Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1873 — The Louisiana Massacre. [ARTICLE]

The Louisiana Massacre.

Tire political conflict in Louisiana has culminated in a bloody riot at Colfax, Grant County, in which a hundred colored men have been killed. The riot seems+d have been a massacre, although the report. (obviously colored by the Sympathies of its author) attempts t<T prove that the colored men offered resistance, if they wcrc not tlm.aggressors. The losses, however, are so unequally distributed that the affair was probably as deliberately planned -and cruelly executed a murder as that of General Can by and the Peace Commissioners. The chief difference is that it was oil a wholesale scale. The poor negroes were imprisoned in the court-house, that building was sot on fire, and as the victims rushed out to escape the flames they were shot down by scores. We question if the Modoes themselves could equal this atrocity. Without stopping to inquire as to the immediate cause of the massacre, the responsibility for it must be laid at the door of the party in Louisiana styling itself the “Fusion,” headed on the one side by such exemplars.of political morality as Warmouth and MeEiiervi and on the other by severely respectable gentlemen of the type of Judge Campbell. Whatever wrongs men of the latter class have suffered at the hands of Kellogg and the Republicans they have been guilty of rebellion from the moment they resisted the mandates of the courts Of the State. They ought to have submitted months ago, but tliey counseled resistance to the Kellogg government, and advised the people not to pay their taxes as.a means of breaking it down. Doubtless these gentlemen expected precisely what, has happened. They knew the ignorant and the violent nature of the lower classes of the whites of the State, and in their recent, address said: "We recommend that the colored population of this State be protected, ..-en-.. couraged, assisted, and that what is needed iunUieir improvement, guidance,and progress lie assured; and that this be a standing principle of act and counsel.”' Despite this sentence, the address, like tlie conduct of the “Citizens’Committee’’which issued it, was incendiary, and we arc not at all surprised tit the result. The National Government will of course interfere at this juncture. With the pro, sent state of feeling in Louisiana, the scenes at Colfax on Sunday may lie repeated in every town in the State. As our readers will remember, we have never entertained a very high respect for the Kellogg faction, but the time lias come to support it, and with -all the power of the nation. The passions that inspired that hellish agency of murder and persecution, the Ku-klux, are still alive.— Forney's Weekly Press.

Ladies traveling through Canada by rail are often greatly annoyed by having, their luggage unnecessarily searched; but one of the officials recently got his deserts. "It happened that a Yankee school teacher on her way from Kansas to Vermont passed through the Dominion, with a trunk packed to bursting with nothing contraband. When the officer demanded her key she begged him--not to open it, assuring him that it came through from Kansas, contained simply clothes and books, and was so full that it would be very troublesome to repack it. But he sternly demanded the key, and maliciously pulled everything out to- the very bottom; then—finding her assertions true — he returned the key and advised her to “hurry up and get the traps back,” as the train would soon move. “What is that to me,” said the quick-witted woman, "I have a check for that trunk, and hold the Grand Trunk Kailway responsible for its safe delivery. I will not take the key, and you may do as you please with the trunk.” Report says that official was very weary and red in the face, and rather profane ere he finished packing that trunk. An old colored lady of one hundred summers, with H bandkerchicf of cmuvy colors encircling her wrinkled brow, walked forty miles to town to get her dead husband’s bounty money, and, upon presentation of the “dockyments” to the disbursing officer, they were found to be that dead hero’s registration papers. "Dar now! what’s I gwine to do?” was the only ejaculation uttered by the old woman, who turned and left the office, to make room for some luckier individual.— Xatchn Damcrat. ■ .. iT~ .4 . m GenkkAL MfeyEß,.Chief pf the Signal Service TyepiiffiTien t, has. secured the services of Professor'Tjhdall to superintend the devicegnd construction of the electrical instruments to, lie-- used at tj>e signal stations of the army for making regular simultaneous observations of the electrical conditions of the atmosphere. Texas bees rnakf.. the best honey pro.4uced in this country. • ■ • .