Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-27


Just perpetrated by the Returning Board
against the people of Louisiana, and which
vitality threatens the safety and integrity OF
Republican institutions in the United
States, is a more crowning infamy than the
action of the Lynch Returning Board. 1t
surpasses even the midnight order of Durell,
and would not be submitted to by any free
people. Resistance to the national autho-
rity, represented here by large portion of
the army and naval feet, sustaining usurpa-
ton and sitting the voice of the people, has
never been meditated.
JOHN McENERY.
A Row Between whites and Blacks.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 26.-There was a
row yesterday afternoon at the corner Of
First and Locust streets. between negroes
and whites, in which two negroes were
killed.
A Christmas Enerveseence.
There was a row between soldiers and
citizens at the corner Of Canal and Basin
streets, which resulted in the severe wound
ing of two soldiers.
Yarmouth and an Editor have
Fight.
A quarrel took place this forenoon be-
tween ex-Goy. Yarmouth and Mr.. Byerly,
proprietor of the Bulletin. The latter
struck the former with a cane, whereupon
Yarmouth stabbed Byerly two or three
times severely. Yarmouth was arrested.I
One Side Of the Story.
The difficulty between Byerly and War
mouth grew ont of a controversy between
Yarmouth and the Bulletin, which led to
the publication Friday, of card addressed
to the manager of the Bulletin rejecting on
that paper, and Mr.. Jewel, one of its edi-
tons. Gov. Yarmouth to-day made the fol-
lowing statement to the agent of the As
ISOLATED Press: Yesterday, after my
card appeared in the Picdylme,
was called on by friend of Mr. JEWELS,
who demanded of me an abject apology for
the card, which l declined to make. He
then asked me if would accept challenge
to fight duel, remarking at the same time
that it was generally understood that /
would not fight. l replied that l would
not fight if could well avoid it; that l
was not fighter; that | would take time
enough to answer the question about duel
ling when l was challenged. Later in the
day the affair was confided to our respective
friends. They met at o'clock last even
ing and agreed that Jewell and myself
should fight in Alabama Monday morning,
weapons dueling pistols, distance ten PAGES.
These terms having been accepted, did
not, of course, apprehend an attack, es-
pecially from any one connected with the
Bulletin, INV understanding of such mat
tiers being that antagonists, pending meet
ing, should be courteous, and l was just on
the eve of tipping my hat to Mr.. Byerly,
in front Of whom two ladies were
walking, the street being crowded,
when he struck me with heavy stick on
the head, infiicting the wound you see."
The Governor, taking off his hat, exhibited
a cut about two inches long over the left
temple, extending back from the forehead.
He continued: "Byerly struck me three
times with the stick, when l clinched with
him, in the meantime taking a knife out
of my pocket With my arms around him,
got my hands together and opened the
knife; just then l fell, Byerly falling on
me. Soon after we fell, a policeman took
the knife out of my hand, and some of the
crowd pulled Byerly of. understand Byerly
has been cut, and l am accused of having
done the cuttiI g."
Warmoth was arrested Immediately after
the fight, and conveyed to the third pre-
cinct station. He has since been transfer
red to the parish prison, to await the result
of Byerly's wound.
Mr.. Byerly received six wounds in the
abdomen, one of which, his physicians
consider very dangerous, but not necessarily
mortal.
Shortly after being wounded, Mr.. By
eriy was removed to the Orleans Infirmary.
Death OF ByerIy.
The Bulletin will publish the statement
of an eyewitness of the Byerly Warmoth
troubles. The statement differs somewhat
from that of WarmOth as to the cutting.
This witness states that the knife was open
when drawn, and that two or three stabS
were made before they fell. Byerly's
wounds were in the left side, just over the
hip, one Of them being over four inches
deep, and indicates the length of the knife
blade.
Byerly died at twenty minutes past ten.
Byerly was aged IS years. He was print
er by trade, a native of Pennsylvania, and
came to New Orleans in 1915. He cerved
calamity in Shields regiment of Louisiana
volunteers in the West during the
war, and was wounded four times
in one of the fights around
Atlanta, one of which wounds deprived him
of the use of his left arm. After the war,
he returned to this city and was elected
Clerk of the Third District Court. Some
months ago Byerly, in company with 9TH
ers, commenced publication of the Bulletin.
The constitutional Amendments.
The final compilations of official returns
of the late election which are to be pro-
mulgated tomorrow, show a total vote,
with the polls and parishes thrown out, as
mentioned in the report of the Returning
Board, as follows: For State Treasurer
Dubulet GOSH, Moncme 6S,5S6, majority
fo- Dubulet, Republican, 95S. The five
constitutional amendments recommended
by kellogg and adopted by his Legislature,
are all carried according to the count Of
both parties. These amendments provide
as follows:
l. Endorsing the funding bill and the
consolidated bonds issued hereunder.
?. Reducing and limiting the State debt
to fifteen million dollars, and limiting
taxation.
3. DevOting the annual revenues Of the
State 10 the expenses of the same year, and
prohibiting the issue of warrants in excess.
4. Limiting the debt Of the city of New
Orleans, and prohibiting further increase
thereof.
). Changing the day forthe State election
to the day namedi by the general govern
ment for the Presidential election.