Connecticut western news., 1877-01-05
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Interesting Items from Home and AbrOa,


 the election in LoniasaHa, T1ie Statement of the Republicans as presented to the committee sets forth That the late election in this State was at certain polls and in certain precincts and parishes made hull nnte t3idi t3id in law by violence and intimidation that from 12,OOO to 15,OOO Republican voters who desired to vote were put in fear of their lives and kept from the polls, and that from 5000 to 5000 Republicans who desired to vote the Republican, ticket were forced te vote the Democratic ticket that in said election the right of from 16, GOO to 2O 900 colored persons to vote was by these means de nied and abridged. The report gives parishes ill which intimidation is declared to have taken place by name, and charges that white Demo- crats are responsible for the intimidation. It cites instances of murders which it charges were for political ihtinidat;or. TNe oohllsel for the Democfats in t]seit report say that at the cleo ton ih the State, November 2, 1876, majority of the legal votes for the Democratic candidates averaged about 8,OOO and that the election so far as the Democrats were concerned was fair and peaceable, and no effoft was spared by the Democrats to secure fair and quiet election It charges that the leaders of the Republican party determined and oonspred to carry the State by fraud and unfair means that they ap- pointed none but Republicans as supervisors of election that they sent out corrupt men from the cities to the parishes to act aa super visors that false registFatioH papers to the numbef of lo,Qoo We're given to colored men who wished to vote the Democratic ticket that illegal United States deputy marshals were ap- pointed to surround the polls and fntimidate voters; that federal Hioney was wrongfully used to aid the Republican cause that the re- turning board of the State was illegally com posed of Republicans alone, and that the board exercised powers that they did not possess that on of. the Republican electors held his office illegally, being United States surveyor at the time, and that the returning board did as the climax of said conspiracy, fraudulently cast out a number of Democratic votes, say about 13, GOO, in some cases casting out whole parishes with out justification, and fin others boxes showing heavy Democratic majorihes, violating law and even violating its own rules and mode of pro- ceedings, thereby accomplishing the results de- sired by said conspiracy,
 In an interview with h reporter, Gov. Hen dticks, of Indiana, declared it the duty of the House to see that any wrong the Senate may at tempt is defeated. When asked what public significance is to be attached to the action of the Democrats in calling public meetings in the Northwest, especially in Indiana, Gov. Hen dricks replied that the power to decide the cleo toral vote claimed by the president of the Senate greatly contributed to excite public feel ing stil!, tne meetings were called by the Democrats. not for the purpose, he supposed, Of making any threats, or organizing atty resist ance against authority, but foE the purpose of making public expfession at the threatened invasion cf popular rights, and of giving the House of Representatives an assurance of SUD- port in the exercise of it's constitutional rights and prerogatives, It Is perhaps proper to add he saye, that should the House positively assert It's right to participate in the count, and should that right be denied and refused by the Senate < supported by the Executive we would stand in the presence of serious dahgers not because of any patty movements. but because of con- hict ill the machinery of the government, with out any tribunal for it's adjustment. The report that secret political society is being organized in Indiana, the purpose of whic}, Is dangerous he is confident is without foundation.
 Tie superintendent of the money order de- de is defaulter to the amount of Ss, eco: The boiler of the tugbnat jae0b G. Neafe exploded 1 while iii tic lower New York bay and Capt. ! Cooley and two men were drowned by her sink ing. The engineer and fireman were rescued from portion of the wreck, but were severely injured by the Explosion. "A brutal dog fight Occurred near Laurel Hill, l.. L. for $1, 200 side. The dogs died in the pit, with their fangs ill each others fesl,---both being terribly lacerated, Tho roughs participating breku tip in a general fight in which several were in jured. Five stores and two dwellings in the business portion of the village of Phillips Me-, were destroyed by fire. Loss, $10, 900. " A large portion of the village of Nays Lick. Ky, was devastated by fife. Loss, $12, ,OOO . Indians captured four freight teams near Hat Creek, U. T., killing two of the men in charge. The other three guards es capped. A collision occurred on the railway near Princeton, Mass, and one man was killed and twenty passengers injured, several fatally. ..... Eight men were instantly killed and four injured by the explosion of the boiler in Bu- chanan X Co.'s sawmil near Sulphur Station, Texas. .....T The second evenings sale of the Johnston art treasures in New York realized $176,S22. The highest price paid for any paint ing was $12, 800 for Church's Niagara"
 A bill has been introduced in the United States House prohibiting the use ot federal troops at elections unless they are neces sary on account of foreign invasion. It was re terred. ...... Another incendiary fire has occur red at Little Rock Ark-being the sixth in az many days-and $12,000 damage done Two other fires were started, but were discovered and extinguished. vigilance committee is being formed, and it is generally understood that any person found firing building is to be shot on the spot. The Alabama claims court leave S9,OOO,OO0 on hand. Ire government of Colombia, South America has successfully put down the rebellion, after defeating the rebels in number of engagements. . Lieut. Frank D. Baldwin sends the following dispatch to army headquarters, under dae of Dec 9th : "Yesterday, with a force of one hundred men of the Fifth infantry, followed and drove Sit ting Bulls camp of 190 lodges south across the Missouri rver near the mouth of Bark creek. He resisted my crossing for short time and then retreated to the Bad Lands.' Sitting Bull IS in camp on Bark creek, with over five hundred warriors. .Twenty-one males and eleven female students were arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia, for unfurling a red flag bearing the words " Union and Liberty and shouting Liberty at the time ...... Col. James Bagley, who commanded the New York Sixty-ninth regiment during the war; and 8 prominent member of the Tammany society, died suddenly of heart disease
 A number of leading citizens of Philadelphia, comprising both parties, have petitioned Con- gress relative to the present political difficulty It confidently hopes {" that your honorable bodies will earnestly consider some mode of