The New York Herald Newspaper, February 19, 1872, Page 3

THE KU KLUX. Reports of the Congressional Com- mittee on Southern Outrages, Campaign Documents for All Parties. What Majority and Minority Say About the State of the South. The Violence and Crimes of the Ku Klux Condemned on Both Sides, The Carpet-Baggers and Scalawags Denounced by Each. Fearful Increase of the South- ern State Debts. AN APPEAL TO THE SOUTH. ‘The Majority Advise an Extension of the Ku Wax Act and an Increase of the Judiciary. AMNESTY AND REFORM CALLED FOR, THE MAJORITY REPORT. Wassineron, Feb. 18, 1872. ‘The Joint Select Committee will to-morrow make thelr report on the condition of affairs in the late ineurrectionary States. The committee was organ- dzed April 20, and again met in Washington on the 17th of May last, On the 19th asub-committee of eight Was appointed to proceed at once with the investiga- tion, with authority to take testimony wherever they deemed advisable, by a sub-committee of their own number, to be reported to a meeting of the full commntree. Sub-commitiees were appointed to visit and take testimony in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi. The evidence taken in Washington and by a sub-commit- tee in South Carolina, having been reported to the joint committee, is now submitted, and as an appendix toand part of the report is also sub- multted the report of the sub-committee appointed ‘wo digest the reports of the executive officers of tne States, The testimony taken in Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississipp! by tue sub-committees Visiting these States is not yet prepared, and will be submitted with a subsequent or supplementary report. The proceedings and debates in Congress show that whatever other causes were assigned for @igorders in jate insurrectionary States the execu- tion of laws and security of life and property were alleged to be most seriously threatened by the ex- * ‘atence and acts of organized bands of armed and @isguised men known as Ku Klux. Inqutring, a8 our primary duty, into the truth of these alle- Gations in those States where such acts have most recently been committed, the investigation necessarily assumed a wider fange. Not only bas inquiry been made as to the Commission of outrages, as to the execution of Jawa by the superior courts and inferior magis- ‘trates, but bad legislation, official incompetency, corruption and other causes having been assigned as accounting for, if not justifying, disorders, they, oo, Rave to a large extent entered into the state- Ments and opinions of witnesses, ‘here is 4 re- markable concurrence of testimony to the effect that in snose of ihe late rebellious States into ‘Whose condition the committee have examined the eourts and juries administer justice between man ‘and man in all ordinary cases, civil and criminal, and while there is this concurrence on this point the evidence is equally de eisive that redress cannot be obtained against those who commit crimes im disguise and at Bight. The reasons assigned are that identification fs dificult, almost impossible; that when this is at- tempted the combinations ana oatns of the Order come in and release the culprit by perjury either ‘pon the witness stand or'in the jury box, and that Verror inspired by their acts, as well as public senti- ment in their favor in many localities, paraiyzes the arm of civil power, That this organization may not be looked at in the exaggerated light of over- riding all law and justice in the communities where it existe, and that the facility with which tne well- @wposed people o1 the South have adapted them. gelves to their changed circumstances may be seen, they mtroduce statements on this subject of a few prominent men from several of those States, including £x-Governer Orr, of South Carolina; Ex-Governor Parsons, of Alabama; General Clanton, and 0. D. Forsythe, Solicitor of the Rome (Ga) Judicial Circuit, While there, is this general concurrence of evidence as to the eMciency Of the .administration of justice by the superior courts, there are complaints that in some instances fmcompetent judges have been appointed; nu- merous complaints of the incapacity of many or the inferior magistrates, and in several of the States the Governors are charged with an abuse of the Pardoning power, especially in favor of the negroes, ail of which assigned causes tor disorder will be noticed when we come to consider those causes, The inquiry into the present con- dition of the late insurrectionary States neces- sarily involved the history of the successive steps which have led to that condition as affected by the bands already referrea to, and before pro- ceeding to consider their present situation tne com- mittee trace, s0 far as they are able to do so from the testimony and irom oMciai reports, the origin, extent, purposes and mode of operation of this heretofore secret and mysterious organization, and the causes assigned for its existence and earlier actions, There are expressions of belief by United astates military officers and others tnat secret or- ganizations were formed in the insurrectionary States soon alter the close of the war hostile to and intended to embarrass the government of the United States and of the States in the proper adminis- tration of the affairs of the country. Among these Were the statements made by Major General Thomas before the Reconstructicn Commit- tee In February, 1866, and by General Meade in nis oficial report for 1868 a8 commander of the Depart- ment of the South. Neither of the statements of these gentiemen reier by name to the Ku Kiux Kian, Dat they cover the period during which it made its appearance, its gradual development may be traced by bearing in mind these facis and taking up the evidence of eral N. B. Forrest, given oeiore this commitiee. he fixes the earilest date for ‘the existence of the Ku Klux, ng several mo- the proclamation of Gov the report shows the extent to which outrage and crime were tenn The motives and oe a ‘which # accomplished throt m0. aaile clubs, r Klux Kians and Knights of the White Camelia—ditte contested election cases of 1868, Taking these state- mente from official sources, the prevalence Of this organization in one of the ate insur. rection: States and in tucky, it is difficult wi the | which hae recentiy (een thrown upon its history, to realize that even “she existence of the Ku Kiax order nas been so long question inthe public