The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-23
FROM WASHING TON.
The Camilla Riot.
WAaHndarnN. Sent.
The following was received here to-day,

The following was received here to-day; 400
:, ATLANTA, GA, Sept 22,-Major General o. o.
howard, Commissioner &C., Washington, ID. c.
by the whites, because, as is alleged, they were
and wCunded SG ST %a Witty hy
the Republican candidate for Congress in the Sc
SnS nnsv shot % in the eg JShn MPhSy
AS far as known, only two of the attacking parties
were injured. No further difticulty is reported
"Breyet Brigadier General, Assistant Commis-
ATLANTA, Sept, 22.-The following report is from
Judge Yason and Mr.. johnson, who were requested
by Lieut. Howard, of the Freedmen's Bureau, to
Investigate the matter of the Camilla riot;
10 the Committee of the Senate and House of Re-
presentatives Of the State Of Georgia:
We left Camilla to-day at noon, All was quiet
and no apprehension was felt of further trouble
The acts of the citizens under the orders
of the Sheriff, and they acted as his police in
the whole affair The negroes of the county are all
the whites growing out of labor. But few negroes
were present except those in the procession, and
protect the whites or blacks. The wounded negroes
are well cared for, and have the sympathy of the
eaed bR MnrpSv Pearce agd ober S
negroes TO political meeting with arms. The
Sheriff disputed this right, and insisted that under
the proclamation of the Governor and the law it
was his duty as civil officer to prevent it, There
is no excitement in Albany
(Signed) d. A. VAsoN,
-l aa TIL. JOHNSON.
Yason and johnson, and Mr.. Clark, northern men,
who came south since the war, certify to the good
character of the parties making sworn statements,
and both Vason and Johnson's reports were laid
before both houses, and WHICH determined their de-
cison relative to the Governors message and the
refusal to ask the President for aid to maintain
order
ATLANTA, Sept. 22.-The following is the sub
stance of Governor Bullock's communication to
the Legislature on the subject of the Camilla
outrage. He recommends that the President
be petitoned for military force sufficient to
preserve order in Mitchell county, saying that,
dsregardful of the proclamation issued on the
14th inst, the right of the people peacefully to
assemble has been violently and barbarously inn
paired and that the civil officers are wholly unable
to protect the rights of citizens and maintain peace
and earnestly recommends the Legislature TO make
immediate application to the President for suffi-
cient military force to be stationed in Mitchell
county to maintain peace and protect the lives and
property of citizens, and have the guilty punished
by due process of law.
The fact that this occurrence is the result of a
determination, publicly expressed by irresponsible
persons of political party that the other polit
cal party shall not hold meetings, is too we'll known
1t is gratifying to know that this sentiment is
fined to lawless class, and is not countenanced
supported by respectable citizens. The misfortune
is that the outrages not prevented, and unless
physical force is added to the honest efforts of the
officers of the law, we shall be thrown into state
of anarchy, where neither life property will be
secure.
The House, by vote of 112 to 80, passed bill
appointing the first Tuesday in November for a
Presidential election
An Abandonment.
The President has abandoned the idea of q trip
to Tennessee via New York.
The AbscOnding Clerk.
II is thought the Government will lose nothing
by Olmsteads .absconding, as he left property
sufficient to pay all deficiencies when sod and
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