The New York Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1874.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. CIVIL WAR. The Condition of Louisiana Before | the Defeat of Kellogg. Preparations of the ‘‘Leaguers” to Secure Justice. THE WHITE CAMELIAS., History ot the Conshatta Troubles. Seizures of Arms and Threats of | Federal Prosecution. OPINIONS ON THE COUP D'ETAT. ———_+-—_—— Leading Southern Men Interviewed by | Herald Reporters. esata r ee aS | THE CITY BEFORE THE OUTBREAK. | a | | NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept, 11, 1874, The social and political condition of Louistana is | worse than that of any other Southern State. In Kentucky there is mere lawlessness, with some | bloodshed. In Tennessee there is an effort to keep the negroes from the exercise of political power. In Mississippi there is discontent with negro rule. But in Louisiana there are all ol these things and the State is ina condition of chronic anarchy, dis- afection and despair. There is, besides, no reason to hope for anything better. The young men are resolved upon ruin, thinking armed interterence with an authority which they regard as a usarpa- tion as the only remedy that is leit. The old men— that respectable part of the community which ts | always conservative—are helpless, either as | against the official thieves, who are beggaring | the State, or the even more dangerous element which is trying vo plunge the people into civil war, Look where you wiil there are oniy utter hopeiess- | ness and despair. The parishes are overburdened | with taxes, and instead of allowing the negroes to | work undisturbed in the fleids a White Man’s League is formed at the very moment when they are disposed to forsake politica, and the jeadera are thus easily enabied to force them back into the ranks. “Ihe white men have formed a party to | Keep you from voting or to kill you,” say these Men, and the negro is easily persuaded to assert rights which all men agree are guaranteed to him. So passions are excited and labor is neglected, New Orieans, which ten years of peace shouid have made not only the commercial metropolis of tne | South, but tne rival of New York, is a great | idie thing, sleeping lazily ou the banks of the Mississippi without trade and without the hope of trade, while politically it is in fact only A CITY WITHOUT A COUNTRY. Words cannot adequately describe the condition ofa peopie who Lave nothing to do or do nothing but drink juleps and talk politics, Everybody ts very polite aud kind, and people answer questions | readily, 80 readily, indeed, that a New York friend | expressed some surprise at it. “They seem to have nothing else to do,” L answered, reflectively. | This, however, was before 1 understood the real | occupation of the people of New Orieans. In tne evening every street corner has its knot of | poliicians, talking of impending strife and swear- | ing vengeance upon somebody, The barrooms, which are magniticent and abundant, are nigntly filled with crowds, eagerly discussing the sit | tation over their drinks. These places, with | their splendid whiie columns and long array of black botties, their marble counters and cut glass and brilliant mirrors are the only evidences of | prosperity. The merchant is without customers | and the customers witout money. The levee 13 as dull as if there never had been any trade and never would be any. There is no shipping and no hope of any. This is the dull season, but there is | no real prospect that it will ever end. Commer- Ciai activity is impossibie, because political dis- sension has destroyed all faith in the future, Dis- trust reigns everywhere. Disgustis found to be the twin brother of distrust. We have here a large city filled with ugly smells and an idle, dan- gerous population, New Orleans is no longer the | capital of gayety and fashion. Even the Mardi Gras is a mockery, The old men are helpless, crying, “What can we do?” The | seem inevitable, | them, | purpose, j the | pu pose of | that the negroes were brought together. young men are violent, rude and uneducated. Everybody feels that tuis is the era of disaster and | despair. The city 18 isolating itself from all the | World and from the syinpathies of all the worid by | the exhibition of uvexampled stupidity, in threats of unparalieled cruelty, Unless tne people of New Orleans are merely seeking to destroy thé com- mercial prospects of their city by talk, as idle as it | is wicked, their purposes are those of massacre and bioodsied, in which the unarmed and the de- | fenceless will suffer more than the guilty partisans | who are trying to precipitate a condict, ‘The al- | leged cause of all this exasperation 13 | THE CORRUPTIONS OF THE KELLOGG GOVERNMENT, | For State, parish or municipal government in Louisiana very littie can be said. Kellogg would hargly be accepted anywhere as a model Governor. He is not a statesman, His integrity nas been questioned too o'ten and with too much reason. But it is easy to go too far even In just condemna- | tion, If he is not Jess unscrupulous than War- | | moth he lacks Warmoth’s boidness and courage. It is universally admitted that his administration is as honest a8 McEnery's possibly could have | been, and ne has tie advantage over McEnery | in sense and experience. Besides it must be admitted that no man could be Gov- | ernor 0. Louisiana for even so long | as a fortnight and come out of it with a sured of Teputation left to nim. Every official act is dis- | | | torted, while many of Kellogg's are bad enough in their nakedness. In some instances when tue out. | cry was most Violent, he was clearly right, but he is not often right, His is no easy pla To deal impartially between the men who e his | friends and the men who proclaim themselves his enemies, the latter claiming more \avors than if they had elected him, 1s next to impossible. To go in and out among a raoble which would howi down the wind if there was nothing else to denounce—to live in fear of death by assassination, whicn 1s constantly threatened by desperate men; to see signs of in- surrection and civil war looming up on every hand and yet take no measures for seif-preserva- tion and the preservation of the great body of the people would be criminal, Governor Kellogg feels | 8v acutely the personal dangers of his position that it is aatd he often aismisses his carriage and | Walks home behiud it, Yet there is not @Gover- | nor of any State anywhere who is more approach- | able, The doors to the executive chamoers fly | Open readily to friend or foe. Even that terrible Custom House, with its stories of Gat- ling guns and armed revenue cutters, is not utterly inaccessible. Collector Casey, | everybody knows, “1s not @ smarter man than | Henry Clay. Marshal Packard is a mild looking | man, of good bouily proportions, who seems to | take life kindly and whom one would not suspect of being particularly wariike or bloodthirsty. Hewig, Casey’s deputy, who is the brains of the Whole concern, State and national, is a man of Dusiness; acute, prompt, decisive, with a taste for @ good elgar and the disposition to commend good Sherry, though he looks as if he seldom tasted it, Postmaster Ringgvid is as bright and smiling as a morning in June, The personnel of “the ring’ is agreeable enough, and it is nut impossible that uf the peopie of New Orleans and Louisiana accorded | | at | aa | individual.y and collectively. | hurl | two, aud these our to choose another. | ostracism