New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-22
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY.

DorvGs OF MASKED MARAUDERS-SAD CONDI-
TION OF sOCIETY-sECRETARY FLETCHER
THE COLoRED OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
MOVEMENT OF FREIGHT.
NASHVILLE, March at was the fashion OF
the Rebels when the Republicans in power in Ten.
nessee charge upon them all the violations OF law and
order. They charged the Radicals with being response
BILE for the KuKlux and with all acts OF murder and
rapne and plumber which the bushwhacRers and guerr
las constantly perpetratng. But the Republicans
out Of power now. and yet the KuKlux Khan muir
ders and assassnatiOns are not abaed Masked marau
ders prowl about the State. and there being no Re
publican papers to expose their deeds Of blood silence Is
maintained 10 their doings 1t has always been the
practice when ulOffendng Union man, white or
col0ed shot down. TO report that he had either been
guilty Of rape or Of some coldblooded murder, and
against these reports tho sober judgment Of the COM
munity not proof But personally know OF many
men who met horrible fate at the hands of the kuKlux,
whose lives pure, and whose only crime was that
they loved their country The hanging OF three negroes
in adjoining county the charge Of DEMONSTRATING OF
which oense they have since been proven entirely lnno
cent, may be insanced as "A case in point.
Az Hill Mound, three DAYS ago. man was arrested on
the charge of stealing hog He gave ball. but the very
next day again arrested and confined in Jail at
Jasper, some trumpedup charge, which he was given
time TO refue. That night the ku-klux klan came 10
the jail, took the prisoner ont, carried him down to the
INcI, Invested ol lhOSl CVtHlIE, tnth
binding him hand and foot, put him into canoe and
turned him adrft upon the Tennessee The night was
very stormy, and the next day the canoe was discovered
miles below the point where IL launched, but the
poor dead from exposure, his body lying stark
and stiff in his ioating tomb Against Northern people.
such, the exEebes Of the more vrucn type manifest
the utmost hatred II is to this class that the masked
maranders constantly turn their attention Mail clerks
eNpIes. messengers engineers and conductors OF North
cru BIRTH and Of known Republican feeling or not, have
been driven from most of the railroads of Tennessee The
ble Of affairs When matters came TO such pass
it difficult and extremely awkward to avoid noticing
them, Bill passed, framed Osensiby to stop
the doinxs Of the KuKnx This law, must be confessed
It hGaEy meS for psoPf dnd6e
and makes assault by person in mask or disguise win
Gfaa %6pS or year or ea by Hanging But
the trDgcncy of the law Will cause u 10 oNefsOOt
the mark The bill specially urged by Gov. seuter, aud
which would have put an end Very shortly to organized
mob violence in the Stae-a bill providing for special
and Ode M IN the Wcs conn 81 Of the
neglected til the close of the session by common consent
OF members believe ana then alled 70 pass ior aek oi
a quorum day just before adjournment IL was the
failure Of this bill TO 90 through which caused Gen But
Ter to raise such STIR on the tennessee question ID Con
crcss A great deal Of excitement has been produced
and powerful influence Is DelD2 SNeled on INC one naH
to bring about the reduction of Tennessee to the cOnd
ton of territory aud on the other hand TO prevent hS
At the head Of the broken and dsiointed Republican
He the pilot Of battered fragment Of once powerful
political organization the bit Of wreck mat s ho4+s
upou the waves of angry and tcmpestuOus SEA- lie
w te brains of tLe paTy during the Brownow admin
istatiOu HIS counsel was always prompt ana sagaeioas
Ho is man Of great shrewdness prolific IN eNpediehtS
and bold and daring as party leader Inc slccldclo
tins man surrounded oy uo eMhvTGr, WnT bSv
foes warned by the Ku-kux, and sought after by that
The secretary lives in East Tennessee and dares not
turn thither without an escort or troops BODY of
tanooga Railroad the ether day searching for him. bat
fortunately he had not left Nashville lie will proceed
10 ms home in Fast tennessee IN lew days. escorted y
q detachment OF United states troops.
Tie General Assembly has finally dishanded and gone
home. Before parting he neinntrs INDUCED III a glahd
drinking bout IN the Hall of Representative Oae9f the
members iquordealer OF Naahve,, l . tne
festive time Of this sort Is generally rotou' m rem
nesscc. and the present was no exception large
synod Of members organized at the porico and came
down Capitol Hill singing Shoe fly don't bodder me- at
the top vi their voices.
THE COLoRED PEOPLE.
Death is busy among the negroes of Tennessee. Con-
sumption and pneumonia are swift and fatal in their
work Living small cabins. insufclently clothed and
understanding very little how to take Of their health
the poor coored people easily succumb to the attacks OF
disease In the recent tutiOnal COnyen tiOn
argued the universal suffrage question that If the NO
diminished IN the same ratio that they have during
the last years their ranks would be thnned out near
~ half in the next five years TIE mortality among
negro children ana infants dufns thc severe season OF
sprcd by tho Ku-klux IN Middle and West Tennessee is
y OF Rutherford alone. il Is estimated that during the
last Winter COO families emigrated 10 East Iennessee
Northern Alabama. and Georgia The planters OF Middle
Tennessee Will he IN straits for farmaborers this year.
and the agricultural interests ~ the country Will doubt
less suffer severely from this cause.
FREIGHT BLOCKADE.
For months past there has existed serious blockade
on railroads from Louisville to Atlanta. The IA
found in this fact Last the cotton growing states
neglected grain for cotton and the supplying Of the
deficiency causes the movement thher Of very large
quantities Of wheat and The rolling stock OF the
various roads has been found greatly insufficient for the
demand and thus the depOts Of Louisville Nashville and
Chattanooga crowded with freight. The result IS
great Inconvenience and loss TO merchants and shippers
Twenty thOusa and bushels Of corn are to-day awaiting
shipment to Georgia, in Nashville alone.