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'W'-ts ntj'-'".l t'..r its "flontinp: palaces,' as tie steamers pljing between New Orl'-a;:? .-mil the porta above wore called. Now V.ic railwrtjs havs driven nearlj all tlie tine boats o!T the river, and left the 5t;l! to the freight-boats, whose accomodations for pn.s.songers nre by no means Vntntial. The former class of steamers were ia v.i.jjj renpecta delightful, but tliey novor ceased to be objects of dread to timid people, for if the racing-, whieii tras r' .lti'M'd t a system, did not result in the lo;s of the boat, there was sure to Ih- oue or more eneonntera between the Irt lep? portion of the travelers, in which I'ihtol-hulkta would fly rather too thick for the comfort of steady-going people. The cans of such dishirbaoces was generally a ipium-1 over the gambling-table. The regijlationa of tlto boat usually required that all tsuch amnsementa should be conducted in a saloon provided for tat purpose in the "Texas, or officers' fv-ras," nituated on the hurricane deck; f-at tlie pportiBg gentry were by no Livuna careful to obey this rale, and the g.imirg w:i.s mo6:t commonly carried on en the umiug-tablea in the main aaloou of the learner, to the great annoyance of two-thirds of those on boird. Many professional gamblers used to twke these boats their home, traveling Imck nnl forth with them, and fleecing nil who wf re venlaut or foolish enough to fall into their elutenc?. So well, indeed, wai this system managed that the various rnesibers of tho "craft" seemed to liave their different "steamers marked out for them by common consent, so tha.t no one would trespass upon the domain of the ether. Of course these men were warn fiieuJs of the officers of the boat, who were either too sincere in their friendship to put a stop to the practice to afraid of the gamblers to care to provoke a quarrel with, them, for ia these days it was a common affair for e:ieh nieu to resent any fancied oifrost with a pistol-shot. Oae of the most remarkable men of their di&3 was named Daniel Sturdivant, 1 fhraan, the son of a broken-down sdoa of nobility, who had settled in New Orleans before the transfer of Louisiana to the United States. Sturdivant Lad iwu raised as a "gentleman" by bis '"r"'t,vnyc ''r, but upon coming of i-gre, audfedicg his fortunes very bad, had t-'iu a to cards as a menus vt bettetiug tl?m- tIli3 success in this field was so pt that he was induced to continue m U UI:1J &t i-e time I write, and lie was eEe of most notorious gabblers betwwa St- iii$ and New Orleans, n ss forty-five years old, but bad kept himself so well that he eeemed much younger. He was a man of ne rer?rrial appearance and of great physical ftron,?ib. He wag also noted for bis Phonal ooumge. As a gambler be was st expert and EU(wf rd. -"re ntrod.uk ttc:h ofC.h '-vhui.acotn;Li,ahdcu-ii rtt.o 'r,i,w,r ii-jiLr..., . s iy-:-e!h.t !.ei i i:v - i in 1.1 l.it;- . l ' o " r. e aj rt f g- -h a m in. Tl . : o v . - j - ' - l ... ; 1:1,1 bi,lf3; .tiSj'"v lt,1il a t? - 1 - a v ; . j n th? u; i . 1 ? 'V .... .1 T ... i " i b- : 1 : ": - ' "1 ) ;; ' 1 in. r: II

