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The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-10-08
A Kul<lux Outrage.

A Wisconsin paper has come in posses
sion of the following particulars of little
Kuklux outrage which was recently per-
petrated in Alabama. The boys were
rather severe in their treatment of Mrs.
Dagger, but she probably deserved it, aud
ought to thank her stars that she was not
seriously hurt:
A horrible outrage was committed
somewhere in the State of Alabama few
days ago. Our information is reliable
colorcd man, who heard the particulars
from member of the "loyal league" who
got his information from fellow who lost
cousin in the late war. 1t seemed that
a Mr.. Carpet Dagger was attacted in his
own house by 1852 Kukluxcrs, armed
with double barreled bowie-kniyes. They
slaughtered and ate nineteen of Mr.. Bag
gers children before his eyes, and COM
PEELED Mrs. Dagger to cut her own head
off and hang it on hook in the cellar
She was then ordered to keep still upon
pain of instant death. She happened to
sneeze, and the leader of the dastardly
crew Immediately had a thrashing machine
set up, and run Mrs. Dagger through. les
very doubtful if she RECEIVERS.
Mr.. Bagges was'then forced to swallow
four tons of gunpowder and handful of
nitro glyceriue. He was next dieted on
live Goals until an explosion took place,
which subjected Mr.. Dagger to such in
tense pain as almost to deprive him of
reason. The iends then shot him full of
holes, made him hurrah for Jefferson Da-
Wis and Horace Greedy, and finally innocu-
lated him with the smallpox, and soaked
him with strong lye. He was threatened
with instant death if he revealed the
names of any of the perpetrators of this
outrage, all of whom are neighbors of Mr..
Dagger, and who hate him because Mr.. b.
was loyal sutler and cotton speculator
during the war, and now lives on confis-
Gated plantation with enough niggers to
elect him to the Legislature. 1t is feared
that Mr.. Dagger has sustained such inter-
nal injuries the will not be able to appear
as witness at the military commission APP
pointed to try some ex-rebels for reading
Democratic newspapers.
Wisconsin paper.
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Butler.

The Massachusetts, Radicals have in
suited the nation in nominating this cock
eyed Beast for reelection to Congress.
The wretch, stained with every political
crime, aud leprous with personal infamy,
is disgrace to the public councils; and
it was hoped that even the Radical con-
vention at Worcester, would have respect
enough for the opinion of the civilized
world which had stamped on brow al
ready disfgured by Nature, the brand Of
its scorn, to have kept him at home. In
his seclusion, the American people might
have forgotten to degree, what they can
never view but with detestation-a SOL
der in whom poltroonery, brutally, land
tbievery struggled for ipre-eminence as
the meanest trait, a libeller of female vir-
tue, and the scurviest politician of his
time, reeking with corruption; but to
thrust him forward with the Endorsement
of reelection, looks like glorying in the
shame which his degraded career has re-
Aected on tie country ~
However, the loatbsome creature is one
of the most influential in the Jacobin par
ty, and it has further need for such service
as he only can render. ga
Union and amsricdn.
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DR.. NIudd.
The "POliey" Orthe Worlds best Government $50
called.n tf} ~
FrOm the baltimore Gazette

