Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-06-20
From Washington,

Washington, June 10. The subscriptions
to the new loan to-day were $4,000.
1t is expected at the treasury department
that the tax due from the n Y. Central Rail-
road under the recent decision of Commits
sloner Pleasanton, will be paid without UNI
necessary delay
The new tariff OF sanitary dues went into
effect throughout the Turkish Empire on the
18th inst, by which all vessels from what
ever country arriving at an Ottoman port.
are required to pay duty Of % paras per
ton 1or the first 800 tons burthen, and II
paras for each ton in excess of 300 Vessels
OF war, fishing vessels and those in distress
are exempt from sanitary dues.
An official letter at the Treasury De-
partment, from Monroe, La, dated June 10,
says that excessive rains have fallen through
out Northern Louisiana since the l4th of
April, and large portion of the Parishes
bordering on the Mississippi, Onachita. Red,
and Black rivers, are under water. Bridges
and ferry boats have been carried away, and
the mail routes abandoned or if the mail bags
are carried through, they are first opened and
relieved of all official papers, and these are
left in some stable or out house to rot. Adj
vices from Shrieve Port state that nothing
has been received from this office since May
ceedingy discouraging The planters in the
swamps have been compelled to replant many
times. In many cases the first planting has
failed, and they have abandoned the enter
PRISE. In more favorable localities the stem
is so indifferent that no more than half crop
can be had. The prospect for corn is equally
utayorable. The condition of the ground
has prevented planters from working. The
weeds and grass have become deeply rooted,
and threaten the little corn standing. The
general prospect is gloomy. Political agita-
ton continues. bitter feeling is entertained
by the largest portion of the whites toward the
blacks, and officers of the State government,
and has become intensified in this immediate
vicinity by the result of the recent local cleo
tons. AT any time within the last ten DAYS
conflict seemed unavoidable. Both parties
are well supplied with arms, and appear eager
for conflict. Bands of armed men are re-
ported to be ready and only waiting for
sumons to begin the work of bloodshed
Lawyers, doctors, merchants, and planters
attend their business with revolvers living
within easy reach. | trust that the crisis is
past, but should not be surprised if the diff
Guilty eliminated in bleodshed at any tiue.
Gen. James II. Clanton of Alabama, was
examined by the Congressional Ku-Klux
Committee to-day for five hours, He testi-
and in Montgomery u years of that time.
He was Union Wing before the late war,
and the Bell Presidential election in 1860,
raised Ga companies for the confederate
army; has been the only chairman of the
democratic executive committee of that State
since the war; did not believe that any ku-
kluX organization ever existed in Alabama;
had heard of outrages in few localities by
disguised men; but Alabama was as peace
able and as quiet as before the war. No
more violations had occurred there since the
war than in any northern State. A great
part of the crimes in Alabama had been COM
mitted by members of the radical party. The
democratic party of that State was in favor
OF the education of the Negro, and had ad-
vocated 1t five years ago in IA a speech in re-
ply to Wilson of Mass, and had already ad-
vertlsed to delivery a speech on the 10Th of
July next at the State Educational Conven-
ton, in favor of the education of the coored
race. The only intimidation he knew of at
the last election was by radical colored voters
against those of their own color, who wanted
to vote the democratic ticket. The cause of
all troubles was not the brave men who
fought one another in the late war, but poll
ticians, suffers and horse holders, who fol-
lowed the two armies. The true men of each
army respected one another, and were will
ing to meet to forgive and forget. The lead
ers of the radical party in Alabama with but
few exceptions are destitute of moral charac-
ter; mere spoilsmen. Most of the negroes
behaved well. generous policy on the part
OF the government would best subserve the
interests of both races in the South and SOON
est restore the fraternal feeling and affection
which once existed for the Union. The
South loved our form of government, but alb
hored its maladmnistration had always
counselled submission to law and order, and
believed that it could and would be preserved
in his State without any outside interference.