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

4 SOUTHERN STRIFE. Governor Moses and His Cabinet Ludicrously Scared. THE TENNESSEE CONFLICT. A Dispute Over a Roast Pig and a Black Conspiracy. THE MASSACRE AT TRENTON Negroes Tormented by Armed Ruf- | fians and Rowdies. MURDER IN LINCOLN COUNTY. Hoempoupt, August 31, 1874. | ‘The great conspiracy of the negroes of Gibson county, Tennessee, to murder all the white people and commit other acts of unleard of atrocity, had its origin in a dispute over @ roast pig. Avout three weeks ago the colored people of Pickettville had 4 barbecue, Joe Hale, 4 farmer living in the neigh- borhood, and several other white men, chancing to pass that way, bought a pig trom the negroes | for their dinner, | wanted, giving the rest of the pig to a negro they had brought with them. This fellow was happy for only @ short time, however, in the possession of this roast meat, for no sooner had the white men leit than the managers of the barbecue Biexzed the rest of the pig, saying that it belonged to them. Hale heard of this, and he and his friends returned and took the pig away from the negroes, In getting back the pig Hale used some violence and a good many abusive epithets, which greatly exasperated the negroes, but bis iriends interfered and compelled him to go away with them, The point in dispute was whether he had paia for the waole pig or only so much as be had eaten. The negroes beld the latter view of the transaction, but Hale enforced the former, and out of this quarre!, 80 insignificant in itsel/, grew the war of races in Tennessee. | THE ATTACK ON WARREN AND MORGAN. Schemes of revenge at once filled the beads of the negroes. They determined to kill Hale and burn bis house aud to Kill some of the friends who accompanied him. A company was accordingly organized for the purpose, and on Saturday night, the 22d of August, this band of choice volunteers ‘was drilling in the woods near Shiloh church, not far trom Pickettviile. Two young men, named James Warren and Monroe Morgan, chanced to pass that way while the negroes, thirty or forty in number, were practising their secret mancuvres, Believing they were observed by the young men, the negroes opened fre uponthem. Warren and Morgan at once abandonea their horses, and, tak- ing to the woods, escaped to Pickettville. The citizens bad heard the firing, and when the two young men reached the Viliage they found a party already armed ana equipped to march aguinst the Begroes. This party immediately started in hot pursuit of Gideon’s band and succeeded in captur- ing sixteen of the negroes. These were taken to Pickettville, where they were securely guarded till Monday, when they hada hearing before Squire Jordon, of Mulan, by whom they were committed | fo jail at Trenton to await their trial. ASTOUNDING REVELATIONS AT THE HEARING. At the hearing beiore Squire Jordon some of the | aegroes were induced to turn State’s evidence. The disclosures they made are astounding, if they are true. According to the testimony of these men, Members of the organization, it was their purpose not only to Kill Joe Hale and nis frieads and burn their houses, but also to march upon and dlestroy Pickettville and other towns and villages. Uf the testimony stopped here it would be easy to anderstand it. But they went further and said chat the negroes of this county had weil organized bands for carrying out their intentions, “There 3eems to be,”? says the Humboldt Journal, in com- meutang On tats, “a deep laid conspiracy among the negroes agains: the white people, and it may be there are unprincipled and devilish white men at the bottom of tt, urging them to an undertak- | ing which cannot out prove suicidal to the bi race.” The thing seems incredible, but I hear it on every hand. “I have po doupt,” said Mayor Coon, ‘of ‘Trenton, “bat that the negroes are 01 ed =6all over the county, and there are just fears of violence by them at any time.’ Other people affect to believe that the organization extends over the whole State, and ohne young man gravely informed me that it is @ matter of geueral acceptance that the negroes have organized to take the lands aad drive the whites away. Nobody, however, pre- tends to be it the possession of any facts to jus- tily such a belie! except the deterinination to kill Joe Hale and the assertions of the negroes who turned State’s evidence against their companions to save themselves. And It is a fact worthy Of | mony. This urging the ‘“‘madpess of the many for | particular notice that no general fear of an at- | the benelit of tue few” to the extreme of a war of | tack, Dor even so much as a fear of an Lend at the rescue of the sixteen prisoners, was felt at the ontset. The alarm was altogether subsequent to and consequent upon the massacre at Trenton | by the masked men. THE MOB ATTACKS THE JAIL. The negroes were placed in the jail at Trenton on Monday night, and the next night a mob sud- denly surrounoed the prison and demanded the keys. ‘Ihe party was at first described as consisting of four hundred men, disguised, armed and mounted; but a caimer esti- mate reduces the number to about oue handred. After some parieyiug with the mob the Sherif yielded up tne keys, being powerless to resist them, and the prisoners were at once taken away from (ue jail. When @ short distance outside of the village six ol the negroes were shot by the | mob, jour deiug killed and all left for dead. The other ten were taken away, and, though a week | Another “Battle of Dorking”=—The Gev- | has since elapsed, no trace ol them has been found. | ‘The Sherif was iuierviewed soon alterward by a report nd he gave the tollowing account of the acair;—*"Ine moo came,” he said, “and got the | keys {rom ty office, and, giving turee or four yeils, Went to the jail, unlocked it, rook out the sixteen | Begroes Who had been brought here irom Pickett | Ville (Gibson), and, tying their hands, escorted {hem away. They proceeded on the Huntingdon | Yoad without saying @ Word, and in fifteen minutes Theard show. In company with severa) citizens I proceeded down the road in tne direction taken by the mien and prisoners, and just beyond the | river bridge, half @ mule irom town, I found four negroes dead on the ground, their bodies rddjed | Made pretenstons as leaders Mind themselves quiv- | with bullets, and two wounded. We saw no masked men. Leaving the dead bodies where we sound them, we brought the two Wounded negroes | to town aod summoned medical aid. Justice J. M. | Caidweill heid an inquest on the other vodies, the verdict heing in accordance with the tacts, that death resuited from shots inficted by guns im the hands of unknown parties, The inquest was held about eight o’ciock this morning. These are ali the facts relative to the shooting I can give you. I did my duty to pre vent the rescue of the negroes, but fownd it use men, one of whom said there yn the band.’ The great mys- tery im chis matter is the disposition of the ten ne- groes who are unaccounted ior, killed it is strange their bodies have not been jound, If they are stili held by thelr captors it is stranger still that no trace of them should have been discovered. If they were set at liberty some of them must have been seen ere now. Take any view of the case we may the riddie is as perplexing asthe Nathan murder or the Kidnapping of Chariey Ross, It is due, however, to pe county officers of Gibson county to say that they are maxing strenu- ous efforts to unravel the mystery and arrest the criminuis. THE SUBSEQUENT ALARM OF THE CITIZENS. AS soon ag the murder of the negroes vaken from ‘Trenton Jail became known there was the greatest excitement ana alarm among bit le. Five hundred armed negroes were repo! as Marching on Pickettville and Trenton, That the rumor might Yack nothing it was aiso reported that two women and severai children bad been murdered already. Other podies of armed negroes were ported = in other directions. Without stopp Ing to consider that so large @ force would le nearly one-half of the adult male negro the county, that 1t would be impos- So many men together on snch snort that the hegroes have not weapons enouga to arm any sucd number, the whites at once flew to arms, A company of armed men Sereet from this rh they met another company from Milan, and were organized 300 men. The command then marched toward Trenton in search of the armed negroes, but falled $o find the seat of w Not an armed negro was ®ncountered anywhere, and the whole thing looka like @.ecare got up tocover the murder at Tren- ton. The Fe oe, on the other hand, were really ol them slept in their beds while the whites were marching about the country, but hid themselves in the woods and Corn fields, fear- tng for their lives. And {tuink the negroes had reason to fear violence at the hands of the wir organized military 0! wicy into one command, numbering about It they were | place to Pickettvilie, where i marcned from ttumboidt, Milan and other places into Trenton the ume alter Lhe ihassacre, CONDITION OF THR NEGRORS, As | was riding down tn the cars this morning from Milan to this piace | stood by while a num- | ber of geutiemen belonging to the netghborhood | Where the troupies occurred were discussing tue condition of the negroes and be situation gen- erally. One of them spoke very earnestly, deciar- | my that the primary causes of all the difficulties were the armed ruManos and rowdies who rode round the country intimidating people, “If one of the crowd,” he said, “happens to be dismounted they compel the farmers to mount Lim, ana they generally take two or three negroes with them to place before them in case ofa row.” And another wenlieman living in this place, though unequivo- cally on the side of the whites, spoke to me with | great bitterness of these men as the pretended | chivalry of the South, who ride about armed with pistols” and joaded with whiskey and shoot people on slight provocation, or ‘withous any provocation at ali, “Since the troubles began,” Bald the gentieman in the Cars, ‘‘the negroes have slept im the corn fietds through fear of these men, and tueir church across the couatry bas just veen burbed a second ume without cause, the only | provocation being the holding of prayer meetings by tne colored people.” It is seldom, however, | that people speak so kindly or even so fairly of the blacks. One young man volunteered to give me both sides of the roast pig story, but when he got through with the white version, which | have given, he said the black side of the story was the | same, only the negroes at the barbecue thougut they ought to bave been paid more tor the pig. I ied very hard tu get at te character of Joe i} | | | | | Hale, who Was the immediate cause of the trouble, but be is represen ted as such a very respectable man that 1 Gamnot pretead to understand why be should be quarreling with a tot of negroes at a barbecue of Weir OWN over the possession of the re- mains of @ pig upon whicn he and half a dozen other stalwart T made & dinner, is ope bic of explanation lacking to account for the deep resentment of the negroes toward him; but \ he is one Of those gentiemen descrised by my driend as “armed with pistols and jivaded with whiskey,’ who ride round the country insulting and aousing the blacks, the Leroi g link 1S sup. piled. His Conduct a the barbecue, f think, justi- tes this conclusion. THE QUESTION OF NEGRO ORGANIZATIO! From alt that I have said it wili be seen ¢! the They ate a8 much ss they | question of begro organization is regarded as the | to some of vital one by the people of Tennessee. Li it isso it 18 Strange that \t snouid first manitest itself in a county like tn) bered by the whites two to one. Tnree-fourthe of we Voters in Gibson county vote tne democratic ucket, gnd the district 1s represented in Congress by arepublican only on account of the leuds of the democtacy. Accordingly we can under- stand what the Journal means when . it vells the negroes that “their bread is buttered on the side of peace and quiet,” ana hivts at their possible extermination as the price 0! a riot. Organization under such circumstances would be mere looihardmess. And yet it is uot impossi ile that some Kind of an organization exists. The Picketwille alfalr seems to indicate it, But Lam convinced it 18 not aimed at the wuite people on the assumption that the “Year of Jubilee” has come. The negroes, as a rule, are quiet and indas- trious, That they ure uneasy and alarmed is, however, too plain, not spring from any direct dauger of Ku-Kluxing in the vid form, which wus prevalent two or three | yeara ago, That the white people have sup- | pressed. It is evidently @ new species of ter- Torism which 1s exercised over them, and if they intend to fight it is because they have been ariven into a corner. wii Sight when he can’t help it, and that, perhaps, is the highest Kind of courage. The remarks of tue gentieman in the car tois morning opened my eyes W @ new view of the case. I was not beiore aware that while people rode adout the countr, in leunessee making the negroes feel their power by petty persecutions. It was thus the riot at Lancaster, Ky., Was brought about, and trom all that can learn, right here et the seat Of war in Teunessee, 1 am persuaded that it was to like causes the gathering Of negroes at Pickettville 1s to be attributed, Sumething lise an organization may have sprung trom oppressions of a few law- less meu, Wno are constantly tormenting the ne- groes that they may have an excuse for slaying Uhe unfortunate blacks. Tue North seldom hears | 0: any of these little things, which go 80 far to explain the situation in the South, | and when | consider them in connection with the | asseruon that 1 have heard over and over again | | from the negroes, “it ts the white people who are maaing ali the troubie,” 1 think that great weight is to be attached to them. Tne attack upon ren and Morgan was wicked, and it suould and , would bave been