Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-09-07

RaHizee Tyranny IN FrnnkIis Caunty,
enHesaee-s'atrfotEam s1 Cliizeas
From the Huntsville Confederate 5,hI
A citizen Of Tennessee has given US sundry
items, exhibiting the inex0rable despotism Of the
Yankees wherever they obtain fOoth0ld The
Yankees oecupied WihehesteT on the 81 Of Jaly,
celebrated the 4th, and issued 2 number Of the
Winchester Bulietiu on that day. tauuiing the
editor and proprietor with supplying bis place
in his absence. Gen. MeCosk occupied tho
residence OF Mr. HendsTsoa as bis headquarters,
and Gen. JEFF, c. Davis (whO killed Ban Nsl-
soa, the Kentucky Yankee eeuersl, last year)
occupied the residence OF Harrison 2. Carr.
member Of the last TenHe. So Legislature Tbey
put guards around the houses IN tom, and 4
few Of them we're robbed. Bat thsy gave isavs
70 their troops to wander up and down the cOun-
try, ike devils, seeking what !hey might d.
vOUr. The consequence was, that they csrried
90 q system Of general plurder, taking meat,
meal, hour, and other provisions from al bat
the very poor, leaving nothing 10 eat, making :
large majority Of the people wholly dependent
on Lhe enemy for TatiO8s which were dOlsd ont
to them for three days at time.
They went to cid Captain Taylors, who IS
about ninety years old, aud bis son, ". +. TsY-
lSr's, formerly clerk Of the county Court, beth
of them regarded as rich men, and so complete
ly robbed them, that they had 80 subsi5i on
oJlA1-A Gylh AAVAb &lAtl VICE H. Wien Alcs
days rations OF meat and hDur, f.om a Van
kse soldier, who took pity on them.
A brigade Of troops was sent 10 the farm OF a.
Shook, a substantial citizen, OF seventy cdd
years, under the guidance Of one Of bis negroes,
and three regiments spent the day there. Tasy
took al tbs pTOvisioDs, not leaving balf g gal
Ion of meal for the old man aud ths famiiy Of
his son, o. S. Shook, who had been ia the Let
Tennessee regiment, in Virginia. They killed
every hog, sheep, calf that tbeY could fad, took
five negro men-Al he had--snj three OF them
were sTmed, uniformed sud put ia tia Ysnkse
service. They stole Mr5. 0. S Shocks watch
and jewelry, and, afterWaTd, a guard was put
over her room.
Mrs. Shook went 70 town 20 draw rsi7ns.
The Provost Marshal was disposed 20 be cour-
teous, but said she must go to Gen. Davis. She
went to Dayis's quarters, and the Adjutsnt or
Clerk repeated the name" Shook Shook ~
when Davis sad, "AIl rebels and you, msdsm.
are as id rebel as any" "Yss''-ssid
she; and slways viii be" DAVIS said, "You
can't pet any Iaiions" Mrs. Sd you in
tend me and my children to starve You have
stolen all my meat and everything else TO cat.
he replied, 81 don't care d-n, il you aud
your children DO stsrva" Mrs. Swell
I'm willing TO go out Of your lines, and,
thsn, III not be dependent on You Go,
then" ''How can I go - do s5 Union syO-
men do, who leave your lines. Take your chill
dren on your back, aud pack them ont, madam %
Mrs. Shocks little nieGe, who accompanied hss,
remarked, [ never heard Of snY Uuaion We
men packing ehii1ten On their backs and leav-
ing our lines, unless they were nero women,
and tbey ran away" Hs made no reply, but
asked Mrs. s. whistler she wanted pass or
guard to go cut of his Hnes. Sae pr5ierIed q
guard, and be granted it. She was tresisd Ie5-
petfully by every body but Davis. 10 seemed
familiar with the peoples names, and called the
names Of al the men in the Shook Gmiy--the
fedeTste Postmaster az Winchester, another in
Starnes's cavalry, aud the third lawyer, hsd
been in the first Tennessee regiment, Is already
stated
Il is said, that 50 sweeping has been the pill
laying and desolstiOn, that not g shock of wheat
has been left in the country, and hsY we're cut-
ting the green corn; and there are no vegetables,
and not a single hen, goose CT other fowl Not
withstsnding this baThsrous treatment, the spir-
its of the people are not broken, bat lhey are
stu defiant and opposed to Reconstruction Of the
old UHion hulk. The Yankee papers say thss
they have no friends ia Franklin county, aud
complain that the lsdies won't receive them into
their psrlOTs, saying that If they would 10 50,
they wouli find them jovisl set OF fellows.
Notwithstanding the occupation of FrAukliu
county by the Yankees, an election Tor members
of the Legislature was held there on the Oh Of
August, she polls being eusned within seven
miles Of Winehester, and 3hn G. Ea0cHs was
elected senator for Lincoln and Franklin, and
Jas. K Shook, represent alive for Franklin, AMI
certificates Of election were awarded them.