The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-10-24

salary of nine hundred dollars, and not a dol.
lar has been spent on the (so-called) roads or
bridges for year. The Supervisor of Regis.
tration is detaulter of tax money to the
amount of some twenty thousand dollars, and
under indictment by the Grand Jury, but
never tried, and not likely to be by the pres
ent judges
The Police Jury equivalent to Board Of
Supervisors in New York state) is elective by
law, and the peoples choice at the last cleo.
ton organized and levied the annual assess
ment. Kellogg turned them out contrary to
law and put in his own creatures, who at
once doubled the assessment.
"The president fer the Police Jury (Kel.
logg's) is mulato from Cincinatta, Ohio,
who came TO New Orleans as steward of a
steamboat, was discharged for stealing, went
to Iberia, engaged as dining-room servant in
a hotel, was discharged for stealing, and turns
up in st. Martins, where he is rewarded for
his services againat the whites by being
placed at their head of the parish affairs.
Last December Il respectable and quiet
farmer was shot dead IN the streets of Breaux
Bridge, same parish, by the clerk of the Par.
ish Court, the Judge of the same court being
present The mortal offence ofthe murdered
man consisted of taking the female members
of his family from IA ball on account Of the
presence of the man who afterwards assassin
ated him.
"Now mark the course of justice. The two
were arrested, the Judge taken 10 New iberia
before one of his political friends at once re.
leased on bail and returned to St Mnrtinsville
(ten niles, where he opened court, called be-
fore him the assassin and released him on
bail
THE clerk was Indicted for murder, and
that was the last Of 1t SO far as legal proceed
ings are concerned, and is likely to be the
last of it,
at is notorious that blacks cannot be pun.
ished for cattle stealing, as they have votes
and can generally get friend (otten not
worth Il dollar to go bail
an the late Issue ofrations 10 persons dam.
aged by the overflow, the blacks were partic-
ularly favored, and so long as they obtained
ratiOns they would not wOrk-a matter with.
in my own knowledge, as | needed field
hands and applied for them at two of the
agencies for distribution of supplies and was
informed that "they thought Grant would
support them this year. and they would not
work"
In regard to the outbreaks betw, en- whites
and blacks there are. two sides, and 1t is
claimed here that such troubles are excited
by politicians of the party in the ascendant
to secure the sympathy of the North and it
is also alleged that the late troubles IN the
Red River parishes were excited by white
who organized gang for as
sault upon some whites attending ball, but
the plot was discovered.
whatever may be the merits of the case,
it seems certain that no white men not Re
pubicans were killed by the blacks.
Some of the blacks of st. Martins are
known to hav had their houses fired into in
the night by other blacks, so as to give the
that they were prosecuted on ac-
count Of color
zone of the measures of the Supervisors of
Registry is to prevent foreign born citizens
from registering, unless they produce natur-
alization papers.
zone of my friends, native of England,
has been a voter thirty years, and has resided
North until four years past. He favors the
white mans party, and consequently he is
refused registry unless he produces his pa
pers, or is naturalized again, which would
cost him journey to New Orleans, occupy
ing four days and costing some forty dollars.
Having become thoroughly satisfied that
no considerations can induce the blacks, or
any considerable number of them, to join the
whites in the effort to relieve this plundered
and oppressed state, / haye to come to the
that no way is left open to secure
reform but to join them.