The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-21
OPENING OF TIE WEEK.

w GH1Nu OE lLl1I
If the reports of the week are to be taken
as illustrations, society In the United States
is in a chaotic state. Reports of tout
RACES OF intended "outrages' have been
the rule, not the exception, but these have
not been of the character Of those with
which our ears have been wont 10 be re-
called. There has been Il change Of scene
and personnel, but the results, so far as
there have been any results, differ not in
character from the old ones save in the
color of the skin of the victims or intended
victims. First, We hear from Illinois,
from Williamson county made disgraceful-
ly notorious by the Bulliner- Henderson
Russell-Sisney vendetta, by which seven
men have fallen victims TO cowardly mid
night assassins. From the state of society
disclosed by the existence of such a ven
delta, and when men, ordinarily of nerve
and courage, refuse to take part in the de-
lection and arrest of the assassins because
they 'dread the consequences" we are not
surprised to learn that a party of men dis
guised as kuklux have, for some time, been
riding the country and whipping peaceable
citizens while the whole body of citizens
have calmly submitted to these outrages. !"
At last, however, one man was found who
refused to "calmly submit and accord
insly when, Monday night, he was visited
by fourteen of these disguised and armed
kuklux, he was prepared, gave them a
warm reception and compelled their retreat
with loss of one killed and five wounded.
These desperadocs are said to number four
hundred men, and we are told that to op-
pose them, the governor has furnished
arms, military company is being formed
and "bloody results may be expected.
Next we hear from Pennsylvania, and
from that portion rendered infamous by
the minersI lots earlier in the year. The
miners had returned to work, and Satur-
day evening they received their first pay,
resulting in converting an area of country
some thirty miles in length into "howl-
ing pandemonium. The disturbances were
not confined to "colliery villages" but in
some of the principal towns roughs parad-
ed the streets flourishlng revolvers and
crying out ''show us man to shoot. la
Mahanoy City, in street crowded with
people, two roughs commenced firing at
each other, unfortunately without injury
t. themselves but with death to the by.
ISLANDERS. Arrests were made, but not fol-
manslaughter, and the principal was dis
charged on eight hundred dollars bail. In
another place, party Of men approached
bar ten Ter calling for beer, ard while
their demand was being compiled with, he
was shot and the murderers escaped. Ia
still another place, crowd entered q
hotel, striking and insulting every one
they found there, and while "A warrant was
being procured for their arrest, they made
change of base and raided on the JUS
tees Office and putla stop to the Issuing OF
the warrant for the time beng. Having
ot length rid himself of his unwelcome Wis
ilors, the justice finished his warrant, left
for the purpose Of. procuring a constable
and posse to make the arrests, but was
shot to death in front of his own door ant
in the presence of his daughter. These
are but isolated instances, and the telegram
says it was the 'cruelist, bloodiest night
"that Schuylkill county has known foi
"years." And this is the way the week
was opened in Pennsylvania. III
The scene shifts to the south, TO Geor
gia, and the negroes were to have been tho
actors. On Monday, as it is reported, let
tiers were found in the store Of negro
named Williamson, situated in Washing
ton county, some fifty miles from Augusta,
ordering general massacre of the whites
on Friday. The order was as follows
Kill every white man, and take every
gun you can get. Have all your com
"panies ready Kill with axes, hoes,
" pitch-forks, and get punpowder and