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Show 31 orders lu JLouislnua. Chicago, 19. Tribune's New Orleans: Or-leans: Further investigation shows that tho murder of D. A. Webber, republican collector of West Feliciana, was a heartless, cold-blooded assassination. assassin-ation. He was totallv unarmed and going homo from his newspaper i office, and received Bcventeen buek- shot in bis body from a gun firtd from the state house, or which lent . ing democrats bad forcibly taken! ' pos?ession during tho day. Though , Packard and Kicholls have offered a reward for the murderer, nobody confesses. The particulars of another aesofji nation in Desoto parish on the 10th inst. wero received tn a letter to day. joun r. mocro, mo victim, was elected recorder of Desoto; he was enticed by a legal process into an unfrequented court, where a hostile partisan, a democrat, drew him into a political discussion, applied au opprobrious epithet to him, and when ho resented it one of the bulldozers shot him. He returned tho shot and took to his horse, but was pulled oil his animal, and wtiile held prisoner a man named George Graves fired both barrets of a shotgun, loaded with duck shot, in his face. A general fire was opened on him. Despite his appeaU, they continued to lire on him, to bc;U him, aud finally left him fori dead, He was, however, able to get on his horie, and after numerousd adventures reached his home whither ho had been pursued by tue human blood licunds, and where he shortly alter died. H13 wile writes that her two brothers and a (riend stood guard over him the lust night of his lile. liolh Mooro and Webber were native white republicans, not carpetbaggers. Aprominont Nieholla' officer reprobates these murders, faying. fay-ing. "The damned fool who would like to kill a republican at such a time ought to be hanged." The most prudent white Icagu- rs entertain this sentiment. |