The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-07-10
FHE PARDON OF BOWEN.


/ FHE PARDON OFF BOWEN. /.
JUDGE -CARRENIER,S EVIDENCE BE
FORE. E.EHEKU-KIUx cohAITTEE ~ !:
A Hitch In the Owl Service Commissio
-BeutweIl ANA PIeasanton-The Mon.
ey-0rder systels,to be Bxrende6 Herosi
the Atanntic, &c. = - - i !.
~ WAsarEaToN, July 8.
The long expected pardon for. Bowen having
been received to-day, the bigamist has been
released. Yhe document reads as follows:
Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United
| States - , 9.=---...-
To all ,ohousi IT may concern, these presents
shall come greeting:
WHEREAS, On the 18th day of June, 1871, In
| holding criminal term. one G. G. Bowen was
EccnvicGed Of bigamy, and sentenced to beim-
tprisoned for,tw0;years and ito; pay two hum
l,dred and forty dollars fine; and whereas, it Is
represented that he was innocent of any vl0.
jlafton of the law; that he acted In good faith.
| believing lhls former wife Tor be dead;s and 1t
appears that he rendered good service TO the
cause of the Union during the rebellion anu
since its termination, and has endeayored TO
lead an honest and upright lite, and for these
reasons eleven Of the, jurors. who found the
verdict against him, and many other citizens
of the highest consideration and weight urge
his pardon, and United States Attorney sFisheE
wohld be granfed by the exercise OF Execu.
tive clemency. .isy'
Now, therefore, be It known that I, o. 8.
Grant, President efthe United States eeAmer-
lea, In consideration of the premises and divers
other good and sufficient reasons me there
unto moving, do hereby grant to the said O. c.:
Bowen full and unconditional pardon:
In testimony whereof L have zhereunto sign.
ed my name and caused the seal Of the United
Don Done - at the CITY of washington, this the
first day of July, AID. 1871, and of the Inde-
'pendence Of the United States the ninety-ffth.
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|; Judge,R. B. Carpenter, Of Charleston. was
five hours to-day before the Ku-Klax commit
tee. He testified that there, had been Ku:Klux
I sodnitrages In various parts Of the State; not,
however, organizing from hostility to the Fed-
eral Government; but the natural outbreak OF
men who;had NO redress through LIE forms and
Administrations of law. The. government of
the saatais; defeottye nrcapaclty In all Its de-
partmeats and .velal; had increased the debt
sll: 100000 without constructing mile OF rail-
road, aafoot ofcahal or school house. When
candidate for Governor last year he
visited every county In the State but
.osne,s and never. heard o man utter
word against the Federal Government; the
opposition was to the: corrupt mal-ad-
minlstration of the State government. Men,,
.bers Of the Loyal Lesgte committed outrages.
such asmnrders, burning gin-houses, &C., before
there were Ku.K .organizat ations. The peo-
pie submitted quietly for two years until they
found they had norsdress, through elections
or FORMS eelaw. The Ku.Klux is composed of
men Of high respectability; organized for re-
dress and protection. CARPENTER, however,
did not endorse the organization. Carpenter
testified that the collection of a 10000 OF tax,
levied this year, viii bankrupt one-thlrd of
the State. The general condition Of affairs in
the State Is bad. ~ -
The civil service commissioners have met
with a serious hitch from the fact that,some
powers granted them by the law conflict With
the power vested in the President by the Con-
stitution. The Attorney General has been
consulted.
Pleasanton has written ON elaborate letter
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dent rights and duties under the law, and he
demands that Boutwell, shall similarly quote
law in support, of his right Of interference.
Should legal questions perplex the President
(Which is quite probablel Pleasanton Asks that
the letters be referred to the Attorney GeneE-
al, and promises to abide BY the decision.
The revenue department decides that sala-
ries of officers OF lunatlc asylnms, and other
like institutions, are taxable by the United
States as incomes. -
J. The Secretary Of the Treasury instructs col
lectors to take no steps to interfere with quar-
antlne regulations s:where port of entry and
up-river ports conflict The question arises
from conflict Of regulations in Florida and
Georgia regarding inter- -state rivers.
General Sherman was elected president Of
the Society ofethe Army and Navy OF the Gulf.
Negotiations for postal money orders be-.
tween the United States and Great Britain are
nearly completed.
rrr rxcr R5TTROaD HORROR.