up the affair as
| an instance of violent interference with
State affairs by the United States govern
ment. 1t remains to be seen whether they
will be candid enough to acknowledge that
| the administration has only performed its
| simple duty in the matter, and that against
the party with which the federal officials
are connected. If the otherwise unfortunate
| occurrence shall result in the removal of
| those local United States officials who have
| been so hasty to implcate the administra-
ton in their personal schemes, it will be q
| relief to the country.
This is from the New York Ford, whose
| writers seem not to understand that the
Democratic members of the General Assem-
bly, are mainly responsible for 'the infamy
| of Louisiana politics" Says the World:
! The infamy of Louisiana politics was al
| ready complete before the final outrage of
undisguised violence with which one of the
| factions of mOngrels which control it has
sought to put down the other. We decline
to-day to go into discussion to find ont
h. H., -, r.
between the two parties of Radical rascals
or the specific merits of the issue on which
they fought. 1t is enough. and it is evident
enough, that the politics of the Southern
States, under the Radical rule which has
| ostraciZed all the civilized men in them, are
like the politics of those South American
"republics," so-called, wherein Legislative
assembly is permanent mob and every
election is an earthquake.
The New Orleans correspo ndent of the
New York World closes dispatch Friday:
The feeling here is that Governor War
moth and the Legislature will finally sue
ceed, and they retain the public confidence.
The New York Commercial Adrertiscr
says of Louisiana:
This State needs perpetual reconstruc-
ton. 1t Is the seat of perpetual disorder.
Faction fights run to worse extremes in
New Orleans than anywhere else. To
solve the problem presented in the dis
patches of last night from that city would
puzzle an Oedipus. The worst of it is that
the trouble is in the ranks of the Repub-
lican party. If it was between two hostile
parties it might be better understood. 1t
is an old legacy of faction difficulty, which
broke into riot last summer, at the conven-
ton, and now lnvades the Legislature
One party wishes TO fmpeach the Governor
and remove the newly chosen Lieutenant
Governor. This would make the Speaker
of the House Governor. OF course the
Governors party resists this. They hold
the Senate, which, however, is not or
ganized, as enough members to prevent
quorum are floating around on revenue
cutter. In the House. or houses, for there
are two which claim regularity, the fac
tions amuse themselves by expelling each
other.
The same paper of Saturday evening
says:
The situation ut the capital of Louisiana
wears a new aspect to-day. The Narmoth
Legislature are in the State House. The
Carter Legislature are not. Both parties
appeal to the President for aid. The Presi-
dent promises an investigation of the ex-
traordinary conduct of the United States
marshal, and the federal troops are to be
used to maintain order and not to help
either faction. The whole business. by
whonsoever urged on, is shameful to the
last degree, and we trust the President will
make an example of such of his officers as
may be proved to be in the wrong. AS IL
the rlotOus convention proceedings last fall,
the enemies of General Grant charge this
New Orleans emeute to him. His prompt
response disposes of this malevolent charge,
and leaves his enemies to new inventions.
Warmoth can not by any means be re
garded as altogether IN the right. He Is
said to be young. only twenty-eight years
of age, a fluent speaker, active. keen
witted, and arrogant since his success both
in politics and money making. The Chicago
Tribune characterizes him as one who
''makes his own game, and is thoroughly
skeptical about men, having pretty rough
school of it in Louisiana, where nearly all
the politicians are insincere, hollow
wretches, who would turn their backs upon
him, or Grant, or anybody, tomorrow, if
they supposed his power was growing less.
Warmoth's weaknesses are his rashness,
boyishness and implacability." The strange
ness of q character like this may account
for many of the strange phases of the po-
Gtical situation in Louisiana for the last
four years. The partisans of b. tn sides are
intense to degree. always ready for
fight, and vigorously pushing a quarrel
when once they are engaged.
The Chicago Tribune is facetious, and
says of the New Orleans Show
Such chaste amusemenis as cock-tighting
and bear batting will naturally be at a dis
count in New Orleans so long us the present
Legislature is in session. The proceedings
OF last Wednesdays session were reported,
in part, by telegraph; but, of the many rich
episodes, it was impossible that all should
be caught up and preserved by the abstract
and brief chroniclers of the daily press.
The Tribune narrates two or three inter
esting scenes, and adds:
This kind of performance is extremely
lively and quite dramatic in interest, the
curiosity being constantly piqued as to
whether the affair is to turn out tragedy
or a farce; and, if tragedy, which party
is to get perforated with the fatal bullet.
AS shows, therefore, these legislative ses-
sions ought to draw better than any of the
other town amusements; and perhaps it is to
compensate for the narrowness of gallery
accommodations that the Legislature has,
as other companies of performers often do,
split up into several bodies, and gone to per
forming in various localities. The Senate,
for instance, is located, a part of it on board
revenue cutter, cruising up and down the
coast, and, doubtless, astonishing the people
of the port towns; and another part at the
temporary capitol, launching resolutions of
censure in the direction Of the absentees;
while the House is in full tide of successful
operation at two different places, turning
out Speakers, impeaching Governors, and
organizing stampedes "by the entire
strength Of the company" as the show
managers say. As a Legislature it must be
admitted that the Louisiana combination is
despicable failure; but as a cheap show it