New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-04
A TRAGEDY IN TENNESSEE.
Corepondsncs Of The N. Y. Tribune.

JOHANNESBURG, KY, March 20, 1917.
/ sent You a short time since an account of ter
rible tragedy that occurred in this neighborhoOd;
and in the copy of the local paper into which that
letter was copied from THE TRIBUNE find the in
closed which place In your hands, lest 1t might
otherwise escape your notice. 1t loses none OF It's
impressiyeness from the cool manner in which the
story is told; and certainly there can be found
in fiction no tale of more bitter wo than this truth
full narrative uniOds. And it is TO nurture aud
ripen such scenes this that the whole power
OF this Government is lending its aid
And while the heart is sickening over such scenes
as this records, and scarcely day passes that We
do not Teod of them-and we know but a small por
ton ever reach the public ear at all--they are
buried with the silence that shrOuds the poor vie
tim. / see it stated that X. }. Walker bas been
appointed to govern and enslaye Kansas This, at
least is undisgulsed-quite as much so as IT either
StrDgfelow AtchsOn themselves had been
selected. Walker and LecOmpte, Cato and Cal
houn- these, and such as these, are the ministers
that are 10 execute and administer justice 10 tree
Kansas :" Is this the feast the free States OF Penn
sylvania, and Indiana and NeW-Jersey were invited
to Is not the truth of everything proclaimed
during the last canvass by the Republicans. being
yel flied daily 7 Look at Governor Geary's revela-
tiousl Are they not more atrOcOus and astOund-
ing than anything told by Governor Reeder or any
other Republican writer or speaker But read
the following:
From The Nashville Ga1shG
tegicsl affair occurred on the Nalhville aud Chat.
taoooge Railroad on Monday last In the neighborhood
of Bridgeport the particulars Of which, as far as we
have been able to earn are as follows: Two negroes
belonging to Mr. Jones of the union Hal, lett .th,
hotel sunday, and were attempting to effect an es
cape. One Of them was bright muatto, who, 1t
seems eniesvored to pass himself OF as white; the
other, it under,tood, was to eel as his servant
With these pielimnanes they embarked for Antioch,
the fret depot the railroad end at hist psee tue
ak-aktn har,. md
vse' who hao difficulty at first IN carrying out their
prop, sed plans Ga arriving at the station where u
customsr to get dinner the white fugitive iouo wed
the rest Of the psss myers to the table, and as Tar as the
eating as concerned played his part ven
out Gid not sppe'r to possess that urbsnity or Ia
other words the sHarer in modO, which s peculiar TO
a msioriy Of The white race, aud instesd Of making
binstlf flee and easy in his new calling he attracted
the attention of his companions, who soon began 10
look at BIN with an eye OF Suspicion.
Remark Il lowed remark, until, by chance, gentle-
from this city interrogated as to the mystic
rous personsge who c0Dcured In the opinion eXpreae1
by others, that be was "vtry Gsrk ou' 10 more aan
q gentleman of his acquaintance, who during the Mex.
icOn war; sod a negro for large sum, ana az
the ssme time gave the particulars Of me tra1e wnch
is remembered by the first regiment OF Tennessee oil
uuees, and created so much sport al tue expense VI
one Of our Jolly towrsmeD.
T; changed tbs conversation and more was
said ebou. the Individual until all were again seatea Ia
the cars going at The rate OF twenty miles an houi
The ferttman rom This CT ndu oNcesioH ~ pa
through the cars aid az he approaehed tue man *n9
had been the subject Of 50 mucn remark 10
an old familiar face, and immediately couafed him
asking him where he intended gong. lhs slmPle 10
msrk draws our story to close-ior, 50 soon 90 ,n
question put the negro, Who had piston coHceeet
under bis bant e. discb led 1.-THE contea: OF @heh
we're logged in bis side. Not receiving his utatu
instantly he took Il ON his bosom drk ana Gu, nl'
tbIoat and in a few minutes he who at hrst was sup
posed 10 Re a dark skinned white man las cesd
negro. The other negro was taken IN charge ne eA-
plslrtd eysyihii q and as tied and brcugu' DacA 10
this CITY Thus erts this strange, eveatiul cnaP.er'
From The NGsarAs BGHH.'
it appears ihst they the rana~sys heehu'u - Se'
on TIE ii.ht tlsiu for Chattanooga, but arrived mo-
reu' too ste They took the track on foot snd pro-
&c. cir few miles secreted fhemfeVes uutu non'sy
night in thicSet. They then appeared al Au'locu
wren the night traiD came along ana me yehp D uai
based 'ick e's for km,et and se'ga" lVr Nes.A
rooga The trick YVES not deteced-LeV! Pt1sT4 a,
white naD end took his supper a. NE SAM 'eoe WIN
the ether psssengels ordering food ior us an s
side table. This attention OF MI; ODa'co To Inc
chant of tEs city, who vas on DosIdi % LIS "1 1,.o
New. York Was attracted 10 Levi. aud alter htue
scrutiny he reco. nized him. though dis USED In me
slit of clothes. Mr.. Fox, on Tuesday morning osioe
rescnpg Chattanooga. questioned Levi aod oecom ng
sati-fed that he vas runDiDg away conaIed nun aoI
minated that he wa. a prisoner. Levi was wrsppea
in blanket and be nan aged 10 draw ps'oi h" US
or, at with III the movement oeng botceu a1u .un
irg the mpzzle upon bis abdomen hfe0 Suo ieh upon
bis sea-. Mr. Fox and other pssseDssIs leu ~ az y
rosi'e direction urder the imrresslon ihat re Tss
frirg at them, and when they turDen oach ne au
d avn bowie knife and cnt us 'ui0o'' aN' %"
cOIlse.