New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-02
WASHINGTON.

| Indian COMMUNICATIONS Session
Removal of Pleason:on Certain-Re-
duction of Debt Over Six Millions-COin
| and Currency Statistics-NatiOnal Bank
Currency Issued-New German Min
lister Presented-President's Views of
Germany-Phebe Cary Dead-ku.klux
Testimony-A Democratic Report.
| WAsHIsGToN, August Felix r. Bunet
has been appointed Indian Commissioner,
| vice Parker, resigned.
The cabinet session to-day was attended
| by all the members, excepting Postmaster
| General Creswell, who was represented by
one of the assistant postmasters general.
| Consultations took wide range and
many important subjects were considered,
| besides which the large amount OF routine
| business, which had accumulated heavily
| since last session, was disposed of.
The Pleasonton-Boutwell imbroglio was
| a topic of consideration, but the discussions
were not characterized by any difference on
! the point of adjusting the difficulties by
sup porting the Secretary of the Treasury.
| 1t may, therefore, be considered that Com
missioner Pleasonton will be removed, and
| it is more than probable that Deputy Com
missioner Douglass will succeed him.
| The question of appointing an arbitrator,
under the Washington treaty, was feature
of to-day's consultation, and, without posi-
| tive official Endorsement, it can be stated
that in all probability Charles Francis Ad-
ans will be designated to that office by the
Secretary of State.
The debt statement shows reduction of
| $S, 200, 900.
Coin balance in the treasury, $50, 900 900;
currency, $8,000.O00.
During the month of July the amount of
national bank currency issued was $l,7oO,-
900, and under the law the same amount OF
| three per cents must be retired.
| Mr.. Won SchlOsser, the new German min
lister. was presented to the President to-day,
when the customary speeches were made.
| In accepting the credentials the President
| said:
In addition to the ties arising from the
| extensive commercial intercourse, and from
| the mutual interests, which in common bind
the United States to Germany, there is a
further bond between them, from the cir
cumstance that many of our best citizens
are natives of your country"
| Mr. Westenberg. from the King of the
Netherlands, was also presented to the
| President.
The President appointed several post
masters at unImportant stations to-day.
The President has recognized Theodore
Wagner as consul from the Netherlands at
! Galveston.
|
| postmaster at New Iberia.
Miss PhGbe Cary, sister of Alice, is
dead.
The Patriot publishes an authorized re-
port of the evidence taken by the sub ku-
| Klux committee, furnished by Hon. p. Van
Trump.
The statement published in the Star is
pronounced untrue in many essential par
| ticulars, and facts perverted in others with
| tha Nf
impression.
The testimony shows that there are four
counties (Laurens, Chester, York and
Spartanburg), where acts of violence have
been committed by 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 man has produced bad and
| even a dangerous state of feeling.
The poor whites are mostly aggrieved 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 theil
families.
1t is in proof that the negroes, disguised
as ku-Klux, committed many Outrages
The testimony given by negroes was of the
lowest kind, and utterly unworthy of be
lief Many were attracted by the per diem
of two dollars.
The statement concludes: There is NJ
political feeling of any kind in the unfOrtu
nate disturbances which have occurred il
these few counties of South Carolina; they
result from mal-administration, corruption
robbery, carpetbaggism, and, especially
among the poor laboring white men, from
wicked purpose on the part of the authori
ties and the Legislature to assert black su
premacy and degrade them with negro rule
That is with them, perhaps, the real an(
most serious difficulty. 1t is a question o
race, which, as South Carolina is now ad
ministered and sustained by federal power
threaten the gravest consequences
The white mechanic and laborer, when b,
finds the worst crime protected and par
dOned, the law an engine of persecution
and political power, abused in order to op
press him with negro domination to eutrag
his wife and children, will resist, be the
sacrifice what it may He may be unedu
Gated aud plain, but he is still an American
and proud of his race.
On the very eve of the last election Gov
ernor Scott organized fourteen negro regi
ments, and armed them with 7400 Winches
ter rifles and 100000 rounds of fixed ammu
milton. These regiments were distributed
in different parts of the State, and especially
where their presence would be most lkel.
to excite bad blood. This proceeding wa
rendered more offensive by the fact that tn
whites, who had become enraged, were re
fused the same privilege to protect them
selves. company which had been in ex
istence long before this time was disarme'
and disbanded by the Governor.
In the radical statement IL Is broadl
alleged that ten negroes were taken fron
the jail in Chester, and murdered by al
!. armed band, but the facts connected wit
this transaction are all intentionally sur
pressed. They are as follows: A compan
of some twent, five armed negroes az
peared in that neighborhood, and openl
announced their intention to shoot the frs
white man they should meet Soon after,
poor drayman named Stevens, with on
J arm. who was universally regarded as
: | worthy and amiable man, was driving alon
! the road, with barrel of whisky in hi
! | cart He was stopped by this band {
ruffians and the whisky demanded. II
told them it was not his property, but CAV
| them flask of his own and started.
After going a short distance, the negrot
fired at his cart and struck it in sewers
Q places. A man who had joined Stevens Q
Q the road fed for his life, and he himsel
/: seeing the armed negroes in pursuit, aba,
+ doned the cart and sought refuge in
= neighboring cabin. He was followed