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Show Testliyins; under lUIIciiltie.i. Washington, IS. Ferguon, a New 1'ork custom house employ, testified further that wncu received re-ceived the subpeena to testify bWore the Louisiana committee, ilerrwig, deputy collector, trifd to intimidate him when he gut here, and Washington Washing-ton Ayretf, Marshal Packard's brother, told him lOO.wituerses could readily be procured toswear lhat be lied wbrn he tealiiied about frauds in t.is cuatom house. Ho deceived ;he custom house authorities sj to the reason of his ab-once from the post, becau-o bid they known he would ttssiily before the committee ho was convinced that he would never have left the state of Louisiana alive. When he arrived here he kept shady as he heard that Ayres had a warrant to arrest him in order to prevent his going before the committee. |