Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1875 — Page 1

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SOUTHERN INVESTIGATIONS. THK COMMITTEE ON LOUISIANA. RIDXY'H PK' CffEDINGS CONTINUED EVIDENCK OF TnB CHIEF OV EKFIOTS OF 0HPET-B.0 POMCE BAD HULK TIIK CCCsriATTA TROUBLES. - N ew Orleans, Jin. 1. TLe chief of police, Mr. Lrc!erk, testified that he had information that those persons who were elected, or claimed to be, would go to the s',ate house, and in ach force a to to able to install tLemselve-. and tbat it the persons at tempted to meet wbo were duly eleced by tLe returning. boarJ;a difficulty would ensue, and tbaX he had called Gen. Brook's attention to the matter, lie knew of nothing to prevent tucha body from meeting. Being cro-8-qu stlor ed te said ttat enly those declared elected by the returning board were entitled to meet. lie knew cf no law to prevent persrTis from drillirg. If the democrat should attempt to expel the republicans there would be trouble. If the democrats "went there claiming to represent the people and if nobody interfered with the m, there would be no difficulty. He Knew of no one who would attempt to interfere. He stated that they had over S00 men, not inlm'.irg supernumeraries. He did mi know tho ttrti gin Ol the White Leapne. They did not a-ssi-t him in preserving the peace. He never called na thorn to do so. Dr. Luckett, cf Rapides, testified that the election was as quiet as any ha ever knew. Many c lored people voted tbe conservative ticket. He canvassed the prrwh very tborougb'y, ana eievoed niueii t;mn to th business, especially during the three weeks r. receding the election. He was a favorite with the negroes. Tbey Irtquei.tiy rm-sbd t iui to Ltcumo a candidate on the lepublican ticket. Ho practices K.e'iicino and did not collect more money then would pay fur hi medicines. Iu act, no did a charily practice among the uecrro"-." IIh did not consider that tfcre had b""" any intimidation. He hadb'srd that lV.pt. BfJord and Oliver had been inHi.'.l lb knew nothirsr nlont the La , " in 1 ,, i i ..f isi,ns. According: to hi- iuJg instillation tf thoMcEnery c lib -era Hd r.r.t hav-j a tendency to Intimi JT the dored votir?. They expected to ir liusr.ee mure nero votes this year than last jeur.l ecausethey weru tired of misrule. He was indicted for participating in the Colf.x niiss.&ere, but he did not take part in the massacre, 'iha negroes. supported him because they knew he had nothing to do with tbö Colfax fftir. He has always paid his taxes Iu lull, but understand that only about two-thirds of tho assessment of tho parish paid. Lie stated that the people cf Alexandria regretted the necessity of the Colrax massacre, but regirdtd it as a neeewdty. He apf,f t'::e massacre because he beheved ,lP,H.i:n f. r the protection of lilo and property, the negroes havh g taken possesion f" th rr.urt hou-e. and defied 11 lvc. Ha knew no one who t-artiiipated In tha CWax aöair. Mr. Q.. cf r.ap'dex rari.i,heard no complaintof unfair r.e-H iirtha lateltction, or oi intimidation HA had always been a democrat. Capt. Iijd lev. cd New Orleai:8, has been heie twoytars. - . . jj.i: 2L ... n4 Hi loubinesa una aecnutu t.'rvatuo i THE BAD QOVERKMENT. Iiis firm has a manufactory in Wheeling, Va.. and sell iroods here. Their buines aaa declined from a sale ol ?200,000 to ?20,000 Iaham Jone, of As-umrtion, testified that Lo was a republican. Ho did rot vote for n recubUc-n in 1S72, because he could not lliliate with thoso of that party in his fetiou. The election was U r. Ill never w one oondactad more quittj. Capt. K W. Sslvevtrr. of tt. L.anlrv rrt3b. Is a planter and republican, but voted tbe mixed nrkrt Kttte late eleetion. He has never been ostracised on aoecubt of LU politic?. II a soldier in the federal army. IIo knows colored m?n who voted tne demo crv.i". tifket. He knows of nothing in the ornJi:ioii of Kocietv tbat prevents a man ir-'-tii Detrz a repuoiican. . McCutchen.ot New Orleans, testified that he Alexandria durinsr the Ja-itele tion. If b siw about an hundred netto- vote the conservative ticket. He h aid of no intimi datiou. Capt. Belger teli him t h -it he t evt r aw a moro pf-acaable election. He heard the -doctor talking loud to a colored man close by thepolls paving, I have attended you all the vMr and helned von alontr. Now you co against me." The ngro finally voted the conservative ticket. Tho w it nes didn't oon Kderihat intimidation. M. H. Twitcbell, of lied lliver parh. a planter by occupnion, said that ha hai lived in tbat parish four voars. lie was a union soldier. He was married in Bienville parish aud is a repubfi can. Tbera have been attempts at ostracism, but he ielt it very ligLtly. Since the murder of his brother Jthe people there teemed very anxious to speak to him, ioubtle. h( p'.ng he would aas'.st thera out of tho troublo they were in. The reign oi terror didn't net in until just belore nit CX?USHATTA AFFAIR. He was warned by friends to get away, and left Coushatta with a relay of horses, get ting 60 miles away. He went back with two companies cf United States troops, aud remaned there unt'.". after the election. He was not troubled, because he r.ever went out of the sight of the troops without being well mounted aDd weil armed, no bad infor maticn that it was tho perpeso of the White Leage to drive out 6very white republican, and that they intended to get poase-ssion of the goverament paaeoably if they could, forcibly if they must. He knew it would riot be taf3 for him to return there in the .absence ot United states troop. In Coiisbifa, at the masarre, six svhites were kilbd, together with two ne CToes. Otijors were soon after hnng, and he conldn t tell how many, but a large nam ber. He had been four years a member of the legislature. C. J. Greene, of Lincoln parish, a lawyer by occupation and a native of the South; born la Alabama; had lived In bis parish many years. He was, before the war, very popular.. About two . years. 