Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-04-25

From the Knoxville Rogisterl
/ It is bitterly notifying at this most critical
| period Of cur cause to have to chronicle wantOu
outTages committed BY our own troops, whom
we have been 50 proud to regard a5 honorable,
chivslrcu5 Gad patriotie-as terrible only 70 our
foes. II the accounts we copy below fren our
! contemporaries are not overdrawH, We have some
cause to eIclaim, God save us f,om our friends,
| for cur enemies we DO not feaT!" For the honor
of the officer Of this department., we trust that
these things viii be diligently i-q1ired into,
and if such crimes have been perpsIrsted that
the guilty parties may not only b. brought TO
light aRd stripped Of the uniforms they SO vilsly
disgrace, bat receive tie punishment Of dogs
and felOns
From the Grosnville Banner Of the 9th.
On Tuesday lsst detachment of the 5ta.
Georgia hst!aliou, as they passed through this
section, played high game in the way Of plum
daring, aud impressing horses. They took
something near six thousand dollars in money
from Robsrs S. RoGdman, of PsJrottsvills Bfr
Rosdmsn followed them Up and got all his NO
ney back except six hundred dollars.
As they passed further up the country, they
took tEo horses from the plough of Barney
Cooter, soma six miles south of Gfeenvillo
They were followed up by detachment Of sol
diers snd the horses secured, and the guilty
parties arrested and brought under guard to this
u
vile last night for an investigation Of their case
a FEARFUL STATE OF THINGS.
From the Abingdon vi-ginian, 1oth
s lady in the upper end Of Scott county, fur |
nishes Us with tha particulars of several high
handed dspredatiors and a bar5arous murder IN
her n5ighboThOod. She says con hsndsy |
night, The 20.b ult., five men, supposed to be- |
long to the Tiger niles, now csnped near !
BlOuutviie, Tenn, went 70 5Ir P.Hkston's, in 1
the Poor valley, some ten or twelve miles this |
side Of E5il;viiie robbed him Of near S400 in /
gold and silver, wounded him so badly It is /
thought he csnnot recover, burnt up 6 good desl /
Of clothing and destroyed al his papers. From /
there they went 70 tho residence Of Rev. David /
Miller, called for his money, which he gsve up, /
amounting to one hundred dollars, and tod them
it vas all he had. They replied, that a man who /
had no more money thso that oUgd. not 50
live, and that they would lcill him. He begged I
for his life, and told them he would giFa 10
everything ne had, bat all would not do. They
killed him in q very brutal manner, first shoot
ing and then stabbing him, and cutting bis face.
They knocked bis wife down aud beat her, snd /
cut his daughters arm very badly. Old Mr..
Helton Wss robbed Of two thousand dollars two
or three weeks ago, and Mr.. Pullsn Of one
thousand dollars"
This is q fearful state of things to 30 permit
ted to exist in as thiekly settled and as moral
as that in which they occurred
Some people think that the Tiger Rifles, laWless
as they sTe, bear rather more than their share CT
these Outrsges, but be the perpetrators whom
they may, steps should be taken TO prevent
their farther ravGges, if not to arrest and pun
ish them. It seems to Us that there must De men
enough between MENDOZA and Moccssin Gap to
ferrit out and catch these muyderers and rob
Ssrs, if they would determine to DO so and act
in concert. The lives and property of sll il
that region are hourly threatened. aud viii con-
tiuUe to ba threatened, until decided and deter
mined action is taken by the people themselves.