May 23, 1869, Howell C. Flournoy, justice of the peace, Athens, Georgia, informs Governor Bullock of the murder of a colored man by one Frank Allison, an ex-confederate soldier and a noted bad character. No arrest. Says the country is in an alarming state, rumors of murders being constantly heard.

Report of Captain Kline, Eighteenth Infantry, of an investigation ordered by General Terry June 30, 1869, in regard to the above murder, states the negro was shot by Allison without provocation. A warrant issued and placed in the hands of a bailiff, but Allison had left the country and was not arrested. Reports the murder of two negroes in Clarke County since the close of the war, the murderers in each case escaping. States there is no evidence of the increase of crime since the war. Does not think the civil officers as a rule are disposed to act promptly, suffering criminals to make their escape. Appends report of examination of Mr. Flournoy as to political feeling, &c., in that section.

February 2, 1869, General Canby, commanding Fifth Military District, forwards report of Captain Sanger, Seventeenth Infantry, relative to recent disturbances in and about Woodville, Tyler County, Texas. Captain Sanger, being dispatched to Woodville to effect the arrest of W. A. Steele and G. W. Kirkwood, charged with an attempt upon his life, was met by an armed force collected by these men, and to prevent a collision, his force of ten men not being able to cope with the mob, he took possession of the court-house, where he was besieged until relieved by reënforcements from Lexington. Repeated threats were made that the building would be burned, &c. Civil authorities acted in a pusillanimous manner, rendering no assistance. Steele and Kirkwood, with others implicated, afterward voluntarily surrendered to the military authorities.

General Reynolds, July 15, 1869, forwards official communication of Second Lieutenant William A. Thompson, Fourth Cavalry, reporting outrages committed in and around Helena, Texas, and that troops are needed to preserve order.

General Rousseau, commanding Department of Louisiana, (Louisiana and Arkansas,) in his annual report, dated October, 1868, mentions troubles in New Orleans and State of Louisiana as follows:

Riot on Canal street, New Orleans; two stores gutted, and four negroes killed; murder of sheriff, Colonel Pope, and Judge Valentine Chase, Saint Mary's Parish; another riot in Canal street, negroes killed by democratic procession; killing of Mr. Durand, editor of "Progress," in Saint Landry Parish; no arrests. Necessity for troops in Saint Beruard to protect colored prisoners from mobs.

Forwards report of investigation by First Lieutenant Cawlin, Nineteenth Infantry, of troubles in Fulton County, Arkansas.

September 13, 1869, General Ames, commanding Fourth Military District, forwards consolidated report of outrages, murders, &c., committed in that district since March 16, 1869, and states the civil authorities fail to administer justice.

This report contains reports of post commanders, sheriffs, and others, relating to murders, &c., in aggregate as follows: murders 22, and up-. ward of 40 outrages, (including murders, assaults, arson, &c.,) the perpetrators, with but few exceptions, escaping.

General Ames, in addition to the above, reports, as occurring since March, 1869, thirty-two murders, (including that of Colonel Crane,) thirteen assaults with intent to kill, and thirteen outrages; states that a number of persons charged with committing these murders, &c., were arrested by troops and held at different posts for trial by military com

mission, thirteen of whom were taken from his control on their application to the United States judge.

May 17, 1859, Charles W. Arnold, postmaster at Albany, Georgia, peti` tions the President of the United States for protection against the Ku Klux Klan, which infest that State. States that an attempt has been made to Ku-Klux him at Americus, Georgia, a small village about 35 miles from Albany, while in the discharge of his duty as revenue assessor. Further asserts that the men engaged in that attempt are known to him and his family, as also to Colonel W. C. Morrill, revenue collector, second district Georgia, and United States deputy marshal Cox, residing at Americus, who will furnish the names of the parties, if he should be murdered hereafter. Every republican, he adds, is in danger of losing his life.

From an investigation made, in accordance with orders from the War Department, it appears that an assault with pistol was made upon Mr. Arnold in the latter part of April, 1869, while holding the appointment of assistant assessor of internal revenue, by Mr. Wells, of Americus, Georgia, whom he had detected in making a false return. Mr. Arnold reported the matter to Colonel Morrill, United States commissioner at Americus, and endeavored to get him to issue a warrant for the arrest of Mr. Wells, but Colonel Morrill thought it could not be done, as the pistol was not cocked, and was not attempted to be fired. On the same day, about dark, he was informed by Mr. Cox, United States marshal, that there would be an attempt made that night to either mob or assassinate him, (Mr. A.,) and that Colonel Morrill had sent for him to stay at his house. It appears that no further assaults have been made since the occurrence recited above, but Captain Fitch, who investigated into the matter, concludes from conversations he had with various citizens in Albany, that there is not a little ill-feeling in the minds of the people toward Mr. Arnold, caused by his being a radical.

Mr. Stephens, a ringleader in the threatened assault on Arnold, is one of the city council, and acting mayor of Americus. His character is far from good.