8!5'i be went into his father. He ia a politic with republican. and (4nce that time has been socially ostracised. Other white republicans are treated the eair.o way. He bad a brother In the onfoderato army. His father was a Union man. He is the parish judge of Lin coin. The sb?ntl toid him he had lieen in salted. He was a republican, but didn't vote at tho last election. He believed that he had been ostracised. Ho named half a eiozen members ot nn family who hold ollice in the parish. Charles Puckett, auditor of .Natcnitocno parinb, said, regsrdirg sevcral cascsof OMtracis-n that tie thought it was more Directed to Individuals than to party tnn. During the recent campaign, wbi. h was a red hoü one, he noticed some of the people gave him the c. Id thonlder, but he thought it was because they thought he .being an old citizen, should have voted with them lie tt'.r.ks everybody voted who wished to doo. There was no intimidation against tbe ma4 of voters. Any ill feeling whicb dieted was directed against the loaders. The looplo required tbe parish judgs to resign

lecauie he was not alawjcr. About twenty negroes voted at the box where ho -wa and there was no intimidation. Whatever ill feeling there was aaint the whltea whs because of bad local government, fhe republican policejury iuwl Isrgequantities of cettificates e f indeb'edcf s, wfdcli the people now have to psv. They hold the republican party accountable. They feel that they hive been almost mined by excessive taxation. Tbe committee adjourned at 11p.m. to meet at the custom huu at 10 a.m. tomorrow.

THE VICKSIiUllU COMMITTEE.MOKR TESTIMONY TAKEN EXAMINATION' OF Cll M1LLKK AND OTHERS THK FlfiMT CONCERMNO THK COLO It EINE TAXATION AND TUB DEPRECIATION OF PROPKRTY. VlCK.-BUi'.O, Miss., Jan. 1. The coigres aionai committee met at 10. The exami nation of CJol. Horace Miller was continueil. He held the office of judge of the Criminal Court in leo. In 13Ö2 was ap)Ointd charge d affairs to Buiivia, which position he filled tu.ee or fourj-cars. In answer to the origin of the so-called color Hue, bettated that for some time af.er the war the whites male earnest efforts to aecommcdat3 themselves to the new Ftate of allnirs, csprcially with reference to negro voting, by holding every inducement to get them to vote with the whites by nominating some or them tor ofiices. This was continued tor years without Mitre, when it became a well recognized tact that every negro whose name was placed on tbe conservative ticket was o!tracl-eJ by his own race, no matter what his former connection with them bad been. Alter many unsuccessful attempts, thin kind of feeling grew upon the community that ii was impossible to conciliate that element, owing to the fact that the prejudh-es of the blacks were continually inilaoied bgainst tho whiles by tbe appeals of ths car-pot-bajegens political adventurers and the worst elctneuis of the white rac3 to the effect that the whites were their natural enemies, and exaggerated statements of cruelties and punmUu.ents itillicled on the blacks in fclave times, and thai the objec; of the democratic party was to reduce them to slavery aam and that their only safUy vaa in adhering fo the republican party. Every element ot discord was constantly kept be fore them and the re.-Uli Was that in every election tor a Kerie of yearn, tne negroes voted in an almr-bt to'jd mass. They often came to the polla in military array, unuer leaders, whtre they remained until the whole column had voted, the leaders handing them their tickets or eisa depositing the ballots for them. TLis state ol af1 ;irn nroduce-d a color line. tLe whites being KatUfiod . that it was . . . i . i . i . u.-icies t; attempt io coaii-nca wuu iu? uegn;es in voting and that they were incapa ble of administering any omce i-r ito iue fit ot the country and deteruune-d iu future on!v to vote for whito men for ollice, but in this thev had no intention of depriving the lieroes or the nam ;l irancniso or other vested rights gratted tbem under the constitution. All tbe whites of Mi:-ihsippi accepted in good fauh theconstltuiiou amendment and laws r;isf d bv cenxre-hs in relation to ine negroes, Ihe oniy excep.ii n to tue tiacKs uemg jrt ... . .t . 1 l. . . to vote as they please comes iroci UIK1R OWN K.U E andfcuca U the lctimidatrjn used in lu:s case, that they dara not vote aain&t tho republican party. He cited two iudlvidual ca.-es of colored men, cue of them bis former slave, who wanted to vote the democratic ticket tut te (Miller) cad advued him not to do so. as his black neighbors would kill him: also that cf another In Vioksburir called EJmunJ. who ou two oo cations uua to U8 e.