Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-11
THE LOUISIANA TROUBLES.
Particulars Of tbs Killing Of WheyIAad by
6 Policeman.
OslnIsns Of the Esw Orleans Prtss On
the Situation.

NEW OELEAHS, auuafy ~ -L16 5bAtt-
msnts regarding the killing Of Wheyland
are contradictory.
Captain MeOsnn testified bsfors ths
coronsr's jury-so the Republican states
that Mccullough acknowledged that he
had shot Wheylsnd IN the discharge of
his duties as sergssns-st- -srns OF the
house.
A representative Of the Republican
SAYS that when the evidence was closed
the Jury, accompanied by Major Nsw, one
of Governor WsrmO,h's counsel, who
had been present sll through, adjourned
to a room on Common street, where the
verdict WAS sgreed on as follows:
That Walter B. Whsylsrd came to his
6ssth st the hands Of certain persons st
present nsmeless."
TINS morning Coroner Creah promul-
gstec smother verdict in the same case,
charging Mccullough and the two Nc
Cormicks with the murder of Whey
land, and George ". Carter with being &C.
csssory before the fact.
The Governor says in consequence Of
this verdict he sent squad Of policemen
70 Royal street TO arrest Carter.
The Times says thst the most lawlsss
snd reprehensive of all the acts yet done
during the faction fight now progressing,
was that which was done this morning in
the occupation OF Royal street with the
metropolitan police armed with Rsmtng-
ton rifles.
The Bee says that the fed raj govern
ment would not only be jCsided in put.
ting down the administration OF Cover
nor Wsrmoth, but IL Is in duty bound to
cause such q rule TO Oesse As that which he
has established N this State. II martial
law is justified ia any conf jOOturs, Il Is
surely 90 II crisis Ike the present.
Governor Warmoth to-day issued an
other proclamation ordering the Garter
"a
sud comm andtug its members TO return
70 their seats IN the general assembly.
The RIcayuns, under the caption, "a
Suspension Of Business - in the course OF
It's comments says: 1--WE are in the midst
Of our too short busy season, during
which, Il ever, cur merchants must &C.
cOmpl1sh their years work IN order TO
meet the years expenses, yet houses
whose sales amount to millions, ia the
very hesrs Of tbs city, sre obliged TO close
their doors sgsinst mob az midday.
There is an iocalCufsols loss suffered Dy
our eiiiz- rs in this manner
The spplicsticn of the governor for an !
iujuDcnon from the Eighth district court |
restraining the CsrteEites from further |
action, came up this morning, but was |
pos ponsd till Saturday. There is no ma |
teTisl change il The condition Of affairs |
% day. Business Is duh, sno there are |
very lew lsdies on Canal street. Al Two /
O'Clock, the hour IL IL ususily thronged, |
not twenty could be seen Thefs was no |
business inGoors--the men generally were |
ont.
A shooting affair occurred or s.. Charles |
street this sfternOon, in which two per- |
sons not implicated in the row we're Bhot, |
one dangerously.
The Picsyune, IN opposing martial law, |
says: "h " g hear with deep regret that |
some Of our citizens are ABOUT 10 unite in
= petititiOn to ths Federal su hoTities that |
a military governor and military rule /
may be substituted for the present State /
executive snd government of Louisiana. /
They are provoked 10 this messUre by /
wsnton misrule, by systematic persecu-
ton, by stupendous extravaganza, by /
multiform acts Of oppression, bV trading /
in offices, by the sale OF votes in the lsgis-
lsJure by ruinous monopoliss, by ancient
civic franchises troddsn on, by systematic,
deliberate and persistent violation Of the
sscred right Of suffrsge. and by sl the
wicked mOckery Of frse government
which Wes have suffered for the
past four years. The provocatiOn GER
Jsinly Is very great, and we e. fully
sy mpsthize in their sentiment, as we
share in the snnoysnces Of which they
complain but we must warn them against
sntidO:e, believing it to be yirulent, and
more lasting In its damaging effects. We
Want no magistrates Ia uniforms; we
would rather bear years Of local misruls |
than years Of military despotism."
Tbs Times, under the csption of How
the Legislature is Made up, ssysi"W hey
land, the menabsr OF that branch OF the
house which holds It's sessions on, Drysdes
street, and who was killed on Canal street
sst evening, sftords an example of the
shameful abuses of tbs election and regis
tratiOnlsW by the constituted authorities |
He was sent to ths remote Sabine parish,
in this State, few days before the regis
trasion Of the voters of that parish as
registrar, though 3 perfect stranger to the
people OF the parish; and It was proved
beyond q doubt that though nearly sll the
votes Of the parish were given to Mr..
Smart, one Of the oldest citizsns of the
parish, Wheyland was returned as the
: representative of Sabine, and all the
influence Of the administration was
and with success, to keep
him in his seat. II was in vain that
SIR. Smart was brought to this city and
EXHIBITED to the legislature. The evil
dsnce, In the form of sffidsvits of voters
was that at least fOur-hftns of
them voted TOR Smart. WheylsBd was of
the same class as Carr and Devices, and
because he favored the powers that be-
must be seated in the house, whether
slected OF not.
l
tention TO the outrage of admitting him
as s member Out were laughed st Tor the
impOtency Of our protest Thrse-quar
,srs OF the members OF the house, which
Governor WErmObh claims TO Re an ills-
gal legislature Of LOeisians, owe their
seats TO the shameful Interpolation and
despotic ccnducs Of unecr1pul0Ds party
politicians who were cent to the various
parishes as registrars. with expressed or
implied Instructions to return themselves
TO the legislature regardless Of tbs votes
Of the people, in order 70 I'LL the assem-
bly, with the friends Of the State admin
.stratioD."
A committee from the committee OF
afty-ons called on Governor Warnotb
and asked him TO appoint committee to
meet committee from the Carter faction
for the purpose of settling a. questions Of
difference. The governor replied that be
could hold no communication with Geo.
w Carter, whom hs regarded a. fugi-
i've from justice. The governor statsd
mat All absent members of the house