The New York Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBE SOUTHERN STRIFE, History of the Race Troubles in Tennessee. EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS CHECKED. Sumner’s Legacy One of Sorrow and Bitterness. A. Bloody Conflict in Alabama. THE BLACKS POLITICALLY ROUTED. NASHVILLE, Tenn., August 31, 187 Stuce the close of the war and the introduction Of schools for the benefit of colored people they have shown a decided disposition to forsake the paths of ignorance for those of knowledge. They have taken advantage of every opportunity af- forded them for education. So tar trom the whites being altogether unwilling to see the race advance, it was not unusual that, in many in- | stances, nurses and servant girls were taught by those employing them. At first colored schools were few and far between in Tennessee. Consid- ering the poverty of the race they made great strides toward general improvement, Schools commenced to increase until there was at least one to be found in every other county, though, as & general thing, they were not very accessible un- less located In the towns and villages, The school house was generally made to serve two purposes. During the week it was used as a school building and on the Sabbath as a house of worship. These School houses were not modeis of architecture, but were usually of the rudest and most primitive order. OLD, DESERTED BUILDINGS were patched up or refuse pieces of lumber utilized and made to do their part, with the assist- ance of divers logs and timbers, in the erection of | school rooms. There was a ruggedness about them that at once bespoke poverty, but, atthe same time, showed the right kind of pluck, and it gave the impression of a desire to rise in the world and to make the best of the means at hand to reach the Standard they had erected. The next difficulty, and it was greater than that of getting buildings, was in procuring teachers. Their own people were, as a general thing, in a state of hope- Jess ignorance, while prejudice prevented many if they pivt an iusurrection the whites have the | Whites from undertaking the task of teaching the young idea of the colored race to shoot, under pain of being ostracized and forced to seek com- pantonship among those they taught. In this dt- lemma the crudest material was made to do duty in the persons of the few fortunate negroes who | had learned to read and write. Some of the teachers, male and female, thus employed could barely read, and were paid $50 and $60a month. It | was clear that if the colored race was to be edu- | cated it must be done through colored teachers. | EDUCATING COLORED TEACHERS, | Accordingly Fisk University and tne Tennessee Central College came into existence, and, having normal departments, young men and women were taught at least the common branches of educa- tion, Their course would hardly be completed before they were called to some point to take their Places as teachers, The schoo! system adopted by the republican | State administration a year or so previous to the incoming of the democratic and conservative party w very defective, and neither the white nor the colored schools prosperea under it. The Constitutional Convention of 1870 provided that a public system of schools should be main- tained, with the especial proviso that there should be no mixed schools; the whites and blacks should be provided with separate schools, Under this section of the constitution a splendid school system was adopted by the Legislature nearly two years ago, and put immediately into Operation under the general supervision of the Present efficient State Superintendent, Colonel Jonn M. Fleming. He at once adopted such a course a8 had a tendency to bring the schools into Popular fayor. Such @ system once introduced into @ country it was political death to any as- pirant for public honors to dare to speak against it. By this time the | COLORED EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS | alluded to above had turned out quite a large num- ber of students capable of teaching the minor branches and preparing better teachers than they yet bad had. The schools of the biacks were given a remarkable impetus, Untii DOW there are 600 school houses for the use Of the colored people and over 1,000 colored teach- ers, Prejudice was beginning fast to die out, and the colored schools received about as much en- couragement throughout the State as the white, with very few exceptions. The State school fand Yields $72,000 semi-annually, while the poll tax amounts to $50,000 annually. These amounts were apportioned out, the colored schools receiving sheir pro rata, In the matter of school buildings the negroes were provided for, in cases where the school fund was used, as Well a8 the whites. In some cases rude structures were built by subscription, but were then better than those jormerly in | use. Tne question of having mixed schools never occurred to the whites, and until the Civil Rights bill came up the blacks never thought of it, and were pericutly contented and happy with the lib- eral provision that had already been made for them and with their own rapid progress, THE NEGROES WISER THAN THE POOR One 01 te co: WHITE: rvative papers in the Sta has collected statistics Which show that ratively speaking, tere 1s less ignorance aiuong the Negroes in the State at present than there is among the poor whites. ‘This starting fact was an argument so forcinie in itself that it had macn to do with carrying 4 tax of fifteen cents on $100 in that county (Sumner) at the election of the 6th inst. 1 might here remark that this statement, to- getter with the presumption that the Civil Rights nil Would NOL pass, carried the question by a heavy majority. During the past educational year De. Sears, agent of the Peabody fund, distributed about $25,000 to schools without regard to race or color. When Sumner’s legacy was taken up in the Senate 1t produced geveral demoralization in schools already in operation. The terms were to expire wictin a month, but they were so intected with the general discussion of the mixed school clause that it was with the utmost dim- cuty that discipline could be maintained with either teachers or passed the Senate Wildest commotioi id excitement prevailed, THE OBNOXIOUS MEASURE was universaily denounced. The old lion, Preju- “ice, that had Jain conchant tn his lair for 80 long and that lad sunk into an easy siumber now sprang up with tenfold more vigor than he had ever re possessed. Old animosiues, greatly augmente ed, intense feeitng prevailed, the school system was shaken to its foundation and its utrer anniilation threatened, To add to the fury & State Colored Convention, having iis origin in Washington, was convened here. Jt was believed to be originated at the in- Stigation of placemen, It was a political fignt and mebody must be put down that another repub- lican might be raised to the summit of his olitical aspiration. In this Convention in- | jammatory speeches were made and ne | dorsed. ‘be delegates clamored lor mixed