-cortea i; ine pui;s oy whiles in order to depohit a democratic ticket, and each time on returning heme küa asfianlteu by niottu ol clack men and women. and only es.'aLea mur der by the interference ct whitemen. Ho kuew no ir.star.ee whore negroes had been discharged for not voting the democratic ticket . He had beard men .say that in consequence of the enormous taxa tion they would not employ negroes who voted with those who had saddled their txes on tliem. On Friday, December 4.h. Cros' y told Lim, in tne presence oi ueu Wirt Adams, he could uoipeifect his bnd. lie tried, after a consultation with a luiü ter of taxpayers, to etiVet a compromise by getting Crosby to appoint tsome man accep table to the taxoavers ai deputy, who could give a bond and give him possession of the utile?, with full authority to dibcLargn the duties. Crosby thought he was entitled to the euioiumeuis of tue othce. lie told him tbat any one so Bt-lee'ed would aoubt less make a satisla lory arr iDg- ment. Crosby aked time to consider the qurbtion, nJ made two aptoiutments to meet him and eive aa aimwer. but kept neither of them. ine witness afterward learned that Crosby went to Jackson that nitfht and returned the- next inoridne, and issued his proclamation on the night ot December 7. When in charge of Crobby I told him what Owens had taid about him. He said that Often and the colored people had misunderstood bia ord-r. He had uot in strutted them to come into the town then Again he admitted that he had done so. His answers in referenco to the card published over his name, were contradictory. The card was written by a lllow in Jack son, who feigned his cami to lr. find who had uiado it fclrouger then ho (Crosbv) wanted if. Tut he admitted it was written at bis reque-K, and circulated by bis orders General l'acker and Colonel Lee said w hen tbey saw the card that it wa dangerously likely to produce bad results. They wert b,,th in the city on tbe day of the fiht, but he (Miller) did not bee them. They had told him they were Lere. Th peculations iu oilice here dated back to tho accession to office e-f Croshy as county treasurer and Cardon as circuit court clerk. The increase of taxation here had been rapid and cuor mous. Now THE K.NTIRE TAXATION of the state, conuty and city was near six percent. A reduction bad been made in the rate of city taxation since the democratic Koverument has been elected. The former city governments since 1872 had been repub lican. it was unncuit 10 estimate tne asses merits on lands outside or tue city at their real value. but lu nsarlv every case, if put up public halo would not bring the awieeoed value. The laods in the Ktato unoa tne war have deteriorated from 60 to 75 per cent. Tholandain tho vicinity, worth $ü to $30 per acre, now are only worth frotu ?3 o ?10. Tbe Califoi nis plantation en the Louisiana side, which sold before the war for :JlG0,fJj0, pold receutly for $15,000. lie alo installed a similai eine in 1-saquera county. Ltrge tod.es o. land in this and ttj adjoining counties have been a.audoned by the owners or else .'orfeited to the etto for taxes because of the excessive taxation. There w;is no socret political a'sociation among the whites here. The tax payer's association was not a political organizttion. Here was no organization to establish. A color line never had been. He knew that this feellug prevailed throughout the state, but had not yet taken shape. It doubtless would result in a poliiioal orga-

nization. At the late municipal election the

color lire being in it Inoip.ency, l;d not enter in'o it. Ihe republicans prior to this election had a small majority. He knew of no intimi.la'ion toward tLe offieers ehnrged 1 h conducting tbttt elPttion. He knew that arms vire troimbt Lere about that time by gun denier and sold to the citizens. They weie generally Winchester rifles or carbines. Not over feventy-five in number were brough: hre in the month proceeding the electi-m. All tbe militU companirs h'id needle uns. The colored company bad about sixtv only. There wa oue armory here at that time. He knew of no gnns sei t here on consignment aud afterwards distributed to' tie cttizaa. TLe debt of Warren cwnty aud the city wa-i about Jl,4.,OW. A i'trge portiou of this eame from laar;S to railroads and H'vcslled rubüc imDrovements. Furling was sherilf te fore Crosby. He was first appointed by Urn. Ord, and then elected twic. Furlin'a assertion in the legislature in at a hundred negroes were killed near the I'emlertou monument was untrue. At the August elecilon no colored men ivere elected to oltiee. It was not thouaht desirable to piece colored iu u In office. He never heard the question of their st rviug ou juries Uucussed In connecUon wnu tue color line. Did not think a want cf immigration was a cause of the depreciated value e,f land. If labor was rroi-erly applied tbe lanes would boas valuable a ever. Neither would the I lack of capital be felt. The general disorder and insecurity of life was not worse here than in anv other part of tho country. Crimes were , es promptly punched here as elsewhere. The colored jurors probably more prompt to punish men