mind. Especially Temarkable in view of the effects tat are uis- referred to clearly estubiishes. Feport treats with minuteness on the occur- South Carolina and Georgia, Mississippi are grouped ther for the purpose Ku Klux ood ther it : 3 s e ‘3 g § me TG Hill 2 dee i S48 a i it, it expressions made by th victums when inflicting ther pon men and thelr out upon testimony is untiorm, and if ‘out of maths we condemn them” it must be yrment by the negroot tne rights oon 2 Di e by ine amendments to the consti- the laws which they are organized to ‘he refusal of @ large portion of the wealthy and Eonatee their duties as citizens consequent ude ai 4 g 8 $ ugh their instra- mentality many unworthy white men, having ob- tained their confidence, also procured public posi tons, in legislative bodies this mixture of ignorant but honest men with better edi knaves gave opporzunity for corruption, and tnis opportunity nas developed a state of demoralization on the subject which may and does account for many of the wrongs of which the people justly com- pla. tt 18 apparent, at the same time, that the aemoralization is not confined to race, nativity or political creed, but presents specimens alike in the hegro, tne carpet-bagger and tne white native cit- zens of both These remarks are not appli- cable to all the reconstructed States, They arew several of them. Taking bouth Carolina as an illustration—and it is certainly as bad in Fayens as any of the States, and there can be no doubt that venality and corruption in the sare Vailed lar; ety there— are spoken of as existing by men parties, Cert: y, their existence 18 almost unl- versaily believed by tne people of the state. With such material as the Legisiature, such views of virtue outside as are shown to have prevailed, corruption was inevitable. We point to the results of the opinion in South Carolina in the tact that the im te nine counties of that State, in which Ku Klux violence prevatied tosuch an extent as to call for the suspension of the writ o1 habeas corpus—in them, are, according to the testimony of Judge Carpenter, much more in- telligent than m any other part of the State, The fact they are so when placed alongside the list of men murdered and treated in these counties, demonstrates that it requires the strong arm of the government to protect its citizens in the enjoyment of their rights to keep the peace and prevent this threatened, rather to stay, this imiuated war of Taces natu the experiment which it has inaugora- ted, and which many Southern men pronounce now, and many More have sworn shall be made, a failure, can be determined in peace. Tee race go recently emancipated, against which banishment or serfdom is thus decreed, but which has been clotued by the government with the rigats and responsibilities of citizensnip, ought not to be, and we feel assured will not be, leit hereatter with- Out protection against the hostilities and sufferiugs it has endured in the past, as long as the legal and Consttuticpal powers of the government are aae- quae to afford 1. ‘Communities suffering euch evils and influenced ,by such extreme feelings may be slow to learn that relief can come only from @ ready obedience to and support of constituted authority. Looking to the modes provided by law for the re- dress of ail grievances, that Southera communities do not seem to yield tmis ready obedience at once should not deter the friends of gcod government in both sections from hoping Nabindes for thatend. Nortnern communiues, exasperal the delay and iosubordination, may be reminded that the elements of tue two societies are widely different, composed of those who a tew years since ruled the State and exacied obedience to their will from their slaves, and held absolute’ Sway over the votes of their white dependents, put who are now reduced in influence and in weaith by the events of war; and of the poor white who has found himself, as he supposes, degraded by the elevation of the negro to political equality with Rim, his vote beiore having been the chief badge of his superiority of the negro, not only voting but ruling the State, in office with or over wis former master, or struggling with the evils Of poverty in lite for himself aiter tne best years o1 his life have been spent in the service Of otners, All these elements beget feelings, and resuit in disorders to which Northern communities are strangers, The strong feeling which led to rebellion and sus- taiued brave men, however mistaken, in reaisting the government which demanded their submission to Ite authority, the sincerity of whose belief was at- tested by their enormous treasure, This expected to subside ab. Once. nor in Sears. It required full i years to develop disaffection into sedi Sedition mto treason. Snould we not be patient if, in less than ten _ we have aiair prospect of seeing 80 Many who were armed enemies becoming obedient citizens? Should we not give all en- couragement to those who manifest a jvion now to become such, especially when it 18 that in sections well disposed men were deterrea by ‘he fear of an armed and desperate conspiracy trom affording aid to the authorities in enforcing the law? But, while we invoke this forbearance and conciliation, fully nizing that, frum by far the t part of the Southern people, a reluctant obedience 1s all that is to be noped for, levit be un- derstood that less than obedience the government cannot accept. . Ubedient citizens they cannot be considered who, themselves complaining of bad laws, excuse or en- courage the masked and armed mobs that override all law. Brave and magnanimous enemies even they cannot be reckoned who permit the remnants al ceneincte, Gear the animoaities of race or the itterness Of Partizanship to degrade the soldiers of Lee and Johnston into the cowardly mid- night prowlers and assassins wno scourge and Ki\L the poor and defenceless. Against aii such crimes, as well as against incompetency and corruption in office, the power Of an intelligent public senti- ment and of the Courts of justice should be invoked and united, appeali for pa- tience ana forbearance in tne North while tame and these powers are doing their work. We ‘would also ap} tothe good sense of Southern men, if they sincerely desire to accomplish political reforms through @ change in the negro vote. if their theory is true that he votes solidly now With the republican party, and is kept there by his ignorance and Ls Bote! all that is n