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Jan. 11-Gov. Bramlette, in a special message, calls attention of the legislature to a telegram just received from the " gen- eral commanding " [His name is not men- tioned, either in the dispatch or in the message, but it evidently is the act of Gen. Burbridge,] directing "immediate steps for the muster out of the state troops, in compliance with the orders from the war department." The governor declares bis " purpose to go forward and encourage the organization of companies for one year
state service, under the act approved Feb. 20, 1864; but the commandant of the dis- trict prohibits this being done ......... This malevolent opposition to the employment of the necessary means for defense of the citizens of the state, and this unwarrant- able assumption of control over the civil authorities of the state, and the effort by military threats to nullify a law of the state, should be ended." He recommends the appointment of a legislative committee to go and see President Lincoln upon the subject.
Jan. 12-The special report of Wm. T. Samuels, state auditor, shows the total debt of the state, chargeable on the sink- ing fund, $5,284,037, and the annual in- terest thereon $299,765. The commission- ers of the sinking fund had on deposite in New York, Dec. 1, 1864, bearing interest, $570,223, and $446,969 additional cash assets. The par value of the slackwater navigation and turnpike stocks is $1,830,- 475, and of the bank and railroad stocks $1,562,819 ; the present value of the former is very uncertain.
The report of C. D. Pennebaker, state agent at Washington city, shows that of $475,000 paid by Ky. to troops on pay- rolls, $66,678 is yet unrefunded by the general government; and of $2,246,400 paid by Ky. for quartermaster's. stores and commissary supplies, $1,195,400 is yet due and unsettled.
Jan. 12 - Francis P. Blair, sen., of Washington city-in his younger days a leading editor at Frankfort, Ky .- of his own suggestion visits Jefferson Davis, pres- ident of the Confederate States, at Rich- mond, and initiates the movement which results in a peace-conference, Feb. 3, in Hampton Roads on board the U. S. steamer River Queen-between President Lincoln and Wm. H. Seward, his secretary of state, and on the side of the South, Alex. II. Stephens, vice president, R. M. T. Hunter and J. A. Campbell.
Jan. 12-Action in Lawrence co., be- tween guerrillas and a detachment of 39th Ky .; several killed or wounded.
Jan. - Maj. Gen. John C. Breckin- ridge appointed secretary of war in the Confederate States cabinet, vice Jas. A. Sedden, resigned.
Jan. 13-Maj. Walker Taylor tenders his services, and those of his Confederate soldiers, to protect the citizens of Hardins- burg, Breckinridge co., from the outrages of guerrillas. They are accepted, and he co-operates with the home guards.
Jan. 14-Gen. Walter C. Whitaker and Wm. Sampson, from the senate, and Dr. Joshua Barnes, Alfred Allen, and Joshua F. Bell, from the house of representatives, appointed a committee to visit President Lincoln in person, and lay before him the present disturbed condition of Ky.
Jan. -- The people of Ky., with only one twenty-seventh of the population of the United States, pay one-sixth of the direct revenue.
Jan. 15-It now appears that when Gen.
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Burbridge issued his " hog order" of Oct. 28, 1864, [see ante, p. 144], Maj. Symonds " selected the following agents for the dis- tricts designated : 1. C. T. Worley ; 2. E. H. Burnside ; 3. I. S. Todd; 4. Vene P. Armstrong ; 5. B. H. Bristow ; 6. A. W. Holeman." Nov. 14th, C. T. Worley issued a handbill at Lexington, announcing that he " had been appointed government agent for the purchase of all the hogs in the counties of Woodford, Jessamine, Fay- ette, Clark, Madison, Montgomery, Bath, Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas ; that, by order of Maj. Symonds, U. S. commissary at Louisville, no hogs will be allowed to be taken out of the district by any one but his [Worley's] agents ; that his agents are authorized to pay, for all good merchantable hogs weighing 200 pounds and upwards, $8 per hundred, if delivered at the neighborhood scales, or $9 if delivered at the government pens in Louisville ; that the cash will be paid by him, at Lexington, upon the presentation of the agent's re- ceipts for the hogs."
