The New York Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1866, Page 8

GER. U. 8 GRANT, COMMANDING AREY ame samme on tam Ceewen Graven, neg ‘Ta ened fen ee my reper for Inde the votumient ferwe then te err e hae heme ment eatirely Mepmeed by the regu- ber noms won) cogamend ander he act @ Congress, eaprorns te of Inky, OH The eeper of the 44 Patan! ent e eg eure “ Pence from ov. war at he magmitude of che 6 whe be 4 anton hee Renn engneed wo gorers MON! hronet the ComriN, het Beme Germed semeemery Re hem sm he) free um alt Che Imtely rebenname Mat © & eure excertiom Of Oe aad to preet life aod ror eek Dem Way te be moot for preenta ns Weil report | wed have tO cet my tects from these re ‘Tune oot permetting, | beg to rererte Roce: inovr condensation by te aoe omer ertendiv. Dave dim in bed ene a tung Epon ty the lo @ian, beruilitier, opposttem at beast, frequently occur, Fo moct (his and to protect the emigramt om bit way to the mornin lerritenes troops have Beew distributed to re tho best protection With the meaneat hand Few ince ar cecupied bY more than two, and many by but 8 singie company. These — are genersiiy edly sheltered, and are supplied at great cox, During te pest som ere made Ter Generals Sherman, Pope, wok & determine the vo the best protection to mes the most eapplian The labor of patting up temporary quarters is ‘ormned by the troops intending to occupy them. — Tn oouree of the Bext Reason more permaveat ballin s expense for material at least, Pe meee, Lhat ap appropriauwm for (oi special The permanent peace establishment being much larger @an has been heretofore provided for. for building barracks, storehouses. ‘Wants, wems Wo be required. es ‘the staff depariment of r 44 T would suggest Congress the propnety of trans! from the Interior to greater economy of expenditure, and, as | thi Bution of conflict between the Indian aod white 2 bave the honor to be, very respectialiy, eervant, U. & GRANT, General, Hon. £. M. Srawton, Secretary of War. Mepert of Lieutenant General W. T. Sher. man. Brangeakress Muitany Divisox or tax Mseouns, Sr. Loum, Mo., Nov. 6, 1868. @uxxnst—On my return from a two months’ tour on @e plains I bad 4 onal wo poste od jeuer from your headquarters of October 3, 1866, calling for @ report ‘@f the operations of the troops of my omens durmg past year. Having in the meantime been called to ington, and now again being under orders thas will pel my departure to-morrow, 1 am forced 1866—1he whole territory of the United States was @vided into five great military dy of which that ppl fell to my myled the Military Division of the M eBare. & was composed of the Department of the Ohio, pv eethengmirit Senta the Department ef the jajor General Pope commanding, and the De- of Arkansas, General J. J. Reypoids ding. The first business thas fon was the disbandment of ws ‘tment of Dakota—-The Teath, Thirteenth, Twenty- |, and Tbirty-first regimenws of infantry, and wwo tens if the Plat Battery ment o} te ©, Third artillery, @econd regiment cavalry, the Kighteentu, ‘eat mircathy one Thirty-aixth regiments of intautry, and scOuLs ° of the Missouri—| Fourth artil- sap chee ae ty a Tenth cavalry (colored), the Third, Fifth, Thirty. Thirty-cighth (colored) regiments of infantry, hundred and flity Indian scouts ‘Department of the Arkansas— Battery eastern settlement, but western parts are a vast prairie, with good grasnes, it generally devoid of trees or mincrais, are subject Lo tg, ANd are not inviting to settiers Next ia order mountainous Territories of Montana, Utah, Color. ado and New Mexico, composed of high plateaus and containing mineral of every kind, with Forsots of timber and numerous valle a-% of high cultivation, either by means of the ordinary rains, ee the more certain system of irrigation that has bean @egen within & comparatively recent period, and bas with an onergy and success that pro- gmises the best resulta, These new and mountain Terri tories present a most imteresting feature in our future development as & nation, and are in my judgment worthy he ifberal-and fomtering care of the general mountain Territories and I border lie the great plains of America, which have well mapped and described by the hundreds of ex plorers that have traversed them from the time of the of Pike, and Lewis, and Clark, as early as These plains can never The ——~ ¥ ly improving, and as- fuming a condition of self-protection and defence, be of nomadic Indians, Still they Tey ‘eattiod ume an isolaced tion, presenting a thin frontier in every ‘dlrection, with a restless people branch- ing out in search of a better piace or