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vant La 1 taken posse Psion, inasmuch as it was not only the most eomfortablc but also the swiftest, End time was of importance to me. It was known that I carried large earns of money with me, and I was always epproliensive lest Stnrdivaat should ask me to play. I bad fully made up toy mind to refuse him, and, if he attempted tn draw me into a quarrel, to shoot him without mercy, as I knew that the only chance for my life lay in getting the advantage of Lim. Strange to eay, he did not make any such proposition to me, and I gave him no chance to do so. " One night we Lad started out from Yicksbnrg, and were Leading merrily down the river, when Stnrdivant came up to the group which Lad gathered around the stove. lie had been drink ing, ami was pmoking a line cigar as Le approached. All made way for Lim. "Well, gentlemen," Le said, in an un steady tone,"" you seem to be terribly dull. Who wants to play for $20 ante?" There was no reply. All present secmetl to know the. man, and no one cared to volunteer to place himself in his clutches. "Umph!" Le exclaimed, with an ex pression of contempt, "afraid, to try your luck against Dan Sturdivant, eh ? Or maybe you want a little coaxing. J Some of you must play with me. I I can't stand such treatment. Come, let's see who it will be." He glanced p round the crowd as if to select Lis victim. For the first time I noticed tlie gaze of one cf the group fixed steadily upon Lim. He was a stranger to me, and wa3 dressed in a plain suit of homespun, and Lis face was partially concealed by a wide-brimmed sombrero which was drawn over it. lie was a small, but powerfully-made man, and in the decided expression of Lis well-shaped Lead I read an unusual firmness and intensity of purpose. " "Are you Daniel Sturdivant, the gambler ?" Le asked in a calm tone, without rising. Sturdivant flashed darkly aud gave the stranger a fierce glance. " Some persons call me so beLind my back," Le said, insolently; " but no one would dare epply that term to me before my face." " Nevertheless," Baid the etranger, " I want an answer Yea or no." "Well, then," said the gambler, angrily, "I am.. What of it ?" " Simply this," replied the stranger. " I have beard it said that you claim to be the best card-player in the Southwest. I Lave come 200 miles to prove you a liar." Sturdivant strode forward a step or two and thrust Lis Land into Lis breast as if to grasp a weapon. "Stop," said the stranger; "if you shoot me you will simply prove yourself afraid of me. Take your seat at the table, and I will make my word good." There was something in the calm, stern manner of the stranger that seemed to render the gambler powerless, lie hesitated for a moment, and then said, bully ingly: " I never play with a man whose face I can not see." "Never mind my face," said the stranger. " If you are not afraid of losing, you shall see it when I am done with you." " But how do I know yon Lave money enough for such sport ?" "persisted Sturdivant. "You look seedy enough, my fine fellow." . "There," said the stranger, producing' a large ' pocket-book. "I have 10,000 there ; if you cau win it you shall do so." With an oath Sturdivant placed himself at the table, and bade Lis challenger" do likewise.' Those of us who Lad listened to this singular dialogue now gathered around the table, expecting to see a scene of more than usual interest. The stranger La4 not yet raised Lis Latbrisa, raid none of us Lad seen Lis face,' but we all felt from Lis general air end manner that Daniel Etnnlivant had at I t r 1 1.1 : 1 . It did net tahe I;- 7 t tho w thai the fctiar.gtr wan m unu really f 'H-.1 1 1 ty.r. I'cr rn Lour or 1 - c re tho si ' t!iji: ,r went en in t .'once. The hv 1 v,rv" 1 ' h, r Itheeci.rst r. :I ; 1 h r. re sllll. uriraut eir:t -1 L;nf l L. 1. :d ittvtr dc;.e b .'re, K.', in j cf 1 t ; -, h-- L tf' , -:w. I?y t: ; irJ.l "a it Ih? I., i i: !i. '..d T . " - -'" r' '" T t y - r - 1 ; j.r-lsc::-- . '-. .t J t, i 1 .-:.....,,..'. t,- . -j ....... .... c . . 3:; .i 1. .. r i I '.r 1 Li' it - Le 7 i " . ,A 1 - t i - I C C 1 1 . It.. .

PAOLI, ORANGE CO., INDIANA, WEDxTESDAY, JULY 10, 1878.

