The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-10-29
LOUISIANA.
PROCLAMATION REQUESTING THE CLOSING
OF SALOONS ON ELECTION DAY:

NEW ORLEANS, October 2S.-Msyor
Wells issues q proclamation requesting
the closing oi all kinds Of drinking So.
looms on election day, and calling upon
all good citizens to use every effort 10
preserve the peace.
FRAUDULEST REGISTRATION OF NEGROES.
Between five and six thousand frsudu-
lent registrations ot negroes in this city
have been discovered, but the authorities
do not strike "a from the lists. They
include DemOu. stiC negroes, many Of
whom, It is alleged, have from five TO ten
registration certificates each. The Re
puolicans claim that there are as many
falsely registered whites as negroes. 1t Is
evident that II the laws are enforced, the
State Prison will soon be filed with DO.
litlcal rascals who are now at large.
Address BY THE CENTRAL CHURCH CON-
MITTEE OF CoLoRRD REPUBLICANS.
The Central Church Committee OF filty
Republicans (colored) have issued on sd.
dress stating that they constitute nine.
tenths Of the Republican voters of the
state, and ask an equal distribution of
public patronage. They demand that the
colored men shall be consulted upon all
questions involving the interest which
they represent and the welfare OF the
whole people OF the State. They do not
propose to be blindly led as they have been
In the past.
NEW ORLEANS, October 2s-A large
meeting OF the members oil the bar took
place to-day in the Sixth District Court
room. The committee TO whom was re-
terred the duty Of preparing resolutions
expressive oi the opinion oi the bar of
New Orleans as to the power Of the Sec
ond District Court to naturslize aliens
under the acts Of Congress, reported; First,
Inat the Second District Court Of New
Orleans is District Court, and entitled
under the acts Of the Congress Of 1862, to |
naturslize foreigners. Second, That the |
Second District Court oi New Orleans is |
q Court OF record, with seal and Clerk:
mat It has common law jurisdiction, in |
that 1t Is Court which entertains suits
ior money, demands, and all personal ac-
uons against successions, minors and in.
terdlcted persons, and as such has iuris. |
diction to nsturalize aliens. Over one
hundred members OF the bar were pres.
ent, who approved oi the above report and |
signed it. j
NEW ORLEANS, October 2S.-The Con.
servatives decline to accede 10 the propo-
siuon OF Kellogg to have two ballot boxes.
one set apart for the reception OF voters
raturaltzed BY the Second District Court |
The opinion ot W. W. Whitaker, which
was requested by Attorney Genearl Field
as 70 the legality OF naturalization before
the second District Court has been given,
and Is the reverse OF that oil the Attorney
General. Mr.. Whitaker is Of the opinion
that the Court has jurisdiction.
MONROE, La, October 2S.-Conmis-
sioner Jewett, after reading lengthy |
opinion, quoting from the evidence Of |
Scott Rains, colored prosecuting wit
ness, held Judge Scott, Recorder Ramsey
and Mayor Richardson in bonds OF 81 900 |
each. Messrs. Huey, Msyfeld and Phil
lips, OF Lincoln, were admitted to bail in |
the sum Of 5000 each. Huey, after his |
release, was rearrested by Marshal Selece |
catching him by the goatee, on a second |
warrant Tor violation Of the enforcement
act. Huey asked for the Marshal's au-
thority, when the Marshal caught him BY |
the arm and carried him of. Huey gave |
8 second bond.
The band OF Trenton and Monroe sera.
nsded the released prisoners and large
number OF citizens were in attendance.
Report OF the telegraph business west Of
Vienna, mentioned last night, confirmed |
United States soldiers swear they heard |
the order given to cut the wires. John |
Townsend and two colored men witness.
ed the cutting. Townsend swesrs he saw
the cutting and was halted going along |
the highway by armed men, he was told |
he might he wanted. He swears that the |
ends OF the wires were wrapped around a |
stump and stuck under fence. Perfect
quietness prevails all through this section.
NEw ORLEANS, October est is IN.
derstood that the names Of 1,500 persons,
charged with having iraudulently regis.
tered, are before the grand jury, and q
600 more remain 10 be prosecuted.
Joseph Milbraugh and Mary johnson
were before U. s. Commissioner E. D.
Craig, charged with violating section G
Of the Enforcement act, in breaking up
meeting Of colored Democrats.
The report that Gen. Emory is TO be
succeeded in command here by Gen. De.
Trobriand is untrue. DeTrobriand, who
has been absent, will report to General
Emory for duty, his regiment being sta.
toned here.
AN INDIGNATION MEETING.
At mass meeting Of foreign born
citizens tonight, resolutions were passed
denouncing the attempts being made by
the State officials TO deprive them et their |
right OF suffrage. They call upon their |
brethren throughout America 10 hold 10 q |
strict accountability the political party |
which thus disfranchises them. They
state that they intend 10 cast their ballots
on the second oi November in the same
box as other American citizens. The
meeting was largely attended and was
quiet and orderly. B. L. Lynch, Judge
OF the Fourth District Court, was natural.
ized in the Second District Court since
1864.
PRISONERS RELEASED.
HOMER, La, October 2S-The peoplo
here are jubilant over the release Of the
prisoners al Monroe. A grand reception
is preparing for them.
Sufficient evidence has been lound here
and at the District Court in Lincoln 10
warrant tAat the Grand Jury will ind
true bill against selye and others for cut.
ung the telegraph wires. Judge Trimble
Is lully determined TO punish the parties
KELLoGe's RuLE1NG ON BALLOT BoxEs.
NEw ORLEANS, October 2S-Kellogg
having decided that the ballot boxes for
the city shall contain q compartment for
the ballots Of voters naturalized BY the
Second District Court, and the said natu.
rallied citizens having tonight resolved
to deposit their ballots in the same box