The New York Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1872, Page 4

4% —~ ~ a SET Ba pet Mexican Miniate: resolu- AMERICANS MURDERED BY INDIANS | Sestoce lets on'eing harmed ot tit ei mece: the Ca eae oiien. would the Oh uabus which was pro i t General McCook Before the Fron- Pewyas hows ing, ane ernment has bee fe Ps tier Commission. moan ces ‘AND IN} As one means to an end to the cruel an \e cote mea eres ta os ee Bloodthirsty Indians on the po hy ie daring the War. consen! of Mexico had been previously obtained. Congress ee UhtGrpendmel thr rete, agd i aganh wok bi the: Es a oot tt ih s L) > A Band of Armed Redskins Mur- the autivorities and peoplo bah: ke Su der Four Americans. siamese te ueta thee ad am i Uncle Sam’s Soldiers in Hot | them back to tuolr own people. An appro pfation, Pursuit. Small Bands of Thieves and Assassins All Along the Rio Grande. TELEGRAM TO THE KEW YORK HERALD. ‘The following special despatch to the HERALD has been forwarded by our correspondent at Browns- ville :— BROWNSVILLE, Texas, July 21, 1872, The Frontier Commission has announced that it will convene for the transaction of general busl ness on the 30th inst, CATTLE RAISERS BEFORE THF COMMISSIONERS, They were waited on to-day by General McCook, commanding in this district, who presented to the Commission a committee of the Stock Raisers’ As- Sociation, After the usual formalities, and at the request of the Commission, the General read a copy of his recent report to the War Department rela- tive to the depredations committed near the bor- ders by cattle thieves and marauders, ONE HUNDRED ARMED THIEVES. OMecial intelligence has just Ween received here Stating that a body of 100 armed Indian cattle thieves have crossed over at Los Cuevas, Alter a lengthy consultation they divided Into small bands, and were subsequently seen scattering in all direc- tions. FOUR AMERICANS MURDERED. Soon one party came upon an American settle- ment and made araid upen the cattle. During the night four Americans were murdered. Thelr friends at once reported tothe military authoritics, and the troups are now in close pursuit of the mur- dereis. CORTINA AND PORTUGAL, Cortina and Portngal have at length “buried the hatchet.” Portugal is now on this side of the river. Mexico a Refuge for the Bloodhounds, and Mexican Generals and Citizens Sharers in Indian Atrocitics—Secretary Fish’s Mild Threat and Its Reception What Juarez Thinks About the Situa- tion—The Remedy and How to Apply It. Our Indian dificulties are no longer confined to the outbrenks of a few refractory bands, widely separated, but include several powerful tribes, who seem to have arrived at some sort of an under- standing to enter upon the warpath in good earnest, On the Plains, in Arizona and in Texas, the red men are unusually active In their depreda- tions. They pursue a course of murder and robbery with almost impunity, and people begin to ask whether it is not time that vigorous measures were put In force for the punishment of the savages and the protection of our citizens, Hardly aday passes without its report of flendish atrocities committed by Indians, and they have continued 60 long and grown to such an extent as to render any farther delay in mecting the difficulty, to say the least, in- excusable, The army consists of 30,000 men, but it is true ten or twelve thousand are kept in the Southern States, where there isno war and peace reigns undisturbed; @ considerable number are necessarily on the Paciiic coast, ana the forts and garrisons require occupation to prevent them falling into ruin. The hostlie movements of large bodies of savages on the {routiers of Texas involve more than an ordinary indian campaign for their suppression. It would be almost impossible for any reasonable man not to conclude that the depredations on the Rio Grande frontier arc infu- enced by Mexicans, and that the action of the government of Mexico, either through inclination or want of power, affords protection to the savages after the perpetration of the biackest crimes on American soil. Mexico has been for many years a retreat for Indians, They have crossed the tio Grande to avoid pursuit, and have never been refused an asylum for themselves, after committing the foulest murders, and a hiding place, besides a market for the property acquired in Texas by acts of violence and bloodshed, Leaving aside for to-day any consideration of Indian depre- dations in Arizona andon the Plains, a few state- ments relative to the conduct of Mexico in refer- ence to the raids of red men from its soil must be considered of importance, COURSE OF THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT. The Kickapoos make thelr headquarters across the border, and have inficted incaleulabie injury on the people of Texas, including murder and tak- ing captive women and children. They obtain arms and ammunition tn Mexico and dispose of their plunder in that country. Our government has strongly protested against this state of affairs, without obtaining any satisfaction, The conduct of Juarez’s government has not been character. ized in its dealings with us in this business either by candor or good faith, The United States pro- posed that our troops should follow the savages feross the frontier and act in co-operation with the Mexican suthorities in punishing them. This was refused on some trifing ground, though It was the only way of effectually putting au end fo the depredations. An attempt was also made by the Indian Department to remove the Kickapoos who live in Mexico to the abode of their brethren in this country, but it was defeated, it is believed, by the use of money furnished by Jua rez, and by misrepresenting the intentions of our government. These Kickapoos are the thieving raiders who rob and murder in Texas, The presence of Cortina on the frontier was com- plained of on the ground that he was the protector Of the robbers and shared in tueir plunder, and his removal requested. ‘This was not done, Juares asking for time to reply. Other acts will appear, by which it will be seen that the Mexican authorities are responsible for much of the wrongs our citizens suffer in Texas, REFUSAL TO ALLOW PUPSUIT OF THE SAVAGES. Our government, fully realizing its inability to punish Jadians engaged tn depredations committed upon American settlements on the Kio Grande as long as they found refuge and protection in Mex: co, asked permission, as stated, of the government of that country for our troops to purene the Bavages across the boundary line. it is also requested that the authoritics of Chihua- hua communicate and co-operate directly with the United States military commander at Fort Davis, Texas, 60 that tho Mexican troops might intercept the aranders {n their fight. The reply received was that the President had