ot their own eoler thau whito jurors would bt. I ne citizens D 'lieved that there was a conspiracy between l ros by and the other cfncials to defraud the people. Several ciiihts before the August election the halls of the ctdored company had pickats out on the streets and STOPPED GENTLEMEN IN CARRIAGES and searched fhcjn. AtcoDg these searched woro Horace Marshall and Charles Peine and wife. This caused much Indignation, and the parcl.a?t cf arms ly some of tho citizens. From , Lis conversation with Crosby be thought that Governor Ames and Cardoza bal advised him to regain the sheriff's ofJco; in act he saw the following letter on the otücial letter page: Office of the Slp't rcBLicEDrc.viioN, Jacko., Mlss., Dec. 6,-1374. Dear Crosby: Do r.ot make any compromise with those fellows. The governor i- at your beck. 8' epa will be taken for your relief. They will be ample, and you need not fear. I do not care to say what they wjil be, but you will bo all right. W e are ippus-ed to any and all com promies. . Your friend, (Signed) cariX'ZA. The witness got ti;'s letter from Crosby while ho was under an est. Col. Miller siid tbat the statements JnUov. Ames' proclama tion of the bio oi uovtmbrr, in regard to the condition of affairs iu icksburc, were un true. Two ot the governor's staff were bore that day, and knew they were uutrue. Ad jutaiit-Gener-d Packer had afierward told Lim that , he haw no riot ous demons traücr. whatever that day. nnd while the governor was not liked by the white people of any party here, bis presence as i;overnor and a exposition to act tairly woulei Lvo bottled the wholn matter without bloodshed. Col. Miller'sexaminstion lasted fjuii houra and a large por tion was a mere repetition of his examinatirin jesterday. Dr. Heryey 3haunonwas the next witness. He testified that be was in charge of the cavKiry ont he tlay ot tne hebt. ' He w!out oa a Bcout in the mornlr.g w ith n law men cu Cherry street road. He was fiyed cn by the negroes He returned to tow n. i As he was returning be met tour or five nei;rteR near a bridge on Cherry street aud told tLctn to go back. believing t'-.at they w,f re going to join the invaders. Ilia orders wl re to clear tho stteets. One of them, named Frman,relused to do so, aud drew a pistol. lis was fired on and tcok another step forward aud attempted to raie a pistol, . when - he was ehot down, and died toon after. Furman was killed by tne pany vim air. uecnie. The matter will underti) a judicial iuvesti uation. Witness did n n know either of the other negroea. They went back when or dered. There was r.o women with the m He saw one colored woman Lear there in a yard. I-urman's reputation was Wd. Ho had formerly been a policeman. COL. WM. FRENCH was then sworn. His testimony was unim roriant, except that ou LoariDS tha alarm he had gone out, but without knowing any thing ot the anticipated trouble, having Just returned from New Orleans. Seeing men collecting with arms, he found that there was troublo and ordered them into line and took thorn in command. Being coin in is sioned as colonel of nilliia be went cut on Cherry fctrcet and mot tho negroes coming in. A eklrmlsh ensued and the negroes seen fled. He did not think anybody was hurt in tho tkir misb. After this ho did not believe there was any danger, and marched the men back A. V . to i no court nouse, ant told them to go. home, lie then detailed tho organization of tho threo military comrarlps her, but merely repeated what CoL Miller had already stated. The diy laf-er the fight he called on Adjutant-General Packer, and told Liin he thought the to 'lit la ought to be organized. Aftr some importuning Packer said for Col. Dalrd to continue to issue orders, and if necessary he (Packer) would antedate an order to cover those Duird had already Issued. Packer told him tbat he had the dy before tehigraphed tbe governor that he bad comrrenced, and tbe mi litia was powerless, w itnen asked him if he had issued any order' to the militia, and he said that be bad ordered Iis.ll to hold his company in readiness. ' Witness told him that his sending this .order direct to Hall Instead of through tho superior officer had placed him In an awkward position; mat some oi iiau s men wore in tfaeattacK ing force. Witness's impressions were that tbe orders to Hall were to hslp reinstate Crosby. None of Hall's men or arms were tenderod in defense of tbe city. Judge Morrla had that order, lie saw none of Hall's nion on the day of the fight. Witness gave no order to search houses for arm?. He heard that some house had been searched, and reported the fact to tho mayor, who promised to top It. On the Handay night after the fight it was reported that the r.rgroes were cor?zregating near Pemberton Monument f r tho purpeso of capturing Crosby and banging him. Ho 8?nt out a socut, but found it was false, but kept a few men together at tbe court house all bizbt. Since Iben there had been no alarm. He believed tbat it was the yitention of the negroes, on the 7th of December, to plunder ihe town. The committee adjourned till ten o'clock tomorrow. The democratic members of the committee will request Governor Arms and Adjutant fenerai Packer be eurnmoned to testify. The Investigation will probably continue until Friday next.