punished, ‘The attack upon the | negroes in Trenton jail was unjustifiable in every sense, and shows a complete organization on the | part of the whites which nobody justifies, but which is strong tn numbers and deadly in its pur- poses, There isa lawlessness here which is deter- | Iined to annibuate the negroes, and any and every excess of the blacks 18 to cuse for carrying this terrible programme into ex- ecution, Novody knows where the Treaton mob came from or whither tt has gone, but it showa thst a large element mm the Soutn is prepared for @ work o! blood, by the bloody deed which waa | perpetrated that night. ‘The general sentiment in all this portion of the | State 18 one of deep mortitication that a few worthless chatacters should bring this foul sname on a community the large majority of whom are moral, peaceiul, and striving by industry and econ- omy to repair the disasters of the stormy past. | Many of them feel halt discouraged at seeing their earnest endeavors frustrated by a set of as worth- less bipeds as ever cursed tne earth. THE GENUINE KU KLUX is of that nondescrtpt class intermediate between the respectable planter and the poor white trash, , and corresponds to the “cracker” of the South at- lautic States, This ciass are the habitués of the race course and the disturbers of camp meetings, and irom it the gangs of horse thieves and mall and express robbers obtain their recruits, It is mainly among this Class that are enacted those horrioie Vendeitas In which whole families are aupihilated | by mutual slaugnter dd retaliatory assassina- | tions. it is !rom this class and a set of brutal and | fanatical uegroes—each @ worthless minority— that these late disturbances and the present fear- | ful apprehension of a war of races have sprung. | This bad element among the negroes would be of trifling puolic significance but lor the scoundrel- ism of some white politicians and the folly of ) Others, who, for purposes of personal and partisan | aggrandizement, seek to array Neighbors agaiust | each other on the color line who but for this | wouid contmue to live togetuer in peace and har. Taces is a crime 80 atrocious that every press in | every part of the laud should loudiy protest against the iniquity. Order reigns in Gibson county again, but no man knows how soon the smothered fire may burst out in that or some other quarter. The good people of | that region, though well disposed to maintain the ascendancy of the laws, appear to be incapable of putting forth the amount of force neediul vo efectually crush out Of existence the desperadoes Who set their laws at defiance, and as this last and Most Wanton outrage is an offence against a law of Congress it offers an occasion lor the interposi- tion of tue strong arm of tue federal power. MCSES SCARED. ernor and Cabinet of South Carolina Badly Frightened—A Midnight Alarm and Hiding—Ladicrous Cause of Their Blight. CoLumBIA, 8, C., August 81, 1874, If there were anything wanting to fill the mea- | sure of excitement for the present certainly it would not be looked for in the city of Columbia. Rumor toilows rumor, and some of the conscience stricken fellows who have for the last seven years ering in tront of the idola they have been instru- mental in erecting. While the country ts being entertained with long and windy accounts of “the war of races,’”’ | for wuich the people, after hard study, find no real foundation in fact, there are certain political, | harmless movements going on to ascertain tne true sentiment that prevails, The resuit of one | Of these diversions—which, after all, may have been of a serious nature—has in this city ilus- trated the real feeling and fear of some of the Most prominent oficiais, including the Governor of the State and one of the United States Sena- tors, “Honest John Patterson.” A SINGULAR CHANGE. It was noticed night before last that the ba- | Touches of the men who have handied the State's money were not rolling about the streets as Ireeiy aa has been the common practice. Such was the change that many persons commentea upon it ‘Without Knowing the reai cause. It furnished us with one of the most lndicrous scenes this country ever presented, except, perhaps, the enthusiasm that prevailed when tue ordinance of secession was passed. The scare was a very healthy one, genuine and going to the very roots of the faith that the “people” who make laws {or us profess, The scenes enacted here and reported in other States have all received wide circulation in this State through the press and telegraph, and, with our majority of blacks tn South Carolina, been ponderea over seriously. In short, the mind of this majority was educated up toa point that embraced every suspicion of the means that might be employed by the minority to defeat their purposes, ol the majority. 50, two nights ago, Lynch iaw, raids, assassination and murder were the accom- paniments of the hours of sleep. Governors in their dreams saw ghosts that would not ‘‘out,” and Senators were scripiess, robbed of their lau- rels (and their purse) by oue fell swoop of tmagi- Lary assassins. sme MIDNIGHT ALARM, The ever ready courier rode up {m front of the | Governor’s mansion at about eleven o'clock | on the night referred to and gave him the ) Martine warnine there were 00 Geargians nuesseeans had already | » Were the biacks are outnum- | ‘This uneasiness and tear does | Even & coward | | | from Wacoochee Valley, made the ex- | cockpit and the crossroads grocery, the pests of the | ‘This ig the now nhormaj condition | across the Congaree, the river that divides this, the capital county, aud Lexington, the itst named lying between here and Edgefleld, where the recent difleulties have occurred. ‘This was enough. There was immediately trouble in the camp. An toe aye State Senator, who had ridi- culed the whole affair and who had been sent on & reconnoissance Over the riverin the Governor's perriage, returned breathless and with bis dispo- Sition for making light of the reportsentirely gon’. A brief council was heid, which resulted in the exit from his mansion of Governor F, J. United States Senator John J, visiting there at the tim: went to the headquarter: Protection. Colonel being absent on court mart | Pacific, Captain Ogden, Moses, Jr., and Patterson, who was id who immediately the military post for w commandant, f the Kight eanth United 3 ol teenth Unite States infantry, recelved the irightened officials at his residence. Soon after tneir arrival at Captain Ogden's news was received that there was a.30 a | Party of seventy men, mounted, all the way irom | Georgia, at “Granby,” unloaded from the cars, faces biackened, armed and equipped and ready | for duty. The old colored woman who surnisned | | this toformation was not to be talked out of the belief that it was true, and @ most serious mood | took hold of the native young Governor, and tne | United States Senator ‘who snitted his first fresh air in the valiey of the Schuiykill, i THE DANGE. Said