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Show GENERAL. I LOUISIANA. Mure Scouiidrclism Exposed. Ex-posed. Fow Vulnerable Congressmen were Manipulated KELLOGG STEALS THE PEOPLE'S MONEY TO PAY COUNSEL AND CONGRESS FEES. The Weapons ol Corruption 9! 91 S- $ Private Correspondence I'u-eurtlicd. New York, 23. The Tribune has the following special: "New Orleans, 25. On the day of the Penn coup d'etat, when the revolutionists revo-lutionists seized the State House, after Governor Kellogg's retreat to the Office of Marshal Packard, ft large number of official and private letters were found in the archives of the office, and have since been in possession posses-sion of ci'.izeus. Among these were a number which passed between Governor Kellogg and prominent congressmen. con-gressmen. It has been freely intimated inti-mated that they contained important revelations as to the manner the Louisiana case was managed in Washington, with a view to seating Pinchback in the Senate and keeping Kellogg and hid party in power. A Tribute representative succeeded to day in securing the originals and copies of the same are given herewith. The first is from E. C. Billings, a Republican lawyer of this city, and one of the counsel for Governor Kellogg Kel-logg while the Louisiana case was before be-fore Congress. Willard's Hotel, 1 Washington, Dec. 3d, '73. j i JJear Governor: Chandler, Wm. E., I is working with us, and he has work-i work-i cd with us nobly and more effectually j than any one except Williams. He ; wished me to write to you about his ! fee, and I would arrange the matter i with him at the earliest moment possible. pos-sible. Edward C. Billings. I The following were written when ! Senator Carpenter's Louisiana bill was I before the Senate, and shortly before Congress adjourned: Washington, Jan. 22, '73. My dear sir: I have just received yours of the 12th, having been out ! of town for ten days, and j have accordingly drawn on you 1 for $1,000. Did I state in a previous I letter that of the draft of $2,000 which ' you sent me some time since, I found i it desirable to deliver $1,000 to Chandler Chand-ler ? I am glad to see lhat all opposition oppo-sition to your administration is dying out, and public confidence is being restored. 1 shall be happy to see you when you come here, and I remain, 'ours, truly, C. Cl'SHIXG. Hon. William Pitt Kellogg. Billings & Hughes, Couu-elors-at-law, No. 82 Custom House street, New Orleans, July 1, 1S73. His ExcelUiu-y, Dear Governor: I may leave for the North on Thursday, and if you are going to advance ad-vance me anything on my fee in your case you can hand it to Mr. Barratt, our common friend. J am, truly yours, E. C. Billings. P. S. - I have hopes that yon will make the payment as large as $5,000. Billings & Hughes, Couuselors-at-law, No. S2 Custom House street, New Orleans, July 1, 1873. Received from Hon. W. P. Kel-log Kel-log $2,500 on account, lor profession-1 al services in the case of Kellogg vs. Warmouth et al, I E. C. Billings, j Amount filed in this receipt by me, John C. Barratt, Jr! Boston, 19, 1873. Crest and motto, "C'omme je troune." To my d' ar Governor: I think my retainer in the matter of the petition in the Supreme Court about the affair in Louisiana, should be $3,000. I advised ad-vised in ihe cause with the counsel who argued it. They will recoguiie my services, and I was obliged inconsequence incon-sequence of a retainer to refuse one or the other side. Please remit by draft on New York, which draft will be -your receipt. Very truly yours. Benj. F. Butler. Hon. Wm. P. Kellogg, Governor of Nejv Orleans: General Butler refers to the case before the Supremo Court, but gentlemen gen-tlemen who are familiar with Louisiana Louisi-ana affairs, say there was no Louisiana case before that court at the time this letter was written, and that the services ser-vices thus ingeniously described were nothing less than his influence as a member of Congress in the Pinch-back Pinch-back and McMillan contest; in fact that he was interested and retained just as it appears from other letters that Caleb Gushing, Attorney -General Williams, and Wm. E. Chandler secretary of the Republican Congressional Con-gressional committee, were. There are other lelters.makingstartlingreve-1 lations, and implicating prominent, men in Washington, including two Sen-a Sen-a tors, to the extent that they areshown ! to have asked lor and acknowledged j the receipt of large sums of money from Kellogg, while the Louisiana ca?e involving the seats of Pinchback or McMillau, was bclore the Senate. A letter from Mr. Chandler acknowledges acknow-ledges $10,000, but speaks of hia effective ef-fective services and asks for more. The remaining letters will be brought forward hereafter, but it is impossible to get copies to-night. All have clear evidence of genuineness and authenticity of signatures, and the fact that they were found in Gov. Kelloeg's office is established on excellent ex-cellent authority. . |