Show by telegraph AMERICAN NEW ORLEANS 15 rhe the house committee admitted only the witnesses and counsel of both parties w with ith persons erso ergo n s s specially p e e Invite invited di today to the i investigation riv e s t leation henry carroll colored living in orleans parish five miles below the city testified that he was form formerly eriv a republican but became a liberal and voted for mcenery and tilden this year for which ho he was threat ened with murder and attempts were made to kill hill him A man wa was killed on nov loth being mistaken for him bini win ward colored of grant parish testified that the republicans shot and knocked him in the head bead for wanting to run for the legislature he was then a republican and had to leave the state because he knew too much and was threatened he remained out six months then run for the legislature legislatures though fairly beaten he wrote a history of the outrages in red bed river biver parish I 1 it t true at the he time now he be knew better ward ia is a democrat now 0 B morton of now new now Orle orie orleans aus aug testified that having been dischar discharged he saw in the cei cri custom tom hougg house e affidavit affidavits being made out not in accordance cor dance with the testimony given by the so called intimidated witnesses he testified to hearing from numerous supervisors that they would fix their parishes all right and throw out all the necessary returns john petty a colored democrat testified that he bet had been shot an and d beaten for voting the democratic ticket he testified that the demo cratic cratie n negroes r es were very generally intimidate e and threatened that sheridan would devour them and they would be enslaved some did not vote at ali ail all nil on that account representative morrison telegraphed speaker randall tonight to night that tho the committee would be antagonized and op opposed posed in every way in the discharge of its duty witnesses had been intimidated president orton refuses to give up the tole telegrams grains it Is 19 believed upon assurance from washington of being protect protected edi and without the power of the house to enforce its process the committee cannot discharge its duty duly the house should remain in session T vo ortons artons message b he give gave the following 1 I have nothing to dor da with your motive in iii re refusing to obey obdy the process iro cess of the house of representatives tail ves my duty will be herfor performed ined by invoking its enforcement of such process Regret regretting tin 9 ydun your refusal ihl of the information necessary to ascertain the as to the Loul loui louisiana slana siana election I 1 am ac ap is 11 wm 1 I oung mate of the steamboat b tait tAil couvert PoU vert verl quarrelled quarrel led with two of the colored deck hands bands who adt pistols and were about i to shoot him when abnot another her hen d deek deck C ck hand fir gired fired ed on and wounded them A large bowd of negroes collected and when the police arrested the man who did the shooting they took hamaway hia him away he was finally secured when the police attempted to take him to the station the negroes attacked them with pistols bricks etc several shots were exchanged resulting in wounding ten to twenty negroes and three or of four whitis the times washington special says somo reports of a sensational character are afloat tonight to lo night which undoubtedly have a basis of 0 truth information is claimed to have been received concerning a secret organization of democrats in indiana ohio and other states including new york formed on the plan pian I 1 n of the old knights of the ge golden goiden iden circle circles and designed to in inaugurate au u rate tilden by force of arms tife thero there re have b been an communications i received by democratic 1 ingv and file but from some prominent on t mon men which which indicates that a purpose to make trouble ia is wildly entertained they claim that they can surround washington with armed democrats at ten days noti notice c e an and it if the reports alluded to are cor COT correct ct the secret organization is for the purpose of preparing for such a concentration cent ration of force in the absence of exact information it is perhaps as well weil to treat such as sensational but it impossible not to give come ome credence to tb them be because caus they tiley their origin mainly from a demp cratie cratic source so far as indiana concerned the democrats are aie precisely as they did in 1861 1862 when murton morton saved the state from joining the concede confederacy ra CY 0 the org organization niza tion may turn out to be nothing but part of a game of f bluff ind and brag which the democratic leaders here are playing they of course counse course desire it to appear that there Is is a desperate purpose to put tilden in the presidency hoping to secure enough republicans from acting with their party to secure the peace abie able bio blo counting in of tilden the times columbia special says t ig Is un understood der stood that after the in m augu ration of hampton yest yesterday erda the he democratic members of g the i senate would withdraw from the chamberlain legislature and go over ver to carolina hall but the open oven ing ng of the senate today to day found them hem still in