Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-08-02
From Washington.
DEBT STATEMENT.

WASHINGTON, August l.
Debt bearing coin interest, sl,ss3, ISL $50
Accrued interest, 1897, 707
Debt bearing currency interest, 44,978, 900
Interest, 232, 1852
Matured debt, l,9IO.l42
Interest, 3l2, 426
Debt bearing no interest, Ala, 645, S13
Unclaimed interest, II 262
Total, 2.345. Cos
Interest, 29954 PAT
Cash in treasury coin, S3742 7O9
Currency, 1888
Debt less cash in treasury, 2,2S3, 1928 1857
Decrease during July, SOL ,976
Decrease since March LIST, II, 35,379, 1888
Decrease since March LIST, go, 242, l34 ,4Ol
The Pacific Railroad bonds out.
standing amount to ga 6ls,s32
On which the accrued interest not
yet paid is 1928 ,O94
Interest paid by the United States
amounts to 1862, 40
Total amount of bonds purchased
cancelled and destroyed is 2l7, l92, $50
Which cost in currency, 253,99S, 8O7
Matured bonds to the amount of 6,973, 900,
have also been cancelled and destroyed.
Judge Van Trump of the Congressional
ku-klux subcommittee, who returned on
Saturday from tour of investigation in
South Carolina, pronounces the recent pub
LEGATION of the re ults of their work as untrue
In many cases there is provision of facts,
and others are evidently colored for the pur-
pose of producing partisan and false impress
sions The testimony shows that there are
four counties, Laurens, Chester, York and
Spartanburg, where acts of violence have
been committed on both sides. The whites
and blacks are nearly equally divided in pop
ulation, and the carpet-bag rule by which the
negro is forciblyiput over the whtemen, has
produced bad and even dangerous state of
feelings. The poor whites are mostly
agrieved by an oppression which is intended
to make them the interiors of the recent
slaves. Everything has been done to aggra-
vate the laboring whites, and to outrage the
social condition of their families.
1t is broadly alleged that ten negroes were
taken from the Jail in Chester and murdered
oy an armed band, but the facts connected
with this transaction are all intentionally sup
pressed. They were as follows:
company of some twenty-five armed
negroes appeared in that neighborhood, and
openly announced their intention to shoot
the first white man they should meet. Soon
after drayman, named Stevens, with one
arm, who was universally regarded as worthy
and amiable man, was driving along the road
with barrel of whiskey in his cart. He was
stopped by this band of ruffians and the bar
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property, but gave them a flask of his own
and started again. After going a short dis
lance the negroes fred at his cart and struck
it In several places. A man who had joined
Stevens on the road fed for his life, and
Stevens seeing the armed negroes in pursuit
abandoned his cart and sought refuge in a
neighboring cabin. He was followed, and
against the efforts of the negro women whose
shelter he had sought and his own, he was
taken out, and after drawing lots, five of the
gang took him into the woods and riddled his
body with bullets. The perpetrators of this
outrage were arrested and put in the Chester
Jail, but before being secured they killed
Deputy Sheriff Smith who served the process.
Suddenly negro came from Columbia with
what was purported to be a writ of habeas
corpus from radical, Judge Thomas at CO.
lumbia but which was attested in no proper
form. The sheriff called into council lead
| ing lawyer in order to determine what course
he should pursue in regard ito this irregular
requisition, which has no evidence of genuine
ness, and came in an envelope of the Adams
Express Company. In the meantime news
had spread, and the Vigilence Committee
knowing how Gov. Scott had pardoned the
worst criminals by hundreds, and believing it
to be trick to carry off the murderers, de-
termined to administer justice themselves by
making an example to check outlawing. They
took the prisoners out of Jail by force. and ex-
ecuted them summarily. One of them was
released by the declaration of a white man
that he was believed to be innocent of the
atrocious crime of which the others were
guilty. While the act of vengeance is de-
preciated, the extraordinary provocation and
alarm created by armed blacks, as well as
their violence must be considered in connec-
ton with it.
President Grants formal reception of Baron
Won Schozer, the new German Minister. to.
day, was in these words: 1.-The desire which
you express on the behalf of the Emperor of
Germany, for both the preservation and i'm
provement OF the existing relations between
our two countries, is heartily reciprocated by
me, in addition to the ties arising from ex-
tensive commercial intercourse, and from the
mutual interest which in common with other
countries bind the United States with Ger
many. And there is a further bond between
them from the circumstance that many of our
best citizens are natives of your country. l
welcome you, Sir, as Minister of that coun-
try, aud will omit nothing which may con-
tribute towards making your abode here
agreeable. 1t is not to be doubted that you
deserve my confidence as well as that of the
illustrious Sovereign whom you represent"
From New Hampshire.