schoois | and for social positions with the whites. Samael | Lowery, colored, a United States gauger in this Congressional district, said that he lad walked arm in arm With a white woman in Canada, and he hoped to see the day when he would walk through the streets of Nashville arm in arm with any white lady he chose. This aud other sentiments ‘ofthe same kind were loudly applauded. They were not satisfied with the system o! se existed, though the State constitution recogn no other. They desired their chilaren to be cated with the whites and taught their equality by sitting side by side in the schoolroom with their Caucasian brethren. ‘They felt that so long as one building Was had for the whites and an- other for the blacks so long would the latter feel their inferiority. THE BITTERNESS BNGENDERED. ‘These haracgues inflamed the minds of the biacks to the extent that they consiuered them- Selves mach abused and eee a wee as kept gyt of such social privileges as those desig nated by thé Civil Rights pili; and, on the other } mana, raisea im tne wattes a determination unto | store. They were going for that establishment. | the night @ negro named John Mapp stealthily | deuth chat if tt were possipie by any means im | their power they could keep out 80 odious a com- mingling they would do so, One of the best school Systems in the nation should go to destruction | Tather than see their children seated side by side with blacks. It was claimed, and with justice, that the colored people were indebted almost whoily to | the whites of tuts State for their present advance- | ment, i paid the taxes and supported the Schools, al shouid not be choosers.” In the Colored State Convention white repub- licans were ignored, cast away upon a nigh shell, there to remain, for all they cared, like so many acted, alienated from them and they irom the whites. Definite lines of distinction were drawn. ‘The blacks claimed to be the republican party of the State. If any emoluments were to be derived from the’ party they felt themselves now entitled to them, They had too long occupied the position of “hewers of wood and drawers of water,” while / = white leaders had gotten all tae loaves and | shes. THE WHITE AND THE BLACK PARTY. ‘Though the Civil Rights bill had been virtually | deieated the animosities it had engendered had by no means died out. the county canvass coming on the imes became still more tigbtly and posi- tively drawn than ever, The cry of “olack party” | and “white party’ was raised and kept up with | such pertinacity, Vigor and intolerance on the part of the candidates, their friends and overzealous | organs, as (oreboded untold evil and disasters. | | Debunciations came from the mouths of the con- testants as bitter as gall and wormwood. It. was | carried beyond all bounds, Personalities became | commonplace; rows, broils and fights were not at all unusual Whiskey flowed freely and io this imstance thought “beggars | ‘The white man had no room to shoot, but quickly | clubbed nis gun and killed bis assailant with a few | rapid blows of his weapon. Then | FIRING WAS COMMENCED by the blacks. Iu the darkness Do harm was done. The old muskets shot too high. The whites re- turned the salute with shotguns, and three negroes fell dead. Tue blacks retreated tumuituously, The podies ol the blacks were found at dayught and buried. No whites were injured. TWO CHURCHES WERE BURNED P during the méle, Itis not known by which party | this was done, but citizens say that the building of the whites was fired by the negroes as they dusty volumes, not tobe moved or thought of | were fired upon, and just before the running, and | immediately han; Thus were the whites, with whom they had beiore | t ‘hat of the blacks was destroyed by the whites to revent the negroes from returning there, aud to force out such as might be lurking in the house and cause the death o/ the party they nad attacked. ‘Though the attacking negroes fled when fired on like a frightened mob the report is they threaten another attack, and say they intend this time kill- ing Women and children. Assaults were expected last night, both at Wacoochee and Salem. Near tie jJatter place, the corored peopie held a large meet- ing on Toursday aiternoon, Those in Salem, how- ever, manifested great consternation when the news of the Wacoochee fight was received there. THE WHITES ARMING. Several orders tor shotguns for Salemites were filled in this city yesterday. About one hundred and fifty armed men Were in Saiem last night, and @ goodly number at Dover. ‘The people in Lee generally are alive to the situa- convinced every day of the necessity of mene summary examples of the bad white ana biac! men Who delude the poor ignorant blacks and in- cite them to insurrection and bloodshed. The safety of their wives and children, they think, de- stole into a room occupied by a daughter of Mr. J. J. Vance and made a desperate effort to outrage her person. The screams of the young lady brooght her parents to her assistance, but we regret to say that the negro mana; to escape. | When last heard from be was still at large; but it is to be hoped he will be caught and dealt with as | his crime deserves. AS we have often said, there 1s but one way to check this crime of frequent oc- currence, and that is to catch and lynch the per- petrators. We h of outrages from all sections, | and tp most cases they are perpetrated by brutal negroes, Let our people be ever cn the alert, and ‘all persons when found guilty | of this most shocking crime. The people of New Ireland should turn out en masse and find Joon | Mapp ifhe isin the country, and, uf tound, hang | him to the nearest limb. Assaults a Alleged Murders by Ala- bama Ku Klux. | [From the Montgomery Journal (negro organ), August 30.) The Ku Klux are still on the rampage in Living- ston and Sumter county. We have been fur- | nished with the following facts relating to an out- | rage perpetrated in Livingston on the 15th inst, | It seems that on the Monday succeeding the sksas- | sination of Billings Mr. Allen, keeper or the Allen n. | ‘The best people of the South are becoming more | House, in that town, is alleged to bave sald that | Mr. Billings had undoubtedly been murdered by the | Ku Klux, and that if there was any law in the | land they should be punished tor it, He 1s also | alleged to have said that it would not at all sur- sometimes blood, Such @ canvass is rare in the annus of Tennessee, and it is to be hoped that lts counterpart may never again thrust forward 1ts brazen frout. When excite- ment runs $0 high and blood reaches to such @ | mands it. The eaders alone are to blame. The | prise him if Rentrow, the well known leader of hegroes would be quiet and law-abiding were it | the Ku Klux Klan in that county, knew hot tor these designing, biack-hearted creatures, | of or had @ hand in the assassination. who desire to force @ war of races ne cheee. that | This was Allen’soffence. On the 15th inst, Ren- nt to Ala! | and the houses are few and far between. fever heat such hideous scenes as those