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a ee LOUISIANA. The McEnery-Kellogg Conference Com- mittee at New Orleans. a Embarrassments and Dis- appointments. Alleged Registration Frauds Now Being Perpetrated. Marshal Packard and Governor Kellogg Promise a Tair Election. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 24, 1874, Notwithstanding the reassembling of the Con- ference Committee on Adjustment seems impossi- ble, I have conversed with the leaders of both parties and elicited tne following facts:—Thbe con- servatives contend that frauds at the registration We already been committed, especially in the sity, where the republicans allege 11,000 colored amen are already registered, @ greater number whan voted in 1872, Im response to this the repub- Means agree for a revision of what has been done amd a close scrutiny in future. They offer to place the entire registration under the management of & committee of direction, composed of two con- eervatives and two republicans, with Dr. M. ¥F. Bonzano to preside. A member of the conservative committee in review- ing this proposition to-day, said to the HERALD representative that it would undoubtedly afford his party an opportunity for correcting many abuses which he alleges have already been committed. He said, too, with an advisory board to point out directions, and Kellogg pledged to Obey its suggestions, the Registration law, which is pronounced by conservatives as an instrument to legalize frauc, would be much leas baleful inits results, The leader of the republicans further stated that were he a member of this advisory | board his honor would compel him to strike from the list of registrars many incapable men, although he would perform this duty at the risk of great personal popularity. This portion of the compromise, as 1s already known, was accepted. MARSHAL PACKARD’S STATEMENT, I to-day asked Marshal S. B. Packard the objec- | tion of his party to requesting the resignations of the three members of the Returning Board, who have the preparingof the returns and substitut- ing in their stad two conservatives and an um- pire who would be acceptable to both parties, His reply was:— «The republican party has already expressed a ‘willingness to create two vacancies on the Board, which way be fillet by any two the conservatives Dominate. The republican committee reserves to itsell the naming ofthe three as its judgment dic- tates, Objections are made to General Longstreet because he fired upon ihe citizens, The party can- mot iu honor displace a man who has risked his lufe tu deienee of the State. Were one of the three gentlemen who represezt the party on the Board to voluntarily resign there would be no difficulty in selecting a republican who would ve acceptable to ull, but in yielding this much the parry has done all that could be expected, and far more than ‘Would ovr opponents were they similarly situated, We will, however, guarantee atair electiou ana a fag count.” @ The HERALD representative next consulted Snother conservative leader, who, in response to @ query, Said :—‘‘Aiter the conduct of the Returo- ing Board in 1872 there are not thréé republicans inthe State of Louisiana whom tne conservatives | ‘would trust with a manipulation of the returns, A Maority of the Returning Board has absolute Fover. Our two representatives would sit there, vit their fingers in their mouths, and see the ‘mire lst of officers delivered over to the repubil- | suas, and then would undergo the odium of having consented to their own sacrifice. No, sir. Uuless that Board can be eo constituted that there W.ll not be the weight of a hair to the advantage | of either side we Will Withdraw our candidates, abstain from registering and Tefuse to gO near the polis.” THE GOVERNOR'S WISH FOR FAIRNESS. Governor Kellogg, whom the HERALD represen- tauve last saw, asserted that, be the consequences ‘what they may, were it within the reach of human acticvement, he would see a fair election in “November; that he stood before the country and would be judged by the American people on the remits of thatday. The Conference Committee hwe been in session at the Boston Club during Widnesday evening and to-day, but the result of thir deliberations may be anticipated from the foegoing. A prominent banker, whose opinion ‘wis requested, suggested an election under mill- t#y auspices, but failed to cite the law under ‘Mich this could be achieved. The city has been Yk with areport that the President has notified Ellogg that the United States troops will be wthdrawn in fiiteen days. The Governor denies itand offered togive an order on the Western Uton ofice for a copy of the alleged despatch, but PADY still believe there is sometiing in it, At six o’ciock P, M.a United States war vessel Bve in sight, coming toward the bar. ‘his vessel \ from Key West, and will reach the bar at aay- ight in the morning, and the city probably not be- fire dusk to-morrow evening, Seventeen cases of arms from New York were Deday turned over to the consignee, The Conference Committee Developments NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 24, 1874. The meeting of tne Conference Committee to-day was informal, The McEnery party have notified the Kellogg peopie to give written notice when they desire to reopen negotiations, Awalting The Alleged Murderous Exploits of the White League—A Remarkable Review by United States Commissioner Jewett. The Boston Globe of Wednesday publisnes a four- column letter from D. J. M. A. Jewett, United States Commissioner of Lousiana, in which the following startling statements are made over his signature :— Let me state to you a few chapters from the post delum uistory of Louisiana. In 1965 an election ‘Was held and @ Legislature was chosen, none but - Whites voting, aud the body being exclusively democratic, Among the legislation of that body ‘Was an act confining negroes to the plantation of their employer, except absent upon a pass from him! Another forbidding him the use of firearms! Yet another exacting that any negro who should fail to contract for the labor of himseif and family with some reputable planter during the first ten days of January in each year should be arrested by the nearest justice of the peace, lodged in the Parish jail with his tamily, and that said justice should contract witu some planter for their ser- ‘viwes during the year for the benefit of the parish! Others provided for the puntshment of negroes by Whipping upon the bare back, &c. During Por- ter’s raid vo Monroe he burned the Court House of Ouachita parish and that Legislature provided a tax for its reconstruction, At that date the pro- Portion of the races stood in that parish as two whites to five blacks; the whites owned all the property, the blacks none, ‘That tax was laid upon property, I hear you say. Not at ali; it was laid upon the adult males, black and White, at $5 per head; consequently where pro. A $10 | akg fi paid $25. For this iniamy Jobn McEuery, hen representative of that parish, and the last rebel candidate tor Governor ot Louisiana, was responsible, and each of the measures I have received his active support. Legisiature created a