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New YORK, Sept. 25.-The Tribune
has the following specials:
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 25.-On the
day of the Penn coup o. etdt, when the
revolutionists seized the House, after
Governor Kellogg's retreat to the of
flee of Marshal Packard, large num-
ber of official and private letters were
found in the archives of the Govern
or's office, and have since been in the
possession of citizens. Among these
were q number which passed between
Governor Kellogg and prominent
Congressman. 1t has been freely inti-
mated that they contained important
revelations as to the manner the case
was managed in Washington, with a
view to seating Pinchback in the SEN
ate and keeping Kellogg and his party
in power.
The Tribune representative succeed
ed to-day in securing originals and
copies, and some are given herewith.
The first is from e. c. Billings, Repub-
lican lawyer of this city and one of the
counsel for Governor Kellogg while
the Louisiana case was before Con-
gress:
WILLARD's HOTEL, I
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. 3, 1878.
Dear Governor: Chandler, William
E., is working with us, and he has
worked with US nobly and more effect
lively than any one except Williams.
He wished me to write to you about
his fee, and l would arrange matters
with him at the earliest moment pos
sible. EDWARD c. BILLINGS.
The following was written when
Senator Carpenters Louisiana bill was
before the Senate, and shortly before
Congress adjourned:
WASHINGTON, Jan. %, 1873.
My Dear Sir: L have just received
yours of the 10Th, having been out of
town for ten days, and have accord
ingly drawn on you for S. 900. Did
state in my previous letter that of the
draft for $4,000 which you sent me
some time since found it desirable to
deliver S1,000'to Chandler | am glad
to see that all opposition to your adj
ministration is dying out, and that
public confidence is being restored. |
shall be happy to see you when you
come here. l remain yours truly,
c. CUSHING.
To Hon. VIM. Pitt Kellogg.
From Billings & Hughes, Counsel
lors-at-Law, No. 50 Custom house
street, New Orleans, July /, 1873.
Dear Governor: may leave for the
North on Thursday, and if you are
going to advance me anything on my
fee in your case you can hand it to
Mr.. Barrett, our common friend. /
am truly yours,
EDw. c. BILLINGS.
p. ST have hopes that you will
make the payment as large as $4,000.
BILLINGS & HUGHES.
FORM OF RECEIPT.
Counsellors at Law, No. 80, Custom
House street, New Orleans, July 1st,
1S73.-Received from w. p. kellogg,
81, 800, on account, for professional
services in the case of Kellogg against
Yarmouth ct al. $1,000.
EDWARD G. BILLINGS.
Amount filled in this receipt by me.
JOHN G. BARRETY.
Boston, II, 1S74-[ Crest and motto,
"ConanaL je Trouue."1 My Dear Gov;
I think my retainer in the matter Of
the petition in the Supreme Court
about the affair in Louisiana should be
$4,000. L advised in the case with
counsel who argued it; they will rec
ogniZe my services, and was obliged,
in consequence of the retainer, to re-
fuse one on the other side. Please re-
NIT by draft on New York, which
draft will be your receipt.
Very truly yours,
BENZ. F. BUTLER.
Hon. VIM. P. Kellogg, Governor,
New Orleans.
Gen. Butler refers to Il case before
the Supreme Court; but gentlemen
familiar with Louisiana affairs say
there was no Louisiana case before
the Court at the time this letter was
written, and that the services thus in
geniously described were nothing less
than his influence as a member of
Congress in the Pinchbeck and Nc
MILAN contest; in fact, that he was
interested and retained, just as it ap-
appears from other letters that Caleb
Cushing, AttorneyGeneral Williams
and VIM. E. Chandler, Secretary of
the Republican Congressional Com
mittee were.
a letter from Mr.. Chandler ac-
kMowledges the receipt of $4,000, but
speaks of his effective services and
asks for more
The remaining letters will be
brought forward hereafter, but it is
impossible to get copies tonight. All
the evidence and guarantees of genu-
ineness and authenticity of signatures
is clear, and the fact that they were in
Kellogg's Office is established on eX-
cellent authority.
The PettifOgging Congress men.
CHICAGO, Sept. 2S.-A Washington
special says that Louisiana Congress-
men here fully confirm dispatches COR
tanning letters from New Orleans, in
representing that General Butler and
others received fees for defending the
Kellogg Government here. General
Butler claims $4,000, but was only
paid $1,000 by Kellogg, and thereafter
the record shows, according to date,
that Butler voted for Yarmouth and
for the impeachment of Judge Durrell
and consequently against Kellogg.
They also say that Senator Carpenter
and Caleb Cushing received only
$4,000 fees for arguing the quo 2Ud1'-
r0ntO case against Durrel in the
United States Supreme Courts.
A Call for Troops.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.-The Gov
ernment of South Carolina has made
a call on the President, in accordance
with the Constitution and the law, for
Federal troops to aid in suppressing
apprehended domestic violence to pro-