The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-27
q TIrE.esrTRAaE MEL.
THE WHEELS BEGINNING no ITuRS-Bour-
WELLS REPORT ON AFFAIRS IN MIssls-
sIPPI-sPECHfENH HORRORS FOR THE PRE-
sIDENTII. CAMPA1GN-INCREDIB sTo-
RIES OF WRONGS s
Especial tispatch 10 the ga,,,morc Sun.

tSpccGhi uispatcR 10 the Baltimore Sun.
| WASHINGTON, July 25.-Senator Boutwell,,
chairman of the Mississippi Investigating
Committee, has completed his report and
| vii! submit 1t to the Senate In the course OF
few days, or at all events before the adj
iournment OF Congress. The report Is
brief and contains simply an cpitome OF the
testimony, which Is yoluminous, and such de
auctions as seem to the Republicans justified
| by the facts as there set forth in detail.
| The report proceeds directly to the main
| point of consideration, and declares that
there exists in Mississippi condition OF So
ciety and municipal and State government
more tyrannical and inhuynan than existed
| in the days OF barbarism; the State is dis
! turbed by predatory bands OF armed men,
who have set themselves above the law, and
rule the destuies of the State by midnight
assassination and every species Of outlawry;
that negroes are inundated and kept in q
degree Of subsection more despotic than
bondage. Amongst the cases cited is one Of
q person who made the declaration that the
reason the State was lost to the Republicans
was that the negroes were turning Demo-
Gratis. A colored man who had been cam
didatc for State senator, and who WINS one Of
the colored men alluded to by the witness
above mentioned. was examined. He adj
speeches, and gave rs an explanation that
previous to the election band of armed
masked men came to his residence, and after
forcing an entrance threatened that il he did
not decline the nomination they would brain
him on the spot. He had but the altcrna-
tive OF withdrawal from the contest or his
blood. He chose the former. and signed 4
declination which was handed him. He
thought that he would now be allowed to
live in peace; but shortly after they again
appeared, and in order to save his life and
what little property he had he was COM
PEELED to make Democratic speeches.
Another case illustrative Of the general
conclusions arrived at by the majority of
the committee is that OF Il native OF Phia-
! delphia. He settled near Nicksburg and
was with his family. He had been appoint
| cd a Justice OF the peace by the Governor
OF the State, and his wife opened school
! for the instruction OF the poor. lie was
subsequently, candidate for office. On
one night fifty armed men dashed upon his
premises and shot him down without a
word OF warning, and in the presence OF
his wife and family. When the story OF
his wife was told by her own lips to the
committee. Senator Bayard, one OF the COM
mittcc, calculated, ~ don't believe it,"
After the murder, according to the report,
the asSassins lowered about the house and
would not permit the wife to enact even the
rites OF Sepulturc. They dragged the bleed
ing corpse from the arms OF the distracted
woman, pitched it into pig-wallow, ana
left. Senator Bayard, affected by the nara
ton, repeated, Il won't believe 1t under
oath" The report says that these Dan
ditti," for it states they compare with ltal-
| ians OF the same class, live upon the people.
! They are dissolute and INDECENT, generally
! the sons of planters impoverished by the
| war, or the remnant of that class OF adVen-
| turerS who iattcned upon the institution OF
| slavery rs the camp-followcr lives upon an
army.
The report says that they are apparently
countcnanced by the State and local govern
mentS, and, while they are Il burden to the
people, the latter encourage them III their
ubiquitous conduct. The report states that
the people of Mississippi, as indicated by
the facts gathered from persons OF all classes
OF society and political creeds, are lapsinS
into condition OF society alarming to con-
| template, and that it is beyond the ken OF
human foresight to ioretell where it will
end. Mr.. Boutwell,, in conversation, says
that the Hamburg affair is but an atom COM
pared with the atrocities committed in Mis-
sissippi, and which never came under the
eve OF nublic scrutiny. lie says that IN the
present condition Of things there is no
chance OF carrying Mississippi, though the
State is largely Republican.