levee system, under which leveeswiich were oid at the outbreak of the war ‘were Measured in their ruined state and paid for out Of the State treasury as new works, increased the debt of the State upward of $15,000,000, and finally compelied Vongress to substitute a military government for theirs. THE NEW RRA. In 1867, under authority of Congress, an clection was held tor @ constitutional convention, The revel whites generally refused to participate and were hardly represented in that body, A consti- tution in harmony with that of the United States was formed, which, though open perhaps to some objection, Was @ giorious advance upon any which had preceded it. Under that constitution an elec- tion jor State oMficers, a Legisiature and parish oMcers was held in April, 1868, H. © Warmotn and aj) the republican State ofncers, rge re- pubiican majority of the Legisiature and repnpil- oan oficers 1D @ Jarge maiority 0} the parishes NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. Were elected--the State officers by shout 17,000 majority. This election wag held in the presence of the military, though without interference Upon their part, and I conceive it to have been the last Jair election held in Louisiana. THE KU KLUX BEGIN OPERATIONS. At on {ter the election the X, K. K. and White Camellia began their awful preparation lor the Presidential campaign of that year. That year, as this, they announced their determination to carry the election—peaceably if possible, for- qtbiy if necessary. Karly in the summer the prowling, wrupkep, murderous class began their iabors. Among the first to die Was William F, Meadows, of Claiborne parish, @ colored man of intelligence and influ- ence, # member of the Constitattonal Con- ple and inflaence were dangerous to the Ku Kiax. He was snot one evening in his dooryard, in the presence of his family, by men who, after the deed was done, rode off as coolly as if trom @ country {rolic—men who were well known, and who yet boast of the deed and derive trom it ab this hour an ‘honorable’ impor- tance in the community. Single murders of colored and white republicans increased in ire- quency and occurred in nearly every parish in Louisiana, Still the negro was not intumidated; something more must be done in the interest of ‘white civilization.”’ Soon came the massacre in St. Landry parish; 200 negroes lay rotting in the woods, and the “Southern heart was fired;’ Caddo followed; every little neighborhood in the bloody parish had already its history of blood and crime, vut se must strike jor the proud pre-emi- hence In riot and murder which she has ever since enjoyed. First the white republicans, William 8. Mundgett, J. H. McVean, Charles W. Keeting and others, ail gallant federal soldiers, were driven out. Milton Fenwick alone remained, and he was driven to dodge and hide with bears and wolves in the dense cauebrakes where nis ersecutors had not the courage to pursue im. When these inconvenient witnesses were driven away tne carnival began. In one. night thirty negroes were taken from about Shreveport, marched to the bank of Red River, tied together with ropes and shot in the back as they stood. A rait of swollen bodies drifted down the turbid river until the hungry alligators gave them a burial denied by men. On one occa- sion seven negroes were chaimed in an old aban- doned puilding and with it burned. From Sep- vember 1 to November 3 242 men, men of the same feelings, aspirations, duties and rights as yours and mine, died in Caddo parish, and died deaths of horror, for the crime of loyalty to their coun- try and their God. The adjoining parish of Bos- | sler strove yet tO surpass foul St. Landry and bloody Caddo in the work of death, and succeeded, On the 30th of September, a drunken buily, hile riding through the Shady Grove planta- lon, demanded of an aged negro, lying upon the gallery of « house, whether be was a republi- cap, and recetying an answer in the afirmative, fired at the negro both barrels of a shot gun. The negroes near at hand rallied, arrested the white mau and started with him for the jail at Bellevue, This heinous offence on the part of the negroes | was enough. Hundreds of white men railied from Caddo, Northern Bossier and Arkansas. Sixty- } eight negroes—men, women and children—were killed upon the Shaay Grove plantation. The negroes of the parish abandoned their houses and | fled to the swamps. There the whites followed them with bloodhounds for days; the chivalry | enjoyed all the pleasurable excitements of a | “nigger hunt.” Two bundred more were killed in the swamps, shot to death—men, women aud | children—or torn to pieces by the horrible fangs of dogs hot more ferocious than their masters, ‘A SPECIMEN OF CHIVALRY. One chivalrous Dr. Whitleld Vance, accompa- nied by a few more high-toned gentiemen, during the excitement of the hunt mei upon the road two colored women riding upon mules to reclaim, if possible, the bones of their slaughtered hustands, | This “high-toned” doctor, with his own aristo- cratic hands, hanged these women at the side of the road With the haiters of their mujes, and went | home, doubtless feeling a calm satisfaction at hav- ing been able to do that much for the cause of “white civilization.” The same chivalrous gentle- mau dragged from under his own mansion a negro Who had sought salety there, and enjoyed the pleasure vis eT) # bowle knife upon bis shoul- der and of driving it downwara to his heart. An- other wounded negro he covered in the Woocs with brush and logs and fired the pile. The man yet lives to exhibit the scars of his fearful burns, BLOODY TACTICS AGAIN. As the campaign of 1874 approached, it became | painiuily evident to the Ku Kiux hosts that the ‘election machinery being in the hands of the Republican State government, a fair election and \% republican triumph were probable. They there- jore regOived uponD the tactics of 1868, and the {| White League was the result. From the first ; formation of this conspiravy I have had experi- enced detectives Within itsranks. Like the White | Camellia and K. K. K., it has severai ranks and degrees, each ignorant of the membership and deliberations of those superior to it, all bound, ag those organizations were, toa blind unquesiloning Obedience to the orders of theirchiels, In fact, tie League ig but the Infamous klan under a vew name ; it isled by the same men, the little great men | of the rotten confederacy, the men who, in “Buttermilk,” “Yellow Jacket’? and ‘Pumpkin Stud” organizations at peaceful hen-roosts, in swamp campaigns, conscript hunts and stump speeches, Won a cheap and hasty reputation; while braver men and better men and men bow loyal to the core faced the troops of the nation on the fleid of battle and gallantly lived or bravely died for the ‘lost cause.’ These men are the leaders of the parish organizations of the demo- cratic party, 80 cailed, a8 well as of the league. ‘ghey arc the aspirants for office at the hands of the rebel elemeni; they it is who plan St. Mar- tinsville raids and Conshatta massacres, and urge on their deluded followers to commit them. TheSe are the men who, under the lead of the infamous McEnery, demand the extermination of the white republicans of Louisiana. Their organizations, plans, mem- bership, leaders, purposes and crimes, are as well known to myself and the republican leaders of Louistana as to themselves, and they need not expect immunity for the crimes of 1874. The campaign began, upon the part of the league, with a hurricane of threats and slanders levelled at every prominent republican in the State; from words to blows was a short transition. St. Martin’s was the first parish attacked. The republicans were compelled to resign or die in- stanter, Some were ailowed to remain, others were driven out. Natchitoches tollowed; the Tax Collector Was forced to resign in presence of ‘a yelling mob of 500 drunken leaguers; the Dis+ | trict Judge was compelled to fly irom the bedside | of a oying ciiid aud a dying father to save hig life. An attempt was made upon the tile of Senator Blunt. During the reign of terror every public oficial in the parish was either driven out of the parish or compelled to resign. Avoyelis was “purified” by the banisnment of the Superintendent of Public Educatipn for the Fourth | Congressional district and of the Representative of the parish, Mr.L. J, Louer. Coarles F. Huseman, Tax Collector, Was allowed to resign or toexpend twen- ty-iour hours in preparation for leaving the parish, ‘olin McEnery visited Lincoln parish and advised the mob here to take the same course; indeed, re- marked that ‘we should compel every carpet-bag- ger, 8calawag and hegro to vote with os or leave tae State.” This highly original and simple mode of getting ria of a troublesome political opposi- tion Was put in practice the same day GETTING KID OF OFFICIALS. A mob of 160 White Leaguers waited upon Senator Greene and W, L, Greene, Tax Collector, who were indulgea with twenty hours during which to nand in thei resignations; the consequences of negiect on their part to be “on time,” it was hinted, would entail a small outlay for hemp, These gentlemen resigned, itis needless to say. The resignations of two members of the police jary were demanded elsewhere and obtaiued; aM these resignations were “voluntary,” of course; the resignation of the Parish Judge was demanded, but as he was, | absent from the parish the RS rinciple | could not reach him. Captain Join W. Harrison, ; formerly of the Eighth New York Volunteers, and now Recorder of the parish, and myself, were warned that our presence was bot acceptable to | “we the taxpayers,” and that the sooner we got beyond the parish lines the healthier it would be for us, We have not yet departed, Upon making the discovery the following day that 1 was an officer of the United States, the league was proiuse tn its apologies for its conduct toward myself, Mr. Jewett states that at the same time a mob waited upon H, L. Twitchell, Tax Collector; F. 8. Edgerton, Sherif’; R. A. Dewées and Clark Ho- dand, Supervisors; W. J. Howell, Parish Attorney, } Parish, forced them to resign and leave the State, Of their subsequent murder he says :— A trustworthy guard was assigned the ‘“prison- ers,” and they were “permitted”? to depart for Shreveport, on their way to Texas. A few hours after, however, the guard halted in the woods, upon the McFarland plantation in Bossier parish were joined by fifty men conveniently called “Te: ans,” and of course ‘unknown.’ The “prisoners' were comfortably shot, and the neighbors on the following day duried, without any formality, whatever remains of them the beasts and buz- zards had not destroyed. 1N CONSTANT DREAD, I cannot write as lought of tms hellish crime. ‘These men, with one exception, wore with us tne loyal blue ; four were of dear old Massachusetts; they were my yalzcil friends, done w death traitorously by the rebel hell-nounds, who, in sav- age, treacherous, cowardly ferocity, have no paral- lel ‘on earth. Their murder shall be feartully avenged; but by the laws, God give them rest; they died, my iriends, for liberty and the flag ag truly as did anyeot our dear coinrades of the old “Nibeteenth,”” For a month past the white republicans of Lin- coin parish havé been counted at this place; our least number has been on our greatest six ie armed to the teeth, and ou the alert night an day, It 18 well understood that ay attack upon us would be met by @& gen perute defence, which would cease only with our lives; that the attack would cost twenty or thirty White Leaguers the ‘number of their mess,” and consequently, we have not been attacked, but we live in constant preparation, and know not what hour an extra allowance of whis- key might bring tne crowd upon us, I have neither space nor time to instance each case of crime or to enumerate the parishes victimized, ‘The number of them {8 seventeen. From what [ have stated, and when I add that Lincoin and Red River 1urnish (air samples of the whole, that in Cad- do during the past two months there have been not less than thirty isolated political murders, you can form some idea of the “state of affairs in Lonisiana.” I have atated nothing tnat is not sus | Ceptible of prool, Which bas not been. JQ lucy and McWillis, Justice of the Peage of Red River | | dence of an election by the people. ios ke States than Louisiana, It was when federal oitice- | the employment of force ?” He thinks there is, and ‘ Marshal Packard, who, besides being Marshal, was | oMcial duties and | the Southern States, who have looked upon them- | fluence to sustain and strengthen the blood- | suckers desolating that country, and probably not | their White Man’s League; for every organization proved over and over again by unimpeachabie and overwhelming tesumony. 1 state nothing a8 hav- ing occurred since 1870 which haa not falien within my personal or official knowledge. I have not given you a detail of a hundredth part of the biood and crime, but prominent incidents in the fearful history. ° lam, asl may say, the witness of crimes which, tn the absence of troops, | am unable to punish or prevent. In November, 1872, I was compelled to report to Attorney General Willams that were I to attempt the performance of my sworn duty it would be the signal for my death and that of every white republican in North Lou a. have felt compelied to make the same report Within twenty duys, My heart is oppressed with care and sorrow. Iam unable to write as I otherwise would; forgive deficiencies and believe me your friend, SCHURZ ON THE SOUTH. The Missouri Senator Arraigns the Administration on the Difficultics in the South, Espectally in Louisiana— Strong Antagonism to the Civil Rights Bill. Sr. Louis, Mo., Sept. 24, 1874, Senator Schurz made a lengthy and elaborate speech upon national and State questions at the ‘Temple to-night, After referring in general terms to the present condiwion of the public mind, the widespread and deep distrust and scepticism which have taken the place of the confident assur- ance and sanguine expectations formerly prevail- ing, he entered into a discussion of Louisiana affairs, He reiterated his opinions, expressed in the Senate, that Kellogg’s government is an usurpation; but it had been recognized by the President, and when last week the McEneryites overthrew it the