The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-10-14

tween Alcorn and the negro Sheriff OF the
county, John Brown. Press dispatches state
that the blacks to the number of 800, armed
and equipped, were marching upon the town,
when the whites went out and attacked them,
and running fight was kept up for three or
four miles. Several negroes and one white
man were wounded. At last accounts both par
ties were arming and organizing, and it Is
feared there will be more bloodshed.
| Some weeks ago Joseph Crews, prominent
Republican politician, and an opponent of Gov.
Chamberlain, was killed by unknown assassins
in South Carolina. Several colored men now
come forward with afidavits duplicating Gov.
| Chamberlain and State Treasurer Cardozo IN
the murder. The friends of the latter repel the
charge. and denounce the atlantis as perjurers
and conspirators
DR.. Sears, the general agent of the Peabody
educational fund, reports that the public
schools of the South are constantly improving
| in character and in number.
| A difficulty occurred last week in Charleston,
Tallahatchie county, Miss, between colored
man named Blackwell, the Sheriff, Alcorn and
other officials of the county. Blackwell was
abusing Alcorn and other Republican leaders,
and was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Stewart.
After being arrested. Blackwell shot George
Wall, white man, dead, and was then pursued
by the Sheriff and henmed up in back room
of grocery store and shot by the Sheriff and
assistant some fifteen or twenty times and NOR
tally wounded.
The colored people of Georgia held conven-
ton at Augusta last week, and appointed an
Emigration Bureau to gather information OF
the best localities inside the State of Georgia
for negroes in the late insurrectionary counties
to emigrate to. An address was adopted stating
that the negroes are not given their rights in
Georgia, colored men are not allowed to sit on
iuries, and do not receive the protection of the
courts.
Judge Robert j. Mckinney, for many years
one of the Judges of the Supreme Court OF
Tennessee, and one of the most eminent jurists
in that State, is dead.
| Advices from Friars Point, Miss, report no
more fighting, but everything unsettled, and
the agricultural interest paralyzed The ne
groes there threaten to hang Brown, the Sher-
| iff, and Smith, the candidate for Chancery
Clerk, if they return, for having caused the
disturbance. Reports from other parts of the
State show great Generalization among the la
borers, and great danger of large portion OF
| the cotton crop being lost for want of hands to
pick it.
An indscriminate shooting occurred one day
last week in the streets of Grenda, Miss, be-
tween Sheriff Franck and his son on the one
side, and State Senator Price and his son-in-
law on the other, during which some fifteen
shots were fired, but no one was hurt All the
parties were Republicans, but belonged to diff
ferent factions.
Washington.
The Comptroller of the Currency has called
upon the national banks for report exhibit
| ing their condition at the close of business on
Friday, the LIST day of October, 1875.
| The internal revenue returns for September
| show an increase of receipts of about 81, $780,
900 over the corresponding period last year.
Gen. H. Y. Boynton, the well-known Wash
ington correspondent is preparing review OF
Gen. Sherman's memoirs. 1t will be made up
chiefly of the official records of the War De-
partment.
It is now claimed that young Fisher, late
Assistant District Attorney, who is in jail on an
Indictment fol mt1feasance, is insane, and
efforts are being made to have him transferred
from prison to an asylum.
The books of the Treasury Department show
that for the fifteen months ending September
80, there have been withdrawn 800, 600 in
United States bonds, and deposited with the
Treasurer to secure national bank circulation.
In lieu of these bonds, ninety per cent, or
total of $18, 600, 600 in national bank currency
has been retired
Indian Commissioner Smith has resigned.
Another party of vagrant redskins, belong
ing to the Chippewa tribe, visited Washington
last week, for the purpose of laying their griev-
ances before the President. They claim that
they have been badly swindled by agents and
traders
The Catholic leaders of Washington, with
Mrs Gen. Sherman at their head, are organic
| ing permanent Indian Catholic missionary
association. Missionary workers are to be sent
among all the Indian tribes, to WOO the gentle
savage into laying down the tomahawk and
scalping implement and otherwise emitting
himself to life membership in the mother
church.
Acknowledgement Harris ex-senator Pease,
and United States Attorney Wells of Missis-
sippi, visited Washington last week, and had
a lengthy consultation with Attorney General
Pierrepont in regard to the condition of af-
fairs in their State. They made serious
charges against Gov. Ar.es, and assured the
Attorney General that any departure from the
policy of the administration already indicated
by the Attorney General would be disastrous
to the interests of the State, and especially
would it's best citizens deplore the sending of
troops.
The United States Supreme Court commenced
;4s Ontol,o,. tnr,,n on tho th inst oil of the