New-York tribune., 1874-10-27

c"o"s government. Inere cOuiu DO no sohIpcI
an..athesis than between Mr.. Ellis and himself
Strange to cay, this is the first time Dbbe has ever
been candidate for any elective Office He has held
two appointments once as Judge of the Eighth Dis
trict Court under Warmoth and more recently Is
Assistant Attorney General under Kellogg. Natu-
rally. his strong partisan views and active advocacy
of Republican doctrines have attracted great deal
of prejudice from the other side but have not dis
covered any we'll authenticated instance of corrup
tion official malefactiOn on his part He Is q
young man, only about 80 years Of age. OF fine
requirements aud decided talent, and personally
well liked by all who know him. However, as
said before, he is PARTISAN and the contest in the
lid District can be nothing but strict party fight
with the chances from the present outlook slightly
in Dibbles favor.
THE COUNTRY DISTRICTS.
Here there the most abect and hopeless confusion
There have been accounts of registration received
on which one NAV base anything like an estimate.
As said in previous letter. II parishes have not
yet been heard from. and the Registrar has no idea
whether registration is going on at all. In three
others it is positively known that there was none
up to q week ago and in many, again, the regstra-
tion has been so incomplete aud so palpaby fraudu
lent that it is simply out of the question to form
any estimate as to the situation. Until within the
past few days it has been believed all hands that
throughout North Louisiana. the whites would
carry everything except in those parishes bordering
on the Mississippi River, where there are scarcely
any whites at all / have heard no statement, at
least none worthy of consideration, to the
effect that threat violence has been used, but the
supreme imbecilty of Kellogg is so marked aud so
utterly undseused that his adherents have nowhere
been able to doanything His officials cannot enforce
a single law. Without the physical support of the
A. nf <In
whites and the evident dislike or indifference of the
negroes Hence the numerous faction fights within
the Republican party the shootings and assassina
tions of negro politicians by white carpet-baggers
and their followers such have already occurred in
ST. James, Plaquemine. Terrebonne land East Felic-
ana and liable and likely to occur in every other
parish within the next few days. 1t is impossible.
therefore, to calculate upon the prospect.
THIRD DISTRICT
Here the Republican candidate is c. B. Darrall,
one of the weakest, most undeserving and iDsignih
cant carpet-baggers who ever misrepresented de-
cent State in Congress. He is the same OF whom
Sypher wrote confdentially to Gov. Kellogg as
THAT dirty little liar" and is an unwholesome
creature from every conceivable point of view,
though exceeding small and unimportant in himself.
His opponent is Mr.. j. H. Breaux of Iberia, Creole
gentleman of high social position and excellent at
tanments, who may be elected. The census gives
the figures of population follows whites, 56,972
colored, 62,3S2. But owing to Darralrs want of
strength with the negroes, and Breauxs great local
popularity. l believe it not unlikely that on fair
count the Conservative candidate will be success
full But in this State, 1t is much easier for Con-
servatve to be elected, than TO get his certificate
and his seat. This District is composed OF the
Parishes of Ibervlle, Ascension Lafourche, Terre-
" hin Iharia T,afa
million, Cameron, and Calcasieu.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Geo. L. Smith, the Republican nominee, is that
enterprising young man who, during last Winter,
claimed to have brought the returns of his election
from Shreveport to NewOrleans-a distance of 700
miles-in As hours performing about half of this
journey on horseback. 1t all fair to Kellogg
The returns were canvassed by his Board, Smith
was declared elected and furnished with credentials
and was well on his way to Washington before the
real returns, under ordinary circumstances, could
have been collected in Shreveport. His opponent is
Col. VIM. NJ. Levy Liberal. Col. Levy is PROM
inent citizen of NatchtOches, was Gen. Dick Taylors
Division Adjutant during the war. and is an elO-
quent speaker. His liberality is thing of fact as
well as name. This district is composed of
the parishes of Bienvlle, Webster BOssieu,
Caddo, De Soto. VIM, Red River, Grant,
Natchtoches, Sabine, Vernon, and Rapides.
The population is estmated-wbites, 44Si6; col
ored, G6l4 1t is in this District that most of the
troubles of the past Summer and Fall have taken
place. Coushatta is in the heart of the IVth Dis
trict and it is here that the negroes have been
disheartened and diseusted with their white leaders
There has been no wel-authenticated case of intim
idaton except of the whites by threats of prosecu-
ton but the negroes have had their eyes opened to
the wickedness of the carpetbaggers and similarly
to their poweressness protectors and the result
has been and is their indifference to the election.
1t is mainly to counteract this result that Beekwth
and Packard have begun iDdiscriminate arrests of
white people. charging them with completely in the
Coushatta massacre. The effect of this will be. no
doubt what they desire-trouble, perhaps open war,
in that District and consequent excuse for throw
ing out the election returns and declaring for Smith
the Radical candidate. If this should not come
about there is fair presumption in favor of Levys
election on full vote and impartial count.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
The Vth District consists of Morehouse Carroll
Madison. Concordia, Caldwell, Franklin, Tensas,
Richland, jackson. Washington, Ouachita. Union,
Claiborne, Catahoula, and Lincoln population
white A. 1856 colored, a. 729. This is the largest
negro district in the State. Frank Morey is the
Radical candidate-an insignificant man. who has
never been anything but pack-animal for the
Radical ring here. His opponent is Major Ben. F.
Spencer, fine old Louisiana planter, a pronounced
Liberal in views but not politician now or in the
past 1t is greatly to be feared and more to be
regretted that Major Spencer will fail before the
Returning Board.
SIXTH DISTRICT
Here the candidates are both new men. The Rad
ical nominee is one c. Nash, a negro from ST. Landry
Parish whom no ever heard Of before, though
that fact is rather to his credit than otherwise
Nash has, however the credit of being soldier in
the Union army He lost an during the war,