around the two, wondering at the strange scene. "In God's name,, who are you?" gasped Sturdivant, Lis eyes still fixed en the card. ; " Look at me," said the stranger, quietly. 1 As if powerless to resist. Sturdivant raised Lis eyes to the speaker. The stranger Lad raised Lis hat and sat looking at the trembling man with eyes that f fitly blazed with fury. Sturdivant uttered a groan, and tank back in Lis chair, with Lis face white and rigid. The stranger with one sweep gathered up the money from the table and thrust it into Lis breast. " - : - " That ace of hearts is an unlucky card for you, Daniel Sturdivant," Le said, coldly. "You played it once when you thought it to your advantage. Now, God help you, for that play is returned !" As he spoke, Le raisetl a pistol which we had not seen, and, before we could stop him, aimed it deliberately at the trembling man and fired. The gambler fell heavily upon the table, a corpse, and the bright blood streamed over it, hiding the fatal card from sight. "Gentlemen," said the stranger, ris ing to Lis feet, as we stood paralyzed with horror at the dreadful scene, " that man ruined my wife and tried to murder me. I Lave been hunting for him fo teii years. He walked slowly by us down the stairway to the lower deck. Just then the steamer touched at a landing and he sprung ashore and vanished in the dark woods.. I never learned the history of the mysterious affair, for the dead gambler was beyond human questioning, and I never saw the stranger again; but I shall not soon forget the impression it made upon me at the bine. HISTORICAL. Tteonian notes were the shorthand notes of lloman antiquity, said to have been introduced into Home by Tiro the freedman and favorite of Cicero. The notes consist of arbitrary signs, and are still common in marginal notes. The popular hymn tune " Merton," affixed to Dr. Doddridge's beautiful hymn, " Ye Golden Lamps of Heaven, Farewell," was composed in 1842 by Gen. Oliver, organist, of Salem, Mass., during the delivery of a seimon. The statue of George IV. on his horse at Trafalgar Bquare, London, was designed by Sir F. Chantrey. The statue of the Duke of Wellington in front of the Royal Exchange, though commenced by Sir Francis, was finished by Mr. Weekes." A cgcit is an ancient measure taken from the human arm, es measured from the elbow to the end of the middle finfrer. The lloman cubit is believed to have beeii seventeen and one-half inches, and the cubit of the Bible somewhat less than twenty-two inches. Tkb origin of " Dixie's Land ' is thus given r When slavery existed in New York, one "Dixy" owned a largo tract of land on Manhattan island and a large numVer of slaves. The increase of the slaves and the increase of the abolition sentiment, caused an emigration of the slaves to more thorough and secure slave sections; and the negroes who Were thus sent oil many being born there naturally looked back to their old homes, where they Lad lived in clover, with feelings of regret, as they could not imtigme any place like Dixy's. " Henee it became synonymous with an ideal locality, combining ease, comfort and material happiness of every description. In those days negro singing and minstrelsy were in their infancy, and any subject that could be wrought into a ballad was eagerly picked up. This was tiie case with "Dixie." It was first set to music and introduced 3 a song by Dan. Emmet t, a clever and pepulax negro comedian, author of several pleasing negro melodies. It was etmg in New York, and assumed the proportions cf a porg there. Its criin Las been d scrlh- 1 as f'T.tht rn, tut such 13 net the c. o. l:-.ri.: j any tl 3 1 l',.v"n thpl:.i e -hty years the t:rra " Dixie s L"i:i " Li.3 be. a ra u- vl'.h th 3 New York bcya r::,rri :;. II. ; :.t . rh.n vie Ill.T cir L '."a will e : . :s 3 a Ic ""' r.-' j t: r 1 1 ' v -1I-T-: :r: : 1 p" : 3 hi:h 1 , .Ll Lv 7 it Jt t. . 3 ; l 1 j , . 1 j x .vi . . I crit. . i v ' t ' ,i si- : r ; . . I ::. ::. -1 j; . ,v c ' t c ; i. c ; ; . 1 . r i' 1 ; m Zlzi - . a I - ; 1 - 1 1 1 . T

