Year: 1874

| THE WEAKNESS OF HIS GOVERNMENT.


TILE ENTREATIEs REQUIRED TO GIVE Mr.. KELLOGG
| COURAGE TO RESUME HIS OFFICE-THE SPIRIT OF
| TUE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. GOOD ORDER UN-
| DER THE PENN PoIIcE--A BRUTAL MURDER AND
| OTHER oUrRAGEs WITHIN "a HOURS UNDER THE
METRoPoIITANs--A PETITION By CoDoRED PEo-
| PIE '1 -


! fl fBY TELEGRAPH TO TRIBUSE.l


| NEw-ORLEANs, Sept. 20.-It was not until very


late Friday night that Gov. Kellogg acquired back


bone enough to accept the reinstatement forced upon


him by President Grant. A single blue uniform was


sufficient to command respectful obedience to the de-
mand upon Gov. McEnery and his followers for sur


render. but it required kilograms from Gen. Grant


himself, the pursuasion of Gen. Emory, earnest ap-


peas from Gen. Longstreet and other prominent Re


pubicans and the actual presence in the city OF 70
companies Of infantry three batteries of Is guns and


four companies Of artillery to bring Gov
| Kellogg to time. But for the persistence or
the President in having Mr.. Kellogg and


none other for Governor it is probable that the


peace Of Louisiana would now be assured without
| any improper concession. One of the most amusing


of passing events has been the belligerent tone of
the official kilograms from Washington, which indi-


Gates great deal more excitement in the proceed
ngs in the official household than in NewOrleans.
| Everybody laughs at the instructions to Gen.
Emory to put down the insurgents at all hazards,


and to do this and that terrible thing with an


enemy which, under Gen. Enory's judicous


management, disappeared from the streets
| three days ago. The President and the
Cabinet do not seem to understand or


unwilling to believe that resistance to the United
States Government part of the programme


of the revolutioniss and that the presence of the
military OF better still military Government, was


what they preferred above anything else, except the
| supremacy Of the legally elected State officers


The Picayune Of this morning represents truly the
| spirit Of the movement, as l have been able to
interpret it. when it says: We have shown the


world three important truths truths that were not


previously recognized, that should never have been
proven by assertion and whose establishment was
imperatively necessary to First that we


were not seeking to deprive the colored peo-
pie Of their rights. Second, that we were
nct IN rebellion against the United States
authority. Third, that the Kellogg Government
had not the ghost of support independent of the


United States army that it was not republican in


any essential respect and that the people, white OF
| colorcd, extended no hand to prop or save it,"


corporal in the uniform of the Federal army, with


the necessary authority to act could have done all
that the largo military force now in the State has
accomplished. The main purpose of the revolution
was to prove to Gen. Grant and the people of the


United States that Mr.. McEnery could be Governor
de Jacto as well as de jure, and that the Kellogg


usurpation was merely the creature of Judge Dureu
and President Grant himself, and could only exist
| upon the point of the bayOnet


| Gov, Kellogg suddenly made his appearance at


the old hotel used a State House yesterday morn
ing, and reassured by entire absence of opposition
soon mustered pluck enough to put his government
machinery in motion. Difficulty apprehended
from the reinstatement and trouble expected by
| the Metropolitan police, q set OF men whose con-
duct has made them very obnoxious to citizens gen.
orally and whose prowess was shown in their rout
and the deserton of their brave chief in the affair
of Sept. H. but the Penn police quietly
gave up and the MetrOpolitans, or as many OF them
as could be induced to reenlist, are now again on
streets. Twenty-four hours has shown that the
change is not for the better. Notwithstanding the
excited state of the public mind and other embar-
RAISING circumstances it is fact that during the
whole term of the Penn or Boylan police, covering
nearly five days, there was no arson, no murder no
street fighting and no important larceny, burglary
or other felony. For years the city has not known
so long period of absolute good order; but in the
"a hours since the Metropoltans resumed sway law
lessness seems to have revived The newspapers
this morning report brutal murder and acts of
violence in several parts of the city, all of which
occurred last night. The murder was that of one
white man by another. and had no political signii-
cance whatever. The other acts Of violence, how
ever seem to have been committed by crowds of
negroes who have misinterpreted the interference
of the Federal Government, regarding it as signal


for redress of the grievances of the Kellogg party


member of the retiring police was victim OF the
worst assault He was set upon by q gang OF ruf-
fans who cursed him for having been on duty under
the Penn Government, and then beat him cruelty
with clubs i'm the mean time threatening his life


Other members of the retiring force were
attacked Notwithstanding their peaceful surrender,
and subjected to great Indignities. The lesson of
these events seems to be that whatever may be MI.
Keogg's intentions he has not the ability to pre-
serve order with the material under his command.
He has shown good sense however. in rendering to
Col Boylan Chief of the Penn police, a pro tenn ap-
pointment in the same capacity; but Boylan
declines on the ground that he will be used
as tool for few days and then thrown
aside to make room for Kellogg man. The people
are anxious that the military should take charge OF
the police The Bulletin of this morning publishes
a communication signed by considerable number
of colored men, calling upon the President 10 recog


nize the legality of the McEnery and Penn Govern
ment, and to sustain it, The petitioners express the
belief that if this is done their rights Will be re-
spected and maintained.


THE COMPROMISE CONFERENCE.


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