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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-18
More "Red.Handed Work. -

Caddo parish is writing up a record for
its people of outrage, lawlessness and
crime, such as will some day call for a
fearful retribution. Verify, she is ''treas-
uring up to herself wrath against the day
of wrath" The horrible details of the as
sassination of Munoz, the Spaniard, and of
the harmless and helpless old negro Baylor
are supplemented by another murder of q
poor old colored man, the details of which
are furnished in the Southeastern Telegram,
of the twelfth instant:
On Monday last Mr.. Lucien E. Dodez,
Justice of the peace for this, the fifth ward
of Caddo parish, was notified that the
body of murdered man had been disc0v-
cred about eleven miles south of this city,
and in his capacity as ex.oficiO coroner re.
paired to the neig ghborhood, and was shown
where the half devoured body lay, and
proceeded at once to the discharge of his
duties. The body, that is what remained
OF it, for it had been for some time furnish
ing food for the foul birds and beasts of
prey, was lying on the banks of stream or
bayou, partly in the water and partly out.
A jury was at once impaneled and re-
turn made OF the verdict that he came to
MS death by gun shots, in the hands Of a
person OF persons unknown, on or about
the hrst OF August, on the Cary place,
about eleven miles from the city of Shreve-
port, on Brushy bayou, in Caddo parish.
1t may excite some surprise that body
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-18
The Attnkapas Register.

This lively newspaper, whose misfOrtunes
| we have been compelled to chronicle dur
| ing the past week, comes to US on half
sheet, vigorous and sparkling In the best
| of good nature it apologies for its cur
tailed appearance:
We offer an apology to our readers for
our diminutive size this week. We have
been sacked, pied, pillaged and plundered.
| We hope we won't do so any more.
On the morning of Tuesday, the eleventh
instant, as we walked into our office scene
| presented itself which would make one
| think that threshing machine, a tornado,
prize fighter, or a first class maniac had
| travelled that way. We have studied this
thing slightly, and if any printer wants 'pi,"
we can give him enough to last him
| through the summer season. 1t any
printer is getting too many cobwebs
how to relieve him in trice of all such
little entangling alliances. We promise to
do it first class style, and we defy compe-
tition. We can put up a job of which we
wouldn't be ashamed in any civilized cOun-
try. We don't care whether the machine
is "Franklin," "Howe" or Washing
ton." we know how to quell all questions as
to the freedom of the press, and we think
we can batter up the thing in such style
called back from beyond the Styx, would
pass il by in unbroken silence and would
disclaim all knowledge of the original de-
sign with which the affair was built. We
have an inky flood upon our floor, waste
of ideas all around and for dessert we have
a Guttenburg dodge podge.
Our knees smite together as we read upon
our walls the tracings of an invisible hand
':K. X. K."-which we interpret to mean
clicked" "kudgelled" and "kategorically"
Ku-kluxed We can wish our nocturnal
visitors no greater happiness than to say,
may their shadows never grow less, but
continue to grow more and more until they
shall obscure the light of literature, the
illumination of the press and the efulgent
corruscations Of our DEVILS genius.
In another part of the paper little polit-
ical secret is disclosed:
Take the lawyers out of our parish and
St. Mary would never have any White
League or trouble. The lawyers must have
Office and the poor whites must fall in
line when they whistle.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-18
Court Items.

AL the courts except the Supreme, Su.
perior District and Superior Criminal were
in session yesterday.
In the clerks Office of the Superior Dis.
triet Court were many anxious private
market men and reporters, but information
was scant.
Application was made by counsel for an
other rule for contempt but this plan was
abandoned. The understanding seemed to
be that another measure was to be taken.
This is to inforce the injunction-not by
further rules, but by preventing any inter
ference. ANY person interfering with the
order of court against which no legal oppo.
sition has been made, either by rule or
otherwise, is to be Immediately arrested
This affords opportunity for further devel-
opments
The First District Court did not do much
business.
Judge Tissot of the Second District
Court, and Meunier, of the Third District
Court, sat as usual a.
The Fourth District Court was busily
engaged all day in trying rules.
Judge Cullom, of the Fifth District Court
plainly exhibiting the healthy effects of a
few weeks at Biloxi, sat all day doing the
same thing.
Judge Saucier, of the Sixth District Court,
whose hard work deserves the relaxation
afforded by a leave of absence, held court
until P. M.
Nothing was done of public interest
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-18
NEW YORK.
NIOultOn.