President con- stitutionally reinstated it, and that was the end of the Louisiana revolution, But tt is not the end of the disease, neither is it the final rem- edy. A great wrong has been committed, ‘The Wrong does not consist in the intervention of the President against those who, by force of arms, nad driven Kellogg to thght; for the President acted in the exercise of his constitutional authority, Neither can, in a republic, the right of self-help by force be admitted, for such an admission would encourage every party and every individual that has @ grievance, either real or imagi- hdry, to resort to force for redress, and | @ ‘state of anarchy would ensue, which no political or social organization could withstand. But the great wrong was committed belore. It was when a ijederal judge, palpably overstepping the limits of his jurisdicuon, and perpetuating an outrage without precedent in our history, Was supported by the power of the na- tional government in the act ol Virtually creating a State government which had not the least evi- dence of an election by the people. it was when, even after the President had confessed his doubt, Congress negiected to undo the usurpanon, ant to make room for those who had prima facie evi- The wrong was committed even before vhat, and in mo) holders in the South were permitted to use their | authority and prestige as 2 power 1n a partisan conflict and for the support and perpetuation of partisan State governments and the most rapa- cious and corrupt that ever disgraced a republi- can country. It was when the keeping of the Southera States was deemed more important than that they ghould have honest and constitutional governnient. OTHER WRONGS IN THE SOUTH. Nor was that the only wrong committed in the South. There was another and on the other siae, It was when bands of lawless rufMans infested the Southern country, spreading terror by cruel per- Secution and murder. it was when help ris- | oners were slaughtered in cold blood, It was when neither officers nor volunteers couid be founda to arrest the perpetrators of such bloody deeds or no juries to convict them, It was when the better classes of Scolsty contented themselves with con- demuatory resolutions aud pious wishes instead of straining every nerve to bring the maleiactors to justice, and now it is said that many of the blooay stories which reach us from the South are inventions and exaggerations. That may biave been, and undoubtedly in some cases was so, But we know, also, that very many ol them were but too true and that they cannot be explained as a mere defence against official robbery, and the murdered victims were mostly poor negroes, while the real plunderers went free and sae, We know also that there is a rufManiy element in the South which, unless vigorously restrained by all the power of society, Will resort to bloody violence as a pastime, especially when itis permitued to believe | itself engaged iu partisan service and sale under | the protection of public opinion, The Senutor then said:—“This is the state of tuings we have to deal with’ and asks, ‘is there no remedy except proceeds to say:—‘There is no furtuer attempt at anarchial movement on the part of (he people of Louisiana, but there is another kind ol anarchy Wiich is just a8 dangerous to repubitcan institu. | tions and to the weliare of the nation, as the law. less self-help by force of individuals and parties; it is the anarchy of power; it 18 the lawiess- ness of wauthority; if you want peopie to respect and obey tue laws convince them that those in power do not wiliuily disregard them.” He then referred to tue fact that an election fora new Legisiatare is impending and that United States troops are there profess- edly to enforce the laws in that election, but whether they are used impartially or not will de- end upon who controls thei. This control will e in & great measure in the hands of United States one Of the principal accomplices of Judge Durell aud Kellogg tn the usurpation two years ago, and is now the managing spiritof the State Ventral Committee of the Kellogg party. This is not a fit person to control the United States troops to he used in that election. it is of the highest im- portance that, especially under existing circum- stances, the peop.e of Louisiana should not only Have a fair election, but also that they should be made to feel that they shall have one. The past per artes and the present functions of Mr. acKard are not calculated to inspire contidence. Iem sure the whole country would applaud an order of the President relieving Mr. Packard of his the substitution of a man of such character that everybody will believe him In- han of abusing his power ior partisan ends. le then urges that all federal officebolders in selves as the Mere pariy agents, using ali their in- in many cases obiivious of their own profits, be STRIPPED OF THELR OFFICIAL POWERS. He says he was rejoiced a few days ago, when reading in the papers, that the President was con- | templating the hoiding ot a ferriule muster or federal piacemen in thé South. Never was ic more necessary, Let us hope that not a single one of thuse who have made the fed- eral authority @ symbol of selfish partisan powcr and greedy oppression may escape him, and that the beginning be made with Packard and his associates, But, he says, the duty of the government does not end here. Con- gress should at once, on reassembling, uado the | usurpation set on loot by a lederal judge and sup- ported by the United States Marshal and federal bayonets, and make every citizen understand and feel that While preserving intact the lawlul au- thority of the government they are ready to throw aside al) selfish considerations of party interest when the rights and welfare of the peopie and the | integrity of republican institutions are in ques- tion. On the other hand, the citizens of the South must not be permitted to lorget that they, too, have a duty to perform. The people of the North sincerely desire that they should have honest and constitutional government. Even _@ large majority of the republicans in the North bave long been heartily disgusted with the government ot thieving adventurers which plundered the South. But, wnen that pub- lic opinion was on the point of becoming so strong that no partisan spirit in power could long have | resisted it, what happened? ‘The bloody riot in New Orleans in 1866; the organization of Ku Kiux ali over the South; the butchery of Grant parish in 1873; the murders of Conshatta; the slaughter of heipless negro prisoners in Trenton, Tenn.; not to Speak of minor atrocities. What was the effect? ‘he growing sympathy with the victims of plun- der was turned into sympathy with che victims of murder, It is to be hoped that by this time the pearls of tne South have learned that those who disgrace them by deeds of bloody violence are thelr worst enemies. Let them act upon that lesson, Let them dissolve based upon a distinction of color is hot only wrong 1 itseil, but harmiul to both races, Let them make the poor negro feel that ke has not only a willing, but an active protector in every good citi zen, Let them understand that the most