Honest Jonn— gs “Captain; should diMeculty occur here, could you order out the troops? “No,” was the answer. BST JOHN—“suppose they should come in and butcher us, what couid you dot? Te Honest Joun—“Would you see a man murdered Without interiering?” Cartain—'‘How could I help it?” “Well,” said the representatives of the people, and ‘Weil,” said the Captain Commandant, witn & seven-inoh smile playing over his oroad face, “I can give you a bed,” said the Captain, and that was | the end of the war for that night. The assembled | Wisdom in the corporate iorms of the Governor | and the United States Senator oozed out in sonor- } | Os breathings irom the stout ‘rame of an army bedstead, only interrupted by the dread of cd- | | Vaneing Georgia ‘oes, | HIDING AWAY, Morning found these two worthies in the place descrived, but meantime the news had got noised abroad, Ammunition, five rounds, was distributed r' kK, | the colored miliua, aud tae “Kurnels? were on the alert. Other State | officials, frieuds of the present Execu- uve, became Irightened, and among them quite a | geueral stampede for places of saiety occurred, | The Superintendent of the Penitentiary moved his | family—a large one—to the house o: a colored Iriend, General. Gardner, County Treasurer of | pumter, Governor Moses’ home, was on a visit and | at the house o! His Excellency.” He took himself | and his wife at two o'clock in the morning to what | he considered a saler place. Neagle, jormerly | Comptroller General of the State, now County | Treasurer of this (Richland) county, disappeared | in a most mysterious manner, and 1s said to have pre-empted 4 hollow log somewhere, and others | | opoueee Irout 10 suit the imagined exigencies of e case, THE INNOCENT CAUSE, At, eight o’ciock on the following day Mr. John | Long, who keeps the Dexter stables here, a quiet, good, inoffensive Kentuckian, rode into tue city | | With sixteen hounds behiud him and the brushes of two foxes in his saddie, And tnis is what scared the gentiemen £0 badly. WHERE ARE THE HEROES? The Mayor has been asked to prohibit Mr. Long allowing tis dogs to bark so loudly, and tie cit! zens trom one end of the city to the other are | laugning at the circumstance. Meantime we liave | Not seen the heroes of the scare, The real cuuse | of trouble was tue following telegram, which ap- } peared in some of the up-country papers :— Y | “An ‘excursion’ of negroes from Augusta, and | | the line of the Wilmington, Colamola and Augusta | Ratlroad went over last night, and many whites have jollowed.”’ THE WACOOCHEE VALLEY RIOT. Condition of the Negroes in Alabama— | The Political Aspect—Crops and Busi- ness Prospects. CoLuMBUR, Ga., Sept. 1, 1874. Of course you heard the rumors that portend a | war oO! races in the lower Southern States. 1 qm | now writing at @ distance of only twenty miles near the Chattahoo- chee River, seventy miles south of At | lanta, and yet the news received from that | point a itew days since would lead us to believe the blacks were in insurrection, and | that in their attempt to plunder the valley four of them were slain by the heroic defenders of this Alabama Wyoming. I have sifted the matter to | | the bottom, and were it not that the recent dis- | | gurbance in Alanama is to acertain extent an | | index of the feeling in that State the rumored riot | Would not deserve notice. | THE TRUTH OP IT. ' You have, no doubt, noticed in the last few | years that just before an election in the South the | Mews leads us to believe that, for reasons of his | OWD, the devil seems to enter “the niggers,” and outrage, roobery and riot are the pecuiar amase- | ments of the colored race. There are cases where mere carpet beggers or designing democrats lead the biack people into excesses for politi- cal purposes, but as a race JI think | | their” only ' fault is that their ig. | norance makes them too tractable and too easy tools of designing mea. The first story trom Wa. | coochee Valley was that the blacks had attacked | the settlement with tbe intent to rob, piun- | der and murder. and that in the night atiack , | on the 28ch ult. four of them were killed. The | truth is that the megrves met in one of their humbie log churches on the night named, | and some one of their race iniurmed the | whites that incendiary speeches were being made and that the negroes intended destroying the val- | ley. This news, as might be expected, called out the whites tn force, and they met the negroes re- turning from the meeting. They accused them of conspiracy, and high words, followed by blows and Pistol shots, ensued. I nave been unable to learn ; Wat any man, black or white, was injured, but | the negro church was burned down, and’ this ; the whites now offer to rebuild, @ concession that | shows they do not consider the negroes sv much wo blame, Strange as it may seem, this tncident has set this section o/ the South ablaze, and white men are arming as If @ loe were marching on them | with torch and sword, when the fact is the poor black man is innocept and there is less danger in | him than in the ruffians who seek the offices and | Spoils of both parties in the South. Your correspondent was a Union soldier and 1s now a Chion wan, yet be cannot ignore the fact that the administration hss placed, as arale, the | Worst possible Men in Office in the South, and these meu are jookea upon by the poor negroes as the | Wue representatives Of the North and the admin- | istration. Consequently they are led into ex- | cesses of whieh they Would not dream without ; Such counseilors, THE ‘NIGGER! TRADUCED. Only yesterday, when the news of the exag- gerated Wacoochie aiair was being talked of on our streets, | heard @ tall, able-vodied man say, | With an oath, “Well, if thar's gwine to be a war of races by God I'll shoot at every biack head I | see! There were some black men within hearin, | at the time, but, unlike what your readers woul fave done ander the circumstances, they re- | mained quiet, and only raised their heads when I denounced the murderous edict this man had uttered. I am no radical, nor am Ia democrat, but 1 think I can appreciate that intermediate course that gives justice to ali men, and J, know- ing the South as dao, must blame the people here for the low and condition of the colored race. ‘ men,” it 1s said, ‘steal, and have no | honesty.” And the men who assert this will tell | you “the black women have no virtue,” but for the lormer slavery is to blame, and with the latter “our Southern civilization” very largely is charge- able, ag witness the unnatural mixtures that con-’ Ironi you atevery turn. [have yet to learn of ajcase where the blacks proved derelict where they were Weil treated by their masters in slavery, or honest- ly deait with by their employers in freedom, The Stories about their crimes, as a rule, are down- right, deliberate lies, and the crying down they receive from good men in the South 1s base to- gratitude. During the war “the nigger’ was | faitnful to his master; history has no reéord of such | patient devotion as his to tne man who called him “slave.” There is no case of arson, outrage or murder by the slave during the recent war Yet every escaping Yankee prisoner will teil you the negro had a tull comprenénsion of his own power and the situation at that time; 80 that he cannot be charged with the bugaboo \ é of “fear of nis master and the supremacy jot the other race,” avout which one eternally hears so much __ here. The | negro ts ignorant, bis moral nature is low and he | is more childitke and legs cunning than Bret | Harte’s “Heathen Chinee.” 