New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-03-29

ferred.
A petition from citizens complaining oi
the speed Of the Chattanooga railroad trail
within city limits, was referred.
Mr.. Remlck's action in reference to selling
the revenues Of the public markets was ap
proved. sis'.'t
FOR LOYALrY,s SAKE.
Ansther Outrage IN Alisslssippa-A listed
States O0ceF LyscAeA = Seventy.1ve
Lashcs .. Ten Days Or Death : Hia
OMense. Cellecsjng Dlosey to Support
she UniteA States Governnent-Whora
II GoveFnor AlcoFn and His Promises
tFrom the washinston Chronicle.l
A Telegram. pub!ished Yesterday. from
tho State arc greatly exaggerated. 1t ID
rumored that Huggins, . school teacher, was
whipped, though not severely, near Aber.
deem, BY unknown parties, for social equal
ity with negroes"
Last evening, Allen P. Higgins. the party
referred to above, called 1t this office. He
brought with him . copy of the Aberdeen
(Mississippi) ExamiseF of the fifteenth in
slant, in which We find the following letter.
Se.AS W e1'o" s11o AAu-AAA"A SoHs1o" "a s'l'a
outrage: -.
r.vo, Iona. iDSl'H1' aaron Id AoA'
Igor 'onss
Hearing great many things that arc not
90 - to the proceedings of our organization,
have concluded to give . few facts which
you will please publish in your Thursday
issue. w1s
We disturb no man who holds his tongue
anu stscnos 20 nls Own Dumess, ie:vea
.omS Ony ~ proper sanes, anu PsOvtoee
TOT nus - .. n ae t ana oofreo's tae
NC 1W ~ O.s1a - sne yseoAe. -.
we unoefssand tnat huggins says ne Gid
case, he reported falsely. We gave him
TWENTY-FIVE lashes gently. and then asked
him Il he could leave this part of the
''mcral vineyard" He replied, very iDde-
pendently, that he could mot make any such
promise. One of the men that waa killed
in Nets then took charge Of the silk ribbon
and gave him twenty-five moro; but he
still refused TO make any such promises,
Count Bismarck then took charge Of the
ribbon, and went mp among the stars with
It and came down on him, and if there il
any truth in him he belched it out. We gave
him ten days, and he said he would be gone.
We hope he vii! fulfill his promise, for If we
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- n:sc koIo uo .,!4. ~ sn g - 20 AoOu'
crganlIng Ine IN miu Lila ~ so, wnen tney re-
Iurn Plsase ~ W tne.. . - notaty W tnrCugn
your PaPSI. VIC ~aIe lnonl y move t1 as1
cOmm1no " on Splurse snG Sapsey. we
wan tt taem 81 'nofo 70 'er''''1e an" en-
~ cLy =. III SeHy sasn ~ ~ 70 .nof
WILL please eau ~ gu! once " aOout a. ~.
noPng 70 sec t.s N YOUR next issue We
rel""in' ia 'ne na"'e VI posace anu or1cr,
tsler N. N. NJ
THE FACTS.
And now for . brief. unvarnishcd tale.
Allen p. Hueqins Is an assistant assessor of
the United Sfates in the Tbird District of
Missiseippi. embracing the counties of Prem
tiss, Alcorn, Tishimingo, Itawamba and
Monroe. He served four years in the Union
army. a portion of the time in the Eighth
var nelG !ne rank OF c9lonei. IN 1902 ne
~cns ~ .issasS.EP. - DALE, wss suVec-
Iaenisiy ~ "a: sc!me IN a Duaeau, ana' as
% aoGv S y nov ~ sno civn seIvlce OF
.no O4lIG. c ~ a,1 no nosc 1890 - VcScucl'
80 s'~''oA - '.'o "-'. " "'o'o'
TWENTY-FIVE LAsHEs.
On the ninth instant he was attending to
his official duties, ten miles from Aberdeen.
That night, about ten o'clock, after he had
retired 20 rest, party of disguised men,
numbering, he thinks, at least ONE hundred
and twenty-five. took him out of bed and
carried him to the woods. Here he was
stripped of coat and vest, and asked to
promise that he would leave the country
within ten days and never return. This he
strap, and one man gave him ten lashes
with it ON the back, and ct every five or ten
blows q fresh hand took the strap, and each
time he was asked to promise to leave the
country. After about seventy strokes he
vas tOio tnst ne 1lo NOV aoeve witnm Ton
SsS; ICY !oSss -. :. ~. 1. ~ my ~! ~
from. - that heJ trarsn;rsj n that icc :ii;1
hsc.,,.o ttat &c. ",,iS mt r. si'..ot 10y
s..o,,t; s.' ~ 80 ,ow.S H" Sas- pc .avS
"a III T - ~. Ia Coa .: s III
o.. NO "~s ""l0 " ''1o'0' s"" - Nv" :" '"'s
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"l0 ANSA'
The only offense they charged upon Col
onel Higgins was that he was collecting
money to support . ID radical govern
ment, and that they would submit to NO
The attacking party was not made up of
drunken loafers, but undoubtedly of the So
called most respectable citizens. They
were all mounted and uniformed in dress
and masks; one Of the party, when he re-
fused to promise to leave, applied to him
some harsh epithet, when the captain OF the
band ordered him to desist that "COlOncl
nuggi1s was 2 gentleman ana tney only
wanged nun 70 leave:
Coionel nuggne - mdorsed Is man OF
resPsctaoie stanoing 1y large n9moer OF
!no cta1o omcefs' tne Mississlppi Geiegati0n
IN Congress, ana Is IN good standing at the
II department.. Hisconnecton witn