The Portland daily press., 1872-06-13

FROM WASHINGTON friends of the late
Gen. Anderson endeavored to secure for his
widow pension of fifty dollars a month, and
the House passed bill granting it. The SEN
ate was not willing to thus make an extraordi-
nary case, but passed BILL in which the House
concurred, paying Mrs. Anderson $40, 900 Gin
grateful recognition"-so the law reads-"of
the singular fidelity to public duty which in
| spired her husband, without authority from the
President and in defiance of the wishes of the
Secretary of War, to assume the grave respon-
| sibility of transferring his small command from
Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter in Charleston
harbor, thereby mourning the double reproach
| from the Government of his country that he
| had acted without orders, and from the enc
| mics of his country that he had achieved the
unenyiable distinction of opening civil war;
| and at the same time placing himself under the
earliest and hottest fire of the rebellion, and
| under those hardships which wrecked his con-
| stitution and destroyed his life"
Mr.. Colfax had occasioned to enforce the
rules of the Senate under somewhat peculiar
circumstances the other day. The sale of wiLe
in the Senate restaurant is positively prohibit
ed. Senator Spencer went in and ordered din
ner and wine for himself and party OF friends.
The keeper of the restaurant protested that he
could not furnish wine, as the Vice President
had given him the very strictest instructions to
comply with the Senate rules. Spencer stormed
and said he was Senator, etc., and would be
oOeyed. The wine was furnished, and the Vice
President was notified that Senator had given
positive orders to be supplied with wine Mr..
Colfax came down in person, called Mr. Spen-
Ger out and quietly informed him he must re-
spect the Senate rules or be at once reported to
the Senate as breaking them At first Spencer
was disposed to resist, but after very slight re-
nection he agreed to comply with the rules and
finish his dinner without wine
THE Hartford Courafnt, suggests a whole
history ir the brief account of the Ku-Klux
that have thus far been punished for violence
to white and colored men in South Carolina
1t is literally true protraiture.
In the Penitentiary at Albany, there is a Dem
ocratic editor from North Carolina, sentenced
to six wears imprisonment as the cruel captain
of Ku-Klux band. His father, Presbyterian
clergyman, says he was never so proud of his
son as he is to see him in his present position
for such cause. His brother is student at
Princeton. BY an even-handed and even prac-
teal justice, the Ku-Kldx captain and editor,
whose high calling was the extirpation of ne
groes and Union men from his region, is to-day
at work at shoe bench between two Northern
negroes. A few weeks ago there were marched
into Charleston, and lodged in Jail there, some
thirty white meu of South Carolina, intelligent
men, among them lawyers, doctors, and planters
who belonged to Ku-Klux band, and whose
outrages upon colored men and women, and in
some cases upon white women had been so
loathSome and in humanity cruel, that we cannot
even hint then -.print. The recital of them
makes one sick with horror.
Gen. Walker, Acting Superintendent of the
Census of 1870, sent to the government nr;nt.
ing office Tuesday the copy for the compen-
dunn, of which twenty-five thousand comics
are to be printed for the use of the Senate. fifty
thousand for the use of the House and twenty
five thousand for the use of the Secretary of
the Interior.