The New York Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1867, Page 3

THE GALLOWS? |sfuc nee tor ie Mindnns shown hick» Aniguedacinad ome 1 = RECONSTRUCTION. — | Serena TRIPLE EXECUTION AT. CINCINNATI. THE MURDERERS AND THEIR CRIME, ARREST AND CONVICTION, THEIR CONDUCT UNDER SENTENCE, Extraordinary Bravado on the Scaffold, ae. + de, de. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Ciena, April 80, 1867. ‘This city was the scene of a triple execution to-day, the parties executed being two men named Alexander Avigus and George Goctz and «lad named Case, who were convicted of having murdered James Hughes on the 7th of February last. The crime was one of the ‘most deliberate and cold-bleoded that has ever been com- mitted im this State, The men who expiated their crimes on the scaffold to-day had not the excuse of enmity or excited passions to palliate or explain their action. The victim was an inoffensive old man, an utter stranger to his murderers, as they were to him. The only reason for the commission of the offence was, according to the voluntary confessions of the executed men, that the murderers wanted to “raise money;” and thus, to ille- gally obtain a few dollars (which, however, were not obtained), the wretched criminals imbrued their hands in human blood; an eld man was hurried to the grave, and his family plunged in mourning, while they, the guilty parties, one of whom was a mere boy, were Drought to an ignominious fate, THE CRIME, On Thursday evening, between six and seven o'clock, February 7, 1867, James Hugbes, clerk in the coal office of R. B, Smith & Co., was attacked 1 his buggy by three men on the Lick Run pike, a mile anda half from this city, and killed by being shot through the head and in the body. The purpose of the murder was money, but it ‘was so precipitate that hardly had the fatal shots been fired than the murderers were obliged to flee to escape discovery, and therefore did not wait to plunder their victim. SCENE OF THE MURDER, The road upon which James Bughes was murdered is one of the principal northwestern outlets of tho city, and is not only largely travelled night as well as day by market people, but it is thickly populated, especiaily by Germans. Home returning market and bay wagons, Pedestrians and men on horseback were passing at the time. The lamps were lit in the city and from the ex- tremest verge of the corporation line, passed only a few minutes before by the actors in the tragedy, could be feen the faintly defined locality whefe the glare of gas met the darkness of the raw, cheerless Fepruary evening. On one side of the road stands a grocery and beer shop, kept by s German wamed Metz. Laborers returning from work stopped there to make a frugal purchase and take a glass of ‘Deer. An old buggy and gray horse, driven by a man with a horse-blanket around his knees, appeared in the @irection of the city and came towards the grocery, ‘whence a lad, about thirteen years old, named Leonard Keller, had just issued and was returning towards his father’s house, a quarter of a milo distant. This lad saw the buggy approach, and saw three men, one very tall, the others of medium height, about forty yards in advance of the buggy, and walking in the same direction. ‘The lad now turned off the road into a lane leading to his father’s house, and was near enough to hear some one sbouting, ‘Hello, ho, halt, halt,’ and upon turning to wee the three na closing in towards the buggy, and fire severa! shots at the man sitting in it. Alarmed, he ran to his father, who had also heard the shots, and ‘with him returned to the road, They found a man lying in it, dead and weltering in his blood, which was warm, as % gushed out of the back of his head, Father and son recognized James Hughes, who resided in Green Town- ebip, a few mie farther along the road. -The shouts and the shots had also alarmed the people 1m Metz’s grocery, and they rusbed pel! mel! to the scene. ‘The horee affrighted had fled at the top of bis speed nor ‘stopped til he reached his stable, and the blood-spattered Dugay suggested horrible things to the family of the murdered man. He was nearly sixty years old, a quict, inoffensive, industrious man, with a good wife and four @r five children, men and women grown. ‘THE INVESMGATION. ‘The coal office of R. B. Smith & Co., on Central ave- mue, remained closed till a late hour the day next suc- ©eeding the murder. The hangers-on, tattered coal heavers, shovet in hand, and the three or four express ‘wagon drivers who make their living by banding the coal purchased daily from the firm, wondered why Hughes hhad not come to-day. ‘‘He never misses; he’s as regu- Jar as clock work,” they ail said and they sat around the Office door till one of the proprietors came with a troubled face and told them that ‘Hughes is dead— murdered, last night for his money, but he had none, and never carried the money of the office home. It was always banked and put in the safe.” An inquest was held by the coroner, but no lew was found to the murder. The three men, one of them very tall, seen by the boy Keller and « German named Gelhaus, who saw them at the toligate after the murder, and who testified ‘that one of them was a mere lad, was all that was ascer- tained over and above the main fart that Hughes’ bleed. Kentucky. Several years ago it hada City Marshal, o heavy set, active, shrewd fellow, a zealous democrat, mwamed Clinton Butta, The citizens liked him and kept im in office, He hated “abolitionists,” and was super. 