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BY r-EACHAM. Some men are fastidious in selecting wives. Others are not at all nice- in matters matrinloniaL But a breach-of-promise case in Arkansas, in genera!,1 is far too rare and serious to ' leave a loop-? hole for a laugh to come in. Mr. Johnson Topp moved from Ten nessee across the Mississippi into Arkansas. He was a man of means and a bachelor. He was not wholly averse to matrimony, but he had a fear of widows. Grass-widows especially were a terror 0 him. He had moved from East Tennes see to Middle Tennessee, from that section to Y"est Tennessee, and finally'over into Arkansas, to escape from -.real or fancied matrimonial danger arising from enterprising, perhaps oh arming, Tennessee widows. j This being Mr. J ohnson Topp's history, it surprised his friends that Le should appear as defendant in the case of Dublin versus Topp; suit for breach of promise. But the Circuit Court docket of Crittenden county disclosed the fact of the suit, and the affidavit of Mrs. Malinda Dublin set forth the particulars. , The plaintiff was put upon the stand tq tell how wickedly she had been led into false hopes by this middle-aged bachelor. , ' I " I live "at home with my old dad," she said, " and tSis feller kept comin round thar makin believe he wanted to trade mules. After he traded a time or two till that was played out, Le come wanting cotton seed. I knowed he only wanted an excuse to gel to see me, and I told Pop when he come again, to, bring him inland Bee whether he'd talk turkey or' not if he had a fair chance. And that was just what he wanted. You never see a man set up to a woman pearter than he did as soon as ever Pop introduced us, tellin' him, ' This is my darter, Malindy.' He was powerful shy at the oflset ; but let him git fairly started on mules or shoats, and he was dead sure to end with sparkin'. And it appeared like he coirldn't wait more'n a minit for a woman to say yes. I didn't fool with tlie man as lots do, but I said yes ; and about the next thing that happened he was tryin' to crawfish. That's about the whole story." But her lawyer did not think it was the whole story, and he was right there was more to be told. "Will you state to the jury how it happened that the defendant, Topp, went back on hia word after he had asked you to marry him?" " Well, as I said before, he was the most uneasy man until he got his answer, which was yes. The - Fourth of July, I allowed, would be soon enough for the wedding-day, but he knowed he couldn't wait till then it was impossible. I told him to call Pop in and talk it over. I went over to the kitchen togit up a square meal, and show the man I could do the tallest cookin' in Arkansaw, when I let myself out for it in dead earnest." "And what happened when your father and tho defendant, Topp, talked it over?" " Before I left 'em I told Pop the man was on the marry, and I reckined it was all right. Pop allowed they'd best have something to take. I set on tlie whisky j and sugar, and told them thar was cookin' to do; if they preferred mint in theirs they knowed jist where to git it. Yhen I came back I saw things was wrong. The first thing the man said, and he lookin sober'n a funeral, was: 'Camel Dublin, I allowed your gal, Malindy, was a single gal till this minit. Is she single, cr is tho ever been married afore V And Pop he told the truth, lookin him plumb in the eye: 'She's been married onct, but only "a little only a little. And I said: ' That's so; he's talkin' the Gospel facts only a little. The man lit out. then mighty suddent; and me and Pop thinks if thar's j law in Arkansaw Le'orter pay." The defendant urged that Le didn't want a wife who Lad been married ever e. lie t Le L.:d bc:nd c"ived. The jury fr.-'V it dLT.rently. A Lil.! 3 married didn't count in Art:.nFiw h? mr. I pay; and L 3 did pay. ..i v-;r $r7: :i or x"L3ZUXi A L.iKjihiuf vr.v hirg L; .j 1 :Jy :m itro lured in f use French tow 13 1 1? vciLjy ci c;: u ment..vd. Jis :y : " : - r j t grciJJy X2 .--' t. This i - pr3 1 . - 1 ) cf K p i t: durcl w."h a .1 J ' ..r o Ji s-.it cf p-7, which, Lv.1 e!" ".. V v 1, i- c c'.; d in . - 1 : C -1 c cf v.-..'. r, - 1 0 i j r " ' . e . j . cf t - '. d . lit. o 1 1 z ? cf kiLi'il " 1 1 r 1 .h a . ' :Li 1

