New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-05
BY Last rNight.s MANS.

|
| Isaae Penny, Union man residing at
NewbilPs Cross Roads, Carroll county, Ten
nessee, was taken out Friday night by
| band of men disguised as Ku.Klux, and
| severely whipped. No cause for this bru.
tality has been mentioned. He was Re-
publican, and that was the .'head and front
| of his OFFENDING" A number of colored
persons in that Aeighborhood have also
been maltreated. ...
The Suns Washington special says: "Sec.
retary Seward has already completed me-
| gotiati0n for the purchase Of Greenland and
Iceland from the Danish government. 1t is
said that he is to give Eve and half mil.
lions ofdollars in gold for them, and he has
already the promise of sufficient support in
the Senate to secure the, ratification of the
measure. Mr.. Seward is now having printed
at the government printing Office Volumin-
ons account of those countries, their popu.
lation, climate, and history, which he will
send into the Senate, with copies OF his new
treaty" r
| without the Presidents signature. 1t en-
| larges the power of that Court, and abolish
es the offices of Solicitor and two assistants.
1t also legislates Binckley out of Office and
authorizes the President and Senate to ap-
point two Attorney Generals, who, with
their Chief shall do all the business for the
Supreme Court and Court Of Claims.
1t came out in the senatorial debate Wed.
nesday that the whole expense of the i'm
parchment trial was trife short of SIG, 900,
which is much less than was commonly
supposed. This of course does not include
the expense of investigating now going on
in the House. 80 g A4.-0
| General Banks is taking an active part
in the campaign in Massachusetts,. He has
already spoken several times at Grant
meetings. slus.L ~
On General Grants Western trip he was
| to stop at Coviugton to see his father, Jesse
| Grant. From thence he was to go either
by boat or rail to Jefferson Barracks, near
81: Louis, and while he attends to military
affairs at that point, he will also examine a
farm that he owns near blythe same proba-
bly, from which he earted wood to St. Louis
TO sell to the first customer. Then General
Grant viii go out on the line of the Pacific
railway from Omaha as far as the telegraph
wires go, SO as to be in constant com
muuication with General RaWlins, who
cording to directions received daily
from General Grant. Returning
over the direct Pacific road, General Grant
will take the other Pacific railroad south
ward, aud travel over it as far as the wires
go. Mainline Mr.. Colfax will pack up as
soon as Congress; adjOurns, and, Joined by
his sister, mother father in-law, and Gov.
ernor Bross, of the Chicago Tribune, and A.
d, Richardson, of the New York Tribune,
will travel west over the Union Pacific
railway to Cheyenne, where the eloquent
Speaker Of the House has married sister.
Here he will meet the family of General
Grant, and the gentlemen of the company
will then go up into the Rocky Mountains,
visiting several places described by Ere.
mont, but as yet unvisited by Mr.. ColfaX.
It is uncertain whether General Grant will
accompany this party, or return strsightway
to the East. Neither General Grant nor Mr..
Colfax will take any part in the coming cam.
paign beyond general conference with each
other. 1t may crafty many interested peo
pie to know that between the two Repub
lican candidates, Office and its apportion
ments is never discussed. 1t Colfays aim
only to keep the Republican party straight
on the way to victory and public conf
dence by keeping it right, temperate, and
progressive. 1t is Grants aim only to gel
the country steady, make it satisfied, and
give it peace. -Neio York Tribune.