The New York Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1868, Page 3

TENNESSEE. Proclamation of Governor Brownlow Call- ing Out the Loyal Militia. The Depredations of the Ku Klux Klan to be Put Down by Force. Federal Troops on Their Way to Nashville. TALKS WITH THE PLANTERS. Proclamation ef Governor Brownlow—Call fer the State Guard to Put Down Ma- waders. bi NASHVILLE, Sept, 16, 1868. The Banner received by telegraph from Knoxville to-day a proclamation by Governor Brownlow. It @eciares that there are armed bands of secret con- Spirators against the State, who have been commit- ting and continue to commit outrages on inoffensive ettizens; recites the act of the Legislature giving hin the power to call out the militia, and says:— In pursuance of this act I cali upon the good, loyal and patriotic white and colored people of every county in the State to proceed without delay and raise companies of loyal, able bodied men and report the same to me at Nashville, Whether any of the companies, white or colored, 80 organized will be actually called into tne fleld will depend entirely wpon the conduct of the people themselves in he several counties. I earnestly hope that there will be no occasion to call out these troops, but that the efforts of all citizens to pre- serve and maltntain peace will succeed, and thus obviate the necessity of this stern resort. But if, unhappily, the better counsels do not prevail and order is not restored, and | aim compeiled to put down armed marauders by force, I propose to meet them with such numbers and in such a manner as the exigency shall demand, whatever may be the eonsequences. I will not be deterred from the dis- eharge of my duty herein by threats of violence from Febel speakers or rebel newspapers, nor by aby other means of intimidation. ‘The Governor adds:—He prefers that these troops shall be raised in East Tennessee, and therefore does Rot limit the number of companies in any county. I reference to the promise of federal troops to keep peace he says:—‘‘Should the Department Com- mander be furnished with sufficient force to keep order I will cheerfully co-operate with him, in order that the State Guards may not be called into service? Federal Troops En Route for Tennessee. LYNCHBURG, dept, 16, 1868, ‘The Pifth cavalry, United States regulars, under command of Colonel W. B. Royall, passed through Lynchburg, Va., this morning, on @ special twain, enroute for Nashville, Tenn. A Tour Through the Banner County of the Ku Klax Kian—A Talk With the Pinuters and the Negroes—The Outrages and Who Commit Them—A Southern Planter on Negro Suilrage—Work of the Politicians. COLUMBIA, Sept. 9, 1868, Mavry county, Tenn., besides being one of the wichesi counties in the State, enjoys, according to radical story, @ most unenviable notoriety as the hot bed of all that is murderous in the shape of Ku Klux cut throats and negro butchers. The finest planta- tions in the Commonwealth are located in Maury, and the major portion of its extensive negro popala- tion gain a livelihood by working for the planters, I took horse from Columbia the other day, and, de- spite all representations as to the dangers that a Northern “mudsill” would encounter on the road, I e@ccupied three entire days In driving from place to Place in the interior, occasionally stopping by the wayside at a country ian or a negro cabin to find “refreshment for man and Beast.” The negroes with whom I conversed freely allatong the route and at every place I stopped, much to my surprise, seemed to know less of the horrid Ku Kluxes than the “refugee” negroes who boaf about the streets of Nashville and the legislative halls, and whenever I asked them how they had the courage to remain tn such a dangerous section of the country, they turned up the whites of their eyes and looked at me with the most perfect wonderment. Letopped one night in the cabin of an old negr ‘who, with his three sons, cultivate a very nice little farm adjoining one of the plantations, and as he was quite a communicative old fellow I speedily got into Dis good graces and had a little “talk” on the con- @ition of the negroes in the county. “1 dunno how sum niggas does, marse,” he replied to one of my questions, “but we is comforabie. De white foiks help us "long, too, wien de crops isn't salubroue.” “But are you not afraid of the Ku Klux t” “Bress your sole, dey dun’t boder us folks. I never seed any. ’Casionaliy I hears dey is gwine ter do orfal things ‘about heah, but dey dun’t trupie us. Dar is Pete, he knows ’em; he can tell you dat dey lay de devil wid de bad niggas, and dar is siunnin’ niggas round now times.’’ (Here Pete, one of we oki man’s sons, nodded assent.) “The bad negroes don’t frighten you, do they ?”” “Yes, dey does. Dey guy me tore anxiousness @ani ear far Kluxes. Dey steal whatever dey gets @ar black hands arter. We cotch ’em ofen.’’ “What did you do with them 1” “1 didn’t cotch ’em, but de Kluxes hunt ‘em like possum. Dar was dat cussed nigga, Jim Freelan’, ‘who waked on de plantation ‘fore de war as smart asany. He wus de wastest nigga lever seed. He ined oif wid a polimtician and he got so big arter Rite he cudu’t talkto oder — He fotchea Jots of fellas from de town when am back and played de duce wid sum white folks. One missus ‘wad tuk away and hurted orful. She died arter, I heerd. Jim was cotched one night by Kiuxes and gam ov our boys heipd to &x’ em, and we ain't heered on ’em sence.” “Don’t you or Pete ever go to election meetings 7” “De boys docs sumtimes. I doesn’t, Dun’t car for sich. Marse ober dar tell us what ‘tis bad Wisness. I be'live ’em, furebery one ob de black niggas what 'gwined away from heal wid de white ticlans, when dey cum back wun’t work no . Dey talk on polerticks and sarse de white tolks 1, and sum on ‘em ain’t partickler nights and takes de chickens even from de color’d foiks. We Kiuxes clean ‘em out once in while, and uncle Bever gwine to cry ‘bout it nedar.”” Another night { put up ata planter’s house near Ashwood, whose name uppress at his own ré est. I was treated with the greatest kindness | meself and family, and was allowed every priv! Jege of conversing with the negroes on the pianta- tion as to their condition and aspirations. He haa gome sixty freedmen in his employ and ex- ts to raise @ very crop of cotton season. He owned three hundred slaves before the war, He is a man of wide infuence in ti county and his opinions on matters and things be salely taken asa reflex of tue sentiment of the planters of the whole county. 1 had @ very long conversation with him as to the conduct of the ne- es in his vicinity and in what manner their en- Franchisemient seems to have affected them, “How do you flod your hands?’ | inquirea during the conversation, “faithful in thetr work ?” “Asn general thing they are pretty steady. But it requires very nice management on our partto Reep them together. We have a certain control over them which oniy goes a certain way, If they take a notion to go oif when they please, why they can do #0 and often have done 80; but, then, that’ their own lookout, for, as for inyseif, | never employ & man again who’ hes once broken faith with me. Many of the hands employed on the piantations every once in & while get it into (heir heads that they must go to the cities, for what purpose Ido not know, and it does not matter a bit to them what con- dition the crops are in or how damaging to the employer their absence may be. If they make up their minds to go they wili go despite all entreaties. 1 have learned by experience how to humor my bands and render thein to a certain degree very par- ular as to their work. Once in a while | set a) a day or two on which they can make a frolic, or go to the towns, and this seers to satisfy them. ‘TI must ray, however, (hatas a whole the hands are steady and willing to work, but, then, one doesn’t kuow when the wolves are Lo come into the fold." “Who may the wolves be you speak of)” “Fellows Who seem to have nothing better to do than to create mischief; half and haif politicians, who are, | suppose, in the employ of men who are in want of voles, Once they get among the negroes there's no telling Where the end is to come, I know several of my friends in the neighborhood ‘who had by careful management got together some ‘ef the best feild hands in the vicinity, and everything to work smoothly, When these itmerant political stam; arrived and called @ meeting near by, at which, out of curiosity more than anything else, the ended. aie wee Se the ed work nt fellows juaily began ra ‘To for them tm the went of wo ete vous, it Loften saw of them lived I don’t know how, pts, ing eh be streets in rags, and yet #0 accustomed ty Sela Gas Sony rofarvou 0 rWntalae WS ¥ Orb” SEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. oot cane toe peicinns derive from € Hi il re uy i i : i ae i : 8 Z| i g z i= 3 : 5 Be : E : i $5 | “si i Bes 3 FEE wish for on the plantations with . their condition, onl an the same di did when bound to us as slaves. And I will of this kind of hands you never hear aught bad, They are not of those who oul ‘The vagabonds and rascals who live without work and are fed at public expense are the worst charac: ters among the biacks.”” no FOR think the negroes are naturally given to committing the outrages which are so often charged against them?” “1 candidly donot, The white men from the North are at the bottom of the whole trouble. I believe in tay heart and soul that you would never hear of any wrong by the negroes if they were left alone to themselves, Now I am one of those who feel that the negro is inferior to the white man; that he can be moulded into good or bad by a superior mind as easily as & pinwheel can be turned by a child, If bad nen get @ hold of him and fill his mind with ideas a3 to rights and induce him to look upon his old masters as 50 many monsters who should be killed at sight, what can you expect of him? Did you ever hear of the negroes committing the depredations they have done since the war belore the politicians from the North got among them and completely turned their heads “Then, I do not su) pone you favor the negro’s being allowed to vote if he is so easily led ?”? “That is a question to which | can’ answer no and yes. 1 am not ainst givi the ne @ vote, sunply because he of a darker complexion than myself. The tme, I think, will come when every biuck man in the’ United States will be allowed to vote. This 13 strange talk from a Southern planter, isitnott Yet it is my fixed opinion. I think the tide of affairs is fast drifting that way, but the time is yet far distant in the future. But lam decidedly Opposed to giving the negro suffr: in the South at resent. He is not fitfor it. He no opinion of is own, nor can he form one. The first w: man who lays hands on him can count upon his support, no matter which way the white man wants him to go, Witness the carpet-b: rs in- triguing. Those who go for the radicals are go filled with the idea that they are to be enslaved again if they don’t vote for the carpet-b: rs that through fear and ignorance they go with them, On the plan- tations where the master’s influence is felt and obeyed the negro will go just the other way. Al- though I believe tnat in the course of time the great majority of the negroes will side with their former masters, I think that they should be left without a vote for some time to come, until they are better ‘able to understand the full importance of the privi- lege. If thi are allowed to go on as they are now, and we should win all the ae ae to our side, yow'll find that the first step to disfranchise them will come from the North. Mark my words,’? “Have the planters any idea of restoring slavery?’ “The fone majority of them would oppose the restoration of slavery with all their might. Free labor they will, if they do not now, find more profitable. in the end than slave Before the war a great many of would have willingly given up their slaves and adopted the free labor system were they aware atthe slaves would be benefited by the change. were ready and open to meet any measure looking to the gradual abolishment of slavery when those slaves sould be able to do Jor themselves, ‘There are but few men in Tennessee who would, now that they have seen slavery done away with for awhile, desire to see it restored again.” “Are you aware that Maury county has a very bad name North as being et gounty, in which more Ku Klux outrages are committed than ali the other : counties in Tennessee put together ?? “ indeed! 1 know very well that it has a bad name, but never thought it was as bad as ail that, But do “Well, si extremist. 1 try to do what is right towards aii ; men, biack and white, and have yet to see the day when I would ailow any black man to be molested in any way if 1 coald help it. Now I confess there ,’? exclaimed my interlocutor, “I am no have been many out 3 colnmitted in Maury county, but i Know that there have been more out- rages committed by roving baads of negroes than by white men, We have in our midst in certain dis- Wicts a set of the vilest blacks that ever God iet live, and did we not once in a while take them in hand our women would never be safe from their clutches, ‘They go about nights armed to the teeth robbing hen roosts, breaking into houses and doing all kinds of villanies. ‘The law does not exert itself to reach them, and we have often to organize to protect our- selves. 