Weekly Trinity journal., 1862-08-23
Guerrilla ARamds.

! If anything were wanting TO convince us OF
! the imperative necessity of suppressing those
marauding bands of hcartless pirates who now
! infest the country around Memphis, their recent
! depredations dispel the last lingering ray OF
doubt.
Those infamous vagabonds who are prowling
about the houses of Innocent and unarmed ctti-
zens, to ply their avocation of stealing and
despoiling property are the very lowest dregs
OF animated nature. But day or so ago this
same pack of Williams visited Hickory Wythe
and IL short distance from the place, they found
! ~ poor old man and his wife, who by hard and
incesscnt toll, with the help Of only one servant.
had made 23 bales of cotton, The pirates called
to burn 1t, when the following conversation oc-
! CURED
Pirate" old man, where is your cotton p
We have come to burn It,"
Old Man" Wen, Sir, am 81 years old, very
| much out OF health, and poor wife and a de-
crepit brother to support, aud The little cotton
have cost me many days of hard work IN the
burning sun, all the time in weak aud slokly
state aud know that you would not rob poor
old man Of his last and only means OF support.
It's all have to keep me aud my wife and
poor crippled and decreplt brother from starya-
tiOnp
Pirate" What the HI do you think we care
whether you starve or not. You want the Fed
erals to get it, and we will see you inh--l before
you shall sell il to the id Lincoln Yandlls
Boys, fire the cotton! !"
Old Man" DO, for Heavens suke leave mo
four or five bales; just enough to buy me some
food, for we are destitute of everything"
Pirate" No, Sir, not bale any man who
attempts to keep his cotton is u ID traitor
The poor, old, feeble, aud worn.out man was
compelled to wtnees the hard earnings of the
past year destroyed before his eyes, while the
heart rending sobs OF his wife and the sorrowinps
Of his crippled brother fell like clcles on BIZ
heart.
Another case Of nearly equal cold hearted
cruelty appeared near Germantown. poor
white man, one of Senator lIammoud's :" mud
sis Of society" had made five bales of cotton
aud during the dctoul oi the guerrilla bands
he was called on to burn it. lie reclted his poy
erty and utter desttuton being without provi4
ions, clothing, boots or shoes and appealed in
the most touching manner TO the Confederate
rascals to leave hun his cotton. 1t was all he
had, as the predatory incursions of former bands
had taken away his only mule But II was all
in vain. Would the reader believe that such an
Internal set Of williams could be be raked up from
all the degrading purlieus and vile haunt, Of the
land Yet such Is the fact After they had
burned his cotton, they actually made The oDl
man give up his gun, the last and only available
piece of property he had. lie then came to
Memphis aud begged some shoes and something
/ TO live on.
! That is practical secession and the occursod
/ fruits thereof. Here are two cases, eloquent Of
/ the damnable and despotic rule of the rattle
! snake Secessonism Of the South. Poor Old,
decrcpit men, with one foot in the grave, and
! family dependent on their eXertionT, are rohb'd
of the last vestige OF property by the emssari"s
| OF Jeh. Davis. Who would not love such vile
mockery? Who would not adore such a glitter.
ing fabric of equity and justice Who cpui
not die in the last ditch for such magnanm ,us
aud just Government?
How long shall these things be? Ar, we ia
allow such Il vile nest Of vipers to prow througl,
the country to ruin, desolate and lay waste, tho
peaceful homes of innocent people? Are these
delesable jackals to be treated as prisoners of
war Are such outrages to be tolerated without
condgn punishment? Hanging an economical
use of hemp, Is what is urgently demand ID --
Gen. Butler resorted to that brief method Of Get.
tling affairs with guerrillas and that Is the rem.
edy here. 1t always proves eneacious GA the
18th inst, the Confederate authorities hung seven
Uni0nsts In Atlanta, Ca, for running away with
train Of cars. Cannot our friend of the .Hpa-
iaHche, give us a little sentimental whining on
the exalted aud soothing effects Of conoiliation
aftor reading Of the hanging Of seven Unionists
for simply running away with train Of cars
We have heard aud seen enough OF this one sided
concilaton policy. -.3emPbis Union RsoWe.
A FRENCuwOMAN named Iluot, who has reach,
cd the extraordinary age Of ! 06 years, was re,
Gently much improved ia health by getting
knocked down by cart ia the streets Of Paris.
Whereas she was previously quite weak and
inlrm, the strong nervous shock has so revived
her faculties that she is now exceedingly vg0g
ous and, as one OF the French papers says, "it is
thot that she may yet live long ils.' aha
followed most OF the campaigns Of th iTsI N1po
leon as a UiUaHdiere.