1 wish { couid say all the whites bere were menof education, honesty and industry; they are not by any means; av Without the negro, some of these lazy fellows ‘80 down, this South would be more of @ wilderness than Death Valley, in Southern Call- fornia, Where the biack man has erred is where be was forsaken Ly his oid master, or where he hus taken after some political prostituce from the North, and God never created a meaner map than the average Carpet-bagger, i don't except some of the SeHaiors and Congressmen, PROSPECTS OF THE SOUTH, Farmers grow! more at Providence with less cause than Arctic sailors, The South this yeat haa raised @ large grain crop, and cotton in Georgia, Alabama and Florida is better than it has been for years. Yet we hear on every hand fears of a bad | crop, though nearly ali the crop is secured, The | cotton crop Will be much larger than last yea’ a | @4 @ consequence we expect to hear a of | Browis about the low price an abundant crop Will | make. The farmers have adopted a new plan this | year, and are keeping herds, Next year they will | add the important item of meat to their products, | and the consequence will be success, The need of | suis country is new blood—a race of men | neither airaid nor ashamed of work. The | ; South holds out nusuai advantages to j the emigrant, and the law here will protect him as well agit does in the West. i have been South | | two years, and have never hidden my feelings nor ceased to denounce crime, and in my course J have been sustained by the vest men, {or their desire is | peace and nroaverity, | charge made against him. | auswer a charge of larceny from the person, said ' that he knew nothing avout the matter, and THE COURTS. Alleged Criminal Carelessness of a Police Justice—The Grand Jury to In- vestigate the Matter. Another Important Opinion Regarding the New Bankrupt Law. Flight, Arrest and Commitment of an Alleged Bavarian Forger, The Stockholm merchant, Leonard Lundquist, who fied to this country after the alleged commis- sion of a burglary in making away with several hundred bags of coffee, valued at some $12,000, was yesterday taken back Jor triai in charge of Deputy Marsal Kennedy, Ohtef Clerk of Unitea States Marshal Fiske. It will be recollected that Lundquist waived examination belore United States Commissioner Guttman and consented to fo back, claiming to have a good defence to the THE CASE OF LIBBIE DORIS. How a Police Magistrate Signs Commit ments—Judge Donohue’s Views of Such Criminal Carelessness=The Matter To Be Laid Before the Grand Jury, Police Justice Smith hag, as the lacts would scem to indicate, unwittingly—or rather wit- lessly—got himself Into a predicament at once pe- culilar and perplexing. The facts of the case, tn- volving hig judictal entanglement, and from which the process of evolving himself wilt not be 80 easy, had already been pretty well exploited in the course of two days’ preiiminary proceedings beiore Judge Donohue in Supreme Court, Chambers, but it was yesterday the climax was reached. The Starting point was the commitment by Justice ith of @ young woman known by the dual names of Mary Wilson | and Libbie Doris, in default of $1,000 batl, to | jarceny, it 1s alleged, having been perpetrated vhrough the process known as the ‘panel game.’” All this jooked weil enouga on its face until her lawyer came into court upon a writ of habeas | corpus and asked her discharge, claiming that the commitment was not in due process of law on ! complaint and evidence; The representative of the District Attorney’s office confessed thereupon Judge Douobue issued an order for Justice Smith to appear before him and explain the case. The time tor this explanation was set down for eleven A. M, yesterday, Justice Smith put im & prompt appearance, and so did the prisoner and her counsel, and £0 did quite @ throng of curious spectators, anxious to Know the denoue- ment, It was supposed the explanation would be made in Champers, but, instead, the further pro- ceedings were bad be.ore Judge Donotiue in the Judge’s private room, & phase in the programme that was nos relished by the attendant and ex- pectant crowd. Mr. McCletiand appeared for the prisoner and Mr. Dana represented the District Avtorney. Mr. Dana admitted the truth of the traverse in- terposed by Mr. McClelland, and that he could net hold the prisoner on Justice Smith’s committal, but stared that she had beed indicted formerly for anotuer Offence, and that be had @ bench war- rant for her arrest. Justice Smith stated that he had come in obedt- ence to Judge Donohue’s subpoena, and explained that he had just lett tne Special Sessions and would have to return there, as he was alone, but would, if necessary, return at three o'clock. Mr. McCieliand said ne saw no need, under the admission oi Mr. Dana, for Justice Smith coming again. It couid dono good. Mr. Dana also said there would be no need of his returning. Judge Donohue, with some warmth, refused to permit any such arrangement. If Justice Smith | desired an adjournment he could have it. It waa } a matter Of grave importance. Practices of this character had crept into the administration of Justice in the police courts, and he had made up us mind they should Le stopped. Justice Smith stated, in expianation of the case, that the woman was brought before him a week or ven days ago on suspicion of being implicated 1n a robbery, but Captain Tynan asked that she be remanded to give him time to get additional evidence, and she Was remanded. Subsequently Captain Tynan came to him in Special Sessions and panded him the records, showing a suspended sentence on a previous conviciton against her. Not being conversant with such matters, and un- acquainted with tie practice, he handed them to the Cierk of the Court, Mr. Johnson, with gn inquiry as to Whether they Were safiicient. Mr. | Johnson said whey were suMcient and drew the Warrant, which he trankly confessed he signed without knowing its contents, trusting the Police Mehl and the Cierk’s assurances that {t was all right. Judge Donohue told him that he had committed | @ Serious mistake In signing a paper he did not even know the contents of, and on signing such paper sending @ woman to prison. It was a lesser offence of which Cuarlick and Gardner were con- victed. What would be said of him (Judge Dono- hue) tf, as Justice of the Supreme Court, he