1 believe the Ku Kiux is a bad ization from its being oath bound and pledged to secrecy; but they are made to carry all the biame of outrages in the county when they do not deserve it. I am ready to take oath before Almighty God that the negroes who comport themselves well in our midst ure not molested cause of politics. - know as mi about Maury county and Giles couuty, too, as any man in Tennessee, and say what I know to be true, Lhave read the Muitary Committee's report care- futly, and | fine in it several cases of Ku Kiux out- rages which are faise. Let me give you an exam- ple:—it gives the story of a negro who was obli to Oy from his home on account of the Ku Kitx, when the fact of the matter was the fellow was chased out of the district by negroes for stealing and atiempting an outrage on @ pepe girl, He straight way went to Nashviile and told the committee how the Ku Kiux had ow him. There are several other cases mentioned in the report which are as true as the one mentioned. | have read outrages ia Northern papers, purporting to have occurred in Manry county, that were pure inventions in every purticalar.”” “Would it not be an easy matter for the citizens to give their testimony as to what they know about the merits of each occurrence, and thus set matters rightY” “No, sir, it would not be an easy matter. We are all rebels—we who don’t want to aMliate politicaliy with the radicals. So, all we say is looked upon as unworthy of beiief, and our testimony is never taken when there is the slightest suspicion that we know the facts about what we would testify. Ido not think that the Leg- islature willingly in all cases work up outrages to suit their views. But many of the members are imposed upon by the stories of the vagabond negroes, and, full of sugar-pastry for the colored man, swal- low everything they hear as Gospel.” “Do you think the election of Seymour would change the coudition of things?’ “Most assuredly 1 do. We hope that if he is elected a liberal epirit will be shown to the South, and espe- clully to poor down-trodden Tennessee. 1 ‘lection would end ail bitter feeling between ourselves and give a hope of future fookeate We know that he would not allow the to be wronged, and that the moral effect of his election would have a wonder- ful influence on our Legislature, which would be ae made to extend the franchise. If Grant is elected we have everything to fear. Not that we dis- like Grant are He showed himeelf mi i mous at the end the war, and every trae South- erner admires him as a soldier. 1 fought against him and know what he ts worth. But we do fear the party with which he has become associated.” power?’ “Not necessarily, in my opinion. I do not know planter who, for the sake of harmony and to give some stability to business, would not be willing to return every man to hisseatin the Legislature who is now there if he would vote to extend the franchise, It is to our interest, it is to thetr interest that it shonld be extended, They fear that If they extend it we'll put them out. Now the ple out of mere gratitude would vote them hack to their seats.” “What! put the radicals into power by democratic votes’ “Even ao, T know the feeling in the rural districts and it ia juec that way, Should we vote for them the era of good feeling would be brought about, and they would not legislate in the radical way they are now doing under the fear that we are endeavoring to oust them by fair means or foul. The country people, at any rate, don’t care what a man may cali himself in the Le- gisiature so long as he legislates for the interest and welfare of the whole State, and not to enrich one section by crushing another.’? From all the observations T wag able to make during my tour throngh the county I have come to the following conclusions:—That there have un- doubdtedly been ontrages committed in Maury county, but that they have been greatly exaggerated in horror of detail as well as in number; that the blacks commit more outrages, five to one, than the whites, call them Ku Klux or anything else; that the happiest negroes are the steadtest hands on the plantations, who care little for politics; that the worst class of negroes is that under the control and manipulation of Northern political wire-pullers, who use them as their pitant tools: that Northern men of extreme radical ideas Who rove through the county esing for votes are at the bottom of ail the os ef the interior of West and Middle Teu- OBITUARY, William Merwine, Rear Admiral William Merwine died last night in the city of Utica, in this State, at the advanced age of seventy-eix years, He entered the navy when quite a lad, being appointed a midshipman on the 16th of January, 1809, On the 4th of June, 1815, he was promoted toa lieutenancy, and on the 12th of June, 1834, he was made master commandant, In this position he continued until September 8, 1841, ‘when he was elevated toa captaincy. He rendered vu cause in rebellion, but his advanced. age. ‘compelled bis early retirement. He bee wrenty-nine years of ac- tive service, twenty-four of which were spent at pea buy the reaping Ove seare On BROT POLITICAL - Grend Rally of the National McClellan | Henty Krager for Vico by General Chalmers, of “and Others.” ‘The National McClellan Legion held @ mass meet- ing last night at Masonio Hall, in all the glory of nattonal bunting, calctum lights, bombs and bine fire. The call was especially directed to soldiers and sailors, the organization belng almost exclusively composed of men who have seen service during the late war in the army or navy. Not less than one thousand persons assembled within and in front of the hall, and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. Shortly after eight o’clock the meeting was called to order by the President, Colonel Charlea H. Pierson, who oificiated as chairman, ‘The Young Men’s Democratic Union Club, two hundred strong, then filed into the hall, with their banners, and pre- ceded by @ brass band. General Charles R. Chalmers, of Misaissippi, late of the Confederate army, was introduced as the first speaker, and proceeded in an address occupying an hour and @ half in delivery, and characterized by commendable moderation and ability, to review the issues and the principles which distinguish the rival parties and their candidates, In speeking of the effects of radical reconstruction he claimed that the eifect of it had been to embarrass whatever indus- trial energy and enterprise was left in the South after the close of thewar. The supply of cotton from the South was no this year than it was two years ag@ and those who conid carry on business at ‘ali were Going so on a principle of self-preservation which led them to turn their protits into goid in an- tieipation of being ultimately compelled to fee the country through the oppressive system of Congres- sional “legislation, And thousands of them had already left the South to come and settle in Northera cities,” there, of necessity, to compete with the people of the North for their bread, while the fields of the South and the counting rooms were abandoned. The war lad been fought for the pre- servation of the Union as an indissoluble confedera- tion of the States, and when that war had termi- nated the gpeetion. was irrevocably settled that no State could by any means separate itself from the federal allegiance. Then radical reconstruction came upon the scene and undertook while saying that no State could withdraw from the Union Cou- gress could force ten States out and rere: them out until radicalism had so regulated