ry to wo keep is 3 by tneir countenance the Ka Klux orgahization. Having the rights of a citizen and a@ voter neither of these rights can be abrogated by whipping him. if his political opinions are erroneous he will not take kindly to the opposite creed when its aposties continue to use the scuurge upon himself and outrage his wife and childien, it he 18 ignorant he will not be edu- cated by burning his schoolhouses and exiling his teachers. If he is wicked he will not be maue better by banishing to Liberia his religious teacuers. It the resuscitauon of the State is debarred by nis labor, neither will it be secured by a persecution ‘which depopulates townships and prevents tne in- troduction of new labor and of capital. The iaw of 1871 has been effective in suppressing for the pres- ent, to a great extent, the operations of masked and disguised men in Nortn and South Carolina. Bills have also been found by grand juries in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi; but compara- uvely few, if any, of the defendants in the last named States have yet been tried. The apparent cessation of operations should not lead to @ conclusion that the community would be sate if protective measures were withdrawn. These should be continued until there remain no further doubt of the actual suppression and Seng of the widespread and dangerous conspiracy, The results of suspending the writ of habeas corpus in South Carolina slow that the membership, mysteries ana power of the organiza- tion have been Kept concealed. This is the most and per! the only effective remedy for its sup- pression; and in view of its cessation aud resamp- lon of hostiities at different times, of its extent and power, and that iu several of the States where It exists the courts have not yet held terms at which the cases can be tried, we recommeud that the power conferred on the President by tne fourth section of that act be extended until the end of the next session of Congress, In view, also, of the large number of indictments found in the several courts under this act whicn yet Temain untried, and of the evident encouragement derived from the belief that the present United States Courts cannot possibly reach and try them within any reagonable time, we recommend such Qn increase of the jadiclary of the United States by districts and circuits in the States shown to be affected by these disorders asin the judgment of Con; will secure 8) ly and certain justice to be administered, and leave no hope of impunity to criminals by the law’s delay. The continuance of isabilities Is the only cause not yet considered. No man under disabilities has avowed him- self as either commit or encouraging outrages for that reason, no member of the Organization has justified their acts on that ground. It is one of the pretexts made by those who were willing to urge Any plausible excuse for outrages which admit of none; bat to remove alleged im- pediments to the local government encountered by the existence of disabilities to hold office, ana bet satistied that there should be a general removal o! them with proper conditions and exceptions, we recommend the passage of a law for that Aareeing in the recommendation made by the Presi: dent to exclude from its benefits any great criminais distinguished above all others for the part tnoy took im opposition to the government, In this-conuec- tion we Wish to say that as disregard of law has bee! the evil #0 Ta po complained of and so widely tended in the late insurructionary States, no couragement should be given to tlose who have ac- cepted office in deflance of the existence of these constitutional disabilities or have elected to office men whom they knew to be excluded by them. THE DEBTS OF fa. Ove, iid, ‘te report of Re; ntative ve im FR mitvee on Cd a toga Laws of he late insurrectionar; — h x-Governor Bullock, of Georgia, sent a letter Jaore remyrhanie for it against the proceed: breach of State as 8 but sent such contradictory they could give little weight to any. ‘The report concludes with @ statement of the gen- eral Qnancial condition of the eleven States as fol- lows:—Depts and liabilities in 1860, Boag * ce” 1860, in i 848,182; Increase Fiona sse Winen the iste lnsurrecuionary Staves entered the rebe! held in trust fun ion the} assets and balances $10,147, 7413 these tunds an ‘assets were on deposit or in stocks of banks, rall- roads and other internal improvements; their con- tingent liabilities were secured by mortgages on lands, in stocks, banks and interests in lien, or on turnpikes, railroads and cana's, The banks had a capital of over $61,000,000; coin over $18,000,000; circulation over $51,000,000, There were oe Snscebed value af os Sras. $4,308,000,94; tno was ; eatimaved oF assoased value of slaves $1,634 105,341; vaine of exclusive of slaves, te According to the estimate of Secretary Belkaap tne Confederate debt on the ist of April, 1865, was about $2,345,297,823. The total ed loss by the rebellion in property, assets and debts, State and Confederate, $5,2 554. There were debts due the merchants of the North from those of the South for goods purchased and consumed and money loaned, estimated, when the war began, at $300,000,000, Add interest to 1866 and the sum Soaiae $408, 000,000, LD fone: oe and igabilities exis and _prospectiv iy Confedérate wae debt, $2,976, 145,955 90. @ burden which must have crushed the people of the South and reduced them to general bankruptcy. It was $218,456.354 47 ater than the national debt at its maximum, 247,320,949 85 more shan the assessed value of ail Br ‘ty in the States in 1860, less. slaves, and 1,372, 743,326 90 more than the assessed value of aul property in the eleven States in 1865. They had neither money nor credit nor suMicient means of subsistence. If the government had left the ple of the South to their devices they must have fallen into anarchy and ruin, But, before the war ended, the govern- ment had in to teed, clothe, shelter and care for ‘the destitute of both colors, and millions were dis- tributed in supplies. In 1865 a bureau was organized for this purpose, and expended tn relief, education and aid to people of both colors and all conditions $13,230,277 40. Millions more were donated by charitable associations and citizens of the North. The document concludes with a report of tne election laws of the late insurrectionary States, THE MINORITY REPORT. The minority of the committee say that, although