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Show GENERAL. LOUISIANA. Banditti Sheridan Talks Like Any Other I'pstart ; But He I Supported in His Lawlessness Lawless-ness by liraut and Hi ('irrupt Tools! Huly Jleu of Ud and Worldly Merchants say Sheridan is a Liar ami laliirauiater ! The Traitor KellnS Tries to Create a Siupathetie Sensation Sensa-tion with a Cock-and-BuH Storv about a Set-ond Wilkes Booth. A t.oiiiprnie Proposition. New Orleans, 6. The following ; dispatch was sent to Secretary Belk-nay, Belk-nay, by Sheridan to-day: "The city is vt-ry quiet to-day. Some of the banditti ban-ditti made idle threats last nitfbt that tlifv would assassinate me because I dared to tell the truth. I am not a (raid, and will not be stopped from informing the government that there are localities in this department where the very air has been impregnated impreg-nated with asaasai nation for some years." Washington, 6. The following telegram tel-egram was sent to Sheridan at New Orleans to-day: " I telegraphed you hastily to-day, answering your dispatch. dis-patch. You seem to fear that we will be misled by biased or partial statement state-ment of your acts. Be assured that the president and cabinet confide in your wisdom, aud rest in the belief that all acts of yours have been and wdl be judicious. J. his I intended U say in my brief telegram. ' W.m. W. Belknap. "Secretary of War." New Orleans, 6. The board of underwriters, to-day, passed resolutions resolu-tions similar to those adopted by t:ie cotton exchange yesterday, in regard to the recent telegrams ol Sheridan to tho secretary of war. The chaiiman of the conservative central committee has issued an appeal ap-peal to the people to be calm anil moderate, to avoid all traps set for them by their enemies, and assuring them that the sympathy and support of the entire American people are with them. An addrcis to the American people declaring that Sheridan's recent statements to the secretary of war are Humeri ted, unfounded and erroneous, and calculated only to serve the interests inter-ests of corrupt politicians now making an effort to establish their power in Louisiana, was issued to day, signed by Archbishop Perche, of New Or-feans, Or-feans, Bishop Witmer, of Louisiana, and a number of other clergymen. 'Ihe situation in the city is unchanged; un-changed; there is no excitement. The congressional committee examined Wm. Vigers, clerk of the Kelloiig house of representatives, who testified that at the first organization of the house on Monday 102 members an-Bwered an-Bwered to tneir names. On the second organization 54, he couldn't give the names as he only kept the tally sheet. He was so confused by the crowd that he couldn't keep the tally answering, three had been sworn iu since the previous roll call. Subsequently the committee examined exa-mined Governor Kellogg in reference to the white league. His testimony was n repetition of the statements he has previously made in published letters and proclamations. He denied de-nied absolutely the existence of any back league. In the course of the examinatiou ho informed the committee com-mittee of a conspiracy to assassinate President Grant. The conspiritors ware to rendezvous in Baltimore. He exonerated tho while league from any connection with this plot, which he believed was confined to a few visionaries. vision-aries. He gave the committee the name and address of his informant. He emphatically denied having any connection with or responsibility for the decision of the returning boaid. He thought their powers excessive aud wouldn't approve of thrn. The law was one approved by Warmoth ih the interests of the fuakmists. At |