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Especial Dispatch to the shreveport lines
New Orleans, February 29.-The
House yesterday, after stormy SEES
sion, preferred number OF articles
of impeachment against Kellogg.
The Senate resolved itself into a
court of impeachment, Ludeling
presiding. The court then, without
hearing the articles of the House
or any evidence whatever, in viola
ton of all law and precedence and
common decency, refused to recog
nize the House managers OF i'm
peachment, declared the action OF
he House to be partisan and that
Kellogg was innocent. The pro
tests offered by the Democratic Sem
ators were refused hearing. The
conduct of the Senate was disgrace
full and insulting in the extreme.
Indignation is universal and there
is much talk of revolutionary pro
ceedlng. The general opinion is
that the House should tomorrow
impeach Kellogg, Antoine aud Ln-
deling and force the Senate to hear
the cases in a legal matter. To-day
is legal holiday. Many rumors
are aflOat as to the action to-mOr-
! row.
The Democrat is publishing dis
patches from all the parishes urging
impeachment. The following spe-
cial appeared in that paper this
morning:
Washington, February 2S.-In
reply to Kellogg's telegram, an
nouncing the probability OF his i'm
parchment and asking the Presi
dent for the support OF the army,
West answered to day that only in
the province of the constitution
would Grant interfere, and there
fore the Governor must rely entire
~ upon his own resources to main
, tain himself in his present dilemma.
This from the President is regard
ed as fatal to Kellogg and his sue
cessfnl impeachment is considered
now a foregOne conclusion.
Here is the Democrats second
dispatch:
Washington, February %, 1O:9.-
Gov. McGoffin, of Kentucky, says,
| "impeach Kellogg for his violation
of the laws and constitution of the
country. The country will stand by
: Louisiana on this ISSUE"
j. III. GILLILAND
New Orleans, March 1, 1876
) The House convened at 10 o'clock
| 1t is thought articles of impeach
ment will be preferred against KEEL
logg, Antoine, Ludeling, Anderson
9 Hawkins. Howell, TaIiatero ant
\ others. Dough-faced Democrats ant
moral towards here depreciate thi:
movement, but will rejoice in it,
r success. A lively time is aDticipat
ed. Will keep you posted.
A special from Washington to th'
J. Democrat says the action of tn,
>. Louisiana Senate is universally de
nounced as illegal and null and void
: and revolution in public opinion
J. has taken place there, and vigor
Gus prosecution and impeachment Q
. all the Kellogg crowd will be sus
q tanned. The Democrats in Congress
+ are a unit as to the action Of Legis
% lature. Neither the President no
le Congress will take any action in tn
f. premises.
:, Vicksburg, Miss, February &c.
The steamer Mary Bell burned a
of the wharf Sunday afternoon. Sh
W had five thousand bales of cottor
seven thousand sacks OF cotton seel
u FIVE hundred cabin passenger.
Many passengers were ashore at th
time. Forty Vicksburgers had jus
gone aboard. The fire broke out vi
der front stairway and in seven mil
Id utes the whole boat was sheet (
- fame. The steamers Yazoo an
Tallahatchie were lying on eithe
II side transferring cotton to the Bel
l. 1t is believed everybody was saved
1t is thought the loss Of life mus
have been great but for the ',roxin
ut ity of the Tallahatchie, on which til
e, people escaped and were pulled OF
y OF danger by tugs. About q thou
70 and bales of cotton saved. ALI els,
IT including books, papers and passel
a gers baggage, lost. The boat wa
:. valued at a hundred and twenty-fiy
" thousand dollars and was insure
for fifty-five thousand. Total los
over half a million dollars. The fl
is believed to have been incendiar,