New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-09
LATEST NEWS FROM ALI POINTS
ARMY AND NAVY GULF SOCIETY
GEN. SHERMAN PRESIDENT
B0WEN'S PARDON BY THE PRESIDENT
A COPY OF THE DOCUMENT
TESTIMONY BEFORE KU-KLUX COMMITTEE
ON WITNESS STAND FIVE HOURS
THE LYNCHED FATHERS BODY
Horrible Brutality to Son
TESTIMONY OFTHE MOTHER
THE SAD STORY OF THE DAUGHTER |
THE LYNCHED FATHERS BODY
Horrible Brutality to a Son
TESTIMONY OFTHE MOTHE1
THE SAD STORY OF THE DAUGHTER
WASHINGTON.

| General Sherman President of Society OF
Army and Navy of the Gulf-Bowen's
| PardOn-C0py of the Official ID Document
| BOwen's Release-Hitch i'm the Civil
| Service CommissiOn-Eiabora Letter
from Pleasont0n to the Presidenf-Five
Hours Before the Ku-KIux Committee.
| WASHINGTON, July 8.-General Sherman
has been elected president of the Society of
| the Army and Navy of the Gulf.
Negotiations for postal money orders be-
| tween United States and Great Britain are
| nearly completed.
| Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States
| to all whom it may concern these presents
| shall come greeting
Whereas, On the thirteenth day of June,
| 1871, in the Supreme Court of the District
| of Columbia, holding criminal term one
| c. C. Bowen was convicted of bigamy and
| sentenced to be imprisoned for two years,
and to pay $3.50 fine; and
Whereas, 1t is represented that he was
| innocent of any violation of the law: that he
acted in good faith, believing his former wife
dead, and it appears that he rendered good
service to the cause of the Union during
the rebellion and since its termination
and has endeavored to lead an honest
and upright life, and for these reasons
eleven of the jorors who found the
verdict against him, and many other
citizens of the highest consideration and
weight urge his pardon, and United States
Attorney Fisher would be gratitied by the
exercise of executive clemency. Now,
therefore, be it known. that 1, U.
S. Grant, President of the United
States of America in consideration of the
premises, and for divers other good and
sufficient reasons, me thereunto moving. do
hereby grant to the said c. c. Bowen, full
and unconditional pardon. In testimony
whereof l have hereunto signed my name,
and caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed.
Done in the city of Washington, this first
day of July, 1871, and of the independence
L. S. GRANT.
Bowen has been released.
Judge K. B. Carpenter, of Charleston,
was five hours before the Ku-Klux commit
tee TO day. There had been Ku-Klux out
RACES in various parts of the State, not how
ever originating from hostility to the
federal government, but the natural out
break of men who had no redress through
the forms and administration of law. The
government of the State is defective in Ca
pacity in all its departments, and venal. 1t
had increased the debt $ll 100000 without
constructing a mile of railroad, a foot of
canal or schOOlhouse.
When candidate for Governor last year.
L visited every county in the State but One
and never heard man utter a word
against the federal government. The Op-
position was to the corrupt and maladmin-
istration of the State government. The
members of the loyal league committed out
RACES such as murders and burning gin
houses before there werey ku-Klux Organi-
cations. The people submitted quietly for
two years, until they found they had no re-
dress through elections or forms of law
The ku-klux are composed of men of high
respectability, organized for redress and
protection. Judge Carpenter, however,
did not indorse the organization. He testi-
fed that the collection of the $4000,000
levied this year, will bankrupt one-third of
of the State. The general condition of
affairs in the State is bad.
The civil service commissioners have met
a serious hitch from the fact that some
powers granted them by the law conflict
with the appointment powers vested in the
President by the constitution. The Attor-
ney General has been consulted.
Commissioner PleasontOn has written an
elaborate letter to the President claiming
certain independence of rights and duties
under the law, and demands that Secretary
Boutwell, shall similarly quote the law in
support of his right of interference. Should
legal questions perplex the President. which
is quite probable, Commissioner Pleasonton
asks that his letters be referred to the
Attorney General, and promises to abide by
his decision.
The Revenue Department decides that
the salaries of officers of lunatc asylums,
and other like institutions, are taxable by
the United States as income.
Many contractors for heavy mail service
in Louisiana and Texas have failed to COM
ply with the preliminaries, thereby forfeit
ing their contracts. Many more contracts,
made by postmasters, are disapprOved at
headquarters. Details are withheld.