The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-12-07
Outrage at WensSIlie.-GeneraI
stoneman Attacked and HeaI-
en- In am Eating House.


- The following extract fron private letter
IS published by the New fork fnDune:
In my last hurried note 20 you On the
morning OF the SIh, promised to give you
the particulars OF brutal outrage, eouiniit-
ted uy the keepers OF an Eating House At
W eilHville, on the Ono rlver. heir names
ale Dean, think. Majors Stone
man ~ent with his family to get ~ome tea
and took his colofed nurSG IN with him To
Iced his child as we'll as to give her something
10 eat, As We bad not time to get anything at
l1itsbuigh. We had DOthmg nom the
time We ictt Altoona. " hen they went in,
the room was nearly empty; and they seated
themselves at the extreme end. Au elderly
weman stepped up and said they dld not al
low "NIggcrs to sit at the table with white
folks. General StOnenIan remarked that il
was only hls own family occupying the table.
1 don care. SIR, We don't allow them to
1T at the same table here with white folks. ("
Gen, Stoneman replied. We'll, let her have
another table c.ose as | wish her to feed my
child. Elderly lady; No sir, l will do no
such thing. Niggers are net allowed at all
in this room, And the nurse sat lack
r,m the table. Nothing further was said
upon the matter. In a few minutes the
proprietor came along and aceostei Gen.
St0neman with: II want your fare, sir,
naming tho price. Gen. 5. replied: Il will
give 1t to you as soon as l finish, rs my time
IS short. Proprietor retorts: "Doyou not
wish to pay, alrl Are you not going to do as
other people dor Gen. S. replied: Ger
tainly am going to pay you but as said be-
torel wish to cat us am late, and will pay as
soon as | finish. But | 90 not think you
treat the public with proper courtesy, as 1
was lnSultcd by waiter about my servant
when came in, and Proprietor inter
ruptlng hiul-"Wh0 insulted you over your
servant Gfn. s.. That lady," pointing
to the elderly woman before referred to-
Proprietor; Who did she insult you over?"
That woman sitting there, who is my SER
want. Proprietor then stuck General
SStoneman between the jaw and the ear,
knocking his head round on one side; anoth-
er man, aother OF bis. struck him on the
cheek on the other side and clentched lris
left hand in the General hair, and dragged
him OFT his chair, stunned and bleedifg us
he was, both kicking and knocking him, he
being partially dragged on his knees, his
arms hanging BY his side, and unable to
make the least resistance or defence. While
his wife pleaded with them for her husband,
one of them rudely thrust her away and con
tinurd to pound and kick him, saying at the
time they would kill him. All this trans
pired in much less time than it takes to tell
it, and the few men left in the room were
so far away from them that they had laccra-
ted, cut and bruised him in tiightful man
ner betnr he could be rescued And when
it was done they swore that they were only
sorry that they had not killed him, and also
declared their intention of doing it yet if |
they could only get the chance. They would
kill any man who would tell them that their
mother insult,d him over niger. 1t was
well the General did not make himself |
kno"n. as there We're some l4S soldiers on
the train. They would have. cleared the |
house, | think The General was just from |
Libby Prison, Richmond, Va, where he has |
been confined for two months. =. -. |