efficient method to fight the thieves Wbo rob them is by re- lentiessl suppressing the murderous ruffans | among themselves who strip them of the sympa- thy of the country. Silent disapproval is nothing, good intentions are nothing, mere public resolu- tions are nothing. ‘ONLY VIGOROUS ACTION WILL AVAIL. Only the practical punisument of malefactors willserve. They justly demand that no thief shall find grace because he is a republican or because he 18 @ democrat. Let party spirit cease to be a shelter to the criminal. No White Man's League wiil do them any good. An Anti-RuMan League, o€ which every good citizen is an. active member, is the wae the South wants, J say this as a true iriend of the Southern people, who has more than once raised his voiee against the wrongs they have sul- fered, and I hail with gladness the spirit anima ing the Governor of Tennessee, who does not r* until all the murderers of Trenton county a the clutches of the law, and the charge ol 6! at Kentucky Judge who tells his Grand Jucy that if they fail to indict not only the woo committed +he murder, but also man. the Sheriff who wilfully negiected t arrest that murderer, he will fad grand Bite tg in another county who will do their duty to that spirit which will relentlessly pursue the lawless elements of society as the common enemy. There is salva- tion for the Southern people. Let that spirit pkg in the South and no partisan spirit im the orth will be strong enough to baie the sympathy which their misfortunes deserve, The South whl again enor, the —_ largest constitutional measure of Caen Saket and one of the greatest of those dangers will disap- bear Which at presemt threaten the moat VAG ' mander Lewis A. | ship 250 feet long froma given distance, and ac- part of our republican institutions, After show- ing the bad effects of teaching the negroes that their safety lay in organization, a8 a race, against whites, and making tuem partisan supporters of corruption and robbery, and denouncing the men who did this as the cruelest, the most treacherous and most dastardiy enemies the colored people ever had, he discussed THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL. After saying he could not support the bill be- cause he regarded it unconstitutional, he sal “Ifit becomes @ jaw it will break up the whole pul lc school system of the Southern Stutes, and none will be greater sufferers thereby than the colofed opie. It is a well known iact that in the States containing the buik of the colored population there existed a widespread and powerlui prejudice against the introduction of @ system of schools to be supported at the public expe! know something of that, even in Missou equally well Known that a iarge majority of the white people 0! those States, even a large majority of those who are sincerely anxious to secure to the colored children the largest possible advantages of education in separate establishments, still are very strongly, nay, Violently opposed to any law which, like the Civil Rights bill, woud force the admission of colored children together with white children in the same scpvoirooms, That opposition exists and we have to deal with it agatact. Try to en- force, under such circumstances, the system of mixed schools and this will be the result:—The old prejudice against a system of pubiic instruction to be supported by taxation, as it still exists in the States in question, will’ at once find itself BO An Interview with Gene- ral Robert ‘Toombs. ASTES FURIOSO. Ae REE Is He Making Capital for the Third Term? aL ay HIS EPITAPH. The Days of ’98 Good Enough for Any Rebel. ees Bu HIS INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL GRANT, ATLANTA, Sept. 19, 1874, The speech of Robert Toombs, recently made tn powerfully reinforced, and to an aitack, 80 strengthened, aguinst a defence, In the same measure weakened, it 18 most probable that systems of instruction laboriously built up will succumb, ‘There is scarcely a | greater musiortune conceivable that could belall these communities. ut what would, | especially the colored people, have gained, now they have at least their separate schools at the | papue expense, a8 apart of the general system? | estroy that system and they will have no mixed | schools, while their separate schools would perish | also. Would the Jaw, then, benefit the colored race | at all? A colored man might, indeed, then enforce | lus rights to ride ail over the country in a Pull- man palace car, to board at a first class hotel and sit in the dress circle of a theatre. But such things can be enjoyed, under any circumstances, only by the very small number of wealthier people among them, and those pleasures and conveniences of their few men of means would be purchased at a Greadful price, The interruption of the public school system—the advantages of which they now extensively enjoy in separate establishments— would deprive the children of the poor of a thing which 18 a8 necbssary to them as their daily bread, But in still other respects the enactment of such a law would not be beneficial to the colored man. It would be a dangerous venture to the colored peopie if their social position was made the objective pomt of new strife under circumstances so un'avorable. Now that they have the political rights of citizenship it is much wiser and saier for them to trust to the means they already have to make themseives re- spected and to leave all else to the gradual progress ol public opinion, which has already outgrown | Mmahy a prejudice that a few years ago was sull deemed invincivle,” He then sald that the way to solve the most | Sificult provlem of protection to the colored | people is in theirown hands. Instead of exercis- ing over one another a system Of terrorism in order to enlorce party discipline, they snould | encourage among themselves individual inde- | pendence. Not in anion is their saiety, but in | division. He then cited as an example to them | the adoptea citizens of the country, who, as long a8 they, nan almost solid body, stood together on tne side of one party, the other thought of taking their rights irom them: out no sooner did they break their ranks and divide than both sides stood | up for them with equal zeul, Itis @ lesson easily understood, As soon as the colored citizens in | the South shake off the odium which arises from | their having, as a solid organized mass, been the main support of the worst kind of par- tisan rule; as soon as every one of them custs his vote on this side or the other, as bis optntons or inclinations may dictate, each party will make their protection a be ine object m order to attract @ majority of their votes, and when these votes shall have be- | come so humerous tnat the colored voters become an important element in both parties, the fuliest measure Of protection Will be afforded them. That willdo more tostop the bloody excesses in the South than any military interference, and more to establish just and beneficent relations between the two races than any Conzressional;legisiation. ‘The Senator then entered into an elaborate dis- cussion of the finance question, and dwelt at some length upon State affairs. ARMY INTELLIGENCE, WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 1874, A board of army officers, to consist of Major J. P, Martin, Assistant Adjutant General; Assistant Surgeon John §. Billings and First Lieutenant | Thomas A. Bradley, of the Twenty-first intantry, has been ordered to meet here to-morrow to ex- amine and report upon the qualiications of such persons as may be brought vefore it for appoint- ment as superintendents of the national cemete- | ries, ‘The President has accepted Second Lieutenant L. M. Longshaw 0} tie Fourth Infantry. Assistant Surgeon John W. Brewer has been ordered to report to the President of the Army Medical Board, in New york city, for exain- ination for promotion, NAVAL INTELLIGENOE, Retirement and Promotions. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 1874. Commodore Rockendorfy, United States Navy, now at his home in Philadelphia, will be retired on the 8th of November next, having reached the | } age of sixty-two years, at which the regulations require that the name be piaced on the retired ist. Captain Pierce Crosby, now on duty at the Washington Navy Yard, will be promoted to the grade 01 commodore, Vice Rockendori; and Com- Kimberley to the grade of captain, Vice Crosby. Proposed Experiments with Ericsson’s | Torpedo—What the Inventor Claims. Newrort, R. 1, Sept. 24, 1874. The old gunboat Nina, stationed permanently at the wharf of the torpedo station, will start in a few days for New York, where she is to be thor- oughly overhauled and put in complete order, The United States torpedo boat Intrepid, Cook, which arrived here yesterday irom Gardner's Bay, will take the Nina’s place, ana her officers, together with tne officers and students of the station, will, while the Intrepid remains here, have some interesting experiments with the famous Erics- son’s torpedo, of which the country has heard so | much, In experimenting with it yesterday in Gardner’s Bay some of the macuinery was broken, which necessitated it being sent to New York lor yepairs, We learn that it 1s sent here for trial ta the presence of the government officials, and if it | works to their satisfaction they will advocate ITS PURCHASE BY THE GOVERNMENT, as they didin tne case of the Lay torpedo. Mr. Bricsson claims that his invention will strike a | cordingly, the Nina not bemg of the required Jength, spar rait bas been constructed 75 feet in length, which, attached to the Nina, will make the required measurement. Of course no torpedo will be exploded in tus case, the experiment being simply to demonstrate that she can be managed at the | given distance from the vessel or shore, which- ever the case may be, At the trial here, however, the torpedo will be sent from the Intrepid, an there 18 considerable interest manifested in the result, Other torpedoes, used in harbor defence, will also be experimented with for the benefit of all concerned tn Uncle Sam’s method of modern | warfare as carried on at the station at this place. OBITUARY, Walter H. Doyle. The Baltimore Gazette reports the death, in Bal- timore, of Waiter H. Doyle, a well known citizen, from the effects of @ stroke of paralysis. The newspaper writer says:—'Mr. Doyle was born in Dubin, Ireland, and by the solicitation ot his uncle, Mr. Herron, together with a brother, came to this country when quite a youth, landing in Norfolk, Va., where he engaged with his ancle in the ship chandlery and rope manufacturing busi- ness, Upon the death of the former Mr. Doyle and his brother continued to conduct the business Until the decline o the shipping interest of Nor- folk made 1t no longer profitable, Upon the break- ing out of the late war he warmly espoused the cause of those by whom he was adopted, serving on the staif of General Cnambitss. On the close of the same he came to Baltimore, and became identified with the lumber interests of this city, in which be became very popular both through bis kindness Of heart and strict integrity of charac. ter. In all the relations of life be will be missea,”” David J. Mitchell, of Syracuse, N. Y. A telegram from Syracuse, N, Y., under date of yesterday, 22d inst., reports as toliows:—"“Davia J Mitchell, a prominent lawyer of this city, and partner of Attorney General Pratt, died at Clifton Springs at nine o’ciock this evening. He nad been for some Months out of health, He was formerly Disvrict Attorney of Madison couuty, and atvor- hey for the Senate committee tu investigate canal frauds in 1867; also temporary chairnran of the Repablican State Convention at Utica last year, He was about lorty-eight years oid.”” Harrison Spear. The above named gentieman, an ex-oficer of the United States Navy, has just died in Baltimore. He had during many years held the rank of second sistant engineer, He spent much of his time in Europe, on the Pacific coast and elsewiese on ee the resignation of | | legal, and in that,’ said tne General !aughing, this city on the. Louisiana outbreak, continues to be a subject of indignant comment throughout the State. With a single exception ail of the journals unite in condemnation, and all of the public men unhesitatingly pronounce their rebuke. They feel that it has dove much harm; not at home merely, for here Toombs is impotent, but in the North and f now taught to believe that we are inimical te is ow, As Mr. Toombs was turning away a gentiema asked him whether be thought tne surrender o; | the confederacy, at the time it was made, w. necessary? “No,” was the reply. “It was very improper, It was a blunder, I urged at Montgomery, in 1861, | that our apie should have been in some interto: | town like Charlotte, N. ©., and if my advice hi been taken we could have resisted Europe. As 11 Was we Imight have taken the remnant of the army, and retired to the hills and prolonged the war, With Charlotte for our capital the dimeulu of transportation for the federal army would hav been so great that it never could have been cap4 | tured.” | 4 Mr. Toomps here turned to converse withe Jriends, | ee SSeS | REVERDY JOHNSON ON THE LOUISIANA DIFFIOULTY. (From the Paterson (N. J.) Press.) The Hon. Reverdy Jounson is a statesman whony every democrat ought to revere; for he tsa reltoy of the earlier and better days of wat party, what | bas adhered to tts fortunes through good and ev report, and who still cherishes its traditions As dwells in the delusion that tt has an honorablet and excellent faith. Mr. Johnson, at the request of the editor of the HeRacp, bas just supmitted amy opinion upon the Louisiana dificulty, which is a@ all points. that held by every republican journal! | that we have seen, and which ought to make thet | Tribune and the inconsiderate and reckless demox West, where he ig still belteved to be a representa- | tive of Southern sentiment and where prejudices , against this section are naturally excited by the | publication of his fanatical outbursts. is that he is of 80 Georgia as a@ statesman that the people give him no heed. They honor his intellect as a lawyer, they speak kindly of his ser- | vices to the country antericr to the war, they respect him asa man, but ag a leader he is with- out followmg; and ninety-nine men out of one j hundred