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The kukiux KIan-A Card from
Maj. J.. Clay Horne.
From the Columbus Dispatcl

+ Mr.. EDIToR-Dear Sir I have been
Informed by several of our citizens that
the people generally in this and Ballard
county are of the opinion that am at
the head of, or connected with this
bogus, so called Kuklux Khan, which is
creating so much disturbance and I'M
necessary excitement among the negroes.
In order to disabuse the minds of the
people who have entertained such an
idea in regard to myself, l wish only to
say through your paper that l know
nothing of such an organization, nor do
l believe there is Khan in this county.
The existence of an order or khan in some
of the Southern States where it is nee
essary to take some measures against the
Loyal League proceedings has merely
given a cloak to thieving bands, who are
now going around through our country,
searching and abusing the negres who
are supposed to have firearms. The
laws guarantee to the negro the same
right to bear arms as the whites, and in
case they make improper use of them the
law provides mea|S by which they may
be deprived Of tn and prevented from
doing harm.
1t should be taken into consideration,
that the negroes have fewer privileges in
this State than in any other, and they
so greatly in the minority tbat-1sml
not reasonably EN-
fear of harm from |
are indispensable TO IA ,l,,4.
I esrs, ana n rrc5r murxu q1'pk = ~
not broken up much t5s9g bse and loss VIZ!
be the inevitable re " to the citixss,I
throughout the whole State, fnanci, .fy
and politically.
At the close Of the war, the great
dread of the negroes were the guerrillas,
and it was impossible TO persuade them
to go outside of the towns for employ
ment. This grea annoyance has been
removed, and the negroes have hardly
recovered from the effects, when new
danger is presented to them, which threat
ems even worse than the guerrillas. The
poor wretches congregate around the
towns and cities plundering and stealing
for subsistence, and refuse to labor in the
country on this plea, Kuklux Klanl
| In Tennessee, it may be necessary to
make some opposition TO the system of
government now imposed upon the peo-
pie. But in Kentucky we have white
mans government, and have no just
cause to brow beat and tyrannige over a
race of people who are TO be pited rather
than hated
We have no need Of the Kuklux Khan,
or any other, and 1, for one, shall al
ways diseountenance every action taken
to encourage such an organization.
| am, dear sir, truly yours,
j. CLAY HORNE
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oeUISSo WIZ - OF lDti-0oA ~Sr0IprsNNJ
makers in that county, seems, tried the
same role so successfully played in New
York, Chicago, and Cincinnati, in evad-
ing the taxes, and when caught at it re-
fused to be arrested by the U. S. Mar
shall and his deputies, and threatened
them with violence. OF course all the
Radical papers denounced this as rebel
Democratic outrage, but it happens that
the chief actors in the affair were Union
soldiers. The Northern Radical papers
proclaim this occurrence to their readers
under the caption of Civil War;" ETC.,
etc., and the consequenee'is that United
States soldiers are sent to these counties.
All this trouble and misrepresentation is
brought upon a community by a few
thoughtless and reckless parties. And
hence, we argue, that our people and
every officer of the law from Gov. Stew
enson down, should be vigilant to pre-
vent and suppress all such acts.
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Among the KukIux.

A correspondent of the New York
Herald, who is /" doing" Tennessee fol-
the benefit of his paper, in a recent letter
describes his experience in a three day:
tour through Maury county. We ex.
tract briefly;
| stopped one night in the cabin of an
old negro, who, with his three sons, cul-
tivate very nice little farm adjoining
one of the plantations and as he was
quite communicative old fellow / soon
got into his good graces and had little
talk" oa-the condition of the negroes in
S dunno now sum niggas does, marse.
he replied to one of my questions, but
we is comfortable. De white folks help
US long, too, when de crops isn't salub-
rous."
But are you not afraid of the Ku-
klux?"
Dress your sole, dey dun't boder US
folk. I never seed any. 'Casionally L
hears dey is gwine ter do orful things
about heah, but dey dun't trouble US.
Oar is Pete, he knows EN-; he can tell
you dat dey play de devil wild the bad
niggas, and dar is stunnin' bad niggars
round now times" Here Pete, one of
the old mans sons, nodded assent
"The bad negroes don't brighten you,
do they 2"
Yes, dey does. Dey guv me more
anxiousness dan care for Kluxes. Dey
steal whatever dey gets dar black hands
arter. We coteh 'em oftea.'
"What did you do with them?"
al don't cotch 'em, but the Kluxes
hunt 'em like possum. Oar was dat
cussed nigga, Jim Freelan, who wuked
on de plantation fore de war as smart as
any. he was de wustest nigga I ever
seed. He gwined off wild a polmtician
and he got so big arter while he cudn't
talkto oder niggas. He fetched lots of
fellas from de town when he cum back
and played de duce wild sum white folks.
One missus was tax away and hurried or
full. She died arter, l heerd. Jim was
cotched one night by Kluxes and sum ov
our boys helped to fix EN-, and We amt
heered on EN- sence.
Don't you or Pete ever go to cleo
ton meetings."
DE boys does sometimes. I doesn't.
Don't ear for SIGH. De Marse ober dar
tell us what it is bad binAess. 1 b'leive
'em, fur eberX d lIi1maissas
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ALLIE LEE, the other day, went be-
fore Judge Primm, of the Criminal
Court, at st. Louis, and renoupcing his
allegiance to the Emperor of China and
all the mandaring of bashaws of ten or
twelve tails, was made citizens of the
United States. This being the first Chin
aman ever naturalized there, some curl
|csity was felt to know how he would cast
kEote. He said he would svotee force
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f. ENTBRPRIsE IN TRADE-H c. Bal
ley has just received a large stock Of
groceries which he challenges Western
Kentucky. to snrpass, either in Equality or
quantity The attention of country
dealers is particularly directed to his es-
adjustment; and also he is now. better
prepared than ever to serve his retail
customers. Dealers from the adjoining
counties will find the grocery market of
Hickman much improved, and in prices
and stocks able to compare with any
competing market. Hes el
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store Removed.