Tennessee was, for some reason, embraced among the States assigned to one of the sub-committees, no evidence was attempted to be taken to show any lawlessness there, It follows, therefore, that five at least of the eleven Southern States—to wit:, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas—are free from even the sus Piclon of lawlessness on the part of the people, whatever may be the fact as to their rulers. ‘These five States embrace greatly more than half the territory and nearly half the population of the eleven Southern States; and it is hard to conceive how, if political or other combinations existed for any general purpose, they should be left out, while the other six States or part of them were in combination for any such general objects. The minority do not deny that bodies of disguised men have in several States of the South been guilty of the most flagrant crimes—crimes which they neitner seek to |pal- late nor exouse, for the commission of which the wrongdoers should suffer speedy and condign pun- ishment, But they deny that these men have any general organization or any political signifi. cance, or that their conduct is endorsed by any respectable number of white peuple in any State, On the contrary, the men and bands by which such outrages are perpetrated are almost universally regarded by the intelligent people of the Southern States as the worst enemies of the South, as they turnishea the men now 1n power at Wash- ington the only excuse left to make war upon them, and to continue the system of robbery and op- pression which they have inaugurated—a system which is destructive not only ot their peace and prosperity, but 1s intended to blacken and malign their character as men before the country and the ‘world. They quote testimony to show incontrovertible that 1m no one of the six States of Nortn and South Caroina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida bave there at any time existed com- binations of lawless wien in one-tenth parsol any one of said States. The minority report alludes to the condition of af- fairs at the close of the war, the Southern people acknowledging their defeat, accepting the situation and going to work earnestly to build up their waste places and retrieve their lost fortunes, They were determined honestly and earnestiy to support, de- fend and maintain the Union and the constitution, Society in the South was greatly disorganized. The strain upon the people to supply the armies ia the fleld had exhausted their resources, the regions which haa been the scene of active military operations were laid waste. Starvation stared the people in the face. Labor was absolutely demoralized. ‘The negro population, which as slaves had furnished the great bulx of lavor, being liber- ated, in their poverty, ignorance and incapacity to appreciate the effect of their altered condition, were slow to realize the necessity for sustained and con- tinued labor on tueir part; and that the Confederate soldiers and ali others who had, during the years of war devoted themselves to that cause, found on the return of peace nothing but poverty and ruin in all their land, and themselves absolute garssamong @ people who nad nothing to give. Under such cir- cumstances it was impossible to restore harmony in civil government without some confusion. Yet so earnestly did that pcople struggle to return to their allegiance and tnns entitle themselves to tne pro- tection which had been promised to them, that from the day of the surrender of their armies no hostile arm has ever been raised against the authority of the United States. Before even breathe ing time was allowed them a set of harpies, most of whom had shirked the dangers of the battlefield, camp followers, horse holders, cowboys, plunderers from both sides,during all the years of strife,rushed down singly ‘and in squads on that ‘people thus prostrate and defenceless, anda for their own private seized and carried off whatever could found worth seizing in that country. All remonstrance or resistance was stifled and crushed out by the cry of disloyalty and treason they raised against the Southern people, Lod the pretence that the plunderers were persecu' be- cause of their Joyalty and devotion to the Unton, and laily to the republican party and its con- tinued supremacy. The investigation was insti- tuted, and among others the present President, then General of the Army, went to portions of the South to examine for himself. The minority know of no better way to set forth the true state of facts existing in those States than to quote from his Nyy of testimony, which was datea December 18, 1865. All impartial men then agreed that the statement of General Grant was true, If punishments had been deemed politic or possible that was the time to inflict them. The minority state the men of the South under the laid programme down for them reorganized their State govern- ments, elected Representatives and Senators to Congress, ratified the fifteenth amendment by their Legisiatures, conferred civil rights on their emanci- pated slaves; in short, did all they thought the federal government wished them todo. But they were mistaken. They had failed toelect men to Congress who would blindly obey the orders of the leaders who then dict and were de- termined to continue to dictate the legis- lation of the country. A system hes grown up whereby great moneyed monopolies were {03- tered and enriched at tne expense of labor, and es} ly of agricultural labor, which it was not believed the Representatives of Southern con- stivnencies would sustain. The doors of Congress were closed upon them; of course not avowedly tor the true réasoa. And, so jar as they were con- cerned, taxation without representation was their fate from that time forward, and nas so continued With some exceptions substantially until now. When they had not a Representative in Congress a tax of three cents a pound was levied apon all cot- ton exported, that being their great staple product, while every other portion of the country could ex- port tts product duty tree. ‘The Freedmen's Bureau ul and the Civil Rights bill were next im- De upon them by tne other States; ther followed the series of reconstruction measures, with the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, which they were required . accept, endorse and approve as @ condition pre- cedent to being allowed to have any civil govern- Ments as all; because until