of better mines. To defend them perfectly is an ulter imposnibility, and ail we can do is to aid the people in seli-defence, until {0 time they can take care of themesives, and to make the roads by which they travel or bring their stores from She older parts of our country as wale an the case ad mite of, Tae INDIANS. This brings me to the consideration of the question o f Whe Indians, who, in nomadic and banda, in- fam the whole co described, sometimes in one and then in another, These Indiaus are univers » by the people of our frontier and of our molated regarded as hostile, and we, the military, eharged with & general protection of the infaat settie- long routes of travel, heave to dispose our act as though they were hostile, By the ta of our exeoutive authori- hen thretan government, through has heretofore been od ‘weil »! abl; by General Seer ny ae shy renee nen or ot of he Tedinas degrment z i a : H i pu idl ztis sit it Fret i £ e i | sett fe 4 | sf i 1 ls oeees i ij Riri a ghes a; { rel pti fi -{ eridiis li Fy F E i Hi f ; [ it i HH i HH i i [ i i ! t ? it i ii if i i Hi i fe i | Sa2¢ a3 i ee sat! i fi if 2 : Hil Ht sFirtyl Hite ie Eilat ri i i: 4 iia i Hi i if Fs ll ; i oft ft i fil 4 i i Pi i rf i 4 i =f [ el fi & t i ee fi L : & if s if s? aF i ; j i i ht H i i i i E i te f ; 4 Hi F H Hy ! 4 i j : i z : it i i i i i a — i tl Cn “8 } i} ; j j i! a ; ' fF F | a i Hi Hi ai Sick if | if il i i i i z Haul ee oil i i : i I if ! | i 2 | : i : (is il i i His Bg idl Hg . Hl i i ) s 3 i z g i 3 | i H i i 28 Paitacmiraa, Pa, Oct. I have the bowor io submit for the mforma tion of the general commanding io chief the succinet report of military operations i@ my during the present year ‘Al the commen cment of the year my command was the military division of the Atlantic, compored of the Department of the Kast, the Miadie Devertwent end the Departments of Virginia North Caroline sed South Gar obna THE TRNIAN RAID O8 CANADA Tie only movements of any conenquence were thor Made va (he northere frontier with a View to eaforoe the henirality laws. Karly m Apel e despateh Way reoeivee from the honorable Secretary of War, Wansmitting one from the collector at Eastport, Maine, reporting (be con at tha: place of large mumberr of rangers, ug tothe Feniag organization Oni assem Ot Dg aR eR pediteR ageinet the wwick At the time there was srcdiery at Eastport. | mmmeds i three ad@itional jan from the DEAF posts and repaired myself On my aa\ charmeter of the expeds of the Arms, placed them charge of the commanding oMeer at Kesiport cad guve notice publicly tha: no viomtion of the lowe Permitied. These measures bad the efecs of causing the expedition to be abandoned and the mee it to return to their homer. i i tions being seized «8 points. No opposition was offered, ex: jp one jne*ancg, when an armed of Fenians seized, at Watertown, New York, a locomotive, and proceeded to Cape Vincent, and there recaptured two car loads of arms which had been sent there for se- curity after seizure by the Deputy Marshal at Water- town. On learning these fatts I despatched Major J. Stewart, commanding three companies of artillery, in a special train to intercept the Ienians on thelr return; bat the latter, learning of Major Stewart’s movement, abandoned the train with the arms, and escaped by scattering over the adjacent eountry, ‘On the neceasary authority being received from the ‘War Department and the appéarance of the President’s roclamation on the 6th of June, I ordered the arrest of the principal leaders at St. Albans and Mafone, and ed @ proclamation commanding the dispersion of the assombiages at these a offerin; i to their homes to #1 ov 3 he of the men as would abandon the ex; ‘These measures bad the effect io suppress the expedition, no effort being made to cross ex that of @ small, inefficiently armed body under a dental Spears who “crossed the boundary line near Franklin, Since hag remained fora day on the other side in the vicinity of the line, recrossing on the advance of th British The ‘expedition “being abandoned, the men to their homes, ‘mostly furnished trans- portation the the government This was ‘moat ¢: vat course, for, though the of the men composing the expedition had, up to the time of its abandonment, been most exemplary, it was feared so Jargo @ body, estimated'as high as ten thousand, if left on the (are ha 2p reed of return would become riot- ous isorderly, requiring, to the 0, the calling out the milton, whlch T was anxious toveseld on the ground of economy, as well as ‘othi After the men composing the expedition had ell been sent home, the troops