Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-10-29
WASHINGTON.
Proclamation of Thanksgiving Day.
BY the President of the United states

BY the President of the United States
lE.T ~ A Proclamation
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.@The process o
4 the seasons has again enabled the husband
4 man to garner the fruits Of successful toll
Industry has been generally rewarded. w
are at peace with all nations. Tranquility
( withfew exceptions, prevails at home. With
in the past year we have, i'll the main, beer
| free from the ills which elsewhere affected
our kind. If some of us have had ealami
l ties, these should be occasion for sympathy
with the sufferers, resignation on their par
to the will of the Most High, and rejoicing
TO the many who have been more favored
1 therefore recommend that Thursday, the
thirtieth day of November next, the people
meet In their respective places of worship
there to make the usual Acknowledgements
to Almighty God for the blessings He has
conferred upon them, and their merciful
exemption from evils, to invoke His protec-
ton and kindness for their less fortunate
brethren whom, in His wisdom, He deemed
il best TO chastise. In the faith whereof
have hereunto set my hand, and caused the
Seal Of State to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this the
twenty-eighth day of October, in the year
Of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one, and of the independence
of the United States the ninety-sixth.
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BY the President: @
FISH, Secretary Of State.
The members of the bar met to-day in
the United States Supreme Court room and
craaolsoo rvrara x,,a 10 70 Of tI,a Lotto
Hon Thomas Ewing and appropriate reso-
lutions passed. III a..
zt,ffrzE The Duke Alexis.
On the 9th of October, Consul Funchal,
at Madeira, reports the Russian feet then at
that port, having on board the Duke Alexis.
They expected TO sail for New York on the
9th of October.
Special to the Louisville Ledger.
The Secretary of war ON the BallOch
Case.
In view of the attempts made by the
Freeedmen's Bureau officials to whiteWash
Gen. Balloch's late financial transgressions,
1t may be well TO state that the Secretary of
War is Of the opinion that under the exist
ing laws, Gen. Balloch is guilty of felony.
The secretary says if his department had
charge of the case Gen, Balloch would
long ago have been turned over to the
bureau of justice. Ballochs case is now,
in the hahdS of the Treasury officials, and
there is no prospect that the delinquent will
ever be dealt with except to have report
palliating his offense. ~
Grant and Murphy.
In view of the recent dispatches in re-
ference to Grant and Murphy, a government
official authorizes the following statement
of the situation as it now exists between
these high contracting parties. He says
that the President could not listen to any
proposition for the removal of Murphy, or
any other public officer, based upon accusa-
ton which he had himself investigated, and
knew to he unfounded. If Greeley or any
other responsible parties had come to him
with charges well-sustained of Murphy'S
unfaithfulness to his duties as Collector, or
even urging his removal as essential to har-
mony among the friends of the Administra-
ton in New York, he would have taken
the subject into earnest consideration, and
if the statements were found correct would
have removed him. To remove him On the
charges made would indicate that he believed
them, which he certainly did not.
Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
m Reign of TIE rrOr.
The latest advices from Spartansburg and
York counties, South Carolina, confirm the
previous reports that the United States Off
,ials, backed by the soldiery, have instituted
4 reign Of terror. Innocent citizens are
ragged from their homes in the night and
thrown into jail with common felons. In
stances are given where men were torn
from their families without being allowed to
make any preparations for their journey,
and were forced TO ride ten, twenty and
thirty miles, and then
Confined In LOathsOme Dungeons.
Upto Tuesday eighty five persons in York
bad been put in jail, and other arrests are
being made. At one point in Union county
he soldiers went to a gentleman'S house TO
arrest him. He was absent, and they in
Faded every room in his house and carried
away bis private arms. lie was a licensed
iistiller, and after helping themselves freely
hey poured out the residue of the liquor
On the ground.
Outrage on N Railroad.
The Greenville passenger train was stop
ped while on its way to Columbia on Tues
lay by detachment of United States sol
Tiers in search of the so-called Ku-KluX.
The officers passed through the train and
the occupants, but made no ar
rests.
The Best Citizens Seized.
A private letter from York county dated
he 2lst inst, says; ''There is perfect ter
ror here; forty of our best men were put in
prison last night; some of our stores are
Closed"
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Additional warrants were issued to-day
for parties in Tennessee and elsewhere, who
are charged with being involved in the spe-
cial bounty frauds for which eX-Congress-
man Stokes and others were arrested on
The United States Commits
sioner and other officials decline to furnish
the names for fear that some of the arrests
may be prevented, but it is agreed that
system of gigantic frauds on the Treasury
will he Unearthed and involve good many
people of high position. Col Stokes was,
to-day, dismissed from Office as Supervisor
of Internal Revenue for Tennessee.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial
Immense Frauds by Government Cot
ton Agents.
The investigation by the United States
Court of Claims into the various claims
against the United States for cotton seized
by Government officers during the rebellion
brings out some remarkable developments
which tend to throw additional light on the
mystery which has surrounded the sale of
cotton by Government agents shortly after
it was seized from the Rebels during the
war. The Government realized from this
sale about S30,000,000, but the examina-
tiOns of the Government agents books and
other evidence which has been obtained
through the prosecution of these claims,
reveals the fact that the cotton was
worth over twice that amount. 1t APP
pears that some of the agents at New
York disposed of the cotton at twenty
nine cents a pound, when its market
value at the time of the sale was seventy
five cents per pound. Some of the agents
appear to have been in collision with the
purchasers, and the poorest kinds of cotton
were shown as samples of the entire lot
held by the Government, the bidders getting
it by this arrangement, at the low figure of
twenty-nine cents per pound, and subse-
quently selling it at the market price, there
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