New-York tribune., 1870-08-05

midnight Sunday The railroad trains have an un-
comfortable fashion of reaching and leaving the North
Carolina capital between the hours OF ~ and 1870 at
night Tho proprietor of the National informed me that
he averaged about hours sleep per night under the
exciting arrangement To reach Yanceyville from Ra-
leigh about 90 miles apart In straight line, the short
est practicable route is roundabout course Oh more
than $50 miles via Greensboro, by rail- To DanVlie,
| Va, and thence by private conveyance 10 fah-
| ceyvle, a ride of 10 miles. was Obliged
to walt an hour and half in Greensboro ana improved
! the opportunity to converse with prominent citizen
and seyeresser representatives of society In the small
Inn where obtained very poor breakfast ufeehs-
boro they said and the country about 1t are kepupncan
In senon. The Ku-Kux are not active ana the people
but little disturbed. One young man. who lived near
Alamance. had heard OF the Ku-Kux and their opera
ons and said the negroes were kept in nightly fear in
his vicinity What Of Greensboro feeling was de-
cidedly against KuKluxsm-" break them up ana hang
some os them" the prevailing sentiment.
very slow freight train conveyed me from Greens
boro TO Danve. II was the most accommodating train
ever saw particularly for the conductor who stopped
it in order to have talk with his sweetheart She lived
the road and about half way between two stations
Fortyeieht miles in five hours was the result got
away for Yanccyyle in dapdated Little notop buggy,
with negro driver.
II was pretty cIuntry through which We drove.
wooded and unduatiDg, with tobacco Held IN clearing
and the tobacco the finest in the country There was
but Onesdence the whole sixteen miles, though that
should call respectable in NewEngland or New-fork
State. Tumble down and deserted negro CABINS were
frequently and in the proportion OF TWO 10 one 10
those inhabited. another large part
OF the negro population have left the country Ihe hst
four miles Of trip was under holiday sun which
thereafter ameioraed by clouds which deveiopeda
rainstom the last four miles OF the way An nade
quate umbrella afforded US partial protection
till Lanceyville and the house or Entertanl-
by Gunn," reached. This morning visited
Al.
60 regular troops, under command OF Major Rod
ney. Yanceyville primitive sort OF village Of about
500 inhabitants The only modern feature In town Is the
Court House, occupied by Kirk and hs prisoners
Tents pitched about the building in the Court House
yard and the State troops in the inclosre Tney
number about SOO mostly poorly clad, and many OF
thcm boys. who have no business TO be seriously
soldering there ia probability OF their services
being called into active rcquisiton they will not suffer
materially. I received very c0ureousy by Col
Kirk and conducted to his room whore he Is now ousiy
employed in taking evidence. He told me his view OF
state Of affairs hereabous The negroes he said had
suffered much injustice at the hands Of their employers
in cuvating ground shares and before harvest time
being quarreled with, and threatened and driven away
There have several barns burnt in this vicinity and
Col Kirk thought very likely that some OF these house
less homeless aud almost starving colored people might
have burned them Further than this there were no com
plants against tho blacks. On the other sde however,
there had been perpotrated of different
different kinds upon the blacks in addition to what he
first mentioned. He working till 8 o'clock every
night in getting into shape the great mass OF evidence
brought before nm very fa lear rn e wiz e 10 has so,ne
assistance Col Kirk impressed me favoraby IheTe Is
stature and appears ike an earnest and honest SOLDIER
was stabbed, and the rope wheh was rawh gnt aDout
his neck when the body found in the room on the
lower floor Of the Court House IL was singe-baded
buckhurn-handed jackknie, ordinary country Affair."
and the blood stains rusting in the steel Inc muir
that the Conservatives all hated Stevens and
they charge him with having need negroes 10 Paf
clared that he ought to have been murdered While at
Ry' caswe County, and he was most energetic his
donuncaons Of the proceedings there HIS brother was
arrested and he had been warned to stay away II he
wished to avoid arrest He had been ON trip to Rich
mond. so possessed he with sense OF the wrongs
himself and talked with compressed voice while his face
had never been a time when civil processes properly
authorized could not be served in that county that he
never heard OF any hukuX Outrages that the Cagues
and stevens responsible for their troubles lie was
glad that as newspaper correspondent was about TO
or superficial report Of things While in Caswe County
I have talked almost entirely with conservatives, in
Raleigh chiefly with Republicans. Kirk is the only one
here OF the latter 10 be interviewed There IL no doubt
at the feel themselves very much injured
Col Kirk of his own accord offered to take among
his prisoners. He had 30 believe quartered in the
large courtroom and adjoining rooms; We walked up
staTs and the courtroom There were dozen
men, few playing checkers or
dominoes, others sitting standing, or walking about
Col Kirk took through 20 smaller room in the rear
introduced OF the prisoners, aInO0g
them Judge John Kerr exM G., and Dr. Roam tall and
venerable old man Judge Kerr appears just You would
portly presence, dign1ed bearing dord complexion,
and full voice, which would serve him well IN public
speaking Upon being introduced 70 s tne prisoners |
confinement Judge Ken responded that they were in
Strange is workings might seem 10 them sat down
somewhat at loss, confess rs TO What iHisnS S oe
men. and Obliged to the Judge for introducing an
unembarrassing subject the New-York press &c f0r
a all ed llaneOualY,
was with US was somewhat hesitant in bringing up |
points upon which he and the rest held sucn racaly
topics OF the effect OF Slavery upon the country ana the
character Of she negro population finally pumped ku
am opposed he said, to all secret, oathbound soc
cites whether KuKlux Union League, and consider
had lost in Congress- because he had held such
views. He considered the Leagues the ntura a5e Oh
ganzaton in party was inevitable that there should
be opposing one IN the other & % a.
He had never known OF any Qutrages committed IN Cas-
sn SAID ali the rest They knew nothing about the Ku
Klux and had seen none OF its operations NOW WIN |
tended II is quite remarkable how little they know and
have heard Of the Ku-Klux The most reasonable ex |
panatOn OF Ia that respectable men they would not
h. likely to know much the less respectable con-
cernngit 1t noticeable though that these conserve
quite denunciatory of the League as responsible ior
many evils and, while oblvious OF white |
ontrages upon the blacks, are generally eogniz, !
ant of deprcdatons and rapes committed by the |
blacks upon the s hsF as SeT do most
other people Col Kirk could not quite hold his tongue
as Judge Kirk Jumped his League along with the hu
of Judges statements were not So ana tnat no t
proud Of the UTion mengs euy e aSd SSec eo RS state
ments as the running off and cheating OF tne Da KS
and stole dc Roan in selfvndication, remarked that
he lad always been most particular In dlscnargng& G & III
occented the statement with that would be
an unateful country that had no nohest eu a, .onad