The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-24
,OLUME III
NfnhiIa Trihnne 18th.

N .ufun
i'A7 while en- route to this city, was cap
IN the Bigbee river near MalOne's
reI To- Inv a party of armed men, who he'd
sn,D;7on of the boat until the Monday fol-
IS The number of men engaged in the
WE is stated to have been eight or ten.
Putua moan time the boat was moved down
.;rer TO the mouth thereof by the cap
and cotton to the amount of $50 bales
discharged at various points. The evil
=. intention of the parties was to remove
aotton back from the river to some con-
lent locality and there to re-bail and re-
LIZ il and ship it to this city.
IT, scheme was so far successful that
~ all the cotton was removed from the
a., :, and the marks cut from the bagging
tosing the bales, and much of it removed
I'M the river,
~ Ire amount of the thus captured cot
80 soon on its way to this city, per
.ner MarengO, a day or two after the cap
60 sbiped BY variously named parties, but
eS,r,eI 50 that the original shippers by
,teaner Belfast, and the owners were
ttirely unable for the most part, to identify
Ill., cotton, we believe, belongs entirely to
rata observation-disclosures as vet having
Ian recognized as the property of the gov
nment.
To fuH BEST Vi Jul III " do Ou
down trip of the MarengO that the first
foru,ation leading to the arrest of the par
= engaged in the capture of the Belfast
4. obtained. Upon the arrival of that
liner as this port such information was
n before the proper military authorities
d number of the guilty parties who had
r,oa down as passengers on tie MarengO
ar, anarehended, Subsequently, others
81 crested. the whole number now under
80 beinp eight. all of whom are now con-
ed in the military prison of this Post, I'M
Kr~oino or awaiting trial before the military
Emission spoken Of above.
AZ soon after the arrests were made as was
eacticable a Commission, composed OF seven
Mficers of l.. S. Army, was organized by order
II Cen Woods and convened on the I'd inst.
the Military Prison The first prisoner
unon trial was J. G. Britain The
arcs preferred against the accused were as
%lows:
1-Guerrilla Marauding.
Highway ROBBERY.
g-Vlolation of Parole.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty to the
geral charges.
Indpe Dargan and Geo. F. Harrington,
appeared as counsel for the defence.
first steps of the attorney for the pris-
On were to try to have the whole matter
Apsferred to the Civil Courts, upon the
binds that the offences We're only VIC
ions of State laws and as such should be
el before Civil Counts, since the civil au
Ddiy and State government has been re-
rel so far as State jurisdiction and power
ended Also, that the Military authori
had jurisdiction only in cases where
knc9s had been committed against the
Of the United States.
Faling in this, it was next attempted by
Sc gentlemen, as counsel for defendants
have the first charge-'Guerrilla Maraud
'-stricken ont on the general reasoning
Il Guerrillas can exist only in a state o
while now we are, in truth and fact al
Ace-that the fact of martial law existing
Is not necessarily make state of war.
The commission refused to entertain thu
tiOns of the counsel. We believe, i'll fact
II peremptOry orders had been issued tC
& members thereof, and no discretion il
ermining these points was allowed them
rhe proper records of motions and plead
of the counsel We're entered with the
Iprds of the commission and the trial wa'
ceeded with upon the charges as at frs
fented.
he commission has, as yet, made but lit
progress in the trial of Brittain-Onl,
ee witnesses having been examined
The evidence thus far presents the cas-
bngly against the prisoner, being pOsitiv
the fact of his having been one of the pan
who boarded and captured the Belfast
The prisoner, Britain, is man of appa
It intelligence. and while watching TIL
bceedings of the court with undividet
Aention, seems low-spirited and depressed
the trial proceeds.
h. this connection we would remark tina
business of the court is conducted i'll
NNRy diguitied manner, the members of tn
admission evincing proper appreciation
1 heir important duties.
he case will occupy considerable time
Nt we hope to lay before our readers, as oC
ion presents itself, the substance of TIL
beeedings as they may transpire.
Is the gallent Gen. Hoke, of North Care
D. was lately travelling on the cars iron
" York to Washington on the seatin from
BIN sat negro, and on that immediatel
poste two United States officers, one
Aeral.
con after leaving New York, Gen. HOk
man, who was walking through til
pick up from the floor near where tn
ro sat, what he, at the time, supposed t
a ticket, and when the conductor cam
md and was told by the negro that h
lost his ticket, but that he had bough
paid for one, and that he had chec
his baggage, the General was satistie
It the man he had seen walking throug
car had found the negroes ticket, and $
Ormed the conductor, who accepted hi
cement, and went on marking the check
pther passengers.
change of conductors takes place bt
zen Washington and New York, and whe
second one, on his round, was told b
negro that he had lost his ticket, he sal
was not his look ont, and that the far
uld have to be paid. seen. Hoke the
ted to him what lie had told the forme
p ductor, but instead of receiving and cree
g the Generals explanation, he, in pei
lmpudent manner remarked that neltl
Hack man nor white man should pass b
without paying, and that the negI
uld pay or he put off The General the
ne from his seat, and shaking his fol
Ter IN front of the conductors face, II
I ned him, firmly and deliberately, that Il
past four years he had been fighting fl
negro, and that though defeated, h
pld not even now, allow one to be ma
lied IN his presence; that the negro ha
his fare, and should go through. III
ductor skunk away, the negro came
4 shlngton but the two L. S. officers new,
4 word