New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-17

a. TURN IrE AFFAiRS
UNITED STATES COURTS INVOKED
f SWEEPHEG fNJUNCTIOE AID
0ESTRAINERs
Governor Warmoth, Colonel Wharton,
T. &. Hatch, Durant DaPonts
and Others Bnjoined.
The Official Journal Forbidden 20
Promu1gate Returns Of the
Gew Board.
The Whole Canvass to Pass Under
Federal Supervision.

The REPURLECAB was yesterday been
served with the following important injunc-
ton from che United States Circuit Court:
United States Of America, Circuit Court
of the United States, Firth Circuit and Dis
trict of Louisiana, November term, A. d.
1872 New Orleans, Saturday, November l6,
1872 Court met pursuant to adjournment.
Present the Hon. e. II. Durell, district
judge.-WlllialR P. Kellogg VS.. II. c. War
moth ct ais, No $3.50.
On motion OF J. L. Beckwith, counsel
and solicitor for complainant, it is ordered
that Fl. G. WarMoth, Jack Wharton, Frank
II. Hatch, Durans DaPonte, John hcEnery
and the New Orleans Republican Printing
Company, publishers of the New Orleans
REPUBLICAN, newspaper, beng the othclal
journal OF the State OF louisiana be en-
ioined and restrained from in any manner,
either directly or indirectly, pretending to
consider or canvass any certificate, state
ment or return OF any supervisor of regis
tration except in the presence of
the legal returning officers named
in the bill of complaint filed
this day, to Wit John Lynch, Jacob
Hawkins, James Longstreet and tranels >.
Heron, and it is further ordered that the
said H. G. Warmoth desist and refrain from
submitting to the defendants Jack Whar-
ton Frank Il. Hatch, and Durant DaPoRte,
or anv or either Of them, either as pre-
tended members OF any board of returning
officers OF elections of the State OF Louis
lana or aa individuals, any statements, GER
titicates'or returns. or pretended statements,
certificates OF returns OF election,
and to desiss from assisting, aiding,
abettng or permitting any other per
son or persons whatsoever other than
John Lynch Jacob Hawkins, James Long
street and Francis j. Heron, or their duly
qualified successors, as returning ohloers
TO inspect, consider, or have custody or
access to said statements, certificates or
returns of said supervisors OF registration,
or any other paper, document, affidavit or
proof that NAV have come into the hands OF
said Warmoth, or shall hereafter come into
his hands relating b said election, or to the
fairness or correctness thereof, and which,
by law, it is his duty t. submit to the said
| John Lvneh Jacob Hawkins, James
| Longstreet and Francis J. Heron. the said
legal board Of returning offices OF elections,
and which Bhould be properly considered
by them.
And it is farther ordered that the said
| II. G. Warmoth, Jack Wharton, Frank II.
| Hatch and Durant DaPonte, and each of
| them be commanded and enjOined to re-
| frain and desBt from pretending to act to
gether as o board OF returning officers or as
returning officers of the elections, from
canyaSSing, or attempting TO can
yass. or cor slider any certificate, doc
unent, affidavit, return, statement
Of votes, or any paper Whatsoever
| properly relating to said election men
! toned in the said bill Of complaint and
| from attempting to make a canvass, to
make, declare or publish any pretended de-
! duCtion, calculation, statement or pr0Cla-
| nation based thereon, or pretended to be
| derived therefrom III any way relating or
pertaining to said election mentioned in the
said bill of complaint, held on tho fourth
day Of November, 1872, or certifying to any
candidate for office at said electlon,any GER
| titicate Of election, or any statement OF the
result Of said election tending TO show any
right to office in any person growing out OF
ballots cast at said election, and from med
| ding with, altering, suppresslnR, talsltylng,
| obliterating or destroying any docu-
ment, paper, voucher, proof, statement OF
votes or certificate relating to said election.
And it ia further ordered that the said John
McEnery be commanded, enjolned, re-
| strained and inhibited from in any manner
| acting or pretending to act as Governor OF
the State Of Louisiana, and from making
any pretensions or asserting any claim to
the office of Governor OF said State
bY virtue of any pretended evidence
| thereto under or by virtue Of any certificate
document, or count, canvass, or adJudlca-
ton, now OF hereafter made by the SAID
defendant, H G. Warmoth, and the said
dafebdapts Jack Wharton, Frank II. Hatch,
| Duranr Da Ponte, In this bill charged to be
unlawfully combined and conspired as re-
turning officers. And it is further ordered
that the said New Orleans Republican
Printing Company, under whose control
and direction the newspaper called
the New Orleans REPUBLICAN,, the Official
journal Uf the State OF ROUisiana, is pub
lishnd. whereof " l.. Fish is president, be
snioined and restrained from in any man
ner publishing any official notice, document
or statements relating go any canvass or
statement Of votes made or pretended to De
made. OF in any manner emanAtlng from
the said 81. C. Warmoth and said Jack
Wharton, Frank Il. Hatch, Durant Da
Ponte, er either of them, as pretended
board of returning officers OF election, IN
any manner relating 80 the said election
held on the fourth day of November, A. ID
1872.
And 10 is further ordered that the said de-
fendan.s, H. G. Warmoth, Jack wharton,
Frank II. Hatch, Durant Da Ponte, John
! hcEnery and the New Orleans Republican
Printing Company, named in the bill OF
complaint this day filed, be so commanded,
epioIned and restrained until the further
order of this honorable court.
Clerks otfiee-B certify the foregoing TO
be o. true copy from dhe original geeor6 1R
Witness my nand ana seal of said court
Mt the city Of New Orleans, this sixteenth
day of November 1872.
United States Circuit Court, Fifth Cir
emit. District Of Louisiana, Clerks othoe,
New Orleans, November l6, l&2-WH-
liam P. Kellogg IS. II. G. Warmoth, esals''
Les the defendants be cited to show eeqHe
on the nineteenth instant, at II A. NJ, be-
fore this court, why njunoti,099s rs g?,'dS" q %nI
Kte should NOS issue as prayed for IN com
niainant's bill of complaint, and IN the
meantime and until the further orders OF
this court, let the restraining orders prayed
for in said bill of complaint issue against
said defendants in form and to the eheos
praved for in said bill of complaint
~ R.H. DURELL, Judge.
New Orleans November l6, 1874
certify the foregoing to be true copy
from the original record in this office. Wit
ness nv hand and seal Of said court, at the
city of New Orleans, this sixteenth day sl
November, 1872 .uoor,, 1,v ,,.-,-