New-York tribune., 1871-05-04

ITS ENFORCEMENT TO DE PROCEEDED WITH M
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OUTRAGEs REPORTED
BY GEN. HOWARD.
iBY TELEGRAPH TO THB TRrBUSBl
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, May s. 1871.
There ia GOOD authority for the report that
the President win very by proclamation or other
vse take active measures for the enorcemen' OF the
law passed during the last session Of Congress
the only circumstance which will be key 70 cause oelay
being the absence Of the Secretary OF War Apq tte
dent remarked since his return from the Wes tnaS no
should not 70 TO California until he had initiated meas
ures in accordance with the provisions OF thas aw io
the protection Of the loyal people Of the South
The following letter from Gen. Howard to secretary
Benap was placed in the Presidents hands yesterday
morning and reported that the reading OF IL In the
Cabinet meeting yesterday caused long dscusson -
= WASHINGTON, May I, 1871
gor " W Rp1kyAp-Sir: have the honor to for
ward recent official information, that | deem trust,
worthy, concerning outrages committed on HeSdiueh
The school siI miles east ef okolona was closed by
order of the Ku-KuI outlaws The information was was
number also been ordered closed by the same
authority Notices have also been served upon NU[. %
dian has been burned It was built by. the Bureau anu
Mrs Finley, mother Of Warren Tyler, who wss shot at
the Meridian massacre, gives few items Her son. a
agree, was young man Of unblemshed character HIS
only sin remarkable Intelligence and some educa-
tion. lie WAS teaching the school he did not nre q
shot He was cent for TO come to the a s
concerted and intended; HIS mother knows who shot
balcony, in trying escape after the firing began he
FELL but and ran, and was shot again After ne was
tho Wounded @ do man. then he was taken home to his
mother that she might dress him for the grave he was
Aaron Moore member Of the LEGISLATURE, being GOV.
cred with blood, escaped at the Meridian massacre BY
fegning DEATH as he lay beside Judge Bramette who
had been shot in the first firing by bullet intended for
Moore; His house, two-story and snelooking. was S
schOohOuse 1t Is dangerous for Moore TO re-
turn Many coored people have already moved away away
They say that the old Shareholders cannot bear that
they should be getting up and doing Ge knr ne rs egb m
United States soldiers, all Southern men, deserted at
Msyor surrs was forced to leave Meridian because he
insisted justice to all He was not bad man, as rep
The father Of Wesley Lee an intelligent teacher at
Meridian, was unofendng old man. He was pursued,
twice shot and finally most savagey murdered not far
On April 81, teacher was warned of By KuKux out
laws from the colored school In charge OF missionary
ordered not to come there on Sunday They threatened
in another place to give him 500 ashes apS tgssa 9!o
s close big ,ss school y %Snrg Ss and N0oe c0n
On April 2i, news was received from Aberdeen Miss,
Ike schools 50 in number were closed east Of Tombisbee
River, both white and colored. Tho ku-klux lniorDea
nO s be es school IN county '"'
About o'clock Sunday morning, April 2s, the Ku-
Kux shot and killed colored man named Durham SIX
Apri, a. news was received from Okolona that the
KKux had broken out with increased fury In the east
ern part of County They took Tom HornDroker
(Or Hornburger), freedman, on the saturday night
previous from his house. and literally shot him TO pieces
The same night they burned school-house where
colored girl was teaching Another freedman WAS TT
ported killed. name not given. ,
On April Is, the Postmaster 90 Aberdeen was warned
to change politics. He Is Southern man ana RepuDl
can, They threatened to outrage every Republican:
on March 20, q coored man named Alex Page, living
near Athens Miss taken out OF his house. hanged,
and buried with the rope around his neck Lew sykes
freedman wellO and President of the Republican CLUB
near Prairie Station the Mobile and OHIO Railroad,
was whipped the same day. ~
ROn April another Freedman was shot ana Killed near
Hood Church, about II miles from U. g. troops
In corroborating the testimony that all the schools
have broken up aud the hreatenngs repeated that
no free schools shall exist old resident writes "Un
less there adopted to check lawlessness
which bids defiance to every restraint or cVi Iaw tue
state IissssippD will TO afford shelter 70 any
bur those fond OF strife and bloodshed."
The following is quotation from ku-klux letter not
vet published 1--WE inform you that we are the law
Itself and that order from these headquarters Is su'
preme above all others" -
April 81 six miles east Of OkOlona, where Durham was
shot, the KuKlux rnfians whipped white woman sus-
pecting that she knew something or the murder OF D
ham the day before.
The statements that have given are from men whom
I deem thoroughly trustworthy l therefore report
them TO enable you the President to act officially,
hoping that you may be able thoroughly to cleanse at
least the three counties Monroe LOwndes aud NOxubee
and that part Lauderdae especially infected by the
outlaws in the way that your extensive war experience
Brig. Gen. o. 8. A., Commissioner, 60.