The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-01-27
Ratification of the Election of Pinchbaok.
CARRIERS RoUGHs INUNDATED.
Recreant Representatives Re-admitted.

country eYading their sworn duty to
the people who elected them, returned
in body to the Senate chamber, and
participated in the proceedings of the
Senate. Thirty three members were
present, Senator Futch, who is sick at
his home in Farmersville, being the
only one absent. After deal of fill
clustering and wrangling, a resolution
approving the extra session OF Decem-
Der 9th, and consequently ratifying
| the election of Senator Pinchback as
Lieutenant Governor, was introduced
and adopted by vote of II to 10.
This proved a wet blanket upon the
hopes of the coalitionists, and there
was marked tendency among them
to drop their lower jaws and look
glum.
Six of the members of Carriers
only legal house" returned to their
seats in the State House on Saturday,
thus reducing Carriers adherents to
about twenty. The Rev. renegade
grew desperate as he saw his band of
followers gradually diminishing, and
he issued an address to the people of
New Orleans declaring that on the
following Monday he would swear in
enough citizens as sergeants-at-arms
to move upon the State-House at 11:3O
A. NJ, and take possession Of the hall
of the House of Representatives, pea
ceably if might be, forcibly if neces-
sary. The results of this incendiary
proclamation were: first, the assem-
blage upon Canal street, on Monday
morning, of large and disorderly
armed mob, composed of the scum of
the city's population, headed by the
redoubtable George Washington Car
ter; second, an official dispatch from
Washington to General Emory, di-
recting him to use his troops if neces-
sary to preserve the public peace.
Even admitting that the valiant Car
ter would have had the hardihood to
attack the State-HOuse in the face of
the militia and police armed with
Winchester, rifles, the knowledge that
Uncle Sans boys in blue would also
be there to take hand in the little
game proved rather too much for even
his fiery courage, so he and his row.
dies gracefully flunked and dispersed,
after venting their pent-up feelings in
fiendish shouts and yells, which only
served to show of what base material
the crowd was formed.
In the House of Representative on
Tuesday, Speaker Brewster rendered
his resignation, stating as his reason
that some doubt still existed in the
minds of many persons as to the le-
gality of his election. BY a vote of
81 to the House refused to accept
the resignation, and thereby confirmed
Mr.. Brewster in the Speakers chair.
! On Wednesday the House reconsid-
cred the resolution adopted at pre-
vious day expelling all those members
who had up to that time failed to re-
turn to their duties, and under the re-
consideration all but four of them
were re-admitted. The four whom
the House refused to re-admit were
Messrs. Wands, of TangipahOa, Burch,
of East Baton Rouge, Otto and Uli-
mann, of Orleans. These, including
Carter and the four members expelled
for signing the affidavit under which
State officers and legislators were ar
rested, swells the total number ex-
PEELED to nine. Eighty-one members
answered to their names previous to
adjournment of the House Tuesday.
The Assembly has been in session ev-
cry day this week, and the work OF
legislation has commenced in good
earnest.
George Washington Carter, ex-Rev.,
ext Confederate, ex-Speaker, has again
subsidized into oblivion, it is to be
hoped permanently. He is a shrewd,
bold, bad man, and we owe it in a
great measure to the superior execu-
tive ability and tact of our Governor
that the city of New Orleans has not
been made the scene ofriot and blood
shed terrible to even imagine. 1t is a
cause of congratulation to the Repub-
licans of Louisiana that the troops OF
the United States have not been used
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