From the Baltimore Gazette
A brief little note is now lying before
us, the sight Of which would call up sad
reflections in every rational mind, and a
throb of Indignation in every honest heart.
1t is signed by DR.. Mudd on behalf of
himself and his unhappy fellow prisoners
who are now confined upon the dreary
island to which they were illegally con-
signed more than three years ago by order
of military commission. That these
men were guilty of the crime of which
they We're accused, few persons now be-
heve No, dispassionate lawyer can now
read the testimony without arriving at
the conclusion that it wholly fails to bring
home to the prisoners the faintest knowl-
edge of any plot for the assassination of
Mr., Lincoln. The victims of the passions
which ruled the hour, they were doomed
to conviction from the moment of their
arrest. Had the Court which tried them
remained even under suspicion of their
guilt, it would unhesitatingly have sent
them with the innocent woman whom it
hanged in choins to appeal before higher
tribunal against the foulest indicial muir
der of the age. They are suffering, too,
under Judgment of Court which had no
shadow of authority to try or to punish
them. 1t had been the boast of this peo-
pie every since the foundation of the Re-
public that no citizen could be deprived
of life, liberty or property without due
process of law, and the specious casuistry
which was woven to justify acts of despot-
ism and assumption of arbitrary power by
this Government is being dismissed into
the category of things abhorred and scorn-
ed. But the mute appeal of the prisoners
on the Dry Tortugas meets with no fitting
response from people claiming to be
both just and free. Now and then there
goes up an earnest protest from some quar-
ter, but the public in the main seems in
different to the fate of mehwho are few
and friendless. Meanwhile they are en-
during their slow tortures, and hear
broken wife and her little children are
looking with sad and longing eyes for the
coming Of him whom they know to be so
uniustly and mercilessly used.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-10-08
The Prosnect.

The official returnsfrom Maine give the
Radicals majority of 10000. This is a
loss of seven thousand or more on the test
vote Of 1866, and is FIVE thousand less
than the Radical leaders claimed before
the election. The betting books of the
retainers of that party were adjusted at a
majority of $4,000, and those who invest
ed, gave up the money on that figure.
Further analysis of the returns show an
actual increase in the Democratic vote of
1850, while the Radical increases only
6620. The per centage Of increase of
each party is, for the Democratic 344 per
cent; for the Radical 81 per cent. OF less.
So much for Maine when the smoke is
gone.
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana hold
their elections on the 18th of this month.
The canvass in all these States is unpre-
cedentedly warm and active onb 9th sides.
Both parties are straining every nerve,
and it is certain that their will be lar
ger vote polled than ever before. Assum-
ing this to be so and comparing by the
strength of parties at the last elections, if
the Democratic increases exceeds the Rad
ical in the same ratio as in Maine, the De-
mocracy will carry all of these States by
large majorities, say Pennsylvania by
10000, Ohio by $4,000, and Indiana by
10000. The causes that worked in Maine
are more powerfully displayed in these
three States-Ohio and Indiana especially.
1t is in these that the greenback PROPOSE
ton is SO immensely popular. In this
view, and judging by the Maine election,
the Democracy look with confidence to
decided majorities. The Radical game is,
by misrepresentation of the department
and temper of the Southern people, to
alarm and panic the Northern mind into
fear of strife in the event of a Democratic
success, and they have piled it unscrupu-
lousy. The truth, however, is in close
pursuit of falsohood and there is strong
reason to believe that it will overreach it.
Our friends Ohio, Indiana and Pcnnsylva-
MIA write cheeringly, and if they accom-
plish their expectations, all will be well
in Union and american.
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Texas Life.
A Bloody Duel on Horseback.

The Corpus Christi Advertiser has from
correspondent these particulars of a
bloody and fatal ARRAY which took place
on the west side of the river, above Oak
vile, on the 22d ult., between Mr.. Hen
derson Williams and Sic Brown, about
some beeves that were turned into herd
against the wish of Mr. Williams. The
latter claimed authority over said beeves,
as partly his own and partly those for
which he held agencies.
Some angry words occurred at first,
which eliminated in the drawing of weap-
ons, which were heavy dragon six-shoot-
ers. Both parties being mounted, at each
successive shot they charged up closer to
their dreadful work. The firing was
rapid, and the combatants became envel-
oped in the smoke Of their weapons, which
Tapped together on the last round. Mr..
Browns firing was wild, owing, no doubt,
to the fact that he received a mortal CEN
ter shot from Wiliams's first fire, al
though he sat on his horse firmly, until
shot the third time through the body,
which, centering the heart, he fell corpse
on the instant. Williams was unhurt,
but his horse was shot through the head,
and was fractions and unruly during the
fight. Both parties had numbers of we'll
armed friends on the ground, but no assis-
lance or interference was offered, and the
issue was fairly and squarely tested.
Both men were undoubtedly brave to the
last inch, such as would do honor to any
cause, right or wrong. But it is sad
thing indeed, that men forty years of age
must draw their weapons to decide ques-
tons Of property.
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All Papers Please Copy.

