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LONG, CHARLES C. 



LOUISIANA. 



captaincy in the regular army, his inclination 

 for an active military life led him to apply for 

 an appointment in the service of the Viceroy 

 of Egypt, whose army was then deprived of 

 officers by the recall of the Frenchmen at- 

 tached to the Egyptian army. Long acquired 

 the appointment of lieutenant-colonel and 

 chef de V intendance. The scheme of the Khe- 

 dive for throwing off the Turkish yoke was 

 defeated by the diplomatic interference of 

 England, so that for some years after Long's 

 entrance into the Egyptian service, in the be- 

 ginning of 1870, he was disappointed in his 

 hopes for an active military life. In the com- 

 mencement of 1874, upon the appointment of 

 Colonel Gordon as successor to Sir Samuel 

 Baker in the governor-generalship of the 

 Equatorial Provinces, and the organization of 

 an extensive expedition into the regions of the 

 upper Nile, Long was detached at his own re- 

 quest and sent to join Gordon at Gondokoro 

 in the quality of chief of staff. For three 

 years he took a prominent part in the expedi- 

 tions, full of adventure nnd rich in geographi- 

 cal results, which revealed much that was 

 unknown of the sources of the Nile, of the 

 Niam-niam and pygmies west of the White 

 Nile, and of the countries on the east coast. 

 His experiences have been recounted in a book 

 named "Central Africa: Naked Truths of 

 Naked People." His first expedition left Gon- 

 dokoro in April, 1874, very ill-provided with 

 supplies, and destined to endure great hard- 

 ship ; he penetrated to the seat of M'tse, the 

 monarch of Uganda, navigated and surveyed 

 for the first time the Victoria N'yanza, and 

 discovered the connection of that lake with 

 the Albert N'yanza and the Nile ; he also dis- 

 covered the considerable body of water called 

 Lake Ibrahim, north of the Victoria Lake. 

 The Khedive rewarded the explorer with the 

 rank of colonel and the title of ley. In 1875 

 he commanded a military expedition into the 

 Makaraka and the country of the Niam-niam, 

 and encountered specimens of the remarkable 

 pygmy race, one of which, a woman, he 

 brought back with him. In September, 1875, 

 he was dispatched with sealed orders from the 

 Khedive at the head of a force of 800 men 

 on a maritime expedition to the port of Kis- 

 111 ay a in the dominions of the Sultan of Zan- 

 zibar. They captured the three ports of 

 Brava, Kismaya, and Has Hafoon. While wait- 

 ing for further orders, Long explored the Yuba 

 River. In the mean time the Sultan of Zan- 

 zibar had appealed to the English Govern- 

 ment for protection, and at their intercession 

 the Khedive receded from his position, deny- 

 ing his responsibility for the occupation of the 

 conquered country under the plea of an " ex- 

 cess of zeal " on the part of his officer. The 

 occupation was not, however, entirely without 

 results, since the extension of the Egyptian 

 dominion as far as Ras Hafoon on the Indian 

 Ocean has since then been recognized by the 

 British Government. 



LOUISIANA. An information was filed 

 against the Returning Board of the State, in 

 consequence of the instructions of the grand 

 jury of Orleans Parish, on July 5, 1877. It 

 charged Wells, Anderson, Casanova, and Ken- 

 ner, members of the board, with uttering 

 forged and counterfeit returns from the parish 

 of Vernon of an election held November 7, 

 1876, for Presidential electors, by which the 

 votes for the Hayes electors were increased 

 from 2 to 180, and those for the Tilden electors 

 decreased from 864 to 469. The accused plead- 

 ed not guilty, and one of them was brought to 

 trial in January, 1878. 



The case of the State vs. Thomas C. Ander- 

 son, as this trial was named, was commenced 

 on January 28th. In evidence the public rec- 

 ord, the subject of the charge, the consoli- 

 dated statement of the parish of Vernon in its 

 altered condition, was exhibited to the jury. 

 Its genuineness as having been the original 

 true record and subsequently altered was clear- 

 ly proved. It was proved that in its original 

 condition it was an honest, true statement or 

 record of the votes cast by the voters of the 

 parish of Vernon for Presidential electors, at 

 the general election in November, 1876 ; that 

 it was in its true condition placed in an enve- 

 lope, sent to the board of returning officers in 

 New Orleans, received at the office of the 

 board, opened by one of its members in the 

 presence of the accused, Thomas C. Anderson, 

 who commented thereon, and it was found to 

 be in its original and true condition. It was 

 proved that after the statement had been ex- 

 posed to view, a party at the time then pres- 

 ent took it into his possession, and for identi- 

 fication placed thereon two private marks. 

 Said marks were observed on the altered state- 

 ment when shown to the jury, being pointed 

 out by the witness who had placed them upon 

 it. It was shown that such papers as consoli- 

 dated statements, tally-sheets, affidavits, etc., 

 pertaining to a parish, were placed in a pack- 

 age, sent to the chief clerk's office, and therein 

 deposited for safe keeping and for future re- 

 quirements, the papers of each parish in a 

 compartment by itself. It was shown that all 

 final action on consolidated statements or re- 

 turns of the election taken by the returning of- 

 ficers was in what was termed secret session, 

 being in contradistinction to the other regular 

 sessions. It was shown that no one was 

 expected or permitted to be present with the 

 returning officers during the secret session, 

 except the attorney for the Returning Board ; 

 that the Returning Board law regards the 

 board complete with five members, one of 

 them to be of what is called the opposite party ; 

 that only four members participated in the 

 action of the board, all being of the same 

 political party; that although repeated appli- 

 cations had been made to the board, incom- 

 plete as it existed, to have the vacancy filled, 

 said application being in behalf of that portion 

 of the people not connected with the political 