NEW YORK, August ia gentleman
who saw Moulton at Ipswich, Massachu-
setts, this morning, sends the following dis
patch to a Brooklin paper:
IPSWICH, Mass, August II, 1874.
Frank Moulton boarded the train at Salem
this morning, and the writer had a lengthy
conversation with him, and briefly sum-
married. the information gathered from the
interview, which is as follows:
Moulton says he is in this section to fill
some business engagements, but that he
transactions; he will return to Brooklyn
when his mission here is completed, and
not before; can give no opinion as to the
probable time of his return home; he has
dlgested Beecher's statement with regard
to the blackmaihng charge; he is much
struck with it, and, speaking on this point,
said, with great emphasis, there's no black
mail about it, everything in connection
with money matters in this case can be ex-
planned satisfactorily to everybody. Moul-
ton still declares his course has been an
entirely honorable one, and he proposes
that it shall continue so the end. MoultOn
course and shall strictly adhere to the plan
l have adopted. What that plan is no
human being but myself knows. When l
get ready to be interviewed" said MoultOn,
"the interviewers will be busy enough"
Mrs. Lockwood. the Female Lawyer.
Mrs. Lockwood, the lawyeress, leaves for
Texas tomorrow. to be absent some forty
days, for the purpose of settling up the
estate of the late Judge John c. WatrOus
of that State, who died some two months
ago in Baltimore. Judge Watr0us was q
large landed proprietor in Southwestern
Texas,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-18
The White League at Work in Iberia.

A correspondent of the Iberia Progress
gives the following sickening account of
White League lawlessness and political
mendacity in that parish:
For the last fortnight imagination can
not conceive the atrocious crimes of bar
barism committed on the poor harmless and
defenseless negroes-their huts, houses,
every night are surrounded by horde Of
vandals enshrOuded in the name of White
Leaguers, who discharge vOlleys of shot
guns on the residences Of those poor un-
fortunate people. Even in broad daylight,
whenever and wherever they are met, the
most cruel chastisements are inflicted. Not
withstanding the servile punishment, they
are afterwards exciled from the parish at
the peril of life, if caught in certain lapse
of time. Most of them are property holders,
and are comfortably settled. These poor
people are made TO abandon their homes,
families, crops, interest, ETC., to the villain
Gus prosecutors of freedom.
We too, Mr.. Editor, are being made to
feel the tyrranical oppression of the pur-
ported party White League, whose unscru-
pulous design is murder and exile of the
negroes of this parish, unless they pledge
their faith and support to the White League,
or anything directly contrary to the Repub-
lican party. If this is the plan adopted for
the campaign by this White League party,
we may as well abandon the crops and de-
liver them at once to the wilds of the parish,
for the sake of the political aggrandizement
OF few ambitious Office seekers.
By chance l have read the telegram of
Mr.. Duchamp in the Bee of last Saturday,
charging Louis Mitchell of incendiarism and
murder. Louis Mitchell is native of Breaux
Bridge, bred and reared by respectable and
virtuous parents. whose character and con-
duct have been hitherto irreproachable and
witness in the case OF Veazey in the atfray
which resulted in the death of Charles
Guilbeau.
To my personal knowledge, the acquain-
tances of the deceased have resorted to all
means to induce or bribe the witness from
appearing in said suit. He has been offered
large sums of money and horse to leave
the State, which he has always declined
with Indignation; still his prosecutors fol-
lowed him SO closely that he left this place
early last spring.
As for the charges and manner of dis
cOvery alleged to Louis Mitchell, it is merely
a fabrication on the part of the White
League to give color, palliatlon or excuse
for all the hideous crimes they have COM
mitted lately in this parish. l am exceed
ingly sorry and panied that Mr.. Duchamp,
the respectable gentleman, so termed by
the Bee, should have been persuaded to
atfix and involve himself in labyrinth of
nonsense and falsehood. How much better
it would become the dignity of that gentle
man to speak plainly to that nefarious
party, and tell them at once, "NO, gentle
men, your will can not be obeyed, shall
not, and never will, serve as a party instru-
ment tor political purpose"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-18
THE RULE OF THE RIFLE
BULLETS TO THE FRONT IN ST. MAR TIN
The Parish Officers Retire to the Rear