were returned to their former eta- tion. Brevet Major General Barry, who had been spe- clally assigned to duty by the general commanding in ligt, waa, by orders from these headquarters, left in charge of the troops remaining on the northern tier, The report of General Barry, commanding at Buffalo, as wei! as that-of Major Gibson, Third artillery, comand ng at St Albans, are herewith apponded. ‘On the of August General Orders No. 59 Adjutant General's Washington, D. U., abolished the mili- the Atlantic, and I was assigned to the Department of the East. Since the date g i ry i 3 i i 5 H ES af i i; i i F inspection of the department showed to bein commendable order and condition. dimribation of regiments into one and two company 18 ‘conducive to efficiency and disci- ; and it is to be hoped the recent increase of tho authorized by law will permit of the concentration at least of regiments, 80 necessary to preserve the ul and proper military tone of both officers and men. Very Tespectful adnan obedient servant, iE G, MEAVE, Major General U. 3. A. Report of Major General P, H. Sheridan. mine Ontaany Lay 8 vi 1808.” cw ov, sot eat hare ne he dated October We I bey Rehee See ie fol- lowing report of operations within the limits of m command since May 29, 1865:— i BREAKING UP OF THR REBELLION, 1865, 1 was relieved from com- the 17th of May, division and assigned to the tory west of the Mississippi ‘end south of the Arkansas rivera, with directions to re- port to Lisutenant General Grant for instructions. hes time within its limits #, Hi i ir of instructions, Es Orleans, La,, and ived intellicence of the sur- commissioners sent This surrender was ded to tf E = inl rE ‘ : : z ef gs g ft i nea! eke: NT i i re i i lt # | : i i # 25, ! gf x i i Hall i te it HtbE Ee if i i ‘ i | ; i ! nn vine to re ‘as metry ra me « on Tt These columns Lo Crome tress Lopal obyert the governmen! eet to ered wi: berned mess. corps, trv bie wes eapereeced mm the af the troop of thie corps @ comseaecure of the bed te Terese, ‘he great draught of the vemela emptayed OF br aeejuris And Lhe aterm s of ey able Lghaers Wo Com rey (be irmps eofone |e bare = the White (he (upegong operations were bed Fourth army cory, about to thovsmed om, Fn atl me feet errived io Now vresns herag won te report to me for ser ice ve Tena, and was a 2 pomibic vo ediegola, from thence to and ordered to cocupy the Wee from thes to Ban Aston The trnops on tbe | ae to Austin were - ah Galvemon i iN bat i i a i i ‘i = the largest number of troops to be built at Brazos, and at Grande were supplied by small steamers whieh sent to that river; but the difficulties of entrance at mouth of the Rio Grande made this line of su dangerous and precarious for the supply of the troops, as sometimes @ transport could not mouth of the river for pine or tou dave. I therefore orderetf tho building of a railroad from Brazos to White Ranche, on the Kio Grande river, a distance of miles, aud this gaye security to the supply of the Th is railroad was afterwards sold at about $40,000 over the actual expense of conatruction. All these difficulties in the movement of troops were overcome, and in « short period of time. ‘ THE KFFECT OF OUR TROOPS ON THE RIO GRANDE, The effect of this large movement of troops on the destiny of imperialism in Mexico bas not been fully ap- preciated by our people. It is, however, well known that while we were strucgling for republican existence against organized rebeilion, and when nearly all the heads of the governments of Europe (except Russia) wished, and did believe, that republicanism was not a success, the Emperor of the French undertook the bold expedition to subvert the republic of Me: There no territorial question to be settled, and Bistory will not excuse the attempted snniliilation of a nation on the Be of non-payment cf a million er two of, debts due, ‘here was no good excuse for this attempted violation of rights, and the history of imperiatism in Mexico 1s only tne history of the buccanneer Morgan on a more extended scale, who atone time ured and held Pan- ama, on the isthmus, until he id hold it no longer. So that when this movement of our troops to Texas and the Rio Grande took we found the line.of that river and all northern Mexico’in the hands of imperialism; a government whicu collected no taxes, had no system of government and supported its parti- sans, soidiers and‘civilians, by levying contributions ou the poor inhabitants; but the appearance of our troops and the knowledge that friends were on the border went like electricity to the and hearts of the Mexican people. ‘Ihe