were to grant an injunction resiraiuing the action of the city government, and then plead that he had not read ww? He had, wale act- img a8 counsel, seen hings one in| the civil, disirict and police courts which | made his blood boil. It seemed sometimes as though right were overridden there. He had made up bis mind to break up that sort of thing if 1t compelled him to leave the Bench to-morrow. He Was Satistied that crime was sustained and sup- ported for its political and pecuniary assistance; jor that reason Pay f oMces and panel houses ; were tolerated, atif One Of ‘nose people chose | to be independent they were taken beiore a police | court and dared not gay their souis were their own. | He instanced a case 10 his own practice, where @ client of his, tired of being bied and hounded about, Was arrested on pretence of an unexpirea Ohio sentence, which it was discovered had ex- pired by pardon nine years beiore. Justice Suith said that be had seen vy papers of the previous day that hits Honor had given ao iuti- mation tiat what he had done was a criue. He regretted that such a thing should have appeared, Judge Donohue said he was sorry, but what elise was it if not criminaly He regarded wt so. It Should not be allowed to pass. * Judge Donohue here inttmated that Mr, McClel- Jand should press the matter further; but Mr. McClelland excused himself on the ground that his usefulness as a crimina) lawyer would be greatiy impaired if he were piaced tn direct nostlity with @ police justice. udge Dononue satd he would then himself com- | Municate wito the District Atiorney in rela. tion to the matter and tuat /t suould be laid be- Jore the Grana Jury. Meantime he ordered the prisoner’a discharge on Justice Smitn’s commit- ment; but this was of little avail to her as she wag immediately rearrested on a bench Warrant on the other indictment, THE NEW BANKRUPT LAW. oe ‘The Bankruptcy law, to which important amend- ments were lately passed, at present gives our United States judges considerable iabor tn the ad- judication of the aifferent cases brought before them. Judge Blatchford yesterday rendered an elaborate decision in the case of Jacob Hymes, siready published in the HeRaLp, The optnion ts @n important one, in the fact that it embodies, among other matters, a clear view of the law as {t now stands regarding the number and amount | of credtvors that must combine in order to make | out acase of bankruptcy. After a very abie and critica} review of the Bankrupt law as bearing Upon the case tn question Judge Blatchford cun- ciudes a lengthy opinion as follows :— Still the point to be determined ts what number of creditors must join in the pete tion, and such number must ve determined by making & computation accor to the rules laid down in the section. ‘hose rules are that the number of creditors joining in the pe- tion Must be, by personal enumeration, at least one-fourth of the entire number of creditors, and must have provable debts amounting to at least One-third of all tne provable debts, with the fur- ther rule that, in computing the number who muse join—in determining how many must join, whether “one or more!—creaitors whose respective devts do not excced $250 are not to be reckoned, Bvery- thing vhat 1s to be done 8 to compute the numver of creditors, “as aioresaid,” who must join, In doing that the creditors whose respective debts do not exceed $250 are not w be reckoned, Those credivors are to be excluded. If they are exciudea i follows necessarily that {f only the creditors whose respective debts exceed $260 are inciuded | and reckoned the proper number to join will be ascertained by computing one-fourth of such creditors and ach additional number of them that the aggregate of the debts o! those computed will amount to one-third Of the debts of the creditors 80 included and reckoned—that ne-third of the debts of the creditors whose respective debts ex- ceed $250, This view is supported by the conciud- } {ng sentence of she 9th section of the act of 1874 | which provides that if there are no creditors whosa exceed the sum of £260 or if tha re | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. quisite number of creditors holding debts exceed ing $250 (all to sign the petition, the creditors having debts of a less amount shall be reckoned for the purposes aforesaia, This suows that where creditors having debts exceeding $260 are to be exciusively reckoned they are to be reckoned for all the purposes mentioned in the sectlon—that ts, for the purpose of arriving at the proper number of creditors, which is to be @ number having & teat ee peeing creators r the petitioning cre: Busted & Turk for the debtor. AN ALLEGED BAVARIAN FORGER. 4 young man named Herman Thomas was ar- rested yesterday morning by Deputy Marshal Frederick Bernhard, charged with having com- mivted forgery to the amount of $6,000 in June last on the Royal Bank at Nuremberg, Bavaria. According to the affidavit made by Mr. August Fiegel, Vice Consul for the German Empire at this port, and others, it appears that Thomas was & clerk in the employ of merchants paiued” Carl Conrad, Cropf & Sohn, tn the city of Nuremberg} that while so engaged he forged the names of his employers to a receipt or check to the amount of 15,000 guilders (about $6,000), on which he re- ceived the entire mouey, He then fled to this country. On the 28th of August a despatch was received at the German Consulate in tus city as follows:—‘The arrest of the clerk, Herman Thomas, of this place, 18 requested on account of forgery of documents and defrauding to the amount of 15,000 guiluers, He travelied as Wolting, Photographs in the posses- sion Of Sciultz & Ruckgaver, No, 40 Exchan:e place, New York, where aiso dwelling ascertain- able. Particulars follow upon answer. “ILGEN, Examining Judge, Nuremberg.” A warrant for the arrest of ‘1homas was iasued by United States Commissioner Stilwell and placed in the hands of Deputy Marshal Bernhard lor execution, This gentiema had been 1n search of Thomas but twenty-four hours and succeeded ‘ unearthing him at an early hour yesterday morning at a boarding house in St. Mary’s place, Accompanying the Deputy Marshai to the street he made an attempt to escape and ran eeveral biocks, When he was overtaken and recaptured. The prisoner asserts his innocence and tas em- toyed Mr, Peter Cook as counsel to defend him, e Says that he ran away from bavaria in order to escape military service, Mr. Cook states tnat he will to-day apply Jor a writ of habeas corpus. BUSINESS IN THE OTHER COURTS. SUPERIOR OOURT—SPECIAL TERM. Decisions, By Judge Freedman. Harrington et al. vs, Shevill et ai.—Motion granted withont costs to either party; Stembhart et ai, vs. the Chicago and Northwestern Ratiroad Company; Wilmont vs. Meserole: Coit vs. White; Maicom vs. Harnil; Herson vs, Richards.—Orde rs granted. Baker vs. Da Cunhs.—Order of reference granted. SUPERIOR COURT—GENERAL TERM. Decisions. By Judges Freedman and Curtis. Moorhouse et ai. vs. Sager.