The following dispatch was received by
Governor Kellogg yesterday. 1t will be
seen that the bad elements of st. Martin,
under the pretense of making war upon the
officials who hold positions which are covet-
ed by the Democracy, have struck at the
dignity of the law and the peace of the
State. The forced retirement of the parish
officials can in no manner favorably affect
the assailants, since it will not place any
Of them In any of the positions vacated.
The duty of filing the vacancies devolves
upon the Governor, and he may exercise it
by reappointing the ousted persons, or
leaving the parish without officers for few
months:
NEW IBERIA, August II, 1871.
To his ExcelIency Governor W. P. Kellogg:
A mob of about five hundred White
Leaguers, armed with double barreled shot
guns and rifles, took possession of the
courthouse in ST. Martinsville and forced
all of the parish officers to resign, and the
State tax collector also.
S, WAKEFIELD.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-18
FOREIGN.
BIancO Mt VittOria.


LONDON, August II, $50 A. M.-The
Standards special dispatch from Madrid
reports that the Republican General Blanco
has relieved Vittorla He captured twenty
cannon and several conv0vs from the Car
lists, who retired from Estella. General
Zaballo has been recalled from the field to
Madrid.
Bazaine's Whereabouts.
The Daily News says that Marshal Bazaine
has arrived at Spa, and NJ. Rouher has gone
to the Chateau d'Arnimburg to consult
with the Empress Eugene.
The American Ball Playe ers.
The American ball players appeared at
Sheffield yesterday. The game of cricket
between the Sheffield club and twenty-five
Americans was begun. The Americans won
the toss and went to the bat, and made l32
in their first inning. The English then
went in, and when the game was suspended
for the day they had tour wickets down,
with eleven runs. During the evening the
visitors gave an exhibition of base ball, in
which the Bostons beat the Athletics by q
score of l9to 8. Weather fine. About 1000
spectators were present.
Cricket.
The cricket match between the Americans
and Sheffield was renewed to-day with
meagre attendance of spectators. The
CuXllSuLu0u CUmplOVOO CAO AASS AAAAAA6
with count of 43, and added only As in
their second inning. This gave the Ameri'
cans the game by AZ runs, they having
made 100 in their first and only inning.
On Saturday the American clubs after
ward played o game of base ball. The
contest was very close, and resulted in q
victory for the Boston Club. Score-Bos.
tons lS Philadelphias II.
Marine.
The steamer Lady Lycett, from Liverpool
for Baltimore, is at Queenstown with her
machinery disordered.
Monetary.
The street rate for money is sd below
the bank rate.
The Condition of Laird.
The condition of Laird, whose serious
illness was announced on Saturday, is i'm
proving.
NIncMahos ON his Travels.
PARIS, August l6.-Presiden MacMahon
left Paris last night on tour through Brit
tany. He has arrived at Lemans, where
he met with an enthusiastic reception. To
day he visits the barracks and work shops,
attends banquet and reviews the troops.
From Lemans he will proceed to Laval.
President MacMahon arrived at Lava
this evening. The city is decorated with
flags, and tonight there is general illu
| mination. The President holds q review
tomorrow.
Ominous.
The Journal Des Debots regards the elec
ton in Calvades as ominous Of danger, ant
| W arms the country against the threatening
| attitude of the Bonapartists.
LIE Temps says that while the monarchica
parties are disappearing the Bonapartist
| are again coming to the front.
Bancroft Davis at Paris.
Bancroft Davis, the newly appoints
Minister Of the United States to Germany
arrived in Paris Saturday, and leaves fo
Berlin on Thursday.
Election In Colvadee,
Complete returns from the election in th
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-18