of herself and her children, to their oMce-holders the same kind of treatment publte ofiictals receive elsewhere they would find themselves profited in return, Even the corruptions im State and parish affairs, which might be lesseneil, at least if there were ies8 captiousness and unnecessary dis- satisiaction On the part of the people. KELLOGG ON HIS APPOINTMENTS, Many of Kellogg’s appointments have been very severely criticised, and most of them have de- served the severest things that were said about I was particularly anxious to know what the Governor would have {to say respecting them, and to my he introduced the subject himself, “It is true,’ be said, “my appointments were not always good; but the material at my command is often bad, 1 have always sought to make the best selec- tions possiole under the circumstances, But even when they are the best, with the material very good, they fail to give satisfaction. I have ap- pointed old planters, against whom nothing could be urged, to parish office: opposition as if the selec\lons had been bad. young men wanted the offices themseives, and bey never Will be satisfied till they get them.” This is the trouble ali over the South, Everybody wants office. Indeed, unless everybody can get office the whites who refuse to work will not have an equal chance with the industrious blacks. It is a deplorable state of affairs and seems destined to become worse, whether the whites get the offices or not. Politics is the only topic of conversation. Bloodletting and unworthy combinations like the “White League” are the only panaceas for po/iti- cal evils, Ofice-holdiug is the only reward of patriotism, ‘The Kellogg adminisiration 18 far irom being a good government, but to such a peo- pie no government can be acceptable. The de- Nunciation of every measure is equally unstinted, The eniorcement of the Registration law Is a case in point. In some places Kelloge’s appointments are good, in others bad. On the whole they are nearly as good ag they can be expected to be; but however fair the election un- der it may be the white people have not waited to test it, but are conducting their canvass under semi-military tactics. Kellogg claims that the law and bis administration of it are fatr in every way. “The Registration law of this State,’? he said to me, ‘i8 as lairas in any State in the Union.’ He declared that ms appointments under it were as good as he could make. To this he added that he had a billin his possession, how- ever, which gave bim nearly as much power as War- mouth bad, “I have not signed this bill,’ he said, “and | will not sign it.” Ihe Governor must either be disposed todo right in this emergency or he has great confidence in the result o! the election, otherwise he would not put aside so potent a Weapon, Wicked as tt Is. This is the bill, 1 will be remembered, which raised such a lively breeze in the Senate last winter when the Louisiaua case Was under discussion. If Kellogg thinks It useless now, as he evidently does, it is because the White League organization has aroused the negroes and solidified the republican party. In Louisiana, uniortunately, it is no longer a question of Kellogg but a question of race and party. THE COUSHATTA AFFAIRS, It is in this aspect that the Consnatta affair, so terrible in every aspect. is most disastrous, The immediate cause of this outrage is claimed to be the discovery of a plot to massacre a white Gancing party at Coushatta. The thing looks un- reasonuble, but it may be true, Whether this part o( the story is true or false 1: Is certain that the affair never wolad have occurred but for the operdtions of the White League. This or- ganization had been compeliing ofiicia’s to resign in duferent parishes of Northern Louisiana, Of the men who were subsequently murdered Homer J. ‘Twitcheil was the Tax Assessor and Coi- lector of Red River parish and F, 8, Edgerton was the Sherif These are the men who are said to have mstigated the plot to kill the dancing party. Some of the negroes nave since testified that they were assembled under Twitchell's house for this Subsequently they were ordered into a field near by, and while waiting there a negro snot aud killed a Mr. Dixon, wno chanced to pass that way. Tne act was extremely vicious, and murder entirely unprovoked. But tor this crime there would have been no troubie. It 18 tkely the party of negroes was assembled at Twitchell’s out of fear that the party at Coushatta was oniy a cloak for getting a sul- ficient number of white men together to compel ‘Twitchell’s and Edgerton’s resignations, This is Wiat was told to the negroes, aud it was for the resisting this high-handed measnrs The parposes or the white men were not developed because of the indiscretion of the negro wno shot Dixon, Having originally intended to compel them to resign on general charges of official Venality, the White Leaguers then chanved their minds and preiendec to exile them from the State as the leaders of a band o1 armed outlaws. They had resigned their offices and promised to go away, when their guard was overpowered by & party of “Yexas desperadoes,”” and they and their tellow prisoners were ali mur- Gered tn cold blood. There was no excuse for tne crime Whatever, andthe pretence that the mur- derers Were Texans only adds to the detestation with which the crime must be regarded, I have no agoubc the murderers were {rom Shreveport, whic 13 just far enough away from Conshatta to conceal the movements and identity of the of- jenders. Tnisis what Governor Kellogg charges in his proclamation, and the people of Shreveport Genounce the charge with extreme indignation. Yet it 18 certain that a party of armed and mounted men left that place betore the massacre and returned after it, the iutervening time being just suficient to aliow the perpetration of the crime, My ipiormation on thi+ point is certain, but ii T gave the source of it my frankness might result iu getting somebody shot. The deed is one that meets with general execration everywhere. To the ole Southern chivaliy it is more hatetul tnan it can povsibly be to the Northern radical. Taking tue prisoners trom a guard and murdering | them in the face of an accepted promise 1s re- garded by them as tie lowest depth of dishonor. ‘The horror with woich the thing is regardea may well make the people of Shreveport and Coushatta anxious to evade the responsibility of a crime Which is a shock and a disgrace to humanity. WHY SUCH CRIMES ARE POSSIBLE. It is only in an exceptional condition of society that such crimes are possible. Loaisiana bas had nine years of bad government. Negro rule has been most disastrous, Oficial plundering has been continuous, unexampled and irremediabie, So complete is the ruin that las been wroagnt that iuliy one-' future, except by out- negroes and the corrupt whites. This done except by tue aid oF the good It cannot be done at all because the men who rule democratic — politics State are too udsuile to the make it possible. Besides, if be done, it woull be only one class of ignorant ruiers tor The young men of the Sourh are padly educated. In Louisiana they are worse off thau anywhere else. New Orleans is less jortunate tian the resto! Louisiana, Everything excep: reading and writing are among the lost arts, and even in these many aspiring Soutnern 3. The war did not put the Marks of intel- ligence and virtue upon its generation. IJns:ead oi making them wise and brave it has made them assassins aud executioners, They