Intimidation Cannot Be Assumed

Tue New Orlean8 correspondent of the New York Tribune, a journal which eertainly has no interest in aidiiig the Democratie cause, furnishes sorae valuable tostiniony to the point that "intimidiitiou " ctumot be assuined, either froin a failure of negroea to vote the Republiean ticket or trom the utter absence of Republioan votes. The correspondent snys : Several earnest, porsistent efforts to trace up stories of political outrages and find out just what basis thero bas been for them, and the memory that similar ropoits made by these same Republican politicianH of Louisiana have in so innny instances evaporated iuto thin air before the searching investigation of a Congressioual comruittee, make me slow to oiedit those I hear dow. There inay have been a rosolute reign of terror throughout whole sections of the State, as Gov. Kellogg in his dispatch to the Tribune has said there was ; and tliero are certain facts in counection with the election which, taken by tUemselvos, seem to give colur to the assertion. But safe advice to those who desire to get at the facts is to suspend judgment uutil tostimony on the question has batin submitted to the Returning Board. I say that the Denioorats will put in a general dcnial. ïhey will do more than that. They will attempt to show that the result iu the parishes whoro the Republican majority has 1 'een greatly cut down or tutirely ovreome has been due to the political conversión of the negroes. There are now in this city twunty or thirty nugro politicians who say and aro expected to swear before the Returning Board, if they have a chance, that they canvassed the counties in which these revolntions took place, in behalf of the Democnitic State and national tickets ; tbat wherever they went tlioy luid largo meetings of colorcd people, and that they formed the Uumocratic clubs, in somu instances numbering one hunJrt'd wen ach, they went (o the polls and voted Democratie tickets. Thoy deny that there was any intimidation or timt colored Republicana were prevuiited froin voting as they pleased. The Democratie committee atso assert tbat thtsy have voluntary aih'davits by R.'publican offiüinla living in " bull-dosed " parishos positivoly donying the assertions of Qovernor Kellogg in his dispatch to the Tribune, and doclaring that the eloction was a fair aud free one. üesides this, they oxplain the total ftbseneo ot' Kopublican votes in one or two puriHhes Ly asüöi'ting tliat the Republican managers in this city prevuntud a-ny Republican tickets being sent to those parishos, and issued ordurs to their frieuds thore not to vote. They say they can prove thoso ordars. ïhey aay finally that they can produce original copies of the iustructions of a United States official to his subordinates at the polls, in which the latter were told that they wore oxpected to carry their procincts by given majorities, and that if they did not do it, they niight expect nothiug trom tho Rupublicau party.