Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-30

lhAr5 INV WOuiu uAUAtO1 anu 0aticl ta@o
their pack howl over the outrages of the
Ku-Klux.
We come now to Ohio, from which
Stste halls Senator Sherman, who was as
anxious for the passage of the Ku-Klux
bill as was Senator Morton, and for the
same reason-thst it would aid Grant |
greatly in carrying the Southern States
in the next Presidential election. And
we find that the Ku-Klux are "cutting
high" in Ohio. Here is an item from the
Cincinnati Commercial (RadicaD OF
April %: HN -
D ssThe rumor, yesterday, that an .engi- |
neer on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad
had been shot on that road on his engine,
while on the way to this city, night be-
fore last, attracted reporter of this |
paper to the Ohi3 and Mississippi Depot
last evening, where the following facts
were ascertained: VI
'sFor some lime past trains on this
road have been obliged to stop at certain
points TO remove distractions from the
track, generally on the Whitcomb and
Otter Creek grades, in the vicinity of
Vernon. Night before last two trains |
were thus halted, and an additional out
rage was perpetrated on the passenger
train due here at 1915, The engineer of
which, John Moore, on engine No. j,
had an experience that he isn't likely TO
forget in q hurry. As his engine was
laboring up the Whitcomb grade, with Its
train, he was startled by the report of a
gun, aud the hsil.like rattle of shot
against his boiler. On arriving at the
next station he noticed the marks, as of
buckshot or slugs, on the boiler of the
locomotive. There are two or three
theories as 10 this diabolism. One is
that the perpetrators are men who have
had stock killed on the road; and the
other is that the perpetrators of these
outrsges seek to throw the train from the
track in order to reach the vslusbles in
the express cars.
But this is not all. The New Albany
Ledger of April "a, says:
'For several years past a gang of bad
men have infested Scott county, Ind,
and many outIages have been committed
upon law-abiding citizens. These out
RACES have occurred at various times, and
some of the citizens thinking to rid them
selves of the evils, organized a sort OF
vigilance committee, and in lighting
wrongs, have in some cases been guilty
of actions which are violations of law
and order. One of these cases occurred
| last week. At the town OF Goshen,
party of men visited the house OF man
named Waterbury, removed his furniture
and burned down the building. They did
this because he was suspe cted of harbor-
| ing thieves and lewd women, and IN
| order to give Waterbury notice that his
presence in the community would no
longer be tolerated"
A dispatch from Logansport, Ind,
dated April "a, says:
ssMr. A. w. Schlater was found muir
| deIed in his store-room on Friday morn
| ing. He was in the habit of carrying
large sums of money about his person,
| and was known to have had between six
hundred and one thousand dollars yester
| day. The stoTe-room adjoins his resi-
dence. About daylight his wife swoke
| aud discovered that he was absent, she
went to the store-room, and there found
| him living in pool of blood on the floor,
| still alive but unconscious. BE died soon
| afterYard. He had four wounds on his
| head, evidently made by some blunt in
strument. The skull was completely
crushed. His large pocket-book, in
which he kept the bulk OF his money
was missing"
This is not all the Indiana Ku- Klux
have been doing. The Indianapolis Sen
tinel, of April "a, says:
Last Wednesday evening James Yaw,
u IaboTeI, then In the employ OF the In
dianapohs, Cincinnati and Lafayette Rail
| road as a hand on section l, Lafayette
division, while proceeding to his home,
No. SOP West Market street, was assailed
by a party of youths, pupils of the fourth
ward colored school. Yaw, who was
slightly intoxicated, drove off his tor
mentors, and succeeded in reaching his
door yard. As he was in the act of en-
tering his domicil he was struck in the
| back Of the head by boulder thrown by
| a colored boy named Richard Wells. A
few minutes later Mrs. Yaw, who had
been absent from home, returned and
found her husband lying senseless on
the door step"
Mr.. Yaw died from the effects of the
wound, but as he was poor Irishman,
and his murderer negro about twenty
years old, the Radical papers that have so
much to say about the Ku-Klux have
| no words to condemn this unprOVOktd
murder. The most vindiCtve man IN the
Senate toward the South, and who has
harped most about outrages by the hu-
Klux, is Senator Morton, Of Indiana.
| Look al the record his own State is pre-
senting. Here we have the fact stated
that "for several years past gang of bad
men have infested Scott county, " and that is
| not the only county IN Indiana where the
laws are openly defied and life and prop.
erty are at the mercy of bad men. We
have here some evidence of the disregard
of law in the '1oyal States" of the North.
Pennsylvania, and New York, and Indi-
ana are furnishing facts which would
have been treated by the Radicals in
| Congress as the evidence Of a terrible de
moralisation Ii the South; yet we hear
none of these Radicals or their newspaper
organs calling upon Congress or the
President 10 inlerpose to protect the in
nocent and defeDseless in the States re-
ferred to. Now contrast the condition
Of these States as Swallowed forth in the
few CLEANS we have given, with thai of
| North Carolina as testified to by Radi-
cal. DR.. John, tue founder and former
publisher of the Bloomington Pa.)
Republican, now publishing Radical
paper in North Carolina, in his issue of
the 9th instant, has reply to his North
ern inquigers with reference to their per-
sonal safety if they should visit North
Carolina, during which he says