The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-13
UISLANA.
Governor WarmOuth's Letter to the Pre-
hldent COnfrmed.

The following statements of the murders and
outrages which have occurred in the country
parishes, as taken from letters, petitions, ETC.,
which have been received at the Governors
office, will, we believe, fully justify the state
ment made in Governor Warmouth's letter 10
the President, that one hundred and fifty MUIR
ders have been committed i'll the country
parishes within the last month and q half. In
addition to these statements we are informed
that there are Others OF a similar character in
the Governors possession, showing the law
lessness of the country parishes-and that he is
daily receiving complaints from Union men
that unless something is done to protect them
against Rebel malice, it will be impossible for
them 10 live in the country.
We also learn that in many instances the old
officers refuse to surrender to the newly elected,
which increases the difficulties of living in the
country, and encourages the already too extern
A letter from G. W. Hudspeth. 0pelousas,
July 2l, mentions several murders in West st.
Landry; the murder OF two freedmen aud child,
and the wounding of two freedmen, on the night
of July z, by party of men in disguise.
A letter from Emerson BentIy, Opelousas,
says that for several nights two armed men
have lain concealed within thirty feet of his
door, where they have remained from sundown
until midnight. Last night the number was
increased TO four; two lay PROSTATE near the
fence; two, concealed themselves in tall weeds,
near a path he was accustomed to travel.
A petition signed by Isaac HI. Crawford,
James Mathew, X. II. Curry, W. M. Holland,
Wade II. Hough, F. T. Crawford, A. X. Whit
ney, W. G. WHY, A. W. Faulkner, and o. FL,
Brewster, states that at least fifty MURDERS and
many other outrages. have been committed in
the parish of Franklin. These murders ana
outTages have been perpetrated for the purpose
OF driving way and eXterminating every loyal
man in the country. Also speaks OF the orgaui-
Zation OF secret societies which have the same
end i'll view.
A letter from John L. Lewis, Claiborne
Parish, July TO- states that short time since
a prisoner was rescues from the sheriff by men
in disguise, who drew their guns and threatened
to shoot him If he did not give up the prisoner.
The prisoner has not been heard from since
and no effort has been made to discover the
persons who rescued and made away with the
prisoner. Civil officers do nothing to protect
the people or enforce the laws. ln Homer a
white man was tied, stripped, and whipped on
the Sth instant; not word said nor anything
done to bring the guilty to punishment.
On the same night the Homer .Aiad was
Sroken Pf and cS SHeFsg g
have not done thing to ferret out the guilty
parties. Nathan Green, Henry Corwin, Moses
Huffman, and Marinda Huffman were murdered
Ascoored man was Killed by Bias p. Despaiier,
as reported by A. j. Sypher, Sheriff. James
Madden reports that two men were killed at a
wood yard near Alexandria, and house burned
by unknown parties. Green, Corwin, and the
Huffmans were taken from houses while attend
ing prayer.meetings, and one of them shot and
the others hung.
A letter from Johu W. Creagh, Sheriff of
Avoy elles, Msrasvile, July 27, states that armed
bodies OF men ride and patrol the roads, streets,
etc, of our town and parish. He has seen two
such companies marching the roads and halting
the citizens. One company was composed Of
about thirty men. One citizen was taken from
his house few nights since, his hands tied
behind him, and marched some distance his
life threatened, but was finally released without
harm to his person.
letter from Luke Madden, Madison Parish,
August 3, tells of the killing of colored men and
the burning of their houses. Every man from
the bend" has to be on the watch all night to
protect his life from the rebel guerrillas, and
that men belonging to the Republican party are
being murdered All the colored men in the
remote parts of the parish are coming to De Soto
Threats are made that every man who votes for
Grant will be killed by guerrillas.
III Claiborne parish a man by the name Of
Meadows was called to the door at night by
armed men and murdered, in May.
In Morehouse, Sinclair was murdered in
March. In Bienvlle Honneus was called to the
door by band of unknown men, who shot him.
He was the registrar of voters for Bienville
parish.
letter OF the highest authority from Monroe,
dated August q states:-"The terror caused
among the freedmen by the murders at Rayville,
and elsewhere in the parishes OF Morehouse and
Franklin since then, is preventing us from pro.
crossing with the work on the road as rapidly
as we expected. All of Burk's hands have left
him; and even the hands at Crow Lake are so
frightened that 1t is with difficulty they can be
induced to remain at work. Until lately they
would desert their cabins and tents at night,
kill them. Some of the Rebel planters are Begin
ming 10 feel the effects of this state of things.
The hands on Masons, Tresevants, and other
places on Bayou Macon and Beut river, have
left and are leavng-fear of the X. K. K. 3 is
the cause assigned"
Rebel View.
The New Orleans Crescent disposes of War
mouth and his ''appeal" thus:-Whether we at
tribute the extrayagant assertions OF this COM
municalon TO frenzy OF panic, or to the cool
contlivance OF cunning and mali gnant parti-
san, there can be no doubt that radical politi-
cians at the North will make haste to turn it to
the purposes OF campaign document. And
yet, when critically examined, nothing could be
more calculated TO prove the scandalous and
disastrous failure of the radical reconstruction
policy. By Governor Warmouth's confession,
civil government Is an impossibihty under the
conditions imposed by this policy. BY his con-
tesslon the State has been reduced by this policy
TO such distraction and disquietude that the
attempt to organize a State militia would be
simply to organize civil war and anarchy or in
his own words, would produce ''long continued
If not hopeless confusion, disaster and ruin to
the State" In this part Of his testimony he
agrees with the belief of our best aud most
peace-loying citizens, and If those citizens give
countenance to armng and drilling in open and
legitimate ways, 1t is only that peaceable and
laW-0bdng people may be prepared for the
catastrophe which the Governor processes TO
eprecatr as the consequence of radical militia
organization.
Protection TO the Pacific Railroad Against
SnOWs
II was reported last winter that the sheds
built by The Paci ic Railroad Company to pro-
tect their track from the deep SHOWS of the
Sierra Nevada Mountains were crushed by the
weight OF snow that fell upon them, and that
some other method of protection would have to
be devised. II seems. however, by q letter ia