their internal af- fairs that the negro should be clothed with a power which was the absolute right of the people of those States, and of which the people were deprivea—that the power thus gained could be used for party aggrandizement, even at the expense of the nation’s weifare aud harmony. And this pares had only been grasped by the republicans cause the splitin the Charleston Convention made @ breach in the ranks of the democracy; they never had the sirength to wield that wer before that time. Jt was the misfortune of the South at that convention to reject the compromise candidate put forward by the North, and it seemed that ® dispensation of Providence had now put it within the power of the people to say that the man who could have preserved the peace of the na- tion then and kept intact the Union should now heal the breach in the sisterhood of States. (Cheers for Horatio Seymour.) In reviewing the record of Gene- ral Grant the speaker claimed that he had no right a3 a conquered soldier to criticise his military career, He was willing for the present to accept the doctrine that success is the test of military skill. But Grant's refusals to interfere with the partisan acts of General Pope and Governor Brownlow were acts of his civil career which he believed he had wwe right to look into and could but condemn, enerai Chalmers was repeatedly and enthusiasti- cally cheered in the course of bis remarks, and at the close of lis address short speeches were made by A. J. Rogers and General Nagle, after which the imeet- ing dispersed. Address of Ellison 8. Keitt, of South Caro- lina. A meeting was held on Taesday evening in the rooms of the Young Men’s Democratic Union, on Broadway, near Twenty-second street. In point of numbers and enthusiasm it was very successful. The speaker of the evening was Ellison 8. Keitt, of South Carolina, from whose address the following extracts are made:— {f the people of the North nuderstood the real sentiment and condition of the mass of the Southern people there would be no dificulty whatever in setiling and readjusting in all its parts the great problem now before us for soluuon, If there was a greater commingling of the masses of the people and less heed given to political tricksvers, who for pelt and self and power, spend vheir tue peddling out seeds of dissension, it would redound to the welfare of both sections. When the laté grdéat war, from which { trust our country wijl s00n sue- ny. emerge, was inaugurated I was not in poit- life; but When my State passed her ordinance of secession and calied upon her sons toraliy beneath her flag and defend her, we went forth, and we heard the first and the last gun of the revolution fired. In ‘that great contest we fought not to destroy the North, we fought not to overthrow any of your inati- tutions, we bay not to interfere in your domestic affairs, we fought for self-goveriiment, we fought for the independence and separate nationality of our own native land, we fought for the preservation of those great and ind principles which were ein- bodied and established by a heroic and virtuous an- cestiy in 1789, after seven long years of herole suffer- ings, privations, defeats and victories, that we might transmit them, purified, chastened and refined, to generations yet. unborn—yea, that we might make them perpetual and tinmortal. You, on your part, as proclaimed by Mr. Lincoln, fought for the main: tenance of the constitution and the preservation of ‘the Union tn its integrity, and not for the conquest and subjugation of the South. This he prociained was the only ground upon which he could rest the justice of the war, either with you or with for- eign Powers. We have failed to achieve that for which we fought, You, by overwhelming numbers and greater material resources, have pre- valied. As we were desperately sincere and earnest in our determination to win when we went into the contest, so When we sheathed our swords and stacked our arms upon the battle-fleld and turned our backs upon the vast armies of Generals Grant and Sherman, we did so with equal sincerity and determination to go to our homes and spare no effort in rebuilding our broken and shattered fortunes, in restoring our country to law and order, and bring- ing her back to peace, prosperity and hdppiness, and in rendering every assistance in our power to maintain the constitution and preserve the Onion in its integrity. We not only Ge gee in the abolition of slavery, but we gave the black man all the civil rights e phe by the white man—he was allowed to sue and sued and testify before the courts, We placed the State government upon a wise and economical basis. It took about $600,000 to administer it before the war, but the people being so rednced by the war we reduced that sum by retrench- ment to $400,000. 1 will here state it in addi- tion to fo black man all the civil hts which the white man has, the white people of the State held a convention in Coiuimbia last April and adopted a platform in which they recognized the negro as an integral element of the Lee and pledge themselves to give him a quailfled suffrage he moment they have the Po to do so. It was not until the last days of the fourth and last session of the Legislature that the proj amend- ment known as the fourteenth article of the constt- tution came before that body. It was not rejected, as is affirmed, because we were required by it either to give the negroes the right to vote or not to count them inthe basis of representation. That was the least objectionable feature, The main reason of ob- jection to it was, it tended to a consolidation of the government by @ subordination of the State judt- clary to the judiciary of the United States—and it disqualified forever from holding oMce every man in the State, from Governor and United States Senal tor down to a constabie, who had ever held a civi- office, and fos any aid to the State in the war. At the end of the war the federal debt was some- thing over $2,700,000,000, which to thia great country and her grand resources is a small sum, and could easily have been paid and the general government been pat upon & wise and economical basis, Durin; the last three years $1,594,000,000 have been conected from the people in the way of revenue and taxes— an average of over $500,000,000 @ year—yct the aebt Js still over $2,600,000,000. bag ople have been drained of more than one-half of the entire debt by taxation in three years, yet the debt has been reduced only @ little over #100,000,000, What has become of this vast sum which has been ex- tracted from the toil of the people? If the govern- ment had been put upon a wise and economical basis of $150,000,000 a year, witch t# liberal, $360,000,000 might annuaily have been applied to the reduction of the debt, and it would have been only a little over half of what it now is. The little that has been paid was paid before the passage of the reconstruction measures, or before they had time to affect the coun- try. Since the