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Show HtRULK. la lawful fHanshiiT ol" Lmtu Id I.OUlNlItlltt. New Orle.uu, 23. T;;j Republican gives the following accuunt of the 1 ahJix-Bination ol James Lv.Yd, colored, of E.ist Feliciana: Mr. Dula ol East Feliciana haa reaeliKl New Or-1 Or-1 leans and brought with him the coffin ! that was placed at his duor on Saturday Satur-day and a bunch of Winchester rdle cartridges, which were placed wit.; it. He alao related lhat the crowd ot bulldozers, after threatening hi in, went on with the information that they would return oou aud put their threats into execution. Tht-y proceeded pro-ceeded to Jackson and rode up to the house of James Laws, colored, and touud liim scaled in his gallery with his mother. They said, "Hallo, Laws- Have you got back?" He rose and answered them, and wl-s in Btautly Bhol dead. This was on Saturday Satur-day night. Iu reference to the assassination ol Lawn, Governor Packard slates that just before his return to East Feliciana Laws wrote to him stating that on account of his presiding at the only republican meeting held in East Feliciana during the late campaign, and his consequent enforced absence from the pariah, his business as a merchant, he feared, hud been de-atioveu, de-atioveu, and begging Packard's in flu encc to get him a position iu the custom house. Packard further says that Laws'hud-lold him his life was in danger, as he had testified before the house senate cominiltie giving the names of prominent citizens citi-zens who threatened his life, and as he believed has caused his store to be fired. Packard further asserts that Laws was oue of tha best and most conservative colored men of the whole Feliciana district, and had previously held several influential positions with the full acquiescence of the people, and was a taxpayer owning $30,000 or '$10,000 worth of property. Packard haa transmitted the original of Laws' lelte , aud also an unpublished letter from Sherifl Websr, killed in the adjoining pariah, to Gen. B. F. Butler, for campaign 1190. Chicago, 21. The Inter-Ocean's New Orleans gives additional (acts ol the New OrleanH killing affair : John Laws, deceased, ia a republican mem berofthe legislature, a prominent, intelligent, industrious colored man. Hib crime was having testified before tho 6enare committee last January against the bnlldozerB. All colored men who tcstilied before that committee com-mittee will meet the same fate.1 Nicholas is powerless to protect. Two influential postmasters wero run out of the parish last week, and no action hag been taken. It is now learned that tho Calcasieu Calca-sieu logmen themselves told a disguised dis-guised United States agent the s'ory ot their stolen logs, and that he re turned to this city and presented the : affidavits and facts on which was based the seizure. |