are no more voung th cannot darkies. young In this negro to could exchanging another. honest than tne negroes they hate so heartily, and even more’ neecuy, | if they cannot get office they must starve it 18 @ case of desperation to them Tt is desperation for everybody, [rom the misrule of tne negro and the ha‘e ana disquietade of the whites. There is no acceptance oi resuits, Kellogg 1s a usurper. War- moth, wien he was in power, was regarded in the same light. Novody could nope to be anything else, Instead Of seeing thatit be would be better Wo recognize any government than to live in a Stale of constant alarm and anarchy, each one of them secms to feel that he was born to usurpers from power. It 13 scarcely worth wuile, at this late day, to inquire whether Kellogg was elected or not. He said to me yesterday, ‘I! the Mcknery party wil bring the election returns into the State, and allow them to be counted by a lair committee, 1 will agree to resign li the committee decides | Was not elected, I have made them such a proposition, | to hamne two members of the committee, Mcknery dam anx- lous for a candi canvass of the vote, becanse I know that [ was elected.” If tnis propost- tion ever was made it seems that tt ongit to have been accepted. i it never was made Governor Kellogg protesses to make it now, These frauds tn elections, thia constant fretting over tue legality of the ceruficates vy which men hoid ofice, these usurpations or charges of usurpation, which are much the same hing; these titter resentments between parti- Sanson both sides, the c mplete adsence of the Moral sense in the men who make pviitics a trade and the combinations into secret political societies @ semi-militar racter are What disorganize ply.and encourage crime tn the name ol honesty and fdeily and virtue and truth and justice. THE WHITE LEAGUE. The agency througn which the Consnatta ont- Tage Was commi(ted was the White League, It is a secretiy ured organizauion, composed only of white men, who bh jeagued themseives together against the biacks. Race is the avowed basis its political action. It is not intended s0 much to secure yood yoverament as to obtain controi of ihe Sta In a word, it is @ device 0 hungry and unserupus Jous poltucians Who would begin & war of races to obtain office. The democratic purty is responsible for it, for the Convention Wuich recentiy assem- bled at Batom Rouge gave it sanction ana author- ity. Astrong efort is being made, not ony to in- duce, but to compel all white men to beiong to it, When political arguments fail social ostracism is invoked to convince, A wealthy planter toid me ofone of his neighbors, a man o1 high standing, who wis busy With bis crops, and, conseauentiy, had not tound time to join the league. His wi on visiting her neighbors, was so coidly received on this account that she declined to spend the day or with one of ber must intimate friends, but re- tarned ome to send her husband to join the white man’s party. Aud the good lady assured i husoand ‘hat separation would he the penaity of disobedience, 98 she was determined that he should not enjoy politicai Opiuions of his own at the cost of the social He jolued, A white leamue controled by suc poweriul tu , Dat there was as much | The | jalt the State is to ve sold for taxes, | | There 18 no hope sor tne youths are not | gratification | telitgence, chinery as this would be bad enough U aimed only at destroying tie political power of the negro. But it is aimed also at his industry, bis occupa. tion, his bread and shelter for himself, his wile and his children, It 18 @ political maxim with the White League that every negro ought to starve who will not vote the white man’s ticket, The while leaguers, many of whom are planters with large rice and sugar plantations, have agreed among themselves to employ only democratic ne- groes, There are pone such. This 1s the | Plan of Dr, Taylor, of St. Landry perisn, a very worthy gentleman in all things save this singularly mistaken and inhuman policy. Already it is being put into practice, not only in the agriculturat districts, but even in this ci'y, A merchant here, a gentieman of integrity and tn- @ democrat, but a man of personal in- dependence, told me this morning that some of the White League leaders asked tim to discharge his colored porter because the negro ts a radical. Be- ing & man of more than common courage tie re- lused. It will be seen from ail this how dangerous is this organization. It threatens with impendin: ruin black and white alike, Ouly a community 0! madmen would think of inaugurating such a reign Of injustice and cruelty and blood, tion and State bankruptcy is to be added an armed politicat organization for the correction of | If the negroes | evils which seem to be incurable. are armed also, as 18 alleged, it is all the worse lor everybody. THE OSTRAOI8M OF GENERAL LONGSTREET. AS an illustration of what soctal osiracism in To bad gov- | e-nment and a vicious police and oppressive taxa- | this State, and especially in this city, 1f it comes at all, wtil come with great strengta, It is promoted mosuy vy the young meu—those radical fellows | wno Dave nothing to lose anc everyting to gain | by ao outbreak. Every eveniog they are tn the | drinking places and on the street corners talking | politics, They are loud in their predictioas of the | coming strife, They are loud in their threats also. | Ten thousand of them can be gathered around | the Ciay statue, in Canal street, in an | hour, They are brave, and will fight as well as talk. ‘Ihe Metropolitan Police are a mere handsul | in Comparison with them. ‘The negro wulttia would not stand before them an Instant. Long- | street's courage and genius are the only things they fear, Against him most of their threats are made. It is a common thing to hear men threaten | | to kil Longstreet. Tn case of a conflict many @ | young jeliow has declared that the great soldier 1s tO be iis favorite mark, Kellogg, however, 1s | | the person against whom every eifort is to be directed. He is the usurper. He represents | the power of the republican party. He | dispenses the patronace which they want and cannot get. He 1s the embodiment o/ all their | hates and all their fears, and his destruction would be the enthronement of all their hopes and all their desires, If it 18 possible he is to be over- | thrown. The probabie action of the general govern- Ment is not considered by the people who have this matier in hand, These never calculate chances, but simply act upon their impulses. ‘They are always likety to do foolish things, and an accident may call them to arms and place them tn defiance to the general government. In any New Orleans and Louisiaua for aitierences of | event nothing can come trom it except bdlood- political opinion means, no better case can be found than that of General Longstreet, At the close of the war he was idolized in this city, No one approached him im popular esteem. His milltary record was grander than Stonewall Jack- son’s, it vied with Lee's, it rivalled Shermaa’s and Grant's, He lived as im a fairy land of fancy ard | delight, Within twenty-four hours the dream jaded away. From being the idoi of the populace | he was tie compietest object ol thetr vetesiation. He had written a political letter tae sentiments of which New Orleaus and Louisiana disapproved, and consequently he bad become a traitor aud & knave. Ninety-seven out of every hundred of hs acquaintances refused to speak to him, He was