New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-24

citation OF Pennsylvania issued card declaring that
the Irish Convention lately in session In Chicago elected
Presdent Of the Irish Republican ASSOCIATION OF
America did It select any newspaper as special
organ and that oil claimants OF such positions are i'm
posters.
Primary elections are to be held bys the Re
pubcans OF Baltimore this week. and they will prob
ably determine and settle the difference In the party IN
Maryland The Bond and Fulton wings are both making
great efforts for the ascendeney but 1t seems no" 10 DO
understood and hope correctly that the deieaVeu
party the primary elections Will gracefuIy SuD' anu
thus heal all dissenAons.
Mr.. Frederick Douglass having been invited
10 deliver an address Frederick Nd on the occasion
OF the recent celebration Of Emancipation IN that city
and having carefully prepared himself Tor the perform
ance a dispatch purpOrng TO come from Capt.
II. c. Ho 1.-THE gentleman who had invited the alStin-
guished orator make the address, requesting MN not
TO Frederick So he did not 60 and many people
were disappointed turned that Capt Noil sent no
such dispatch; but that some malicious person as yet
unknown had made unwarrantable use OF his name IL
strikes very small and very dirty trick for which
the unknown ought be ashamed. An Grafton by Mr..
Douglass in hts native state on an occasion like this
would have been something worth listening to.
KU-KLUx MURDERS IN ALABAMA.
The Southern Republican of DemOpOhs, Ala,
gives the following account Of Ku-KluI murders In
Livingston. Sumter County:
About O'Clock the night o. the 18th OF August
disguised
In Livingston, and attempted to gain entrance fhuhS
the door locked they smashed IN one OF the panels ana
made and struck match An old man named John
CobentE. who staying with the doctor hTed at tine
commenced firing through the hole IN the door, ana
Killed COblentZ ChOutteau, who was probaDy tne
man they were after hid in the loft escaped Cob
lenz was an old citizen Of Livingston tanner by trade
AfeE o1 Killing R F ee aI G s
About the time of the fring at Choutteaus house
tack the house OF Geo Houston colOred member OF
Vhe Legislature telling him 10 open the door and come
they broke down the door, when HOustons son jumped
at him wounding nm in the leg he kept running
and succeeded in making his escape. just at this
their number passing the door and shot at hun,
he thinks wounding him IN the back Inc new wit th
boy jumped out Of the window. Houston went over 10
Tine same s %eT e when Of the gang
this movement. shot him. INJECTING painful wound ln
The thigh. Houston manfully returned nIe ana 5e
whole party of in the direction OF Sumtervle ms
opposition 70 Houston and Choutteau Us Who!y on ae
count of their politics. both being Republicans ana ~
would that the leaders OF the Democratic party IN
Sumter County could stop II they thought proper to do
20 Choutteau has had his house burnt up once ana mas
been shot three times before probably by the same
gang Of outlaws.
ANDREW JOHNSON ON THE STUMP.
The great and good A. j. was serenaded at
Knoxville Tenn. the other evening and took advantage
of the complimentary circumstance TO make few un.
premeditated remarks After assuring the public that
the present Government lie engaged in conspiracy to
overthrow the Republic and establish despotism, be
added:
There is debt owing by the United State amounting
TO 6O0OO0O0O These who engaged IN this con
spiracy 70 change republican government into an
republic" Now what is assumedi Simply, that we
destroy this republic for the purpose Of paying t9e
rCountrymen! before God and this people tonight
would rather that the republic preserved and the
debt lei GO Loud cheers This debt created to
save republic Now the republic must be DESTROYED
10 nay the debt. Rather let the government be pre-
served and let the debt 90 lCheersl
On the subject Of the XVIII Amendment, Mr.. johnson
said:
Let us look at the present condition Of Virginia. Misss
sppi and Texas After il had been demonstrated that
they had power 70 secede Is now proposed by the
Federal authorities 10 keep them out OF the Union NOW
The Constitution IN giving permission amend ITSELF
saws rortied That the Constitution shall not be 80
and says that until ratifes the XVIII Amendment,
she shall not be represented in the Senate
Has A. forgotten that when he once, as President
undertook little stroke Of business in the reconstruction
hne account that he required the States winch
were then out II the cold raty certain amendment
10 the Constitution Of United States before they could
be represented the Senate or the House eltheri Can
il be possible that the earruous old gentleman expects
by twaddlng speeches satisfy intelligent people
that alone accidental President possessed moro
authority the matter OF reconstruction than the legal
law-maliug power Of the natonf HIS truthfulness
and modesty which are both remarkable, exhibited
IN the concluding paragraph Of his address as follows
thank the people Of Tennessee for the kindness and
regard with which have been welcomed an over ulS
state have no cOncealments to make. ner@ paySaa
vnse 10 ne people. never concealed my motives. II
our Government restored then will the principles
euunCated IN my two last annual messages 70 congress
be the bases Of the restoration.
Poor old Mr.. johnson is evidently "played
out" The Democracy IN Tennessee don't want him for
any public The Memphis ArGLdnehe is so cruel as to
take him his word when he he wants no Office,
and insists that his wishes shall be grahed in that re-
spec Jackson Tribune very clearly intimate that
johnson not wanted in the Senate and tnat IT. would
be detrimental TO Tennessee interests 20 send him there
Saturday. The Nashville Banner devoted two columns TO
De uuWise send A. j. the Senate IL Is no use BE
is dead cock in the pit and he might as well know IT,
yass Nobody asked INN 70 open ms nouth sonSeiLs
friends dreaded ms support and made haste TO dlscaln
any connection with him.
ParsOn BrownlOw, IN a letter addressed to
The Chyoniee Of Washington, says:
The Hon. Dewitt C. senter is elected Governor OF Ten
uessee by majority ranging from G0oO 70 10000 haElnB
carried East, Middle and west Iennessee,Ine, Iret
grand divisions Of the state There are many trauuuent
votes cast have no doubt but the majority Is quite
TOO large 70 be set TO the account OF fraud
dorse Gov. Senter sound and reliable Re-
publican the charge Of his enemies 10 the contrary not
withsandnR. The Legislature, though not Republican,
not Democratic and therefore will not elect Andrew
johnson 70 the Senate but i'll fall back on some such
Conservative oldline wing as e1Gov Nell > Bowl OF
Bale Peyton, and IN my Judgment will adopt the Fiji
teenth Amendment
The Vicksburg (NIiss.) Herald speaking of
political movements in that State, says:
We are Democrats. We are not Republicans, and II
support the Conservative Republican wing land this
we think advisable viii do u Democrats and not
Republicans. Cen Grant and Congress are dDdre Of
The aei hare all at been converted 10 Re
1,sJheaHisru. They know that we support the Repub
think misead the President and Congress INTO the be-
lief the people Of Mississippi are Republicans be-
cause they support this time from sheer necessity Re
publican principles and Republican nominees for Ohce,
are s9dly mistaken Grant mas long snee realized me
true condition Of affairs and kH0Ws political status