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J.to the clothes a whiteness much superior to that obtained by any other method, and the destructive use: of the - washboard or of pounding is not necessary to clean the clothes, from the imparities which they contain. . , - i ; . . JBA.Cn ELORS ' ZlAKltlETi ATK.V. ; The bachelor is wanting ia one virtue, br at least one occasion of virtue. He returns home in the evening and finds at his fireside neither a wife to teach him kindness, nor a fair little head, just fresh froni'lieaven, to teach Lim candor. He has nobody about him to love or ftssiefe. .lie .knows' not the joy of tlevotedness; he cannot even- serve his apprenticeship to it. He lives alone, always alone, himself his only object. He scarcely fills on earth the place of Lis shoe-soles and he thinks he lives ! j Life knows him not let him gang hia gait. . ' Man, unprovided with a family, is only the beginning of man; to give him the finishing touch he must acquire the graces and the tenderness which are duly to be acquired from the hearts of a mother, a sister, a wife, a daughter. - , A.man.with a family, says Bacon, has given a pledge against himaelf - to fortune. The bachelor, on the contrary, is not attached to the soil by a single root. j Bacon, nevertheless, has made a mistake. He ought rather to have said : A raan with a family has taken a hostage' against destiny. What does it mat ter to' him if despotism deprive the citizen of a citizen's rights, and if Csssar, like the lion, reign in a desert ? He may drive the people. from,, public places, but he cannot drive ihe parent from his home. It is still possible, by one's" own fireside, to testify to one's self, and find hap piness there; as far, at least, as one has the right to be happy, while liberty wears widow's weeds in what was once a country, but is now a prison only. And every time the family man puts an "X" aside to save his family from want, he, at the same time, helps to raise his native land above servitude. Independence of position is a guarantee for the independence of character. Despotism must have a mendicant peo ple. When the people no longer hold out its hand, the despot ceases to reign. Dear bachelor reader- the statesman who desires the prosperity of his coun try will tell you to get a family. We are that statesman's mouthpiece. There is wisdom in our words, depend upon it! Chicago Ledger. TURKISH MANNERS. The " Turks are usually considered barbarous, and surely they are so in many respects in their brutal cruelty to their fellow-creatures ; in their utter absence of chivalry . during war, when their conduct is not a whit above that of the redskins of America ; in their treatment of women ; in their barter of slaves j in the dirt and tumble-down appearance of their towns and cities ; and, above all, in their corrupt and inefficient method ' of ' administration. But, on the other hand, they have cer tain civilized habits in which they are decidedly' above all "Europeans. The houses of the ordinary citizens are decidedly cleaner, and, in " some respects, enjoy a better organization. No Turk will enter a sitting-room wit dirty eiioes. J-.ne. upper classes wear tigntAtting, fine shoes, termed mests, and, over these, galoshes. On entering a house, the latter are . laid aside at the door, and so the visitor tread a on the carpet without bringing into the dwell ing-house a mass of impurity. The Tnrk never washes in dirty water, like a European. Water ia poured over Lis hands, so that, when polluted, it is . cast away, and not poured again over tha hands and face. Certain conveniences in a 'Turkish house are always decent and cleanly forming, in this respect, a marvelous contrast to those of most Eu ropean countries ; moreover, near every mosque are to be health and deceneyfoun 1 thes-3 aids i j -r'izr, in thiB reerect Q 1 it-W" J. c -- -' I"!f . Th-.ro 13, no clhcr way by v,Li:h fri"&lr-L:p may be eo completely era5 Led c.i cf ';nco n by cllc-. iclzzir.: ? ; Lrjrd words are no ccLipc"lor3 at a1!, for they are so o.'t n s it torily eiIaincd. It i.i hnjT--zlj f:.ii that "IS 2 b . v !;-," j -1 -? b,''J.-5th,; is C.I2 j. If we meet with an so-c-r ... 3 who i-r -' y clh "Jy, ' ::. 1 c'tz it a g ".:.-:.z L. rt- f L?, czl th. 'jt c :r. .1 '.. 1 1 : rp '.'li a eh' i.:f,il f "..'.' i 13 u"..r a 1 1. .nt 1 w-.!:. e d. r- 1 if wo r r-1 f th' I r . r, f .. i w