reconstruction measures were passed the debt lias been increased $18,000,000 or more. Should you, by your ballots In November next, ele- vate General Grant to the Presidency, and sustain the action of Congress and the platform on which he stands, and the people realize the awful fact that negro governments are to be settled down upon them, not ouly will every kind of business be con- tracted and all money be drawn in, but a general paralysis and desperation will rvade the whole country. You know as weil as Ido that there are restiess men in every community. There will be a dificuity here and another there, When soon up goes the cry the “rebels are rising.” Already from tie far off South we hear famt notes of a collision of races, Anarchy and desperation will, with hurried footsteps, spread themselves until they pervade all of that once beautifal and wealthy country, extend- ing from the banks of the Potomac to the gold sands of California, and you may prepare to ri one miilion of men and dot all the South with garri- sons, for the intelligent and virtuous of the South will demand it, and as we can do nothing, can make nothing, you may prepare to foot the bilis and if you do not look well to it hs once grand and loved #ys- tem of a republic will in one might give birth to a vast and mighty empire. Third Assembly District Grant and Colfax Griswold-Cornell Clab, ‘The reorganization of the republicans of thia dis- trict took place last evening at 426 Broome street, ‘whereby ali the citizens were brought together for the meeting to order and in a brief speech stated ‘that the: {of the meeting was to reorganize and” under one henser, allof their Larnd a prominent en of the district for officers of the ciation, who jong them Howell President, and Adolphus Borst and its. A resolution en- and the national were ‘made by the Yoliowing geatlomens B. se, Lovegos 4. J. Plumb . Hendrickson. course evening Mr. William Ross Wallace, by request, read his poem, the “National origi- for the held at the Cooper bute On last Tuesday evening, p it, with feorfin'y seas aca a ents The « ? was ranateat with prolonged shouts Of applause by the vast concourse present. KINGS COUNTY POLITICS. The Tenth Ward Boys in Blue. ‘The Tenth Ward Boys in Blue met last night at No. 93 Boerum street and made arrangements to take t im the grand procession to take place in New York tonigue mt = Grant Meeting in the Eleventh Ward. The Grant and Colfax Club of the Eleventh ward held a large and enthusiastic meeting last evening at their headquarters, at the junction of Fulton and Flatbush avenues. ‘The meeting was addressed by General James B, McKean and others, Grant and Colfax Meeting in the Fifth Ase sembly District. A large meeting was held last evening at the tents on Myrtle, near Clermout avenue, under the aus- ices of the Fifth Assembly district Grant and ‘olfax Club. Addresses were made by Mr. Isaac Dayton, of New York; William Ware Peck and others. Banner Raising at Canarsie. The democracy of Canarsie had a jubilee last even- ing over a banner raising at Lehman's Hotel, The canvass contained the likenesses of Seymour, Blair and Hoffman. After the banner was up the assem- Dlaye, to the number of 200, was addressed by ‘Tho- mias O, Pearsall, John C. Jacobs aud others. Vienna Schenck on Fort Pillow Forrest. In a speech recently delivered at Dayton, Ohto, by General Shenck, who ts running against Val- | landigham for Congress in that district, that hero said:— Now, let ns look at some of the individual cases in order to better understand what such an association of rebels and peace democrats means. Let us select two or three of the prominent men who were fore- most there in the deliberations, or in the Union, at least—for there was not much deliberation about it— of the party in Convention assembled. You will recollect that a committee of Senators and Repre- sentatives was appointed in Congress to investigate all matters of most moment connected with the pro- greas of events while the war lasted. It was called the Committee on the Conduct of the War, and you | may have seen the report of that committee. Among the subjects of their investigations they inquired into @ massacre which took place at Fort Pillow. About one-half of that report is the depositions | of sworn witnesses as to what transpired on that occasion, Look at that history. Along comes a@ rebel chief bratal, active, energetic and cruel, distinguished for these characteristics before, | as several items of his history had shown, and he set upon that garrison, weaker than his own force, and compeiled it to surrender, And after the sur- render took place our wounded, as it is proven by many witnesses, that lay at the margin of the river, half in the water and half on land, were permitted to be bayoneted by this rebel chief as they lay there. Our poor fellows were hunted under blufs on the river as if they were vermin and shot by these rebel soldiers after they had laid down their arms. One man was buried alive, but somehow managed to escape and, | believe, ts living to-day. Others, less fortunate, were pinioned to the side of the house and made targets of for the brutal and fendish rebel soldiers. As if these were not enough to satisfy the flendish vengeance of these men, they took others of their prisoners and shut them up in a wooden house (some of them wounded), and set fire to the house over their heads, and they shot or bayoneted any who attempted to escape, and these men were burned alive. As if this were not enough, these infernal sconndrels, with their devilist. leader, bayoneted our poor fellows as they lay sick and wounded upon their cots in the hospital. Thus | they treated prisoners. And the leader of that band | was N. B. Forrest, who helped to make the | tions at New York, who was @ most prominent per- son in moving inations, and was a leading spirit | » that Convention to make @ platform and to make ominations for you and me to vote for, What soldier is going todo that! (None! “None!?) What pairtotic man wha has stood at the back of soldiers and helped to matntain them and encour- ed them in their holy work, be he democrat or re- in, can vote with and follow out the lead of .M&_DISCONRSETH ON THE ay. YORK CONVENTION. y met in convention in New York. You judge a tree by its fruits. Ifyou look at what was done there, if you look at those who were in It, If you look at everything connected with the history of that or- | Baker, radical Union... i fa If successful, what would have been the it? have been raised for the fecier battle of i A i : : 4 if Ff i : destroy: aa ey Ta see Pow as l Pennsyl- ui they could not, with the aid alone-ot New Jersey, have withstood th Red Beauregard, Johnson and others formed a ‘wall of fire” the southern jon of Obio ana saved soll from invasion and her cities from destruction, ‘This the truthful historian will hereaf- ter record for ‘ity. THE CIVIL WAR AND KENTUCKY TROOPS. In answer to @ letter which I addressed to the Ad- jutant General of