rebels who had escaped from our country roeived no sympathy, and in less t! year this hardy people, without money, without arms and munitions of war, and without supplies, have recaptured Matamoros, Camargo, Presidio de Rio Grande, lampissas Monterey, Saltillo, ‘= aypty gee! Chihuabus and, ip fact, hold nearly all of the country, putting the invaders on the defensive and mee them to the valley of Mexico, with a fair prospect of their speedy extermination. I have felt much interést in this event, because I have always believed that the occupation of Mexico was a part of the rebellion; and ees | that the contest in our own country was for the vindication of repubii- canism, I did not think that that vindication would be complete untill Maximilian was compelled to leave. The course taken by nearly every newspaper in the lately rebellious States was sympathy for Maximilian, and the sentiment of a large portion of the population was likewise; and so determined was this on tbe part of thousands of adventurers that the Cordova emigration scheme was gotton up, and had, I think, for its object the formation of a jmuitian-Amerie'n party, com- posed of Confederates entertaining antipathy toweras our government, Manv of these, having no et would have drifted into the army of Maximilan. I to take strong grounds against thisemigration, and wera d broke it up by refusing to permit emigrants to embar! from the sea ports within the limite of my command. The effect of the presence of our ti in Texas and on the Rio Grande, as alluded to heretofore, on the des- tiny of imperislixm was great. It had not a friend among the officers or men, from the highest to the low- est grade, and the effect was depressing in the extreme; 80 much 80 that I am inclined to believe that, bad a de- mand been mado forthe withdrawal of the :mperial troopa, on the ground that the invasion of Mexico was & part of the rebellion, it would have been granted and the miseries of that country for the last year avoided. While the imperial troops held the tine of the Rio the strictest neutrality was Since they were driven away the same neutrality has been pres:rved towards the liberal government. The uumber of troops sent to Texas was about 52,000, Shortly after they bad arrived, and become somewhat fet ordets came for the muster-out of about 47,000 of vod femsesfe and the brant Yi vaneless on gradually and’ in accordance with eer to bring them back, so that the movement be considered as equal to a continuous movement over 90.000 men over the most difficult line of operations which we have in the country. I make remarks because 1 was under the impression at one time that the aster General did not fully undorstand the magnitude of the movement or the natural obstacles in the way of its ac- complisbment, and we had to stroggle for six months without fa on the plea that the Brazos Railroad was constructed bout authority and the pablic service made to suffer a punishment by this denial of funds I believe the Quartermaster General was influenced in this act by the representations of incompetent inspectors sent out to wake reports CONDITION OF CIVTL APFAIRS IN TEXAB. The condition of civil affairs in Texas was anomalous, Gor ernor: backed by arial portion ot the population, jovernor, a n_ of the popu had for his standard of loyalty “abhorrence for the re- beilion and glory in its defeat,” while his successor, as ‘actual Governor, had for bis standard of loyaity “pride in rebellion—that it was a righteous, but a lost cause, being overpowered by the federal forces.” Both of these representatives of the civil Jaw, entertaining op- posite standards for the loyalty of théir subjects, I was required to support, and did it to the best of my ability; but it has been embarrassing in the extreme. Governor Hamilton, the Provisional Governor, was clamorous tor more troops; and, in several communications to me, as- gerted, that the civil law could not be carried out; that freedmen would be killed and Union men driven from the state withoat military support; which I gave when- ever it was possible, Governor Thtock: be present Governor, wanis all the troops moved from the settled portions of the State, asserting that the civil Jaw was all right; that justice would be done to freed- atse ta oe men and our soidiers inthe courts, But i ; it 7 f i gil is not done. To give you an instauce of this, two soldiers were shot at hes yaa Texas, about two months ; they were unarmed, BO provo- cation, grand jury coald find no bill against thei: would-be poearne | iaCround yg Card Brevet Major lary, 8m Sevepteonth infantry, for burglary, because he broke into the bouse of some citizen in his attempt to men. own opinion is ibat the trial of a white man for the murder of a freedman im Texas would be « farce, and in making this statement I make it because truth com- pels me, aud for no other reason. During the last six monthe Indian depredations have x Lt taken om the remote frontier. Their extent is not ities anos ae ee Governor bas te some extent been inti i 5 5 fr nied ae itd + p ae H “iit 1 : EH Le i HI i a a 3 i i i have attempted it Volunteer troops, desirous of returning to their would have invoived an expense which I did not put upon the government. 