All who lost friends at Elmira Prison
during the war, and wish to get informa-
ton respecting their bodies, the chances
and charges for removing, &c., can do so
by addressing Mr.. r. A. Harrison, of
Sparta, Georgia, at Elmira, New York.
Mr.. HI. went North last winter to look
after the bodies of prisoners, and goes now
to remove them. sre a
At Elmira Cemetery, he noticed that
most, perhaps all the Southern States, are
represented, and knowing from pressing
inquiries received, that many would glad
ly hear respecting the bodies of friends,
to answer all letters and inquiries which
may be sent to him, at Elmira, by the
18th Of October. He is making special
arrangements with railroads and transper-
lotion companies, and will be prepared on
arriving at Elmira, to let those interested,
know the least cost for removing a body.
Mr.. Harrison makes no charge for his serv-
ices, and will be glad to ASSIST in remoy-
ing Confederate dead from Elmira. The
graves are well marked, and dead bodies
can be identified. Persons writing will
please enclose a Stamp to pay return
postage.
All railroads, transportation companies
and others granting favors, will be liberal
ly noticed by the Southern Press. q
Mr.. Davis called upon us yesterday,
aud we insert the above notice at his re-
quest. We see that the Atlanta papers
gave him favorable notices,
Press and Herald.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-10-08

The Union Pilot insists that '"troason
shall be made odious." We can't con-
ceive of any better way to accomplish it
than for the editor of that veracious sheet
to 90 back on his own record.
[lthens Post.
We infer from this the editor of the
Union Pilot has been Rebel. This ac-
counts for his demand that Democratic
| speakers be silenccd in East Tennessee.
When "RebeW does ego back on his
own record" he is the meanest most rabid
Radical that can be found. =.
.NashUilLe Union and Americaa.
The Union Pilot processes and we pre-
sumo correctly, to be published and issued
from Philadelphia, Temessee-not in
the land of Pennsylvania. 1t matters
very little to us what the editor Of tho
Union Pilot may think. In fact we don't
regard the matter at all. The man who
says he is editor of the paper, which we
will not dignity with criticism, pretends
to be acquainted with the senior editor
of this paper, a matter of which we are
certainly unconcious. We may have met
the so-called editor of that small concern,
but if so, the features of his rebel counte-
nance have passed from our mind.
But it is not with the editor of the
Pilot that we wish to pass any words.
One Of the dirtiest puppies-one of the
most graceless villians-one of the sleek
est scoundrels that now gloats over his
own villainies, is w. G. Nelson, the con-
script officer of the Philadelphia district,
whence scores fed in fear of their lives
from whom honest men of all parties fed
after the war for the safety of what be-
longed to them. This same Bill Nelson,
we are informed, is the author of a charge
against us, that we, on a time past, had
left the ''magni6cent village of Philadcl-
phia without paying our board bill" The
charge, the intimation, the insinuati on
even the devlish conccption-is false and
vilely false; and only worthy of Bill
Nelson, the robber of his cousin, the asso-
ciate of convicted thieves, the levier of
black mail upon honest men when they
felt poweriess to resist, This man-this
admitted villain-makes charg against
us We simply refer to the matter in
this kindly way, that our friends who
know the trnth of the statement, may
know that we. are not Indifferent to their
good opinion.-Pres and Herald.
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HOW souuTHEREN DEMOCRATS TALK,

The most sensible, and in fact We
might almost say, the only sensible rea-
ding to be found in the Union Pilot, will
be found in every issue of that paper un-
der the heading of 'IIow Southern Dem
Ocrats talk" @
Pilot, gil up your columns with such
extracts and you will have something for
your readers TO look at Of nights.
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.Another Proclamation.