driven from society in a single day. For seven long years this ostracism has continued, Longstreet bas endured it with that heroism which accepts fate culmly, The only sign he has shown o! the | acuteness of his wounds 18 in @ disposition 10 avoid everybody. The other day I heard the sub- ject long and earnestly discussed on the piazza of the St. Charles Hotel. Jack Wharton usserted that Longstreet’s case was only an example of the social and political ostracism whichobtains in this city. Mr. EMfngnam Lawrence. a wealthy planter of the Plaquemines parish, confirmed it, General ‘Thomas A, Harris, a distinguished soldier of tie Confederacy, deciared that im Longstreet’s case it was terrible and complete, without precedent and without justification, The same spirit rules to-day in politics and tn society. It has double purpose—to compel the whites to combine against the blacks and against tue Kel- logg usurpation and to provoke civil war, both sides are ready Jor a conflict, All sorts of devices are employed to oring it about, first by one side, then by the other. Only a tortpight ago one of Keiloga’s parasites named Newton openly mur- dered an inoffensive citizen in the sireet, Ihe crime was unprovoked and Newton had never seen his victim before he attacked him, The only possible purpose o: the murder was to create a not and bring about a conflict between the police and the people, The metropolitan police are the ready tools 0: Just such iniamous scoundrels, Thus it 18 terrorism on the one hand and ostracism on the other, both tending to the destruction of the peo- ple, the city and tueState. The negroes, it 1s said, are armed. The whites are secretly arming. A conflict may be imminent at auy time, the time being merely @ matter of occasion aud circum- stance, THE ARMS CASE, The seizure of arms in the store of Mr. Artiar Olivicr by the State authorities yesterday was a case likely to produce bloodsaed, Without at ail justifying the action of the police, it muy be re- | marked that the conduct of Mr. Olivier is iude- fenstole, The moral grade of his action is on an equality with the offence of selling iiquor to Indians. He is @ private speculator in weapons of War—a man who secs a cnance of profit in supply- ing second ; and muskets to an excited populavion, The arms seized were some of the discarded weapons of tue Prussian service, which Giivier bought and brought here on the chance or there being @ market for them. He is a sel.-constituted axzent jor arming the Weite League, and he cares littie who eise 1s ruined if he is able to maxe money. He is nots southern man, lie is not even a citizen of the United States, aud in ms nelaricus work of arming one race ugutnst another ne claims the protecuion of the British government. In itself, his importation of arms was a Inenace agains: the de facto goverument which exists here. It was a joolish thiug to seize them, | because their seizure might have produced no ead ol troubie, Three cases 0! aims were seized, how- ever, and carried to the Central station by the po- lice. All danger seems to have been averted jor this time, but the people of New Orleans are living in the mouth of & voicano, Noboay can teil when | the seething furnace beneath the suriace may break forth. Many persons believe there will ve no outbreak. Many others declare that civil strije is impending, and that there will be fighting in the stree's 0: New Urleans. My own conviction is that as ruggle 18 sure to ensue sooner or later, and Wien it comes it will be a severe and bioody one. Another arms case wouid probably precipi- tate it, and the result would be barricades aud | street fguts between the poiice and the people. THB ENORMITIES OF STATE AND CITY TAXALION. Next to military societies for political purposes the danger to Louisiana and New Urieans is in the enormities Of State and city taxation. Lvery- thing 18 assessed, and the assessments are upon valuaticns far above what the property woula bring. In the aggregate men are taxed at the | rate of five per cent for all they are worth and all they have borrowed. Much of this tax is not paid, because Many people have nothing to pay with, In consequence their property is soid at nominal prices and they are begzared. AS Lo selling real estate now at anything like what it is worta that is Out of the question, Whue negro rute and white leagues aud anarchy last there is | no security for property of auy kind. | Keal estate has been shrinking in value | ever since the war. Splendid residences in this city cannot be sold and are hired jor a song. Many houses are empty. There is no working | class, or idie Class either for that matter, to siare the burdens Oj tuxation with proper'y owuers and business men. And worst of all, tiis public rob- bery 18 only the foundation of public theit. Much | ol the Money goes tuto the lands of the “Ring,” some directly, Some indirectly, A tux collector in a single district or a single ‘parish viten receives as much as $100,000 per annum. The iees of the assessors ure equally enormous, and as they are a percentage upon the amou of property assessed, the ussessor has au incentive to make | overvaluations, Suertls are paid in the sume pro- portion, The men who hold the offices do not ulways get the lees, ‘These are divided amoug the “King,” and it is said that Clark, the gambler, Who | | Shed and discord and deferred hopes for the | return of puvlic confidence and the revival of business prosperity. A CRY FOR ARBITRARY POWER, There {8 another class, however, which would Not object to see Kellogg overthrown by these flery young men,in the hope that some gocd might come out of it, These are the very men who have most to lose by any disturbance of the jeuce—the property owners, the merchants, the usiness men, With them bope deferred has made the heart sick, until at Jast they are uttering their cry of despair—a cry for arbitrary power, What they want is a govern- ment that will not plunder them, that will treat them justly and impartially—above all that can command and compel respect. “Send us a major general,” said &@ prominent business man to me this morning, ‘with safilcient power to give us an honest and stab'e government.” “Ifwe had five years of military rule,” said another, “business would be abie to recover from the depress- ing influences of the last five, and our people, both white and biick, would have time to learn the daties of citizenship.” The business men all jee] that they must have freedom irom political discussion and Gi-cord, ‘To obtain this they are willing to forego the privilezes of citizensnip, such as voting and hoiding office. [t 18 a strange cry, out one that ts exceeutngly natural from @ people oppressed as this people has been and divided vy 80 many diverse elements. THE FIRST SEIZURE OF ARMS. The first seizure of arms from the citizens of New Orleans toox place on the atternoon of the 8th inst. On that occasion a lot of rifles were seized during their transportation along Canal street, on a writ issued by Judge McArthur, di- recied against no one so far as the document itself bore evidence and based on certain ‘information received.” The owners of the arms, to whom they were at the time Oo! seizure in course of delivery, at once appealed to the authorities for tue re- covery of their property and obtained writs of sequestration from the First Justice and Sixth District courts, Both of these writs were disre- arded by the police. The authorities, acting on ‘ne inlormation