Kentucky a short time since ho furnished the following statement:— ‘Total number of men in Kentucky regiments United States muster-out rolls, as shown by records of this office....... Total number of State forces. Militia In service for short tsa Colored troops estimated at....... TOtAl........seseresee seeeeee eB, 245 ‘Besides unknown av tern regiments.) Yhat other State did more than this? Low many of this vast army were kilied in battle or died in Southern prisons and how many yet survive I have no means of ascertaining; how many of the living are maimed for life nor how many Widows and or- phans have been left among us. ELECTIONS, Third—The vote for Governor in 1867 stands as follows:— Helm, democrat....... Kinkhead, conservativ Barnes, radical Fourh—The vou stands:— Stevenson, conservative democrat if a : i Stevenson's majority. . Almost as much as Hein le before and 39,403 votes more than cratic vote for Magotin in 1859. Now, what do the above facts and figures show? First—That gallant “old Kentucky” has been ever faithful and true to the Onion, as agreed upon aud forined by our revolutionary fathers. ‘s ‘That she is decidedly opposed to negro equality, social or political. Third—Vhat she is alarmed and indignant at the continuous efforts made by Congress to establish negro despotisins over the Southern States, in open violation of the constitution and in total disregard of the vetoes of the President and the decisions of the Supreme Court. Fourth—That she is now making her best efforts to sustain the governinent of the United States as tt is, and not in @ consolidated form, as it was never designed to be. ‘N—That next November, believing firmly that the life of civil liberty is at stake, she will disregard all past erie questions, and give to Seymour a larger majority than that recently cast for Governor Stevenson, ore ¢ the total Very respectfully, yours, &c., LESLIE COMBS. Political Rowdyism, ‘The First Ward Grant and Colfax Club of Troy, N. Y., in going to the Tenth ward banner raising Tues- day night, were three times assailed with volleys of stones from concealed rumans. Two members of the club, named Van Ness and Thatcher, were badly though not fatally inured, A meeting of the “Boys in Biue,’? held in Aborn Hall, New London, Conn., last night, was disturbed by parties outside, who threw several stones through the Windows and severely injured some members of the band. Tuesday night as one of the republican clubs of Philadelphia was passing in procession the corner of Race and Second streets it was assailed by a crowd of roughs, who were cheering for Seymour. The republicans repelied the attack and the assail- anis took shelter in the Vigilant engine hot During the fight pistols and axes were used, firemen rung an alarm bell, which bic police, who quelled the disturbance, Four repabli- cans were wounded, one being siot in Uae arm and another struck in the face with an axe. Congressional Nominations, Samuel J. Bayard, of Camden, was yesierday nouiuated for Congress by the democrats in te First district of New Jersey. The despatch announcing the defeat of the nomi- nation of Generai Butler for re-election to Congress is untrue. The Convention has not yet been held, Political Notes, “Dirigo"—I1 lead. ‘The motto of Maine, ‘The following despatch has been sent to General U. 8. Grant at Galena, In. Malne stands by you In peace as she stood by you in war. She gives vitae twenty Liousand majority to-day and will g}ve you thirty thousand iu Novewber. MES G. BLAUN Chafrman 81 ganization, I venture to affirm you wiil agree that my proposition is sustained. Let us go to New York; let us examine that Convention, analyze ti, consider It, Judge of it. Well, they had a motley enough crowd, heaven knows, aud they had to choose among them. The country woman satd to the showman, whén she didn’t Know whether the animal she saw was & hippopotaiaus or a rhinoceros, that she was very much undecided about it, and he replied, “Madam, you pays your money and you takes your choice.” ‘it ‘was very much Wat way with this convention of democrats at New York when — the make choice of a candidate for the Presidency. They had Pendieton riding his greenback hobby. Having voted that greenbacks Were unconstitutional when he was in Congress, therefore he is now in favor of @n unlimited supply of them. (Laugtiter.) And the; had Chase who, so far from thinking t unconstl- tutional, Was the daddy of all the greenbacks, but wanted their number limited. They had Seymour, who from the beginning to the end of the war had rather bamle the government of the United states in its attempts to put down the rebels than to afford any afd to the government, au auii-war man and @ peace democrat. And they had Hancock, who was a gallant soldier that had fought ali through the war. What he was doing in that company it was harder for we to understand, They had those there whose ery it was all the time, that the bloated bondholder must be humbled to the dust, and the man whom tuey selected fMnally as their candidate only a few weeks before had made an cilaborate argument in defence of the bondholders to show that it is not the rich class alone that hold the bonds, but the poor man aod the widows and or- phans Whose means were deposited in savings banks. They had those there who had made “themselves hoarse with expressions of their apprehensions of negro suiTrage; and boat ees there the father of the doctrine of universal suffrage, white and black. Thus | they had nen who were for the war and against the war, for the negro and against the negro, for green- backs and agatust greenbacks, for bonds and against bonds. And from all these they were to choose. Upon what principle? Upon none at all; but simpiy proceeding upou the ground that, looking over the whole matter they would take that one, without re- gard to his opinions or past record, under whom the; might possibly win. (Applause.) And you, my fel- low democrats—I am a better democrat, though, than you are; I am more for liberty, equal- ity and free institutions than the demo- cratie party, so called—you, neigivor democrat of mine, didn’t know until you heard from New York what Pe were to be for or against. (Applause, You did not know, until you were solemnly haved of their action, whether you were to go marching along as now, under Seymour as leader, keeping step tothe tune of “Dixie”? with your rebel: brethren of the South, or whether you were to trample along more seriously after Chase, singing ‘John Brown's body is marching on.” (Appianse.) And you were ready to do either at the command of those who set themselves up as your leaders, and permit them to dictate to you the man for whom you were to vote. If there be anything as true as ever written in gospel, it is that che proceedings of that Convention show most manifestly that they had no ae: no set of measures, no common ground upon which to stand, but were ready to go for any measures or stand upon any ground, 80 only that tliey might see a