4 & Gov. ing the it by the con. were turned out they did not think it now because it led Legislature met; ‘one will and the , and tfou- totagon aval, or nearit all, the iam with the Governor, but all, or nearly all, the subordinate civil authorities of the State were against these he had Bimselt sppointed if they 3 136: the cimth ye ‘and four companica of (be Kighth, with evumpanies H aud ePilth United United Staten ‘colored Soop, pares oe pone ive ty south Carolina; and six companies of the Eighth United States infantry, companies A and I, Fifth United states cavalry, Nght company £, Third United States artillery, i ! F u Ki f if ! | i f F : | 4 i H | ' corrected, le es the chief quartermaster, Brevet Major General R. 0. Tyier, and of the chief commissary of subsistence, bave these epidemics ap- ) earch in the department; a le result, attri- table mainly, in my judgment, to the effective quaran- tine maintained, in compliance with General Order No. 16, peadgquemers Armies of the United States. (See re- ical Director, Appendix 4 ) Largo reductions have been made in the expenditures of the Quartermaster's Department. The estimates re- ported for January, 1806, were $258,794, and for August, 1866, In Jantary, 1868, in the Department of South Carolina, eleven steamers, five tugs and ono seiling vessel were more or less employed. On September 1 the water trans- portation bad been reduced to one steamer and three vessels; two of the sailing veasels were chartered for quarantine purpose sed have been since discharged. The depots at belongi: master, ‘and departments, have been broken sp and the civilian employés, more than a thou- sand in number, discharged. Orders recently received by the ordnance oflicer apd bo apg ab depots at Raleigh and Columbia have likewise been discontinued. C ton and Newbern arc now the only sources of supply. ‘The cemeterial led dur- ing the — season, will be pram next — and prosecuted with energy to com, e winter, Spee ry ee ye Placa ‘y as contem- the government, will have been rendered to our heroic dead who fell during the war in North and South Carolina. For Serer ta tee information as to pera other operations uartermaster’s department I respect- Say sme eer of Brevet Major General Tyler, e herewith, to whose zeal and ability I am much .. The issue of rations to refugees and freedmen subse- quent to January 1, 1866, were gradually diminished under the operation of orders from depariment head- joarters fortidding issues to persons able to earn & Syme The demand eet eetatate me sufficient to employ every one willing to work. Agen’ of the Frecémen’s Bureau, in some localities, issued ra- issues made by thoes agents control. In compliance with the recent instructions of the Beoretary of War, Bureau of bag: a Freedmen aod Abandoned Lands, Washington, Angust 23, 1866, all ceased on the lat of October, except to the sick in 8 and or- establish: For the ten days ending October 10, 2,034 rations were issued to those ‘two classes in North Carolina, and in South Carolina 1,090 rations, The Legislature of South Carolina, during its recent extraordinary session, made a liberal appro- priation for a supply of corn to the destitute. ‘Yhe most satisfactory progress seems to have beea made during the past year in ull that concerns the wel- fare of these States. A year ago civil authority did not exist, The duties of the executive wero in the hands ary N courts are all open, and the jurisdiction of military tribunals, except on the won isla in contined to in the misitary service, Ing under the articles of war. The adminis- twatjon of municipalities, towns and counties devolved upon military officers, The police of Charleston, Cotum- bia, Raleigh and Wilmington was exclusivi Imitary. The taxes imposed, the streets that were | , a licenses i, and all the regulations of commerce ‘and trade, were subject to military anthority. Now the local magistrates and officials chosen by the je, or appointed according