Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-11-30

considered very venial fault, and re
ally is such in comparison with other
committed by the Southern chivalry
The Colonel was---nay, he plead-guil
ty of the charge of taking his servant
a yellow woman about thirty years o
age, out into the yard near the her
house, and after compelling her to lie
down, and throwing her clothes over
her head, (this is qnite common in
whipping women and girls, thei,
heads being thus covered, the cries o1
the poor sufferers are partially smoth
cred, gave her about one hundred
lashes upon her naked skin She
was examined by surgeon and wo.
man in a room adjoining the Office of
the Provost Marshal, 5oth of whom
declared that the marks of the bloody
lash confirmed the statement Of the
complainant. u 40 asas E .
The Provost Marshal, being north.
ern man, thought the stripping and
flogging of poor helpless woman was
almost crime and deserved punish
ment. Accordingly, he fined the gal
liant Colonel" placed him under arrest
and committed him to the guard house,
there to be kept till the fine was paid.
But it seems that the gallant Colo
nels " confinement for so slight an Of
fence-not crime (O-aroused the
sympathies of the ladies (O--bless
their tender hearts !--and they gave
him substantial evidence " Of it "du-
ring his confinement" The cruel Pro-
vost Marshal kept him in close "con-
fincment" for eight long days and
nights. What barbarity But it ap-
pears that the barbarity ended here,
for the Colonel says that he "was re-
leased without the payment of any
fine.' (Capt. Peck received an order
to release him and turn him over to
the civil power ...s. . .rn F.
: Yes, and why not, pray? He only
gave the woman one hundred lashes
Had he given her five or six hundred
with her head and arms in the stocks,
or while held down by three or four
men, two holding her feet and two
holding her hands, while his own foot
was placed upon the back of her neck
or covered head,-I say, had tie wor-
thy Colonel done this, even the ladies
might have thought him to blame, see-
ing that the woman was a house SER
want and not +" field hand"
1t has been SO very common to whip
the latter in this way that the ia
dies" would probably have deemed
such chastisement unworthy of no
tice--certainly not Enable. But to
think Of making a man Of Col. Browns
standing pay fine of $275 for simply
stripping woman and giving her a
hundred lashes--"only hundred" as
he said--is an outrage, especially if
the fine is to be imposed and collected
by officers of the United States. %
Ihave said Officers" Pardon me.
That is not the name they go by in
this region. Hear the editor of the
Copiahan: We are glad" says this
late rebel and traitor, that these land
sharks got none Of the Colonies money"
But the editor refers not only to the
fine of S275, but to q tax which the
Provost Marshal was ordered to col
lect by Major Reynolds Of the Freed
mems Bureau of Natchez. But as
Col. d. j. Brown was released with
out paying the fine, he was detcrmin-
ed not to pay the tax. Hear him:
From the Weekly Copiahan.
IMPORTANT TO the PEOPLE OF corIAn COUNTY.
We stop the press to insert the following
communication. which is of great interest to
the people Of Copiah county.
HAzL.HuRsr, Oct. Is, 1865.
j. r. FaRce :-DEAR SIN: Since my release
from Military prison, paid visit to the city
Of jackson. Soon after my release, my special
friend, Captain Peck. called my attention to
the fact that had paid no tax on the Freed
men " had employed for myself and the es-
tate of Il. w. Grant, and demanded from me
the sum of So, 90 per head. on all |" freedmen
between the ages Of eighteen and fifty l
declined paying the same he said it must be
paid. On reaching jackson. Governor Shar-
key, for me, sent dispatch To Col. Samuel
Thomas, Commander of Freedman's Bureau,
calling his attention to the fact, that Captain
Peck was collecting the $500 tax, and the
following is his reply:
yIcKsnrRG, Oct. H. 1855.
To Hon W. L. Sharkey, Prorisional Governor:
Capt Peck has no orders to collect such tax
IL is an old military tax levied last spring.
Will stop it. SAMUEL TnoxAs, COL, sc.
This ID an official dispatch sent to me.
w. L. SHARKEY.
Provisional Governor Of Mississippi.
Isubmit these facts to the people, to the
end that they may loJk to their own interest.
] have none personally in the matter.
d. J. BROwN.
On the very day this order came
from Col. Thomas of Vicksburg, COM
manding Capt. Peck to stop, there
came one from Major Reynolds of
Natchez to continue collecting the tax
till further orders These contradic-
tory orders of course placed Captain
Peck in very peculiar position. He
went to vicksburg to have a personal
interview with Col Thomas. Before
leaving, however, the gallant Col.
ID. j. Brown" came into Capt. Peck's
Office, with the order from Col. Thorn
as in his hand, heated with passion, if
nothing else. He opened his tongue
battery upon Capt. Peck, charging him
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