witnessed at Trenton @ week ago may be accounted for. ‘Though the questions involved were parely ofa local character, yet those naving a national bear- ing were irresistibly drawn into it. THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL WAS THE SCARECROW held up to the sovereigns by the place hunters, both white and black. The whites are not in favor of any Man who espoused that measure, and their respective candidates. were forced to declare agamst it, while the blacks an- nounced their determimation to vote for no man notin iavor of it. The election came off August 6 to the relief of all, the canvass having taxed and wearied everybody concerned. ‘he democratic and conservanive party carried it over- | Wheimingly, The negroes realized their deleat; they saw themselves a hopeless minority, power- sess to accomplish anything without the aid of the whites, They were politically whipped. Ihave sketched the history of the past four Years to give the readers o! the HERALD an idea of the educational advantages voluntarily granted to the colored people. They could have no greater privileges even tnougn the legacy of Sumner were Made a reality. What jollows is an exhi- bition of tae animosities enkindled since the passage of the Civil Rights bill through the Senate. And yet this present furore over the Measure shows that, two years avo, it Was not anticipated. In the Congressional canvass for the state at large ex-President Andrew John- son charged the Hon. Horace Maynard with being iniavor of mixed schools, and everything else which the present bill conceded to the blacks, And yet it fei still-born; it scarcely made an im- pression upon the multitudes that beard it, The Civil Rights bill, of One kind or another, has been pending since 1866. I believe it wili continue to hang in a state of suspension for years to come, unless the next Congress shall give it a quietus, and 80 giv measure: THE LAW IN THE HANDS OF TUE WHITES, It has been shown that the negroes have been, politically, whipped out; they are Lhe weaker party; law in their own hands; they have officers of their own choosing to bring the culprits to justice. Lynch law is, therelore, without any justification Whatever. If the law is stringently entorced there heed not be within & space of eight months eigat murders in Sumner, twelve in Rutherford and twenty in Gibson, a8 within the same length of time just passed. Ofthese some were white and some were colored, and tue victims were killed in various Ways. THE MURDER OF JULIA HAYDEN. Ina former letter I promised to give the fail Particulars of the murder of Miss Julia Hayden, at the house of Pink Lowe, near Hartsville, by two Outlaws @ Sport tue ago. No Official inlormation bas, as yet, been obtained of the affair, yet there is envugh of it to show that it Was a most dastardly and brutal murder. Lowe, who ig the principal Witness, 13 Somewhat non-committal so far as the perpe ors of the crime are concerned. The brothers of the murdered girl, who went after ber boay, asked Mr. Lowe if he knew who It was that | did The deed, but obtained no satisiactory answer. Doubtiess he has been imtimidated into silence and will only reveal whathe knows on the witness stan Julia Hayden was born of very bright mulatto parencs and was hersell an octoroon, having red hair, black eyes and ireckles. She was eighteen years of age. Her parents had always been lavor- ite servants of a good old-lasbioned family in Maury county. The girl was raised with a great deal of care, and when old eLough was sent to schocl, she had for some time been a student at | the Tennessee Central College, was always punc- tual tn ner habits and studies and soon obiained a good Engitsh education, Among the other pupils She Was noticeable, on account of the marked ditfer- ence m complexion. A month ago sne received a letter inviting her to go to West Tennessee, to take charge of a school there. Teachers are not easily obtained in the more rural districts, and those schools are deemed lortupate that procure one. She accepted the call, but was prevented Jrom taking iton account of being unable to optain any definite direction as to the place. it being a small out-ol-the-way village, and not laid down in the maps. The next opening was at a place near Hartsville, to which she repatred. At this pomt she obtained board in the family of Pink Lowe, a | respectable citizen oi Trousdale county. It is A WILD AND LONELY SPOT, The schoolhouse was a mile and a half distant. and a | walk twice a day over the quiet and desolate | country road, to @ person who had lived mm the busy city, Was not calcatated to inspire her with courage. A stranger in @ strange iand, it Was not to be wondered shat she felt lonely, and in a letter to a friend desired her to pay her a visit untii ghe became accustomed to her new surroundings. She had been but three days in her position when the bloody act which 1 am to relate deprived her of her life. she had had no time to form acquaintances, no time to make any enemies, and the murderous act was com- mitted in pure wantonness. Between two and tree o'clock. On the morning of the 22d inst. two men rode up to Mr. Lowe’s house, and aiter hailoomg and knocking demanded to know if the colored school mistress was m the house. i Lowe told them she was, but they could not get her, At this they became enraged, and aiter bang- ing at the door and cailing loudly tor Julia Hayuen, they made otner efforts to lorce an entrance, THE SHOOTING. The girl was in an upper room of the house, and being awakened by the noise, and becoming alarmed at hearmg calls made jor hersell, ran down into Mrs. Lowe's room and jumped into the bed with ber for protection. She had just gotven into the bed, and was ina sitting postare, when there came @ crash ; the girl screamed, and fell to the floor a lifeless corpse. Whetner sie was shot through the door, or, the door being opened, they shot directly at her, or whether they etfected anentrance to the room and did the shooting there, is not known positively. It 18 Supposed that the two rufMflans went to Mr. Lowe’e house with the intention of outraging the person of the girl, Whom they velieved to be sleep- ing in an outhouse; but finding her in the dwel- | United States troops may be cry | and they hope by their aid to ride to power. The Caucasian race has, in all history, compelled all who opposed them to yield, apd it grows | Stronger p! ily and mentally 'with the cen- | turies. Indignation is not so great. against the mass of the blacks as the vile white men who arouse all the Beare) Paakinoe of an ignorant race. Some of these Jeaders who counsel arson and murder will, doubtless, oe found swinging to @ tree some fine morning. Human endurance can- not suffersthe lives of mothers, wives, sisters, relatives and children to be imperilled by scoun- | dreis that they may retain authority and money, ‘A WARRING. We heard yesterday that when the negro mob at Hurtville, Russell county, Ala., threatened to sack | that village and kill the whites and were firing pistols a notorious white radical, namea Bill Tur- whites, saying, ‘Damn the ofice; 'm going with my color when there’s a fight.’