that was done the lib- erty and property of every man, woman and child, loyal und disioyal, white and black, were held at bet mercy of any soldier who might be placed over them, A careful reading of the testimony taken would convince every impartial man that the endurance and long suffering of that Ne have been such as no people ever before exhibited, Extracts are made {rom the evidence to show the contempiations and feeling of the people of the South toward the Classes of persons Who have cause to be generally known as jt rs and scaliawags, and which show that gentle Tega rdiess of politics, who go South from Northern or Western States and in good faith settle among that people, are as kindly treated and as likely to be promoted to offic al positions after they are known as they would be if they moved from one Southern State to another. The minority dwell at much length on carpet-bag, scallawag and negro rule, showing that while the assessed value of the taxable property in the eleven States of the South has m reduced from anes, m 1860 WO $2,026,440,971 in 1870, ing lope Of $2.307,306,071, OF Over, Will 000,000 more than now remains, the State in 1810. 1 etse1 hil bic $8166, oom 3,615, while it was . ‘When thelr affairs were m: vy their own people and the county taxation in 1860, on all while now, unr carpetbag: and” seyeo® Fale Ie q ans $ 630, OF $11,000,000 more on the remnant still m existence than it was on the whole pi rty they owned when the war began. In view of the enor- mous debt which is shown to have been wantonly, corruptly and fraudulently heaped upon a pee as a as the censns reports show, with five-eigh of their property gone and we taxation on the remnant nearly fourfold as much as it was on the whole when the affairs were honestly managed, is it to be expected that the people of these States will have either love or re- spect for the men or the party by whom they have bee2 thus plundered ? No man can look over the testimony taken before the committee withou, coming to the conclusion that'no people had ever been 80 merciiessly ropbed and plundered, so wantonly and causelessly humil- and jaded, so recklessly exposed to the encieet eat lust of the ignorant and vicious portion of thelr own com- munity and of other States, as the sek ti yee South have been for the last six years. 181 til now gives no account of a conqueror 30 cruel as to place his vanquished foes under the do- minion of their former slaves. That was reserved for the radical rulers in this great republic, This is so to-day in South Carolina, Texas and Arkan- sas, and in 1866 and 1868 it was so in Tennessee and elsewhere, ‘the emanelpatea slave regiments parade in State or federal uniforms, armed cap-a-pie, with the most approved weapons, paid for by taxation 1mposed on weir former masters, while white men are denied the right to bear arms or to organize even as militia for the protection of their houses, their property, or the persons of their wives and children. The minority an when the testimony taken be- fore us ts analyzed and the ignorance and degrada- tlon of the Southern negro is understood; when, as General Grant, in his report ia December, 1865, they believed that the property of their former masters of rignt bel to them and was not entitied to any protection; when, as all the testimony shows, the carpet. bureau agents aud Loyal Leaguers who went Lo these States made the wrong the negroes had suffered and the right they had to take whatever they pleasea of the property they had labored to acquire for their masters tne theme o! their harangues; when in secret sworn or- ganizations, hatred of the white race of the South Was inattlied into the minds of these ignorant peo- ple by every ar: and wile that bad men could devise; when the negroes were formed into military organt- zations and the white people of these States were denied the use of arms; when arson, rape, robbery, and murder were things of dally occurrence; when the great mass of the most intelligent whites were d@siranchised, and the ballot was put into the hands of the negro by the government at Wash- ington; when every promise was made and every law enacted was broken and disregarded by the federal authorities whenever it sulted their purpose to do so; when even the courts were closed and the federal officers who were made, by Congress absolute rulers and ais- pensers of what they called justice, ignore Insult- ed andjtrampled upon the rights of the ost: dand disfranchised white man, wile the oficial pandered to the enfranchised negro, on whose vote he relied to obtain a seat in Congress or to be made Governor or other high’ofticial in the State over which he raled; in short, when that people saw that they had no rights which were respected, no protection irom insult, no security for their wives and little ones, and that what little they had saved from the rav- ages of war was bey 4 confiscated by taxation and rendered valueless by the debts for which men who owned nothing nad pledged, and saw that all their complaints and remonstrances, however hon- estly and humbly presented to Congress, were either wholly disregarded or regarded as evidence of a rebellious and unsubdued spirit, many of them took the law into their own hands and did deeds of violence which we neither justify nor excuse. Situated and circumstanced as they were, unable, as the evidence shows, to keep any- thing that could be carried away; their hogs, sheep, poultry, corn—indeed, every portable thing— being preyed upon as though the owner had no right or interest in it, and when the guilty negro was arraigned and his ail proved the et | or military official ‘who wanted his vote discha nim, or he was {ort by the fo-called Governors, who had aught the negroes in their harangues that the prope: left for them excent to stop these things as best they could. the enormous oppressions, &c., Was added the plundering by the Freedmen’s Bureau agencies, the cotton thieves and the military, to an extent only exceeded by the local carpet-bag gov- ernment which superseded tnem. ‘The enuy Teview these subjects at length, and thea was of right theirs, there was but little they feel confident they are sustained in that there ts nothing in the eviaence teuding to show that there is either any uon, Q n or desire on the part of any rea! le number of the people of the South to deprive the colored race of any of their civil or f Fights, and there is certainly none