It also appears that only about. 60,000 hogs were purchased by Maj. Symond's agents-at an average loss to the farmer, compared with the prices paid elsewhere, of $5 per head, or $300,000, as stated in Gov. Bramlette's annual message, Jan. 4. Great indignation is felt, all over the state, [except in the Legislature, which took no notice of the governor's recommendation,] at the "swindle,"-not only at the mili- tary authorities who used their power and threats to carry it out, but at the private individuals who were suspected, or more than suspected, of "sharing in the spoils of the plunder."
Jan. 16-The auditor reports 4,568 sheep killed by dogs, and their value $12,176, in 20 counties, as per assessors' returns for 1864. The remaining 90 counties made no report.
Jan. 18-Death, near Frankfort, of Rev. David C. Proctor, aged 69, a Presbyterian minister, at one time president of Centre College.
Jan. 18-Capt. Edwin Terrell and 13 men have a desperate fight with guerrillas, killing 3, ncar New Haven, Nelson co.
Jan. 20-Fight at West Point, Hardin co., between the citizens and guerrillas under Ben. Wiggington; W. was badly wounded.
Jan. 20-Nathaniel Marks, of Grayson, Carter co., a Confederate soldier of Co. A, 10th Ky., executed at Louisville ; he was condemned as a guerrilla, by a military commission ; he protested his innocence, to the last.
Jan. 20 - Legislature, by resolution, provides for the removal of the remains of the two pioneers, John Finley and Simon Kenton, to the cemetery at Frankfort. [Never carried out.]
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Jan. 20-Maj. Gen. Gco. II. Thomas issues an order, in substance, that all de- serters from the rebel army who reside in Ky., will be allowed to take the amnesty oath and go to their homes-if they first
report at Nashville, and furnish satisfac- tory evidence of intention to become peace- able citizens.
Jan. 21-Near Bruce's Mills, Hopkins co., Capt. Sam. Taylor's Confederate sol- diers, in a brisk skirmish, wound 3 and capture 11 Federal soldiers, the rest escap- ing.
Jan. 21-Legislature increases the fees of clerks of courts, county judges, jus- tices of the peace, sheriffs, constables, and other officers ......... 28-Offices of public administrator and guardian established. .31-Tax levied upon dogs, of $1 each-for benefit of common school fund ; and owners made responsible for all dam- ages by dogs.
Jan. 21-Rev. Chas. W. Forman, mis- sionary of the Presbyterian church to Northern India, formerly of Washington, Mason co., declines the degree of D. D., conferred on him, last June, by Centre College.
Jan. 23 - A special auditor's report shows the valuation of taxable property in Ky. for the years named, (except for the 11 counties of Breathitt, Calloway, Floyd, Fulton, Graves, Letcher, Morgan, Perry, Pike, Wayne, and Wolfe, which made no returns for 1864.)
Years. Valuation. Increase. Decrease.
1860 ... $516,766,167.
1861. 464,472,036 $52,294,131
112,909,686 1862 351,562,350.
183. 369,515,543 ...... $18,013.193
1864. 375,129,.56 ... ... 5,614,213
Jan. 21 - A special auditor's report shows that $570,000 in gold coin and $30,- 000 in silver coin received by the state in part of her dividend from the Southern Bank of Ky., in liquidation, sold, between March 1 and April 1, 1864, at 50 per cent. premium for the silver, and 58@@ 6914 pre- mium for the gold ; producing in all $973,- 080, or an average premium of 6216.
Jan. 25-A Federal scout of 16, near Mt. Eden, Spencer co., rout some guer- rillas, killing 1; they also capture 1, and execute him on the spot.
Jan. 25-Guerrillas have recently burned the court houses at Albany, Clinton co., at Marion, Crittenden co., and at Taylors- ville, Spencer co.