not the ower to give perimission for American troops to ‘ollow the hostile Indians into Mexican terri Ory, as the constitution reserved tat right to Congress, which was not ( ssion, When the Mexican Congress metin April last year it was stated that the Executive had taken the subject into considera tion, and had arrived at the couclusion that the occasion was not favorable for submitting suc Proposition with any reasonable chance of success. A MILD THREAT PROM SECRETARY FISit, The Wnited States, further considering tio fre. queney of those raids, the serlons loascs Which they occasioned and the inipunity of thelr porpetr apd presuming that any remoostra 3 might be addressed to the Mexican upon the subject would have no ¢ Vvernuies ect, stated of $10,000 had Mexican Sengrens in 1868, mained until the arrival of the United States agent in July, 1871, A large quantity of cattie was the! purchased and turned over to the Kicka} ant about five thousand dollars in money distributed jong them. The former were driven around the quarters of the Americans so as tolet them see that business was meant, The Mexicans told the Indians that it was @ trap to them over Into Texas and. then, repeat the terrible slaughter Poused Out upon them in 1865, when they relused o enter the Confederate service; that war was raging in the United States, and that they were wanted for soldiers, When this matter was bi ht to the attention of the government of Mexico the usual regrets were expressed tor the improper (?) interference of the local authorities for thwart the views of our agent, and promises made that no obstacle would be placed tn the hy the fulfilment of the policy of our government towards those Indians tempora- rily resi mingaaene the frontier. Of course these Tegrets and promises, as they were meant and understood, amounted to just nothing. But it is not unknown that the money distributed among the Kickapoos was out of a iund of $30,000 sent by Juarez to carry the election in Nuevo Leon. ne opponent Kickapoos wae the Governor of Cohahutla, the State in which they are Jonaied He pretended—acting, it is firmly believed, under instructions trom the City of Mexico—that they were needed for the pro- tection of the inhabitants against the Comanches and: other wild Indians in Texas; but this Was pot the real cause for the breach of i faith. He opposed their removal from the that large gains are reaped froin the trade growing out ot their raids into Texas, by which means the ranchos and hacicndas are supplied with tine horses and mules at iow rates, and this fact must have been well known in the city of Mexico, Mr. Ulrick, United States Consul at Mon- terey, declares that on all the ranches on the frontler are to be found valuable horses, with brands on them of all tho stock raisers from San Antonio to the Rio Grande, and there ore to be daily scen on the streets valuable animalsin greater numbers than hereto/ore that have found thelr way to Mexico through the agency of these sume Kicka- os. The Consul also declared that it the United ‘tates do not insist on the breaking up of this nest of cattle thieves and murderers the Texans will themselves attend to the matter, and when this takes place, so great is the fecling against the siexi- cans of the frontier, that they will suffer equally with the Kickapoos. CORTINA—PRESENT AND PAST, The condition of affairs arising out of the refasal of the Mexican govetomens to permit our troops to pursue the thieving and murde' Indians ts not at all improved by the conduct of the notorious Cortina, once an inmate of a Texas State prison, and now a Juarez general on the Kio Grande, On the reappearance of Cortina on the fronticr a year ago maraudiag on American s2ttlements in- croased tenfold, and it was firmly belicved he was receiving and employing a share of the proceeds of the plunder. Armed parties in greater num- bers than beiore began to cross from Mexico on cattle-stealing expeditions, Conflicts took place close to Fort Brown, opposite Matamoros, resultin; in loss of life, and since then affaiis have remaine in such a condition 9s to threaten the destruction of the cattie-ralsing interest of Texas and also threaten, uuless our government at once inte:feres with sufficient force, a predatory warfare on either side of the river. There are Bis of troops now in the Southern States availa- le, but it would seem the party necessities of the \dministration keep them from their legitimate duties, and meanwhile the ves and property of our citizens are being hourly sacrificed at the hands of merciless savages. A meeting of stock raisers ‘Was held on the 10th inst., at Brownsville, at which evidence was produced inculpating Cortina and other Mexican ofMicials, civil and military, in the depredations, JUAREZ PROFOUNDLY IMPRESSED. By request of General McCook, commanding at Fort Brown, these matters were brought by Mr. Nelson, our Aintster, to the attention of the Mexican overnment. It was represented as late as October st tit tie excitement in ‘Texas was Intense and increasing, and that the offenders were left in per- fect impunity by the Mexican authorities, and that Cortina, who was an. outlaw, gave to the robbers protection, It was represented that the presence of tho latter on the frontier was peculiarly unfortunate for the peace of the two countries, Their representations had no effect whatever. Juarez, We are told, ‘was profoundly impressed with the situation.” But the Minister stated that he would reserve ‘for another occasion a reply upon the subject of cattle stealing,” which reply has not yet been furnished. It is clear that one Of the dificulties arises from want of power of the Mexican government to enforce its mandates in remote States, aud its indisposition to remove or reprimand Cortina for bad conduct. One thing is certain, that Cortina remains at the head of a Juarez force, and robbery and murder go on un- checked. Onur government must by this time see the pressing necessity of arriving at some settle- ment such as will rectify the present oeticlin J con- dition of atfairs on the frontier, It is certainly dis- creditable that peaceful citizens should be left at the mercy of bands of savages who plunder and slaughter and then find protection and safety in Mexico, ; THE CASE STATED. In June, 1871, the State Department received a communication from the United States Consul at Matamoros which gave a full and explicit state- meut reiative to Indian depredations in Texas, The savages engaged in the attacks, he reported, were Kickapooa, ne and Mescaleros, living a short distance from the Rio Grande, under the protection of the Mexican authorities, they sanctioning the sale of stolen animals by these Indians and allow- ing the citizens to trade with the murdering and marauding red devils, who