contained in the writs, straightway obtained an injunction trom Judge Hawkins ar- resting all further measures on the pari o1 the ovners of (he seized arms, and concluded b; swearing Out an amidavit against Messrs. Guyol Fremaux, charging them with conspiracy. The Second Seizure of Arms, which really precipitated the troubles, occurred onthe 10tb, Pedestrians and business men who Were on Canal street, between Camp and Maga- zine streeta, noticed, avout twelve o'clock co that day, a considerable number of men, evidentiv not loafers, who had assembled at diferent points in that locality. Some of these men were recognized as Metropolitan police in citizens’ clothes by those who chanced to know their faces, and others that were there happened to be widely known as ac- tive members of the detective corps, It was ior a while currently reported that they were suspiciously watching a well known hara- ware store on that part of Canal street, About three o’clock an active demonstration took place. At that time several of the detectives entered Olivier’s gun store and presented him with a search warrant and a writ of arrest. No resistance to these proceedings was made on the part of the proprietor of the store. The boxes o: Prussian rifles were not concealed, but, on the contrary, were in as conspicuous @ position as any of the arucles in the place. THE CAPTURE. The detectives immedia‘ely took possession of the boxes, which were properly marked as to their contents and the name of the consignees. These were taken down stairs, placed upon a venicle, and, without any hindrance on the part of tue by- standers, were driven around to police headquar- ters, wiere they fouud a berth beside those which were captured two dass previous, In @ short Space Oi Ume between iorty and fity Metropolitan Police had asseibied in close proximity to the gun siore in question, apparently to sustain the Action Of the detectives in effecting their search warrant and writ of arrest, by jorce if necessary. Tais writ of arrest aud Warrant was issued at noon of that day by Police Judge Muller, of the Fourth Municipal Police court. The place wiere it | Was issued and delivered was at police head- quarters on Carondelet street. It is covered by the same case under whica the seizure of the first lot was accomplished, the affidavit being made by med, Will one or two in addition to their former number. MR. OLIVIER ARRESTED. When the writ of arrest wus served on Mr. Oliv.er he made no resistance, but surrendered himself, and Was taken up to the Sixih Precinct station, On Rousseau street. The affidavit sworn toand the charge made against Mr, Olivier ure subdstantiaily the same as tiose of Messrs. Guyol aod Fremaux, and ‘nis gentieman will probab! be a deiendant in the same trial. The Metropoi- is Keogg’s familar, comes in lora very ioeral Share, Ciark, on the otier hand, “puts up? ior | the rest. These men are gnawing’ the very vitals | of the State. It often occurs tiat they lose at | cards when they have been pid . and then Chere is no rey iou and DO puns | ut. General Benton used to do this with | the receipis 01 the Internal Revenue Department, | and lis example was too goud one tu be lost | upon the State offi Even when the money gets into the treasury it is fraudu- jently extracted by somedvdy or heediessiy | and rechicssiy spent by a negro Legisiature. In ali this there 13 reason if not justiication for a white league, ‘These are the causes which prompted the formation of this organization 80 Tar as the worthy part of the community is con- cerned and galvanized the etlorts of the young political adventurers of the democratic: party tor'a race issue With a certain kind of respectability, In the end, however, it is likely to become & greater evil than any oj the Wrongs it undertakes to repress. THE POLITICAL ADVENTURERS, None of the Southern States has nad such mar- vellous political adventurers as Louisiana. First | ot tuese was Warmoti, acute, able, uuscrupu- | lous. He 18 gone, for a time at least, anu J should | not like vo say ‘anything which might bring hun | vack. Then comes Kellogg, whose name is Wil- ham Pitt no longer, but Willam Promise. He promises everybody everything, and theu forgets all about it. But the werst name on the list is that of H. Sypher, who has been eight years in Congress aud probably was never | once elected, His record at Washington 1s | as bad as bis reputation in Louisiana. It | iy @ matter of official history that he | upblushingly bargains tor tue saie of the votes of | men who were elected to Cougress, Two yoars ago he was the radical candidate against EMiug- hai Lawrence; and we nave the testinouy of such men 48 General Longstreet on the canvase- ing vourd that Lawrence Was elected, and that the certilicate Of ection Was already made ont for | him and ready to ve signed, when Sypher ap- peared With @ Carpet-bag (ull of frags and got the paper. These men are vbly speciinens of tue peo ple who rule Louisiana. Sheidon is the best of the delegation in Congress, and he has becn nominated to stay at home. This 18 because he is too good lo be @together useful and as a punishment tor acting with Seuator Carpenter in lavor ol a new eiection. Henry C. Dibole, who fas been nomt- hated as his Successor, 1s Ove Of the gang, and he $0 a fa te with Kellogg's pre ssor. When Warmotn wanted toown ajudge he had & court created by the Legislature ind Dibble bee cume its presiding justice, Kellogg, however, pretends that he wanted to see Sheidun renomt hated, and says that hie used every efort to accom piso that result. He told me so at fis own house erday. “In spite of everything I c 10,"" the Governor biandly said, “lie was ¢ ted, It was linposs.ble to save him,’ While Kellogg was | teliing ine tis and Showing his extreme symoathy for Sucidon | was lanning taysell with Dibole’s at, ying with State Woich | found on tus tao! The circumstance was | Suggestive, even li tt docs Jail short of being & coincideuce. Aud so it seems tnat tiiness and Worth are disquaufications for oficial position im Lousiana. An ation of harpies control | the pate, and terrible harpies they | are may be judged by the specime t| have given, Such men are bad enough to em- | bitter any peopie, though, at the same time, it must be conjessed that Luere is a party in Louisi- | ana ied by Pash, 1upetuous aud hot-eaded youths | Wiici 18 bo becter, except that the jeaders have | had sewer opportunities. Nownere is there a pros pect oi official integrity and good government, but signs of disaster loom up on every hand, afd the hear aud the lar tucure ure equally dark and dismal. THE IMPENDING CONPLICT, The cobd@ict which seams to be tmnouding im | tion; nor at the | tional rig! ! pooh of this and i | leac itan Guard, who wi present or near the gun store at the time of tne seizure, marched in a sulid body up to police headquarters with the arms, as a sort of armed escort jor saie conduct. No de- moustration was maue by the people (o intercept the arms 0n their way to their vew destina- ume was there likely to be any, as the st eets are usually Comparatively deserted at that hour. arraigned before Judge Miller, Mr. Olivier Wi under the charges mentioued, in the Fourth Mu- nicipal Court, and released on bond to appear ve- fore Judge McArthur on the 16th, with Captain Fremaux and Mr, Guyol. The Arms Seizure. (New Orleans Picayune, Sept. 11.] Infamous and stupendous as is this outrage, one Is forced to regard with respectful amazement— not wholly foreign