4 e H Fg : i H Tey oie i : I il a3 EH zit a ti # 4 j i I i : : i : 4 i 1th i eat i NEW ‘YORK “HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY T, 1867—TRIPLE SHEET: 3 ey muddled as to the political issues | or strife between us and our former masters; we know from the moment they ‘taken into custody up to their execution. before them, if “hear all sides and thea »” | that our success in measure depends upon thi The substance of the confession was that Case metGoetz | Auigue fectin’ tad’ ther dures ana Taughingly, pecorting tthe eceepted manta, ae Advice and direction of the white man; therefore’ we ane in Covington, where all the parties concerned reside, ‘and bad to be restrained for decency’s sake, — be too many sides to allow of easy choice, General | kind and just treatment from our white friends, and wo and invited ‘him to drink, They were joined by Aleck Smmeneg BURG BRAVADO, “ony ~ A SENATOR WILSON’S SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN Wilson, who is e reasonable republican, rather than | pledge to them our confidence and our best efforts for Aulgus, and Goets proposed that Case should betray Bill | 7,5 ‘ * | either radical or conservative, is preaching republican- | our common Pregl Prosperity and happiness, Hays, whore residence in Cincinnati Case knew, so they | ,, Topes were adjusted. Said Goetz just then: jem through the Sonth as it is generally accepted Resolved, we ask our white fellow citizens, in might get the reward offered for his arrest con | coy. iP, boys; lot's die like men. ° Said Aul SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. and at the North, and telis the reat kindness, to aid us by instructing us im ail of the iced ambiguous deat rae money, ad purchased jam two o'iock, "in inte for the trait" "Case stooped ee caret | Mralcory if her torouaries i a talked yal country if reconstruct ition, for jwe ‘pistols and Cn tape pa no ‘a'and buted = as he Eee and looked up, as if to jadge Aonstan Ws tyes om in North Ta. | Stevens ‘and the clstructionias tisifee ible aad deny | know no other, and wish to live and die in this the lang them. He then proposed drinks and a walk, and took ‘ ww much, @ fall he would -- ve, and ag} ma— ipeec' the Colored People— the truth of the Senator’s statements, and it is rej of our fathers, the lead to the Brighton House, the west end hotel for ote did so he laughed the same chuckling eo difference of the White Men—The Colored | that Representatives Kelley and Butler are to be sent cattle and dealers, ‘There the party had supper, | {hat bad al horrified those who saw and heard | Men Thoroughly Organized, d&c. South expressly to counteract the influence of our Sena- Scarcity in Georgia. Shieh Goots paid for, id faen Whey Series Ont 00 Whe. over in Nowttore? recomrtag ba: the dy he Ratmian, N. €., aprit 90, 1867, | tor and Keep the negroes and radical Unioniats up to the | Accounts from the interior of Georgia stato that not only'a ruse per ie eur ‘suspicion of ‘heir move | Said Case, seaman Up, “Farewell, good bye, all af | Senator Wilson arrived here yosterday. Ho was met | Dont or oxtobeia and. more general disfrancbise- | one planter in ten has corn and meal to carry him te, ing indefinite was proposed about ng for you, T am not afraid to die.” Said Aulgus again, | at the railroad depot by General Miles, Assistant Com- beyond the first of July. At least one-half of them have ¢ first tat came along, to which Auigus rep eer TR ea ening, to Jeane 308 Goetz, | missioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau, the officers of the VIRGINI not a month’s supply, and very many are eitber about (ae WOM ee Setar ear ake ich botee 7 08 Sma DROP. Eighth infantry, and Mr, Holden, late Provisional Gov- oxbausting their stores or have done so, and in despair it does not matter who.” They met a boy on the road White capa were then drawn over their arms } ernor. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. discharged their hands and turned out their stock to (Keller), and when the man in the drove up the Pica te anes fait “Tne fall-was seven feet and ine | A crowd of two or three hundred colored people were pani ‘ graze, The money isnot in the country to buy food, oe eae pT al hie 3 it (a Bee pan necks of all three were broken. The bodies hung | assembled to greet bim, and they followed him, with | The Richmond Street Car Dimiculty Adjuste and crops cannot be made without it. horse and bugey, T think; Aulgus kept gotting twenty-ive mimutes, were then cut down and coffined, | gheers and music, te the Yarborough House, There he Colered People to Ride in the Vehicles—in- Dehind, and George a no thought Alok as ia snd given to ends who had ‘earsen realy outside | Tr eeentod to thom by ar, Helden, and be maiea| ‘“éuetlous to Registrars, | | | | he Natural Allies of the Colored Race tn Aleck fan up after a wi ana there was a man ee, jcaMOND, Va, . * the South. in a buggy coming hebind us, and that this was as good short speech from the balcony, in which he said he had | yao stryos car difficulty has been at last settled, 90 far , (From the Atlanta (Ga.) Intelligencer.) atimeasany. 1 said “No, It is too carly,” The boy ASHINGTON Feooived kind attentions from all classes in’ North Caro | a5 granting permission for colored people to ride. Mr, | . The titural allies of the colored race in she south are bing —] ene two hundi oer mand us, going into s Moa; that they must all learn tobe friends again, and | Wor ine Prcsutsak jist sles divectarn of pe Heo those mpaong whom n they. have lived, sad spears whom house; George iy fy - er lives have on spent from manhood. Before ‘ that there was nothing now to quarrel about. Homanity, duty, rrr ty each poy that ask bim to Jet us ride, and that while th Knocked iin in the on, Aleck and caught the horse, The man éaid, ‘What are yuo ing my horse for?’ and Gennge nese “Don't rum over a man.’’ The man replied, “I didn’t think you were so near.” bad hold the horse’s head, and said, ‘‘Aleck, go for him.” The man said that he had no money, and com- menoed shouting forthe le inthe house. When he ‘saw oar pistols he said he di Case ipa epg trae to relate how they to the south, until hoe Contipodecod iri that finally led them to the covered bri across Mill Creek, near the Ohio; how they went to the Hamilton and Dayton depot and se; going one way to pass the night with a woman and to arrange to prove an alibi, and Aleck and himself to the corner of Third and Vine, and thence across the river to their homea On Vine street they met five or six policemen who looked hard at them but did not say a word. Aleck said he was going to see his girl. At nine or ten the next morning the three met near the A had his moustache cut between ‘ifth. Case first knew of the caeh of Hughes by reading an account of the affair in a When on the day three wing all Case confessed his crime, supposing that the others had already told something about it. ~ Goetz and Aulgus were brought into the prison office after Case's conteasion, but they stoutly denied all knowledge of the affair, aud pretended to have only a passing acquaintance with Case. In their presence Case refused to answer any question, and stated afterwards that he was afraid for his life of those men should he ineur their Afver the committment by the Police Judge of the murderers to jaiiomthe cuarge of murder in the first degree, which is not bailable, Aulgus sent for the Cnief of Police and made a fall confession of his guilt, con- firming in every particular the statement of Case as to the murder james Hughes, In a few days afterwards Goetz, the ringleader and plotter of the crime, acknow- ledged that be held the norss’s head while the others shot Hughes in the buggy. This admission he made in the hope that pardon might be offered bim for turning ‘State’s evidence, TRIAL, CONVICTION AND CONDEMNATION. Public opinion was formed atonce and there appeared but one desire, the immediate trial aud punishment of ‘tbe murderers. Their confessions of guilt were made separately, and within the week of their arrest, neither knowing that the otuer had confessed. Thete Facial conducted mainly on the confessions, was which‘by the keeaness of the legal gentlemen on the of the ition were backed up with evideuce Common Pleas sepatately, Case. Arve -atigus second, mon Pleas se; ulgus Gootz thied, The etidenée was ellie” in each caso, the facts the same, and the contessions were admitted as evidence against them. The trials concluded, the cul. fotng were sentenced to be hanged on Tuesday, Apni the , 1867. Why Tuesday was snbstituied by the Court for the traditional hangman's day—Friday—does not ap- pear. PRRSONNEL OF THR MURDERERS. . As before intimated, Samuel Case was effeminate innocent looking. He had led a loose sort of life, whi commenced ou the throwing oif of the wholesome res- ‘traint of home. He bad been punished frequently in Covington for y offences, but was mercifully treated because of ie tange appearance. In pi living 19 Louisville, Ky., and served two discharged for dieablity.” Wo could read Eglah sti for ity. coul a German very well. Ho was about dive feet seven. His brow was low, cheek bone high, mouth coarse, eyes smal! and bluish, temperament phlegmatic. He dreaded his fate, was very well behaved in jail and drooped under au appareat immovable melancholy. George Goetz was a Franco-German, unmarned, rather good looking, intelligent, and “cool”? as a cucumber. He ‘was born near strasburg. Marc! landing at New Oricans, whence be came to Covington. Ky., a few months afterwards and had resided there ev er since, He learned the machine business and served luring the war in the Fifth Obio infantry. He cursed “women and dria! as the cause of his crime, and said, “I bed just drink enough in me that night to do such a job.” When urged to make his peace with God he replied in our hearing, “Ob, I don’t care a damn for that; I don’t believe in bell, anyhow.’’ He wrote on a slip of paper, in French and English, ‘Visitors to see Goetz are requested to bring i i Fa f Hb ft i ib i i i | i 33 8g F & & art : i i Bis 2Ht ti il f i ! é iH 392 E i & i z* 14 , Tr Het he gifilcse ; Ht er i i > Hite ena! id dhtin fuel : i? ils, i # iH m. Prd i i; FE ‘Wasttinctos, April 30, 1867, The Cabinet in Council. The Cabinet session to-day was of short duration, being only one hour in length, All she members were present excepting Secretaries Stanton and Browning. ‘ Return of Secretary Seward. Secretary Seward arrived this morning, and was in at- tendance at a Cabinet meeting to-day. Illness of Secretary Stanton. Secretary Stanton has been confined to bis house for two days from the effects of a severe cold. Condition of Secretary Browning. ‘There was very little change in the condition of Secre- tary Browning’s health this morning, though his physi- cians pronounce him out of danger, Perquisites and Pickings of a Treasury Officer. In these despatches of last Sunday allusion was made to an alleged evasion of the law prohibiting officers of the government from receiving compensation for ser- vices rendered in any case where the government might bea party. The officer alluded to occupies a high posi- tion under the Secretary of the Treasury, and his friends claim that no violation of the law has been committed. 1 may as well state that the party alluded to is Register Colby, who, though receiving a salary of $3,000 per an- num from the government, is employed by the banks to act as their agent in counting the bonds deposited in the Treasury. The National Currency act requires that bonds deposited in the Treasury shall at stated periods be counted in the presence of an officer of the govern- ment and agents of the banks. Mr. Colby acts as this agent for the banks, and realizes, it is alleged, a hand- some sum thereby. His fricnds assert that, this is done with the knowledge of Secretary McCulloch and Solicitor Jordan, and that the statute, in the opinion of those high officials, does not apply to such an agency at all, but merely forbids the prosecuting or defending of claims whore the government isa party. Mr. Jordan, they say, has written an opinion sustaining this view. Notwithstanding this, however, it should be added that the language of the statute is very sweeping, distinctly mentioning any