The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-19 00:00:00

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

LOUlSlANA.—Particulars of the murder of Colo-
nel 11. Pope, who formerly commanded the 331 Illi-
nois Volunteers, are now given. He was Sheriff of
the parish of St. Mary, which has gained so unen-
viable a notoriety in Louisiana, and he was seated
on the gallery at the door of.; his room when he was
approached stealthily by the murderers, who, with-
out warning, riddled his head with bullets, and he
fell dead to the ground. At the moment Judge
Valentine Chase, of the same parish, was in the
room of his friend Colonel Pope, and tried to save
his own life, but was shot through the head when
he got to the rear of the hotel, his body being left in
the street weltering in blood. A committee has just
reported on these outrages which as a whole they were
appointed by the General Assembly to investigate—
" The conduct of the late elections, and the condition
of peace and order in the State." They have examined
personally 141 witnesses ; have received 81 letters
from various responsible and respectable witness s,
and have taken 350 copies of all lavits from the
originals in the possession of the Senate and 110.. be
committees on elections and returns. They have,
in addition to this, compiled fro:n the published and
un con tradicted. and well authenticated state-
ments which appeared in the public papers, much
valuable information, with regard to which other and
more direct testimony was not available without great
expense and delay. . . "It is," they say, " also proper
and necessary to state, as a suggestive commentary
upon the present condition of the peace and order
of the State, that the committee have met with
great difficulty in procuring the testimony of per-
sons present in the city of New Orleans, who are
cognizant of a great number of cases of outrage and
murder in different parts of the State. The reluc-
tance of these persons to testify has arisen from the
danger which they assert—and which the com-
mittee believes to exist—of violence to their persons
and property, and even of the loss of their lives,
rom the vengeance and anger of lawless and dis-

loyal persons in their respective neighbourhoods.
Your committee are of the belief that not one tithe
of the murders and outrages actu ►lly committed
during the time embraced in our examination ap-
pears in the present report, owing to the shortness
of the time given, and the other reasons above set
forth." They aid that " much of the la.whs-iness

is also due to the neglect of the offic2r3 of the law."
The report occupies 6:5 pages Bvo., and contains a
detailed account of the murders, maiming, whipping,
and outrages of every description that have been
lately inflicted on both white and coloured men.

These statements are in many instances supportel
by at/Hal/its—in others they are confirmed by the
officers in the Freedmen's 13.ireau—but in many
instances the reign of terrorism is absolute, and the
very persons injured, as well as the witnesses of the
outrages, were convinced that were they to testify
in that regard their lives would surely be taken.
Appended is a recapitulation in tabular form of the
cases alluded to, and the parishes in which the
brutal scenes took place :

d n:i
c,)
▪ 0 "sw
Parishes.
ls!
Orleans
Jefferson 4 3 10
Carr01l
Plaquemines
St. Tammany 3 ...
Bienville
Teusas 9 ... 3
Jackson
Madison
Bossier 5 3
St. Helena
Nachitoches
St. Landry 23 416
A.voyelles
Ouachita
Claiborne 7 1 7
Caddo
Franklin ...57 4 6
West Feliciana 4 2
Rapides l4 517
Total

.52 7-7.!

•=. 7:3
Parishes .-.
2 4
Terrebonne 16 1 2
Lafourcho
Morehouse l4 3 5
Lafayette 4 2 6
Calcasieu
De Soto
Livingston •.• 2
IE. Baton Rouge... 1 ... 2
W. Baton Rouge
Point Coupee ..... 3 ... 1
East Feliciana. 1
St. Mary 1 5
St. Martin
Catahonia,
Concordia
.•
St. Charles ... • 1
Assump tiou
St. John Baptist 1 ...
St. Jas. & Asc'ns'n 3 ... 3