? We do not voucun lor the trath of the above; but hope, for the sake 0! the white blood in his veins, that it 1s true, Colored people had better take warning now, | for they will find to their sorrow that If they array themselves as a race against the white people of the South, and the shock of battle does come, | their white-skinned allies will desert them and | join their own color, or they will leave them to do ) their own fighting. | Blacks and Whites Participate in the Executien of Tnree Negroes in Missis- | sippi. | On the 16th ult., at Brockboven, Mias., the rest- | dence of Mrs, M. L. Burnley, a widow, living alone and @ fearful outrage perpetrated, which is thus | described by a repebiican paper, the Brockhoven | Citizen:— Mrs. Burnley and her eldest daugater, a most modest, refined and very intellectual young lady, who graduated with the highest honors of her class @ year ago, were sleeping together, when her daughter, Miss Bertha, threw her arms around | her | cried room. motner’s neck, frantic with tear, and out that some person was in the The room being dark, the mother at first impulse thought her daughter only irghtened in ber dreams, and put | her hand out to quiet ber. In a moment two | negro men sprang forward and gripped the throats of the two ladies, and at the sume time the dread- Jul voice of Anthony Grant, @ Well Known desperate burglar, who someumes lurks in this community, and who Jormerly lived here, but tor a long time evading the officers for former crimes, spoke forth, “Do yo patting the cheek apd neck of Mrs, Burniey with the cold, heavy barrei of a pistol, and proceeded, “Now, damn you, keep quiet, or I will send you to heii, where I have sent thousands of others,” ‘At first Mrs. Burnley hoped that the rascals might be satisfied with theft and robbery, and when they asked where her money was she at once told them where what she had in the house | coulda be found, which was secured by the third, | hegro, whose entire part 01 the plot seemed to be to do the ropbing, and who then called her a liar and demanded to know where the | remainder of her money was. Mrs, Burn- ley piteously implored them that she and her mnocent family bad never done them any harm, and that they were welcome to everything they wanted in the house, and aiso to the two horses she had at the stable, but to please let her and daughter, who still were in their clutches, alone. But the hard hearted wretcnes were un- moved from their hellish purpose. And then ensued @ painful struggle of rapacious just aud borror and imnocence too horrible to relate. | The mother with self-sacrificing devotton, which mothers alone can exnibit in the grandest sublim- ity under such perils, nothing daunted at the pistol | at her temples in the hands of a viilain, threw ber- | self bya Meepetate struggie a8 a protection across the form of her daughter. Vexe Opposition made by such heroic efforts o1 Mrs. Burn- ley to save her child, the fien’s with a sudden wrench ol the arm snatched tne distracted mother with great violence from the bed to the floor, and | choked her nearly senseless, and then committed thas most dreadiul and heinous crime which snocks the heart of a civilized community worse than murder, Mrs. Burnicy, finding herself free | clutches of Anthony Grant, escaped through | the window and raised an alarm, waich caused all | three of the negroes to disappear in suaden baste. While Authony Grant and Silas Jonnson were en- | gaged in the attack on tne ladies, Dick Cooper, the third negro, was entirely engaged tn search of money and Valuables from the ground floor to the garret, ‘hey took off the small amount oi money about the house and a trunk of valuables, the trunk being lound rified the next morning about ball a mile from the house. Mrs. Burnley's residence was on the edge of the town. on the Meaaville road, where the local- ity is thinly sectied, the nearest residence o1 any male person being three hundred yards distant, and it was filteen or twenty minutes alter the ne- groes had ffed before any oi the neighbors reached the scene of action and Lear daylight before a iully organized force went in pursuit. Early Suudsy morning the most intense excite. ment ever known tn the history of Brovkuaven prevailed among tbe citizens. Horror, indigna- lion and revenge filled the bosoms or the most dis- passionate natures. Nearly every citizen in the place, colored and white, capable of carrying arms, scoured the country’ for miles around, but without deriving any information of the wary wretches, Goward Johnson was arrested under strong suspicious circumstances, his voice and outimes of person very much resembling one of the party that so cruelly treated Mrs. Burnicy. But as it was known that Silas Johnson regu. | larly belongs to the trio of bandits headed by An. thony Grant, Howard Johnson was lodged in jail to await some further developments. How terribly this outrage was avenged by the ner, who is trying to get into office by negro votes, | | came out with his gun and took sides with the | know What ths is? at the same ume | at the effective | for & moment and her daugater still in the violent | | frow, accompanied by a man named Martin or Marshall, went to the Allen House, in Living- | ston, Sumter county, and, calling out Allen, the | proprietor, assaulted and beat him most bratally with their revolvers, Allen had been sick, was taken completely py surprise, and was unadie to defend himself. During the Ku Klux troubles in Sumter county Renfrow was their well known and acknowledged leader, and fed to Texas to escape | the indictments pending against him. Allen is a Northern gentleman who moved to Sumter county | some tour or five years since. te bought a plan- tation and worked it until January last, when he opened the hotel which he at present keeps, He is known by all to be a man of good character, and a_ quiet, months ago joined the republican party. The Ku Klux of Livingston are now engaged th the pious work of persecuting Allen. They declare that if | he does not make @ public recantation of republl- canism they will force the merchants and busi- | pees meg and all others to quit patronizing his oie! | Senator Spencer’s Report on the Subject. | [From the Washington Republican.) Senator Spencer, of Alabama, who has just ar- rived in this city direct from his home, reports a | terrible state of affairs in that State. Colored | men are being indiscriminately maltreated ana murdered by lawless white men, ana the most intense feeling of alarm prevails among the objects of this deadiy persecu- tion. The persecution {s not confined to the | blacks, but every white man who sympathizes | with the blacks, and who is not amply protected the people a rest irom strife-stirring | with four daughters, was entered by three negroes | by friends and neighbors, is visited with the ven- ance of these cowardly Thugs of the “White jan’s Party.’ Yesterday Senator Spencer re- ceived @ despatch irom Sumter county, Alabama, | statung that a signal of danger was displayed to | an approaching train, and when the train was ring te ®@ body of disguised armed men dragged | the and deliberately murdeted him. This 1s one ol the mstances of the “war of races” with | which we are almost daily regaled in the newspapers, and which are cespatchea over the wires to cover the murder- ous doings of Southern bullies, There is a | point at waich forbearance ceases to be a virtue, | and we may be nearer that punt just now than | | these cowardly murderers of unoffending negroes | may Imagine. The government of the United | States ts bound to protect the lives of its citizens, | and it seems that we have reached that period | When this national protectton should be extended | to the victims of Soutiern wrath. It tae State governments cannot or will not protect the lives | and property o1 citizens the national government | must. It looks as though this persecution of the Diacks in the South ix premeditated ; that it is pur- | Sued in accordance with a stipulated understand- | Ing among tue whites, 40d Unless it 1s stopped by | the local authorities inquiry shoula go Jortu from | this capital. DOES THE TELEGRAPH LIE? | A White Reign of Terror in Louisiana, To THE Eprror or THE HERALD:— Is not the trick ofinfluencing public opinion at | the North upon political events in the Souch by | lying telegrams becoming too transparent to be | worked much longer? | Very frequently during the past month the pub- | lic bas been favored with telegraphic announce- ments of ‘‘Uprisings of the Negroes,” “Armings of the Whites in Sell-Defence,” &c., usually culminat- ing in accounts of bloody conflicts between the races, which, when correct reports come by mail, prove to be but unprovoked and cowardly mas- | Sacres of negroes by Southern desperadoes. | The latest feat of this kind we have in the horrid story which comes from Coushatte parisn, La. ‘The Sheriff of this county, apprehensive of out- Tages, called out a posse composed of fifteen white and fifty colored men to preserve the peace, whereupon the veractous press agent in- forms us that this public functionary was trying ‘o incite a negro riot. To collect from | the teeming grogshops of crossroads and villages | for 100 miles round @ band of 200 outlaws was an | easy task. This drunken, howling, murderous crew proceeded to attack the defenders of the | law, slaying fouro! them, overthrowing the county | government and reducing to prison tae sheriff and | five other principal parish officers, at which point | the ingenuous reporter tells us that “the ring- i | { | | leaders of the riot have been arrested” aud that | | order reigns in Warsaw. | But a bloody sequel remained to be told. From | their prison in the little irontier Louisiana town the unfortunate defenders of public order are taken, ostensibly to be removed to Shreveport, but in reality to meet a doom dreadful as that | which beiell the prisoners of Trenton only a week | peaceanle and inoffensive citizen, and some two | Inited States mail agent from che mail car | | ago. Midway to its pretended destination the | ghastly procession nalts in the midst of the gloomy Southern woods. A | Moments are accorded the ili-iated men to prepare | for the awit journey, and then the pistol, the | knife and the bludgeon have done their work. Six | | sire to “immediatize” all possivle pleasures for | | disfigured corpses lay by the roadside, to fatten | carrion birds and appal the casual traveller | through those solitudes. The telegraphist now | comes forward and vouchsaies the opinion that few brief | the last part of this horrid business was the work | | of **fexan: intend to have such damued scoundrels hunting homes in their State.” Now if the champions of the “white man’s | party’? will insist on keeping up this nell’s holiday | in the South, disgracing us in the eyes of the whole civilized world, we must endure it pa- ling, and not to be thwarted in their plans, they Mussissipplans wil be seen from the following, | tiently until the President returns to the capital made the attempt with the result as above given, ‘The ola man, her lather, was filled with grief at her sudden aud terrible death, and said that he could have borne almost anything better than having is daughter, of whom he was 80 proud, killed 1p so awifui and terrible a manner, LYNCH LAW AND CIVIL CONFLICT. ———_. which we find in the Brandon Republican of the | 27th ult.:— | The news of the terrihie ontrage committed by | three dirty, greasy, loathsome and desperate ne- groes, at Brookhaven, on the morning of the 16th | inst., upon the person of Mrs. Burnley and her | lovely daughter, few like a lightning flash to the ) whole suriounding country, caused the blood to boil in every manly heart and every true man to swear that he would not rest until the foul fends | and gives his attention to public affairs; put let | Us protest against the insult vo an intelligent peo- | ple contained in this systematic attempt at decep- | tion by lying earner oar who are in open and unblasning sympathy with these henious crimes. New York, Sept. 1, 1874, | BELLEVUE HOSPITAL EXCURSION. ‘aT. An Alabama Town Attacked by Ne- | were brought to justice. Tbe people armed them- A Glorious Day for Three Hundred and groesTwo Churches Burned and Four Negroes Killed. The Columbus (Ga.) #nquirer, conducted bya Northern war democrat who served in the federa; army, in its issue of the 29th ult., makes the foie Jowing report:— Wacoochee Valley is a village in Lee county, Aiabama, located sixteen miles irom Columbus, on the direct wagon road to West Point. Lt is about | @ mule from tuc Chattahoochee River and seven from Salem, on the Western Railroad, and about as lar irom Dover. Tue settlement embraces sev- eral storehouses, a pos. office and two churches— one for the whites, the other ior the colored peo- | ple. The population is very small, IN eT CONCLAVE. | For some time the negroes have been meeting | in their church, The assemblages were secret. | lt is alleged an oatn was administered to those who attended. The speeches wa | gnorant and inflammatory charac | man, Cas. Miller by naine, is char.ed with being the leader and inspirer of the movement, Their complaint appeared to be that the whites had ali the property, and that negroes, as slave d made it tor them; and now, that the latter were free, they had a just claim to at teast hair of it. They also demanded that halt of every crop was theirs in addition to wages, and the distribution was unequal. THE PLOT WAS REVEALED by a trusty and faithiul negro woman to her life- loug mistress, Op Thursday she gave information that the blacks, the evening Lesore, in their churen building, had determined to make an attack that night on Wacoochee, plunder and burn the village and kill the people, and then move on Saler Capturing this place they would take house’ stock and plantations jor themselves. The info! mation thus obtained was conveyea to the invav- ifants, who made preparation to resist the