, 1876-11-27
TERRIBLE TESTIMONY. |
That of Two Witnesses
from the Threshold
of the Grave, |
Who Come to Confront the
Bulldozers with 3
Tale Of Horror.
4 Man and Woman Who We're
Loft for Dead in Qua
chita Parish.
Their Arrival i'll New Orleans
Yesterday under, Mill
tslry Escort.
Their Stories Vouohed for by a
Score Of Ghastly Wounds,
And Corroborated by the Evidence
Of Numerous Eye-'Vitnesses.
The South Carolina Cam
vassers Pass the Sab
bath in Jail.
Confident Expectation that a
Federal Court Will Lib
crate Them.
Gov. Chamberlain Again Calls on
the President for Assist.
ance.
Gen. Ruger Directed to Assist
Him in Preserving Peaco
and Order.
| Tilden Retains Ben Butler for
| the Congressional
Contest.
Hendricks, Voice Is for Peace, Pro-
yided IIo and Sam Are
Counted In.
Gen. Ruger Directed to Assist
Him in Preserving Peace
and Order.
TiIden Retains Ben Butler for
the Congressional
Contest.
Hendricks Voice Is for Peace, Pro-
yided IIo and Sam Are
Counted In.


TIE AWFUL DEEDS or THE DEMOCRATIC rANTY
IN LOUISIANA.
8pectai Dd:pasch TO- 1"e 7naHnf.
NEW ORLRASs, NoV. z"'-!Aeie a1slseo III
this city to-day hunbcf OF Witnesses @ iro'l,
0uachlta farlsn WHO Hehc1it = '''o5s F'..'".
spectacle, and whose STORIES arc 80 a"ia' tnat
persons Who cannot sec tnefn anu neaf .lca'
tcll theu OWL taAcb "oalu W sussta ~ ,,.."s,,
dul[ty. They were brought down by military
escort, with United States Deputy Marshal,
and there was no little difficulty In getting them
away from the parish. Among them Is Ben
James, the United States Deputy Marshal who
was sl,ot willis carrying the ballot-box to tue
Log-Town pull on the morning Of election and
left Tor dead. He Inns two bullet wounds III bis
head, two wounds in his right arm, WtliclI ts
broken, and oi!c tn the hip. Anot'cFls
EL1zA PtaRsToa'
whose husband, Henry ptnkston, and whose
bhby wero murdered by band of bualdozcrs
on tho Saturday preceding this election.
Eliza was present, and saw her husband cut all
10 pteces In his own house, mud his body dragged
out and shot full Of bullets after he was
dead. The baby VAS killed In her arms. She
hos bullet-wo,,na IN hcs breast, which passed
through her lung and out Of her buck, deep
cast from knife In her neck, bu'lot-wonndiu
one leg. q cut mith knlfo from the hip
nearly to the knee, and her head Is covered with
wounds, ono Of which wns given with the butt-
end of pistol, aud tho other With AZ ax. The
cords In ono Of her feet are also severed. She
VIVA lcft for dead, and how slo has survived 60
| tonf, secns to be miracle, as for two or threo
| wceka she has been almost constantly hunted
hv the Tildeu men who murdered lcl husband
and babe,
uENRF P1HKs1oN
| L.. tail a nn1nrrH E0n1EWf1Hf Uif-
| fcrent from the majority IN that he seemed In
capable Of fcar. Tile bulldozcrs Ind been to
him several times to got him to Join Demo-
cratic club, but Ao 1lad openly declarcd that lie
would do nothing Of tho kiud and, when threat
| cned, took M palms TO conceal ILLS contempt for
the bulluoxers and said he Wa afraid Of none
Of them, On
THE SATURDAY NIGHT BEYoRK the ELECTION
Eliza statcs that al,o heard a body Of horscmcn
ston in front OF their house, and u man came tc
the door whose voice she recognized, nnd sale
H.. 80. Rr.watcr. Henubl.can candidate for ths
| Ico1slaturc. and that he had made arrange
-,nnts ~ hovc him Hpinkston) safely
con,,uc,cd In Monroe, Ehcro ho cou!i
800 tbo ncmhlfran Ticket OIL elcc
i'm dav. Rbo sald "No, you nro not Mr
Nrewstrr. r1enry IL not hero" They thct
hro,;e in Tho dnor md one called out, "uas
I'm 0n, damn hIml Gar hint, And til,
room wus Oiled with armed men, WIN With tlei
rrtye. stahheti her husband till, as she saiti
1T. h,1v wns ,1tr1 with holes. and The bloc,
a"s,o,i ,,,.o water ,,,on tha gnnr. They the,
a,oFao1 1um mt. and shot hin crcat man
s,a.s st..rr.,;1s map mil In hcr. t.Ellza
.a,,t .,o,.,, ,hat nobvn She eaid. "If YOU ar
roinr to xiii nc, kill my baby too" A ma