—Order afirmed with costs. Opinion by Monell, Chief Justice. Butterfield vs. Radde,—Motion denied with costs, Opinion by Monell, Chief Justice. MARINE COURT—OHAMBEBS, Decisions. By Judge Joachimsen. Japha vs. Kappenberg,—Oruer granted. Frost vs, Goetz.—Motion granted, with Costs, Topping vs. Palva.—Motion to declare defend- ant in contempt denied, Mandes vs, John.—Order of interpleader granted. Brown & Brothers vs. Sewing Machine Com- pen order that complaint be maae more defi- nite. Crook vs. Northrup.—Motion to set aside order Of saie granted on terms, Richards ys, Ellison.—Motion to make answer more definite, &c. Whituey vs, Wel case granted. Murray ys. Edwards.—Motion granted and at- tachment issaed, Vau Ost vs. Ellis,—Motion that third party pay, &c., granted, with costs. Brown vs. Prime.—Motion that third party pay, &c., denied. SUPREME OOURI—CHAMBERS. Notice. On and after Monday, September 7, 1874, the calendar will be called at eleven o'clock A, M. COURT CALENDAR—THIS DAY. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS—Held by Judge | Donohue.—Nos. 98, 182, 216, 222, 226. JEFFERSON MARKET POLIOE OOUBT, Stealing a Chain. Betore Judge Morgan. A young colored man, named Frank Wilson, was hoid in $1,000 to answer the charge of attempting | to steala gold chain, worth $30, from Adams & Co., Broadway jewellers, Dishonest Domestics. Julia Morris and Elevina West, servants in the employ of Mrs. Elizabeth Wetmore, of No. 145 West Eleventh street, were brought up on acharge of stealing sundry articles of clothing during the summer Vacation of their mistress. They were re- manded, ranted. ler.—Motion for leave to serve Burglary. John McCue, charged with having burglariously entered the premises kept as a barroom by Jonn Duffey, at No. 421 West Seventeenth street, yester- day morning, and stealing $89 1n money, was also remanded. ESSEX MARKET POLIOE COURT. A Much Married Man. Before Judge Bixby. An examination in acurious case of abandon- ment has been going on at Essex Market Court for the last two days, and was concluded yesterday. The complainant 1s Harriet Friedman, who ac- cuses Emanuel Friedman of marrying her in the summier of 1873 and abandoning her when the cold weather came on. Harriet ts about sixty years of age and Emanuel aboot sixty-five. it is alleged that the ceremony was performed by Abraham Weber, a Jewish Rabbi, This statement is de- | nied by the Rabbi himself, who was inj court = y rday, and testified that he never performed any marriage _ceremon’ between the parties, Some six witnesses testife that they were present at the marriage, but many of them Gisagreed as to the date, and the prose- cntion then stated that they had sixteen more | who were Willing to come forward. Judge Bixby, however, thought he had heard enough for the prosecution and summoned the witnesses for the defence. Three persons testified that Emanuel ‘Was living at No, 25 Essex street with his second wife, and that he had ten children living by his first wife. After ali the testimony was in Jadge Bixby concluded to hold Emanuel in $500 bail to answer. FIFTY-SEVENTH STREET POLICE OOURT. A Policeman Held to Answer for Brutally Clubbing a Prisoner, Before Judge Smith. OMcer Thomas J. Cromie, of the Mounted Squad, placed at the bar Michael Campbell, whom he bad arrested on Sixth avenue for being intoxicated and unable to take care of his horse. Campbell ia @ laboring man, and was driving down Sixth ‘avenue op Wednesday evening, when he fell off the seat back into his cart, He was assisted to regain his seat by a passing citizen, when OMcér Cromie, who was on horse- back, came galloping up behind, He jumped into Campbell’s cart and attempted to take noid of the reins of Campbeil’s horse. Campbell tried to pre- vent this, and between the two the horse was thrown back on his haunches on the railroad ‘track and fell, The officer then dragged Campbell out of the cart and got him down on the street, where Campbell continued to struggle to get away, and, as Cromie says, to kick the officer. Mr. James Fettretch, broker, No. 999 Sixth avenue, | Niltac, 8.0... P, Lorillard & © seeing she officer could aot cope with the prisoner, brought him his club, which was attached to the saddle on his horse. Mr. Fettretch aiso sent his boy to get another officer. Mr, Fettretch, who, if @nything, iavored the officer, by whom he was summoned as @ one testified that he saw the omcer ‘trying t hold the prisoner down on the und, and to prevent him from bitin, and ficking him he was compelied to use hie clup. The oMcer struck Campbell once on the head while down. Oromie admitted the correct ness of Mr. Fettretch's statement, but denied that he had id tee] struck Oampbell on the head, There were brought forward avout a dozen wit- Nessea by Mr. T. ¥, Neville, Who voluntarily ap peared iu the case, not so much to defend ‘P= Dell's conduct, but to show, aa he said what kind of @ guardian the public had in OMcer Cromie, and Vhe brutal treatment to which he had subjected & he!plessty drunken man, ‘ar, Nathan Nesbitt wished to appear im behalf of Cromie, but was not allowed by Judge Smith, who said he considered himself quite able to take on Of the Officer's interests during the examina- Several witnesses were then examined as 30 the conduct of tae officer. Some of them thought he was drunk, but the majority were ve thas Was not, and that his extreme violence toward the prisoner was due to his ag li-temper, Dr. 8. D, Powell, of No. 15 West gg fth street, testified that when he reached thé scene of the difficulty Campbell was lying at fall jength on the Street; the officer was over him, hia two | feet Yeing SMA appar the Prisoner kicked a little with his bat he Seemed to be already insenaible; the oMcer delip- erately struck the prisoner two or three times over the head and sboulders; he then took hold of him m4 threw him tnte the cart, agatust the board of which his neck struck in such a Manner that witness thought i must have been broken; thus he was removed to the Nineteenth precinct station house, bleeding profusely ; it was a horrible sight the whole affair and he wished never to witness such an Occur renoe again, The Doctor's testtmony was corroborated by half @ dozen other witnesses, whose recival of the out. rage was 80 plain and straightforward, varying not tn the least particular one from another, or {rom the HERaLD’s publication of yestera: the Court finally said he had heard enoug remarked that it was evident to him that OMcer Cromie was unfit to be a guardian of the people. He was @ dangerous man, and his proper place Was that in which his victim now found bi a ‘The remarks of the Court were received with tremendous burst of applause, which lasted for a few seconds before the officers could suppress It, Campbell was then discharged and his complaint for assault and battery taken against the officer, who was held in $1,000 bali for examination, Mr. James Fettretch, before alluded to 4s a witness, gave the