TUESDAY, IS 1874

go far gone in dissolution and otherwise
disfgured by being fed on as stated, and
which had evidently been lying there for
over a week, could be identified. The rea.
sons that caused the witnesses and Jury to
come to the conclusion that it was the body
of the old negro Isaac Friersen, were briefly
these: |. That he was missing. 2. The
as the same as worn by Isaac Friersen when
last seen, and when he had visited Justice
Dodez' office in this city. just before the
murder, for the purpose of making a COM
plant; and thirdly, because from the ap-
pearauce of his mouth, almost entirely de-
void of teeth. proved that he was very old
man.
The body was found in the swamp, as
stated, about two miles from the residence
of MIR. Willis We understand that young
Willis states that his mother (who was
was going on) told him that late Saturday
evening, August ], she observed three white
men and one negro stop at the well in the
lot on her place and take drink of water.
She couldn't recognize any OF the parties.
She observed that they pointed in the di-
rection of the swamp, and went off in that
direction, from whence the reports of two
guns were distinctly heard. She thought
nothing of this until the body Of the mur-
QereO man was UlSCOV6Icu. Luis OCCurroU
on Thursday last, by some negroes, but the
fact was not reported to the proper officer
until day or two Later.
It is also rumored, and we have not had
an opportunity Of saying with how much
truth, that a gentleman living in that
neighborhood was going home from this
place in his wagon, on Saturday, the first
instant, when he was asked by an old
negro to let him ride. He did SO, and when
within short distance Of the residence of
Mrs. Willis three armed men, on horse
back, rode up and took possession of the
negro. He, also, says he did not recognize
any Of the parties.
The old negro, Isaac Friersen, was over
seventy years old, and it is somewhat
strange that he should have been made the
victim of such murder. 1t is said that he,
some time since, had falling out with his
employer, which came near resulting
seriously This affair occurred in the vicin-
ity of the place where, on the twenty-ffth
of July, Just one week previous, James
Baylor, another old negro, was shot and
killed by party or parties unknown" as
the stereotyped coroner's verdict reads,
and, we again as then, call upon the author.
tiles to look into these matters. They are
untrue to their official obligations if they
neglect to do so any longer.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-18

| department Of Calvades yesterday for the
| vacancy in the Assembly show DeIaunay,
BOnapartist, received 1921 votes, and
Aubert, Republican. 27,2s
French Aasbassador to EDsiand.
Count Jarnac has been appointed ambas
sador OF France to the Cour. of ST. James.
Dead.
n. de FORBADE Laroque, the eminent
statesman, died to-day, aged ffty-four.
Mime. Bazaine's Statement.
The Cologne Gazette publishes a letter
from Mime. Bazaine to Minister Chaband
Latow, in which that lady declares that tho
substantially true. She says she planned
the affair heaself, and had no accomplices
except one Of her relations.
An Insurgent Raid.
HAVANA, August 1.-THE insurgents
made a midnight raid on Santa Spiritus
last Friday. They seized the armory of the
volunteers and after remaining in town
about halt an hour made off with twenty
rifles.
Puttin8 Business ON a Geld Basis.
The Captain General has issued decree
requiring after the first of September that
all customs due be paid only in gold, or, at
the option Of the taxpayer, in bank or
treasury bills, with the increase of 100 per
cent. The only exception made is on the
proceeds of contracts and mortgages, the
terms of which stipulate that all payments
thereon shall be made in paper.
A Highly Sensational Story About An
American skipper.
NEW YORK, August 1.-THE Pail NaU
Gazette of the fifth says: According to
Bayonne paper, an American skipper cap
tain, John Jefferson, of the London, played
trick in the Bay Of Biscay the other day
which will cause irritation both at Berlin
and Madrid. He appears to have sent
telegram from BilbOa to the Spanish gov
ernment to the effect that the United States
had ordered cruiser to see that no Ameri-
can ships landed arms for the Carllsts.
Marshal Serrano immediately wrote q
letter of thanks to the minister Of the sister
republic, who replied that he knew nothing
OF the cruiser in question. However, before
the matter could be inquired into, Captain
Jefferson had accomplished his nefarious
purpose, and while playing the part of
United States vessel Of war, alluded to in
the telegram, he had. under the nose of the
Spanish feet, landed twenty seven guns,
etc., for the Carlists. After this the Lon
don quietly left the port of Bermo and
vanished in the horizon. It is to be hoped
that this affair will not engender claims
like those of the Alabama.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-18
COURT RECORD.
MONDAY, AUGUST II, 1874.
limited states Circuit Court.

