St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-06-06
ADVENTURES AMONG SAvAGES.

ADVENTURES AMONG sAvAGEsD
"All we ask is to be let alone. If. Darts.
The following extract from letter
to a gentleman in Connecticut, from
his friend in Knoxville, Tennessee,
illustrates the Influences at work 10
drive that State into rebellion
KNOXVILLE, May 9, 1861.
DEAR -: | am writing at the of.
fee, but in what country the Lord on
lv knows. Be that as it may, the Dew.
lis thousand years are up and he is
let loose among us. | cannot begin
to tell you Of the actual condition of
things. Union men are threatened
with death in almost every shape IL
they persist in making public speech
cs. Andrew Johnson and Thomas A..
Il. Nelson were stopped at Blountvile
yesterday, and threats are made open.
ly that any man who attempts it here
will be shot upon the stand. There
are about 500 soldiers here row, most
of them from Monroe and Meigs corn-
tics. and of the most worthless, des-
perate class of men and frenzied by
liquor. Among them is one Wash
Morgan, who is part Indian, and is
captain of a company of spirits of the
same class, but ifpossible more wick
ed than himself.
Day before yesterday the Stars and
and Stripes were floating from the
Union pole, and - was making
few remarks to crowd of Union men.
Among them was Charles Douglass,
who is a strong Union man, and is not
remarkably prudent about dcnouncinS
Seccssionists. 1t so happened that,
on this occasion, Morgan and two OF
his men were near him, and taking Of
fence at what he said fred their pis-
| tolls at him. AS Douglas was unarm-
ed he started for his house, the others
following and firing. Nine shots were
fired in all, but Douglass escaped with
slight flesh wounds. He was near bis
store at the time, and as soon as he
could get his gun, they were off like
ouartcr-horscs." Morgan ran to
Sackey's stable, jumped on a horse,
and ran him to the Fair Grounds,
where his men we're quartcred. As
soon as possible back the cowardly
rascal came, with 400 men to kill one
man. The citizens commenced arri-
. wing, determined to defend him, but
: = and - succeeded in stopping
, Morgan and his men in East Knoxville,
and turned them back to camp, there
by preventing general fight.
When Morgan was shooting at
Douglass, one of his balls struck an
old man from the country who was in
town on business, causing his death
in a few hours. Yesterday Morgan
got a hack and came round by tho
back way to the Lamar House, and in
at the Ladies' Entrance" accompa-
MED by several of his gang, went in
to one of the chambers and shot Doug
lass, who was standing by his wife in
J his own house with his window closed
the ball passing through his breast.
lie is still alive but thought to be
mortally wounded.
l No arrests have been made (Which
: shows the power of the civil authori-
ty), and Morgan is to-day i'll high fa-
vor with the Secessionists.
4 letter from Young lady at Ev-
ansville, Ind, dated May 5, contains a
description of outragcs committed by
these Southern traitors. She says:
!. "For the last few days our city has
!. been literally filled with deserters
e from the Southern army, and they are,
0 or seem to be the happiest men alive
to get on free soil again. They arc
all for the Union, but had been forced
f into the Southern army. There were
: five OF, these men who came up from
j. Memphis or Friday ; they were in
n fathers store, and told him how they
n were treated; they went South will
;. several boat loads of tobacco for the
t. purpose of selling it there were thir
d ty men in all, | believe they were Ia
d ken from their boats, and had t,
5 choose between joining the Southern
l. army or having all the hair shaved of
their heads, having number of lash
os Oh the bare back, and being put il
prison fur thirty days upon q diet o
bread and water. What do you thinl
p of that? l think it is perfectly bru
ic tai. Five of the men were true t,
s. the Uuion-thc five who told the story
X, the others (25) joined the army, bu
m tend TO escape The five men had al
d. the hair shaved off their heads, an,
is their backs were terribly mutilated
to They escaped from prison and ran al
.h the way to the river, and got aboar
~ the boat which brought them here.
ID Another young man, by the name {
+ James, told father his story yesterday
y, lie is also deserter. He said th
le Secessionists tried to force him an
four companions to join their arm,
re Three of them said they would not
ID it that they preferred death, and a
sh three of them were hung on the neal
r est tree, in the presence of all tn
1t. soldiers and their comrades. Th
to fourth one called them towards, ira
ne tors, thieves, and taunted and curse
of them, when they poured cold tar owe
AZ him and set fire to it! Mr.. Jane
he ioined the army. At night he wa
in awakened by some one crawling owe
ey his body. He asked what they wcr
p doing. They said they were going I
sc desert. lie joined them. When h
got outside Of the camp he ra
until he came to railroad station
he 1t so happened that he had none
ID enough to take him to Memphi
mr. where he got on the boat and nevt
err stopped until he reached our plac
nj He does not know what became {
ne those that left with him, as he ran fa
an ter than they and left them benin,
nd At the time he was forced to join ii
NJ army, he was at Pensacola, and it wa
- thcrc where the three men were hun