New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-28

| wig. t25, 60Ot for tho current year should 3
released, st least il part, and on behalf 4,
| the State hereby sush0fise and requea
you to apply to the honorable the Superiae
District Court. for The release ct 5000 6
that amount: ev.sryc ss;Rs1atS,ST1l66i NE; /
Lieutenant and Acting Governor Of Lou;a-
lana.
The following order was also Issued: :
Executive Department,
New Orleans, October II, 1875.
It having been officially represented to the
executive that the civil officers and the
courts of the State in the parish of East Fe-
liciana have been interrupted in the dis
charge of their official duties by armed
violence and lswless disturbances and
assaults, it y hereby ordered thy
Major General Hugh Ri;. J: Campbell. Campbell
State Militia, proceed forthwith to Clintos,
the parish seat of East Felicians, and make
thorough Investigation and report of tho
facts. He will also extend all aid possible
to the civil authorities in restoring public
order snd tranquility and securing ODE.
dience to the processes OF the courts.
Lieutenant and Acting Governor.
The following letter was subsequently ad.
dressed to Judge Dewing:
STATE OF Lor1elAHA,l
tf- Executive Department, J
New Orleans, October Is, 1875.
Hon. W. Dewing, Judge Of the Fifth Judicial Dis.
rrct
S1R-I have received your report of tho
circumstances attending the opening and
violent interruption and Adjournment Of
instant. / have also received information
from other sources that condition Of law
lessness and turbulence most detrimental 70
the welfare of the community has prevailed
unchecked for some time in that parish and
in the adjoining parishes- sa
The interests Of the whole people require
that the courts should be respected and
and the administration of justice, and that
all armed violence should be suppressed. I
can not but think that the great majority
of the citizens of East Feliciana are il
favor of the maintenance of public peace
and order, and if called upon will sustain
the proper authorities against mob VIC
lence.
With . view, therefore, of securing =
proper observance of the lave. and in order
that parties aggrieved may not be deprived
Of their legal remedy in the courts through
the violent acts of lawlese persons, sue-
gest that you call q special term of your
court. to meet in East Feliciana on a. early
. day - practicable, and believe that the
law abiding citizens of the parish will CO.
operate with the State authorities in pre-
serving the peace and maintaining the dig
nifty Of the court.
Very respectfully.
&C. ANTOINE,
Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor.
On the Same day the subjoined dispatch
was received ct the executive efice from
the mayor Of Baton Rouge:
BATON ROUGE, October n. AIS P. NJ
To Acting Governor Antoine New Orleans:
John Gair was arrested here yesterday by
legal warrant by Deputy Sheriff Wood
ward, of East Feliciana, charged as IN &C.
esssory before the fact of poisoning DR.. j.
W. Saunders, and was taken from this city
at P. N. by deputy sheriff and posse
toward Clinton. Reported shot to death on
the road, and his sister-in-law hung in the
courthouse square there.
HENRY SCHORTEN, Mayor.
A special dispatch to the New Orleans
P;cay,sne furnished additional particulars
a. follows:
CLINTON, October IA. 1880 A. n.
The poese in charge OF Gair, and con-
Quoting him from Baton Rouge to Clinton,
were overpowerrd last night. eleven milee
from this place, by seventy armed and
maeked men, their srms taken from them.
and Gair, the party who had Dr.. J. w
Saunders poisoned, was shot to dea,h tie
same night.
Babe Mathews, the negro woman who
administered the poison for Gair, was taken
from the guards by An armed body and
hung to Q tree in the courtyard. All ID
now quiet. The negI oes consider it juet
retribution for the crimes of these danger
Gus negroes. LAMBERT, 81"
Editor Patriot Democrat.
No official report Of any Of the circum~
stances connected with these crimes has
been made to the executive department,
nor so far as am aware has any Indictment
been found or any legal investigation been
held. The following proclamation was is
sued by the Acting Governor:
STATE OF LOUISIANA
Executive Department, :
New Orleans. October Is, 1875.
Whereas, Official information has been
received by the executive department that
in the parish of East Feliciana, in this
State, certain evil disposed persons acting
in concert with residents Of the adjoining
State Of Mississippi, have banded together
brought about in the parish of East
Feliciana, and in the district Immediately
adjacent thereto, Q condition Of anarchy
and mob violence which is dangerous to the
peace and prosperity of that section Of the
State, and which has eliminated, among
other results, in the following:
l. In the violent expulsion from the parish
Of East Felicians Of large number Of the
parish officials, admitted to have been
legally elected and qualified.
2. In the compulsory adjournment of the
Fifth Judicial District Court in said parish,
and the shooting of the sheriff while in the
discharge of his official duties in connection
with said court
8. In the patrolling of the parish by bands
Of armed and masked men, on errands of
violence and bloodshed.
4. In the murder by masked assassins of
John Gsir, one of the leading cOlored citi-
zens Of said parish, while under the nominal
protection Of sheriff's posse, and while on
his way to answer q criminal charge pre-
ferred against him.
5. In the hanging by iawlese mob of q
woman, near relative Of said Gair, accused
of an attempted crime, and who, at the
time of her unlawful execution, was lodged
in the parish prison, awaiting trial. for the
otfense alleged against her.
6. In the incendiary burning Of countr
stores and cotton gins in this and adjacent
parishee; and
Whereas, All these disorderly and law
less acts are productive of great injury to
the State, and are subversive of all tho
conditions of peace and prosperity;
Now, therefore, !, C. c. Antoine. Lieu:en-
ant Governor and Acting Governor of tie
State of Louisiana, do issue this NV procla-
nation, commanding all illegal and disor-
DERBY bodies of men in said parish of East
Felicisna to dispense and retire to their
homes; and call upon all good citizens to
cooperate with the civil authorities in ar
resting and bringing to iustica all ouch