Jan. 27-Military prison at Louisville destroyed by fire ; 30 sick and wounded "rebel" prisoners escape ; one, John A. Moore, is burned to death.
Jan. 27-5 guerrillas, with one-armed Lieut. Berry at their head, hold in check for 20 minutes, 30 Federal soldiers, near Bardstown, Nelson co.
Jan. 28-18 Federal home guards go into Bloomfield, Nelson co., and are plun- dering the stores ; when 60 guerrillas un- der Sue Munday and Magruder dash into the town and attack them, killing 17.
Jan. 2S-Publication of the Lexington Observer & Reporter resumed, by the " Ob- server & Reporter Printing Co .; " subscrip- tion price of semi-weekly increased to $5, and of weekly to $3. It had been sus- pended since Oct. 29, just 3 months, by the refusal of the " Board of Trade " Jno.
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B. Wilgus, president, to grant a permit to purchase printing paper and ink; "ac- cording to instructions to the Board, they could not grant a permit." The veteran editor, D. Carmichael Wickliffe, relates the circumstances, and adds : " This looks as if these men intended to use their power for the suppression of the paper, for reasons known to themselves; it re- mained suspended until the whole system of trade regulations, with the boards of trade themselves, (which hung like the pall of death upon the business of this city,) were swept out of existence by the same hand that created them."
Jan. 29-Skirmish at Bardstown, -Nel- son co., between a detachment of Col. Buckley's 54th Ky. (Federal) and Sue Munday's guerrillas ; latter repulsed.
Jan. 29-40 Confederate soldiers, Capt. Clark's 4th Mo. cavalry, make a raid on Danville, Boyle co. Brig. Gen. S. S. Fry and provost marshal Win. Goodloe make "double-quick on horseback" to Camp Nelson.
Jan. 29-Capt. Jas. H. Bridgewater, with 45 state troops, overtakes 13 of Capt. Clark's Confederates 5 miles from Harrods- burg, Mercer co., kills 2, wounds 4, and takes 5 or 6 prisoners.
Jan. 30-The Louisville Journal pub- lishes a letter from Lieut. Gov. Richard T. Jacob-who has just returned to Ky., via Richmond, Va., and Washington city, from his forced exile to the South. He says he was arrested, Nov. 11, at his coun - try home, on the Ohio river, 25 miles above Louisville, by order of Gen. Burbridge, but at the instance of Rev. Dr. Robert J. Breckinridge, " for the latter's revenge, not patriotism." [His invective against the two, as " master and tool," authors " of the most intolerable suffering in Ky.," is one of the most merciless and scathing in the history of Kentucky politics and per- sonalities. ] " He was, by order of Gen. Burbridge, carried under strict guard, and expelled through the Federal lines-under penalty of death if he returned before the war was over." He refused "to accept any thing but unconditional release-he would perish in exile first." Feb. 4, he appeared in the senate, as speaker of that body, and delivered a thrilling, indignant and patriotic address-which. by 19 to 9, was ordered spread upon the journal, and 1,000 copies printed for the use of sen- ators.
Feb. 1, 2-In the state senate, J. D. Landrum makes two separate efforts to have so much of the governor's message and documents as relates to the conduct of Lucien Anderson and other citizens at Paducah referred to a select committee ; but the senate laid both resolutions on the table. In the house, a similar effort failed twice ; and on the third effort, the resolu- tions were ordered to be printed, but re- ceived no further attention.
Feb. 2-25 guerrillas under Capts. Sue Munday [i. e. Jerome Clarke] and Quan- trill dash into Midway, Woodford co., rob
the citizens, and burn the railroad depot ; thence visit the farm of R. Aitcheson Alexander, robbing him of 15 fine blooded horses.
Feb. 5-In a note to the Lexington Unionist, Gen. Burbridge denies that Rev. Dr. Robert J. Breckinridge had anything to do with the arrest of Lieut. Gov. Jacob ; he alone is responsible for the act.
