The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-22 00:00:00

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Nothing can exceed the horrors of the stories
told of the state of the South, but as Gen. Howard
of the Freedmen's Bureau has travelled extensively,
and had the best opportunities for gathering infor-
mation, on his return to Wa-shington he may settle
the disputed point as to what that condition really
is and to whom it is due. lie lately visited the
Louisiana Legislature, where he was courteously
received, and he started afterwards for Texts.
Several of the Southern Legislatures are still in
session, but that of South Carolina is preparing to
adjourn, while the Governor of Alabama hasmou-
vetted his Legislature for au extra session on
the 16th instant to pass a registry law. In the
Tennessee Legislature it was decided to send a com-
mittee to the President, to ask in view of the con-
dition of the State for a military force sufficient to
protect the people, in preference to employing the
militia. The Lower Hou:se had passed the Militia
Bill, and as 250 Republicans from all parts of the
State had sworn before a committee that they had
not only suffered in their own persons, but had seen
men, and even women, tortured and murdered for
differing in opinion from the Ku-Klux-Klan, it is
probable that the Senate would also pass the bill.
On the 15th July the Representatives of Georgia in-
structed the Committee of Privileges and Elections
to prepare a report on the eligibility of negroes
to seats in the Legislature. After six weeks a
minority of the committee reported against the
claims of negroes, the majority declining to take
action in the subject. On the point of order, whe-
ther the House could consider a minority report
before that of a majority was presented, the Speaker
ruled that it could, and the matter was debated on
the 26th August. The House began by deciding
that no member whose right to a seat was in question
should vote,and thus struck out the votes of the negro
members which led to a series of fierce debates. On
the 3d inst., when the vote was taken, 80 members
sustained the minority report, and 23 opposed it.
A resolution had been passed to hold two sessions
a day while the discussion of the question of eligi-
bility continued. On the same day Mr. Turner
(coloured) occupied the entire session, concluding
with these words : " This thing means revolution.
Look out, carpet baggers ! When we go they will
turn you out, impeach Governor Bullock, and upset
the Constitution." At the afternoon session several
members joined in the debate. On this vote 25
negroes were unseated ; four only remained who
claimed to be white men, and their case is to be
investigated. Turner, as by walked out, brushed
the dust from his feet, exclaiming, " I will do all I
can to make my race hate Democracy." Other
negroes bowed to the Speaker and waved their hats
to the members.

Throughout the State there are armed negro
bands who drill in localities nightly, and the Senate
has passed a resolution to disband all such associa-
tions. The sheriff of Twigg's County in an attempt
to arrest some negroes shot one. A lad, the son of
respectable white parents, who went a shooting from
Savannah, was found horribly mutilated, and excite-
ment prevailed in the city, as he was said to have been
murdered by the armed negroes around. In South
Carolina it was estimated that there are from
70,000 to 80,000 armed negroes, who are supposed to
act under the control of a central authority in Charles-
ton. The state of Mississippi is even worse, if the
Republican accounts are to be believed. Missouri
is almost as bad ; in Virginia constant riots are
occurring ; but in Arkansas there has been a sort of
" tea-pot" rebellion, the courts being closed by
armed men. Governor Clayton has instructed the
registrars to reject all applicants for registration
who cannot prove their loyalty during the late re-
bellion. Dr. A. M. Johnson was killed at Osceola
on the 26th ult., when hailing a boat to take his
family North. Judge J. S. Morris was severely
wounded near Fort Gibson, and would have been
killed bad he not been armed, and able to return
the fire of the assassin, who had no personal ill-
will against him, but was merely acting in the Ku-
Klux interest. Little hope is entertained of
improvement in the State of things down South
until after the elections. Mr. E. L. Jewel,
a Democrat, had been turned out of the Se-
nate of Louisiana for election frauds in the
Second District, and a mulatto Radical named
Pinchback installed in his place. Heavy rains have
prevailed in some parts of Georgia, doing material
damage to the cotton crop ; but from New Orleans
and Mobile the reports about the cotton and other
crops are very encouraging. The cotton crop of
Texas will, it is believed, largely exceed that of last
year, but as the army worm has appeared in the
cotton fields of Southern Alabama it is feared that
the reverse will there be the case. A correspon-
dent, with reference to the cotton crop of 1868,
says that the first bale was received in New York
from Savannah August 28, classed as " good mid-
land," and sold at 35 cents per lb. The cotton
year closed 31st August, but the returns have not
yet been completed. Down to August 28, how-
ever, the aggregate receipts of cotton at all the
Southern ports since September 1, 1867, had
amounted to 2,192,069 bales, as compared with
1,902,431 bales for the corresponding period of the
previous year, showing an excess of 289,638 bales.
The total exports for the year have been 101,000
bales more than last year, and the stock at the
shipping ports on August 28 was 40,969 bales, be-
ing 39,741 bales less than on that date in 1867.
With reference to the crop of 1868, the receipts of
which will begin to be counted from to-day, it is
said that the picking has begun earlier than usual,
and that the show of open cotton at present is
larger than an average. The hands are working
well, and planters being in want of money are said
to be making exertions to get their crop into market
as soon as possible. The receipts for September,
1868, some factors think, will be three times larger
than for September, 1867.
The rice crop of the United States this year is
estimated at about 70,000 tierces; 38,100 from
South Carolina, 10,800 from Georgia, and 21,100
from Louisiana. The average value is stated at
tio a tierce. This is the best crop gathered since
the war, but it falls far short of the crop of 1860.

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WOMEN BROKERS. —Tnere are 75 marriage brokers
in Paris, and two of them pay an income tax of 200 francs
per year. They charge five per cent. on the dower of rich
wives, and two per cent. wheu the fortune of the husbaz24
and wifo are about equally large. An issi,tra charge is
made for procuring lausblui# wit 4 aristocratic titles. —The
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