TIIK COMMITTEE OX LOUISIANA.

FTTRTIIF.R FBOCEKDINns EVI DF.NPK ( Tliv hLCKKTAUY OK THK KHl'HMX HOARD; IHK WHITE LKAGcTK exNDITION OF TRADK SKr-CRITY op LIFK A LKTTL'K FROM GOV. KELLOGG TO THE CTOMMITTUK. New Orleans, Jan. 2. The congressional oommitiee met at 11 a.m. at the custom house. Charles S. Abel!, scretary of tho returning board, wa tbe first witness called. He was elected scretary at the third meet ing of the board. The duties wt re to keen the minntes and to produce such documents as the beard might require, he, tLy secretary, hiving charge cf them. .All the pa pers, with tho exception of the minutes, were handed over to tho secretary of btate at tu adjournment of the board.- All the evidence txken by the board was written, and is l ur.d filed with the papers in each ca-e which Mine up before the board. He could produce the minutes. No papers sent to the board disapieared, to the best ct the wit ness's know led ze. Mr. Phelps What was the action of the board when protests were presented before tfcel)oard? Abell The board generally counted the returns to which tucb protest nsd refer ence, and them left them for consideration. Papers were rejected without any entry being made on the minutes, nor whs there any mention made on tho minutes ol mcb changes as wero madeiu the returns by the board. Ihe conclusions or decisions were arrived at in executive pessibn, and were not placed on the minutes. Ihere is no record extant showing these changes, tbe onlv wav to arrive at it being to compare tbe original returns made by the supervisor with the statements published or promulgated by the board. The-r was evidence filed in the case of the parish of Hi tides. At the suggestion of the committee it was agreed to produce the tally Fbeetp, and the supervisor's returns and all tbe paprrs in the cases of the parishes of Ileria and ftspides, as also the journal, wherein the compiled statements were promulgated. Charles Provoste was porduced to prove the existence of colored clubs who took action against . the republican party iu the last election. He taid there wiis a large club in lh3 second w ard, all the members of vhich were colored, who co operated with the conservatives because they (were tired ot the existing evil. 'Ihis club voted tb.9 conservative ticket to nearly its full strength, and voted the ticket openly. George Duprez testified that he organized a colored club in the Third Ward. At the poll where this club voted, a negro precinct exclusively, ever 300 votes were east. ' The majorty at the election for the conservatives tooted up 127. Those suffragans were laborers. He was a member ot tho White League, end captain of a company. The OBJECr CF THE ORDER was t" oppose bucu organizations as tne re publicans bad formed, to meet the unlaw lul aggressions of the metropolitan brigade, etc. trio v mte league nas mr-.ao no prepar ations to take action r.ext Monday. L. Ii. Jenks testified that be was at tho convention in Baton Route, and voted the fusion ticket in 1S7:! with one exception; tbat , he voted for Kellogg Instead of- McEuery. He beard McEnery's ppeech in Baton Bouge, ' whica was extremely partizan He advocated in the event of the people's electing their candidates that tbey, the people, should occupy the city and pee that they got their t-eats in" tho general assembly. McLuery also spoke on one oc casion at the Varieties Theater in about the san:o Strain as bo did at Baton Konge. : Mr, Marr also ppoko at the Varieties. His pejch was like that ot McEnery's in tone aud temper. Major Wm.-Robinson , the news editor of the North Carolina Republi can, waa brought forward to testify to certain extracts published ia lih paper as beinii genuine reproductions of those taken from certain country exchanges, theShreveport Times, iSutchitocbm indicator and others. He agreed to make an ailldavit to tho retiuired effect. A.B. Levissee testified that he resided tn Caddo parish. He said that a man who votos the radical ticket in Caddo parish i osfracised. lie was asked by Mr. Potter if he was elected to Ihe legis ture, to which lie replied: 'I was returned a member by the returning board but not by the popular vote." L. W. Baker testitie-d that lie iesided in Bossier parish, an 1 WKxtl r ari-.h judge. He said that renub!ieni luve hxm ostracised nocia'.ly to a great extent. Joseph Bowling testified tbat b9 resided in -ev uneans. vas a merchnnt mk! a inentbor of tho firm of Peet, Yale (i B-.'Wiing. touching the commercial corii'iiüu of Isew Orleans, he f-aid that it was inuoh doprescJ. Persons were afraid to enter upon any character of enterprise. Ho attributed tbls to tne exorbitant taxes That this depression existed was evident, in -one particular, by the great number of business bfiuses Low offered lor rent, ome bouses were offered by the owners to Muh per r.s rs would take there, pay thn taxes ana Keep tne houses in ropeir. and lrequentlv thcie w ere no takers. even on these terms. He was here on the 14th of Spplemlxr. Tho Iteling of the busitwt-s community aller that evtmt, tbat is w Levi it uti fcttppoRcd that the people's government had ncen esiabii&nea, was buoyant. A revival of busines-8 was anticipated.' Therf was an extended deslraon the part e! tLo itcH'plH to leave Loujsana lct aue of the existing Ktato of affairs, Mr, Foster de.