Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-04

OF the former proclamation SuSpen0lng the
writ OF habeas corpus in South Carolina ~
Another Dispatch.
The President issued proclamation to-
day revoking the suspension of the habeas
corpus In Marion county, South Carolina,
il having been ascertained that unlawful
combinations do not exist there TO the sx-
tent described in the proclamation suspend
ing the said writ, and declaring as it has
been aScertained that unlawful cOnspiracies
do exist in Union county, the usual notice
is given that such combinations shall dis
perse within five days.
Information has been received from
South Carolina that two hundred Ku-Klux
have made voluntary confession and sur
rendered to the authorities. They are dis
gIsted with the Kan. Monday thirty-seven
of them confessed in writing. 1t is esti-
mated that three hundred have fed. One
hundred and two are confined in Jail at
Horkville, and the prisoners speak well of
their treatment. A number were also re-
leased on parole until their confessions can
be heard. Examinations before the com
mission will be soon commenced.
$4,000 Gone.
The Commissioner of Pensions has re-
turned from his investigation at Philadel-
phia and reports the defalcation of Pension
Agent Forbes at $4,000. lie has been re-
moved.
The Utah Delegate.
Delegate Hooper, of Utah, here denies
that his business with the President is CON
corning Utah matters.
Lost Loyalty.
1t is thought the application to the Sup
RENE Court for mandamus to compel the
Secretary of the Treasury TO issue a war
rant for five hundred and twenty-five thou.
sand dollars, alleged to be due Kentucky for
arming troops, ETC., will be unsuccessful.
Gettysburg.
The remains of one hundred and twenty
Confederate soldiers, from North Carolina,
buried at Gettysburg, have been removed
to Raleigh.
Jay Cookies Syndicate.
Judge Richardson writes from London,
Oct. q, that the whole syndicate business
will be a complete success. The members
of the syndicate are doing everything in ac-
cOrdance with the agreement. The bonds
are delivered as fast as practicable. He
thinks the transaction will be closed by the
first of December.
Tinker Dave.
Victor G. Powell, late clerk in the Second
Auditors office, charged with conspiring
with w. B. Stokes and others to defraud the
State, has been released on ten thousand
dollars bail.
Indian ImbrogIIos.
Agent Gibson represents that there are
over eight hundred white trespaSsers from
Kansas on the new Usage reservation.
The surveyors recently sent to the Usage
country to fix the line of 90 degrees, made
the line four miles west of the previous off
cial surveys, by which the choicest lands in
the valley of the Cone river will be taken
from the Osages, thus pushing the Indian
on the mountainous region. The Admins
tration directed that for the present the In
dams shall not be disturbed and that they
shall be protected.
The names of Col. Tappan, Col. H. A.
Clum and Gen. +. 4. Walker were men
toned in connection with the Commission
ership of Indian Affairs.
More Pension Frauds-AnOther Half
Million Stolen.
The government is investigating charges
against Judge S. W. Wright, of this city,
formerly of Indiana, in relation to the col
lection of bounties and pensions due to In
dams and soldiers of the Creek, Cherokee
and Seminole nations, who served on the
frontier during the rebellion. The alleged
frauds are said to amount to nearly
100000.
The Mormon Situation.
Parties who left Salt Lake on Saturday
have arrived here, and have communicated
to government officials some interesting facts
connected with the situation there. They
state that the prosecution of the polygamists
is injuring business very much; that east
ern capitalists who Went there to invest in
mining interests are leaving, and that the
Gentiles are curtailing their business opera
tons, and sending their wives and children
to places of safety. 1t is added that the
Government has recently sold TO these very
Mornons old muskets for dollar apiece,
and that if war comes the MoTmonS will
present a formidable front, though it is not
improbable that they may all emigrate to
Mexico. 1t is stated that not twenty Gen
tiles in Utah favor the prosecution of the
MoTmOns, and that even the Federal militia
~ authorities are Indifferent 90 it on the
surface, and at heart opposed to it. These
representations will have no effect, as it was
decided in the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday
to continue the present policy,
Special TO the Louisville Ledger.
The kU-kIuX.
Senator Scott, of Pennsylvania, is OF the
opinion that the Ku-Klux troubles are COM
ing to an end, so far as the CarOlinas are
concerned, but that martial law will have to
be declared in all the Southern States before
they can be finally eXterminated. The eX-
animation of the testimony taken by the
various subcommittee has been begun, for
the purpose of preparing a report to be sub
mitted to the full committee when it con-
venes here on the 10Th. The evidence
already taken covers twenty-five hundred
printed pages, and that which is TO come
in from the subcommittee at work in the
various Southern States. will aggregate as
many more. The number of witnesses ex-
amined here were four hundred, white.
About three times this number have ap-
peared before the subcommittee. Accord
ing TO Senator Poole, his committee will
soon have completed its report on the
financial condition of the Southern States.