ELECTIONEERING EXCITEMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 783, 23 June 1877, Page 3

ELECTIONEERING EXCITEMENT.

.Elections in the old country are sometimes provocative of considerable excitement, and the recent elections in New Zealand also caused some interest, but it was nothing as compared with the incidents of an American election, as the following will testify : — New York, November 20. The ' Times ' New Orleans special says. : " A startling scene occurred before the Returning Board to-day. Four witnesses were examined, all of whom had been wantonly shot because of their Republican principles, Two were brought to the city on cots. Their names are Benjamin James, Eaton Longwood, H W Bnrel, and Eliaa Pinkston. Duriag the latter's painful recital of her wrongs she said her husband was emasculated and then killed before her eyes. Her .babe's throat was cut while in her arras, and finally her % person Avas outraged by two Democrats. ExGovernor John Palmer of Illinois, leaped from his chair, said in wrath, 'If this story be false, those that prepared it for this poor woman should be hanged. But as I firmly believe it is true, the wretches who can perpetrate such atrocities should be executed without mercy. I will spend lO.OOOdoI to ferret out this case. It looks true. This poor woman has certainly been cruelly wronged. The question is broadeJ now than President-making ; ■ it is one of humanity. If she has told the truth, Sheridan should come back at once and hold in a grip, of iron the people who can see such infamy without remonstrance in their public prints.' Governor Palmer was greatly excited whib making those remarks, and astonished the Louisiana Democrats. General George B Smith, of Winsconsin, also exhibited much excitement, and turning upon the local democrats said, ' You have deceived us.' Subsequently Trumbull, who was absent from the room during the "toman's recital, concurred witli (general Palmer."