Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-12-15
War In owen and Putnam Countless
The Acre FamlIy-.-Blll Acre Killed
larson, DC.

CLovERDALE, December >, 1864.
Editors Indianapolis JotrnaI:-In
the upper part Of Owen county and the
lower part Of Putnam county, there ia 3
degree Of lawlessness, and a spirit Of
arson, outrage and murder abroad, which
amounts to an insurrection, justifying
the declaration of martial law, and the
military occupation Of these regions.
The Democratic party Of those town
ships is altogether organized as the Sons
Of Liberty; and have been drilling for
long time, and are now gathering into
guerrilla bands, who have already burn
ed houses Of obnoxious Union'men, stol-
en- ard wantonly destroyed their prop
erty, and in some instances have resort
ed to assassination 10 CRAFTY their part
izan and rebellious spirit The centre
of these outrages seems to be this place,
(CloVerdale,) the scene Of the late no
torious election frauds, and Of the late
murder Of Mr.. Young, and Of the more
recent attempt TO murder Mr., Denny.
iamify named Acres--the principal be.
ing Sol. Acres, the tstion master At
CloveFdAle Of the New Albany & Salem
Railroad. Quite a number of desert
ers, embracing two Of the name Of vii
son, Martin, Hudson, and Timothy Acres
besides others, are in the guerrilla
gang.
The latest outrage 'perpetrated By them
was Sunday last, 81 Cataract, Owen
county, when, as be was qsietly walking
along the public road, Samuel Ring, mil
Ter ct Cataract, was fred upon suddenly,
and without notice or proyoeation, by a
part OF the guerriilas on horse. back.
headed ~ brother TO Sol Acres, and
by Sol = son, William Acres, both Of
which latter fred the revolvers al Mr..
Ring, who ran from the road, jumped a
fence, and then got out revolver aud
bred on William Acres, just as the lat.
ter had dismounted and was endeavor.
ing 70 get an sGectual shot At Ring.
William Acres fell, and II is believed is
MORALLY wounded Eleven shots in all.
were fred at Mr.. Ring.
The guerrillas then gathered In a
body, and With shouts Of "Hnrrah for
JEFF Davis" swore they would kin Mr.
Ring, and kill several nrominent Union
men, and burn the mills, and clean out
all Union men In that region Of coun
try. The latter, however, have gathered
at the mills, armed, and at the last ad.
vices the guerrillas had not made their
attack. They are cowaFdly when op
posed BY a nearly equal force, and reiy
On catching the Union men out alone.
aud then shooting them, or stealing
around in the dead hour OF the night and
burning their houses and destroying their
property
II the military authorities do not take
notice Of this state Of things, and send
aforee to preserve The peace. and ar.
rest deserters and JEFF Davis aympa.
thiEers, the law and order loving portion
OF this community must abandon the
country.
Law Is powerless. The justices oil
Peace IN the townships, the Sheriff. and
Judges OF the two counties, are All either
in sympathy with the rebels. or afraid
TO act, mostly the former One Of the
Wilson's is riding around on horse sto.
lsa from farmer, and there 10 no re
dress.
Ia il not bad that the New Albany 4
Salem Railroad Company should keen
such rebel desperate as this Sol Acres
in official position here, TO inaugurate
such ou'rages, and insult passengers on
the road by stimulating bis half grown
and full grown sons to shout for jeff
Davis on tho very platform Of the station
Office.
should mention that the mos. Of the
gang perpetrating the outrages went GU.
from this place (Cloverdale) in the fore.
noon OF Sunday last fully armed, eyi.
IDENTITY intent on murderous outrage; and
soL Acres is reported to have been over.
heard declaring to his guerrilIas that the
village and the mills Of Cataract musl
be burnt, rs part Of the Democratic pro-
gramme.
ask the military authorities At In.
oianapolis--I ask Gov. Morton---is this
state Of things to continue 7--is there no
remedy USIox.
+. 81 have Just heard that Bill
Acres Is dead-he had two balls through
him. BY the way, is not the New Al.
bany Railroad Co, aereditor OF the Gov
eminent for large amount2-ouaht il
to be paid when il keeps rebels like Acres
in its Employ
1t Is not strange that a community
that tolerates such scoundrelism, voted
almost solid for the bosom friend Of Val
iAndigham, Dan Voorhees,, and yet Dan
says these are incapable of corrupting