The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-04-08
NEW ORLEANS FRAUDS.

The press dispatches, yesterday morn
ing, indicate that an investigation VIII
be made into Federal offices in this city.
The investigation should be rigid, thor
ough and searching Senator Eaton Of
Connecticut, only few days ago, mace
a speech at Hartford, in the course OF
which he said
when the New Orleans whisky ring was . ex-
posed st Louis and other Western ctieS q w, ir
leans frauds would be traced directly to the
White House and to President Grant. who was
cnuyersapt with all the facts. He claimed iuftnef
that men who had gone there TO ferret out the
facts had been killed. and that the Attorney Cen
eral was conversant with these tacts. but reIuSeu
~ take any steps toward Furnishing the muir
derers. lie knew this to be true. and ne knew
that the Attorney General and President also
knew IT,
Senator Eaton will evidently be
first-cass witness before the investl-
eating committee. His statement, so
positively made, is indeed startling,
and yet this is not the first time that the
crime of murder has been spoken OF in
connection with the New Orleans Gus
tomhouse frauds. Ia 1872 a prominent
Republican, then cooperating with the
Democrats, darkly limited the connec-
ton Of Federal officials with mysteri-
Gus murder which sometime previously
had been committed in this city, and it
is fact Of few weeks ago, IA
miliar to the whole city, that q
party was mnrderously assaulted
in the Granite building and no arrests
made. These rumors and facts assume
dark significance, taken in connection
with the positive charges of Mr. Eaton.
By all means, then, let us have this
whole business investigated.
The affairs Of the District Attorneys
office, also, require investigation. 1t is
confidently stated that, just prior to the
arrest Of the Grant parish prisoners,
Beckwith telegraphed the grounds Of
the indictments to the Attorney General
at Washington; that that official tele-
graphed back that he did not think the
indictments would stick, advising that
the matter be dropped. But the patri-
otto Beckwith replied that he knew his
court and his jurymen; that he could
make the indictments stick, and that it
was absolutely necessary for the preser-
walton of the Republican party to arrest,
prosecute and convict the Grant parish
men. We believe that these facts can
be proved by an investigation, and that
it can be shown that the prosecution Of
the citizens of Grant parish was one of
the most shameful and dastardly out
RACES ever perpetrated upon free men,
and that the whole thing was got up by
Beckwith and company for infamous
party purposes. An investigation OF
the compromise made by this worthy
official with the defaulting Lowell
would, very likely, also bring out some
interesting facts. Lowell, as Postmaster
Of New Orleans, as is generally known
was defaulter for upward Of 100000
and Beckwith compromised the matter
for $4,000. If the money could not have
been made out Of Lowell and his bonds
men, Lowell might have been sent tc
the penitentiary, where he belongs
This matter should be looked into. LIE
us have the investigation.
Again we affirm that the Fedora
offices in this city require investigation
They have been, and still are, cess
pools Of corruption, nay Of crime. Tht
Democrats in Congress cannot ignore
the fact, and public interest demand:
that prompt steps be taken to expose al
the foulness which has foryears existee
here under the patronage Of Casey
Packard and Beckwith.