The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-12-13
The Military Reports.


War Department, and limiting the
agencies. Touching the condition of
the country, arising from war, he says
the condition of the States that were
in rebellion against the Government
may be regarded as good enough to
warrant the hope that but short time
will intervene before the bulk of the
troops now occupying them can be
sent to our growing Territories, where
they are so much needed" The class
of persons in the South that acknow-
ledge no law but force is much smaller,
he states, than could have been eX-
pected after such conflict.
Gen. Sherman's report is an Indian
paper entirely. His is anxious to put
down the depredations of the Indians
in the ''far West" He proposes to re-
strict the Sioux north of the Platte,
west of the Missouri river and east of
the new road to Montana which starts
from Laramie for Virginia City. All
Sioux found outside of these limits
without written pass from some mill
tary commander, defining clearly their
object he would deal with summarily.
In like manner he would restrict the
Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Camanches,
Kiowas, Apaches, and Navaioes south
of the Arkansas and east of Fort
Union, and thus leave for the people
exclusively the use of the wide belt,
east and west, between the Platte and
the Arkansas, IN which lie the two
great railroads, and over which passes
the bulk of travel to the mountain
| territories.
Major General Meade reports the
details of his seizure of Fenian arms
and equipments at Eastport and else
where, and Of his visit to points whence
invasions of Canada were suspected,
and how he defeated Ireland defenders
by hanging upon their lines of COM
municatiOn.
Phil. Sheridan, commanding Depart
ment of the Gulf, has several interest
ing points He makes this curious
statement:
| Previous to the surrender and in antici-
| patton of the successful escape of Jefferson
Davis, and his probable arrival in the trans
plated to organize column of $4,000 Con-
| federates at Marshall, Texas for the invasion
| of Mexico This scheme failed, perhaps from
the capture of Mr.. Davis. But while the
main scheme of sending the $4,000 men to
| Mexico failed, numerous bands, squads and
parties, numbering perhaps 5000 or 1900
men, crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico"
He believes that the French occupa-
ton of Mexico was part of the ''re-
belliOn," and is gratified that Maxi
mil1an's reign is drawing to a close.
In less than a year, he adds, the hardy
MeXicans, without money, without
arms and munitions of war, and with
out supplies, have recaptured Malta
moras, Camargo, Preside de Rio
Grande, Lampissas, Monterey, Saltillo,
Monclova, Durango, Chihuahua, and
in fact, hold nearly all the country
putting the invaders on the defensive
and combining them to the Valley OF
Mexico, with a fair prospect of their
speedy determination" The condi
tion of civil affairs in Texas he declares
2 = --- ~''alous, singular and unsatis
factory, and he goes on " .y.:y.
II found the Provisional Governor, backed
by a small portion of the population, ha(
: for his standard of loyalty, 'Abhorrenc,
for the rebellion and glory in its defeat ;
while his successor, as actual Governor, haC
, for his standard of loyalty Pride in rebel
liOn-that it was righteous but lost cause
| being Overpowered by the Federal forces
, "My own opinion is that the trial of
white man for the murder of freedman, il
Texas, would be a farce, and in making thi:
statement | make it because truth compel,
me, and for no other reason
at is strange that over white man killed
by Indians on an extensive frontier the great
est excitement will take place but over the
2 killing of many freedmen in the settlements
nothing is done"
Per contra, we have before us al
III
, was recently decided in the District
| Court at Lagrange, Texas, where
Z Robert Jones, a young man of the
county, was indicted fer killing a ne
gro. After an impartial trial he was
r sentenced to the penitentiary for five
years. In this case the negro testimo
ny was received and in all respects
was treated as though the witnesses
were whites.
General George H. Thomas, OF
2 Tennessee and Kentucky, gives the
military history of his depart
ment, and dwelIs on the man
agement of freedmen, their condition
, and improvement, and on the crops
He also refers to the proposed nation
: al cemeteries near Vicksburg and Nat
| chez