to admiration—the consummate and marvellous audacity which is mspiring the action of the authorities. “Now you see it, and now you don’t see it.” One moment Messrs. Guyol and Fremavx are citizens protesting against an outrageous interierence with their constitu: ts and suing for the restitution of their property, the next, presto! they _ are criminais, arraigned beiore a smail Police Judge to answer lor the crime of conspiracy. ‘The police are no longer highway rufiians; Messrs. Guyol id Fremaux are 10 louger outraged and plun- dere travellers, Nothing 1s like it used to be and everything 18 changed. The authorities soften into dismayed and intimidated victims, Guyoi and Fremaux ioom into conspirators and assassins, whose most pressing occupation hence- | forth must be to escape the dungeon and the gallows. If the original seizure was unparaileled in the history of popular governments, so is this latest phase of radical craft utterly unapproachabie as a specimen of sardonic, diavolic humor, THE CONSHATTA AFFAIR. NeW OnLeaNns, Sept. 11, 1874 Several members oi the committee appointed to ascertain the causes of the recent terrible onte rages at Conshatia have just returned to this city, and yesterday lmid pbeiore the Committee of Seventy the entire documentary evidence in the | sad affair, The commitvee was at once convened, and aitera careful sifting of the testimony made the following statement, After reading which the | otner S| left to judge whether the white men of the Red of such men:— CARD FKOM THE COMMITTEE, ROOMS OF COMMITTER OF SEVENTY NEW O NS, Sept, 10, 1874. The Committee of Seventy deems it prope submit to the candid to by the committee touching tue recent disturbances ih Ked Kiver parish :— M. HL. Twitchell, the writer of the letter given below, Is the Seuator from Ked River parisu. 10w a andidate for re-election, and the recognized | Homer J. Fwitenell, now Tax Assessor and Col | tor o1 that parish, and the brotuer of M. H. Twiren- el. ft, 5. Kdgerton, the person to whom (he le ter was addressed, was the Sherif of the parish, ‘the paper in possession of the committer is proveu oy tne ‘adiduvitg O1 two resnectal.e Citizens | Stigated by the parish officials, to murder the per- | act has been committed, a United states Marshal can be the same party and tie writ executed by the same | ‘ates in the Union are | liver have received any provocation at the hands ; consideration of the public | the following statement and testimony colected | er of the republican party in that paisa; and | to be a true copy of the ortginai, ound among tne papers of T, ». Edgerton, and the same witnesses swear that the orginal ig in the handwriting of ; M. H. Twitchell, The letter, it will be seen, was written at New Orleans on the 4th of August and was apparently the result of conference with the acting Governor and the Unived States Marshal. Tne evideneg shows that there had been no disturbance in the parish untii after tals letter must have been re- ceived by Edgerton; that no aemand had been made Jor the resignation of the parish oficers and no movement made against them, and that the outbreak on the 27th of August Look the white people completely by surprise. ‘The first symptoms of violence were a restless and Jeverish excitement among the negroes, ri suiting in the killing by them of Mr. Brotherson, & white citizen of that parish. The immediate can! ol the outbreak was the discovery of a plot in- sons composing a dancing party in the vwown of Conshatta. an account of which is given by the hegroes concerned, TWITCHELL’S LETTER. New Onixans, La., August 4, 1874, T. 5 Enarrton, Sheriff parish Red River. La, T received your letter this morning ; have seen the Gov- ernor and United States Marshal; as soon as some overt sent up there, and he will doubtless take United States troops wich him. I will advise you in case a demand 1s made tor your resignations to be certain, first that Violence isto be used in case you do not, and then to save your life, resign. Natchitoches maiters are not settled yet, The Gov- ernor will not allow @ mob to govern the state. M. H. TWITCHELL, THE STATEMENTS OF THE WITNESSES. Testimony taken before the Citizens’ Safety In+ vesligating Committee commenced at Conshatta, parish of Red River, State of Louisiana, on Sep- tember 1, 1874, and closing september 3, 1874 The foliowing witneeses were examined : Lous Johnson testifies as follows:—I, in com- pany with Centry Beard, Dan Datley, Joe Norrid and Wash Morgan went, dy order of Henry Smith, | armed, early iu the night of the 27th day of August to the house of H, J, Twitchell, in the town of Con- shatta; we were then ordered by him io go under the house; there were twenty or twenty-five men armed under the house; we had come, not know- ing what was to be done, in pursuance of Smith's orders; Smith informed us that he wanted us for guards; Henry Smith said that he would furnisb ammunition; after ree maining onder the house one and a half or two hours we were ordered to go out to the ‘Twitchell field, between Homer Twitcheil’s house | and the levee; some went back into the fleid near | the small pecan bushes, and some in the weeas, | hear the fence next to the road leading trom Con- | shatta to the planing mill; wotle lying there two men passed there going down the public road to the planing mull, both mounted; a few seconds after these two men passed 1 saw the flash and heard two distinct reports of a gun; I was avout fiity yards irom the mau who shot the gun; Paul Williams fired the gun; he told me 80, and I saw him immediately after the fring reloading his gun coming towards me; we rematued in the | Held a short while after Dixon was shot; some | White men were standing at Mr. Scott’s house, | near us, just before the shooting took place, and | ordered us to go into the field and stay there, THE CONSPIRATORS NAM: Volcey Dennison testified ag foliows:—On Thurs- day night, August 27, 1574, tae following men came | to my house:—Tom Irwin, Cuarley Scott, Paul | Wiliams, Dailey, Ben Smith, Wash Morgan and , Louis Johnson ; some o! them had guns; fom Ir- | win asked me if there was a party at Conshatta; I told them there was; three or tour of them said that they wanted to go to | the bail; Henry Smith told us Thursday evening the Ku Klux were coming, and he wanted us to take a stand; some men had threat- ened to kill him; Henry Smith took ail the, men | that were collected and placed them under Homer | ‘fwitchell’s house; I was with them; Henry Smita | was under the house; Homer Twitcnell was in | the house the time; fliteen men under the house were armed; Henry Smith gave a gun toa mau under the house; Henry smith distrib- uted ammunition while ander the hous Bob Dewees gave Henry Smith one box of caps that | night to distrinute; Bob Dewees passed backward | three or iour times from the paity to Twitcheli’s house, apparently as a courier. We remained un- der the house until Dewees said they, the white men, Were too strong for us at the party; I went | into the field and remained there; I was at the | by men of ability snd of firm purpose the danger of | the situation isspparent. SCENES AT THE NEW YORK HOTEL. ‘Thenews from New Orleans yesterday afternoon and evening created intense excitement at the New York Hotel. There was no mistaking the feeling aroused by the news from Louisinna as pablished in the HERALD, Quiet gentlemen, from whose appearance there was no indication that they were troubled with strong feelings on any