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IM1WAIJDS FOE EEPC3LIC.1S ' "Special Casa" Tho Lift of Participants la the Florid and Louisiana "Forger!Wbo Have K reived CJrrerratit "Appoint merits. 1 .. . From the Washington Pop!. . , Of course Mr. Hayes knew nothing of the' frauds that placed Lira in President Tiiden's seat, nor had he the least personal acquaintance with the individuals who perpetrated them, and yet sea Low many, of them Le lias, made "special cases " of : . ' , ...,:. Mr. Noyes, who divided amosg ' tlie Florida thieves, the was swag mad Minister to 1-ranee. Mr. Stoiigliton, who "conferred: with Anderson and oilier Louisiana culprits, was made" Minister to Russia.' Mr. Iiasson, who was one of the visiting statesmen, and helped steal the Florida vote, was made Minister to Austri 3t t ' .. - Mr. McLiu, who confesses that he helped steal the Florida vote, was made Chief -Justice of New Mexico. Mr. Dennis, who confesses to the frauds that made it possible for McLin to 'steal the Florida vote, was appointed, on the special request of Hayes, which was "written .with a blue pencil," a special treasury agent. Gov. Steams, who held the fort while Cowgill and McLin stole the Florida vote, was made one of the Hot Springs Commissioners. ' ' i Mr. CowgiU, who completed the theft of the Florida vote, wa3 made a United States Marshal. , Thus Noyes," Kasson, McLin, Dennis, Stearns , and Cowgill, through and by whom the four votes of Florida werestolen from President Tilden, have ail been- recognized by Mr. .Hayes as " special cases," and rewarded accord ingly. Wni. Pitt Kellogg, for helping steal the vote of Louisiana by bracing up the Returning Board and such Supervisors as Anderson, received a seat in the Senate, to which'Le'Tiad no title', through the single vote of Stanley Matthews, "the friend and representative of Mr. Hayes. S. B. Packard, who helped Kellogg steal the Louisiana vote, received the biggest Consulate in Europe.. ' Geo. L. Smith, who forged and falsified the returns of De Soto parish, was made Collector of New Orleans. . Jack Wharton, who assisted, was made Marshal of New Orleans. Madison Wells, who was one of the thieves whom Kellogg braced up, was given the. office of Surveyor of the Pot t. Tom Anderson, who was another Returning Board thief, was kept in office as Acting Colltctor even after his conviction of forgery and theft. This was a very special case - - Casanave, the third Returning Board thief, was made Naval Officer. Kenuer, the fourth and last R2 turning Board thief, perjurer and forger, was given a place in the Custom House under Principal Thief Anderson. Gen. John M. Harlan, who was one of the referees in the Feliciana Anderson case, was made Judge of the United States Supreme Court George" A. Sheridan, for helping to keep the Returning Board thieves still", was transplanted to Washington and made Recorder of Deeds. Dan Weber, who, at the request of John Sherman, stole the vote of West Feliciana, was promised in writing a Consulate, but was killed before he could be appointed. J. E. Anderson, for complying with John Sherman's request to the extent of signing a protest he knew to be false, and which was afterward forged to the extent liecessary to steal the parish of East Feliciana., "was personally and in writing recommended by Mr. Hayes for ' a Consulship in a warm place." A score of clerks supervisors, constables and others who- helped forge or cover up others' forgeries have all been provided for, but those we have enumerated were special cases." Still we have no doubt that Mr. Hayes was perfectly innocent, and that these appointments were all accidents. The Investigation. ' The Houkg of Representatives Lave been' persistent In seeking for the exact facts connecting the Republican party with the crime of robbing the'iasrjoritjr cf the legal voters of the United and to this end. have' all ths a -7; f p c? K fcV o. .vailftlde 0 stand; yet dathe result of which cannot . be termined, "but tlie following covers ail inquiries wliy this investigation should It ia frcm a lj-tt: v ' i tj-Ciy !'. : V iif-Ti a.-' 1 t: ,r :r Ll,j h Le 1. t i" c. . 'rov"r Ll li-.vi Le prosecuted at thia day. A TIC P d Cf ' t t I" AT LI f : . . t t a". ti ' ,t b I j . 1 1 .if . -. l ralEive e b 13 t A t . v rs 1 fa . ' T of - ". :'i 1 10-. . II t i c - . . .1 ... r air. nt 3 tl v.t L 1 fc r V d , 'It-lit at its L .h. -t -J t .;l.rt.oi l- f-ii i' d t J r x 8. " a t - ' 1.. 1 1 i a a . - - : tv f!9-2, 8. 1 . 1 le a r v. i 1 tO iT J cf a v 1 ( '.hTtl -i i f 'II u c , t i tr L c . : 1 m ! I

