New-York daily tribune., 1863-07-15

| "And do you think the Rebels nave 4VV,VoV'
EVERY man Of them, and they can bring out
another 100, 600, besides 100000 negroes"
"And dare they give tho negroes arms1"
"They do it now. The first company raised In
Memphis was Of blacks. Whom they are driven TO
the wall, they'll pu. q musAst Into the bands OF
every negro within their lines, aud make him night.
Nv own opinion I. that the slave 10 To end this
war. Each side will use him. Hs u be put In
the front ranks and the result will b the present
generation Of blacks will Be extermnstsd. Thus
though not in the Doctors way, may be brought
abou. the fate be predicts for them."
"God speed the dayr exclaimed the Doctor.
" You zee I'm an Aboltionist, Sir, but not one OF
the Yankee stripe"
"Ipercsivs you're no. negro wouhippsr; but
Colonsl after the North has crushed out this I'M
meuse force, how can Il bring the Southern people
into cordial reunsn with 1T"
| They'll come into 1. Of themselves. Nine-:enths
of the rank and he of the Rebel army would be glad
to lsy down their arms to-day, and 90 peacefully
back to their homes. They have been mi'lsd and
forced into this thing; their hearts are not, and
never have been, in it. Only the leaders are ir.
reconcilably In earnest. The Rebellion is only an
immense she'll. We have but to crack 1t. and We
false idea Of the Yankees. The war has made them
shall find it hollow. The hsSou.hsrn people have bad
know them better, and will make them like them
better Our massss had seen none but the snssking,
cowardly, money.loving kind. One Of my own
brothep-in-lsw is Of that Sort He got hundred
and nfty negroes BY my sister, and the first thing
he did was 10 whip one Of them to desh-sn old
house servant who had carried his wife in hs arms
when she was girl. He is now rabid Secession
ist, as are all OF his class"
"And vheis this King Devil Of the guerrillas, as
the Doctor calls himl"
"His name is Woodward. He was q school.
master at Hop pkinsvls, Thurston County, Kentucky.
lie knew all the thieves and rascals In the district,
and at the breaking out Of the war raised regiment
of fifteen hundred among them and offered it 70 MIR.
Davis. He refused it, because the men were on
listed for only year. Then Woodward divided
them into squads OF from twenty to two hundred
and overran the State. There are five or Blk
Of these devils now, in this State and Ten
nsssee and some Of their atrocities are pas, belief"
81 have heard something Of thsm," / replied
"Parson Brovnlow introduced me, at Cincinnati, TO
number Of East Tsnnesse refugees, who had suffered
everything but death at the hands OF these men.
One of them, q farmer by the name OF Palmer, from
near Pikevillo, 10 Bledsoe County, wm attacked by
party in bis own house in the day time. He killed
two of them but WA shot In four places and len FOR
dead. His wife, who attempted to shield bin. also
rscsived two bad wounds. After incredible hard
ship she 20, her husband TO Lexington, and from
there 10 Cincinnati, where the Psnon secured him
q place a. conductor on the street cars When
- a. 1ln nd
Burnside, being determined to have Vengeance for
what he had suffered. Another one was Knishis, a
noted scout, who has served under RosscrAns, and
now with burnside. His adventures would mako
history ~ interesting and strange - any romance
He has crossed the mountains a. guide 10 Union
men, escaping to join our army, ssvsA'y'two tims''
and though repeatedly shos, has been taken but
once. Then ho escaped 10 most wonderful way
"How was il I" asked the Doctor.
"He was captured by small party while crossing
Wsldsns Ridge. They .. Grst decided 10 hang him
on the spot, but finally, 10 gss the reward offered
for his capture, concluded 10 deliver him TO tho
Confederate authorities at Knoxville. lie wasAt
once tried and sentenced to be hung. While he wn
in jail awaiting execution, his daughter wm cd
mitt cd to see him. He pretended 10 bs unable TO
st up, in consequence Of . wound received when
hs was taken, aud Of eOurss bis daughter had TO
bend down 10 hear what be said. In these circum.
stances hs managed, though the sentinel s,ood d.
rectly over him, 10 whispers Under your skirt
a eoil-to-morow! She got . coil, - hs termed
II. bid il under her clothes, and the next day went
again 70 tho jail. The sentinel refused 70 admit her
but tho officer, softsnsd BY her suusaty to see bel
father for tho last ime--hs wn 70 bs hung on the
pext dsy-6nally granted her AZ Interview Of five
minutes. The soldier stood by all the while
before, but she managed, while fransicAlly en-
bracng her father TO convey the priceless rope under
tho bed clothes. That night happened 70 bs dark
and rainy the sentiues kept under shelter, and be-
fore morning Knights, with three others, Lot himself
down from tho third story and escaped. lie 10 past
CO. bu. as bale and vigorous % any young NAN oa
ever knew"
"Well, shall never speak against womsn's hoops
again" said the Doctor, for onoe they have done
the country service"
"The Eas. Tennessssans havs suffered terribly,
said the Colonel, "bus The barbaItes practi0sd on
them have been committed all over this section.
Wherever the guerrllas have gene they have left q
trail Of burning houses, and eutchsrsd men snc
women. Some Of them are such monsters of crime
that one 10 tempted to believe the Devil has become
ncarnats Ia long hair, slouchsd hat and bntterDu'
trowsers. Over here In Clinton County, one named
Champ Ferguson was recently killed, who, sup
pose, hsd committed moro murders than any man in
the Union. Before the war hs wn gambler, thief
and counterfs.er and naturally joined the Rebellion
lie organized small baud, and for moro than year
committed unheard Of ahoctiss unchecked. Reu
ben B. Wood, all aged citizen Of Clinton County
bad greatly bsfrisnded him. lie rode up 70 WOOD,
house one day in September, 1861, called him out. ~
! coollv told him he was poinR TO kill him. oh no