Feb. 7-Of 1,663 Kentuckians in Camp Douglas, Chicago, as Confederate prison- ers of war, 241 refuse to be " exchanged" and go back into the service; the others are to be sent off to be exchanged. "
Feb. 7-By act of the legislature, taxes hereafter are to be paid to the sheriff at the county seat; if not, he is authorized to collect 10 per cent. additional tax, and retain it for his compensation. .. Com- mon school law amended ... ....... 9-Tax of 50 cents per share to be paid by all Na- tional Banks, same as other banks ......... 10-If no officers authorized to grant mar- riage license in the county where female intending marriage resides, license may be obtained in adjoining county.
County courts may increase the poll tax to $2. . Railroads from Louisville to Lex- ington authorized to charge increased rates, 10 per cent. 22-Substitute brokers taking substitutes out of this state may be fined $1,000 and imprisoned one year. .. Ky. banks deprived of the right to issue bank notes for 3 years, but allowed other privileges .. ... Increased salaries allowed state officers and their clerks ........ 23-Salaries of circuit judges raised to $2,000 ....... 24-Common pleas court for Jefferson co. established. $82,960 ap- propriated to complete buildings of West- ern Lunatic Asylum Compensation of public printer and public binder in- creased 331/3 per cent ........ Salary of super- intendent of public instruction raised to $1,700 and that of his clerk to $700. .. 27-Further provisions about state agent at Washington city, and his salary raised to $4,000 .. ...... Governor to appoint agents to visit and aid sick and wounded soldiers of Ky .Sale of tobacco in Louisville further regulated ... ..... Several acts to re- lieve the inconvenience of no courts being held, owing to the war, in some counties.
Feb. 7-Gov. Bramlette transmits to the legislature for action the joint resolution of congress proposing, as an amendment to the constitution of the United States,
ARTICLE XIII.
SEC. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
SEC. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legis- lation. [Approved Feb. 1, 1865.]
The governor's message, while not in terms recommending its ratification, ably reasons in favor of it; suggesting "that, as England, in the act of 1833 abolishing slavery, appropriated £20,000,000 [nearly
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$100,000,000] to compensate the owners- it cannot be that our government will be less just, if we accept the amendment upon condition that the assessed value of 1864 be paid to the state to compensate owners who are to be affected by the proposed amendment. Our slave property was as- sessed for taxation in 1860, before the war began, at $107,494,527. In 1863, the effect of rebellion and unfriendly legislation re- duced the valuation to $57,511,770; and in 1864 to $34,179,246."
In the senate, Feb. 20, Henry D. Mc- Henry made a majority report from the judiciary committee, in favor of rejecting Article XIII. John F. Fisk moved a sub- stitute and resolutions ratifying said Ar- ticle, and " requesting our senators and representatives in congress to urge that compensation for losses in slave property be made to loyal men who have not partici- pated in the rebellion, nor given it aid and comfort-said rebellion and the measures necessary for its suppression having prae- tically destroyed property in slaves." Jas. F. Robinson made a minority report, with resolutions ratifying Article XIII, upon the payment by the United States to the state of Kentucky, for the use of its citizens, owners of slaves, of $36,530,496- the assessed value in 1864-as compensa- tion for all claims for value of slaves en- listed or drafted into the U. S. army, and for all other claims growing out of the labor and service of their slaves ; provid- ing, further, that all laws concerning slaves shall be repealed, and thenceforth they shall have all the rights, responsi- bilities, and privileges of free-born eolored persons ; that they shall remove from the state within 10 years after their emanci- pation is perfeeted ; and the state of Ky. will accept said sum as in full of all values and liabilities, and sacredly distribute it according to the just claims of slave own- ers. The majority report was adopted, by 21 to 13.
In the house, Feb. 11, E. H. Smith, of Grant co., offered resolutions submitting the question of ratification to a vote of the people next August. Wm. R. Kinney offered the same resolution as that of Mr. Fisk in the senate. Feb. 17, Jas. F. Lauck offered resolutions in favor of rejection, which were adopted, Feb. 23, by 56 to 28.