representing the various social and po- | The truth | little consequence in } cratic organs whieh have denounced the President for lis “arbitrary” conduct in Louisiana blush tot shane, Reverdy Johnson on the Situation, (From the Newark (N. J.) Advertiser.) The New York HERALD has made a creditadia achievement in journalism by procuring from thes Hon, Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, ap opiniom upon the legal and constitutional questions In« volved inthe Louisiana situation. The selectiom and retaining of Mr. Johnson for this service wax eminenwly judicious, He is not exactly a repudiie can, not 4 democrat, not a partisan in any sense, but he i an eminent Jurist, who by ail his training’ has warm Southern sympathies, representing the } best ana most intelligent sentiment of the Border litical strata of the community unreservedly dep- | Tecate his crazy course, A gentleman in high public position said to me to-day :—"“We would { RATHER HAVB HAD A RIOT than such a speech from such aman.” A whole- sale dry goods merchant also remarked, “It will do Georgia, and especially Atlanta, more com- mercial barm than we suffered during the panic, for it will tend to weaken our credit, excite prej- udice in the North against our peopie and raise suspicions that we are not in a condition of per- fect peace, and without @ shadow of antipathy ta Occasionally one will hear the remark that Toombs 1s not altogether unseifish tn pursuing the peculiar line of policy which has thus so cruelly Teflected upon bis own people. It is imtimated that he has ag much purpose in creating agitation our hearts,” | | here as have the radicaj leaders at tne North in | making agitation there. One ot the curious ex- plavations I have heard given is that he ts in fayor of @ third term; consequently that the more confu- sion he can create in the South the greater may seem the necessity for continuing the President in power. Certes, since his visit to General Grant, he has been singularly reticent as to what transpired during the interview, and singularly respectful toward the Chief Magistrate in bis speech, The prevailing impression is that when tne proper time comes he will announce his ADHESION 10 PRESIDENT GRANT. coupled with his own peculiar theory that the sal- vation of the South consists in the establishment of a itinited monarchy. It 1s to be borne th mind, however, that General Toombs is a proscribed man—"} man without a country,” He often speaks of himself as “the unrepentant rebel; yet the other aiternoon when he so declared himself velore the crowd, and expressed the hope that | there might be inscribed in his epitaph, “Here lies one Who died a rebel, and asked no favors of the United States government,” the senument was received without an approving cheer, Politi- cally, therefore, bis race is run. His influence is forever gone. On every side he bear the language of unqualified approval, although by the hour he wil talk on in his splendid rhapsodic style and be hat tered by the rustic wonderment of his listening crowd, Personally, the tie of Toombs has been siainiess, in the strictest sense of the word he ts &man of honor, @ frank, noble, truthiul gentie- man, and lis own worst enemy bis splendid abilities to ihe work of reconstruc- tion, like Hill, Gordon, Smith and a score of other Georgians who now possess the confidence of the people, and in their conservative way are carrying their great State close up to the front with Vir- ginia, there is no position ib ther gift to which he might not have aspired, and pone within their gilt | which they would not have gladly conterred. Since the delivery of his recent speeci and its vist- | | bie effect upon the North, as descrivea by the HBRALD, the General refuses to say anything on the subject and shuts himself up in A SORT OF GRIM PRIDE at the disturbance he has made, He 18 eapecially , averse to being “interviewed,"' and when recog- nizing your correspoudent, the latter attempted to elicit his views, he firmly, yet courteously de- clinea to engage im any conversation whatever on the subject, Subsequently, however, the following colloquy ensued :— “Well, General, what do you think now of the situation in Louisiana 1” | ‘Just what I bave thought from the Orst, that There was no question about that. I suppose the en felt compelled to obey what he calls the aw.’ “But do you believe that Grant has approved Kellogg’s course there, that he really has no sympathy in the effort 01 the peopie ‘to liberate themselves??? “As to that I don’t know, but Grant told me that virtually he bad no sympathy with Kellogg and did pot understand anything about the legal aspects Of the case, and could not snterere. He said that nis talent was enurely military and not “L ut told him that 1 entirely agreed with him. damn it, What was the use ofa proclamation, The people ought not to have surrendered. Grant hadn’t the troops to wuip them, Enough men could have gone down the Mississippi irom st. Louis and the West to have | EATEN UP ALL THR TROOPS assembled east of the Rocky Mountains, I should not wonder NM that Louisiana movement had uot 183 ramifications allover the country and in the North, too, where we have littie idea of them Why, sir, 1t migat have been the basis and sta ing point ofa revolution that would have liver ated the Whole country and brought the North, Kast, South and West down to its constitutional bearings.’ “You think it possible then that if the fight were made within the pale of the Union it would have been attended with better results?” “Nothing more likely, because we should have had a party at the North fond enough of preserv- ing tbe integrity of the States and thereby a more perfect Union, to have joined ina struggle that stitutional liberty.” Your correspondent here remarked :—‘With ref Nortuero press cab be taken as an index of public opinion, 10 movement Of that sort would find any real sympathy in that section, much less such as would take ® practical auxiilary shape. For in- stance both the HeRaLDand the Tribune deciare that they do not like the Freuch style—it reminus one of the days of 931” “Weil, sir, THE DAYS OF '93 WERE DAMNED GOOD Day: The trouble is, that although the world was united for a long time in emphatic condemnation of the French Revolution and .ts principles, the oid patriots and licerators have long since recognized that movement as perhaps the most novie blow that was ever struck in behalf of popular en- franchisement. go there.” opposed to the Uulted States government?” “Because it 13 opposed to the South, and always hae been {rom the time of the revolutionary Con- gress down. The history of that opposition is written in every committee room through all the great political crises and questions that have stirred the country until the present hour, There through ail this period, and now at last comes centralization, and with centralization comes the death of the American Repubiic. Our poiiticians fer. | depends on the amount of dishonor with which he secured his election, Lies and frauds, swindiing contracts and whitewasbing investig: mittees! That’s our precious government. sir; it needs paritying. Why, they are beginning to introduce it down South, A Yankee corre- | spondent once asked me how it was that the de- | mocracy carried Georgia, [ told him (and the | General laughed heartily) ‘by bribery and intim- dation, just as they did in some piaces up North and @ little judicious scares.’ And I suppose the fellow wrote it down. (More seriousiy) You Know, nowever, thas our course With the negroes has been one of CONCILIATION and that there are comparatively few instances in the State whe the white man. If the negro 18 let alone he will find that nis interes @D industrial agent and co-worker are the sime as those of @ white man, public service, and served during the late war With distinctions ’ and eventually he will become politically identi, j fied with the wellare of the South, a» much as he r had be lent | | she would be remanded back to Kellogg by Grant. , would soon have developed imto @ contlict for con- | erence to these ramifications of Which you speak, | do you not overrate them? I am sure thatil the | And there were mighty few men | who went to the guillotine who did not deserve to | “Why, Genera, let me ask, are you 80 much | have been struggles and attempted usurpatious | and public men have degenerated into mere pig- | mies. The ballot box ts the tool of the ballot stul- | The honor of the average Congressmaa | by the fudicions distribution of a few haif dollars | they have not voted as Ireely as | States, and has the confdence of the people of ail sections, both as to the clearness of hist judgment and the purity of his motive. Have ing held the most distinguisied positions im the service of his country, he is now out of politics, and his opinion in the HeRaLp must “be accepted as the deliberate opinion of a great lawyer, given to a client who only desires to Know the Jaw and not to make or pervert it. [tia | altogether a new feature in journalism and 1s tha perlection ef all that is good in the practice of | “interviewing”—because both parties act fronq one motive—the circulation of inteiligeut views and reliable iniormation, DOING A NOBLE WORE. [From the Austin (Texas) Statesman.) The New York Sun has also taken bold groun® against the oppressions and abuses which havd been heaped upon the South, The HeRaLp hag | thoroughly electrified the country; and men and | papers are anxiously considering what position | they rnust take. But oftentimes when men would | hide their opinions from the public gaze, so that | they may take sides according to subsequent developments, the HERALD sends a reporter td | them and by @ little judicious management ex¢ tracts their views, The HeBaup ts doing a noble | work, | cs he eee eee | AS PROUD AS A NEWLY-MADE FATHER, {From the Deer Lodge (Montana) Northwest.}: The daily New YORK HERALD has dove us thé favor to ask an “eXchange."’ Certainly, wit | pleasure, Jacob toiled seven years for Sarah—~ | guess that’s rignt, will risk tt anybow—and, lo [ | the King of the Dailies has sought us out ip sixd The cup of ambition 1s full. | 4 caLIFORNIA VIBW OP THE HERALD, | | {From the Oakland Transcript.) : | The New York HERALD is the mammoth paped of this continent, if not of the world, Tuough not | as large as the London. Times, it excels that paper n everything that goes to make up @ pnbiic jours nal. Sunday's HERALD, September 6, was sixteen | pages and contained over sixty columns of adver« tisements, No wonder its advertising iucome if , Over $2,000,000 per year. | A TEXAS VIEW OF THE PEACE CONFERENCE, {From the Austin Statesman.) The NEW YORK HERALD is now puodlishing some of the most able, important and adniirabie articles on’ the reconstruction acts and tne losses of the South consequent upon tue war that we have read! | tn any of the papers North or South, The HERALD shows from figures that the indemnity imposed by Germany upon France was not near so large and ruinous as the South incurred by the emaucipa< tion of ber slaves, the blockade of her ports, the loss of the cotton crop, sugar, tice and tobaccoy | the extinction of the Coniederate debt, of the local war debta, of the whole volume of the Con+ federate currency, the paralysis and virtual de- struction of the Southern railway system, &e, | We should like very much to publish the articla | if it waa not so long. We may publish it in de tached parcels, as it camuot fail to interest, mq struct and please. , | MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO NOTES, Mile. Di Murska sings to-night at Steinway Hall, Mile, Tietjens has returned irom Aix les Baing to England, Nachbaur has proved @ dangerous rival to Wach+ tel in Berlin, They are negotiating with Lucca and Wachtel fos a season in Vienna. rhe Fence of Venice opens this season withouf 4 ballet or a subvention, ‘The success of Offendach’s new opera st the Ly« ceum continues unabated. The prospects for the Strakosch Italian Opera season are very favorable, Misa Rose Hersee is recovering from her dan« gerous filness. She is still in Dublin, Allen’s Royal Bnglish Opera Company has had @ triumphal season at Weilington. w Zealand, “The Broken Branch," opéra bouse, by Serpette, has made a hit at the Upera Comique, London, “The Lady of Lyons” will be clothed in an opec ratic toilet by Mr. Cowen, the English composer, “The Talisman" will be one of the features of Mapleson’s coming season at the Theatre Royal, Dublin. Pedroth's opéra boufe, “Flerina,” was given at the commencement of the season of the Teatro Verdi at Busetto, Another tenor has been discovered, “of great promise.” He is a Pole, named Ladislas, and bag been secured for Paris, Madame Arabella Goddard was wrecked on the shores of Australia tn the steamer Filutshire, bu@ escaped with the loss of her piano, The Harlem Mendeissohn Union commence their fourth season under the direction of the first musician in America, George F. Bristow, To THE Epiror oP THE HERALD:— I have read with deep interest the valuable dis« cussion that has taken place in your columns upom. the question whether Bacon did or did not write, the plays attribuved to Shakespeare. I have ta thank you Jor so full and interesting @ contribu. tion to one o/ the great literary debates of modern times, I wonder, however, if any of your readerm! have noted Mr, Carlyle’s views on the subject, which may be found in ‘Heroes and Hero Wor« ship’’—Lecture Ill, With your permission 1 wilh reproduce some of his conclusions, | ‘it is unexampled, I think, the calm, creative Perspicacity of Shakespeare.’ ‘Novum Urganum,' and ali the intellect you will find in Bacon, is 0! quite @ secondary order—earthly material, poor modern men on 38 almogt nothtag of the san Goethe alone, since the days of Shake: “for myself I fee comparison With, this. Among finds with strict’ rank, Pen reminds me of it’? that there is actually @ Kind of sacredness in fact of such @ man being sent into this he not an eye tO us all? @ blessed Hei Bringer of Lignt.’? I would advise all who are curious in this quea4 tion to read Mr. Carlyle’s lecture on Shakespeare for his remarkaple estimate of the poet's charao~s | ter and the impossibility that he could have beem identical with Bacon, I am, sir, your obedieng AMICUS, , servant, New York, Sept. 24, 1674