The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-03 00:00:00

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Although the elections of Grant and Colfax and
the settlement of this exciting question have had an
excellent effect down South, the state of things
which produced the reign of terror cannotbeat once
removed. The Ku-Klux are too well and exten-
sively organized to be easily suppressed, and society
must feel the injury such a conspiracy inflicts on
the States wherein it is permitted to take root before
it can be eradicated. For instance, at Lexington,
Kentucky, a meeting of Republicans was held on
the 6th inst. to celebrate the election of Grant and
Colfax. Though no disturbance occurred the
principal men were on the next day served
with notices to leave the State within thirty days
on pain of death. One of the 7 ribune's correspon-
dents telegraphed the proposal as seriously enter-
tained, to avenge every murder of a Union man
by executing nine leading rebels, a proposition very
properly termed by, the 7 ribune as infamous. But
no Republican, unless reckless of life, would disre-
gard such a notice as that served on them by the
Ku-Klux-Klan ; hence vigorous measures are being
taken for ridding the State of the secret bands. Not
only do the Democrats of the North, but of the
South also, urge peace and reconciliation, and in
some of the Southern States they are carrying this
into practice.

LOIJISIANA.—It might readily be conjectured
that the election in New Orleans was influenced by
the terrorism previously established, as only a
hundred out of the 18,000 negroes voted. Accord-
ing to the Tribune the following is the comparison
between the Presidential vote in 37 out of the
48 parishes of the State, as compared with the re-
gistration a year ago, and the vote for a conven-
tion. In Bassier parish, where last year 1,998
blacks and 472 whites were registered, 1,635 votes
were given for Seymour, and only 1 for Grant. In
Caddo, also, Grant gets but 1 vote and Seymour
2,895, though the registration showed 2,987 blacks
and only 777 whites. In New Orleans, where nearly
:10,000 voters registered in 1867, about equally divided
between the colours, only 24,060 votes were thrown,
of which Grant only got 276. In almost every parish
the white vote seems to have been largely above
the registration, while the coloured vote fell off
even more. The rebel majority for Seymour will be
more than 40,000, while in a fair and quiet election
there would probably have been a Republican ma-
jority of 10,000. Some 50,000 coloured men, therefore,
must either have been frightened from the polls or
induced to vote for Seymour. Such an election as
this ought not to be allowed to stand, and we shall
expect a new one to be ordered for Congressmen
after Grant is inaugurated. The Republican State
Committee blame Generals Rousseau and Buchanan
for the disturbances. A claim of $27,000, for
damages in the late riots, has been presented, but
Rousseau is actively defended by the New Orleans
Republican, which alleges his earnest endeavours to
preserve life and prevent riot. With reference to
the filibustering expedition fitting out against Cuba
the New Orleans Times says that an organisation
in this city and country have been corresponding
with Cuban insurrectionary leaders for some time ;
that the real headquarters of the movement is in
this city; that the leader is not General Henning-
sen, as stated ; that the statement that 3,000 men
will leave in fifteen days will probably turn out to
be true, and that a number of parties engaged in
the movement have already left with passports for
Cuba; also that on Tuesday evening two meetings
were held by those engaged iu the movement.
General Harry T. Hays denies his connec-
tion with the expedition, of which he had
no knowledge except that gained from the public
prints. Business is greatly improved since the elec-
tion, and promises still better, and the best proof is
that 150,000 bales of cotton were received, against
40,000 at the same period last year. A New Or-
leans paper states—This cotton sells readily at about
$lOO per bale, which is two and a half times as
much as cotton commanded before the war. Thus,
if we receive 800,000 hales, the money value will
exceed that of the two millions which came to our
city in the ante-bellum times. In other words,
there will be $80,000,000 which must change hands
in the transactions in this single product of our soil.
The diffusion of this, or at least a large portion of
it, among the various trades must give a stimulus to
our commerce, and dissipate that languor and des-
pondency which have long hung over commercial
circles. But besides the cotton, our cane crop,
which is exclusively of our own State, must add
some twelve millions to the amount of products
which will be brought to the market. The cane has
turned out well, and is now yielding finely. On
some of the plantations the yield has got back to
the old boast of our planters of two hogsheads to
the acre. All our sugar planters will come out
ahead this season. To these two great staples we
trust to add largely increased receipts of grain, to-
bacco, and pork. Despite, therefore, all our disas-
ters and drawbacks we have no reason to be discou-
raged in regard to the present season in New
Orleans. We anticipate, indeed, great life, an
active trade, and a plethora of money in our city.
TEXAS.—Major-General Canby left Washington
on the 12th inst. for his command in the depart-
ment of Texas, where he is likely to find work
enough to do. General Reynolds, who has been in
command there, reports that since the close of the
war there have been officially reported to him, as
occurring in that State, 761 murders, 6 being of
whites by negroes, and 464 being of negroes by
whites. Only one person has been hung, against
this startling record of murder. The General says
that it is impossible to get courts to do justice on
behalf of the negroes where the offender is a white
person. In the southernmost counties, where the
negroes and planters:are most numerous, the feeling
is better than in the interior and upper parts of the
State.