attack. ihe negroes at anearly hour on Thursday nigit assembled atthe churen and deliberated some time. Between one and two o'clock, in the deep hush of night, when it was thought sleep was visiting every eye, 160 negroes, armed witn old muskets, moved nolselessly on the place. The first intis ation the white sentinels nad of their ap: broach Was 4 negro jumping On one near Milis’ were of an er, selves and started in pursuit; but the villains | managed to elude their pursuers until they reached | Cunton on Tharsday last. Near here one of them was captured, and the others were followed to Jackson ana captured in one of the low dens Of iniamy in that place, They were then forwarded to Brook- haven on the night train. The people a)l along the road were Wild With excitement, and a great crowd assembled at the Brooknaven depot, mined to execute them at once, but the more cool and calm portion prevailed upon the crowd to | desist until tne whole population could be notified to come and assist. Four o'clock Saturday even- ing, the 220, was determined upon as the time and | the jail yard as the place for the execation, and | the prisoners were notified to prepare for death. | At the appointed time an immense crowd of | people assembied—boch biack and wnite—ail eager vo participate in the Work of hanging. Captain James A, Hoskins, a republican in politics, was | selected to act as executioner, and cheerfully per- sormed the duty assigned him, ‘The prisoners were ‘A white | led out, placed in a wagon, the rope tied around | where all boarded the school their necks aod the wagon pulled from under them. | je Mercury Was anchored at Mart’s | They not only acknowledged having com- | jgjand, in the Sound, Over three hun- | mitted the horrible crime for which they were qred ‘delinquent boys could be counted on hung, but also the commission of many other crimes, Everything was done quietly and orderiy, and every mai in the community acknowleages having participated inthe hanging, dud is willing to bear ls share of the responsibility. We glory in the manhood displayed by the people of Brook- | haven on this occasion, and especiaily tne white | apd biack repubheans, Who have shown that they will not attempt to screen such heil-deserving vil- Jains On account Of their race and color, opposed to lynch law under most circumstances, but In this instance we believe it Was just and right in the sight of both God and man, aid especially when we consider the law’s delays, and the fact that we have every biack villain who commits a crime, these scou instead of harge Still Another Chance for Judge Lynch. {From the Newton (Miss.) Ledger—democratic.} We are called upon to chronicle another out rage, which, we learn, was committed near New | Ireland, On Saturday giwa& August % During We be- drels sould have been burned er. | We are | a Governor who pardons almost | | Fifty Invalids. | qfexcursions are profitable to the healthy they are doubly so tothe weak and feepie, and to en- able the latter to grow strong and resume that blissful state of health which the Creator once im- | parted to them 1s certainly a work of unbounded charity which cannot be too often repeated. Yes- terday Mr. T. S. Brennan, Warden of Bellevue Hos- | took charge of one of those rare but com- | pit mendable expeditions. As early as hailf-past ten | o'clock he had mustered on board the steamer | Bellevue, at the Hospital dock, Twenty-sixth street | and East River, the whole 350 patients of the in- stitution, The steamer was loaned for the occa- sion by the Commissioners of Charities and Cor- rection. A most enjoyable time was spent during the trip down the bay and us far as Gien Cove, ship Mercury, board, and, ata signal given by Captain Gregory, they all climbed the riggiug as nimbly as so many squirrels, and gave three joud, hearty cheers tor ad on board the Bellevue. On Jeaving the Mer- cury a gun Was bred from the latter, and the salute gracefully reciprocated by tne Bellevue. Besides the patients of the hospital there were also on board the whole medical faculty—viz., Drs. Arnold, Byrne, Murray, Giass, Shaw, Shannon and Hathaway—all of whom did everything in their power to assist Warden brenn: excursionists satisfied and happy. A splendid juncheon was served out to ail vhree times during mplete Were the arrangements, too, that tt occupied only fliteen minutes to make preparations ior ail at éach time. Alter leaving the Mercury the excursionists proceeded to Glen Cove, twenty-six miles irom the Hospital dock, Several persons on board sang during the day, and it was most gratifying vo see how che poor emaciated invalids enjoyed the trip. So much pleased were they, indeed, that on their return | and before they icft the steamer all collected around Mr, Brennan and thanked fim ta the warm | est ana Most impressive manher x an in making the | ‘’ who, he facetionsiy adds, “did not — | parallel 3, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. FRANCE. President MacMahon’s Opportuni- ties and Dangers. “The Government Is Already Constituted.” PROSPECTS OF THE FUTURE. Bloomerism in Paris—Accident Victor Hugo. to . PARIS, August 20, 1874 Marshal MacManon Is receiving a cordial! welcome from the people of Catholic and conservative Brit- tany. At St. Malo, in reply to an address of the municipality expressing @ hope tnat the govern- ment might be definitely constituted under him, he replied, a little testily, that the government was “already constituted,” and added that com- merce was suffering as much in England and Germany as in France, though no one could deny an established character to the governments of the two former countries. The plain truth is that the President has disappointed many, both friends and foes, who once believed in the sincerity and loyalty of his intentions, He was placed at the head of affairs to keep order till the will of the na- tion as to the constitution under which it would choose to live should have been clearly ascertained, Instead of this MacMahon refuses now to let the nation discuss its affairs at all. He affects to believe that he is king for the next six years; after that the nation may return to anarchy or continue him in his powers, How diferent is such selfish and shortsighted conduct from the | noble disinterestedness shown by Washington, who was very similarly situated between 1783 and 1787. He firmly upheld the authority of Congress and respect for the laws in force till the founda- tions of the Republic had been laid on a solid | basis. He asked nothing for himself and received all, Can ove fancy Washington petulantly de- manding a new Press law toecnable him to sup- port the dignity of his administration, or insisting on @ term of five years instead of four jor the | Presidency, or allowing his Ministers to propose a huge additional vote for table money ? The tound- er of the Union knew better means of being re- | | spected, Perhaps it is hardly fair to institute a BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND MAQ- MAHON; but tried even by a lower standard, that of