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Aran e uw 1 umen 1 ..n athr Le 1 1 ;-J r 1, 11 c five n L8fiv Li r oL i&,.ty v. 1 of murder r A ra'oe a( to cV l.ii t l'r T C Itt1 L-l Oiui''". ftU'l jiri.-t th' :r r- vi. Cti-e Mi.'5c-ttd an i'l itf tiO'i a ea-o cx a d-r"ttd ia C. d.L .. A w:'! u '7 ate btutcl, r."d fully eetat'i-hi'.!, tbo f.-.i:t U, it i1" i." -irc. 'v c It I s r od tLei Lore ts as i o hformv. A r n X I v j . eiutw.1. . - i . J I - J .is ho f ro t,' citl v w i - d by 1:. h duOt-'o the Etai-.te of loiuttiuin corn-la I. i trer:,Lt c f ci! ami t-at -o l '!y t.-. rv I f oi 1 f tne case were developed facta which left no doubt as to tho frauduSont wiH. Satlniig cotiM be dons for the iieiri, bat public (tentiment baoarae po t,iror;g against tho f axties who bad ben'efitocl by the fraud thai wttiie they enjoyed lb ill-got tea richer they were execrated and detected, and lived lives of exile. " Ha he thangikt it wo aid be ia the investigation of the electoral frauds. By pnbruittiiir to tlie wrongfnl decision of the Electoral Commission the Democrat had mtuifefted a regard for the constitution, and had saved tne country a revelation. jSow that tho question of tit'e is disposed of it remains to prove the fraud aud stamp tha crime indelibly whero it belongs, thus making it a terrible example and preventing its repetition in ths f utare. . JOHN SIlEIl.tlAN. JIfa RJlicu!ous Proposal to be Allowed to Farade Hia Outrage Witnesses Periled. ' A draft of the scalled Sherman letter has been prepared by Mr.' Morrison, of the Potter committee, in answer to Secretary-Sherman, requesting to Lava subpoeraed from Louisiana. 100 r-wit nesses, who are espected to give material testimony touching the freedom of tha election and the murder and intimidation of voters in all of East and in parts of West Feliciana parishes. Mr. Morrison says, in the course of his reply : 1 The records cf Congress to which yon refer, and the other records of Congress with which you are doubtless famihar, authorize the statement that for the t'?ntimony of wild witneei, as numerourt, as intelligent and wtuwe testimony is at least as well entitled to belief, it is needless to add that tnhould these 100 witneea again repeat their former testimony 500 other witnesses, at least as credibio a they, will be ready again to contradict tbera. Mr. Morrison says: Seven committees or wib-Cf-iMnitlLes c f (' r -gress have inventigated this rj f-tion of 1 i.ri' dation in Louitiiaua, and havo L jard the t -.i-mony of twenty times one h.'n Ir. d wit: ' -- ', but no committee "has tvtr i-greod ato tho fact of tho existence of ncch fin timid ation. You and your political as sociates of the vi-ituig committee witnessed certain proceedings of the ltdnrmi"; Board which were based on alleged intimidation, and by which proceeding mi! V.i turnrj Board reversed the decision of the t o; .a made by their ballots actual' v cat, an-1 tut-i yotiwith all yonr associates ti:iie baste to bt 'ir witness to the juhtice of its cor.elanoi h. 1 " a gentlemen, niont of whom until rtcently yorr political associates, with whom you rtl'i--.d to join in an effort to secure a fair cour. b t who were permitted to witne-J 1 r: n'cn', y til of the proceedings of the i:.inn L'arJ witnessed by yon, were as pio-)-.t to ai1 -lare its proceedings partial and ur.fa r, : ! in ct--clusions entitled to no xej 't wi.'t-ver. Ia view of this disagreement an 1 uncertainty to the' actual fact this committee wjl not "feel itself jusHiied in condemn;ng or scon- ai y election eftieerwho had in good fa th U".i r the laws of Louisiana done anv r.-'i .- 1 -i the intimidation by such o.ta- Lt- I to exist, even thocj'h tij r.r.,r 'J. ? , may believe nuch act did wrorf fj'y a: 1 unlawfully ahaul nd reverse the ke h v ex j - I will of the people of that Sia'e, en J c f t'l V - Siittes.' Ntither will thiscomn.iilee, i-j mw of all the facta, enter again n?cn a tv j- ,i to' the existence or nn-cxiU r. e 1 1 . . tion in any of said parishes to 1 e f,.'- r- ii3 excQe of the falsa and frand'ilci t c ' va-. n 1 . return of the votes hv the Sta. cutmfv. Pi. 1 01 precinct officers, or m excuse of who may have in any way co.;' rJ results of such fah.e and frtn 'u and retnrn of votes. Before toe tiicf the a tsa'.t-'d toftr an 1 yi.urp' ' t ul a-i-toi ?U net hi ! 6rv I s.rf t. -!.t C . J. X n r T lb ir. ri..:n-.-r yjr.r t. 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