-ired to know if murderers were generally condemucsi by tho community and dealt with according to. law by the court., also 11 tne general immunity from punishment of tho tnurderers had the effect of preventing in a largo measure oraiiiraiion to ihirt state. The answer was that geuerally any murder perpetrated in the city was largely condemned. If tho persons were not arrestud in some instances, as in that which occurred Thursday Eight, to which Mr. poster referred, it was mainly attributable to the inefficiency of the police the republican police. He did not know whether it effected emigration or not. Mr Potter wanted to know if Gov. Kellogg had not been in the habit ot pardoning criminals by wholesale, and it murders, etc., were !erpeit rated, and lawlessness existed, if this wholesale bardonlnz was net to eoine extent the caue of it. Tuo witness had heard it reported, and seen in newspapers that many criminals bad been pardoned. He thought the pardoning had a tendency to eneouraj; crime, t ne roiio wing is a LETTER FROM GOV. KELLOGG to the congressional committee. It was de livered this evening; New Orleans, Jan. 1, 1874. To the Hon. Chsrleg Foster, chairman of the Bub-eomruiilee n Loulaiana alfalrx. Sin: I have been informed by one of tho commissioners engaged in the investigation now Uklrg place belore your committee, that you have determined not to Include the election of 1872 within the scope of your investigation. Pamit rue to respectfully suggest that in the question whether or not Louisiana was cmled be the republican party in tho election ot 1S72 has been the principal disputed point which, for two years, has agitated the state. Religiously believing thst I was elected by a majority of votes actually cast at that election, I have struggled to discharge the duties of my oQice with difficulties 6uch as

few men have been called upon to encounter. Nothing but n twre ot duty has kept ine at my pnt during all these weary months of obloquy and ir.isreprCHCr.tatioi.. Recently I telegraphed to tho president urging tht a committee or congress be Rtrit here, believing .t hit such a committee being upon the ground, with power to end for perons and papers, could

ascertain the right ot the question, so lar is I Bnd the government 1 represent are concerned. I am Intensely anxious. r 1 I think imtly to. tbat there should bo Fclution of thi difficulty. I believe an investigation, that need not last many days, would reasonably satisfy any impartial miud whether I was iected in js or not. Bui even by takinc a gene ral view of the case I think something inisht be done toelucidate the question. For instance, it 1 he committee weru 10 take the returns 01 1872. as made by both boards, and contrast tbem wih tbe remrns ot thit year, as made by tbe returning board arid as claimed by the democratic party, with su -h facts and details as I think could bo readily obtained, I believe A RIQHTEOCS CONCLUSION could be arrived at. The census aud relative registration of whites and blacks and the relative vote in 1872and 1874 would throw much light on tho matter, and 1 submit that tho returns from these democratic parishes, where, by the fusion coynt of the former board, we were allowed our reasonable mi noiity vote in 1S72, but where no republicun vote, or scarcely one, was permitted to be cvst this vear raignt properly bo consid ered. I have had no opportunity to examine n detail the returns of 1S72. a made bv the fnsionists. Those returns are probably accentable and their authenticity or genuineness is susceptible of proof. Allow me to suggest another mode likely to aid in making a con clusion that tne returns of 1872, as made by t. elusion board betaken as correct whenever they do not widely differ from tbe returns of the Lynch board, and where thoy do so diuer let the returns lrom these same par lies this vear, as claimed by tbe democra'ic committee themselves, be taken as representing the vote or 1872. For instance. taki the 28 parishes where both boards return the same candidates to the house, and adopt the returns of the Forman board. Then for the other parishers where the two boards lillred widely, take the vote of this vear as returned by the democratic committee. This will be to consider the returns, in which, in many cases, the republicans were not e-red-Ited with their full vote, but were deprived of votes actually cast, by means of lrauduent practices, as can be easily shown. These aspet.-ts of the case, with other evfdetice pro curable, will, 1 believe, go very far to elucidate the 1 igh's of this controversy. Believ ing that the committee you represent has the confidence of the co intry, I, ppeakicg ror myself, will gladly abide by its decision, if it can consistently go into this much disputed question of the election 01 1S72, with tbe tacts and figures and other proofs belioved to be availalle. I feelvery strongly the necessity that this important question should be determined in some decisive man ner, and this is my only excuse for presuming to offer these fuggostions to your committee. Permit me to add that I trust the opposition will le awarded full opportunity tefore your departure to make cood some, at least, ot the many allegations of maladministration and corruption they have constantly sent abroad with regard to roysen. ine records or the state are eay of access, and 1 win checnclly all ord eery possible facility for an irauirv. both thorough and completely-1- tbe end that It rsay be unowii bow bad my nnm!mtrat?on i. and with what justice chargeable with tbe many evil complained or. . Very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. P. Kellogo. lah) reports that senior. Maior General Barber bad beeu shot through the body, that theocay of Police Judc Mclrthur had been found ou Canal street with a bullet hols through the head, that x-Gv. Wells's throat bad been cut from eur to ear. that hundreds of large timbers we re being carried into tue state nouve lor barricade purposes, were ireeiy circujatea to-day. but are un true. THE VICKSBURG COMMITTEE. SATURDAY'S WORK .M0KK EVIDENCE TAKEN A BANK OASniEK's TESTIMONY TDK RlriE IN TAXI S EN AMINATION OK.