proceeding, contract, ciaim, contro- versy, charge, accusation, arrest or other matter or thing in which the United States is a party. The Japanese Commissioners. No official ceremonies have yct transpired in con- nection with the visit of the Japanese Commiesioners, but they will to-morrow have an interview with the Secretary of State, when their credentials will be sub- mitted and a time fixed for their formal introduction to the President, which will not be characterized in any manner beyond the usual official proceedings with which the diplomatic representation of any civihzed government is presented to the President of this republic, This, it is considered, is not only essential to our own self-respect, but is also more in direct accordance with the proprieties of official conduct between the represen- tates of foreign Powers and our own nation. Important Circular ‘pe the Internal Revenue Mee. A circular bas been issued from the office of Internal Revenue concerning the tax of ten per cent op the notes of any town, city or municipal corporation, which {s as follows :— The second enacts:—‘ That section of ,the act of March 26, 1867, + every national banking association, State bank or banker or association shall pay a tax of ten per centum on the amount of notes of any town or muni- cipal corporation paid out by them after the ‘Ist day of May, 1867, to be collected in the and manner in which the tax on the netes of State banks is collected.” It, is understood that there is a large amount of these notes in circulation, particularly in the Southern States, and the attention of revenue officers is hereby called to the foregoing sec- tion, Assessors will instruct their assistants to make assessments for said tax against any national banking , State bank, banker or association which te ie the notes in question, after the first day of May, 1867. Internal Revenue Receipts. The receipts from internal revenue to-day were slightly over $400,500. Military Headquarters in Florida. Col. Sprague, at St. Augustine, Fla, petitioned Gen, Pope to continue the military headquarters at that point during the summer months, and the General granted the petition, Headquarters for the State will, therefore, re- main during the summer at a remote town, considerably removed from the capital, and with which there is no telegraphic communication, The Claims ef Colored Soldiers. Inquiries have been made at the Paymaster General's office in reference to the circular from that office dated April 3, 1967, calling the attention of paymasters to the provisions of section one of the joint resolution of March 29, 1867, and directing that checks hereafter issued by paymasters in settiement of claims of colored soldiers, represented by agents or attorneys, now residing im any State wherein in the year 1860 slavery was recog- nized shall be made payable to the order of the Commis- sioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, The Paymaster-Gen- eral’s office has replied that the law does not refer to Assistant Commissioners of the Freedmen's Bureau, but to the Commissioner of the Bureau in Washington. The Jaw also includes colored sailors and marines as well as soldiers; but the rule above quoted applies only to claims paid by the Pay Department, and to such checks and Treasury certificates as are iasued in payment of claims of colored men im service presented through at- torneys and claim agents. Auditor's certificates which do not bear upon them ‘Payable to the order of the Com- missioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau’’—that is those is- sued prior to the date of the joint resolution, will be paid as heretofore, whether presented by the claimant or his attorney, but hereafter all presented through attorneys Or agents will bear the above order. The Union Pacific Railroad. ‘The Central branch of the Union Pacific Railroad Com- pany having completed as a first class railroad twenty additional miles of its railroad in Kansas, the same has deen accepted, and the President has directed the Secre- taries of the Treasury and Interior to issue to the com- pany the bonds and patents for the lands to which it has become entitled. Lighthouse Appointment. Commodore Wm. H. Gardner has been appointed light- house inspector for the Fourth district, which has its headquarters at Philadelphia, Ald for the Suffering South. A third remittance, of $4,757 in gold, has just been received from California, by the Southern Famine Re: Nef Association, James M. Brown, Treasurer, making in all to date {rom the Pacific const $46,757 n gold, or over $00,000 in currency. The ber of letters received from the South by the Commissioner is very large, and show beyond question that the suffering continues in- tense, and must increase asthe season advances until the time of harvesting. pee SUSPENSION OF A ROCHESTER BANKING HOUSE. Rocuseraa, N. Y., April 30, 1967. Allis — & Co. private bankers “of this city, us Jord ’ steco assignment, Their liabili- COUNTERFEIT FRACTIONAL cunneNCY, —* a soul nett gee eran Poten 1 excelioat, The adverse is ai iy bie one fotes are an eighth of an inch narrower than the genuine, ANOTHER ALLEGED PARTICIPANT IM THE BOSTON FRAUDS. Ph Ap M3 the recent frauds far 2 implicated in Senator Wilson also spoke in the evening to a large gathering at the African echool house. There were some officers and white citizens present. The colored people ‘Were more demonstrative than they had shown them- selves elsewhere, They cheered many of his sentiments and responded enthusiastically to his appeal to vote for republican principles, He was followed by two colored men. One of them is an aspiring youth named Harris, who expects to repre- sent the District in Congress, The other is a respectable preacher named Brodie, Harris declared himself proud of his color, He said that the blacks did not want to get any closer socially to the whites, The motley crowd before him indicated they had been too close alredly, (Laughter.) Senator Wilson spoke at noon to-day in front of the hotel. Here again the great majority of his hearers were colored. In fact, everywhere he has spoken the white citizens have kept aloof, as if they had no con- cern in the matter. The general complexion of the audiences is as if the tour were being made through Jamaicaor Hayti. Very few, if any, whites have been converted to republicanism, They are polite, but in- different. The blacks are thoroughly organized, and will ail vote on the republican side. That may drive the Southern whites to combine on a white man’s party. Senator Wilson speeks in Wilmington to-morrow. Comments of the Southern Press on Senator Wilson’s Speeches. [From the Augusta (@a.