The Portland daily press., 1871-07-11
WASHINGTON.

aSef neeT rnO naOt w CsitmcIs
WASHINGTON, July 1O-Secretary Boutwell,
will visit the President at Long Branch to-
morrow and return to Washington this week.
Orders for lager beer stamps now average
HUI per DAY, nearly four times as great as re-
celved at the corresponding time last year.
Inc thermometer to day at 1.30 p. M, was
$50.
Civil Service Cer,missiom.
The Civil Service Commission to-day cons;d-
ered various constitutional questions which it
was desirable to submit TO the ATTORNEY Gen
erai, aud for this purpose authorized q letter to
De acdressed IT, the President OF the United
states, containing those propositions, with a
request for their submission to the Attorney
sible wy 90 po'
The New Loan to be Withdrawn.
The report that the new government loan
has been withdrawn from the market is credit
ed here in veil informed circles, from the fact
cohsummated looking to absorption of the
whole five hundred millions of the i. 20 loan of
1862.
Treasury Balance.
The balance in the treasury at the close of
business to-day was as follows: Currency So
412,O00; coin $89O97 900; certificates $21, 1884,
600.
Ku.KIux Committee.
Witnesses from Georgia were examined by
the Ku-Kux Com .nittee to-day. Z. ID. For
syth, Solicitor for Rome Judicial Circ1it, testi-
fed he had convicted three worthless vaga-
bonds who in disguise had robbed persons on
the highway 1t was sometimes with Difficult
ty that he could convict such offenders owing
to public sentiment and fear ON the part OF a
jury. He believed there was ku-klux or
ganization, but could not tell their plans and
purposes further than what they had shown
by their acts. One convicted man confessed
he was member of an assOci0ton having signs
and passwords and that he was under Obliga-
ton to obey orders.
o. M. ShirbIey, Postmaster at Rome, Ga, a
native of Pennsy lvania, and a resident of the
South for 23 years, testified he knew of two
cases in each of which he had been assured
negro had been whipped by men in disguise,
aud that twenty or more at dead of night about
the same time had entered Rome but retired
without committing offences. He also relerr-
ed to other cases in which a celOred person had
informed him that negroes had been whipped
BIZ the SO called KuKlux. The Democrats
were so much opposed to the reconstruction
measures OF Congress that they threw all pos
sibe obstacles in the way of negroes exercis-
ing civil and political rights. The object of
the Union League as organized in 1867, in the
State of Georgia, was to eIdear the people to
the government of the United States, and as
such never committed any acts OF viOlsnce. 1t
however ceased to exist after the election of
1868, OF prior to the organization of the Ku-
Klux-Klan, and, therefore, the latter has not
raised in antagonsm to the former. Since the
passage of the Ku- Kiux bill and p, oclam alton
of the President of the United States there
has been comparative peace in that part of
Georgia known as the Cherokee purchase
The witness said in his opinion universal am
nesty would greatly tend to better state OF
feeling
TO Make City.
The Board OF Public Works of the District
has already commenced preliminary work un-
der the four millions Improvement bill passed
last Saturday by the Legislature and approved
to-day by the Governor. 1t has appointed an
advisory commission of eminent engineers to
aid in preparing detailed plans of proposed i'm
provements and in prosecution of the work.
The advisory board consists of General A. A.
Humphrey, M. G. Meigs, and Babcock, and
the Commissioners of Public Buildings and F.
b. Olmstead of New York.