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

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

LOUISIANA.---Particulars of the murder of Colo-
nel It Pope, who formerly commanded the 33d Illi-
nois Volunteers, are now given. He was Sheriff of
the parish of St. Mary, which has gained so unen-
viable a notoriety i❑ 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 330 copies of alit lavits from the
originals in the possession of the Senate and House
committees on elections and returns. They have,
in addition to this, compiled from the published and
uncontradicted 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,
from 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 Illy 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 ald that " much of the lawlessness
is also due to the neglect of the offic t-. 3 of the law."
The report occupies 65 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 supported
by affidavits—in others they are confirmed by the
officers in the Freedmen's ,Bureau—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 :

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Parishes.
Orleans

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Parishes .4
ri)
Terroboune 16 1 2
Lafourche
Morehouse l4 3 5
Lafayette 4 2 6
Calcasieu
De Soto
Livingston 9
• .•
E. Baton Rouge... 1 ... 2
W. Baton Rouga ... 1
Point Coupee 3 ... 1
East Feliciana
St. Mary 1 5
St. Martin
Catatonia
Concordia
St. Charles ••• 1
Assumption
St. John Baptist 1
St. Jas. & Asc'ns'n 3 ... 3

Jefferson 4 310
Carroll
Plaqw)nliues

St. Tammany 3
aenvillo
Teusas 9 3

Jackson
Madison
Bossier 5 3

St. Helena
NacititocheB

St. Laadry 23 416
Avoyelles
Ouachiti,
Claiborue 7 1 7
... _ _

Caddo
Franklin _57 4 6
West Pelicie.na ... 4 2
Rapides ll 517

- Total 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 Steedman (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 dismissed 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 ali 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
most 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
afterwards 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 &spec, watching the
stowing of the arms and annnunition, 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 story told by a correspondent of
the New York Tribune, who this 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
Captain Houston for the job. No expectation was
entertained of getting up the Arkans is without a
fight with the organ zed ban is of Ku-Klux, and
preparation was accordingly male for a guard of
100 armed men to get on board at Helena. On the
night before the little steamer sailed from Lade
Rock, two friends viite I th 3 captain's hous3 in
the outskirts of the, town, and warned lii n not t 3
venture out, saying that a party would certainly
waylay and kill him it 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 herein Memphis receiving the arms on
board the captain was conscious that his every
wove was watched, but he thought that once under
way no trouble need be apprehended until entering

the Arkansas. With the appearance of the tug,
however, flying her Ku-Klux ensigns, he was appre-
hensive that her intention was to run him down in
the middle of the stream, so that the hated arms,
Iloustons, and all, might go to the bottom to-
gether. Not to be caught in such a trap he
at once ran in shore. The pirates once on board
began au indiscriminate firing and demanded
the arms and the Iloustons. The captain .and
his brother, however, htd no intention of
thus being murdered, and scrambled up the
bank for the woods, several shots being sent
after them while climbing the hill, from one
of which the brother received a severe wound in the
head. After the Iloustons had escaped, the rebels'
attention was turned to the arms, the tug mean-
time being lashed fast to the steamer, and the two
moving slowly up stream. The first report of the
crew of the tug was that, the boxes being broken
open, the arms were passed up from the hold to
those on deck, who, taking them one by one, broke
them over the wale of the boat, and threw them
into the river. It was insisted, and I believe i 5
pretty well stuck to yet by the offic?.rs and crew of
the tug, that all of the arms were thus destroyed.
The story of the crew of the steamer, however, as
well as facts since brought to light, disproves the
story. Indeed, it is now tolerably certain that
several hundred, perhaps a thousand, of these arms
were put into the tug and landed on the Missis-
sippi shore fifteen miles below here. It is said on
credible authority that many of the arms were car-
ried in the tug, and we now have intelligence by
" Grape-Vine Telegraph," or from coloured sources,
that several waggon-loads of muskets were teamed
from the river into the country.
TEXAS.—William G. Kirkman, an agent of the
Freedmen's bureau in North-eastern Texas, .was
murdered at Boston, in that State, October 7, and
in consequence of the recent and rapidly multiply-
ing outrages on Union men, General Reynolds,
military commander for that State, issued an
order authorizing all civil officers and all military
commissioned officers of every grade to arrest on
the spot any person wearing a mask or other dis-
guise, and hold him for trial.

GEORGIA.—In Georgia the Democrats were con-
fident of carrying the State, and anticipated a ma-
jority of 20,000. They held a great meeting at
Augusta, while the negro Republicans met at Sa-
vannah, where they indulged in some loose and
foolish talk.

SOUTII CAROLINA.—There have been half
dozen incendiary fires in the vicinity of Charleston,
S.C., lately, which are laid to negroes, in retalia
tion for the outrages committed on their race-
Wade Hampton and others of the Democratic coin'
mittee'for the State have issued an address against
assassination, which would have been better received
before some hundreds of loyal men had been
murdered, though sad welcome.
ARKANSAS.—James Hinds, a member of Con-
gress from the Second Arkansas district, was asso-
sinated Friday, Oct. 23, while travelling through
Monme county, and Joseph R. Brooks, who was
wii h him, was dangerously wounded. The murder
was done by George A. Clark, secretary of the
Democratic committee of the county, who was
druuk at the time, and who has been arrested. Jas.
Coolsey, a leading Republican of the same county/
was murdered a few days ago ; and at Dardanellet
Ark., on the 20th, there was a fight between citizene
and 50 negroes, in which the latter were defeated.
There are now at St. Louis ten thousand stand of
small arms purchased for the Government of Ar-
kansas, but no steamer can be got to take them on,
and it is to be hoped none will be found till the
State is more quiet, or they will probably meet the
fate that overtook the former consignment.
Other items of Southern news are—Forrest
has published a challenge to General Kilpatrick on
account of remarks made about him in his recent
speeches. On the 28th ult. Mr. Rocheroch killed
the son of a prominent Democrat in Wayne county.
Mayor Thomas issued a proclamation on the 29th
October with a view to prevent riotous proceedings.
Besides closing all drinking saloons he orders that
no minors will be allowed to be on the streeto
on Tuesday, the day of the elections, and that
a'l public and private schools should be closed'
The latest despatch from Little Rock ,is as follows
—On the 24th inst., while Capt. Willis, Bureau
agent, Capt. Porter Andrews, Capt. Prosser, and
Sheriff Stundle were en route to Rocky Comfort, is
Little River County, they were fired upon by the
Ku-Klux-Klan, who were concealed in the brush.
Capts. Andrews and Wilts were killed, and the
Sheriff was badly wound3d. Before the band had
finished their murderous work, a negro came along,
who was killed. Not far from this place they met
another negro and killed him. Capt. Scott, SenWe.r
from that county, is in d anger, and the loyal elti-
zens have turned out to protect him.

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Chief Justice Chase is to leave Washingt on -f°oll
Savannah, Georgia, whore he is to hold a session of
United States States Court.
General Cassius C. Fairchild died on Saturdg
morning, Oct. 21, at Milwaukee, from the effects
wound received at Shiloh.
William C. Kirkham, Freedmen's Bureau Age°'
was murdered at Boston, Texas, on the 7th October.
THE AMERICAN H —AY QUESTION.--At the meetillfi
of the council of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce' °I
Thursday, it was decided to memorialise the Chancellor
the Exchequer to remove the restrictions upon he iraPcw
tation of American hay.
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