} Chronicte.} ‘The opening of the Southern political campaign by the honorable Senator from the hub of the Universe has been the signal for a revival of some of the usual ac- companiments of party contest as wellas the occasion for. developing new contrivances of recent origin, It is not to be expected that there can be any very great amount of political excitement when want and famine threatens all classes throughout the land. If the Senator had brought a few thousand dollars and announced free barbecues large and enthusiastic audiences would have undoubtedly greeted him, no matter on which ‘side he chose to speak. Nevertheless the speech has been the signal for general meetings and special meetings. club meetings and coun- ctl meetings, aud league meetings and society meetings are called, ‘and every sort of political machinery is being set in motion, Natnes begin to change their sig- nificance, * At a meeting of a “league or section” within the eub- district of Georgia, afier due acknowledgment was made forthe gratifying intelligence of reinforcement dy funds in the paymaster’s department, the initial Rs of the Massachusetts Senator was read and eived with rapturous applause. A single para- , however, caused Necusion, Tho Senator contessed,' briefly and sententiously, but ithout reserve or qualilication, that political pawer was now located west of the Ali mountair That the destiny which would rule the future of tl ‘He was not or‘a undis, not from the shores of the stormy Auantic, but a prairie born giant {rom toward the setting sup, created @ profound sensation. There were no boi 8 demonstrations which might discioae posi- tlopiand pu Discipline was admirably maifitained in face ol nemy. hd * Ld bd Westward the star of em pire holds its way, and power and sway will come fromthe West. The modern fi generation and emigracion—so will. Mr, Wilson is right. The control of the future is in the West—west of the Blue Ridge, The vast basin which reaches from the base of the Alleghany to the base of the Rocky Mountains is the seat of supreme power, and that power is about to control. ‘The power which is derived by political division of this area an- ter but little the powor of the vast Caucasian tide which sweops irresistibly to fill it. Other influences, whether established or to be acquired, are ephemeral, and will disappear in ripples upon its waves, ‘We thank Mr. Wilson for the friendly counsel which he gave in behalf of kind feeling and harmony between tho rites in the South; but we would thank him still mope, if, with a spirit of frankness and in all candor, be had explained this phase of the political situation fully and clearly and pointedly for the apprehension of the ki ux From the New Orieans Picayune.) iow ne. Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, has commenced h is tour South, He has been speaking at Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia, aad will be along here in due course of travel, before the apprehension of the sup- sickly season im the Southern States shall turn bim The programme of this canvass was arranged in @ caucus of the radical members at Washington. sums were ra‘sed to pay the expenses of trave!!ing orators, and for the circulation of speeches and papers in the interest of the extreme doctrines which are main- tained by the radical party. These have Ji:tle relation to the subject of reconstrac- tion and Union. They concern the measures of public ‘and private policy for which these pilgrims crave the administration of government, Union and reconstruction have ceased to be direct or laments for securing political domination for a party which finds itself, or fears to find itself, los- ing its hold on power with the existing constituencies of the nation, It is using accidental authority to make a new nation which it will have a better chance of gov- erning, upon new ideas, than it can have of governing the nation as it was, on the old principles and ideas, ‘that it seems to fear are still im the ascendant among the actual majority, Senator sherman, of Ohio, in a tate speeeh, ex- pressed his belief that in @ few years the south would be the main support of the radical policy. The meaning of the prophecy is, that the re- action in the North will throw the republicans of the extreme cast into minority there; but it will be preserved in power by the accession of the votes which are to be manufactured in the South by the briga- dier process, Fifteen or twenty Senators brought into the Senate trom the radical minorities which the Mili- tary dill is meant to establish in tue South, will vent the government from passing out of the hands of those who now control Congress for many years after popular reaction has thrown them into a minority in tue Union. Seventy-six electoral votes made for the radical party in the south anght save them from overthrow in the North. ‘Tue reconstrucuon of the South under the Military bill 1s, therefore, urged not as & measure of union OF peace, but a means for creating ‘the agency by which a political party can keep the cun- trol of public affairs, which they feel to be sili out of their hands, Mr. Wilson’s menaces of what will fol- low if the South snall not accept this bill are absurd, tor