-KVERAL WORK "WITNESSES e ll SUV '8 INSUFFICIENT BOND. ViCKs.ntTi. i, Mir., Jan. 2. Edward S Butts, ca-bV r of tho Vicksburg Bank, was the firs: viiaevs before the congressional committee ih'.s morbinu. He testified that he 1 turned fr nu New Orleans Deoember 6. The x;ext ui'jrufn he . heard tho alarm souiu'.f.i and went-to tLe bank, got a gun, buiriii to the court house, where he found forty or fifty n;en wi-.li arms, under orders. Co!, it iird took commmd, marchovl out the Grove street re.al, saw some negroes on th opposite Id'.l tk;rriiihing with a low wounded whites. I ho lorrner soon dispersed and bo returned to the e-nurt bonne with tbe command without firing a shot. His descrip tion of the fighting on the various roads did cot elilTer materially from those already reported. He only kn-w of three DPgroes being killed and one whit' man. He did not aeie Hogan'a company during the fight. It was at Snyder's Bluff, 12 miles out. lie Grt beard a rumor ol an intor.dod attack from Gen. Furlong. IIo laughed at him about it. Furlong advised barricading the roads with Laitf.as Crosby's card had produced great excitement among the noroes. He firsts 1 a Crosby's card while on the train at Jacksou. His friends there told him that (Jov. Ames would teach them all a lesson. Gen. Packer and Col. Leo came on the train with him. The iinpreesi' n prevailed at Jackson that the militia would be called out, and Crosby teiustated. There was no hostility em the part of tho whites of Vickfaburg toward the negroes. As a clasj, tbe whites bad always assisted him in building tho church f, etc., when called on. All the trouble was caused by the colored officials overawing their own raco. The people hero had no idea of depriving tbe negroes of any civil or political rights. There was much excitement in the city on tho morning of the fight, among the women und children. Democrats and republicans and all tbe teople of the better, class, including iniui&ters and aped men, were in the ranks, among them Dr. Harper, aged 78, a nephew or tiuu. Winfleld Scott. Previous to the light he never saw any riotous demonstrations on the part of- the whites. The witness is a member cf the taxpayers league. At the August election two colored men wire elected school visitors. Thoio waa no opposition to their takiug tltenr seats. THE TAX PAYERS LEAGUE at one tnno numbered WW. lucre wore no politics in It. Colored men could Join it If taxpayers. He had been appointed ou a committee by tho league to examine tbe

books of the chancery clerk, Davenport, about a year and a half sinco. When the committee entered tbe office he told Ta yenport what tbey had come for. Ho said that no tax paver's league committee should examine his books. They, ebowevi blm tax receipts and asked to lie allowed toeomparethem with the books. He again re t . ;'...!." 1 ' . '' ' i

fused, saying: "I dont represent vou or air or your crowd. I know who I ww f lei bv and tbey will nitsiu me. Clip rice! lor Hill was present, but did not intero.-e and tbey left. Tbe whites pay ninety nine ixr eert. of the taxes. Be;ween threg and

jour iiucured colored children tend tbe public schools. In attho '.axpayers league, tho only question in regard to holding oßice was, is be cortpetent aud bonestr He knew a colored fam ily nawiea Aiont gomery. 'Ibev were not the. second larg-n tax payers. Iiis experience with republican clEcial was. tbat tbey are neither capable nor fi: to fcnld office. He did not know what the color line was He bad several times voted for negroes for high offices with jorrvj capacity and honesty, and would support one as well as a white man. Tbe bank makes no discrimination on account of color. S:ncethe Freedmen's bask burst it kept accounts with a great mny neproe. Davenport was now under Fcveral indictments for malfeasance in office. All books showing taxes, warrants and allowances were iu his custody, and sme or them were reported mowing. Mr. Uiitts then exhibitei tho tax receipts of the estate f.r which tho bank wh aeent, the taxes on which in l&C'J were 527 90 on a valuation ol 50 3ö0, and the tax reee'ptaon the same for 187;), in which tbe taxes were 18d SO, on a valuation of $7,400. Ho thought the increase in taxes was caused by the reckbss extravagance of the county officials. Tne taxpayer's league grew out of this Mate of affairs during tie time mentioned. Tho taxes bad been mainly levied by the blacks and paid by tbe whites. A portion of the difference in the tax receipts hho-.vn was cansed by taxf s not levied in 1S9. The w itness was then examined in detail In regard to the specific items in the tax rceoipis, atd