mere enlightened sell-interest, the Marshal-President does not appear to advantage, The most exact that history offers to the posiuon of MacMahon in France at the present day 1s the position of General Monk tn England after the fall of Richard Cromwell. There was the same strife of parties in the England of 1660 as in the France of 1874; the same absence of settled government; the “Rump” Parliament was as much despised as the Versailles Assembly; there was the same cry On all sides jor a trank appeal to the country, Monk, like MacMahon, was a mere soldier in com- mand of a large armed force. Under these cir- COMPARISON cumstances it was perfectly possible for him to | assume @ Dictatorate over the kingdom, but he had the good sense to reject 80 poor a makeeniit, In a few weeks he had ascertained beyond doubt ; the wish of the people for A FREE PARLIAMENT, and he hastened to give effect to their desires, He Knew his reward would be far more substantial and secure than a temporary residence at White- hall, possibly terminating, like the residence of the last monarch, oy a public appearance in Iront of the banqueting hall for other purposes than those of feasting. It is written in the memory of iiving men that a famous Marshal, who never lost a | battle of Sedan and who was by common consent of his countrymen “the bravest of the brave,’ found there was no forgiveness for the betrayal of @ trast. Marshal Ney only betrayed one party; MacMahon has, to say the least of it, trifled with all. THE PROSPECT OF THE FUTURE, The lookout is gloomy enough, with so much childishness among all classes, and so much ill feeling—disguised under windy declamation— among the masses. lt may be thought that the simple explanation of these phenomena is that France 18 at the core aristocratic and monarchic, | and that a. brilliant and strong-handed despotism ig the best cure for tne national ills, Unfortu- nately, this remedy has been tried and found want- ing. If free institutions are unsuited to France it is diMcult to know what institutions are suited to her, The old Monarchy perished; sb did the re- stored and the parliamentary monarchies perish. The two Empires tell, and great was thelr fall, The Republic only shared the common lot in 1799 and 1851, WHAT FRANCE WANTS is Christianity, neither more nor less. Till the great body of the people accept the mural teach- ing and the sanctions of St. Paul and Thomas a Kempis in preierence to those of Eugene Sue and Paul de Kock there can be no proper spirit of subordination or contentment or sobriety of thought. That eminently profound observer of the signs of the times, Mr. W. R. Greig, in his “Warnings of Cassandra” seems to consider the rejection of Uhristian morality by the lower classes as threatening the very dissolution of society in other countries besides France. The result of dis- belief in the existence of @ future state Will be, he thinks, to rouse in the uneducated an intense de- which they can hope; in Scripture phrase, to “eat and drink, for to-morrow they may die.” This warning is all the more emphatic, Greig entirely rejects dogmatic After such testimony the emphatic concur- rence in thts opinion of orthodox writers like the conservative Duke of Broglie, or the re- publican M. de Pressensé, is scarcely needed. M. Guizot throws the weight of his experience into the same scale, and, though a strict Protes- tant, is only too ready to give the Catholic Church in France every means of organizing itself more perfectly for the arduous task of converting the masses, This must be the work of time; for the present the comfortabic classes will probably GIVE THE EMPIRE ANOTHER TRIAL. Lhave just breakfasted with a member of the late government and he assured me that the Bonapartist intrigues had again become the cause of considerable alarm. 1 am not sur- prised at it, for, as Linformed you long ago, the Bonapartists really have a chance of returning | to power very shortly. The Septennate satisfies no- body, for the conclusive reason that it has nothing to give away. I doubt that Marshal MacMabon has the power of creating dukes and earls and barons to oil the machinery his government, and I do not think that any French government could estadlish itseif ona permanent basis without contenting the ambition and hopes of rich and influential people. The only question really at issue just now is, What is tobe the na- ture of the government which will succeed tne Septennate? Let it be what itmay MacMahon will have a jarge share in creating 1t, unless he is himself abruptly assassinated or put aside; and the new government will have, in the first in- stance, to accept the terms which he may dictate, A great deal has, indeed, been said about the honesty and incorruptibility of the President of the French Republic, and many persons are wiil- ing to believe that the Marshal is ao simpie, straightforward old soldier, But he 1s by no means wanting in shrewdness or @ keen regard to his | own interests, and he well knows that his present position is precarious. Therefore it appeared evi- dent a few months ago that he was perfectly ready to yield his place to the legitimists for reasons best known to himself, and nothing but their incredible blundering could have prevented a bargain being struck which would have raised Henry V. to the throne of France. The Bourbon monarch would have made the chief mn- strument in his restoration Grand Constable of the kingdom, and have conferred upon him all that it Was (0 his power to bestow op a subject, so that of | the transaction between them would have vee Satisfactory to both parties. BONAPARTISM AND OTHER FBLENDS. The Bonapartists, however, have nothing of value to offer the Marshal in return for his sup- port. He has got his baton and his Dukedom, the means of becoming rich are already in his hands, and the Bonapartes could do no more for him than they have done. The Orleanists, also, could endow him with no further honors or dignities, for both he and they would be fettered by a jealous and troublesome Parliament, The republicans could not treat with him on any intelligible basis, and would not if they could, MacMahon lost his chance of a prolonged tenure of infu- ence when the prospect of a Bourbon restora- tion under bis auspices utterly broke down last year. His most serious antagonists at this moment are the Bonapartists, who come with their hands full of promises to any one who will give them support, The President has ne titles in his gift and no places that are worth a month’s purchase. The Bonapartes could issue patents of nobility at will and make the fortunes of all their adherents on the Stock Exchange by public works and by lucrative appointments, All men, therejore, who are active, aspiring and needy turn their eyes anxiously toward the young man at Chiselhurst. Moreover, in the political duel which is now taking place between the Empire and the Marshalate, M. Rouher, who is the representative of the Bonapartes, has every advantage over MacMahon which consummate talent and great knowledge o! business