just as we expected No use for the
militia now: ~.
The rebel Democracy are circulating
various reports in regard to the militia.
| do not propose to reply to these charges
in detail. Suffice it to say that immedi-
ately after the legislative committee visit
ed the President, Major General Thomas
requested me to furnish him the names of
such counties and localities as j desired
him to send troops to. promptly replied
and gave him the names of twenty-one
counties. He is now sending regular
troops into these counties, instructing
them as to their duty. A'se
| think it likely that no State Guards
will be needed. Ihave, however, order
ed the enlistment of divers companies
who will report to me at Nashville as d.
rected in my Proclamation. These troops
will hold themselves in redinessi without
incurring any expense to themselys or tho
State. Should they be needed, they will
be called into the service, and their Of
fcers commissioned. Captains and men,
are hereby advised to pay no attention to
the many idle stories in circulation, but
to rely upon my Proclamation, and upon
the state ments herein made.
w. G, BRowELow,
8 Governor of; Tennessee.
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When carpet-bagger, or scalawag
tells you that vote in favor of Seymour
aad BlaiD is a vote in favor of slavery,
Just remind the scoundrel of the fact that
Frank 7. Blair was an avowed friend Of
the colored man, and an advocate of
emancipation, at a time when Ulysses s.
Grant declared that sooner than fight to
set the negro free, he would carry his
sword over to the Southern side.
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The New York Herald says, editorially
"The Governor of Alabama is certainly
not far wrong in his notion that more
National troops are unnecessary in that
State. The presence of fifty thousand
soldiers in Alabama would not be so eff
fective in keeping the peace as the Camilla
fight will prove. Now that the whole his
tory of that event is seen, it is undeliably
clear that the negroes provoked the dis
turbance. They marched with their
Radical leaders, music and arms, into a
quite town COMFORTING themselvs in an
offensive manner, making a bullying ex-
petition, and the menace of their conduct
was met as if it. we're real Negroes will
see, by this example, that it is not yet safe
to bully white men, and that will prevent
collisions"
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-10-08

Governor Fletche, of Missouri, is shay
ing peace" by distributing thirty thou
sand stands of arms among the Radical
plug-uglies of that State. These thirty
thousand muskets are to cotrol the Mis-
souri, election in favor of Grant, or at least
that is the intention, but there is smany o
Slip" &c.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-10-08

The Radical papers assert that a son of
Hon. Stephen A.. Dougles is about taking
the stump for Grant and Colfax. If SO,
let his first discourse be from the mem
orable saying Of his distinguished father:
'|This isa white mans country, made by
white men for white men and their pos
terity forever"
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[Jonssboro' Union Fac


The Richmond Examiner concludes an
article on the subject of the fate of the
negro, with the following truthful re-
marks, which we commend to the atten-
ton of the negroes "Thero is no party
IN the North, nor any party, which secret
ly desires to see the whites of the South
ruled by negroes, and the Southern States
made negro provinces Far less do any
avow it. In the long run, '6lood is thick
er than water even among the most I'M
principled men of the white race. Moth
ing is clearer, in the future, than the fact
that the negro will be cast aside by the
Radicals as soon as he has served their
purposes in the present contest. And it
is a safe prediction that the negroes will
have no more implacable enemies than
those who now profess to be their peculiar
friends, just 50 soon as these professions
are no longer profitable. If it were nee
essary to sustain this opinion, which is
based on general principles, by specific
proofs, nothing is easier than to point to
the course of the Radicals in the Georgia
Legislature, and even the conduct of the
Radical "Central Committee in this city,"
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A Dead secret.
A skeleten and Treasure Found.
q the Nashville Times, 4th.l

