The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-22


hoping 20 make their pront out OF the sale Of land
invaluable to the navy.
Very Rich Developments Probable In
the Pinchback Cause.-The Mulatto
statcsman To He Thrown Overheard
by tho Rep ublicans.
The unloading process decided upon by the adj
ministration, which was intimated In these
dispatches, has commenced with the Ptnchback
incubus or the Louisiana election case and heavy
load IN to fall with the drawing OF the inchpin
But there is doubt as TO where and
when 1t shall be dumped. Now II seems
that Mr.. Morton, who has been devilled
by West and Pinchback for several days
in the Senate finding that ne cannot sustain the
election OF Pinchback, has moved an investigation
in order to decide his unntness. In this Grant and
Morton are once more together, Chief Justiceship
differences to the contrary Notwithstanding
Pinchback, however, has it IN his power
to make disclosures which win a1ect high
of1ctals II not the republican party,
very uniavorabIy. These disclosures will be
in regard to the election, and II the con-
test is made on Pinchback personally he may be
disposed to make them public, In which event as
founding developments may be expected. Prom
this 1t seems that Pinchback is disposed to fight,
and Grants refusal to receive him to-day 1t the
White House Will not produce more
friendly feeling. II Pinchback goes 1t is
a moral certainty that the Kellogg government Will
have to 60 by the board also. McEnery is said 10
have placed some testimony in Morton's hand to-
day which is very damaging, and on the whole
the thing has q bad look all around 1t.
A bill has been prepared by the Com
mittee on Elections Of the House, it is
understood, declaring the election null
and void and ordering new one, but either for
strategic discreet purposes it has been withheld
for the present. However. there seems no doubt IN
the minds Of leading republicans here that a new
election will be called. 1t may be that this concu-
sion VIII act as compromise between
the warning interests and that the hideous
ulcers connected with the New Orleans
political body may be thus temporarily
concealed from public gaze. But endorsed
as he Is by the presence and cooperation Of deter
mined and desperate men, and with his muatto
blood, just shade remote from the white, Pinch
back may, with the fierceness Of q Salnave. fight
back, tiger-ike, to the death, before he Will SUBJ
NIT to being stamped out by his supposed
friends He is just the man to take des-
perate chances in q strait, and if there
is not an eletrifyiDg denOuement in the
case. it will be because shrewd management and
compromise will have been able to settle 1t, which
event there seems at present the best ground for
doubling. witnesses are IN the city to prove that
trade was made between Pinchback and Norton, in
which Norton gave Pinchback $4,000 TO withdraw
from the Senatorial fight and assist in eecting Nor
ton, which money Pinchback put In his pocket and
kept until the election was over, when he returned
It. This was done not only with the knowledge
and cOnnivance of Governor Kellogg but at his
suggestion. He gave as the reason why PInchback
should take the money and withdraw IRON the con-
test that Judge Durrel would rescind his inter-
locutoy order relative to holding the State House
with troops and marshals, and thus overthrowing
the Kellogg government. Further Witnesses are
here to prove that Durren sent threatening mes
sages to the negro members Of the Legislature to
induce them to vote for Norton for Senator,
saying:-''Tell those Id niggers II they
don't behave themselves 1 win rescind my
order; that have set the Id govern
ment up and I win pull it down" 1t will
be remembered that B. P. Blanchard, the late
State Registrar Of Louisiana, and ". L. Long,
his chief clerk, some months ago published afida-
Wits in which they pretended to tell how they had
perpetrated frauds in favor Of McEnery and Sc
cured his eertlOn. 1t Is known that Mr..
Morton, in the Senate, and the Kellogg party
depend upon the aHidavits Of Blanchard and Long
to vindicate them the merits of the question
when 1t shall arise for sustaining the Kellogg gov
ernment. 1t now appears, and the evidence Is
here to sustain it, that Blanchard received for his
perjury and services first, the appoint
ment OF two personal friends, Lynn and
Long respectively, as State Registrar
and Chief Clerk Of Registrar; the first
being the same ONCE held by Blanchard, and
Long having been Blanchards chief clerk, and, as
alleged by Blanchard and Long, party to the
frauds perpetrated in the interest OF Mr.. McEnery.
Second, Mr.. Blanchard's brother was tax col
locta in q dafa nj far I'm ho
sum of $4,000. He was indicted for embezzlement
and his sureties held for the amount. 1t appears
that in further payment Of his services Blanchard
was permitted by Kellogg and his Auditor Of STATE
to settle the claim OF the State to the amount of
$4,000 with $500 Of State warrants, which cost
Blanchard $500 in the market and had been pre-
viously rejected by the same Auditor as
fraudulent, and so endorsed on their
backs by the Auditor. Third, Mr.. Blanchard
has received and Is now receiving money from
Kellogg and is still to receive lucrative once
Tor his services in this affair. The revelations In
regard to this whole affair will be rich and enter
tanning, and 1t will appear that Pinchback, who
has been used by Duren and Kellogg. is much the
least culpaDle OF the prominent figures in this
drama OF corruption and fraud. aJ
The Evening Session OF the House.
In the evening session Of the House, after some
discussion OF legal and technical points of no gen.
eral puolic interest, division revealed the alb
sence OF quorum. there being only about forty
members present, and Mr. Eldridge, OF Wisconsin,
insisting that there should be legislation BY less
than quorum call Of the House be-
came imminent; but, in order 10 avoid
that Mr.. Eldridge withdrew his objection,
and the Clerk proceeded with the read
ing Of the bill revising the statutes. After getting
through nineteen OF the 300 printed pages which
the bill contains the House, at ten O'Clock, ad-
journed.