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Show 'Hie Louisiana lu vestistitiou. Washington, IS. At the meeting of the select committee on the Louisiana Louisi-ana fed ral officers, G. W. Furgeraon, of New Orleans, u-i employe in tho custom house at that place, testified that lift WilQ imnlnuI in tUa nn.lniv, bouse when he le : New Orleans to come here, and that his purpose in coining hero was lo expose rnie of ihe irregulaiities in the custom Douse. Ayrc of New Orleans met witness at a hotel in this city since he arrived here, and asked witness what hu was coing to te-tify about, and told him that it would injure the republican party in New Orleans. Ay re also told witness that Hcrevii;, deputy collector at New Orleans, had plenty of money and could bring a hundred witnesses to prove IhH witness wit-ness would not be believed under oath. Witness replied that be did not think that could be done, and witness received the impression that Ayre wjs hero to arrest some of the witnesses who might testify before this committee, a Ayre is deputy marshal and brother-in-law of Marshal Mar-shal Tackartl. Witness did not oh- Win leave of absence when he came i here, and told Ayre that he ! expected to have his head cut i oil on the first oT the month. ! Ayre replied that ho would do it if; he was in their place at the custom house. In reply to Conger, witness said that he asicd his brother to go to the custom house and tell the officials that he was sick and could not attend to his duties, and then came op here. Witness sid he v.-. o employed in tho suar loom in tu-j custom house in 171, when twelve-cases twelve-cases purporting to contain Guava man named Huard, and the cts i were taken to the store oT Maot. i One box only contained jelly, the j other eleven contnined cigars. The case containing je"v was opened in . the presence of wi ' ;s and t lie other1 laborers, and they ..ere then told that there was no more wi rk to be done that day, and they went away. Witness Wit-ness secretly returned and saw the jelly box opened, hut he privately opened Borne of the other boxes and found that they contained cigars. Tho cases contained 11,000 cigars, and the fraud consisted in entering them an jelly. The duty on cigars was $2.50 per pound and 2-5 percent, ad valorem, and the duty and internal inter-nal revenue stamp on jelly was 10 per cent. |