Gov. Bramlette, March 1, sent a mes- sage to the legislature, saying he regarded its action as complete without his ap- proval; but expressing his opinion that the rejection now only remits the question to the next and each succeeding legisla- ture until ratification shall take place.
Feb. 8-By order of the U. S. war de- partment, Gen. Burbridge revokes his own order of Feb. 6, to disband the Ky. state troops being raised for defense against guerrillas.
steam heating apparatus, and $11,848 for steam engine, boilers, &c.
Feb. 10-The Louisville Journal, of this morning, has this announcement : " Maj. Gen. John M. Palmer, of Ill., has been appointed to command in Ky. Thank God and President Lincoln l"
Feb. 16-Gold in New York 20413.
Feb. 20-The legislature invites Maj. Gen. John M. Palmer, the new military commandant of the state, to occupy the hall of the house of representatives from 11 to 12, this A. M., to enable the members and others to pay their personal respects to him ; and afterwards adopts a hand- some resolution of welcome to him.
Feb. 20-Capt. Bates and some Grayson eo. home guards attack a camp of guer- rillas near Hartford, Ohio co., and after a brisk skirmish kill 6, wound 4, and dis- perse the balance; home guards lose 1 killed and 1 wounded.
Feb. 21-Wm. Hughes, with 15 guer- rillas, captures and burns a freight train on the Lebanon branch railroad in Ma- rion co.
Feb. 21-Guerrillas burn the court house at Hodgenville, Larue co .; because it had been used as a barracks for Federalsoldiers.
Feb. 22-Col. Robert J. Breckinridge, jr., of the Confederate army, captured, near Versailles, Woodford eo. On his person was found an order from Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge, dated Wytheville, Tenn., Jan. 6, commanding all persons in Ky. upon Confederate recruiting service to report immediately to Col. B. and obey his orders ; those failing to do this, " will be at once reported to the military authori- ties in Ky. as not recognized by the Confed- erate government, and not entitled, if cap- tured, to be treated as prisoners of war."
Feb. 22-Gen. Palmer, by general orders No. 2, "in accordance with directions from the war department, relieves Brevet Maj. Gen. Stephen G. Burbridge from the command of the district of Ky."-order- ing him to report to Gen. Thomas at Nash- ville, for duty in the field.
Feb. 22-The legislative committee ap- pointed to go and see President Lincoln and his secretary of war E. M. Stanton, report in substance that they saw and consulted with them, and at their request laid before them in writing the commit- tee's plans and propositions for putting down the guerrillas. Mr. Stanton prom- ised to " think about it," "and it is pre- sumed that the plans of the president and secretary of war are committed to Gen. Palmer for execution."
Feb. 22-The act establishing an Agri- cultural College in Ky .- which passed the senate by 20 to 10, and the house by 64 to 19 - provides for its establishment in or near Lexington, as a college of Kentucky University ; "its leading object to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanical arts, in- cluding military tactics, without exclud- ing other seientific and classical studies ;"
Feb. 10-$98,917 appropriated for build - ings and improvements in the peniten- tiary ; of which, $53,293 for a workshop, $18,323 for a chapel and dining-room, $4,452 for a smoke-house, $11,000 for la model farm, " whereon the student may
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be enabled to earn his support while being educated, in whole or in part, by his labor and industry ;" "in the appointment of professors, instructors, and other officers and assistants, no partiality or preference shall be shown to one religious denomina- tion over another, nor shall a majority of the professors belong to the same religious denomination ;" " nor shall anything sec- tarian be taught therein ;" all the income of the fund from the sale of the land scrip donated by congress shall be used for the proper expenses of this college and farm : the governor and senate shall appoint, ev- ery two years, a board of six visitors ; each representative district [100 in all] shall be entitled to send to said college free of charge, one properly prepared pupil, (and 3 from each district, 300 in all, whenever the whole of said land scrip shall be sold and invested)-said right to free tuition extending to every college or class in Ky. University, except those of law and med- icine ; said pupils