prospect of beating the republicans and getting possession Of the offices. And there is nothing else 4 it. Letter from General Lesite Combs, L&XINGTON, Ky., Sept. 8, 1868, TO THE PROPRIETORS OF THR NATIONAL INTELL GENCE! GENTLEMEN—The New York Tribune and other kindred radical papers North seem to be taking spe- cial pleasure in misrepresenting and slandering Old Kentacky, Since our recent Gubernatorial election they have been particulariy bitter and violent in denunciation, 1 therefore ask you to do her the jus- tice to publish the following brief historical exposi- uon, hay that other a Will copy it :-~ You know me to an old line Clay Union whig; never belonging to the democratic party, never voting for a democratic candidate for the Pre- sidency but once, and he had been aiso nominated by @ large conservative convention, without respect to party—Goneral George B. McClellan, I sted my blood under the etar-spangied banner more than half acentury ago, and have never since fongit under or Oy ee with any other flag, I think, there- fore, [have ® right to expect my old Union whig friends every where to listen to me, fea or vote for Governor in 1860 in Kentucky stood — for Magoffin, demoera’ Vor Bell, whig. Democratic majority........ Admiral Semmes did not stump Maine. ‘The radicals in Maine have concluded to let the shipbuilding interesis of the Sute go to the dogs— the Maine-iacs, Somebody says Maine went the way she did he- cause the people prefer the reign of Butler, Boutwell, Bingham, Ashiey and the rest of the radical leaders, Including the ghost of Thad Stevens, to the reign of the New York Tammany ring, with Tweed, Sweeny, Cornell, Parser, O'Gorman, Brennan, Ben Wood and the balance of the Tamimany and Manhattan cliques as general managers of an administration headed by @ wea minded man like Seymour. An over-confident democrat, who lost a few thon- sands on the Maine election, now advocates the withdrawal of Seymour as the democratic candidate and the rallying around Grant as the candidate for the whole peopie. It is not likely, huwever, that his advice will be followed. The Democratic National Exeeutive Cominittee have superb quarters in the new and elegant West- moreiand Hotel, Union square, Schenck thinks Vallandigham wil! beat him for Congress. Not if Val. keeps up bis “This must be stopped” correspondence with the Secretary of the ‘Treasury. Bobby Lincoln is to marry daughter of Senator Harlan. Senator Yates has thrown up bis appointments to speak. He has been throwing up something else since the campaign commenced, and is now on a diet of pickled cabbage. Vallandigham to the Secretary of the Treasury :— “Why are radicals still appointed to office tn this State? This thing must stop.” Stop her-r-r-r! Perkins Cleveland and General Davis are to ad- dress the democrats of Jersey City shortly. If the democrats would put up for campaign pur- poses ai] the money they put up in bets they would stand a better chance for avoiding such disasters us they have just sustained in Maine. ‘The republicans claim Penpsylvania by 30,000. It is more than they will get. A confidence democrat believes that if the demo- crats keep on increasing their vote as they lave in Maine they will yet carry the Stare. Where? For sale—A $500 bet that Seymour will be the next President. A radical paper says the republicaus were really guilty of “splicing the Mame brace’ on Monday in the Pine Tree State. General Frank Spinola proposes to stamp the South for Seymour and Blair on the line of Sherman's march, Colonel Keitt—brother of Lawrence M.—of South Carolina, has no faitn in the fidelity of the negroes to their oid masters when the test of voting is put, ‘They will go as the “boorgo” tells them, and no other way. Mayor Ho‘fman will appear in the exciting melo. drama of“ The Broken Sword” after the electio.u THE CHERRY STREET HOMICIDE, The Shooting of Thomas McCabe by Oftiver Kicrnan=Death of the Victim. At five o'clock yesterday morning Thomas Mc- Cabe, late of No, 581 Second avenue, who was shot in the neck by the accidental discharge of a pistol in the hands of oMcer Kiernan, of the Twenty-first precinct, during a disturbance in the drinking place No. 605 Second avenue on Tuesday evening, as here- tofore reported, died in Believue Hospital from the etlects of the wound. Coroner Keenan was notified of the fact, and after empanelling a jury, who viewed the body, gave permission for the friends of deceased to remove the remains to his late residence. This morning at half-past nine o'clock an inqnest will be held on the body at the Thirty-fifth street police station, near Third avenue. ‘The friends of McCabe say that he took no part whatever in the porter house disturbance and was only an in- nocent observer of what red. Some of them s Second—In August, 1860, the whoie State voted for & clerk of our Sapreme Court of Appeais. The rebellion was then looming up, " three canditates, the vote Otis For General Leslie Combs, Union «08,165 For R. fy Bolling, Union democrat ......5 out Union ree Masher, coveseion Seams Unton vas] 008) BAP ah igre ca ewe were so uncharitable as to remark in the Hospital that officer Kiernan porposely. shot the deceased; but ith that vigil those best acquainted ant ian of the public ve do not for a moment en' in such Sie me oN tpn he uae eet witnesses, sald tobe friends snd acqualatances of McCabe, have been sum the coroner, ‘and the matter will nacrgo 8 arouRe Investign, tet ene s native oY Ireinnd, bas iets w ow aod two aBbgneep | Important Arrangements by the Con | of cef@als, rare 3 WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 1888, Tranquilizing Effect of the Maine Election— Both Parties Win. ‘The returns from the Matne election are eagerly sought after here. Both parties are rejoicing over the result as thus far given—the republicans, because they have carried the State by a respectable majority, and the democrats because by some mathematical process known to themselves only they figure out @ large democratic gain, Judging from the converea- tion of men on both sides each party is highty elated. aud everybody is seriously disappointed. The Radicals Becoming Anxions. The earnest workers among those Senators and Representatives who have arrived here are now using every device within their knowledge ta induce the members to meet om Monday next. They seein so anxiona to secure the Presence of quorum that it is dim- cult to believe that they share the objections to @ General transaction of business as expressed by Messrs. Morgan and Schenck. Thus far the mem- bers of both houses who have arrived do not number ascore, but at the latter part of the week itis thought they will come in crowds, The Internal Revenuo Dimcultics. Nothing new has transpired in tho internal revenue imbrogho, There is a better prospect for the candi- dates for supervisorships now, since Congressmen are arriving to urge the claims of their respective yorites. Mr. Binckley Bow says that prospec- tive visit to New York to deal