they must submit; and futile if they are relieved by the Sq ¢ Court from the of submission, He voters, whom he gathers together tor the purpose of binding them to the —— of party measures do not understand, by stimulating their passions and ja- dices, He is on a recruiting tour to find substitutes in ad meee voters at the Herth, whom awakened roteltigence patriousm are drawing off from radvoal fection. si (From the Wilmington (N. C.) Journal.) Such interested and paid pligrime as Mr. Wiison must not be allowed to accomplish their ends without s proper effort on our part to thwart them. We can and we must defeat the evil machinations of these men. al ted makes Hee wore Preserving is at stake, and no tee! lelicacy of ordinary reserve must stand Between as and our ‘auty. Senator Wilson on be and should be fully and ably replied to, His and nis partiagnus’ foul mouth slander of our their merciless politi- cal persecutions, their malicious and cowardly denuncia- tions since, overpowered exhausted, wo su: to the brave men who the Federal should be exposed and denounced. The pat- riotism of politicians, wl like timid hares from battle fields, having most valiantly refused to confirm the appointment of such soldiers as Slocum and Blair to oficial positions under the whose honor and glory they had sustained uy @ hundred fields, canvassing the South for pay, would be rich food for our public speakers, of wi elsewhere, they will avail themselves, json and Thad Stevens—Republi- ing Under the Crack of Thad’s [From the Boston Journal.} THE STRVENS DICTATION, Thaddeus Stevens acts Much like a discarded dic- tator in the dumps. By hi he has for some time been the nominal Header" of tna ues, t happened to follow. This my % the sweetest, 3 ’ letter, and persons. or Wi Bolt! i rr Hi Whip. ganization, There , for was a speech that flatter the country ', Stevens’ eiaborate ours favor of confecatioa. Mt [From the Springfield (Mase,) Republican. , 2 Cait, $0 PORSIOY amp eases 1 people Cyr ey ed sions loyal take ‘calrace salt the the mest | | pany, waited, by request, on General Schofield to day, to interchange views in reference to an amicable settie- ment of the trouble; and, after many suggestions, it ‘was ultimately agreed by the company to throw the cars open to the public, irrespective of color, The General simply expressed his opinion that public vebicles ought to be thus thrown open, The company intended some time ago to adopt this very same course, but the ques- tion as to whether the experiment would pay being a doubtful one, influenced them up to this time in retain- ing things as they are, According to the arrangement which has been determined on, four cars will be open to the general public, whites and blacks alike, and two other cars, comprising the entire number on the line, will be appropriated exclusively for ladies and children, The company re- serve the right to say who are ladies—a clause in the ar- rangement which evidently aims at excluding colored females, This will be productive of another agitation. It is believed all over town this evening that this step will be the ruin of the car concern, To-morrow the blacks are expected to indulge their newly fledged privi- lege in large numbers, Tho whites protest they would rather walk the length of the line than ride with the “niggers,” That is the general feeling; but it is quite possible it may undergo some modification under the necessity of avoiding much pedestrianism i this warm weather. The cars for the ladies will be designated by a Dall raised above the level of the roof. The conductors re- ceived instructions this evening to treat blacks and whites with the same courtesy, to endeavor as much as possible to seat the colored folks in the forward part of the car, and to observe that passengers who enter are at least cleanly in person and attire, There is @ prevailing impression that quite a number of omployés will quit their employment on the line in consequence of this measure. Some of the conductors ‘are men who were once wealthy, but were reduced to daily labor by the fortunes of war. Instructions from General Schofield to the registrars of districta, expected to be issued ina day or two, will require three lists to be made of voters classified under the Military bill. The first list will comprise those whose right to vote is undisputed; the second, those whose right has been challenged but decidea affirmatively; the third, those to whom the decision has been ad- verse. In the last two lists the grounds of the decision in each case will be noted for review at headquarters in Richmond, Acknowledging the Logic of Events, Robert W. Hughes, of Abingdon, Va., one of the most polished writers of the South, once a prominent seces- sionist, and editor of the Richmond Zzaminer during the war, declares himself on the present political post- tion in these words:— T avow a radical change of opinion on many leading points of politics, More especially am I wearied of the practice which the South has pursued since the begin- ning of this great and eventful controversy, of sacri- ticing attainable good, attainable right, attainabie justice, for « good, a right, a justice for the most part abstract, intangible and of doubtful value, ** Justice to the Colored Man.” ‘The Chariottesville (Va.) Chronick, speaking of the exclusion of colored people from the street cars, saya:— ‘We regard it as all wrong, and we hope no such ridiculous, faoues ‘will be made in the Soath ‘There are four millions of colored people in the South, and the attempt to keep them out of the public —— is a8 8 an attempt to divide a stream in ty middle, You can’t do it, ‘e are for justice to the colered men, although we fear sometimes that acitators among them will not allow them to remain satisfied with reason and Justice. But by all means givo them justice, and if they are not satisfied then they must take the consequences, NORTH CAROLINA. Practical Reconstruction In the South. The Macon (Ga) Journal Messenger appeals to the Northern capitaliste to avail themselves of the oppor- tunity for investment afforded by the South. It is des- cribed as ‘a field in which an Astor might play the part of @ Mecsnas and make his name immortal.’’ @ plea ig properly put on business grounds. The planters need money ; their operations are crippled and retarded by the want of it. To invest tere, then, whether by way of loan or ptherwise, will be to bring large areas of now neglected land into cultivation, and to facill- tate the adjustment of relations between employ- er and employed. tho investment will pay ‘the investor handsomely, ‘As a mere material in- terest and adventure,” the Macon journalist truly says, “it is most inviting.” The chances of large returns are great, while the risk of loss is scarcely even nominal, The time is not distant, we hope, when our enterprising capitalists will identify themselves with the promotion or Southern prosperity. Portrait of the Confiscationista, ‘The Raleigh Sentinel, noticing the fact that at a radi- cal meeting in Randolph county, North Carolina, Con- gress was especiaily appealed to'to pass the ‘Stevens’ Contiseation bill, makes the following remarks, which are applicable in other localities than that’ of the old North State:— If we were called upon to spot one of these confisca- tiontyts_in North Carolia, we should describe him thus:—Ho was either an original secessionist or a vio- levt war man in tbe start. He didn’t go into the fight himself, but he urged others to go. Ho abused ‘an- kees at every cross roads from mornit , and swore that he would never = up, a8 long as he could get anybody else to fight for him! ' He boasted of what he had done for the ‘‘vrave boys’? in the field, aud how much he had contributed to the “sacred canee.” He would leave the country rather than ever submit to live again under the “cursed old gridiron.’ But when he saw that defeat and disaster were inpending, he whipped around, vowed that he had always been a friend to the Union, perhaps joined the “Red Strings,” and, to cover up his own treachery, was as blatant fa his’ abuse of rebeis as he had ever been of Yankees. General Pope’s Order te the Southern Ob. structioniste, General Orders, No. 10, from headquarters, Third Mili. tary district, commanded by Major General Pope, dated the 23d inst., republishes the following paragraph from General Orders, No. 1:— It is clearly to be understood, however, that the civil officers thus retaiued in office shail confine themsolves strictly to the performance of their official duties, and whilet holding their offices they shali not use taking an touive part in reconstructing heir Slate an srnaent Snder @ act of Congress. to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel and the act supplementary thereto, ‘The order then directa that the words, “‘ehall not use any influence whatever,” shall be interpreted in their ‘widest sense, and held to mean advice, verbal or written, given to individuals, committees or the public. All officers in the military district are directed, and citizens are requested, to give immediate information of any in- fraction of this order; and, to prevent misunderstanding on the subject, itis distinctly announced that any civil official, State or municipal, within this distriet, who violates the above order will be deposed from his office and heid accountable in such other manner as the nature of the case demands, Edacation of Colo People in Georgia. From Richmond to-night I learn that the Committee on Education from the Grand Jury of Glynn county, Georgia, recommend appropriations for edueational pur- pones to be extended slike to all classes of people, not to the whites alone, and that the colored people of -he county should share equally and impartially, without discrimination, in all the benefits of the distribution of the funds now in the treasury raised or horeafier to be raised for the purpose of education, Colored Meeting in Stewart County. Georgia. A meeting was held recently in stewart county, Georma, composed exclusively of colored men, presided over by the Rev, George Bull, colored Baptist minister, who called on his bearers to enter on the discharge of the duties which freedom had imposed on them with moderation and mutual forbearance, and to commence iti the outset by cultivating foelings of the utmost good will towards their white brethren. The following com. mendabdie resolutions were adopted — Resolved. That there should bo no cause of difference every effort on the part of the white man to ameliorate the condition of the freedmen and freedwomen, to educate and instill into their minds correct principles, to promote their welfare by encouraging them to indus- trial pursuits, should be made, does not come up to this great humane work who seeks only the freedman’s vote; who, clatming to be their special advocate, flatters, that he may advance his own rivate ends, Intelligent freedmen will not be deceived y such, nor will the credulous among them long remam deceived, if the Southern white man will only perform his duty to the colored race, upon whom freedom has so recently been conferred, and upon whom the right of sufrage has also been conferred. The white map, who, from interested motives, seeks only to make a politician of the black man, and that for the purpose of securing his vote, or to make a party man of him, for the pur- pose of securing the success of a party, is his enemy, and not his friend. We warn our colored friends against all such, and we appeal to those of our own race who witness such efforts not to stand idiy by without making an effort to counter- actthem. Inthe future the white and the black men of the South must live together with relations different from those of the past. The one must possess the confi- dence of the other, With civil and political rights the game; with interests that do not -clash; why should there be strife? The white man who would provoke it ie no friend to either bis or the colored race, but an enemy to each, whom all should denounce, and against whose pernitious cotnsels we warn our colored friends. ALABAN Education and Morality in Alnbama. Henry Watson, a colored man, of Union Spring, Ala- bama, has started a school for freedmen on his own re- sponsibility, and it is well attended by pupils, who make good progress. Tho frecdmen of that town, being an- noyed and outraged by the conduct of some lewd women of their own color, organized @ patrol to compel all colored women found on the streets after ten o'clock at night to go home. In this they have the encouragement of the Town Council, > Radical Progress in Alabama—Indignati the ** Conservatives.” {From the Montgomery Mail.