204 51 143

Colonels Johnson, Young, and Badger, Union
officers, have been turned out of the Custom-house
of New York ; the last, being a native of the State,
comes under the Southern designation of a " scala-
wag," the peculiar aversion of a Southerner, and all
the worse, as General Butler gave him his commis-
sion as colonel of a loyal Louisiana regiment. The
appointment of General Steedtnan (who has since
resigned), as Chief of Police, by General Rousseau,
has given great dissatisfaction to the Radicals in the
North, as he is a strong Conservative, with opinions
more "pronounced" than the chief dismisse I by
the Commissioners for mustering out the negroes,
of whom it was necessary to get rid, as not only
was their colour an incentive to outrage, but when
their services were most required they vanished.
General Rousseau issued a proclamation prohibiting
political processions and demonstrations of all kinds
at present, urging the citizens to aid his force in
maintaining peace, and he has announced that the
laws will be enforced and the peace of Louisiana
defended at all hazards. Some say that the
military cannot be relied on, as one regiment sta-
tioned at New Orleans was largely composed of
Confederates. The accounts differ as to who were
moat to blame for the numerous murders constantly
reported. The editor of the New Orleans Crescent
wrote on behalf of the Democratic State Committee
to Mr. Belmont giving a version very unfavourable
to the negroes ; but they are the victims, and,
although not free from blame, are driven to de-
fend themselves, and in instances to retaliation. On
Saturday, the 24th Oct., a fight took place between
some negro and Democratic clubs, which soon be-
came apparently a general attack on the negroes.
During the night three whites and six blacks were
killed, while many more were wounded ; and the
mob was finally dispersed by a squadron of cavalry.
Sunday there was a similar riot in St. Bernard
parish, adjoining and below the city, in which one
white man and two negroes were killed—while at
night the negroes attacked the house of a Spanish
baker, killed him and his son and sister-in-law, and
after wards burned his house, as well as two others,
in one of which it is said there were four children.
Troops were sent to the scene of the trouble, Mon-
day, and seem to have succeeded in quelling the
disturbance.
TENNESSEE.—The story of the destruction of the
arms near Memphis is gradually coming to light,
and revelations are promised which will astonish
the Ku-Klux themselves. Captain Ford of the tug
spent the afternoon in the Ilesper, watching the
stowing of the arms and ammunition, and putting
so many questions that he excited the suspicion of
Captain Houston. At first Captain Houston and
his brother were suspected of being in alliance with
the Ku-Klux, but inquiry soon dissipated that
error. No men on the river are more hated by the
fire-eaters, who attribute to them the loss of the
battle of Pea Ridge. At the time he was
the owner of an Arkansas river boat, which
was loaded with ammunition for the Confede-
rate Army, whose Government had a Confederate
agent on board hurrying it up. At a point on the
river the captain shipped two horses, telling his
brother he intended to snag and sink the ship in
deep water, when the horses would be useful in
making their way to Curtis' command. Houston
succeeded in sinking his boat with all the ammuni-
tion, though not in making his escape, for he was
captured and chained in a dungeon for 18 months
till released by the advance of the Union Army. At
least, such is the gory told by a correspondent- of
the New York lribune, who thus goes on :--Go-
vernor Clayton, well knowing the desperate char-
acter of the undertaking of shipping these arms up
the Arkansas, after the Rebel howl that had been
set up about them, and well knowing his man, chose
•Captaia Houston for the job. No expectation was
entertained of getting up the Arkansas without a
fight with the organized bands of Ku-Klux, and
preparation was accordingly made for a guard of
100 armed men to get on board at Helena. On the
night before the little steamer sailed from Little
Rock, two friends visite I the captain's house in
the outskirts of the town, and warned hiea not to
venture out, saying that a party would certain!),
waylay and kill him if he did. The next morning it
was ascertained that during the night a number of
the Ku-Klux boarded the boat and assassinated a
younger brother of the captain while he was asleep
in his berth. His skull was stove in by an axe.
While lying here in Memphis receiving the arms on
board the captain was conscious that his every
move was watched, but he thought that once under
way no trouble need be apprehendel until entering