Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-25

pahoe Agency, July 6th." He states
they arrived home on the 10Th Ol
June. He found all well and every
thing quiet. The Indians were much
pleased with the account the delegal
ton gave of their treatment while In
Washington and other cities which
they visited.
GRANTS AUTHORITY FOR PARDON
ING BOWEN.
Numerous inquiries having been
made as to the authority by which
the President pardoned the bagamist
Bowen, it may be replied that he
did it by the authority given him in
the second section of the second arti-
Gle of the Constitution of the United
staIes, which gives him the power to
grant reprieves and pardOns except in
cases Of Impeachment.
PERSONAL.
Information has been received here
from Senator SchurZ in denial of
the statement that he severed his con-
nectiOn with the WeStLicite Post, in
Missouri.
Mr.. Sumner still remains here, in
spite of the statement which an
nouneed his being with the poet
Ilongfell0w.
During the absence OF Minister
| Thornton, the affairs Of the British
| Legation VIII be in charge Of the
| Hon. Francis Psrkenham, First Sec
retary of Legation. Sir Edward
Thornton will be absent about two
weeks.
THE NASHVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA
RAILROAD SUIT.
The suit of the United States VS..
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
| Company, which has been pending
since November, 1869, in the Circuit
Court of the United states, has been
compromised. The railroad company
pays to the United States one million
| dollars in bonds of the company, bear
ing four per cent. interest, running
twenty and forty years. The amount
in controversy was ABOUT one million
seven hundred and fifty thousand,
and was claimed by the government
for rolling stock, material and inn
prOvements which the road received
during and at the clOseO the rebellion.
THE COREANs TO UNCLE SAM.
The following is the translation of a
letter forwarded by the Coreans to
Rear Admiral John Rogers, COM
manding the Asiatic squadron: ''In
the year 1868, a man Of your nation,
whose name was Febiger, came here
and communicated and went away.
Why cannot you do the same? In the
year 1866, the people, called French,
came here, and we refer you to them
for what happened. This people and
kingdom have lived in the enjoyment
OF their own civilization four thou
sand years, and we want 40 other.
We trouble no other nations; why
should they trouble US? Our cUuRtry
is in the farthest East; yours in the
farthest West. For what purpose do
you come so many thousands of miles
across a seaT Is it to inquire about
the vessel destroyed, the General
Sherman? Her men committed pi-
racy and murder, and were punished
with death. Do you want our land?
That cannot be. Do you want inter-
course with US? That cannot be-"
Official dispatches from Admiral
Rogers and Minister Low confirm the
telegraphie accounts heretofore pub
lished in regard to the first days fight
at COrea. A private letter, dated June
8, says, when the surveying party
commenced their operations they
were met by the Government officers,
who informed them that there would
be no objection to their work, but
when they went further up the river
they were fired upon through the
officials having acted treacherously
and as decOys. The natives are repre-
sented as fine looking, somewhat re-
sembling our Indians. The tides are
strong and heavy, and the current
through the bends in the river is fear
full.
APPOINTMENTS AND PARDONs.
The President has appointed DR.. D.
W. Bliss, of Washington, ID. c., to be
a member of the Board of Health; d. |
B. johnson, to be Associate Justice of |
the Supreme Court of New Mexico.
The President has pardoned G.. r.
Ridden and F. E. Brown, of Tennes- |
see, convicted for illicit distilling.
CROPS.
The report of the Department of Ag-
riculture, just published, shows that |
the potato crop will be full average,
the hay crop short; apples about |
three-tOurths OF good yield.
THE MAILS.
The employees of the Alabama and |
Chattanooga railroad having taken
possession OF the road between York
Station and Meridian, the Postoffice /
Department now sends the mails for
Jackson, Miss, by the Montgomery,
Mobile and New Orleans road. The
section in the hands of the employees
is said to be only twenty-five miles
long. There is no delay of the mails
through Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas
and Alabama, temporary contracts
having been made for the service un-
til January lst. Meanwhile, new
proposals will be invited for carrying
the mails in those States, the former
proposals having been defeated by
straw bids on important river and
stage lines.
THE KU-KLUX COMkuTTEE.
Judge Poland, who has been acting
of the Ku-Klux Investiga-
ton Committee, left here for his home !
on Friday night, in Vermont. The
Committee is to discontinue its ex-
in a few days and take
q recess. till fall. The Committee
meets again September I'd.
J. II. Thirsty, of Athens, Georgia,
was examined to-day by the Ku-
KIux Committee, and he testified in
substance that he knew Of
no Ku-KIux organization in
MS district, or any portion of
he State. In answer to the inquiry
Is to what facilities he had of knowing
lnything about it, he had, he stated,
leen twice elected to Congress from |
courts of the western circuit, as well
Is q portion Of those in the northern ,
.ircuit, and, in response to inter
hestated he was personally
with the people generally.
No more crime was committed
low than before the war in ;;
lis section of the State. He
admitted that there had been some /
violations of the law by disguised
,ersons for the purpose Of punish ,
ng men and women for living in ,
dultery and fornication, and for theft,
tc. He stated, also, that it was the
.eneral opinion in the community \
hat the people took the law into their
'wn hands, because so many crimi-
Ials had been pardOned. Another
which gave rise to many
in reference to the So Q
allied Ku-Klux, was the fact that mis- G
hievous young men, for purposes Of
sometimes wrapped I
themselves in sheets and scared
uperstitious negroes, some Of whom [
fected to believe they were the
hosts OF deceased Confederate I
Oidiers. These negroes had dis =
uised themselves and whipped I
White man in Clark county, and there c
lad been but little said about it. An 1