Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-02
AKERMAN.
He Tells a Story to Cover the
Case.
GEORGIA AFTER GOV. BULLOCK.
THE CASE OF HON. W. D. Stokes.

Special Telegraphic Correspondence of tn
Courier-J ournal.
WASHINGTON, October 3l.-It is sale
that Attorney General Alderman in
formed the President that the punish
ment Of corrupt officials in the Soutl
was necessary TO the success of the Re
publican party in that section, anc
should go hand in hand with the destruc
ton Of the Ku-Klux; otherwise there
would be nothing Of the party left in
very short time. Attorney General AK
erman having just returned from the
martial-law district in
! SOUTH CAROLINA,
detailed his observations, and expressed
his opinion with regard to the existence
Of the Ku-Klux in that State. He says
| that he has ascertaiRed that it does exist
under such names as the Invisible En-
pire of the South, White Brotherhood,
etc. and that q majority Of the entire
white meu of that section were in its
membership or under its control; that
its objects, embodied in its oath, were
the defense of the Constitution as it was,
resistance TO Radical invasion, and the
protection Of widows and orphans; and
the penalty of treachery provided by
said oath is death. He further claims
that
TEN MURDERS
have been committed, twenty colored
school-houses burned and five hundred
minor outrages committed in York county
by the Ku-Klux in the last year, and
that between one hundred and two hun
dred men have recently fed the coun-
try to escape punishment. The Attor-
ney General thinks that most OF these
outrages were committed last March, and
there have not been very many recently.
Many that belonged to the organization
have surrendered themselves and con-
| fessed on the ground, he supposed, OF
receiving amnesty. When he left
Yorkville, ninety men had been arrest
ed on
A SUMMARY PROCESS
and confined in the York jail without a
hearing and without bail. AS to whether
the prisoners would be granted a hear
ing he does not say, but claims that the
Department of Justice has the right, un-
der the Presidents proclamation and
the Ku-Klux law, to hold them until the
| u. S. Court should assemble, on the
9th Of November. This is the official
Administration view Of the situation.
THE UTAH TROUBLES.
The Government evidently intends to
take precautionary measures to prevent
trouble in Utah, and additional troops
will probably be ordered there. Dele
gate Hooper is daily expected here to
appeal to the authorities to cease the
prosecution Of the Mormons there, and
the overland railroad lines are said to be
| using their influence to prevent an out
break. The President to-day removed
the old District Attorney in Utah and
appointed q Chicago lawyer named Geo.
c. Bates.
AFTER BULLOCK.
An officer from Georgia has arrived in
Washington with a warrant for the ar
rest of Governor Bullock, on the charge
a incorporation of State bonds. Had
he not resigned it was the intention of
the authorities in the State to proceed
with his impeachment. The story goes
that two or three millions are involved.
Special to the Louisville Ledger.l
BULLocK's RESIGNATION.
WASHINGTON, October 81. - The
Georgia State officials have sent sew
eral kilograms to parties in the city
to-day relative to the late resignation OF
| Governor Bullock, which state that this
resignation is regarded as a piece OF
sharp practice, TO stop charges of i'm
parchment and criminal prosecutions
for swindling and embezzlement which
are now pending against this official 1t
is proposed TO issue warrants immedi-
ately for
BULLoCK's ARREST.
This individual is now supposed to be
in New York, making arrangements to
leave the country 1t is estimated that
| Bullock has realized about a million
dollars from the Georgia operations. His
visit to this city was to confer with Sec
retsry Delano and Senator Cameron,
relative TO the lease of the State rail-
road.
STOKES sUccEssoR-HIs FRIEND IN NEED.
The President to-day appointed one
Emery successor to Stokes as Collector
Of the Tennessee revenue district. Mr..
Stokes, however, is not altogether with
out friends. Horace Maynard has writ
ten long letter here advising the Bald
Eagle" that he will stand by him and
defend him to the best Of his ability.
One Of the statutes which Stokes has
clearly violated is that Of 1858, which
prescribes that any member of Congress
who shall receive, or agree to receive,
any bride, present, or compensation for
prosecuting a claim against the govern
ment shall be deemed guilty of inside
meanor, and be subject to fine Of five
thousand dollars and imprisonment for
one year. This will prove one Of the
counts in the indictment against Stokes.
Another will hold him guilty of compli-
city in, and Of being an accessor before
and after the fact, to an attempt to
swindle the government.
BUTLER's REVENGE.
1t is the misfortune of United States
District Attorney Camp, Of East Ten
nessee, that he should have aided in the
prosecution Of Roderick Randall, in
stead Of Butler, for alleged completely
of the latter in pension frauds. Butler
never forgave Camp for furnishing evil
dence in this case, and his recent re-
moval is but the result Of inlrigues with
the President TO serve such q result.
MISTAKE.
A Western paper says the editors who
have gushed over that petition from