were furnished with aimmunition aud other things they needed for mak- ing fresh raids into the settlements of a friendly country. [ making those inroads the Indians, who are often accompanted by Mexicans, wearing the same hots and other apparel of civilized people, the Americans for some time took them for cattle drivers, and when they became aware of their mis- rit had hardly time enough to escape into the pushes, THE KICKAPOO INDIANS, having left the United States in the year 1803 or 1564, live near Santa Kosa, Mexico, about one hun- dred iniics from the frontier, habitually make raids into Texas, leaving the ranchos for the distance of 125 miles froin the Rio Grande bare of good horses. Several times the owners have gone to Santa Rosa to claiin their property, knowing it to be there and alrcady sold to citizens of that place, and in some instauces they succeeded in obtaining their prop- erty, but in others, where the horses or mules were found in the possession of infuential men of the Viliage, the delivery of them was refused. The Mexican accomplices of these Kickapoos, seeing that stolen horses were pursued to Santa Rosa by their owners, thought that place no longer safe, and accordingly took the animals traded from the Indiana further {ato the intorior towns, where they had a ready mar- ket for auy quantity of stolen property and any number of stolen stock. In many of the towns there 14 an immense nuraber of valuable American horsea, obtained waroaga the raids into Texas by the Kickupoos, the Indians knowlng very well that once acvoss the Rio Grande into Mexican territory they are out of the reach of thelr pursuers, and #0 aye escape punishment. In many instances the indians STEPPED OUT OF THR RIVER ON THE MEXICAN SIDE when their pursuers arrived on the bank of the river on the Texas side, being mocked at by the In- dians, safe in a territory where they could not be followed. One instance is related where a Mexican credited toa Lipan $20 worth of ammunition, to be paid to him with spoils collected on American soll. The Indian was to make, with others, a raid into Texas; and snre enough, after some time, the man was pald Wy the Indian with a Spencer rine be- longing to the United States, The Indian related | fo a mocking way to @ crowd of Mexicans listening with gre interest how he had followed for some | time a party of United States soldiers going up the country, aud how he had at last succeeded IN CUTTING OFF ONE SOLDIER who had strayed @ short distance from the com- mand, aud how this man begged him to spare his Ife, offering hi ey, arms, horse and ail that he had, but how he, however, killed him and took everything from him; the Mexicans listening all the time as if it had been a very funny trick. Be- sides the Yaids of the Indians at peace in Mexico, Gre those of the Mexicans who are domg a whole: sale cattle stoning In Texas, and, after once reach- ing the Mexican side with their plunder, offer, and uadisturbed, at yery low prices, thé cattle, and there is no authority who inter 8 in th xer When the owners of the stolen prope) ty follow the thieves over into Mexico. ‘Then the aw itles are obliged to interfere, and after half the st cattle is absorbed in costs of ven back; but there ts always tion on the part of the authort- ing Mexican, are hardly ever prisonment. Tt consider the noa-realization of profit and the loss of the stolen property punishment suMecient for Cattle tileves when detected punished beyoud a few days’ im- .inst a gi ingo, as they call Amerioons, TURPATENED BORDER WAR, tles to do justice to Americans against a thiev- | “spoke a plece’ entitied “Grant,” very ably, A Ould seem that the autiorities | | these villains, as the crime js merely committed | tor and 8 collision with the Mexicans take place, this would be preferable to having the Texans take the law into their own hands, At one time subsequent to the date above mentioned Mr. Nel- son was informed that, the Presidential election being over, there could be no great dificulty in procuring the the passa Brour troops. act t ; but no doubt the statement mi or defer pen X ite Texas r (the Galves| i— "We must repel force, ‘I’ out Bass wy men pore ly in earnest. jon—As 7 must exhanst ct remedies known to the consti. ution and law. all these fait, then we musi claim the right of self-protection.” to this; gnoul people of Te: ghost ce seray of murda roeriy, anes A end. They would carry the war over the border, just ag the Indians and Mexicans have done, and hen would ensue such a bloody, ted merciless es 2 Wariare as ts not template. ‘Most ser Hen dimigullies xas. Such atrocities as the ure the Lee family, at Fork, occurring continually leaves any further inaction out of the question. “A United States government com! {8 now yt Brownsville redations of the Kicka; and Mexicaus. CAN THE PRESHNT STATR OF AFFAIRS CONTINUR? No reference has been made in Eda crear to the numerous unsettled questions that exist to dis- turb our relations with Mexico, and which the government of that country has shown little or No satisfactory disposition to compose. The ‘free zone” di remains as before, & burning source of irritation. ‘Smi ling on an extensive ecale is he protection and approval of Mexican laws, which amounts to robbery of the tes ‘Treasury and the rain of American rehants in Texas. Certain tt is that if, instead mei ofon the Rio Grande, the same state of affairs ex- fated on the St. Lawrence peace with England ie murder and rob- ‘would be of short duration. ber ple is beyond endurance, and the fact of civil war existing in Mexico is no excuse for the wrongs we suffer, If the Juarez government cannot maintain order, on the principle of self-pres- ervation, the United States are bound to take the business in hand without delay. We can and must preserve the lives and property of our citizens. @ attacks of Klowas aud other tribes in Texas, and even the outbreaks 1m Arizona, almost sink into insignificance when it is remembered the Kicka- , aided by Mexicans, are the most ruthless and lestructive of our red foes, Without Mexico as & wes ofretuge and Mexicans as alders and abettors hese Kickapoo devils would be disposed of in a short time. Our military commanders have over and over again reported their ator id to pursue and punish the Kickapoos before crossing the Rio Grande and reaching Mexican territory, in conse- ring of an insufficiency of troops, and attribute this very want of troops the wholesale murders and robberies that dafly take place in Texas. Thero are 12,000 regular soldiers scattered through North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Florida, Lout- siana, Tennessee and Mississippi, where peace ex- ists and their presence is @ source of protest, both North and South, and who, if in Texas and the Southwest, would