The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-02-06
News ITEMS.

1t is reported that Genera! Meade has
ordered the arrest of Jenkins, the deca pi-
tatcd Governor of Georgia, on charge
of obstructing the cnfocement OF the Re-
construction laws.
The New Orleans and CINCINNATI
steamer Sherman, with groceries from
the South, was destroyed by fire ycster-
day, on the Chic river, at Evansville
Ind.
President johnson, in the presence Of
Generals Grant and Sherman, disclaims
any knowledge of, or responsibility for,
the charges published by Washington
correspondents to copperhead papers, to
the effect that General Graf violated a
solemn promise made to the President in
connection with the Stanton.War Office
iinbroglio. The President denies that
General Grant ever made any such p,.or,
isc to him,
General John O'Ncil was inaugurated
president of the Fenian Brotherhood at
Buffalo on Saturday, night.
Gen. Carl Schurz, OF the 3lst, dined
with Count Di>mark and the members of
the Federal Council of the North Ger
man states, at Berlin.
When the news of Gen. Bentley S
election in the Sth Ohio district reached
Atlanta, the Republicans of the Georgia
convention adopted resolutions congratu-
lating the Ohio Republicans on their
success.
A Denver dispatch of the goth, says
the gold shipments, from Central City,
for the past week, were $26, 600. A miil
containing 100 stamps, is to be erected
at Idaho, Col, at cost of $4,000.
War has broken out between the
Arapahoes, Apaches and Cheyennes on
the one side, and the Kaws, Osages and
their allies on the other The first battle
was sanguinary one, In which the no.
torious Charley Lent, of the Cheyennes,
was killed, together with some twenty Of
the tribe The light took place near the
Cimeron crossing A party of three
hundred Cheyennes passed southwark
since the battle, bent on revenge.
A Topeka Kansas dispatch of the
29th says that, as the political slate is
being arranged, Gov. Carney will be the
Republican candidate for Governor, and
Sidney. Clark, or Col Plumb, candidate
for Congress- On the Democratic side,
Hon. Geo. w Guck, of Atchison, will
be the candidate for Governor, and w.
E. Wagstaf for Congress. It is generally
admitted that there will be an entire new
deal on the state ticket, the present in
cubents all restiring.
| Some days ago, we copied from the
Nashville Press and Times an account OF
a secret organization of rebels, known as
the ''Kuklex klan.' This gang is now
in some portions of the state creating the
greatest terror among the people. On
Saturday twenty of the villains went to
Westery Ewing 5, in Lewisburg, Marshall
| COulty, OIOkc uONu Ills OOU1, duO bSdt
Ewing with their pistols until he was un-
able to stand. They told him this was a
delegate to radical convention; that ne
groes must quit voting and attending con
ventions, go back to their old places, and
never leave them without pass; that
this was a white mans government. A
number of colored men, driven from theil
homes in Marshall county, reached the
city chat day.
The following are the Republican can
didates for Congress in Alabama, at the
election which took place ON the 4th In
slant: First District, Francis W. Kellog;
Second District, Charles W. Buckley
Third District, B. W. Norris Fourth
District, G. W. Pierce; Fifth District, J.
W. Burke Sixth District. F. S. Crane,
by one Convention, Thomas Haughey by
another, and G. G. Sheats, independent
l-aA Republicans.