The impression made on Captain Fitch's mind is, that Union men are in no more danger there than anywhere else, the sentiment of the masses, as far as he could judge, being against all attempts at violent proceedings. He found the usual prejudice against Yankees and those who are supposed to belong to the radical party, but this prejudice is not likely, in his opinion, to develop any disorderly proceedings.

September 27, 1867, Brigadier General E. O. C. Ord, commanding Fourth Military District, submits report of operations within his command during the year 1867, and states that while the reconstruction measures of Congress are unpopular with a majority of the white people, their execution has met with but slight opposition. The ignorant and lawless, from whom trouble was to be apprehended, have been kept in order by the presence of troops, distributed for that purpose throughout the district. The operation of the civil laws has not been interfered with, except to remove from the civil courts cases of crimes charged upon persons who, for having opposed the rebellion, had reason to fear prejudice against them; also, that the extension of suffrage to the colored people has aroused a sentiment of hostility to them; and he is led to believe that a larger force than is now stationed in his district will be necessary to protect and secure the freedmen the right of suffrage; and if protection is withdrawn, the Southern people, exasperated at what they deem the freedmen's presumption, would not be very gentle toward them.

August 5, 1869, Brevet Colonel John R. Edie, commanding post of Charleston, South Carolina, reports facts in relation to the riot in Charleston, South Carolina, on the 26th of July, 1869, in which twelve soldiers were struck with stones and other missiles. Forwarded by department and division commanders.

April 30, 1869, Governor Warmoth, of Louisiana, in a communication to General Mower, commanding Department of Louisiana, inclosed letter from the judge of the twelfth judicial district of the State, relative to the crime and lawlessness prevailing in the parish of Franklin, and the necessity for the presence of United States troops there in order to secure the enforcement of laws and the life and property of citizens, and states he was constrained to inform him that at present there was no adequate protection for the law-abiding citizens of that parish, it having been one of the most turbulent in the State, and the civil authorities were powerless to protect them; asked, therefore, that a company of troops be sent to that parish, with instructions to sustain the civil authorities.

May 5, 1869, transmitted by General Mower for the information of the General of the Army, together with copy of Special Orders 91, of May 3, 1869, from his headquarters, directing one company of the Nineteenth Infantry to take post at Winnsboro, Franklin Parish, Louisiana.

By telegram of May 5, 1869, from this office, General Mower was informed that his action in ordering a company of troops to Franklin Parish had been approved by the General of the Army.

January 29, 1869, General Canby, commanding Fifth Military District, forwards report of Captain Charles Steelhammer, commanding post of Canton, Texas, relative to the revolutionary and desperate character of the disfranchised portion of the community, the bitterness between them and Union men, &c. A detachment sent out by him was attacked by an armed force, and he apprehended further attacks, unless the garrison could be strengthened; civil authorities worthless or powerless. General Canby reports similar condition of affairs in other parts of the State, but that measures had been taken to cause the authority of the United States to be respected.

Citizens of Greene County, Alabama, requesting the Secretary of War to locate a company of United States troops in Eutaw, Greene County, Alabama, to prevent lawlessness.

November 13, 1868. The governor of Georgia transmits correspondence between the mayor of the city of Augusta and General Meade, commanding Department of the South, relative to an election to be held in that city on the 2d of December next, and the probability of trouble arising therefrom.

December 20, 1870, Honorable W. B. Stokes inclosed to the President of the United States letters of B. O. Bowden, dated Jamestown, Tennessee, December 12, 1870, who inclosed letter received by him from the Ku Klux Klan, and stated that the treatment of Union men at the hands of ex-rebels is shameful, and asks for protection.

The President refers, January 5, 1871, to the Secretary of War, papers relative to trouble in North Carolina :

Printed pamphlet of examination before Judge Thomas, third district, of members of Ku-Klux Klan, for murder, arson, &c.

Communication from Governor Holden; incloses printed incidents of outrages, arsons, and murders, committed on a number of persons in different counties, including the murder of State Senator Stephens.

Governor Holden forwards copies of reports, &c., of outrages in

Chatham County; report of violence and outrages in Person County; school-house burned at Ashboro, with Ku-Klux outrages; Ku-Klux outrages and assaults in Wayne County; some reports from Stokes County, and no action taken by State authorities; several reports from Alamance County, violence, &c., and request for protection from outrages perpetrated upon republicans by disguised men; list of names of about 25 persons who have been whipped, robbed, threatened with death, or shot, in Lincoln County; oath of the "White Brotherhood," or Ku-Klux Klan, and exposition of the organization by an alleged member.

The President also forwards a letter from W. Stanley, corroborated by Charles W. Betts, dated Memphis, Tennessee, December 30, 1870, giving at length an account of affairs in the State of Mississippi, where he was outraged, robbed, and from whence forced to flee to save his life.

August 17, 1869, General Halleck, commanding Division of the South, forwarded papers in case of riot in Mobile, Alabama, August 5, 1869, in which 2 men were killed, and 5 or 6 wounded.