FTEO. w. STUBBLEFIELD, announces
NJ to his friends and customers, that he
has removed his Provision House, to his old
stand, opposite the County Jail, where
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From all the y5tvHnRss9sGe to
to make during my t. r through the
county, have come to the following con-
illusions That there have undoubtedly
been outrages committed in Maury coun-
ty, but that they have been greatly ex-
eggerated in horror of detail as well as
in number; that the blacks commit more
outrages, five to one, than the whites,
call them Kuklux or any thing else; that
the happiest negroes are the hsteadiest
hands on the plantations, who care little
for politics; that the worst class of ne
groes is that under the control and man
ipulation Of Northern political wire
puliers, who use them as their plant
tools that Northern men of extreme
radical ideas who rove through the coun-
ty eanvassing for votes are at the bottom
of all the troubles of Middle and West
Tennessee. i
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Ar the recent election in New Aexi-
co, the Democrats elected thirteen out Of
the twenty-six members of the Legisla-
ture, being y gain of seven over last
year. a es e.
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A Mob of Negroes Attack 8
Town.
The Citizens, White ant Color.
ed. Rally and Drive Them

NEARLY A HUNDRED RADI-
GALS KILLED AND FOUND
ED-NEGROEIS THROtGHOU1
THE STATE ARMED.
AUGUSTA, Ga, spt. II.
A fearful riot occurred at emilia, the
county seat of Mitchell county Ga, last
Saturday. The following ,articulars
have been teiegraphed from binbridge,
twenty four miles from the sone OF riot:
Pierce, the Radical nominA for Con-
eress, and Murphy, an ex- Bureau agent,
with about200 negroes armed and equip
three o Visions s and fb 0fs7 Of new :
arms and accoutrements, their itention
being to overawe the citizens. BeG<e
starting, some friendly negro exposed
their plans, and negro courier las des-
patched to Camilla to inform thecitizens
what was going on. A depataion Of
three prominent citizens met themoh at
church, five miles from town.
The Governors proclamation, forbid
ding armed organizations, was rad, but
the mob paid no attention to it, and de-
terrnined to march on Again tie depu-
tation demonstrated, entreatingthe me-
groes to come in without arms aid they
should not be molested. Their efforts
were fruitless to dissuade the segroes,
aud the mob marched into the town with
banners flying and drums beating They
now numbered four hundred aud fifty,
many having joined them on the route.
The mob halted and clamored foi man
named Johns, who, in company With DR..
Fritz, presented himself, when hun
bred guns were leveled at. them The
former, being intoxicated, fred, md the
riot commenced, the mob firing d every
one they could see. The citizen white
and colored, rallied, gathering sbut fifty
stands of arms The mob was vieor-
ously attacked and driven bact and,
panic-stricken, took to fight. he me-
groes were pursued FIVE miles, losing 50
killed and many wounded Tier tota!
loss, so far as ascertained, will be from
seventy five to one hundred in killed. and
wounded
Owing to panic in the mob, My FIVE
whites were severely wounded The col
oredh citizens of the town are reprted to
have tfallied promptly with the mites in
defeating the mob. The stores md mu-
nitions of the latter were capturd. At
last accounts Camilla was quiet
The News AT August,.
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GOOA Per Month sure and no money
ZUO required in advance. agents
wanted everywhere, male or female to sell
our Patent Everlasting White WIRE Clothes
Lines Every household should have tins
article.'-N. Y. Tribune. address American
Wire Co., IS William St, n. Y, or 10 Dear
born ST., Chicago, Ill.
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Taxes In Tennessee.

