THE MISSISSIPPI ELECTION.
The Senate elections committee heard Merrimon Howard, colored, of Fayette, Miss., former member of the Mississippi legislature. He was three times sheriff of his county, but had been ousted by the Democrats under pretense of fraud. Intimidation was frequent and he considered his life endangered should he return home. Richards, a colored lawyer from Claiborne Parish, testified to armed organizations which prevented Lynch, Republican, from addressing a Republican meeting, to fraudulent Democratic registration which disfranchised one-third of the negroes and general intimidation. Gibbs, a lawyer of Yazoo County, testified that the change in the vote in the State was due to the change in negroes’ opinions. Never witnessed any intimidation.