ARKANSAS.—The news by mail from this State
prepares us for the action afterwards reported by
cable between the militia and the Ku-Klux.
Governor Clayton had raised 60,000 militia, and
declared martial law in several counties. The Tri-
bune has the following report from Little Rock,Nov. 9 :
The Ku-Klux had a meeting on Thursday, and
determined to discontinue their meetings until they
could confer with the Grand Council at New
Orleans, and get a new name and signs, as their
present name, signs, and assassination schemes have
been discovered by the State authorities. On Fri-
day they sent runners to all parts of the State, for
the Ku-Klux to cease the work of assassination
until further orders from the Ku-Klux headquarters.
On Saturday they burned their records. The loyal
citizens are still urging Governor Clayton to pro-
claim martial law in this county, so as to try the
leaders by military commission. Governor Clayton
seems to think the evidence ample to convict them
in any court, civil or military. Two mounted re-
giments of white troops have gone to Little River,
under command of Brigadier-General R. T. Coller-
son, commanding that district. The Ku-Klux of
Drew county, on the night before the election, rode
through the county and whipped all the prominent
negroes almost to death ; told them that if they did
not vote for Seymour they would kill them, and
thereby they forced about 700 men to vote for Sey-
mour and Blair. Large numbers of Georgians
and Alabamians are said to be emigrating to
Arkansas.

FLOMDA.—The Spring/ eld Republican, of Nov.
14, gives the following account of the quarrel now
agitating this State :—llarrison Reed, Governor of
the State, was impeached last Friday week, on
charges of high crimes and misdemeanours pre-
ferred by H. C. Jenks, president of the Constitu-
tional Convention, and the Legislature adopted the
articles of Impeachment by the help of several
members whose seats had been declared vacant by
the Governor because they had accepted some
other office. Saturday the Legislature adjourned,
no quorum being present, and Lieut.-Governor
Gleason attempted to take possession of the State
Government. Gov. Reed " sticks," however, and is
likely to remain Governor, though Gleason has not
abated his claims. Both Reed and Gleason are origi-
nally from Wisconsin, and the real cause of the diffi-
culty seems to be that the Governor did not distri-
bute the State patronage in a manner to snit the
Lieutenant-Governor and his friends. Only the
Secretary of State, Alden, of the Governor's Cabi-
net, has joined the Gleason faction, and J. C. Gibbs,

a coloured man, who was originally nominated for
the place, but was cheated out of it, is acting as
Governor Reed's Secretary of State. A large lot
of arms. bought by Governor Reed for the State
were recently seized on the railroad, about fifty
miles from the capital, and destroyed, and this ded
struction, causing a loss of about $200,000 to the
State, each faction lays to the other. The Adjutant
General of the State and Secretary Alden had a
personal encounter on Monday, in which the former
presented a pistol at the head of the latter, but was
prevented from doing any damage. The whole
quarrel, as it stands, is a very disgraceful one,
and if the parties concerned do not make it up,
the citizens of the State would be justified in
expelling the whole lot of carpet-bag officials,
The latest despatch received at New York was
dated Tallahassee, November 13. Governor Reed's
complaint against Lieutenant-Governor Gleason
ands Secretary Allen for conspiracy against the
State Government was called at 10 o'clock this
morning. After argument by counsel Judge Cooke
decided that Governor Reed's affidavit, charging
that the Secretary has conspired against the Go-
vernment, is sufficient. Messrs. Gleason and
Alden were accordingly released. There are no
indications of further movements of public interest
before the meeting of the Supreme Court on. the
19th, when the opinion of the legality of the Legis-
lature's impeachment of Governor Reed is to be
rendered. The latest news is the discharge of the
Lieutenant-Governor and Secretary of State from
arrest under the charge of conspiracy against Go-
vernor Reed, on the ground that the Governor's
affidavit against them was insufficient. The legality
of the Legislature's impeachment of the Governor
was to be tested in the Supreme Court on the 19th.
—Anglo-American 7 inzes.

Dr. Sandwith, of Kars, has named his infant
son, Lincoln, after the martyred President. We regret that
this friend of America failed in his contest for Marylebonel
although he made a good fight for it.
The venerable Jacob Barker was the first voter at
one of the polls in New Orleans, making his appearanco
there at 6.30 in the morning. He voted for Seymour and
Blair.

This is what the IVall-street Journal truly de-
scribes as making hay while the sun shines. It is cer-
tainly the hay they like making in Wall-street. " Brighato
Young is issuing currency in Utah generally resembling
the national greenback. There is said to be a great dol
of it in circulation, and the Mormou:President finds hi 4
banking operations very profitable." Some day th°
"saints" may find out what a sinner they follow.
Frank Blair really did what we jokingly said
would ba the bast thing be could do on hearing the result
of the Presidential election, to go and look after the Union
Pacific Railway. Here is the extract —" Frank 131 a".
heard the news at Chicago, and said he had been beaten
like hell,' that Salt River - was not large enough, and /16
was going to Salt Lake, and he started."

