The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-08-02
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.]
More EukIux Testimony.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The Patriot pub
fishes an authorized report Of the evidence
taken by the Sub.kuklux Committee,
furnished by Hon. p. Van Trump. The
statement published in the Star is pro-
nounced untrue in many essential particu-
lars, and facts perverted in others, with q
view of producing a false and partisan i'm
| preston.
The testimony shows that there are four
| counties in South Carolina-viz., ..Somers,
| Chester, York, and Spartanburg-where
acts Of violence have been committed on
both sides. The whites and blacks are
nearly equally divided in population, and
the carpet-bag rule by which the negro is
forcibly put over the white mar has pro-
duced q bad, and even a dangerous, state
of feeling. The poor whites are mostly ae-
grieyed by an oppression which Is intended
to make them the inferior Of recent slaves,
stepped in ignorance and vice. Everything
has been done to aggravate the laboring
whites and to outrage the social condition
of their families. .....
1t is in proof that the negroes, disguised
as the kukluX, committed many outrages.
The testimony given by the negroes was. of
the lowest kind, and utterly unworthy of
| belief. Many were attracted by the per
diem of two dollars. 30.
The statement concludes: "sThere is no
political feeling of any kind In the unfortu-
nate disturbances which have occurred in
those few counties Of South Carolina. They
result from mal-admini,tration, corruption,
robbery, carpet-lngism, and especially
among the poor laboring white men, from
a wicked purpose on the part of the au-
thorities and Legislature to assert black SUI
premacy and degrade them with negro rule.
That it is with them perhaps the real and
most serious difficulty A.; it is a question of
race which as South Carolina Is now adj
ministered and sustained by Federal power
and threatens the gravest consequences.
The white mechanic and iaborer, when
he finds the worst crimes protected and
%pardoned, the law an engine OF persecution
and political power, abused in order to OPP
press bin with negro domination, and to
outrage his wife and children, will resist, be
the sacrifice what it may. lie may be I'm.
educated and plain, but he is still IN Anne
rican, and proud of his race
The Public Debt Statement. &c.
WASHINGTON, Aug 1.-The debt state
ment shows a reduction ofSS,2 200, 900; colI
balance, 1888, 000, 900 and currency, S.,
0O, 900.
During the month of July the amount o
national bank currency issued was Sl,ISo,
900. Under the law, the same amount IL
1 - lCl SCUUS lluSU NC CbilCus
Mr. Won Schlosser, the new German min
lister, was presented to the President TO
day. The customary speeches were made
In acce pting the credentials the preSiden
said: "In addition to the ties arising iron
an extensive commercial intercourse, ant
from the mutual interest which in common
! binds the United States to Germany, there
is i further bond between them from thu
circumstance that many Of our best cltl
zens are natives OF your country" MIR
lands, was also presented. 7.,. =.
Several postmasters at unimportant sta
tions were appointed to-day.
Counterfeit Money in Circulation. Escape O
the Tennessee COunterfeiter- Return Of tn,
President,& &c.
WASHINGTON, August l. Counterfei
Juveniles on the United States Nationa
Bank OF Washington are in circulation.
4. Is. McGec. arrested in Memphis
Tenn, on the charge of counterfeiting
sealed the Jail walls in that city and escaped
The President has returned to Washing
ton, and there is Il full Cabinet present. =
General Schoelzer, the Minister of the
German Empire, has presented his ere.
deutials.
George Toy has been appointed collector
of customs at Cherrystone, Va.
Weather Probabilities.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The low barometer
will probably continue in Iowa on WedneS.
day, and local storms are probable for to-
night from Missouri northward. Similar
storms of larger dimensions are probably
now extending from Virginia and Ohio 10
the northeast. No important changes are
| indicated for Wednesday.