The Wheeling Daily Register

LOUISIANA:

More of the Carter Difficulty.

Excitement in the City.

New Orleans, January 13.—The announcement yesterday that Carter and his adherents would demand admission to the Mechanics' Institute this morning caused unusual excitement. Before ten o'clock a concentration of Metropolitans and militia had been effected. Two lines, one of Metropolitans and another of militia, had been thrown across Dryades street, each side of the State House, inside of which some two hundred had been placed. There was evident uneasiness among the State officials as indicated by restlessness and blanched faces, showing they regarded the situation as momentous. A crowd gathered about the intersection of Dryades with Canal street, as early as ten o'clock, and continued to increase until twelve o'clock, by which time it extended several squares. At twelve o'clock Colonel Carter at the head of his friends, came up Canal street to Dryades, and sent into the House a committee consisting of Messrs. Moncure and Geddis, members of the House, and Senator Lynch. They were not admitted to the floor of the House. Instructions were given to the doorkeeper to admit Messrs. Moncure and Geddis as members, but not to admit Mr. Lynch. The House finally, after some conversation among the members, refused to receive them as a committee from the Carter faction, or to receive any communication from Mr. Carter, whom they did not recognize as the Speaker, nor as a member. The committee then returned to their friends, who were waiting on Canal street to hear the result of their interview. The Carter men then resolved to adjourn till 10 o'clock Monday, and to continue all legal means to preserve its integrity from encroachment and in favor of reforms demanded by the people. After adjournment Major Moncure announced the action of the House to the mass of citizens on the outside. Some speeches were made by the Carterites. The general tone of the speeches were in favor of law and order, but urged a peaceable demand by the citizens of General Emory for the dispersion of the police from Mechanics' Institute, that citizens might peaceably enjoy their rights, or else declare martial for the safety of the community.