Governor Baker, of Indiana, declines to be a Ottli:
didate for United States Senator. Hendrick's place.
says
-
says the people have elected him Governor, and be P'
poses to obey their verdict.
General George B. M'Clellan has been elected
president of the University of California. General Leo I'3:
been offered the Southern superintendency of a New Vr`i
Assurance Company, at a salary of 810.000. Adroi'l
Farragut arrived at New York on Monday, the 9th lost';
where he has been quietly staying, and his next Pc'stja
likely to be Secretary of the Navy, as it is not nroba,"'"

that he will again go to sea.
Benjamin Gerrish, junior, Esq., lately appointee!
United States Consul at Nantes, France, arrived this wee,:
at Liverpool, by the City of Paris, and proceeded to 13-
appointment. , At
Z. Eastman, Esq., United States Consul
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Bristol, returned by the City of Paris, to his post, a:
leave of absence of four months, which he has spew
the United States on important public business it, c''
nection with international trade with the port of Brist°'t-„,.0
Ex-President Pierce was well enough to ride vr
the polls in Concord, N.H., and cast hisballot for Selteoll
and Blair. 1,4
It is said that Thad. Stevens's nephew, to iv"-,
ho left the bulk of his property on his abstaining fora cei;
tain time from spirits and tobacco, declines to deprive t ea
asylum fcr soldiers' orphans of the money to whom it ge:ist
in default. At first we thought that young Thad. Anlitio
either be very generous or very fond of his grog f 1" the
weed, but the following intelligence, if true, settles t,
matter :-4, Thad. Stevens left only personal proper;
enough to pay his debts. His real estate in Lancaste
Pa., is valued at about 575,000. Tho rebels' raid on Chug
bersburg in 1863 cost Mr. Stevens more than half 110
worth, a.t.d he is supposed to be still bent on having gatl-'

faction.'
The Springfield nepnblican, alluding to the 1"/
taliC
State, says :—" The Prohibitionists are beginning t° f
about replacing Speaker Jewell by John I. Bake' °a
Beverly, and putting Judge Pitman in as President °f all
Senate. They may do one of these things, but l'a Ift
both. Something is due to Mr. Baker, perhaps, I'7l'l° °to
one of the best offices in the State—lnspector of Fis't--tlt
take the place of liquor agent, and then had to givebihi-
up when the last Legislature began to uproot the pr° aie
tory system. But that something is not exactly
Speakership of the House."
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Rev. A. N. Littlejohn, D.D., rector of -al • ,
EPIS
Church, Brooklyn, was elected Bishop of the now cop'
copal diocese of northern Now York, at the prirll3l do'
vention of the Episcopal Church held in Utica. I'lle side
cese over which Rishop Littlejohn will hereafter Pro
was created by the recent general Convention °';,eft
Church by the division of the western diocese Of
York.
The Supreme Court of the District of Coltilllibsi:
finally came to a decision in the Surratt case by di Judge
11l
ing District Attorney Carrington's appeal from tote
Wylie's order discharging Surratt under the Sta or
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Births.uitas
DouGLAs—On the 29th icepot
Lady Scott Douglas, of a son.*'P v bled°
PENROSE —On the 30th ult , at Colebyfield, ‘' 011
Mrs. F. C. IV
Penrose, of a daughter.• ria shir°'
WILLIAMSON—On the Ist inst., at Copley' —Let r•
wife of Stephen Williamson, Esq., of a claug- e
ringwood-parl', 0
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Marriages. : t Vehio,
HAYDON—FAIRBAIRN—On the Ist inst., at S'''n Ito' 0,
Esq., .c,t°o,ol.olr
Leeds, Frederick Wordsworth Hayden,
the younger daughter of the late Sir Peter x ot
Knight. t SVicrli
MURRAy—CRAWFORD On the Ist inst., 3-0111),f'01,
Church, Bath, Sir Hobert Murray, Bart•i. o.oo°
N.B. to Laura, widow of the late Key. NV, ii-•
of Haughley-park, SufElk.
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Deaths.
,„ Dole'
DuscAs-- On the Ist inst., at Hastings, Gec''.)) .00f
Esq., of Old Charlton, Kent, aged 7ti.
lonel vore
FERGUSON—On the 27th ult., at Math, Co .
of Raith and Novae. Tilliog
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IlonsE—On the Ist inst., James Horne, el
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Pctworth, aged 55. 10
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M`INTYRE—On the Ist inst., suddenly, Jam- es
rrile
Esq., London, aged 42. 1# 11011Se-tt' PT'
PEARD—On the Ist inst., at 22, Car.„on- frod,
Louisa, wife of Winthrop Mackw_rth
aged 2`l.
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