subject, stamped their feet and gesciculated almost aiter the manner of the New Yorkers when they received the news of the surrender of Lee’s army. Severai sedate gentlemen, bearing the chival~ rous air for which the Southerner of good birtn gets credit everywhere, bore with considerable moderation the various sensational announcements as to the great difficulty, One elderly gentleman said with much ieeliug that he had fought in the war, that owing to the fact that the Con- federates had iailec he had lost much of hia property, and lowered his social position in his bative State, and that now, tn his temporary absence, similar igh handed measures as those whicn characteri-ed the Butler despotism might again desolate his home, Much satisiaction was created by the arrival of the iollowing despatch from Dunnison & Co., New Orleans:, All quiet here at four o'clock. Business, it ts hoped, will be resumed to-morrow. It was evident that this feeling of satisfaction arose much more irom tue idea that the White League were in possession of the State House and of the public property of the city, including a large quantity of arms, than Irom the possibility that business would ‘be re- sumed so soon. None o! the Southerners seemed to have any doubt that the state of tangs as re- ported would become permanent. The fe+ting nm Tegard to President Granv’s prociamation was that, if Kellogg was restorea by the ald of federal arms, the result wouid be a renewal of @ military government in Lousiana The merchants at the hotet were mach con- cerned as to the disordered state of things which they would have to meet on tueir return home, I¢ Was leit strongly tnat the time had come when the exercise of the federai power in upuolding waat Was designated “an unnatural relation of the black to the white man,” should cease to exist, ‘The same sentiment was heard ali around, OPINIONS ON THE SITUATION. Yesterday a number of leading men of the Soutm gave their opinions of the depiorable events of the last two days in New Orleans toa representative of the HERAL They refect, in a measure, the Griit of Southern sentiment in regard to the alarm. ing condition of the South and disclose the feelings with which the President’s attitude is generally regarded by those who are influential in shaping the views of the Southern people. As far as the present attack on Governor Kellogg is concerned, there 18, of course, a very decided line of demarca- tion between the supporters of Mclinery and those of Kellogg, and only the business men, who stand aloof from the existing arena of politics, say that “both are to biame, The politicians who were Interviewed are enthu- Slastically in favor of their respective leaders, and the following gist of their statements will tell both sides of this remarkably conflicting story. It will be seen that they who know the people of Louisiana think that further bloodshed will be avoidea, and that they will quietly submit to the federal authority. Colonel J. E. Austin, of the New Orleans fence, near the levee, when the gun fired; Alfred Moise told me that Paui fired the gun at Dixon; | Tom Irwin said they were going to the ball, and | ‘they all knew it was a white man's ball; a half nour after the men lett” Twitchell’s | home, Joe Dixon was shot in the public Toad; 1 was im the field when the gun was fired, but did not see it, nor tue flash o1 it; | have heard Henry Smith make’ the remark a great | many times tnat he would thrask any uegro that | would vote ‘he wuite ticket; we came together | by command of Henry Smith, tn the nignt time, armed, and I suppose he got his authority from | Mr. Iwitcnell; 1 dont know how Henry Smith gets bis living, but think that air, Twitchell pays him; three guns were, and are still, a sigual to get the party together: Henry Smith obtained authority from Homer Twitcuell and Bob Dewees to gather all the men; Henry Smitn’s object was to attack the citizens of Coushatta; Wade Hamp- ton Carried all orcers from ury Smuth; they got them from Twitchell and Dewe THE CONFESSION OF WILLIAMS, | Paul Williams testified as follows:—I shot Mr, Dixon, 1 did; 1 came over to this side and went | under Homer ‘iwitchell’s house; 1 was told to come because the white people were coming to kill the biack people; Dan vailey, Louis Johnson and myself went down the field; when Dixon Hore Louis Johnson suapped a cap at him aud 1 red botk varreis ut him; Dewees was siinggeon | backward and forward as a courier; | was toi that Homer Twitchell gave his gun to some oue; Henry Smith was ip command; Homer Twitcuell aud the rest oi his crowd are to blame , for this trouvle; Dewees and Edgerton were riding irom the party to the colored men; | Homer Twitchell told us to go home, the whiie | party was too strong that night; Dewees | counted the white men; we were ordered by Homer fwitcheli to fire on any of tie wutte people | wuen they came along; Dan Dalley led us to Twitctell’s home, and we went into the yard at the back gate; Henry Smith delivered snot to the men; Homer Twitcuell staid at home while we were there; whet we leit we went to Scott's house: Henry Sinith told us to stop at certain piaces; I shot Dixon in his back; 1t had been ru- mored jor some time among the radicals that there would be a fignt between the whites and tue blacks, and the minds of the negroes have been | Inen, yOu cab take me and shoot me or hang me, 48 you please; | Know | deserve to die; I preter to be shot. Published by order of the Committee of Seventy. RK. H. MAKR, Chairman, K. W. ¢. eee White League in taking possession or the State government by as brilliant a coup d'état as was ever executed by Napoleon, the “Man of Septem- ber’—the readers of the HeRALD will be interested in knowing who comprise this powertul secret or- ganization, who are its chiefs and what are their intentions. One of the representatives of this journai interviewed in this city yesterday a prom- inent gentleman fro. St, Louis, who formerly was one of the KNIGHTS OF THE WHITE CAMELIA in New Orleans, and he gave the following account 1 the organization:— “It was, of course, a secret society, having its ramifications thioughout every parish in the State, It was founded 1n 1868 or 1569, and was composed solely of white men, who banded together for the avowed purpose Of seli-protection. There was no hostility to the negro, and no desire to deprive him of any of his natural rights. Lach member, however, pledged himseif solemnly never to vote for OF NEGRO FOR A POLITICAL OFFICE, as we considered him unfitted both by nature and education ior such a supremacy, he society was alter a time broken up and its pledges exposed, but on its ruins was butlt the ‘White League,’ Which is ten times more power* | ful and united than ever the parent society was." Kerorrer—Can you give me an ouiline of the Odjects, numbers aud jeaders of the “ieague ¢” ANCIENT “K. W. C."