to law, ere discbal eir ordi. nary duties. The Police is almost exclu rely mupieipal. All taxes, assessmenta, and charges of every kind are Jevied by civil authorities, and ai! restrictions upon cem- Merce, trade and intercourse, other than those imposed by the laws, have ceased. In the condition of the colored population the same ag og has been observed. The act of emancipation been ‘ified comsticu' by the Sates. The ire of ized the civil rights of freed- Booth Carolina the courts are open to freedmen for the hh Nepean Untiny rel ina wmnoe on ey are com, cases, withou qual je: ood de ‘af to the subject sociation aco severally unmottoled sad oe: to engage in any lawful calling, or to hire for wages, as they may wen ane ia ‘only Just to declare, as the result of that the conduct of the col- tation has danerved ll plan, and Jost te ‘that as freemen they will reliable, worthy and aseful citizens, Conspicuous among the better iep- among the treed that their deliverance from ver- Vitude was the act of God. The situation at the commencement of the Mural year, whieh South aboat the Ist of Jaou- ary, was fall Not obtained porseesion of their lands, Those who were were anxious to acquire lands for them- deaired 'y to live somewhere under the exclusive jarisdicuon of the federal sathority. de found their way to the sea isiands and ¢ abandoned coast plantations, under the impression that Sherman's field order gave these lands alto. gether and exctusively to the freed poopie. They were Not disposed to work for the owners to whom lands had been restored, for they had been encouraged to believe that they could rightfully stay and cultivate the aban- doned lands of which they bad taken possession, To South Carolina the legutation of 1465 failed to quiet the uneasiness and distrust of the freed people as to the security of theiretvil righta, The discussion. in Congress and in the public journals, and the lauguage of many bite agenta, kept alive the bope of receiving grants of Kade trom the government. aun these circumstances eae to make the col- — eaters, migratory Indolent, producin; general discontent and frequent collis.ons ‘telween the two races, Grave disorders becoming more and more frequent, I pabdlished ® comprehensive order, definin the principal relations between the whites aud the fi people, and establishing regulations concerning the oc- oupation of lands, labor, pauperisin, vagrancy, disorderly conduct and crimes, eral Order No. 1, Jan 1, 1866, Department of South Carolina, Appendix 5.) These regulations at least furnished positive and uniform rules for the government of all concerned, and coneributed to a order where all had been unecriainty and con- rai The results were immediate and eal: A i hk ft ii if F i LS 2 | i a Ht ye military commissions for party had been duly convicted, Civil Ee aresid have been re- quired in all cases to obey the proclamation of the Presi- dent, the laws of Congress, and ail orders relating to the. government of this department from compe- tent authority. No disqualification for office has been. imposed except the refusal or nevlect to take and sub- ecribe the ammesty oath last unless the party belonged to one of the classes excepted from amnesty; and im guch’ cases full from the President is re~ quired, Provost courts have beén necessarily continued in operation, with. jurisdiction in cases concerning per- sons of color, until such Decame legaliy compe- tent to sue and testify in the State courts with the same rights atid remedies accorded to other persons. (Gen- eral Order No. 7, Department of south Carolina, March 4, 1866, Appendix 7.) with these ‘Contemporaneous); the muster Toros, d the general ty fa the coldition of affairs fendered it feat and) cable tary ipa ogee 4 ake has eon. adeeted, ‘the gain to the public service and to- the interests of all concerned has been manifest. iy ofement) ‘all the legitimate duties of the by > vimana the neces- commcganiers, who w! Pesmcat 4 the means and the facilities at thelr to enforce their orders. The adminis- trative and economical advantages are obvious enough. The Superior Courts, the local magistracy and the town and municipal authorities have generally shown a pir glee soot todo justice between ‘man and man, and to protection to all good citizens. Unfortu- nately, however, there are exceptions to be made to this Matement, In dome parts of Barnwell, Edgefield, New- , Chester, Laurens and Rich districts (coun- hes), ia South Carolina, afroedman has. little security for life, limb or property, apart from: the ry of a garrison of United States There are other districts