either to combina- gut Orinterfere with the legitimate authority of thi || or State government. Al ded to the views of the minority 1s the paper drawn up by Mr. Van Trump, the minority Pes we ofthe sub-committee visiting the State of South Ci a. He states that the election in 1870 Sa — the 19th ol October. In looking over e of cial re) of the Adjutant and Inspector pewould “Sbeert le on et a Se a “p to the very day of election, not a gun was rr in their hands after the day of election and the expiration of the ten days allowed for the republican election commissioners to re- tain the ballot boxes in their possession. This Was the exciting cause of whatever trouble and aisturh- ance existed in South Carolina in 1870, It was then that Ku Kluxism showed its head; and even the ie negroes themselves ‘these very arms dis- tributed among them by the Governor. The report of the minority covers 300 printed pages. CHURCH TROUBLES IN NEWBURG. One Clergyman Styling Another a “Vicious Old Liar”—A Father, Endorsing the Oppro- 9 Term, Is to Respond at a Church ‘Tris Newsona, N. Y., Feb, 17, 1872. Trinity Methodist Episcopal churcn in this city is in something of a ferment over the approaching trial of one of its official members on charges pre- ferred by one of the oldest and most highly re- spected ministers of the denomination, Rev. J. B. Wakeley, D. D., Presiaing Elder of the Newburg dis- trict of the New York Conference and a well-known author. The circumstances immediately leading to the demand of Dr. Wakeley for a trial are, in brief, as follows:—A week or two ago the compiain- ant, it is alleged, met tne aefendant—Mr. William ,S. Hanmer, a gentleman of means, and holding the office of Steward in the church named—in the Erié depot in this city. Mr. Hanmer was accompanied by his son, Rev. Charles 0. Hanmer, formerly Methodist minister at Ridge- bury, Orange county, but now serving a Union church in Central New York. There had been, itis said, differences between the parties previously, but on this occasion Dr. Wakeley walked up to the elder Hanmer and shook his hand, The latter gentleman rather submitted to than returned the courtesy, re- marking that he ‘would shake ‘aands with him, al. though he did not think much of him.” ‘Tne Doc- tor thought this a little rough, and made a remark to that effect to a friend who stood near nim. The complainant then extended his hand to Hanmer, Jr., but he, so the story goe8, drew back, with thé flattering remark, “I'll have nothing to do with you; you're a vicious old lar!” On the Doctor's calling the attention of a friend to the remark, and requesting him to remember it, Hanmer, Sr., in the hearing of a number ot persons, 1t 18 said, en- dorsed the language that his son had used to the venerable old clergyman, and for this Dr. Wakeley has demanded that he be brought to trial. Kev. William P. Abbott, pastor of the church with which Hanmer, Sr., 1s connected, of nine members of the church, before whom the has appointed a court | trial will take place on the 28th inst The pastor | will preside over the Court, THE ALLEGED OORRUPT JUDICIARY. The Programme tor the Investi, portant Resolutions of the J mittee—The Bar Ass Specific ges and the Accused be Allowed a Hearin As will be seen by the following particulars and Tesolutions, the Judiciary Committee which begins to-day the investigation of the charges against Judges Barnard, Cardozo, Ingraham and McCunn, have agreed upon a specific and tolerably decisive programme as to how the investigation ts to be conducted, It seems to have been at first the desire of the Bar Assoctation to omit the name of Judge junn from the list of the accused, in orderjto use him as State's evidence against the others, The opposition of many of the Bar Association became, nowever, so strong that this intention was abandoned, and Judge McCunn is to be included among the accused, one of the charges against him being that, when acting as receiver in the Bininger bankruptcy case, he used the money in hia charge ($70,000) in putting up baildt ‘she following are the resolutions of the Judiciary Committee in re. gard to the conducting of the investigation: — Resolved, That the committee meet at four P. M., on Mon- day next (to-day), ‘at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in tie city of jew Yor! Resolved, That the committes issue subpoenas to secure the attendance of the wit Resolved, That notioe in writing cused, and that an tun! ven, Resolved, That the Bar Assoc charges shall stated of sald parties and shall ‘partiouterty set’ forts the press nature of the chat bald acte thereunder constituting ai The committee, ax will be seen by the f omit to state whether the parties Tanking Charnes shall do #0 Under oath, bus 1s 18 to be presumed they YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, FREE LOVE AND MURDER. A Hoary Bostonian Spiritualist Fatally Stabs a Candy Manufacturer. JEALOUS OF MRS. GILBERT. A New England Horror- Drama. Strange Circumstances of the Parties Before the Murder—A Woman with Three Lovers—The Partners in the Candy Business—The Family of the: Victim—State- "© ments of the Murderer. Boson, Feb. 18, 1872. Freeovism and Spiritualism had a most sad and tragic illustration in the neighboring city of Chelsea last evening, The affair in many respects resembies the McFarland-Richardson tragedy, there being a frail and tempting woman, about whom two prom- inent citizens quarrelled, and one in a fit of jeal- ousy sent his rival hurriedly to bis final account, The circumstances which LED TO TIE TRAGEDY are no less interesting than they are disgraceful to New England society. It seems that about a year since a Dr. Sidney B. West, who formerly practised medicine in Boston, moved to Chelsea, and com- menced the manufacturing of a medicated candy, Which has since become somewnat celebrated. Associated with the Doctor was a woman named MRS, SUSAN D. GILBERT, ‘who was understood to be his business partner in the candy trade. A few months later Charles Storer, @ well known builder tn Chelsea, also be- came one of the firm. There soon sprang uj) be- tween Storer and the woman Gilbert a sort of mutual admiration, which, on bis part, grew into a warmer attachment, that kept him at the place of business of the firm, one of two rooms, which were, by the way, used asa place of residence by West, who is a widower, and Mrs, Gilbert. Last spring Mrs, Gilbert, while attending some sort of a spiritual