save the lives of our own flesh and blood from the bullets and knives of savage foes aided by Mexican generals and oilicials, PREPARING FOR THE CAMPAIGN. THE GREELEY HEADQUARTERS. fe ER Movements of the Philosopher—How Hoe Takes a Rest—Business at the Liberal Hoadquar- ters—The Democratic Committee to Open on Wednesday. Philosopher Greeley remained in Brooklyn all day yesterday, secluded strictly from visitors, taking the rest he so much needs by working on an encyclopedia which he is engaged on in com- pany with Dr, Thomas, of “Lippincott’s Gazet- teer,” for Alvin J. Johngon, the publisher, He will return to the Lincoln Ciub to-day and resume “the Tavelled thread” of his political labors, At the Glenham Hotel headquarters yesterday business was unusually dull, although there was a large mail of cheering*letters received. Among them was one from a prominent friend of Governor Vance, of North Carolina, to the effect that advices from the Governor give him great hope even of carrying the State for Grecley. Colonel Scovel, of New Jersey, annonnces that the State will go for Greeley by 10,000 majority. ‘The Jersey State Central Committee meet at Trenton on Friday, at Poon; to organize the State. Ex- Mayor McCloud, of Jerse: ity, supposed to bea regular Grant man, {s out for Greeley. mong the visitors at bath pei yesterday were George Alfred Townsend, of Washington; General J. F, Fagan, of Little tock, Ark.; W. HH. Clark, of St. Lows; F.H. Snyder, of New Jersey, and Clarkson N, Potter, of New York. THE DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS, Mr. Augustus Schell announces that he has not yet secured the rooms he wants for the use of his committee, and consequently the cominittee has not gone into business. Rooms at the Spingler House, however, are being fitted up, and the com- mittee will occupy them on Wednesday morning. NORTH CAROLINA. The Campaign in the “Lar-[Heel State Hot and Exciting. Estimates from the Chiefe—-Senator Pool’s Rea- sons for Believing the Republicans Will Carry the State—Barringer Apparently Doubtful of Conservative Succes—His Party Will Trost to tho Logislature— Charges Against the Republicans. ite kee Rangran, N. ©., July 22, 1972. The canvass’ dally becomes more intensely ex- citing, and it is universally conceded that there never was so gigantic an effort made before to carry a State. All the doubtful districts are being hotly and closely contested, and every county in the State has already been stumped by dis- tinguished orators, besides: the corps of speakers interested in local offices. “It cannot be over- estimated, The importance of carrying the State in August will, beyond a doubt, set- tle the result of the Presidential election in November,” was the remark of a noted national politician in my hearmg to-day, and every energy is being bent by both parties in that direction. Everywhere you go politics is the theme of discus- sion. In the hotels, saloons, on the streets and at the corners people are eagerly and excitedly de- bating the prospects pro and con, Both the REPUBLIOAN AND LIBERAL HRADQUARTERS in this city are scenes of the greatest bustle and ac- tivity. Clerks are bnsy writing, porters carrying off documents and messengers constantly arriving and departing with despatches. Presiding over the Republican Central Department I found Senator Jorn Pool, who has relieved the chairman of the State Executive Committee of that resporsibility and has taken the direction and control of affairs into his own hands. He was seated on the piazza in front of one of his rooms of the National Hotel, surrounded by DOCUMENTS AND LETTERS, deeply interested in a voluminous tabular state- ment of the votes by countics, Senatorial and Con- ‘essional districts and the State votes cast at the last three elections, The Senator is anxious about the political complexion of tie next Ley ture, which will have to elect a United States Senator to succeed him, and Mr, Pool is already understood to be a candidate for re-election. He claims that the republicans will carry the State by from ten to fif- teen thousand majority, and the Legislature by a ma- jority or joint ballot; and his sources of information e states, are authentic and so extensive as to em- brace every township in the State from which he is In constant receipt of letters, On the Convention last year the republican vote by which it was de- feated was 95, : of which Senator Pool says 37,000 were white votes and 59,000 colored. At that election, he further states, that 86,464 ersons over the of twenty-one did not vote, either from apathy or intimidation, and of these he claims Pout Bhd a full vote were eynblicans. Allowing, then, that olled, which is certain on the first of August, and giving the negro vote at 76,000, the regular white republican vote at 40,000, and the increase of former intimidated voters at 15,000, Mr. Pool is CONFIDENT OF CARRYING THE STATE. there are very tr republicans, however, 80 sopasine as this, particularly when the total istered vote of the State will scarcely reach regi 220,000, AT CONSERVATIVE HEADQUARTERS, Bounce. the conservative headquarters, Mr, D. M. Barringer, chairman of the State Executive Committee, was still more immersed in business than Mr. Pool. He was engaged making appoint- ments for the various speakers inthe fleld, ana assigning fresh orators to departments where they are needed—and labor of no mean order. Witiiout golng into the details of the votes registered or about to be registered, Mr. Barringer, with- out making an; display, said the con- servatives would carry the Senate by twenty-five majority, and both Houses of the Legislature by forty ona joint ballot. That they would elect six, and probably seven, of the eight Congressmen ; that they would carry the State by from five to ten thousand SAAC: and that, even if the State were carried by 1,000 majority in August, it would be carried by 25,000 in Novem- ber for Greeley and Brown. He regretted to state he was in possession of information alleging that the republicans were importing negroes acrogs the borders of Virginia, South Carolina and Tennessee, and this, with its whole official influ- ence of the government, was wiat they had to fight against. Mr. Poole’s estimate is extravagant; Mr. Bar- ringer’s far nearer the mark, though the repubil- cans will probably carry the State by the assistance of the Deputy United States Marshals now being appointed in all tie counties. PROSEOUTING REPUBLICAN NEGROES, Tho Assailants of the Greeley Colored THE REGULAR REPUBLIOAN HEADQUARTERS, Meeting of Veterans in Pittsburg in Sep- tember Next—Cheering Reports from the Southern States. General Negley, of Pittsburg, visited the Grant Headquarters on Saturday. He says the call for a National Veteran Convention at Pittsburg, on the 17th of September