The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-04 00:00:00


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THE SOUTHERN STATES.

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INDIAN AFFAIRS.

Arkansas is in a state of anarchy, the inhabi-
tants and the militia being at open, undig,uised war.
The stories told of the doings of the militia some-
what resemble those related of the Ku-Klux Klan.
Augusta is nearly deserted in the anticipation of
an attack on the militia which holds the town, and
which in that event, General Upham (commanding)
threatens to burn. The Memphis Appeal, writing
on the morning of the 18th December, says that
" Negro militia companies are being raised and sent
to the scene of the disturbance. oit informants
report that on their downward trip they met at
Philip Bar one company of negro militia, at
Helena another, both on their way to Cross county,
where they will march up Crowley's Ridge. One
of the companies is commanded by the notorious
Hawkins, and has committed all sorts of outrages.
We are informed that they robbed the people in-
discriminately of everything they could lay hands
on—horses and mules especially. They have com-
mitted several murders, and threaten with death
all who remonstrate at al. We learn that the
villain Upham and his crew have threatened to
seize Colonel D. C. Cross and put him to death.
Luckily Col. Cross is out of the reach of him. Many
of the oldest citizens have been compelled to leave
their homes, and those that have not have been
seized and held as prisoners and hostages. Like
Upham, Ilswkins, and others rely on this
fact to save themselves from being attacked.
We await further news with great interest."
The news from Little Rock states that, on the 17th
December, " Mr. Brooks introduced, in the Legisla-
ture, a bill requiring all persons to withdraw, within
60 days, from the Knights of Camilla, or Ku-Klux
Klan, under penalty of a heavy fine and imprison-
ment of from one to ten years in the Penitentiary.
It was ordered to be printed. A resolution approv-
ing the Governor's proclamation of martial law in
Conway county was adopted." All accounts agree
that great atrocities are perpetrated on both sides,
and peaceable citizens were being driven out of the
State. In Virginia the farm of ex-Governor Wise
in Princess Anne county was surrendered to him by
the Government on the 17th December. The owner
of Libby Prison has by the same authority received
a year's rent for the use of that building. Under
the decision of Judge Underwood, that the courts
which convicted certain criminals were illegal on
account of the ineligibility of the judges, others
have been released, and there is a prospect of a
general gaol delivery throughout the State. It is
definitely announced that the stay law of the State
would not be extended after January the Ist inst.
The Legislature of Alabama has been in session
over three months, and is now principally employed
in granting aid to railroads and acting on bills of a
purely local character. The Tennessee House of
Representatives has defeated, by a decisive majo-
rity, the Omnibus Bill, granting $2,500m0 aid to
certain railroads ; and wisely, we should judge, as
the State is now selling several railroads to recover
money previously loaned to them. In the Florida
State Courts, Lieutenant Governor Gleason has
failed to oust Governor Reed. Mr. John C. Norris,
the Republican Sheriff of Warren county, Georgia,
was waylaid and shot, on the night of the 15th of
December, between the Court House and his home,
in Warrenton. The Ku-Klux are in control of the
Black Belt. The North Carolina House of
Representatives has voted to pay promptly
the January interest on the State debt, and
has pledged the taxes for that purpose if ne-
cessary; but the Senate disapproves of the re-
cent purchase of 800 acres of
Statela rrem er notndforapeniten-
tiary farm, and has ordered the
to pay for it. The accounts of the cotton crop of
the South are very encouraging, and it is antici-

pated that the yield will exceed 2,700,000 bales.
The planters and farmers are said to be in high
spirits, and that, in addition to cotton and sugar,
sufficient wheat, corn, and sweet potatoes have been
raised to feed the labourers. In previous years the

planters obtained advances from the factors to sup-
port their hands while the cotton was growing.
The expense of this system was very great, and re-
quired the planter frequently to sell in a depressed
market to repay the debt with interest and commis-

sions incurred at the beginning of the season. This

year a new policy was adopted, and the planter;,
being free from the claims of their creditors, ha 1
full control of their cotton. As a result of this

rnetho 1 of doing business, it is asserted that the

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(From Me Anglo-American Times.)
Greater quiet reigns in the territories over which
the Red Indians roam. The Philadelphia hedger
says :—" General William S. Harney has just re-
turned to St. Louis, from the Upper Missouri,
where he has been engaged in settling the friendly
Indians on the northern reservations. Although
these operations were eprnmenced late in the season,
it is stated that 9.000 Indians are comfortably pro-
vided for, b,.ing amply supplied with food for the
entire winter. 'flic reservations are situate I in
Daeotalt Territory, along the Missouri River, and
furnish good hunting grounds. A portion of the
tribes is now engaged in the cha,e, and it is antici-
pated that as the weather becomes severe, at least
17,300 Indians will be settled." Official records,
it is asserted, prove that the various wars with the
Indians during the last forty years have cost the
Government over five hundred millions of dollars,
besides a large loss of life. The calculation is
made as follows :—The Black Hawk war four hun-
dred lives and $5,000,000 ; the Seminole war,
fifteen hundred lives and $100,000,000, only fifteen
hundred of the Indians being warriors ; a war
with the Creeks and Cherokees about the same
time cost $1,000,000; the Sioux war of 1852, three
hundred lives and $10,000,000 ; the war of 1864,
one thousand lives and $60,000,000 ; the Cheyennes
war of 1867, three hundred lives and about
$12,000,000; the Indian troubles on the Pacific
slope for the last twenty years, about $300,000,000 ;
three campaigns against the Navajoes, $30,000,000.
The whole trouble in New Mexico, of which the
last item forms a part, $150,000,000. Col. Wyn-
koop has resigned the agency of the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe tribes in disgust at what he calls the mas-
sacre of the Washita. He was proceeding to Fort
Cobb, on that river, to congregate there all the
Indians of his agency he could, when he learnt of
five different columns of troops being directed
against the Washita. The Colonel says :—" The
point to which these columns are marching,who have
expressed their determination to kill, under all cir-
cumstances, the Indians of mtagency, is the point
to which I am directed to congregate them, and
they will readily respond to my call ; but I must
certainly refuse to again be the instrument of the
murder of innocent women and children. While
I remain an officer of the Government, I pro-
pose to do my duty, a portion of which is to
obey my instructions. All left me under the cir-
cumstances, with the present state of feeling I have
in the matter, is to respectfully tender my resigna-
tion and return the commission of which I have so far
earnestly endeavoured to fulfil the requirements."
He left St. Louis on the 11th December for Wash-
ington in high dudgeon at the slaughter of his
pets, declaring Black Kettle and his band to be
friendly Indians on their own reservation when
attacked. Koekuk and other chiefs of the Sacs
and Fox tribes are about to bring actions against
those with whom they are officially connected for
false imprisonment, having b.,en arrestel on the
way to Washington on orders from the Indian
bureau prohibiting such a movement without per-
mission. They were released on a writ of Habeas
Corpus, and are now about to try the legality of
this action, Keokuk laying his damages at $lO,OOO.