The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-01-29
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Governor Garland Of Arkansas photographed
rs follows to President Grant on the 18th

Governor Garland Of Arkansas te~legraphed
rs follows to President Grant ON the 18th:
To the President Of the United States
IL there Il a White League or any Kindred asso-
citation in this state | do not know II, and have
asked for those who assert 1t 10 he brought before
the Grand Jury Of this county, nov in session, %
show the facts. pledging all The power OF this
Government 10 break them up. and to punish
those that do belong TO them. and call upon the
Legislature now sitting to pass themost stringent
~ Al. GARLAND, Governor OF Arkansas.
The following dispatch was published on
the 18th.
NEW ORLEANS, January IA, ls75.-t. :.
Grant, President. Washington, d.. c.. Seeing
from Your message that the interference by the
military ON Monday. the 4th, with the organiza-
ton Of the House Of Representatives Of Louisiana
was unauthorized By You, / now, rs speaker Of
said House, ask YOU 10 direct the military TO re.
store the Stdfu quo existing at the time General
House in order that the House OF Representatives
may proceed to the discharge OF its duties, with
out molestatiOn. LOUIS \. Willy,
speaker House Of Representatives of Louisiana.
1t i understood that the Arkansas Investi-
eating Committee i unanimously of the opirr
ion tina the election of is6s. by which Brooks
was chosen Governor, was legal: but there j.
a division on the question of the legality of
the election Of 1872, by which Baxter was
elected and the new Constitution adopted.
ON the latter subject there will be two reports.
the majority denying. and the minority sus-
tanning. the legality of that election.
The Virgins Legislature adopted resolu-
ton protesting against the recent conduct of
Federal troops in Louisiana as a gross and
wanton usurpation of power.
AT Urbsna, Ohio, early on the morning Of
the 18th. a band OF some thirty or forty
masked men forcibly took q prisoner named
G.. w. Ullery from the jail, and hung him to
a tree until he was dead. Ullery was ar
rested On the charge, and had confessed 10
the crime, of committing a horrible outrage
n few days previously on Il young school girl
named Morgan.
King kalakaua arrived in -. Louis on the
evening Of the 18th and had a public rcccp-
ton.
Governor Taylor Of Wisconsin delivered
his message 10 the Legislature on the 18th.
In referring to Louisiana affairs, he says: II
do not wish TO PREJUDICE facts. but if authority
exists in any branch of the Federal Govern
ment for what appears 10 be assumed by re-
cent proceedings in Louisiana, and in the ex-
traordinary proposals OF a Lieutenant-G eneral
of the United States Army in his dispatche,
from New Orleans, | believe the time has
come for all of us to bury the partisan spirit
in a common effort for the preservation of our
constitutional sovereignty, and the Inherited
liberties of the American people,
A dispatch fromT~peka, Kansas, 14th, says:
Twenty-one men have been brought in who
were found frozen and in a helpless condi-
ten on the plains. Some have since died,
and those who are alive are badly crippled.
Two men were frozen 10 death near Great
Bend recently. Mr.. Nxntrees, a member OF
the Legislature from Barbour County, had
his legs frozen while attempting to reach the
capital. He is now at Hutchinson, and il is
believed that both legs will have to be smpu-
tated. The present cold spell of weather is
the severest ever known in Kansas and on
the plains. The thermometer indicated the
mercury at twenty degrees below zero at day.
light this morning at Topeka.
At Helena, Montana, on the night OF the
18th. the mercury froze in the thermometers,
and mall quantities Of mercury in walls also
concealed. Proof whisky placed out of doors
froze solid in half an hour. FoIr Cinnamon
who let IIelana on the 18th, were oundo on
the following morning, about a half-mile from
the town, frozen to death. The whisky they
had with them, in small kegs, was frozen
solid.
The following dispatch has been made pub
lie:
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 17.-Hon. ". W. Rel
received from Major Merrill, at shreveport,
which Il too long for telegraphic transmission,
but will be sent by mail. The following epi.
tome IL almost in Major MerrilFs own words
- Threats made before the election 10 drive from
the community all that voted the Radical ticket
are being carried out. Combinations among
whites are forming and recruiting by every form
OF pressure, by which all the negroes who voted
the Radical ticket are to be refused work or
leases. All whites not belonging to the combina-
ton are 10 be ostracized. Already more than 800
including at least 2 900 people Of all ages
and sexes, are wanderers, without means % 20
elsewhere, poweress TO find other homes where
they are, and on the verge Of starvation in mid.
Then and other crimes may result, and
/ is feared that a bitter feeling, naturally result.
Ing from a sense Of injustice received. may run
into one Of revenge. These homeless people will
sradually DRIFT together; and white people are
not slow, az the past has shown, 10 set afloat In
rumors OF intention OF organized vi0.
ence on the part Of the negroes, and where re.
Volyer and mob law are the common resort in
such cases, ~ they usually have been here, dis
,rders more or less extensive are sure 20 result if
some preventive is not found for such state Of
~t>ignedl +. II. SHERIDAN, Lieut.. Gen.
A very serious mutiny occurred In the
Penitentiary at jefferson City. Mo-, on the
18th. but was fortunately quelled without
The Cook County National Bank Of Chi
,ago suspended payment on the 10Th. The
President, Mr.. u. T.. Allen, assures deposit
that no loss will occur to them, their
payment being only a question OF time.
The Patrons Of IIu~bandry Of Louisiana and
Mississippi have issued m address to the or
Ter throughout the United States indorsing
me report Of the subcommittee Of Congress.
The address concludes rs follows: "Bclieyc