required bonds, Mr. Nathan Nesbitt then satd that he supposed he could now appear for the prisoner Crome. Being answered in the affirmative by the Cours he asked that the examination be held before another magistrate, The Court requested to know why counsel made such a request. Mr. Nesbitt answered that tt was evident to nim and others in the court that His Honor was preju- diced against the omiter, whom he mistook for another officer who had recently been beiore him tna case suntlar to this at the Special Sessions, The Court repiied that he hoped, ior the officer’s sake, he was mistaken. The counsel’s request was granted, and the case ts to be tried by Judge Sherwood on the latter’s return trom the country. A Dangerous Youth. Oar! Reisch, aged eighteen years, of No. 413 East Fourteenth street, was charged with firing twe shots from a revolver at William Lambert, of No, 303 East Twenty-eixth street. He dented firing the shots at the complainant, buta Mr. Moriarty, who saw the occurrence, testified that Retscn nad undoubtedly pointed the weapon at Lambert. An examination was asked for and granted, pending which bail was given in $1000. A Policeman and a Minister in One Box. Patrick Lynch, @ policeman, of the Second pre- cinct, and a minister of the Gospel, were arraignea on a charge of intoxication. Lynch was arrested in the Twenty-second precinct and stripped of hig badge by Uaptatn Killilea, who has sent a report of the case to the Police Commissioners. The Court fined him $5, which he paid, aud was dis- charged. The minister was also dued $5. He paid. _ the money and was discharged. A Woman’s Eventfal Connubial Career. A middle-aged woman describing herself as Mrs. Ann Marta Dean, of No. 156 West Fifty-aixth street, charged a man named Nicholas Dean, whom shé@ claimed to be ber husband, with abandonment, Mr. Nesbtt, counsel tor the defendant, asked for an examination, and Mrs. Dean was called to the stand. She testified that she was first married to Elisha Soper tn 1842 and lived with him until his death, which occurred about 1855. She then became the wife of one Daniel Duvinny, and left him two months after marriage, however, because he proved to be worthiess, In 1860, though having no divorce from Duvinny, and knowing him to be still alive, she married Dean, with whom she cohabited up to @ quite recent date, when he abandoned her. In explanation of her irreguiar conduct she ex- plained that her friends had assured her that she ‘was a3 good as divorced from Duvinny because of hia misbehavior, and that she was free to marry again. After Mrs. Duvinny had made this frank Statement, Justice Smith, of course, discharged Dean, at the same time inquiring of him the reason why he had at this late day concluded to abandon the apparent honest woman who had 40 long sustained to him’ the relation of wife. He replied that he nad but recently learned of the existence of Duvinny, and that that individual had begun to persecute him. Fearing that @ charge of bigamy might be made against him he had determined upon aseparation, This si ment his discarded partner strongly denied, ahe asserting that he had, from the beginning of their a@cquaintance, known that Duvinny was still living. She leit the court room threatecing to carry we cage to another court, BROOKLYN COURTS. OITY COURT. What Constitutes Vagrancy t Before Judge Netison. John Pratt, a very respectable looking man, was brought before Judge Neilson, in the City Court, upon & writ of habeas corpus, yesterday. Mr. Pratt, {tappears, is a salesman in an extensive haraware store, corner of Vesey and Greenwich streets, New York, and is in comiortable circum- stances, His family are spending the season Long Branch, As he was lonely one nignt in his sad little cot he sauntered out sor a walk along the streets, and meeting some friends partook of the social bowl, That he drank too deeply would seem evident from the fact that he was taken into custody by a stalwart policeman and locked up on @ charge Of vagrancy. The following morning be was arraigned before Judge Morse, and whem asked where he lived he aber evasively, 88 he did not wish to have his identity kuown, The Judge thereupon committed Mr. Pratt to the Ray- mond Street Jatl for ten days. Judge Neilson find- ing the commitment of Judge Morse irregniar, ordered the discharge of the prisoner, who leié the court @ wiser and a nappier man, - Decision. By Judge Neilson. Philip H. McDevitt vs. North Second Street and Middle Village Raiiroad.—Case settled, SUPREME OOURT. Decisions. By Judge Pratt In the matter of the application of the Green- woud Baptist church,—Order allowing mortgage Jor $16,000, J. A. Duff vs. H, B, Wiltes.—Motion to vacate Judgment dented, ( Worms vs. S. C. Worms.—Juagment granted, FLOATING HOSPITAL Destitute Sick Children’s Fund. The following additional contributions have been received by Rev, Alvah Wiswall, Master of St. John’s Guild, and handed to Henry O, De Witt, Almoner:— Mrs. Elizabeth Libbey D. H. Moalpin... Drexel, Morgan & Co Goorge'M. Van Nort Martha Potter, Sing § Frederick Potter, Mary Potter. Sing > Blanche Potter, sing sin; In Memoriam, Sing sing Mrs. U. B. Pale sing Excursion Royal Baking Powder Goinpany J.P, Durand Gash KH. & Me Strang, Holla: Fullerstal & Cas C, 5 é Orange County Milk Associa Total... Amount previously aci Grand total.. Contributions to the fund are earnestly solicited) @t once, and may be sent tothe New YORE HERALD oMice, Mayor Havemeyer, City Hall; se oe stable & Co., No. 885 Broadway; D. Appleton No. 561 Broadway; August ‘Peimoni & 00., No. 10 Nassau street; 8. L. Bariow, No. 36 Witten street; H. B, Ch A. A. Low No, 8i Bari Wiswall, Master of St. Varick street, ss aaneaienldiasel des THB FOUNDLING ASYLUM FUND, A Contribut! by Five Clerks. New York«, August 31, 1874, To Tux Eprron or THs HERALD:— Capital! that suggestion to start a subscription or fund for the Roman Oatholic Foundling Asylum. Under the inspiratton of the article in to-day's HERaLpD five clerks in & downtown establishment, in all shades of religious belief, have ae- rojolctnS deprive themselves of some litiie luxury, necessity, and contribute each $1. n= ‘SR whieh please acknowledge. The winter will soon be With us, and it may bea hard one. If the good sisters are'to get some sub- stantial help ougnt they not to receive it at once, so that they may begin their preparations ‘There are hundreds, yes, thousands, of youug men itke ourselves in this’ great metropoils who can spare something—some more, some less, Let all do their best, and, they can depend on It, they will never regret or miss the sum they donate to . 140 Church st: at OO a slip, oF Rev. Alvath Yonn’s’ Guild, No. 64 an }nstitntion whose work 1s, indeed, nobie, since heipless and forsaken of 8, very respectiuily, 1, 2 8, 4, 5. The HeRaLD has also received for this fund the Also the following sums for other charities :— September 2, American, for “Jersey's starving family,” Mta& Stacey, oes Sevtemper & W. du (or BK gonn’