Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-14
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NEW YORK DISPATCHES.

Treasury, etc.
New YORK, June 13.-The Tribune's
Galveston special says the President has
been telegraped to decide whether any
person can be regarded as a qualified voter
who refuses to answer the prescribed ques-
tions, but is willing to take the oath. A
decision in the affirmative, it is believed,
will throw down every barrier that Con-
gress has raised against improper votes
Gen. Griffin has been forced to remove
the Mayor, because of his opposition to the
appointment of loyal citizens on the police.
Isaac G. Williams, an old resident and
universally respected, has been appointed
! Mayor.
Little All Right, of the japanese troupe
. of Scrobats, fell forty feet at the Academy
! of Music last night, and for a time was
fsenseless. At O'clock this morning he
had slightly recovered, aud the physicians
stated his Injuries were principally internal.
. He also suffered terrible concussion of the
/ brain on the right side of his head but
wonderful as it may seem, not bone was
3fraetured.
q The Times special says the indictments
spresented against the members of the con-
ftitutional convention Of Louisiana, for
injecting and assisting an unlawful assem-
|toly il holding their convention, which was
interrupted by the riot in New Orleans last
|Duly, and which were found by a grand
Hurry, under charge of Judge Abel, since
|lremoyed by Gen. Sheridan, have been set
laside and nolle pros has been entered on
motion of Attorney General Lynch, in the
lst District Court of that city. lie argued
4 that the acts of the accused parties on
whom the indictments were found con-
sisted simply in their being present at a
deliberatiVe meeting, held for the avowed
purpose of advancing, by peaceable and
legal means, the interests and prosperity of
the State, and that such meeting eonsti-
tuted no crime, ofense nor misdemeanor
against the laws of Louisiana; that the
right of the aforeraid parties, and all
other citizens of the United States, to as
semble and deliberate peaceably, on any
subject or matter whatsoever, is secured by
the constitution of the United States and
of the State of Louisiana.
1t is stated on good authority that the
Treasury Department has received informa-
! ton from New Orleans duplicating a high
official of the present State government in
the recent sub-treasury defalcation. 1t is
asserted that while in the employ of the
Treasury Department he became aware of
the defalcation, but failed to report it as
was his duty, and it was not discovered un-
til Secretary McCulloch sent special agent
Knox, to New Orleans, for the express pur-
pose of examining into the condition of
the depository. The assets turned over by
Whitaker and May, the defaulting Lou
isiana sub-treasurers, although purporting
to amount to 81, 100000 as security against
loss for the government, has been ascer-
certained to be almost worthless. Among
lother securities presented by Mr.. May was
a draft of 100000 on Oake Anees, of Mas
sachusetts, which he signed the name of
A. S. Mansfield, for Thomas p. May,
which signature Mansfield repudiates
as unauthorized by him. 1t is hardly
probable that the government will realize
100000, although the defalcation amount
altogether to the round sum of 81 600, 000
Owing to the precsrfoaa condition of
financial affairs in New Orleans, Sub
Treasurer Walton was appointed TO sue
coed Whitaker. The defaulter finds great
difficulty in getting acceptable bonds
Special agent Knox, now in New Orleans,
has been instructed to examine the com
mercial status of the parties offered as
securities, and to remain there until salts
factory bonds have been obtained.
The Freedmen's Bureau-Fa Favorable
Report from Mississippi.
WASHINGTON, June 12.-Major General
Howard, Commissioner of the Freedmen's
Bureau, has received report of Brevet
Mai. Gen. Gillem, Assistant Commissioner
for Mississippi, detailing the operations,
during the month Of April, in the sub-dis-
trict of Grenada A number of freedmen
are reported as returning to older States,
but they are fully counterbalanced by those
brought TO Mississippi. The number of
freedmen in this sub-district is estimated
at $4,000 all Of whom are at work, and
three-fourths of whom have an interest in
the crops to be raised.
No case of extreme suffering among the
old, sick or infirm, came to the knowledge
of the sub-assistant commander. No new
schools opened, but those in Grenada and
Holly Springs are reported in fiourishing
condition. The disposition of the white
people toward the blacks is changing slowly
for the better. Complaints are made in re-
gard to the manner in which the State laws
are executed, as being productive of injus-
tice to the freedmen. Some few planters
have divided the land SO each family can
work by themselves. Each family have
cabin assigned them, with the privilege Of
raising poultry, pork, etc, for themselves.
Plows, stock and tools are loaned them,
and they are to receive part of the crop
raised. This consideration will doubtless
be productive of thrift and industry among
them.
In the sub-district of Corinth, affairs are
reported in any thing but promising con-
dition, owing partly TO the failure of last
years crops. The white working classes
seem to be discouraged, and numerous APP
plications haze been made for assistance
The district is infested by an organized
band of desperadoes, calling themselves the
might Owls !" thieving horse stealing and
murder seems to be their occupation.
The treatment of freedmen BY the viii ties
generally, is just and fair.
The report says the so-called Union men
are neither numerous nor influential, they
express themselves 10 suit the society in
which they are placed.
There is disposition on the part Of the
civil courts to treat freedmen fairly, as Is
manifested.
The report from the officer in charge of
the sub-district of Columbus, says the
freedmen are working well, and the crops
are promising.
The sub-commissioner at Natchez re-
ports the number of freedmen in his dis
irict at 81 PSI The contracts for 1867 are
various in their nature some are to get
wages, others a share of the crops. In the
Yazoo District considerable trouble exists
among planters in swsmps, for last month
plantations had been overlooked, and as no
work could be done, planters, in many
cases, gave freedmen privilege to go and
get work elsewhere till the water subsidized,
and many of them will not. During the
month complaints have been made by the
freedmen that their firearms have been
taken away.
He concludes by saying the conduct Of
the whites toward the blacks is greatly
improved. But few outrages are reported,
and those are promptly corrected by the
civil authorities.