can have over mediocrity and comparative ignorance, There will be, there can be, no doubt whatever as to the issue of sucha struggle. POLITICAL PARTY WHAT NEXT? But if we come to consider the probability of durable Empire in France after tis re-estabush- Ment we shall have to examine @ very different order of circumstances. It is not going too far to say that every rational and independent man in the country is a republican, and, although they may not choose, of may not be able just yet tofighs for their creed, they will not abandon it, and the ultimate triumph of their principles 18 as certain as anything can be in this world, DLOOMERISM AND PHYSIC. Miss Walker, of medical celebrity, has passed through Paris on her way to Constantinople, where she will be duly installed as chief physictam ol the Suitan’s seraglio. Miss Walker, who was accompanied by two of her pupils, created no little sensation on the Boulevards, being attired in large Zouave trousers, closed by gaiters, a small gray paletot, trimmed with black, and a tall felt hat. Her friends’ toilets were of the same de- scription, Fashions change. Once on a time it was thought not so strange for a woman as for any civilized being to wear certain articles of ap- parel now considered indispensable to @ gentle- man proposing to take a walk down Filth avenue, Tacitus comments with much severi+y on the con- tempt of outward appearance displayed by @ young Gaul, a favorite of one of the emperors, im retaining the barbarous fashion of wearing trousers, by which he gave much scandal to the long-robed Romans. For the rest the Parisians are the most liberal and cosmopolitan of people, and let everybody wear what he pleases, withoat staring tou long at him or laughing rudely, though they will make up for their self-control by the qualutest of caricatures. In prints of tne date of 1816 @ Highlander is never representea except in full costume, witha gale of wiud blowing anda laay beating a hasty retreat. M. VICTOR HUGO nearly met his deatn last Sunday. A cart, laden with a huge wooden pole used for scaffolding, im turning round acorner at Passy, brought the end of the pole against Victor Hugo’s head, knocking nim down insensible. He was taken to a chemist’s, | and was soon sufficiently restored to be able to | walk Lome, We may look to a graphic descrip- | thou of the event in that wonderiul prose of which the author of ‘“Ninety-Three’ is master:—‘The poet hastens on to his goal—his goal is the fu- ture—the present he regards not—tne future is | the ideal—the present is the real—the march of genius 13 suddenly stayed—it encounters brute | force—brute force symoolized in the pole of a wagon—two mighty forces meet in deadly encoun- ter—the living and the inanimate,” dc, &o, SEVENTEEN NEW KNIGHTS, members of the Legion of Honor, have been made this week, chiefly prefects and Others connected | with the Department of the Interior. A law passed as Mr. | Christianity. | some time ago forbidding the nomination of more than one member to the Legion of Honor for every two vacancies in that body, but the Chief of the Executive in France appears to have a good deal of the old dispensing power claimed by the Stuart Kings of England; not that those princes ever needed permission to create as many knights as they pleased, James I. having dubbed no less than 309 In one day and Charles I. having raised @ littie cash by ining those who declined the honor at his hands. The universal love of Frenchmen for titles and decorations is one of the most seri- ous symptoms of the entire absence of that severe and simple tone of thought which made the citi- zens or Switzerland, Holland and New England re- publicans in their heart or hearts, Among Frenchmen liberty and equatity are fine sounding names, which too often veil not very noble Jeelings, They mean a jealousy ofany man or class being above the rest of the community in dignity or refinement. M. Taine ciaims for his countrymen a special resemblance to the Athenians of old, and this was precisely one of the worst faults of that “flerce democracy.” One man of genius after another was ostracized from envy o1 his power, and Athens may be said to have lost her political existence trom not having had the loyalty to confide in the great leaders wuo still remained to her in the crisis of her tate. THE LOVE OF FINERY. This is a kindred weakness of this otherwise great nation. No sooner is a new constitution de- vised than new uniforms are ordered to maton it, Napoleon I. and his colleagues had hardly been in- stalled as Consus of the Republic when the State | tailors waited on them with the pattern of a gor- geous costume devised for their Exceilencies—to wit, a white velvet coat, embroidered with gold, sky blue pantaloons and a red hat, Immediately after Louis Napoleon's coup d'état court dresses were arranged jor the new Senators and Deputies, But the Commune, a8 was reasonable, bad@ fair to out shine both Emptres. Every dustman who waa Promoted from the ranks hastened to order a uni- form more resplendent than that of his fellows, and generals made such a dazzling show that the Council abolished the rank altogether, PLIMPTON HALL, The eighth regular public meeting of the Young Men’s Woman Suffrage League was held at the above hall last night. The meeting was called to order at aquarter pasteight, Judging from the attendance the object advocated by the League has not yet excited any very marked attention in this cit, The number of persons present at the opening of proceedings did not exceed fifty, the “young men’ being conspicuous by their absence. The minutes of some previous meetings were read and a few letters. Mrs. Kuizabeth B, Whitney, of Harlem, was then intro- duced and read a paper upon ‘Woman Suffrage.” It embodied the usual answers to the objections urged against woman suffrage, was clear and simple in statement, but somewhat too discursive and deficient tn method and logical power, Some hits made apropos of the inconsistencies into which the “lord of creation” is driven by refusing woman equal rights With himself were wellreceived by the audience. Other speakers took advantage ol the five minute rule and de-~ livered themselves of their opinions. Ir the meet ing Of last night is to be taken as a lair sample of the interest which this movement is destined to evoke in New York, 1 18 not too much to say thas Uhe League has carved out for itself a very upuul undertaking. DECLINE OF GERMAN IMMIGRATION, The Directors of the German Emigrant Society held @ meeting at No, 12 Broadway yesterday, when some interesting details in regara to Ger- man immigration at this port were submitted. Reports were received showing that since the Ist of Janaary 31,779 German immigrants were landed at Castle Garden, @ falling off of 41,945 compared with the first eight months of last year, when 73,0A Germans arrived here. During the past month only 3,686 arrived, while during the corre- sponding month of last year there were 6,390. The majority of those artiving are destined for ti Western Stites, te ri a