ont retribution has been postponed for a few days to allow of hus paying a short visit to some friends in the country, Duties of Sapervisors of Interual Kevenue, Colonel Marr, the first and only Supervisor as yet appointed, left Washington to-night to enter upon his duties in Missouri and the contiguous territory. ‘The instructions of the Internal Revenue Bureau refer him to the law for his general guidance. While he is required to see the oficers within his jurisdiction confine themselves strictly to their business, he is not expected to assist in discovering frauds or inter- fere with tax collections, He will prompt + ‘ upon all matters which demand the attention o Bureau. As the name of his office implies, ly supervise ghe business of the oflicers comuecivd with that branch of the government. Appointwent of Storekeepers and Gaugers. ‘rhe following appointments have been nade under the Internal Revenue law:— Storekeepers—ileury Richards, is la Baltimore; Alex- ander Semple, Cincinnati; Joshua W. Dorsey, Fifth of f district of Maryland, Gaugers—Thowias Taylor, Pennsylvania; John HMurdec Mlinols; Robert B. Boyd, Seve York, Resignation of Solicitor Binckley. Mr. Binckley’s resignation as Solicttor of Internal Revenue has not yet been accepted by th: retary of the Treasury. He has not entered the bureau since his return from New York for business jur- Twelfth district fe, ‘Tweifth cos th district of | poses. Military Court of Inquiry. By direction of the President a court of inquiry, consisting of Brevet Major General Silas Casey, re- tired; Brevet Major General J. M. Brannin, Major of the First artillery; Brevet Brigadier General L. H. Pelouze, Assistant Adjutant General, and Brevet Major R. Perry, Forty-second infantry, and the Judge Advocate of the Department of the Bast, will convene at the Watertown Arsenal, Massachusetts, on the 2ist of September, or as soon thereafter as practible, to examine into the nature of and necessity for the arrest of Brevet: Major A. R, Buttington and Brevet Captain Phipps, of the Ordnance Department, by Brevet Brigadier peral Kingsbury, commanding atthe Watertown Arsenal, as well as the nature and extent of grievances to which they allege they were subjected by the arrest. jon of Agriculture, The Commissioner of Agricuiture, Mr. Capron, has completed arrangements for ¢. Horace anges vets and medicinal and other plants with various institutions and several governments Of different divisions of the globe, These arrang: ments inclnde the governments of Austria, Prussia, China, Japan, Gauiemala “and British Honduras; the Botanical Gardens of Mcthourne, in Austratia, and of Kew, in England; the india Museam in London, and the Cape of Good Hove Agricultural Soc ety, The hearty co-operation of scientific gentlemen represent- ing these governments and Institutions bas been se- cured. Value of Naval Stores Lost on the Fredonin, The Chief of the Navy Bureau of Provisions and Clothing estimates the stores lost on the Fredonia not to exceed in yalue $125,000. No particular ine structions have been given Rear Admiral Turner a4 to the disposition of the Wateree. He will make such disposition of the vessel as will best serve the interest of the government, Accumulation of Tobacco in Rich It ts estimated by parties in position ta at least one and a half million pounds of manuwlac- tured tobacco ha’ cumulated in Richi nd awatie ing transportation North, Chief Clerk of the Patent 09) James S. Grinnell, for three years Chie! the Depariment of Agriculture, and for three years an examiner in the Patent! Of been appointed Chief Clerk of the Patent! Gnice in Place of General Stout, resigned. Special Mail Agent for Kentuck+. The Posimaster Geueral to-day appointed Mr. James C. Hall Special Mail Agent for the disiriet of Kentucky vice J. J. Miller, removed, Army and Navy Orders. Major E. E. Brine, of the Engineer corps, has been directed, in addition to his present duties, to relieve Major McAlester, of the Engineer corps, of sach lighthouse work in the Bighth district as may be required westward of Pearl river, Lieutenant Commander 0. P. Fyffe is detached from the command of the Ashuelot and Lieutenant Commander Van Vieck fromm duty on board the Pen- sacola, and they are both piaced on wating orders, THE SCHUETZENFEST AT JONES’ W000. A much larger number of people visited the Schent+ renfest now going on at Jones’ Wood yesterday than did the day before, so that at the beginning of the bail in the evening the large fest hall presented quite @ crowded appearance, The shooting was very lively during the whole day, beginning at eight A. M. and closing at six P. M., with an hour's inter- mission at noon, and occasionally excelient marks. manship was displayed. Upon the targets the foi lowing gentiemen received a ativer watch and a &i!- ver medal each for twenty bull's eyes shot durin the day: W. Sehoiermann, Philip Kiein and H. Muller, of York; Edward Brehm, of Hudson City, and Mr. Seitz, of Newark. And silver medals ouly were awarded for ten buil's eyes to the follow. ing marksmen:--Georre Aery, H. Raschen and capt tain G. Luersen, aii of this city. Money prizes were also allotted as follows:—To Edward Brehm for tha first bull's eye in the morning and the Jast in the evening; ©. W. Scholerman for the first in the afternoon; W. Nutzhorn, for the last jn the forenoon; J. H. Muller for the jarges number of bull's eyes during the day, 28, and ward Brehm for ( next largest number. 26. The shooting at the eagle was & ntinued in regular rotation, and as the jortunate winners may be men- F.H. Engel, who brought down the apple; cholermann, right wing; H. Gerken, lefts . Rosch, right neck, and William K «igas’, left neck. ‘The tail, the target on the breast and the body of the bird will be shot for to-day, and whoever brings down last will be declared king of the Test and will be crowned such this afternoon, at five o'clock, by Gfty young ladies, At three P. M. to-day will begin the ladies’ bird shooting, which, judging from the arrangements made, promimes lo be qitie an jateresting and amusing affair, A nuwber of ap. propriate prizes have bean set apart exclusively foe the ladies. There will be other amusements, dancing on both piatiorins, ihe whole to conclude with & rand bauquet and ball in tue festialle at nigat. {he shooting Will recommence at eigiit A. M. At the close of yesterdoy’s target practice the New York Schuetzen Corps were the recipients of a eplene did masaive silver ewer and goblet from their rades of Baltimore, The object of the gift ts the inscription, which reads:—“Presen Target Rifle Association to tie New York + Corps, in memory of their visit to the Haltin: Schuetzon festival of 186%. A. H. Keene, !aupt mann." ig Was accompanied by a neat clretmo- lithograph of the shooliiy park owned by Wie Baltte moreans. Mr. Haha, of Baltimore, ma sentation h, and Captain John FP. Gere New Yorkers, accepted the donation w! some response. Toon, for the amusement oF En Daring the afte mn, ih A = isting