From the Nashville Times, 4th.l
Last Friday, as two colored men were
digging a trench for the purpose Of
draining small pond about five miles up
the Cumberland, they made most sngu-
lar discovery. The trench they were ex-
cavating passed through small copSe of
underwood in its way to the river, and it
was while digging through the knoll,
which was covered with the brushwOd ID in
question, that they came upon the rem aims
of a wooden box, which was, however,
very much decayed, and near by the bones
of perfect human skeleton in good
state of preservation. The body appeared
to have been doubled up aud thrust into
very narrow space, as the bones were
found occupying very restricted limits.
The remains were evidently those of
full-grown man of medium size, and we're,
perhaps, those of some soldier buried
there during the war perhaps COnfed-
crate. The strangest part of the affair is
that after excavating only short distance
further the colored men unearthed small
tin can, something like those used for
preserving fruit, in which were found two
gold watches, some small silver and doz-
en- solid silver spoons.
No name was found with the treasure,
nor, in fact, any clue which might lead to
a discovery of the person or persons who
deposited it there, or to whomit belonged.
The watches were in good state of pres
ervation, though the can had rusted away
from exposure to the damp soil. 1t bears
evidence of having been buried for several
years. One of the watches was wound up
and licked off as lively as though it came
from the shop but yesterday. The colored
men considered themselves in most excel
lent luck, and prolongeg their searches in
that locality for some time, but failed to
find anything further of value.
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October 9th, 1868. "a. 4 ~

Mr.. Henry Carter Lee, grandson of
Lighthouse Harry and nephew of General
Robert E. Lee, and Miss Sallie B. John
ston, niece of General Joseph E. John
ston, were married at Abingdon, Va, on
the 24th ult.
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The Eureka Mining Company of Polk
County is this State, is a curious illustra-
ton of the vicissitudes of copper mining.
1t owned @rge tracts of land in what was
supposed to be the richest portion of the
copper region of Tennessee. 1t was sold
in England for million dollars, and this
English Company employed the best sci
entihc talent and the most perfect ma
ehinery that could be procured, but all
wouldn't do; and after laundering for
some years the London Company sold out
for three hundred thousand dollars. New
men tried their best to make it a success
but failed, and recently the Eureka Min
ing Company was entirely sold out to Mr..
Raht for one thousand dollars.
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OF THE CURRENT FISCAL
YEAR.

Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, s475, POI 20
Without including the Postofice def
;iency which will amount, as before stated,
o S6,l0O0,O 900.
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AUTHORITY TO EXTEND.

When Congress adjourned, the amount
of appropriations that remained as "avail-
able sources of authority for the cxpendi-
ture of money from the Treasury" was as
follows: -. ~.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-10-08

The Pilot in spaakig of the return of
Hon. w. G, Swan to E.sTenn., asks, if he
'broughtthe @PIough of CONSUMPTION" with
hfn3 Yes, and we suppose W. G. Nelson
wiil know the old thing when he sees it,,
as he'gas one Of the team that worked in
il during the war; aud the Pilot man was
one Of the driyers-and Billey, they say,
worked ike wheel horse,
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A down east paper says: Seen. Grants
utterances are few, but remarkable" So
are those Of an Andalusian Jack.
TN. o. Times.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6.-This city has
contributed $4,000 in gold to the earth
quake sufferers
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ANDY JOHNSON Ar ms OLD GAME.

Major General George II. Thomas h as
been withdrawn from Tennessee, and or
dered to report to Washington on a paltry
detail, in order that he may not be on the
ground to protect loyal men and the bal
lot-box when the election comes on.
Gordon Granger, known by his deeds,
succeeds to the command. This is the
latest Presidential card, and looks as if Mr..
johnson were inclined to lend his little
brief authority to Seymour and revolution.
Philadelphia Press.
Exactly so! Just the programme we
expected from the sly old fox at the
White House. We will see what his next
move will be on the trestle-board but in
the meantime We trust the State authori-
ties will DO on the alert!
rg t JOnesboro' Union Flag.
Oh, Yes Keep them on the alert.
Let old Proc not withdraw his eye from
Gordon Granger. We guess certain
wise Legislature went out after wool and
got sheared.-Press and Herald.