} “BLUSR, BLUSH, THOU LUMP OF FOUL DB¥FORMITY |”? e party which is springing up in Alabama for the of giving the State to the black republican party e next Presidential election are appealing to the people to denounce our dead heroes as criminals. They ask us to join with them in damning to the latest pos- terity th emory of our sons and fatuers, who, at the cali of the State, laid down therr lives in a fruitless endeaver to avert the calamities which ha befallen us, They are Jinking arms, with the party which advocated the soourging of our Jand with fire and blood, the burning of our peaceful hot ; the outraging of the sanctity of the fireside and in the name of law, of violating and contin- uing to violate, the Constitution of the United States, There was a party at the North which protested the horrors of Black Republican warfare. That pariy desired to suppress the revolution and at the same time respect the rights of the people under the law. That party ts to-day battling manfully and successfully against the violence of a lawless Congress. Yet we Southern men protesting against their bags hay PV ctarsein | to rush into the embrace of er party whose march through the Southern States was marked by sacked cities, deso- jated homes, starving matrons and weeping virgins, ‘We could have endured to seo these violators of all law, human and divine, strike us to the earth as conquerors and plant the foot upon our neck; but how can we en- dure to hear them ssking for our suffrages—asking us vo legatize tyrannical measures, which can never become jaw without our voluntary approval? How eam we hear, without covermg the face for shame, men of our own blood asking us to reward with an approving smile those whose souls are stained with the infamies of mili- tary Jaw and whose bands are red with our blood? What shai! we say when we are asked by miserabls sycophants to sell our votes tv prop the waning fortunes. of the radicals? of ‘Th pur, at tl LOUISIANA. ‘SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Relief for the Sufferi: ie Work on the Roman Crevasse Suspended, &e., &e. ‘New Onxans, La, April 25, 1867. General Mower, Assistant Commissioner of the Freed- men’s Bureau has recetved instructions from Wasbongton to issue rations to destitate persons in this State through his agents in the different parishes. He has also received contributions from the North to ald the sufferers. The General calls the attention of railroad and steamboat men to these facts and, in a circular issued to the papers of this city, “requests those who may be willing to favor the suffering and destitute by conveying the bounty of the government to them free of charge, to be kina enough to send written notice to that effect” to his headquarters, ‘Yesterday orders were sent to suspend further work upon the Roman Crevasse in consequence of the failure on the part of the Board of Levee Commissioners to raise mongy for the purchase of materials and payment for the rers, the committee of planters from parish of St, James also failed to raise money from the banks for this purpose and have returned home, It is estimated that the failure to close this crevasse will cause the toss of over $1,000,000, On and after the lst of May next two trains will leave this city daily for Washington and New York by the Great Southern Mail Route, ry T. Ellett, Judge of urt of Mississippi. and one of he has published @ letter on the Uon of public affairs in the South, in answerto one of inquiry addressed to him, It is characterized by the abuity and logic which distinguwh all bis tions, = abounds with RO gg Lae to the people our State, Not approving, as none of our do—but decidediy disapproving—the Mili- tary bill © regards reconstruction in some form or other under them as a foregone conclusion, and demon- strates that it isthe imperative duty of every citizen ‘who is not disfranchised to vow, To quote his own lan- i ! i guage :— ‘It was always one of the citizen entitled to a vote to dono; and it is doubly his te, ees utrage smn 2 ony oe . uestion is scription, among other thin, come ap. cal that are rampast in Tennessee and Missouri will be represented.’’ On the subject of negro suffrage, he suggesta that “after ali, objectionable a it ie, it may prove to be by mo means an intolerable evil. All bth 4 diminish in magnitude and terror as we Cy grapple with them. So it will probably be with this,” He on a taaes of patriotic wale men to enlightes and instract patientiy and &! the new ou for the responsibilities which have devolved upon , and to evince a willingness to accord te them ail the political, and civit rights to the laws entitle them, stating with truvh that ‘it not the have to fear, but unprincipled white men Waeertee tabeeeek Tes cree we can foe. influence, (he effec- date ophnut 8s en has serious doubts that the radicals will keep faith int hich the most sanguine of ‘can, Got be enitroly sails ied, “Like everything dee in the futu 19 result is uncertain. But we have reason to hope the conservative republicans of the Sherman school, with the aid of their ailies from Cf to control the ee destinies of cous-