to be selected by the majority of justices of the peace in each representative district. The legislature "reserves the right to modify and repeal at pleasure so much of this act as refers to the establishment of the agricultural and mechanical college." [This was based upon a merging or consolidation of Transylva- nia University-its buildings and property of over $100,000 in value, and its cash funds of $59,000, yielding over $3,500 an- nual income-into or with Ky. University, now at Harrodsburg, with a cash endow- ment of $200,000 and annual income of about $12,000 ; but to be removed to Lex- ington, and to raise $100,000 additional, to purchase a farm and erect buildings and improvements to carry out the Act. Feb. 28-The legislature provides for the sale of the land scrip, by the commission- ers of the sinking fund, and the invest- ment of the proceeds in Ky., or U. S. bonds-the annual interest to be paid over to the Agricultural College. Another Act consolidates the two universities ; and pro- vides that Ky. University is bound to re- fund to the citizens of Mercer co., who may claim it, the scholarships and coupons sub- scribed by them. Paris and Bourbon co. had made a handsome proposition to se- cure the Agricultural College fund, which secured 9 votes in the senate ; the offer of Ky. University was much more liberal, and therefore successful. ]
Feb. 23-From official documents it ap- pears that nearly 7,000 men who were drafted, in 1864, in Ky., failed to report, and are now considered deserters.
Feb. 25-Several farms within 5 miles of Lexington sold at auction at prices ranging from $110 to $1351/3 per acre.
Feb. 25-Gen. Palmer encourages de- serters from the Confederate army, by an order that all such now in Ky. or who may come into Ky. shall report to the county provost marshal and be registered-there- by renouncing further connection with the Confederate government and becoming cn- titled to U. S. military protection.
Feb. 27-President Lincoln signs the bill introduced into the U. S. senate by Gor. Powell, of Ky. - which passed the senate by a large majority, and the house of representatives by 113 to 19-to pre- vent military interference with elections ; the penalties for violation are very se- vere.
Feb. 28-The Frankfort Commonwealth, the great central organ of the Radical Union party in Ky., defends President Lincoln and secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton for placing Maj. Gen. Palmer in command of the department of Ky., in the room of Gen. Burbridge ; and reads a sound lecture to " certain gentlemen in and around Lexington, who claim to be the exclusive Radical Party in Ky., and who seem to think that Gen. Burbridge can do no wrong-particularly when he is aided in his administration of military affairs in Ky., by their sage advice.". " Mr. Lincoln either had to change his commander here, or give the whole of his time to the management of Ky. affairs. To give a few illustrations : Gen. Bur- bridge issued a general order, during last summer, requiring all the people of Ky. to obtain Permits from Boards of Trade, appointed in each congressional district. Every person in Ky. knows how exceed- ingly oppressive this order was upon the great mass of the people, and how very few did and could avail themselves of its benefits. Hundreds-we may say thou- sands of persons had paid to the Revenue Collectors in Ky. a license tax to transact, for twelve months, a particular kind of business, who were refused a permit by these boards of trade. Was this right? Was it just ? President Lincoln did not think it either right or just, and gave directions to Gen. Burbridge that it should be discontinued. When Maj. Symonds, backed by Gen. Burbridge, issued the cel- ebrated hog order in Oct. - commonly known as the "Great Hog Swindle" in Ky .- President Lincoln did not know that such an order was in existence, nor that the people were being swindled, in the name of the general government, out of from $2:50 to $4 for each 100 pounds of their pork. But when the President did under- stand this, he immediately directed Gen. Burbridge to revoke the order, and let the people sell to whom they pleased and for what priccs they could obtain. By the way, how much pork did the general gov- ernment obtain, under this general order of Maj. Symonds and Gen. Burbridge ?" The Commonwealth further instances the arrest of Col. Wolford and Lieut. Gov. Jacob-both of whom the President re- leased.
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