Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-11-24


rebels and robbers live, are lighted up
with fnnumerable candles and lamps
stolen from the stores and houses; the
Babel of tongues increases, eXecTatiOnsof
the whites are distinctly heard, mutual
quarreling succeeds, and finally the un-
mistakabie voices of drunken people sink
into the silence Ofsleep. The rebels had
spread q report that the MarcOns, a REM
naDt of the abOrigines Of Jamaica. who
have generally preserved their loyalty,
formed n grand army, and acted as the
chief perpetrators OF violence, when, in
deed, the latter had nothing TO do in the
rebellion.
Saturday morning, however, called the
~rascals. men and women, 10 a reckoning
they did not anticipate; troops We're
landed at BOwden, one party Of whom
marched toward Golden Grove, while
the rest took the road through Bath,
meeting at the Grove. These collected
all the whites and cOlored on their line
Of march vino desired protection, escort
ing them to the gunbOats anchored at
BOwden. The rebellion had proved an
entire failure. The part of the plan
already unveiled, displayed an Organiza-
ton that might well cause lookersou
to tremble, and direct attention to
other quarters than the houses of
negroes for the designing head. Fire,
an element of destruction that a
black man delights 10 use, was not al
lowed 10 make havoc; no house, none OF
the works, none Of the canefelds, were
laid in ashes. The cattle were not only
left uninjured, but all Of them driven
into pastures on Thursday evening and
the fences carefully replaced. The rebels
did not commemorate their miserable
successes by lighting up a trash house.
The grand future restrained the madness
Of the present moment; these deluded
beings were to awake some morn
ing, not simply planters and attor-
neys, but proprietors. They could
manage without furniture, there
FIRE they smashed that, because
their degraded social habits require only
a floor to sleep on and a pan 70 cook their
victuals in; they could do without court
houses, because shortly would begin the
reignOf passion, intolerantof both human
and divine laws; but they could not do
without canes, and the means Of con
verting them into sugar and rum this
was to be the chief end of the enter
prise. The bitterness OF disappointment
was too visible in the cOuntenances OF
the negroes on Saturday morning, as the
military reached Golden Grove, and at
tackled in earnest the rebels assembled
there. A report was prevalent among
the people that the military would
side with them, but they soon discovered
their fatal mistake. The rebels We're sur
rounded, and either made prisoners or
shot down. As the escort moved along
Pleasant Hill, several rebels showed
themselves on the mountain, brandishing
their eutlasses in defiance, little knowing
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rifles, which soon laid them on their
backs in mortal agony. On arriving at
that part Of Pleasant Hill where there is
a pass up to Stokes Hall, the wife of the
carpenter employed at Golden Grove,
while attempting to come down the hill
to the escort, was stopped by arebel, who
lifted his cutlass 10 kill her, saying he
was sure TO be shot or hanged, aud was
determined to take her life this, how
ever, some soldiers prevented, by rush
ing up the hill and seizing the man