meeting tn Boylston street, in this city, made the acquaintance of ‘‘Azro’) B. Bar- tholomew, who 1s also a widower and a man sixty- one years old, and he, too, conceived a strong at- tachment for the woman, which eventually became AN ABSOLUTE INFATUATION. ‘That his attentions were not disagreeable to the woman ts evident from the fact that she continued the acquaintance and encouraged it, being with him often since, One day iast summer they met at &@ picnic of Spiritualists at Concord, at which Storer was also present, This fact was disagreeable to Bartholomew, who made no secret to Storer that his presence ang attentions to the woman were very obnoxious. They had quite a lively quarrel, but the woman pacified them and prevented any injury being done to either, Tne relations of West, Storer and Mrs, Gilhert still continued at the manufactory in Chelsea, West living there and the other man CALLING VERY FREQUENTLY. The venerable Bartholomew also made calls in rapid succession, and sometimes had an Interview with his beloved and sometimes not. When he failed to see her it was on account of Storer’s opposition, ‘who believed chat Mrs, Gilbert shoula LOVS HIM AND HIM ALONE. To keep away the dreaded Bartholmew he often Sat on the steps of the door half tne night, and was on several occasions ariven away by the police, who warned both of the men that they would get into trouble if they did not keep away from the charm- ing Mra, Gilbert. They paid no atvention to the adyice, however, and last evening the singular affair ended in a most terrible trageay. The firat ine timation received of it was LOUD WORDS FROM THE RESIDENCE OF THE WOMAN, and officers were immeaiately called. They found Bartholmew on the street with @ knife in his hand and in a state of great excitement, exclaiming:— “1 HAVE GOT MY REVENGE.” He was disarmed and taken into custody, and then the house was entered and Storer found dead on the sofa, With two stabs in the immediate region of the heart, Dr. West and Mrs. Gilbert were standing over the body, transfixed with horror. The news of the tragedy had, by this time, reached the nome of the murdered man, carrying dismay to the hearts of his family. One of his oldest daughters, snatching a shawl for a covering, hastily ran tothe scene and was ADMITTED TO THR DEATH CHAMBER, and became almost frantic with grief. She cried bitterly; inquired piteously who could have killed her father; threw her arms around his neck; called him to answer her, and kissed the inanimate cheeks, Her grief wass0 poignant ana so demonstrative that it touched to tears the eyes of the few specta- tors present, Oat of pity for her she was finallly taken away and induced to return home. | Dr. West and Mrs, Wilbert also were taken into custody and locked up to be used as witnesses, AS they passed out the crowd curiously gazed into their faces, particularly that of the woman, who Tad been THE BONE OF CONTENTION between the murderer and his victim. After Bartholomew was committed to his cell he com- menced mourning and crying for “his darling Susie,” as he termed her, In response to inquiries astowhat he had been doing he said he under stood he had hit somebody, and when asked wno he said, vigorously, ‘My enemy, @ man who came up behind me and HIT ME WHEN I WASN'T LOOKING; @ man who has been my enemy for a long time.’ When asked what he struck him with he said, “My fist, I suppose,” and half smiled, as if he considered it nonsense to insinuate that he used any weapon. He was evi- dently not inclined to impart any imformation, although he taiked freely and coherently, giving re- sponsive answers to interrogatories put tohim. He 1s said to be sixty-one years of age, although he 100ks scarce fifty. His business has been that of a machinist, at which trade he says he has worked forty-one years. A few years ago he was one of the patrolmen of the Fifth Police district in this city, holding the office about a year. He 13 @ native of Vermont, Mrs, Gilbert says, concerning the affair, that she an‘ Dr. West had been over to Boston all the afternoon and had returned to Chelsea between five and six o'clock. Shortly before the last named hour Bartholomew came into her premises in A STATE OF INTOXICATION, and referred to @ previous Conversation they had had in relation to his getting employment, or an interest, in the medicated candy business, She, seeing his condition, did not want to talk with him, and tried to prevail on him to leave the house, but he was persistent, and said he had been promised employment there and must hi it; that she told him it couldn’t be effected then, and that he must go out; that he sala he would end all trouble then if she continued to deny him; that he made a move- ment as if to take something from his pocket, which She supposed was @ knife, and then made a motion AS IP TO STAB HIMSELF; that he then struck her in tne breast, she thinks with his fist, or the bandle of the kniie, which ‘weapon, by the way she declares, she at no time saw; that Dr. West, who was present, ‘nen inter/ered, and that. Bartholomew pushed him off violently; that she then again tried to persuade Bartholomew, as she was expecting Storer every minute, and knew that if he came there would be trouble; that in the midst of the talx STORER DID ARRIVE, and immediately took a hand in the controversy, saying, “Ihave got something to say about this;” then Storer and Bartholomew immediately clinched; that Bartholomew was thrown and Storer came on top; that she then begged Storer not to hurt Bartholomew, as he was drunk; Storer got up an® said he would go for the police and went out; Bar- tholomew immediately followed, and she and West Immediately followea and STUMBLED OVER STORER’S BODY, lying on the floor im the entry, She says further, that abe saw no blow struck, but thinks Storer i ‘must have been stabbed when he fell or when n@ was on top of Bartholomew. This woman i# apparently from thirty-five to forty years of age, although she 1s said to be from forty-five to forty« eight. She is tall and slim, of fair complexion, hatr of a lignt brown, hands soft and white, and pre- sents altogether a well preserved physique. She may have been very comely in youth and ts NOT BY ANY MEANS REPULSIVE in appearance now. In speech and manner she 19 soft, and she converses intelligently and fluently, Mr. Storer, the victim, was about forty-five years of age, @ builder of considerable reputation and his family 1s