next, has aroused the soldiers of his State to the wildest enthusiasm. Great prepara- tions are being made by the citizens to welcome the old heroes of the war. A prominent republican in Minnesota says that State will give Grant a large majority. Seventy Irishmen, who have always been democrats, have formed @ Grant Club in St. Paul, and similar clubs are being rapidly organized all over the State, In Vermont, a member of the State Central Com- mittee says:—Though Greeley and his friends may anticipate sad inroads in the Grant ranks, the State will “maintain her former proud position in the bright galaxy of States as the star that never sets.” According to a letter from Kentucky the colored yoters are solid for Grant. In Virginia, it is stated, Greeley will get no colored votes worth speaking of, and many democrats will oppose him. ‘he ma- jority in North Carolina is estimated at from five to ten thousand. Mr. Norris, ex-Representative from Alabama, says with a good State ticket hia State is sure to go for Grant. There is no defection among Tepublicans, and a large democratic element sup- port the ticket. Major Montgomery, of Florida, Says that State is sure for Grant, GREELEY MEETING LAST NIGHT, The members of the Greelcy and Brown Empire Campaign Club met last night at Pythagoras Hail tothe number of about four hundred persons, for the purpose of ratifying the nomination of the lib- eral repn®lican candidates. The President of the club, Mr. Began, occupied the chair, Mr, Smith, Secretary, read a number of resolu. tions, which contained an embodiment of the sentiments of the members, and advocated the election of Greeley and Brown in enthusiastic words, These were ea A adopted. The speakers of the evening were Mr. William (orer, of the Tenth ward; James J. Rogers, of Brooklyh, and Mr. H. E. Biglea. The opinions of: all, a8 expressed, were warmly in favor of the pordins liberal candi- dates, and the meeting so jar was apparently a success, GREELEY AND BROWN BANNER RAISING, At a recent mecting of the democrats and liberal republicans of the Fifth ward it was de- cided that a banner shontd be raised in favor of the liberal candidates. This decision was forthwith put in execution yesterday, when a large num- ber of voters assembled at the house of Mr, Michael Madigan, corner of Laight and Huad- fon streets, and raised the auspicious flag which now floats proudly in the breeze. The banner bears on the two central sheets nicely painted Pe Hearek of Horace Greeley and Gratz Brown. is neatly trimimed and decorated With tasselied fringes. It is suspended on poles, one at either sido of Hudson street, in front of the house of Mr. Madigan and the Dupont Hotel respec- tively, Great cheering was given and considerable enthusiasm manifested on the occasion, This is but one of the many banners unfurled in favor of the liberals in this city yesterday, A GRANT AND WILSON TRANSPARENCY, A Grant and Wilson meeting was held last night At 189 Chatham street for the purpose of erecting a transparency and instructing voters as to the po- litical outlook in favor of the true-bine republicans, Mr. D. Shea presided. A resolution culogistic of Grant and Wilson was read and carried by acclamation, after which a glee ciab sang a melody entitled “Don’t You Go, Horace; don't go.” A Mr. Rogers followed with a concise, pithy denunciation of the democrats and those cilizens Who are ‘‘on the fence.” He was sue- ceeded by William H. Pope, the elocutionist, who Mr. Lambert then took the floor, and launched forth a fearial tirade against and all sympathizers with them in general, stigmatized Greeley a8 SD apostate, asserting that the old farmer had been republican, but had ned his coat and shone forth as a democrat, A sred person, named Freeman, followed suit, de- secessionists He ving that all the colored folks In the Northern Marshals Arrested by the Federal Authorities and Held to Baill. Ra.xieH, N. C., July 22, 1872, The trials of colored republicans for intimidating the colored Greeley Marshal Cross, continue before United States Commissioner Best. Two cases were tried tolay, In both of which the parties were con- victed and bound over in heavy bonds. The bonds are ge by Supervisor Perry, Collector Young, United States Commissioner A. W. Shaffer, and eight more leading politicians, tis believed that many more warrants will be issued to-day for the arrest of alleged conspirators in the Cross case, : VIRGINIA MOVING FOR GREELEY. A Great Meeting at the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs—Speeches by Governor Walker, Hon. John Goode and Others=Views of Prominent South- erners. A grand Greeley and Brown ratification mecting was held at Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, Va., on the 18th instant, at which Governor Walker presided and made a speech. GOVERNOR WALKER’S SPEECH gave a brief outline of the origin, rise and progress ofthe liberal movement in Virginia, and argued that the present one was identical, the only differ. ence being that this was more comprencnsiye, in- cluding the whole Union. He contended that the present administration, unless speedily hurled from power, woul) eventually sap the vitals of liberty and constitutional government. He called upon the people to rally around Honest Old Horace Greeley, the nominee of two conventions, and to unite ‘themselves in a solid phalanx under the banner of liberty, = and constitutional reform, against proscription, centralization and bayonet rule. He closed amid Srenning applause. Hon. John Goode, of Norfolk, was next intro- duced. He said:— SPEECH OF HON. JOHN GOoDR. He was one of those who believed that it is the duty of every good citizen to take part in the affairs of the government, and that those affairs should not be left to the management of tradi and ae corer politicians, It was his privi- lege to attend the Democratic Convention which had recently assembled at Baltimore, ‘en he had no hesitation in saying that the delegates had risen to the dignity of the great occasion and had performed their work wisely and Ney, ey had cope together not to make or Barve arty, but to save the country. The; e prepared to gacrifice G prejudices upon the altar of country. 