The New York herald., 1874-12-29
LOUISIANA


COMMENTS OF THE NEW ORLEANS PRESS ON
sHERIDAHs EXPECTED coMNG-BIrTER MEM
oRIEs OF HIS FORMER ADMINISTRATION AS MILL
TARY ooMMANDER-THE BYERLY INQUEST.
NEW ORLEANS Dec. %. 1874.
The following are extracts from the comments
OF the journals OF this city on the report that
Lieutenant General Sheridan had been ordered to
PHIL NOT PACIFIC.
The Times says Zone or the questions OF the
day is whether Phil Sheridan is to ride down this
way or not. Phil has been here before. HIS repu-
tation as rider and raider stands high, but as a
sootner OF political troubles and corrector Of po-
htical abuses he is anything but q success. His
conduct while IN command OF this department. was
frequently or most shortsighted ana arbitrary
character, and especially was this the case In his
interference with our municipal AFFAIRS II the
policy OF vengeance Is to be adopted Phil can
carry 1t out successfully. but he is by no means
the proper man to throw OIL on the troubled
waters.u
sHER1DAN's FORMER ACTS IN LOUISIANA.
The Pscav,tne says:-"H there Is one man more
responsible tnan another for the misf0rtunes OF
Louisiana that man is General Phil Sheridan. 1t
was General Sheridan who dlsfranchised the
white people of this State under the first Recon-
structiOn law acting IN concert with The Radical
Committee and secretly nstructing the registrars
to catechize the toters In manner which. while
1t was clearly Illegal made 1t impossible Tor vast
numbers OF white people 10 register. IL was Gen.
eral Sheridan who induced Congress to accept
and embody in new law hts methods Of dlsfran-
chisement. and thus subject the State 10 q negro
government. 1t was to this man that we owe the
chains from which we have never been able to
escape"
1T MAKES NO DIFFERENCE.
The Bulletin says s:-"If our people are deter
mined to avoid collision with the United States
forces, as we firmly believe they are, General
Emory or De Trobriand. or for the matter
OF that any lieutenant in command Of
squad would answer Just as well as the
redOubtable Sheridan, or the scalping and
t0wn-burning Tecumseh himself Should they
ever come to the conclusion that their se]frespect
and manhood require them to adopt a different
course, which Ii scarcely presumable the fact that
'ten-mIe-away Munchausen Sheridan is to be
their objective point will not make a particle OF
difference 80 far as they are concerned and 1t
may safely be predicted that in that case some
body is Just as likely to be hurt upon one side as
upon the other"
THE BYERLY INQUEST
An inquest on the death OF Mr.. Byerly will be
held to-morrow.
THE POST MoRTEM EXAMINATION.
Drs Schumacher and stone have made post
mortem examination Of the body. There were
found to be six wounds, only one OF which was
superficial, being . slight flesh wound over the
abdomen. Any one OF the other five wounds would
have caused death. Two Of them were IN the back
OF the left slde penetrating the spleen These were
the immediate cause OF death. The other wounds
penetrated the side, between the filth and sixth
and seventh and eighth ribs, and any one Of them
would have caused death from pneumonia in
although M.
mediately dangerous character.
APPOINTMENT ON THE POLICE BoARD-GENERAL
BADGERS RECOVERY.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 2s, 1874.
Major w. NJ Robinson, OF the Republican, has
been appointed member OF the Police Board vice
Joubert resigned.
General A. S. Badger was at mis- once to-day.
He has so far recovered from the wounds received