General Terry, September, 1869, forwarding official communication of First Lieutenant Eugene B. Gibbs, United States Army, relative to the murder of Alfred Robinson, killed August 14, 1869; the attempted murder of Mr. Marshman, (white,) and the murder of Allen Justice, (colored.)

The murder of Alfred Robinson and other colored men was for the purpose of securing all the crops which were worked on shares, and which were then being harvested.

December 19, 1868, Major General Meade, commanding Department of the South, forwarded correspondence between himself, the United States deputy marshal, and the commissioner, southern district of Georgia, relative to certain desperate characters known as the Ku-Klux Klan.

In a letter dated July 20, 1870, his Excellency W. W. Holden, governor of North Carolina, informed his Excellency the President of the United States that the counties of Alamance and Caswell, in that State, had been declared in a state of insurrection, he having power to do this under the State constitution and laws of the general assembly. That he had embodied militia, occupied said counties, and made important arrests; four of those arrested having sued out writs of habeas corpus. Resistance being threatened, he considered it very important that a regiment of Federal troops be at once sent to the State, and those already there be ordered to aid him promptly. Stated that Colonel Kirk had 350 white men in command, and he had, in Raleigh, 100 colored troops and 60 white; at Hillsborough 50 white men, and in Gaston County 60; his whole force being not over 600. Deemed it his duty to acquaint the President of this, &c. Looked for important disclosures regarding the "Ku-Klux" organization, before the military court which he had organized. Believed, from evidence, that Ex-President Johnson is at the head of the order, and General Forrest engaged with it, &c. This letter was referred to the Secretary of War, by order of the President, with directions to send six companies to Raleigh, if possible, to be "held in readiness to preserve the peace and enforce the laws, in case their services should be required," and General Meade was instructed accordingly July 25, 1870.

July 30, 1870, Captain G. B. Rodney, commanding a company of the Fourth Artillery, at Yanceyville, North Carolina, reported that there was no chance of collision between the citizens and State troops; that Colonel Kirk feared an attack and barricaded the court-house, &c., his whole cause of alarm being foolish reports of negroes. Cited some in

stances to show that the citizens were peacefully inclined. Knew and saw nothing of any "Ku-Kluxism."

August 2, 1870, Colonel Hunt, Fifth Artillery, assumed command of District of North Carolina, headquarters at Raleigh, North Carolina, and reported, August 4, 1870, that if the State troops acted with reasonable discretion, it was his impression there would be no violence, unless prisoners were tried, condemned, and executed by military courts, when there might be resistance offered by the civil authorities or the people. Thought interference by United States troops in such case a grave question, no official recognition of insurrection having been proclaimed, &c. Requested further information as to the extent to which United States troops should be employed. Referred to the above letter of Captain Rodney, who he considered as possessing good judgment. General McDowell (August 8, 1870) concurs in the views of Colonel Hunt.

August 10, 1870, General Meade referred the above papers to the War Department, requesting specific instructions for Colonel Hunt, and stating that officer had been directed to confine the use of his troops to keeping the peace, until further orders.

August 12, 1870, the Secretary of War approved the instructions of General Meade, and.referred to opinion of Attorney General, advising the State authorities to yield to the United States judiciary.

Angust 8, 1870, Captain Throckmorton, Fourth Artillery, reported relative to the shooting of Private James Bradley, Fourth Artillery, by Private James Pugh, Company H, First North Carolina State troops, and from this and reports on the same case by Lieutenant C. N. Warner, Fourth Artillery, and Colonel Hunt, Fourth Artillery, it appears that Bradley, returning from the city to his camp, and being in an intoxicated condition, passed near the camp of the State troops between 1 and 2 o'clock a. m., was challenged, and failing to answer, was fired upon by a sentinel, acting in accordance with orders received from his superiors. The officers of the State troops (Colonel Clark and Major Miller) acknowledged having given such instructions, and the case was dismissed by the civil authorities after examination. Generals McDowell and Meade thought it advisable to remove the State troops to prevent collisions.

In connection with the above are reports of Captain Frank G. Smith and Colonel Hunt, Fourth Artillery, tending to show that the citizens generally were quiet and well disposed, the only trouble apprehended being in regard to the service of writs of habeas corpus issued by the United States district judge in the cases of prisoners held by Colonel Kirk, at Yanceyville, which it was thought might cause a collision between the United States and State troops, in case the former were called on to aid in serving the writs, as was expected by Colonel Hunt. That officer also stated that there was a feeling of uneasiness in the community from vague apprehensions of "Ku-Klux," kept alive by the presence of State troops, whose fear from this source had led to serious mischief, as witnessed in the shooting of Bradley, &c.

September 9, 1870, the President directed that the military district of North Carolina be discontinued, and Colonel Hunt return to his proper station. Also, that Governor Holden be requested to inform the War Department at the earliest moment the United States troops could safely be withdrawn.

September 16, 1870, information was received at the War Department that Governor Holden no longer needed the artillery companies at Raleigh, and one company could be spared from Yanceyville; one company