6. adopted the Cincinnati platform as an enunciation of just and correct princi Val ofgoyernment. Thoy te nominated the candidates of the libe- ral repeutical, per for the Presidency and Vice Presidency, hat is the ee of this great po- litical phenomenon? How could the representatives of the democracy nominate Horace Greeley as their candidate for the Presidency? It means a great ple od revolution. It means “a new departure” rom the strifes, the hatreds and the animositics of the war into th atmosphere of peace, reconcilia- tion and good will, It means that in the deliberate Judgment of the American people it is high time the war was over. Mr. Greeley had been the life-long opponent of the demo- cratic party; but the question is not what be was, but what he is now and what does ho promise to be in the future, How does he stand wee the vital issues, the all-absorbing questions of the hour? Is he for or against us in this supreme moment of onr despair? Doos he hold out any proffer of relief from the diMeuities which environ and the dangers which threaten-us? Hoe has been an anti-slavery man throngh Ilie, and has dealt the South some hard blows on that subject. But the question is not now one of slaveryor anti- slavery; it is not upon the repeal of the Missouri compromise or the introduction of slavery into the Territories; it is not a question of secession or re- construction, All these things are with the past; aus settled. The question is, shall the white men of thé South be equal to the negro? Shall the white Ren of the South be emancipated trom the tters Which bind them? Mr. Goode proceeded to discuss at length the enormities of the Grant ad- ministration, and noticed in detail the jnultiptied evidences of mismanagement, ineMcieney and cor- ruption in all the departments of the government. He said that the crowning act of imfamy in the hi tory of the administration was the cruel and re- Jentless war it had waged against our unhappy sister States of the South. Professor Biodsoe, formerly ot the University of through Mr. Fish, duue 26, isi, that it inignt be | tis evident that it the Indian troubles in Texas | a " A Lt , é be i 4 1 fi and § toa would vote for Grant, lore zy. lis Cuty to Weigh tha expediency O'puretag | are to be settled the offenders must be pursued | ape eches, lan’s Ride'’ by Pine anttine the hostile Indians tuto Mexico without the con: | into Mexico, Any other mode of conduct would glee, aud the assemblage dispersed, after gtying | Gent of that goverument, if it should uot adopt | only amount vo hallway measures, Juarea biay | tee hearty ¢ ra for bhelr condidates, ' Virginia, was next introduced. His speech was astute and scholarly, and convinced his hearers that they should vote for Greciey Instead of Grant. Attorney General James ©, Taylor, of Mout 4 past two years. Mew YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1872—TRIPLE SHMET. ry, followed. Bledsoe, Judge P. B, Each of the g) ers dwelt with fervor ban Pwd nomination of ley and Brown, decial rs these had been ted by the Na- was now, if undel Southern people to support the ticket. MICHIGAN. Ex-United States Senator Greeley. The following letter from ex-Senator Stewart, of Michigan, is published :— Deak Sin—The administration, Stewart for forces fn Washi- ington sre fearfny aemiors-24 cam he: prt eron Was over last week, Bnd ts In great distress over the » having endeavored, as I services of a friend of » recon ion with Forney. He was told “It was too late.” Robeson, also puffing in Gistress, asked what could be done in Heaven's name to save Pennsylvania, and was told “Noth- ing.” They are at their wits’ end about Penn- Fs age and have lost head as completely as ey al about consequential damages. hat do when Governor Curtin arrives, as he shortly, and takes the stump for Greeley and Brown? Colonel McClure assures me this 1s & fact, 1 mentioned it to Mr. Sumner in an interview Thad with him on L Gio 4 and heexclaimed, “That Settles the question.” i had a long and free inter- change of opimon with Mr. Sumner, being an old friend, and [ think Succeeded in removing some em- ents he expressed as to coming forward. tisfy his conscience as to his duty to the bet aidecpd it would be subserved by his jotning us, and the question was not whether they were to ractically realize the rights Peete to them by ww, but whether the rights of all were to be se- cured by tho preservation of our federal republic against’ Owsarism. . If tl colored people, in their ignorance of their true interests, voted for Grant, and thereby imperiled their liber- ties, as well as o1 it was his duty, with more intelligence, to vote for their true interests and advocate them against their present will by Opponing publicly the election of Grant and advo- cath iat of Greeley. He said it was a philoso- view of the subject, and I judge will act upon hae tt before lon; ites to the Grant State com- Two of the five del mittee of Mary!and, from Prince George’s county, have declared for Greeley and Brown. JAS. J. STEWART, ALABAMA, Grecley and Brown Demonstration—Mass Ratification Mecting at Montgomery. Montgomery, Ala., July 22, 1872. Ex-Senator Warner and S. F. Rice, late Chief Jus- tice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, have de- clared for Greeley and Brown. An immense Greeley and Brown ratification mect- ing was held here Saturday night, at which resolu- tions endorsing the liberal republican nominations and the action of the Baltimore Convention were unanimously actpted A large number of colorea men participated. A MANIFESTO FROM SUMNER, Boston, Mass., July 22, 1872, A special despatch from Washington to the Traveller states that Senator Sumner has written a letter to Gardner Brewer, of Boston, coming out in favor of Greeley and Brown and against Grant strongly. FLASHES OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, Afew days more and we shall hear from North Carolina, the first gun in the campaign. Isit nota little singular that the first two States to show their colors in the elections preceding a Presiden- tial campaign should only differ in a single letter in thelr familiar nomenclature? to wit :—The “Old Star in the Fhst” (Maine) and the “Old Tar State in the South” (North Carolina), Blackberries are in seayon, so are converts to tne Greeley movement from the old republican ranks, Among the latest are Wallace Tappan, member of the New York Republican State Committee (mak- ing the sixth mem)er of that committee who has gone over to Greeley); ex-Congressman Charles Hughes, of #andy Hill, N. Y.; ex-Congressman Burt Van Horn, of the Genesce district, and others, The western paré of New York State is moving for Greeley. Ameeting of the State Executive Committee of the democratic and conservative party of Alabama will be held in Talladega on the 7th proximo, The Missouri Democratic Convention meet in Jef- ferson City August 21, The campaign in Pennsylvania between Camcron and Forney waxes hotter and hotter every day. But will not wax melt when the temperature gets too high? General Steedman (“Old Chickamauga”) declares for Greeley. HUMORS OF THE CAMPAIGN, (From the eee (Grant republican), wl THE SECRET OF DR. LIVINGSTONE'’S CONTINUED VOL- UNTARY EXILE. “Thad to give him (Dr. Livingstone) five years’ news to begin with.” Correspondence of Herald Expedition in search of Dr. Livingstone. “General Grant is President of the United