Chicago Daily Tribune

Further Details of the Struggle for Office in Louisiana.

Acting Governor Pinchback Recognized by the Administration.

A New Orleans Court Declares Warmoth's Impeachment Null and Void.

And the Pinchback Legislature to Have No Legal Standing.

The Acting Governor Sentenced to Ten Days Imprisonment.

The Administration Compromise for the Alabama Difficulty.

Minor Political Matters.

New Orleans, Dec. 12.—The Eighth District Court issued an order for the arrest of Pinchback for contempt. Pinchback refused to recognize the authority, and was protected by the Deputy Marshals. No attempt was made to use force in executing the order of the Court. Pinchback signed the act passed yesterday, abolishing the Eighth District Court. Clinton, the new State Auditor, was installed in office to-day. The Mechanics' Institute Legislature took action regarding the recalcitrant members. The Senate passed a resolution declaring the seats of all absent to-morrow, without good cause, vacant. The following explains itself:

STATE OF LOUISIANA. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 12, 1872.

To the People of Louisiana:

It is my duty to make known that the President of the United States has formally and officially recognized the State Government of Louisiana to the head of which I have been called under the Constitution of Louisiana. The following despatch has been received, and is published for the information of all law-abiding citizens of the State, to-wit:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 1872.

To Acting Governor Pinchback, New Orleans, La.:

Let it be understood you are recognized by the President as the lawful Executive of Louisiana, and the body assembled at the Mechanics' Institute as the lawful Legislature, and it is suggested that you make a proclamation to that effect; and, also, that all necessary assistance will be given to you, and the Legislature herein recognized, to protect the State from disorder and violence.

(Signed) GEORGE H. WILLIAMS,

Attorney General.

Now, therefore, I, P. B. S. Pinchback, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the State, do issue this, my proclamation, counselling and commanding all citizens to recognize and support and give obedience to the Government of the State so recognized. I counsel and command all persons who may be participating in any illegal Assembly, claiming to be the Legislature of the State, assembled elsewhere than at the State House, the Mechanics' Institute, to disperse. I request all citizens to aid in maintaining peace and order and obedience to the lawfully constituted authorities, and furthermore, in the discharge of the executive duties of the State, I want all parties or combinations, on whatever pretence or authority they may allege for their action, that they will be held to strict account for their conduct in the premises, and be punished to the utmost extent of the law for the violation of the good order of society or disregard of the dignities and peace of the State, and I now command and will enforce obedience to all laws which may have been enacted or may be enacted by the General Assembly of the State, now in session at the State House, Mechanics' Institute.

Given under my hand and the seal of the State, affixed at New Orleans this 12th day of December, 1872, and of the Independence of the United States the ninety-seventh.

P. B. S. PINCHBACK,

Acting Governor of Louisiana.

By the Governor:

George E. Bovee, Secretary of State.

New Orleans, Dec. 12.—The following was telegraphed to-day:

His Excellency, U. S. Grant, President of the United States:

Claiming to be Governor elect of this State, I beg you, in the name of all justice, to suspend the Government now in operation here till there can be laid before you all the facts on both sides touching the legitimacy of either Government. The people, denying the legitimacy of the Pinchback Government and its Legislature, simply ask to be heard through a Committee of one hundred of our best citizens on the eve of departure for Washington, before you recognize one or the other of said Governments. I do not believe we will be condemned until we are fully heard.

Signed JOHN McENERY,

Governor elect.