their seats as aland still without in an upper house the trouble is that hat they cannot agree among themselves hem selves as ns to the course to 0 pursue some of them hold hat that it was a fatal mistake for lor the he hampton men of the other house louse to withdraw from the legislature that they ought to have remained ema ined where there could be no fuestion ue stion of the legality of their po and thus have bavo gained advantage they could had they hey done this it is thought that they hey might have secured the speak A bill in equity was filed today to day on m behalf of the centennial com nis sion slon the principal points of in tere erest of which are that subscriptions ions lons were received to the amount of f and after alter the ahe kiy payment of debts there remains two millions to distribute there were no profits and the stockholders cannot iannot be reimbursed the defendants claim that the balance should be w distributed pro ro rata among the creditors of thi board 0 rd and assistant treasurer eyster claims claims for the government govern Sovern ment out of said balance the board say they have bio fio ao hi interest terest teresi whatever in the said balance but in order to be protected in the premises they pray the court to order claim claiming Dg parties to and to decide their rights by decree as in chance chancery y the board offering to dispose of ir the h fund in the meantime as the court may direct brownsville BROWNS VILLE texas 15 gen rocha one of the best officers ceis cels in the be mexican army and general of a division has arrived from new Orle orie orleans ans aus lie he sent into honorable exile by the liardo government as minister to berlin he comes here with the fullest po were wera from ahe ghe the iglesias party and if matamoras is not surrendered he will 11 probably attack by assault I 1 in n a few days gen Qua sadra of cuba and brother accompany him gen Reo Beo still holds and is endeavoring to collect collet a tax of three per pen cent on all property which is being protested against and resisted by foreign merchants who have deposited t their thein eln qin cash and keys with the american amerlean consul for safe keep keeping iob loi the arbitrary measures of Reo Beo have lost him all sympathy and his downfall is certain iglesias partisans assert the conf confirmation ir mation matlon of the news of the capture of lerdo the death of escobado and the general submission of pf the interior to iglesias they are in high feather at the arrival of rocha who will relieve cortinas of his hes command and thereby prevent complications with the authorities on their side on cortinas no account count trade has lims been paralyzed by the condition of affairs in ift Bl mexico exico and every one is anxious to resume business NEW YORK 16 W ff vander bilt bill of the new york central rall bail way ways has signed the agreement roi foi an advance of freight and ger rates which theo thep theother the other ther lines have been pressing upon him with the freigh freight discrimination against new york unchanged the steamship batavia Ea taula tavla arrived this morning bringing in specie specie NEW ORLEANS 16 before the house investigating committee witness 21 H peter a republican of bew hew orleans said he was a united states stites supervisor in the and 2nd ward an attempt was made by to republican commission to prevent ant the democrats from voting 1 tn regard to the poll 1 I lists names being different from the names on the registration paper the day after the election hare harel a republican commissioner I 1 said aid to me there was wag gome some trouble about this poll and that the democratic committees would ouid jearm be arrested ted and they would I 1 tike the box and fix it up to suit themselves vest reEt to the latter two deputy marshals called the witness out and asked him if be he had gone back on the tho party casey the republican marshal said t there ere was money in ILI it bhat chat that if witness would let him have the box he be would get 1000 witness declined the ofner offer and notified the democratic committee who sent a force for protection the republicans finally made an attempt to seize the box after it had been taken to mr brims brings office where they were to make affidavit to the returns the plan was to arrest the democrats and take the box to the custom house hare republican finally refused to testify to the correctness of the returns saying that his instructions would not permit on friday after the election ho he met marshal carey who said to witness you are a traitor to your party and knocked witness down A colored man then struck witness over the head witness offense offence was that he had certified to the returns as correct and refused to allow the box to be taken by the republicans the cross egami examination nation was peaceable quiet and fair mr donnelly came to his bis room and told witness if he did not kee keep in he would be killed for going baek back on his hia party witness is still a republican he asked col potter and others othera for far protection from irom violence washington 12 ail all ho gambling houses in this city toffie some tome fifteen in number were wore closed last night the proprietors fearing a raid CLEVELAND ohio IG 10 in the gale last night a large number of houses were