States.” “Since when ?? “For the last four vears.’” “Indeed? And what else has transpired ¢7 “Half of Chicago has been burned to ashes; loss $200,000,000, nce and Prussia have had a devastating war. Prussia®utterly vanquished France in an uninterrupted series of tro- mendous battles and brilliant —_victories, ‘The Emperor Napoleon is an exile. The Queen of Spain has been driven from the throne, and she and her jamily are in exile. An Italian eae is King of Spain, Charles Dickens has been lead two years. A negro has been numbered among the Senators of the United States, Jim Fisk was shot ina vital part by a person named Stokes, and one set of doctors proved to the satis- faction of a jury that another set of doctors killed the man with a probe; and, as that was entirely legitimate, nobody was hanged. A dozen oillcial ruilians ran the city of New York in debt 125,000,000 in four years and stole $20,000,00 rom the public treasury for thei! ri. vate use, and live to-day unwhipped of justice. Women vote nov in oue of the Territories, and @ notorious woman is candidate for President. France is a repubditc, and Henri Rochefort an exile, Mazzint is dead. China has sent » great embassy abroad lito the world to make commercial treaties with the nations, Japan has undergone a bloodiess revolution, more marvellous than any ever created by the sword, and 1s become a free land; the great nobles have scnoan reduced themselves to the condition of private citizens; they have disbanded their armies of retainers and ylelded up their vast revenues to the government; railroads and tele- raphe are being built, colleges established, and vestern dress and customs introduced, The Ty- coon is dethroned, and the Mikado reigns untram- elled, He has come out from his ancient seclusion, and exhibits himself to all the world ia the public streets with hardly an attendant. He is going to France. Horace als ig the democratic candi- date for President of the United States, and all rebveldom hurrahs for him. He——” “Hold on! You have told me stupendous things, and with @ confiding simplicity born of contact with these untutored children of Africa, I was ete 5 them era down; but thero is a limit to all ings. am a simple, guileless, Christian man, and unac- quainted with intemperate language; but when you tell me that Horace haan is become a demo- crat, and the Ku Klux swing their hats and whoop for him, Icast the traditions of my education to the winds and say, “I'll be damned to all eterniiy if Ibelieve it.” ‘(After a se.) My trunk is packed to go home, but T shall ‘omain £4, Africa, lor these things may be true, after all; if the: are I degire tostay here and unicarn my civilization.” piece ay UJI UNYEMBEMBE, Interpréter to the Expedition. DISAPPOINTED EXOURSIONISTS. The Excursion Bont Thomas Collyer Stopped by United States Inspector Bool The steamer Thomas Collyer was advertised for an excursion to Newburg on Sunday, but, through the penurionsness of the owners, she had not been equipped with suMcient life-preservers, &¢., as re- quired by law. The people were thronging tho | dock at an early hour, not even dreaming the great risks they were assuming. Fires were up, steam blowing, and all was excitement and rush. About this time a smal, gray-eyod man, with avery large head, appeared on the sceno. It was no other than Leonard H. Boole, United States Inspector of Hulls for this district. He qutetly noticed the owner, Mr. Collyer, that if the st ft the dock he would incur a penalty of ¢ and notified the pilot if he took the boat out | his Heense as a pilot would be revoked, This ended | the matter, Tite excursion did not take place. The | people, greatly disappointed, slowly traced their steps homeward, It 15 tion to know that there Is at least one oMlcer in te department wito does his duty. THE STORM ON STATEN ISLAND, The rain storm yesterday morning was ono of the severest that has visited Staten Island for the Williams, valued at $500, and ono belonging to Sidney Adams, of Tottenvilie, were biown dow Anewly-erected frame house at West brigntoi and ove partly finished et Port Richmond, were niso destroyed, Loss unknown. The cellars of the houses alone the shove were Micd with water, and in some it will take two days bo pump ib oue Two outhouses belonging to Mr, | } THOSE “CONFEDERATE ARCHIVES The Letter of Colonel John T. Pickett. The Curtain Unyeiled and the Whole 1,422 F STREET, WASHINGTON, D. 0,, July 17, 1872, } To THE EpIToR OF THE PATRIOT:— Ay ‘That pleasant old confabulator, Zsopus, tells as how that once upon a time a hungry wolf, prowling about in search of his supper, was attracted by cheerful light stroaming from the window of a hut. Peeping in he discovered a company of shepherds regaling on mutton, “Zounds!’’ quoth he (La Fon taine hath it “Tu Dieu!’ but as that expression were blasphemous [ shall not use it), “what a pre- cious row there would be were I caught at that business,” Thus every hungry gentleman who didn’t have the energy, enterprise or opportunity of preserv- ing the above-named priceless history is, of course, virtuously indignant at nim who did, Yes, 1am he who, throngh years of toil, tribula- tion ana at great expense, has caused to be pre- served and delivered to the common government of ® common country the aforesaid common his- rtf were @ long story; but in responge to your very judicious article in to-di Patrtot I es give it to you, making it as brie! ime will allows What lengthy journeys I performed; what ox- pense and trouble I incurred in searching for the “anissing Confederate archives” need not now be related. But they were at length found safely stored away in Vanada, I “bougitin;” obtained @ certain control over thom, and shortly after Prest- dent Johnson's general amnesty, offered them’ to Mr. Seward, under date, Toronto, January 20, 1868, Mr. Seward replied that he did not doubt that thoy would prove: of tinportance; but before undertak- ing to acquire them they should first be brought hither and examined, The dona fide holder of them replied to me that “he would see Mr. Seward damned first.” (His language, not mine.) So that negotiation ended, and thus nothing was done until the administration changed. Then, after consult- ing several triends of my political views, and the weight of their opinions coinciding with my own notions, I offered the documents to President Grant in person, and reference was had to Gencrat Rawlings. He was warmly in favor of acquiring the property, and named a heavy sum as proper Syeer seen i their preservation. But just nen he sickened and died, and with him dicd— well, more than I need say. Consulting friends again, and the policy of the new administration not realizing its promise nor my expectation, I offered the Property, at various times, to several pe/sons of great