The Brownlow administration is much
more costly than most of people imagine.
The tax on property last yearwas twenty
&c cents es.1sbe one hundred dollars
- cents. The gross tax
~ 1, on payers will find that
u iition. q Baned upon for something
more aasmsihree millions The Union
aud American asks, Where does all this
money go to? Itrequires only about a
quarter of million to pay the interest
of the State debt proper, and the bal
anee, nearly three millions, goes to sup
port the Rrownlow administration and Its
pensioned minions. But the State taxes,
enormous as they are, are not all the
people of Tennessee have to pay. Their
county and municipal taxes have been
largely Increased to pay the salaries and
expenses of the new Offices that have
been created for the benefit of eleemosy-
nary radicals. 1t will thus be seen that
the Tennesseeans are as heavily taxed as
they can bear, and yet they are not per
mitted voice in the assessment of these
taxes or their disbursement.
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The News at Augusts.

AUGUSTA, GA, Sept 21.-Ness of a
riot at Camilla caused some excitement
sere. 1t is known that the negroes are
armed throughout the State, s4t the
whites have no serious fears ofslistur-
bance, if the negroes are not prcipita-
tedjnto the riots through the penicious
counsels and violent appeals t, their
passions.
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Such as creations dawn beheld, it sees thee
now"
Amid the wrecks of time its progress
is still onward and upward, higher and
still higher. Higher higher That is
the motto of our race; that is the motto
of our aspirations that is the hope of
our immortal souls. Higheri even as
the eagle when he takes his flight to the
sun higher as the immortal stars, when
in their eternal courses they encircle the
foot-stool of the throne. Higher as
the soul of man, when leaving its tene-
mentsSsS, clay, it seeks through all the
ages the home of its father and its God
[ Applause.
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DEMOCRATIC ELECTORS.
INC ocfober Electlons.

On the 18th of October next, elections
viii be held in Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana, and iowa, and the result will be'
-s-----~ssa ofs -
peopAs on the Presidential question. n
the Democrats succeed in carrying two OF
the first named threes We shall be conf
dent of Seymour's election or, If upon
the other band the Republicans carry
them, the election of Grant will be gen
orally conceded. The Nashville Press
and Times, Brownlow's leading organ,
declares the elections in Vermont, Maine,
and Kentucky of no significance; and
hinges the whole contest upon Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and Indiana. In 1867 the
Democrats carried Pennsylvania by 922
votes, but in 1866 the Republicans car
ried it by 17,17s. In 1867, the year of
the Democratic triumph, the vote of the
State was So, 600 less then full vote,
and the figures by comparison prove, that
of those not voting 40, 900 we're Repub-
lieans. and $4,000 Democrats, leaving a
Republican balance of $4,000. All this
vote will be brought out in October, and
unless 10000 of the Republicans of 1866
vote the Democratic ticket, the Republi-
cans will carry the State.
In Ohio, in 1867, the Republicans
elected their candidate for Governor, but
the Democrats carried majority of the
Legislature. A small per cent. of in
crease will give Ohio tosthe Democracy,
but it must be by gains from hitherto
.epublicans.
NE vote in Ohio at the three elections
since the last Pres
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Aett, Sdrertisements.
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Price Fifty cents per box, post free. Car
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HORSE THIEVES IN DYER-In Dyer
county, Tennessee, on Saturday week
ago, notorious horse thief aud coun-
terfeiter named Stallings was killed by a
band of regulators, and another despera-
do named Young was mortally wounded.
1t is alleged that the country around
there is infested with lot of despera-
does, and that the civil authorities fail
ing to bring them to punishment, num-
Der of citizens, without regard to poll
tics, have banded together for the pur-
pose of exterminating them.
MATTRESSES of every description, and
Spring bottoms for beds-one Of the best
Of the age--always on hand and
Ter sale cheap by Chas. Oswald.
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NOTICE.