in the western part of South Carolina. where the same insecurity exists. The truth is, that in certain localities of these States per- sonal encounters, assaults and difficulties between citizens, often resulting in serious wounds and death, have for years occurred without the serious no- tice or action of the civil authorities; and in those neigh- borhoods where it has heretofore seemed to the popula- tion officious to arrest and punish citizens for assault upon each other, they can hardly be expected to yield. with any Larad to arrests for assaults and outrages upon negroes. It is precisely im these localities that the most impatience 1s displayed at the presence of a heat people who bave long. violated 1 ine mak w that is impunity dislike martial law, or any enforced. In consequence of the vigilance of the garrisons and the punishment wh ch hes followed the tration of outrages upon refugees and imen, when Parties became keown to the military authorities, these crimes are now generally commit! by bands of out- laws and composed of the most reckless and abandoned characters, organized mainly for plunder and pillage. There is reason to believe that organizations of these banditti, more or less numerous, and connected with each other, exist in the localities I have mentioned, and have their accomplices with corresponding organ- izations in the border counties. of Sette tena and North Carolina. bio 4 defy the civil authorities; they overawe the well disposed por : often elude the garrisons, because it {s impossible to obtain from the people in the neighborhood of their depreda- tons or of their resorts ang reliable information about them. Even the colored people generally prefer to evade inquiries rather than Se themselves to certain vengeance as the pony disclosures that would cause the arrest and punishment of one or more of cont His Excellency the Governar of South Carolina, who has endeavored, by means of re- wards privately offered, to effect the arrest of some of J eager in anaes, one or two of them, and they are now in the hands of the civil au- bi ‘yaly leat 8 Te ry of nuctil diguised as blacks, rode in. a party jax, as into the county town of Dee Geet ed to the of ope Amos jesley, a barber, who resided near the Court House; they killed him in the presence of his wife and family, moupted their horses, and..rode off. No arrests were made at the time, and the ringleaders are still at ii although several of them are known to the civil anthorities, Wesley bad ed no one, and seerns to have been an inoffen- sive person, although, perhaps, somewhat indiscreet in speech. Ho had, however, boen warned to leave New- berry, and it appears he intended to move somewhere as soon as be could fiud a euitable for bis calling. The officer nent to investicate the arrested two per- sons as accomplices in the crime, but the evidence was Not deemed sufficient to justify their detention. of Major Everton, aide-de-camp, Appendix 8. peoers te the oy aap ae 4 furnished to his ge @ Governor ith Caraliva, in compliance wi ° pc for his information and action. or three weeks ago a party of men, similar): guised as blacks, went to the residence of Mr. iken, in Barnwell distnet; displaying weapon threatening hie life, they compsiled him to leave the place, never to return uoder pain of death. Mr. Biglow ‘was requested to return by the post commander, aod ‘was as-ured of but declined to ao #0, fearit be could not, without more barard than he wes willing ja the bi warters of a miltary ia United States cavalry, Brevet Major Walker United States Army, the post commander, has exerted bimself with zeal ficient testimony to justit of this trators by as Be reports to patna ey by pk meee bend sus- pected en aa pentees to obtain reliable testimony on the authorities bave taken 20 am informed. (See re; of B. P. Runckie, agent of Freed: of Brevet Major L. war sh of the worst clase of offeaders, and ‘they are tried and punished. Instances of much are too frequent, wwever, of the most reread Deglect to the guilty. ' When arrests are solder and the parties turned over to the civil tribunals, the of the ‘superior bonis only ocote Rice s youn, go anes me Justice ig alow at Dest. It became ‘ i tH : j i = at | E? WG zl TE f ? ; i f j ; | | 1 i E 4 ii! F i i E f 2. i al i iff ct 1866, a) =f | i § i i i i i ; # i i g i i : forced. These orders have the ani the action of tho civil authorities, experally localities notorious for the insecurity of aK, and Property. Since the organization of States In North and South Tacertan teen ir fy, sh ous of admiralty Juriedictinn and all other a 5