one of the most respectable in Chelsea, The inquest wili be commenced to-morrow afters noon. THE HERALD ALMANAC. A work of which the above isan abbreviate® tivle has veen published for 1372, this present year, the first, also, of its existence. it has, however, very evidently, a long and prosperous career before it, if the healthy and vigorous strides it has already made, taking the’palm from its older competitors: in the annual race for popular favor, is any criterion: to judge by. The full title of the work—“The Herald Almanac, and Financtal, Commercial and Political Register”—more clearly indicates the scope itembraces, though even this fails to give an ade- quate conception of the ground ‘it covers and the Tich and varied nature of its contents, It is by far the largest almanac hitherto published in the United States, by alt odds the most perfect and reliable as @ Work of reference, and leaves ali its contemporaries in the shade by the fuller and incomparably more accurate treatment of the poutical question of the day, so far as that is embraced in the electoral re- turns of the States and Territories of the Union since and including the Presidential election of 186% In fact, after beating them on thetr own chosen ground—that of electoral returus and comparative table of votes for reference in the coming Presi- dential and general canvass of 1872—the “Herald Almanac” has the whole fleld to itself, and a glance at its 240 pages of interesting ana instructive read- ing and reference matter will show how deservedl; ithas acquired a popularity which, in the secon week of its.existence, has demanded the immeatate issuance of a second edition, The almanacs which the present work hus already placed hors de combat on the shelves and counters o! the newsdeaicrs have been for years before the public, but each year’s information was but arehash of every preceding One, and the stereotype plates of the almanac for 1862 furnished good enough matter for that of 1872, The “Herald Almanac” starts with very different. purposes, It has at once established itself as the almanac par excellence of the United States, and without entering upon promises of future progress- ive excellence, let us glance a moment at what has been already accomplished, for tuerein will be found assurance enough that the future of the “Herald Almanac” ts upward and onward, In a brief review like this it 18 impossible to do More than cluster together, without attempt at detatied description, the richer and more interesting and valuable settings of the work. As before stated, 1¢ contains some 240 pages of reading matter, There is not a class in the com- munity, hardly an educated or thinking individual in the community, that may not find something of Special interest to one or the other within those pages, to illustrate whiclt reference must uow oe had, in alphabetical order, to its table of contents, with the assurance to all that ft 1s not the mere promise” and skeleton of information that ts held out under @ flourish of headings and capitals, so much indulged in by city almanac makers, who have hitherto claimed this specie! fleld of literature ay theirs, but ina tal aud delectable substance of the thing AGRIOULTURE AND PRopuots.—Farm Produce Table of Average Cash Value per Acre for 1870—Number of Acres and Value of Crops tor 1870--Labie of Total Vaiue of each kind of Live Stock and Average Price in February, 1871—Exports of Agricultural Products. THE ASTRONOMICAL AND MEAN TIME TAULES—The latter, showing the difference: between mean time in New York ‘and 176 cities, are unusually full and accurate, BANK STATISTIO“.—Number of Banks in the Union; Amount of Capital on September 80, 1871; Amount of Bunda Deposited September 80,1871; Circulation In each State aud ‘Territory September 30, 1871; ' Wealth of New York State by Counties, Equalized Valuation, Real and Personal Property, Area of UL Aymeases e., 40, CENSUS.—Population of the United States by Counties, Census of 1870 Compared with 1860; Population of the Prin- cipal Ciuies and Towns in the United States; Population of the Principal Foretun Cities. CHRONOLOGY AND NEOROLOGY.—American and Foreign da, very full and interesting. ‘COMMEROLAL.—Flour Marxet, Average Weekly Quotations of the Principal Brands for 1871; Cotton Market, Dail Quotations of all Brands tor 1871; Commeece of the Pringk pil Nations of the Giobe; Foreijn and Domestic Arrival at Port of New York for 1870-71. 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MISCELLANEOUS. rom 1790 18 for Rank, &c.; General. 0 manders of Military Divisions, with Headqui Yacuting.—Link of. the ‘principal Yasue Clubs in the United Siates, Names of Vessels, Owners, Capacity, &c, The foregoing brief list of contents, the informa tion Jull and reliable under each head, stamps the “Herald almanac for 1872” the mos. useful book of information and instructive reference tnat has ever been pubiished in the United States under the title of almanac. The price places tt accessible to all, 1t being sold tor twenty-five cents, at which price it is forwarded free by mail to all parts of the nited States, A PLUCKY JERSEY WOMAN. Tussle with and Capture of a Noted Sneak Thief in Harrison Township. mo Harrison township, near Newark, boasts a womap who 1s anything but chicken-hearted. On Saturaay evening while Mrs, Hahi, wife of George Hahl, sa loon keeper, on Main street, was busy down stairs she heard footsteps overhead, and passing outinto the hallway found the door open. She locked it and then cried out, “Who's there?” Presently emerged from @ room on the second floora strange man, who responded by asking, “Don’t Mr. Smith live here? “No,’’said Mra, Hahl, and as the fellow undertook to pass her she collared nim and called her husband. ‘The ruffan knocked her down with @ powerful blow and darted out the f Mr. Hahi and two meo named Munder and presently rushed to her assistance. She printed to Wwe open door, and, perceiving at a glance what had occurred, bolted afver the wiy and secured him. He proved to ye ae jo A yeh, hee ¥ ace, r ‘ho fore ore n under arrest, and has lately been employed, with Mra Hani’s two sons, in Meeker & Hedden’s carpenter shop, On search- ing up stairs $270 which had been lanl away in a bureau drawer was goae. It was not found with Fowler, so that he is supposed to have had @ con- federate, Fowler was removed at once to the Hudson County Jail, Mrs, Hahi was not injured much by the scouudrel,