II GIVE herewith notice to the public that
| my brother, Ernest Margraff, is authorized
10 settle all business for me during my
absence, ~ CHARLES MARGRAFF.s
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George II. Pendleton addressed a mul-
titude of people at Springfield, Illinois
on the 18th, and made one of the great
est speeches of his life in defence OF
constitutional liberty. In speaking Of
the Constitution, he said:
The great polar star of the Democra-
tic party is the Constitution of the Uni
/ ted States Do not, my fellow citizens,
in the heat of this arduous contest, do
not forget that great lesson. The Re-
pablican party believe they can amend it;
they can change it and make it a better
| Constitution than our fathers made it in
the days of ole DsI charge it upon YOU.
Democrats that are here to-day. never TO
consent to it's anep went or its degrade
ton. Do not sect E ex pend lido not
seek to change j. i seek to evade
it. Obey it. Is pod enough for
your fathers. 1t iEIs0d enough for you.
If you obexits.is will be good enegssh
to come Immense applause. Stud Y
it-understand it. Garry it about with
you as living presence IN the walks OF
your daily life. Take it to your home
children; put it upon your family altar,
that when you bow your head in suppli-
eating prayer it may be there next to the
image of God himself. Immense ap-
plause Do this, and then in His own
good time you will be able to raise it up
TO that place aud power to which the
brazen serpent in the wilderness was
raised in order that the plague might be
stayed. Do this, and you will be able
to raise it up to that high place of honor
to which the Ark of the Covenant was
raised, around which the Almighty kent
ward and guard, that he who touched it
with impious hands should die. Re.
member, fellow-citizens, that the Consti-
tuition contains within itself all that was
good in the experience of the past. and
all that is hopeful in the prospect of the
future 1t is the ark of safety in the
midst of the food which is upon US. 1t
may be tossed in the blaekness of dark
ness upon the weary waters of many DAYS,
but Is will rest upon the mountain top a t
last; the sun will shine, the dove will
leavSEn,never to return, and now as then.
emblem of purity, and liberty, and peace,
she will seek to rebuild her habitations
amidst the scenes of her former life. 1t
may be in the providence of God that
this country of ours will follow in the
wake of all nations that have gone be-
fore. If it shall be SO, let it not be ow
ing to the faults or misfortunes of the
Democratic party. If it must be SO, let
it be known that it was the party of our
love that stood to the last, with heroic
virtue, to the principles of civil liberty.
If it must be SO, let US take consolation
NJ the thought that in the eternal circles
God de3tainbut the precursor of re-
~ bat the same principles
decay contain,
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saJority ce qeD6 was cut down from
.,o96 to 1888. The feeling against ne
gro suffrage and Radical reconstruction
has lost none of its intensity among the
voters of Ohio, while we have this year
the additional great and popular issue of
zone currency for all" and we confident
ly believe the opinions of the great ma
jority of the citizens of Ohio to be in
thorough accord with the principles en-
bodied in the platform adopted in New
York in July last. For these reasons
We count on the 81 electoral votes OF
this State being cast for Seymour and
Blair.
The vote of Indiana in the last two
general elections was
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E
1864 I5 Re gsa ,a dem gsa Rep s. mai q
1866. .i69'6l8 l55, iO2 1875
There was no general election in 1867,
but the vote for county officers showed
Democratic gains. The .ane causes
which operated so favorably for the Rad
icals in Ohio in 1856, produced, to a
great extent, similar results in Indiana,
and still the Democracy gained largely
over their vote of 1864.
Indiana it is generally conceded will
go Democratic, and Iowa, for the Re-
publicans. So the real contest is in
Pennsylvania and Ohio, and in these
States the prospect is fattering.
Our anxiety for the success of the De-
moe5cy Will not permit us 70 = -.
our fear as to the result The people of
the North Of both political parties are
thoroughly aroused and in earnest; but
We fear the Democracy are trusting too
much to argument; and permitting the
enemy to beat them by noise and display.
Argument aud logical debate will do in
Parliament, but in these revolutionary
times. Democratic speakers should fight
the Republicans with their own weapons,
abuse, noise, cheers, talk of war, battles,
etc. Northern Democratic papers and
speakers speak of the result in October
in most cheering words, and We sincerely
trust their professions may prove cor
rect ~ t a
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HE HICKMAN COURIER

SATURDAY, SEPT. &c, 1868
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DEMO CRATIC KET.

GEORGE WARREN. Editor.
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PendIeton atspringaeId.

George H, Pendleton addressed null
titude of people at Springfield, Illinois,
on the 18th, and made one of the great
est speeches of his life in defence of
constitutional liberty. In speaking Of
a. c.;..; :I
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Boats Due.

Among the first boats due here
are the Champion, for St. Louis;
Havana. for Nashville; Silver Noon,
for Memphis; Clifton and Sam. j,
Hale, from Memphis; Indiana, Belle
Lee, j. Fl. Groesbeck and Richmond,
from New Orleans; Louisiana and
Richmond, for New Orleans; Chatta-
nooga, from Wabash River; Quick
step, from Cairo; Morning Star,
from Louisville; j. p Webb and
Linton, from GAINESVILLE; Sam. Orr,
for Eastporti Rob Roy, from Cincin-
r1nti u u