—I can do all but name the leaders, Even il | were a member of the organiza- tion [ would be betraying ao oath to do that. The genticman then took a paper irom his pocket, which proved to be @ New Orleans kepub- exposé What Lullows:— Of our OWN ruce against the daily increasing encroach. enis ot the Negro. and are determined to use our Lest endeavors to purge our legislative, judicial and ministe- rial offices trom’ such a horde ‘oi miscreants us now | Gssume to lord it over us. That to accomplish | tuis end we solemnly ploige our honor to cach other to give our Hearty support to ail that this league | may determine by a mujority of votes cast at any regu | lar meeung, and to aid to the utinost of our abiliy in | carrying out such measures as it may adopt. Thai we do not reject or | CONDEMN ANY WITITR MAN | for his poli ical opinions, so that he join us inthe one grand object we have In view, On the iith o1 last July the following section was added to the creed of the “White League ':— That we regard it the sacred and political duty of every member of this club to discountenance and sootdily proseribe all white men who unite themselves witht the radical party, * * . * * * * . “To show you the determination of the people comprising ihe league,” added the HeRALD's im- | formant, “here are some extracts irom an address to (he colored people, printed on July 18 in the Vindicator, at Navcnitoches” :— | | For we tell you now, and let it be distinctly remem bered, that you lad tair warning that we intend to cart) the state ot Loutsiana im November nexi, or she will be mulitary territory. * * if a single hostile gun is fired bet nthe whites and blacas ia thig @ sur. nd.ng parishes every carpet-bagger and scalawag atcan be caught wii in twelve hours therefrom be angiing from a itor, The number of members of the league js said to be | ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND MEN IN LOUISIANA ALONE, | and when, ag it is believed, they are commanded greatly inflamed by these rumors; now, gentie- | In view Of the stirring events now happening in | Louisiana, and the revolutionary action of the | lican of Aligust 13, and read frum an elaborate | We enter into and form this league tor the protection | Bar. A representative of the HER+Lp had an intere view last evening with Colonel J. E. Austin, @ prominent member of the New Orleans Bar and who served with distinction in the Confederate service, Colonel Austin leit New Orleang on tne 8th inst., when the state of public ieeling was very unsettled and when the people were fearing the approach of some unusual complication tn the affairs of their unfortunate State. In answer te questions of the HERALD representative Colonel Austin stated that the rising of the people was the natural result of the robbery and oppres- sion committed by the Kellogg usurpation, which have been patiently borne by the people for over two years, Words would fail to describe the iniquities practised in every department of the government—execative, legislative and judicial. Property had been taxed until it amounted to confiscation, and the right of suffrage had been so hampered as to | amount to disfranchisement of all except negroes, ‘The mauifestation of the people on Monday was caused by the authorities seizing, without au- thority of law, muskets and ammunition in private Warenouses, and in effect depriving the people of a rigut guaranteed to them by the constitution, that of beartug aris. Colonel Austin referred to the great meeting that took piace on tue Ist inst. in New Orleans, which Mr. McEnery addressed. ‘The Governur was called immediately atter to Vicksburg by business, and leit Lieutenant Gov. ernor Penn to look after the lterests ol the State. Itappeared evident that the Kellogg party was determined to push the patience of tae people to @ point veyond endurance, even to make it neces- sary to bring Matiers to acrisis that had been looked forward to and for which preparations had been made by the couservative party Jor some time pust. | _HE&kaLD RFPRESENTATIVE—Colonel, is this move. | ment directed against the republican party in Louisiana? Colouel AUSTIN—No, It tgs directed against ' thieves and oppressions, and wherever a repubit- | can, duly elected, has administered his office | fairly or houestly he is not disturbed. This has ; been done in a number o/ the parisnes, It is @ | matter of lite and death with the peuple, and it is | ashame that the federal government has by its action almost legalized the robvery of our people. HERALD Keri ATIVE—What is the feeling | of the peopie of your State toward the federal gov- ernment? Colonel AUSTIN—They cherish the kindest feelings toward tue general government; they entertain the utmost regard for it. Indeed, our people, trodden down as ney were by local tyranny, looked to the national administration tor some countenance in tieir wrongs; they hoped that tbat majestic power to which they yielded their arms nine years ago, and to whose poiicy they ot- ferea a willing obedience ia the reconstruction acts, Would at least not sanction their robbery, destitution and utter humiliation. HERALD RePRESENTATIVE—What is the general sentiment of the colored people? Coonel AUsTIN—I have an extensive acquaint- ance with the negroes of my State. The great buik of them are crueily led astray bya gang of Outside White adventurers who are hurrying them ou toruin, Of my own Knowledge several hun- dred of the more inteiligeut and weil to do of the colored race, have receutly avowed tieir intention of casting their lot with ihe conservative party. Lyven Pincivack, the would-be Unitea States Sena tor, has laely sought alliance with the iriends of good government to aid in the overthrow of the Kellogg usurpation, against waich he is heart and soul. | HERALD REPRESENTATIVE—What is the strength | Of parties in Louisiana? | _ Colonel AvustiN—I can only speak with certainty of New Orleans, ‘Our total vote is 50,000, of which 16,000 13 colored. Oi the latter, at least 3,000 go with the conservatives, which will give that party @ majority of 25,000 in the city at the next Novem- | ber election. HERALD REPRESENTATIVE—What is to be the im- | mediate eflect of Mcknery’s party coup d'éuas? | _ Colonel AustiN—II the federal government does | notinteriere Lieutenant Goveruor Penn will at once proceed to appoint and commission all the | State and parisn officers elected in 1s720n the McKoery ticket, and oust the present incumbents | appointed by Kellogg. I may as well state that an organization exists throughout the State wick secures tie peaceable installation of the new | functionaries, provided the federal authorities Keep their nands o1f. | HERALD KiPRESENTATIVE—AS & lawyer do you consider that the recent seizures of arms in New Orleans were legal? Colonel AUsYIN--AS @ lawyer I say that the seizures were in deflance o1 ali iaw and justice, ‘dhe arms were saipped as merchandise trom New York to New Orleans—irom one domestic mercan- tile house to another, No statute or port regula. tion Was imiringed upon, and, in fact, | may add that this high handed measure was the last straw that broke the camel's back. Any change in my sadly oppressed State cannot fail to be for the | bewrer, Views of General George A. Sheridan, General George A. Sheridan, of New Orleans, who claims to have been elected to Congress in 1872, over Pincnback, and Is now at the Filth Ave- nue Hotel, thought there would not be much more bloodsted, as General Grant would undoubtedly quell the insurrection. He thought the President should not have issued his proclamation, but shoula have left the people o/ Louisiana to settle the ques- tion by themselves. I/ Kellogg was unable to sus tain himself, the President siould pot maintain him in the face of the manifest opposition of the people. “Will Kellogg enjoy his power quieuy after this disturbance 13 quelled?” General Sheridan thought he would not, ana that as long as he remained in power these oute breaks would cons'antiy recur. This uprising was part of the programme which was agreed wood at the Lawn Rouge Convention, Lk wad