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Show TELEGRAPHIC LOUISIANA. Voice of the Republican Press. Sheridan's Vagaries New York "Times." A Transparent. Trick Boston " Advertiser." Snjiiseuse from (he 4Vn It: NEW YOliK TIMES. Nuw York, 7. Tho Times cou-demns cou-demns Shendiiu's conduct in New Urleana, which ia evidently controlled by the belief UuH be ia dealing with a cuiumuuity in a state of insurrection, where martini law is the onlv kind which can properly be applied " to it. The Tunes says there are no publicly known facta justifying this theory; but Sheridan's banditti desu.Uch could scarculy be warranted under any constitutional governinenl. Sheridan could scarcely have shown a greater ignorance or disregard of law if lie had proposed that the president declare de-clare the constitution annull! lij.-, perse congress, silence ail newspaper and proclaim himself dictator and Sheridan the sole minister and chief executioner. The Times denies that the republican party is responsible lor Sheridan's vagaries. The Tt nes' Washington special notes an unusual hesitancy among republican congressmen to form a judgment decisively until fuller facta are received, but says that nearly everybody concurs in the imbecility of the Kellogg government and the necessity of some congressional action inresponse to the appeal ofthe Louis-. iana conservatives, that any ceKaiu basis of settlement shall be ordered rather than that the present situation I shall continue. The tendency of republican re-publican sentiment ia towards ordering order-ing a new election under tbe provisions, provi-sions, substantially O..0ntor'a bill. BOSTON ADVERTISER. Boston, 7. The Advertiser says that both parties of the Louisiana legislature le-gislature are in the wrong, but thinks there is no reasonable doubt that the democrats carried the last- November election, and the means taken to deprive de-prive them of the result is a transparent trans-parent trick and an insupportable outrage on the people; but in the legislature le-gislature they disregarded tho forms of law, which in solemn mockery, the republicans followed, and so they invited and compelled military intei-euce intei-euce against themselves. They have again put the government in the ridiculous ri-diculous attitude of giving support to men whose cause is known to bo had, because their opponents have broken the laws. The situation is indeed serious. The Journal doubts if the course of the Wiltz' party justified the summary : investment of the whole Btate with military control. This is a reversion to war times which does not seem necessitated necessi-tated by the facts thus far exposed. A MILITARY STATESMAN. New Orleans, 7. General Sheridan r6W uneans, . uenerai oueriuan has received a report from Major Merrill of the 7th cavalry, in command com-mand of the upper Red river district, in reply, he aays, to instructions received re-ceived by him from Sheridan, dated Dec. 18th, to investigate the probabilities proba-bilities of violence in his district. He reports everything quiet, but that the leading radicals have ail left that sec' tion, and that the republican officials elected in November are alraid to attempt at-tempt to oBsume the duties of their offices on account of the threats of democrats, and as long as they refuse he don't conceive himself called upon to take any action on tho matter. He says: " My iastructiona cover the following points, and will be carried out. That I recognize as legal state officials only such persons as are recognized as such by the recognized rec-ognized executive or judicial officers of the state. That in the legal exercise exer-cise of their duties such officers must not be violently disturbed or interfered inter-fered with, and if such violenco occurs oc-curs it shall be my duty to suppress it. That my advice to all persons is that if any questions of right exists for any person that lipids office let such persons be taken before the proper legal tribunals." |