weaith and boundless liberality, but without success, What other efforts I made to have the papers preserved by political friends, how I negotiated with his- torlans, publishers, &c., in vain, I need not now re- late. Here I will make the gratliying statement fist all have kept my coniidence, and I shall keep cira, “ Time passed inactively until about a year when parties representing themselves as acting by authority of nigh functionaries endeavored to open negotiations with me. I ‘fought shy,” but finally was induced to deliver them a copy of the original inventory found with the property, and which ne one of their party had theretoiore seen, This whetted an appetite, and alter the nomination of Judge Davis for the Presidency, deeming it cer- tain that he would-be endorsed by both the Conservative and Democratic Conventions—and elected—I consented to accompany a government officer to Canada und to submit the papers to his inspection. This we did in April last, and were some two weeks engaged in that business. His re- port was favorable, a8 must be inferred from the Sequel, aithough 1 have not read it. ‘The Cincinnatt Convention nominating Mr. Gree- ley, and feeling confident Baltimore would do the same, and being then, as now, certain of his elec- tion, and all rebels (so-called) being amnestied— except a few, who have only to ask:for it— I consented to endeavor to persuade my rincipal, the holder of the archives, to deliver Prem to the government, and which transfer we effected on the 3d day of this month. In short, four yellow trunks wended their way to the White House and a cortain pile of greenbacks was laith- fally paid over accord ng to contract. The custo- dian of the property pocketed his price, relmburaed my adyauces to hitn, paid my fecs as his attorney and agent, and went his hd rleicuye, He is &@ person Whoily obscure, and his name I shall give ‘when | reveal the secrets Of the prison house—not before, » How this affair leaked out from the Treasury is unknofn to me; but as it has done so I feel myself absolved from any secrecy on the subject, and moss cheerfully spread the whole truth before the pub- lic, aud in due time shall give an elaborate history of the affair, should interest in it survive the preg- ent hour. [Then fotlows the portion of the letter which was. reported by telegraph.) ‘he truth is, New now famous archives have no political significance whatsdever. Historically and inancially they are-valuable, Idare say, All good citizens and taxpayers are interested in them in the latter aspect. They may save money to the commonwealth by defeating the claims of those who threw up their caps for Jeff Davis and shouted “Death to the Yankees” during the war, aud now come up here with thelr claims and perjure their souls by swearing they were always “trooly loil.’? I have no sympathy with such. . The couquerer erinped me ofevery dollar, reducing my children to the verge of want and degradation, and consign- ing me to insignificance and endless toil; but if a mere expréssion of regret at the part took could insure the return of the tas cent with compound interest I would scorn, with @ scorn unspeakable, to receive it on those terms. I do not pretend to have been trooiy loil. But, as I labor under the impression that the war ts over at last, | am willing to take i departure and endeavor, by the arts of peace, 0 relleve the party now in poWer from the care of administering tne common government any longer. Thave omitted to say that the ine who spirited the papers away, and who had them in his grip, lately swore that if I shouldn't dispose of them without delay he would; and thus! would have lost all reward for my attention to o seemingly interminable and most laborious piece of business. In short, I had a very voracious white elephant on my hands, and was very glad indeed to turn him over to Uncte Sam. That the person referred to is not a myth I cau most feclingly declare, for he hid the greater part of the money forever from my sight and took the Orst train, Finally, while Tam not so Quixotic as to under- take to enlighten all those who grope in the dark, Iwill say that if there be one in our broad South- ern land so imbued with the spirli of the Caliph Omar, or who is so emulative of “the ambitious youth who fired the Ephesian dome,” as to havo counselled the destruction of tiese precious ar- chives, near ten years after hostilities ceased, him, Indeed, have [ offended. . JOHN T, PICKETT, Attorney-at-Law. (Confederate States diplomatic agent near the government of Mexico.) “THE OLD SOUTHERN LEADERS." ix, 8, Cy J Nivgry-$y Sack uly 1%, 1972, To re Eprrok OF Tilt MakALot= = ~ee tel The Columbia South Carolinian of the 1ith inst, publishes an extract from the “Baltimore cér- Teapondence of the New York HERALD,” headed “The Old Southern Leaders.” I have not seen the original, but presume the copy is correct. In this letter the author essays to give the origin of and in- cidents attending 4 diificulty that occurred some thirty years since between the Hoa. Lewis T. a and the “Brooks family,’ of Bdgeficid, tam at a toss conceive whence your Correspondent derives h information; but I beg to state that most of it is erroneous. The author is interesting, but too imaginative for an historian. Old feuds shonid be buried with the past and dead, and it is bad taste in a stranger to revive the recollection. Warm per- sonal relations exist between the younger members of the two families, and it is cruel in any one to venture to disturb them. lam loth to diseuss the subject, but the occasion requires that the truth bo toi In South Carolina my family need vindication; but the Heratp publishes story to the world, and it shall not go unchallenged. The essence of the stat nt is unjust, wile many of the particulars are untrue, The origin of the un- happy controversy was not “remarks made about Mr. Calhoun,” but @ political contest in which I doubt if Mr. Calhoun was specially interested, So far from “despising” Mr, Calhoun, my father was his porsonal and political friend and warm admirer, ‘That my brother Preston ever “acknowledged the injustice of his family,’ &¢., 18 all bosh, He did, indeed, secur® an appointment in the Marine corps rt the “Naval Academy”) for a nephew of Colonel Wigiail; but tie motive was persoual regard for the young gentleman himeclf. In conclusion, I vt forvear saying that if yon correspondent, jend the hisiortan, e¢ i genus omne, would ive to euralate some of ¢ many virtues of eve “old and ruined rebels,” and forget their fquits, “existing society” might be very much tm. at and more amicable relations established retween the sections. I very much fear, he ot Liat they are destined to remain “queer objects’ ay, enigmis to some people, Respectfully, yout sti t ovediont servant, dT, BROOKS,