reiterated that they were the results e t reck less extravagance. The leacue knew of one instance wherj Crosby, while treasurer, had funded ono warrar.t twice, and other similar charges were made, and this was the nason thn Id objected to his handling the taxes wiUiuut a good bond. The poor house cost 3.000 and w as probably worth 53.000. Woodruff was a pronounced republican though rot an active politician. Davenport in speaking ot the party he represented meant the republican party. Davenport seetue I to think that tbe books of tje office wero Lis own property. The witness thought tbat the INTENTION OF TUE NEGCOES on the day of tbe fight was to reinstate Crosby, and plünderst will. If the witness family had been in the country, he would have left thera tbere.and come In and joined tbe whites here as the best means of defending them. Erastns Dorwin Ricbardson vas sworn, and testified that ho ha 1 residod here since 1S63. He was put in ciiarno of the court house bv Col. Balrd when Crosby resigned. He was on duty there the night before the fight and gave the alarm by ringing the bell. During tho next day was in the cupola on the lookout with field glasses. The witness then detailed at great length what be .saw from bis lookout during tbe day. He heard Capt. Batts bay that ha was not in favcr of taking Ruy piinocrr, that Col. Miller strongly opposed 8i:y violence to tho prisoners, that the lirirgonthe Grove street road was first becun by a body ot mounted citizens, among whom was (Jen. Furlong, now a.ate senator. Chap. Wheeler, Pat. Malioy.Raudall Yates and Morris Norris during the day hoaid of Furtr.en'a being killed on Cr.erry street, and ano'.bor colored man on Clay street. Ine witness has lxen a baker p.nd a glazier, and vas now on the police. Ho bad always I4en a republican until Inst August, when the party go: up such a bad ticket that he would cot stand it aud Voted the democratic, ticket. lie was coroner for three years. Tbe republican candi iates for aldermen in tho August ebction were 11 black but one, and hetwuld imt read or write and. wis cot a citizen of tho United Htates. Then was no intimidation of" tbe blacks on the day ct the election-. Tte Degrees who insrehed on the city Decern ber 7 must have left home tho night before in order to reach here when they did. In answer to Mr. Conger, the witness detailed tbe flight of Davenport, the chancery clerk, and Wilson, the. coroner, when the league called upon them to re si 211. ,lb taw pquadsof men pursuing them as lar out as tho Nott Cemetery. Ho Paw no arms. Tfce league wanted Davenport to resign . because scrip bad been forged and other rascalities practiced. Three indictments had been louud against him and ho had given a bond lor his aDpearance a few days tefore the league called on him. Ho bad heard that. when be aud Wilson lied tbey went into a swamp and got separated that night, but both got together the next day. . lie thought their IJVES WOULD II AVE BEEN IN DANOKE at the time if they had been caught. About fifty or sixty armed men from Monroe, La., arrived here on Tuesday morning after the fight, and left the next day. He did not know who asked them to Mini. Tbey wore not regularly organized. Cspt Reid from the country came In also with forty or 'fifty men. Cai. ' Dachcller, with thirty or lorty from the sauia neighborhood also, arrived. Capt. Ilcgan eamo from Snyder's bluff with e.ijout ieity. They came into town Monday after the light aud remained till the next diy. Duiir g'- s two days Irom'l&O to 200 whites came 111 10 assist tbe citizens. None brought the ir families with them. Wbl.e here these men we ro orderly.except Ilogan.who was exciiod about the killing of Brown, aud bntforthocitisens would have hurt tho prisoners. Ho heard that men were ready to oome from Cairo, Memphis, and several other points. Tho Knighta Templar, en rcuto north, wbo landed here that day, were reported to have tendered their services to dc-lQnd tbe city. He did not think the majority of tho citiEens would have hurt Davenport. Crosby was not molested alter be bad resigned and went about the city. The night alter the tight he would have- been in danger", as tbe .people lx:lievtid he was the cause of the trouble. Ho beard Owens say that he would help han Crosby lor ordering them in here.buthethoueht Owens would have said anything to save his own neck. Had Crosby given a good bond hewould not have been molested. Ii Crosby hd been white he tbongbt the pocplewouM have acted in the same way. Hi bnnd was nciversaly regarded as insufficient.. The l)oard of supervisors knew this and by not doing their duty caused mo-t of the trouble. CordoM ßüd the other corrupt officials ouM have cleaned punishment by their triend t'rosby's packing the furies. It was generally lel:oved that the various county ctficials had formed a jury. All tb preeeüt board ot supervisors can reed and write. He did not think the law rtqjires tbe board to accept bondsmen simply on their otbs. Hehas tTied to pet sonic of Crosby's bordmen indicted lor perjury in that connection, but tbe grand jury refused to indict th-ein. Among thesa was John D. Lewis, whom tbe grand Jury refused, to ind'et alter bis arrest. They were released, on bonds takeu by Croa!?y, some of them going on each other's bond. Tnecommiitee, at Lhe conclusion of KicharJson's testimony, adjourned till Monday.