Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-04-25
The Ku-Klux Klan,
ouTRAGEs Blythe KL,N IN GHoR fla.

-.. 5i-ar ATLANTA, Ca. ApTl4th, 1868.
General Mead returned yesterday from
an official tour in Southern Georgia, and
today promulgated an important order
referring to the late Ashburn assassina-
ton at Columbns-Other acts of atrocity
simultaneous with the publication of in
cendiary articles, and the sending OF
threatening letters, Indicate concert of
action TO affect the result of the election
by intimidation and violence, and einan-
ating from a secret organization. All
are warned against participation in the
acts of this organization, and the law
abiding are assured of protection. The
General forbids the publication ofahy-
thing counseling intimidation or ten
ding to bloodshed. Newspapers con-
tanning such articles are warned that the
General will stop their publication and
try the offenders by military commits
sion. Public writers and speakers are
admonished to ref ain from infammato-
~ appeals. Military commanders are
authorized, when i'll their judgmen it
may be seen necessary TO organize
forces from among the law abiding cit
izens to- preserve order; the expenses
attending pay and maintenance of such
forces to be borne by the counties or
municipalities where required. The Com
manding General enjoins all good citizens
to aid in the arrest and punishment OF
yiolators of this order and Of law, and
sdmonishes them that unless acts of in
timidaton and violence are checked and
punished, bloody retaliation may be pro
yoked, society endangered, and limo
cent blood shed. . ,-.. .......-.-
ATTENPT TO BLOW UP REPCBI IcAN MEETING.
SAVANNAH, April 5.-The Republican meet
ing at atValdusta, Ga, yesterday, was broken up
by Il band of Regulators or Ku klux klan :
Powder was placed under the building in which
Dir J. w. Cliff, the Republican candidate for
Congress, was TO speak. i-."
MURDER OF RADIoAL-surposED BY THE KUK-
.H.- @ o. KLUX. s--
The Columbus papers contain all the parfic-
ulars of the assassination of George w.
Ashburn, with the testimony given by num-
her ofwiinesSes before tie; CoronerS inquest.
Nothing is known OF the identity of the par
ties. All that is testified to is that body of
men from twenty five TO fifty in number, all
disguised, surrounded the negro boarding
house where Ashburn was logging, broke open
his door after his refusal to open it, when a
number ofshots were fred by portion OF the
party, three Of which took effect, one in the
forehead, of which he instantly died, one in the
breast, and the third in the leg. None OF the
witnesses could identify any OF the number en-
gagged in the tranasciion. ..F-t -.
TENNEssEE.-KU- KHAN OUTRAGE
s... +. IN MURRAY COUNTY. 81 ,,.-s f
r. NASHVILLE, April 3.-Last Hednes-
day an ex-Federal soldier named Gra-
ham well known in Nashville, was driven
out of Mount Pleasant County, Tenn,
by a Ku-klux mob. He had gone to
the place with view of securing en-
ployment as teacher. While at the
Post Office he was surrounded by q gang
of 10 or 20 armed Rebels, who demanded
| to know where he was from, and what
was his business. He politely and frank
lv answered the questions, when he was
told that they had determined that no
id Yankee who had fought against
the South during the war should live IN
Mount Pleasant, and he must, on pam
of death, leave the place within five min
utes. He was followed three miles from
the town, and cursed, tentalized, and re-
peatedly threatened with instant death.
The mob was headed by Nixon, the
town constable, who wonld swear that
no Radical Yankees should settle wl.h!n
his lines. Mr.. Graham returned to THIS
city yesterday.
| OUTRAGE BY THE KU-KLUK KHAN UPON
H,.- PEACEABLE CITIZEN. stil 81
A man named Pat Haney, living near
WayerIy, on the Nashville aud North