In1Gcu StatcD OlECUAt NVuTts
Frank M. Ames VS.. S. B. Cole & Co. ct
als.-In this case an order was this day re-
ceived from his Honor w. B. Woods, judge
of said court, ordering the defendants.
William P. Kellogg, A. P. Field, j: G. A.
Fellows. j. B. Cotton, Lyman j. Dodge,
Theodore A. Martin, sheriff of the parish of
Jefferson, their agents, aiders, assistants
and deputies, and each OF them, to forth
with desst from interfering with the rail
roads, branch roads, etc., lying west OF the
Mississippi, under the control and custody
of this court, and to surrender the same to
petitioner, or his agents, and that on failing
to comply with this order. after one day g
notice, writs of assistance issue to the
United States marshal commanding him to
maintain the complainant and petitioner in
bis custody, and entire control of the prop
erty, and that application for said writ be
made to the clerk of said court.
Superior District Court.
B. Buggett VS.. City of New Orleans:-Pe-
tition sets forth that petitioner, who is
dead, has been illegally condemned to pay
$l95 of taxes, and the sheriff is about to
seize certain property; that only the Second
District Court has Jurisdiction; that he is
willing to pay the taxes if the penalties are
deducted, and prays for citation OF the city
to answer the petition.
First District Court.
ISFoRMATIoNs FILED.
Assault and battery, etc.-Peter Hubsch,
David Nugent, E. Caband, Elijah Drake.
Larceny-Maria Williams.
EoLLE PROsEQUI ENTERED.
Assault and battery-Joseph Moore, Ed.
Williams.
Larceny-Henry Smith.
vERDICTS.
Wounding less than mayhem-TOny
Herrera. Guilty.
Larceny-Fred Kifer. Not guilty.
Second District Court.
Mrs. c. T. LeBeque asks to be authorized
to sue.
SUGGESTIONS of John Hail. Martin Henry
Lapranzs and George Ball opened.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-18
A Difficulty between Kentucky Gentlemen

"A D1mCulty between he0tucky Gentleme0s
From a gentleman who left Lawrence.
burg, this morning, l learn that the exam.
in1ng trial of Armstead Portwood, Jr., for
take place to-day, probably not for day or
two, owing to the peculiar circumstances of
the case, as one which the magistrates
seem to regard as jutifable homicide.
The funeral of Horace Witherspoon took
place yesterday, at Lswrenceburg, in the
presence OF a few relatives, friends and ac-
quaintances. He was buried by the Masons,
of which fraternity he was member, some
of the members Of the lodge at Rough and
Ready joining with those at Lawrence
burg in the performance Of the Masonic
ceremonial at the grave.
As evidence Of what dead shots both
PortwOod and Withersponn were. it is
stated that short time before the death of
DR.. Chambers, while they were still good
friends, they went out one day to practice
with their pistols at a mark. The target
was nail head in plank fence, at dis.
tance of twenty PAGES; after firing num-
out taking aim-it was found that each Of
them could drive the nail head three times
out of five. Portwood's pistol was large
sized Smith and Wesson; Witherspoon's
navy six; and it was with these that they
were armed in the deadly encounter of
Tuesday evening-only Witherspoon had
on two navies, neither of which did his too
quick antagonist give him time to use. BY
the by, it is said that POrtwoOd never took
down his pistol to cock it after he COM
menced firing, but cooked it with his thumb
and fired as rapidly as though it had been
a self-cocker. People outside, across the
street, say that the six shots were fired in
as quick succession as the strokes OF a
cheap Yankee clock.
notice that it is stated in one of the pa
pers that Portwood's father, Armstead
Portwood, Sr., is the present sheriff of An
derson county. This is q mistake. He was
formerly sheriff, but resigned about year
ago in order to give his whole attention to
a five thousand acre farm which about that
time he partly purchased and partly in.
herited through his wife from the estate of
his father-in-law, the late Armstead Miller
of that county.
After the killing of Horace Witherspoon
by Armstead Portwood, Jr., and after the
latter had surrendered to the jailer-the
only peace officer at hand-and had been
placed under guard at his own office and
residence, a messenger was dispatched on
swift horse for Portw ood's father, who re.
sides eight miles distant in the country.
The old gentlemen, it is said, arrived in
town in less than one hour and half after
the homicide. On his arrival the meeting
between the father and son is described as
very affecting. Young Portwood still labor
ing under the excitement of the trying
scenes through which he had passed, threw
himself on his fathers neck, exclaiming:
'"Eather. you have heard all; will you
stand by me?'
"You bet will ~ instantly shouted the
old man. eyes, by the eternal God! I'll
stand by you till the last day in the morn
ng."-Correspondent Louisville Courier
Journal