Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-07
Two Legislatures-The People
with that Assembled at odd
Fellows Hall.
Immense Gathering-3O, 600 Men
in the Streets--Great Good
HumOr Prevails.
Interview with Pinchbeck--He
Wants the Whites to be the
Friends of His Race.
He Insists upon Going to the Uni
ted States Senate--Then all
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leO states Senato--IneD all
i viii be 40. H."
THE DAY BEGINS IN PEACE AND QUIET.
| NEW ORLEANS, January 6.-The city
Is quiet this morning, and fears of a
conflict are subsiding. There is very
little business doing, some three thou
sand persons being already assembled
about City Hall and Lafayette Square.
The meeting there to-day will certainly
be large one. This morning battalion
Of infantry and company of cavalry
moved up from the barracks to tempo
rary quarters at the corner of Magazine
and Julia streets. The Conservative
Legislature are caucusing, sixty-eight
members of the House being present.
1t is understood they will not meet at
Lyceum Hall, but elsewhere. The as
semblage has increased to five or six
thousand. A large United States flag
has just been displayed from the balcony
of Odd Fellows Hall, Camp street, in
dicating that the Conservative Legisla-
ture will meet there. A large crowd is
rapidly assembling on that side of La
fayette Square. The assemblage is very
quiets The meeting has not, as yet, been
called to order. The meeting is momen-
tarily increasing, and the stores are gen.
orally closed as on Sunday. Canal street
looks deserted, not lady to be seen on
the great thOroughfare. Nearly all the
business men in the city seem to be par
tieipating, more or less, in the Lafayette
Square meeting.
WHAT Is EXPECTED OF THE MILL
| TARY.
The Times has the following in reply
TO a question to General Emery, who re-
| piled that he had received orders to sus-
tain the Pinchback Government as the
de fdctO government of the State
Should any body of citizens meet, claim
| ing to be the Legislature, in opposition
to that of the Pinchback government,
and proceed to inaugurate measures TO
| trammel and interfere with that gov
| eminent, it would be violation of State
law just passed, and they would be
stopped by somebody. The inferen ee
drawn by the Times reporters from Gen
eral Emery's words was that a fusion
Legislature would not be allowed to pro-
ceed in any of the usual functions of
such body. General Emery was en-
ph attic in his determination to preserve
the public peace at all hazards.
a CAUCUS
of the House of Representatives of the
| Peoples Legislature was held this
morning. Fifty-seven members were
present. The Clerk of the House pro-
ceeded to the City Hall and removed
his records. 1t was agreed in caucus
! that they would assemble at twelve
O'Clock, noon, at Odd Fellows Hall.
At the armory in Damsdon Court, on |
| Carondelet street, at eleven o'clock this |
morning, a strong force of Metropolitan !
police was on duty, Gen. Badger being |
present to inspect them. In the Second |
Court four brass guns of the late regi- |
ment of artillery, were drawn up in |
| charge of gunners, and with horses in |
harness at hand. In the first court a !
| detachment of policemen were busy
packing the caisons with ammunition. |
| The street entrance to the armOry con-
tinues closed and under guard, Shortly |
! before twelve O'Clock the members of
THE PEOPLES LEGISLATURE
commenced assembling at Odd Fellows |
Hall, and the entrance and stairway
were at once crowded by an immense |
eOneourse of people. The multitude ex-
tended from Poydras street through |
| the square to the steps of the City Hail. |
In the course of very few minutes, |
eight or ten thousand people had ar
! rived, but none manifested any great ex- |
citement, and there was no turbulence |
whatever. Great reticence was exhibit |
ed by the multitude, and little or no
conversation was to be heard. The |
general understanding is, that the peo-
pie now assembled will wait quietly un- |
til the Legislature meets, and in case the |
meeting is not interfered with by Pinch |
beck, then quiet dispersion will ensue;
but in the event of any effort to disperse |
the representatives of the people, the |
citizens will form for their protection |
and move against any force but the mill
itary of the United States.
THE MASS IN THE SQUARE
fills the central passage from the gate to
the base of the Franklin statue, and on |
both sides, in the shape of a wedge, ON |
whose faces the SUMS rays shine, the /
mass being as animated and full of mo-
ton as an ant-hiu. The street-cars can
not pass the front of the City Hall with
out much log.rolling, for the street is
filled. In the Square, human wall is |
standing an the iron fence, and the only /
vacant spaces within are the outside /
passages right and left.
At half-past eleven o'clock the Ameri-
can flag was hung out from the front of
Odd-kellows' Hall. The crowd made a |
rush toward the hall from every direc-
ton, pell-mell. A cry was raised:
''They're going into Odd-Fellows' /
Hail." The crowd is in the
GREATEST GooD-HUMoR.
At twelve o'clock body of men could
hr1
gateway of the hall, unattended. Just /
as the clock struck twelve voice from
the gallery announced the Legislature in
session. The stairway was very soon
jammed with spectators.
THE HOUSE WAS CALLED TO ORDER
at twelve o'clock, occupying the main
hall in the Odd Fellows Building. Mr..
George Shepherd then proceeded to call
the roll, when forty-seven members an
swered to their names. Captain Cain,
who was about to force himself past the
Sergeant-at-arms by showing badge of
the United States Marshal, was told
politely to retire; but refusing, he was
elected.
Mr.. Finney, of Orleans, moved that
the hall be open to as many spectators
as would I'll without crowding it.
Mr.. Secaeharie moved that the Ser
geant-at-arms be instructed to notify
absent members that this body is in
session. Carried.
At a quarter past twelve the crowd
filling the street in front of the hall do
not allow street cars to pass. There are
rushes made to secure available posi-
tions, and the unoecupied house stand
ing near the hall is filed by men who
reappear upon its three front galleries
At half-past twelve o'clock majority
of the business houses on Poydras, Mag
azine, Tchoupetoulas and Camp streets
had closed, and both propriefors and
their employees were thronging the
square. Not the slightest evidence of a
disturbance was to be seen, and good
feeling seemed everywhere to prevail
FINoHBECK INTERVIEWED.
The Rcdgtsae has the following: "Our
reporter this morning visited the Me-
chanies Institute which he found
guarded at the door way by about five
soldiers, and in the ante-ehamber were
assembled about thirty policemen, all
eolored, from the Fourth and Fifth pre-
eiRets, under Captain Rey. Pinchbeck
was in his private office and made the
following statement. Upon being asked
what be thought Of the present situa-
ton, he replied. I think 1t Is exactly
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