Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-09-24

present. WIthnelQ from TIE fpuOfH, nqI$ 1T
is surmised that condition Of affairs
now exists which was mot Anticipated
by the gaveln.ne!lt At ted o'cloM to-
day he called a Session Of the cabinet,
and Tor ever an hoilr was iii consulta
ton with Secretaries Fish and Bristow,
Attorney, Generals Williams and Post
master General Jewell. 'F ~
The session was resumed this after
noon, and the result. dfthe deliberation
was an agreement that the following
dispatch be sent Immediately by the
adjntant general Of the army to General
Emory, commanding the Federal forces
III l1ouislana:Jsr zsgsgi sd Sadg SRI
/, WAR DErARraEsT Washington, D.
C., Sept, IS, 1874, Under, no cireu,n
stances recognize the insrrgent .oyern-
ment OF Louisiana Within five days
from the date Of the proclamation to
the insurgents such action VIII be taken
as the emergency may require. W
BY order OF the President.
E. d. TowSsESbsssAd, General
PEACE PREVAILING pN
New ORLEANS, Sept. 16.-The fol-
lowing document signed by the presi.
dents Of the Chamber of Commerce.,
Clearing House; Cotton Exchanges and
Merchants Exchange was telegrapbed
~ President Grant to-day. E4
eve the undersigned, esey leave to
inform your Excellsncy that this city is
perfectly quiet and free from all dis
turbing elements and business has been
resumed as usual, No further trouble
is anticipated -
CusroA Hotsn, N. O., Sept. 49,
have been asked to sign the above state
ment. That the city is quiet is true,
and business is proceeding as usual.
Property aud persons ale safe from in
suits or injuries except from some
roWdy Or drunken man. JAS. + CASEY.
The executive committee of the
Merchants Exchange to,day telegraph
ed the Board of Trade of Chicago. and
Merchants Exchange of St. Louis and
Cincinnati as follows: ~ "
"1he nav goyernmen is Composed
of legitimate and duly elected State
officers, and is in full and peaceable
possession. 1t means peace, law, order
and honest government. All is quiet,
business entirely resumed, perfect order
maintained and public confidence re
stored" 81! a.tt,i
The following is the text of the
kilograms transmitted to the President:
Ia petition has been forwarded you
to-day by express, signed by five hun
dred of the leading merchants and
business men of the city, and reads as
follows: H
"We, the undersigned, merchants
representing the commercial interests OF
New Orleans, and deeply interested in
the welfare and prosperity OF the State,
gladly embrace the recent change of
government as guarantee OF impartial
rights to all. We respectfully ask the
sympathy and support Of the executive.
L. B. WHEELocK,
..-.,-. Chairman of Committee
Major W. G. Robins and John
Granel, citizens wounded in the fight
on Monday, have since died. -
WHAT GOVERNOR PENN SAYS. 81.
Lieutenant Governor and Actina
oyernor D. 3. Penn, of Louisiana, in
an interview with correspondent said
"1he movement of the l4th inst
proceeded entirely from the people
The usurpation utterly disappeared
when its first attack was. repulsed by
the citizens. Our people may be said
to have engaged, as whole, in the
contest They were determined to
submit no longer to usurpation and op
pression at the hands of men not chosen
by themselves. The North can form
no iaea of the robbery and spoliation
to which we have been subjected. My
movement was necessitated by the
attitude Of the people They deman-
ded it. am now in full possession of
the government of the State. The
colored people are satisfied and con-
tented. A strong brigade of colored
troops, fully organized and armed and
in the service Of the usurpation, re-
fused to fire shot in its defense. The
most perfect peace and good order pre-
vail We are thoroughly loyal to the
federal government, and in the opera
tons of the past two days there have
been no excuses or violations of law.
This government is the only one in ex-
istence in Louisiana.
The soAcalled Governor Kellogg, the
elected head of the State government,
in statement made also to CORES
pendent reviewed the history of the
State troubles in which he said:
"Amid all the troubles which have
beses the State 1 have reduced State
and parish taxation, each fully one,
third, and measures have been passed
providing for q reduction of the State
debt and constitution limitation tax
alton. The obnoxious features of the
election and registration laws used by
the fusionists in the last election have
been repealed, and in the appointment
OF officers of registration have yolun.
tarily rendered to the opposition a rep
RESERVATION which they entirely denied
the republican party at the last cleo.
ton. These and other measures have
deprived the opponents of the Repub.
lican party Of any just cause of com,
plant against the State government.
They have by a long prepared plan
violenuly overthrown the government
even before the election, to prevent an
election. being had, and to prevent evi-
dence that they had not majority be.
fore upon shallow pretexts Of violence
and by incendiary statements and app
reals they have got together their clans
which they have organized in secret
and drilled in their club rooms and in
the city, have taken possession Of the
public offices by violence and blood
shed. Personally ] have no desire to