unroofed and in some cases gides tides of buildings blown in church steeple one of the hig highest hiest hiRst in the city elty was blown entirely the loss will probably reach CHICAGO 16 the Journal journals 8 washington special sa says ys up to the present time wade hampton has not made any application to the president for recognition as governor of south carolina but has con tented himself with trying andl erectly to secure the recognition of the wallace wailace houses effort ile he has signally failed it is expected ejected that the question of deciding between chamberlain and hampton will be brought to the attention of the ryes president ident within a few days and the republican leaders entertain no doubt as to what the decision will be NEW YORK 16 on monday next freights froni from chicago to new york will advance to thirty cents per hundred on grain and flour and to thirty five cents on fourth class and the present rates are twenty cents the rates west ni will ilag libe bp advanced to fifty cents for first elass class las and the same proportion for other classes claims through freights will be the same on all the lines CHICAGO 16 the Tribune tribunes 8 washington special says it is ascertained bained that the house congressional committee committees in seuth sauth carolina are attempting to discover an error if possible which will enable them to claim one tilden elector in place of burley hurley JH urley whose majority owing to what is claimed is purely a clerical error was wag but owing to the absence of the democrats in the south it happens that the republicans have a majority in the elections committee and aud consequently antly the democratic members ref refuse to attend the meetings thus preventing a quorum they say they will carry this out until the democrats return many letters received here from western states telling of the formation there of armed organizations have caused much talk and excitement it is openly claimed that washington could be surrounded by half a million armed men in ton days ti to inaugurate tilden NEW yore YORK 17 the tribunes washington spec al on the sudden departure of morton from that city says the generally accepted theor theory r of his visit has been that the administration believes it important that he should personally ascertain the real object and extent of the democratic movement move mentin in his state and whether its purpose is simply to arouse pub lic ilc opinion in favor of the inauguration of Til wil denor denon in reality military in its character if the latter iatter should be found to be the fact it has been supposed that the administration would consider it desirable to provide for a counter organization strong enough to meet it on its own ground another theory seems to have originated in high administrative istra tive circles that the collections collection of munitions of wari warp war the fourth in size in the countr ysis stored at indianapolis di and in view of the mass meetings which the democrats have called at that and other points in the state and the suspicion t hat that they may not be entirely peaceable in tp their purposes oses it was deemed by the president nt and cabinet highly important that measures should be taken to protect them in case any emergency should arise the chairman of the national rational democratic committee denies ail all knowledge of a military a ry organization democratic members from the north are divided in sentiment the majority under the lead of such men as fernando wood and randall are disposed to adopt extreme measures while the minority led by calmer men like hewitt scott lord and a few others othera from other states are in entire accord with the democratic representatives in favor of every conservative course hewitt has repeatedly been accused of sympathy with the ultra wing of the nort northen northern heen been democrats but in truth als ais entire influence in all caucus cau cusses ses seB thus far held and in his hla intercourse with his fellow members has been in complete harmony with the efforts of lord hill and other members who defeated the resolutions introduced by wood the tribunes washington special says chandler laughs at the idea that the democrats can make anything out of his telegrams as chairman of the tha republican committee 4 ile he says saya he has not the slightest objection to the examination of every one of them he has always regarded the telegraph as an affair that no prudent man would commit a secret to A dispatch he says pays ia Is no more private than a postal card the operators may read it in transit and persons not in the employ of the telegraph company may listen to the click of the instrument ri ment und and knowing the tel tei telegraphic language may ay get got possession of messages ho he was careful during the whole of or the campaign to trust nothing to tue toe wires which be bd was not willing the democrats should see knowing that they would probably steal his dispatches and he worded all mes meE messages sages in such a way that the I language could not be distorted to his prejudice the democrats have finally decided to serve a sub subpoena poona upon orton tomorrow to morrow ordering him to appear in lse lve new rew w orleans on tuesday apgear appear with 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