Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-08-21
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therefrom IN regard 10 the toya''y VI
tain sections Of the South are unquestion-
ably as Jus, as they are mournful. Indeed
it appears probable that in the admission
of Tennessee" the State that holds WITHIN
its borders a greater preponderance Oh
rebels than any other has been brought
into practical relations" We doubt II
there be any city of the South so cursed
with rebel ~vagabonds and %cut-throats as
this same city of Memphis. May DO the
Committee extend their differences too Tar,
a. against "the entire section Of country"
but of that every one can fairly judge on
reading the statements they give o. the
horrors of the late Riots. Forty-eight
persons were killed, seventy-fve wound
ed, and five women outraged.
Here are some of the details Of the
Horrors Of Memphis"
The browning acts Of atrocity and dia-
bolism committed during these terrible
nights were the ravishing Of five different
colored women by these fends in human
shape, independent Of other attempts at
rape. The details Of these outrages are OF
too shocking and disgusting a character
to be given at length in this report, and
| reference must be had to the testimony OF
| the parties. 1t Is q singular fact, that
while this mob was breathing vengeance
against the negroes and shooting them
down like dogs, yet when they found I'M
protected colored women they at once
=" conquered their prejudices" and pro-
ceeded TO violate them under circumstance
Of the most licentious brutality.
The rape of Frances Thomas, who had
been a Slave and was a cripple, using
crutches, having a cancer on her loot, Is
one to which reference is here made. On
Tuesday night seven men, two OF whom
were policemen, came to her house. They
first demanded that she should get supper
for them, which she did. After supper
the wretches threw all the provisions thai
were in the house, which had not been
consumed, out into the bayou. They
then laid hold of Frances, hitting her OIL
the side Of the face and kicking
her. A girl by the name Of Lucy Smith,
about sixteen years old, living with her,
attempted to 90 out at the window. One
of the brutes knocked her down and
choked her. They then drew their pis-
tolls, and said they would shoot them and
fire the house if they did not let them
have their own way. The woman, Fran.
ces Thompson, was then violated by lou
of the men, and so beaten and bruised
tina, she lay in bed for three days. They
then took all the clothes out Of the trunk,
one hundred dollars in greenbacks belong
ing to herself, and two hundred dollars
belonging to another colored woman,
which had been left to take care Of hei
child, besides silk dresses, bed-clothing
etc. They were in the house nearly foul
hours; and when they left they said they
intended "to burn up the last God damn
/ niger, and drive all the Yankees OIL o
!, town, and then there would be some reoeI
nigsers and butternuts left" The colorec
girl, Lucy Smith, who was before tn
l Committee. said to be sixteen or seventeen
wears old, but who seemed, from her ap
pearance TO be two or three years younger
. was q girl Of modest demeanor and highl,
respectable in appearance. She corrobor'
sted the testimony Of Frances Thompson
as to the number Of men who broke init
the house, and as to the policemen WHIT
were with them. They seized her (Lucy
by the neck, and choked her to such ar
extent that she could not talk for two
weeks to any one. She was then violated
BY one of the men, and the reason given BY
another for not repeating the act Of name
less atrocity was, that she was so near dead
he toouI not hare anything to do toih her
He therefore struck her a severe blow upor
the side of the head. The violence OF thest
wretches seemed to be aggravated by the
fact that the women had IN their room
some bed-eovering or quilting with red
white and blue, and also some pictures o.
Union officers. They said, "You nigger'
have a mighty liking for the damned Yam
KEGS, but we will kill you, and you vii
have no liking for any n then" Thu
young girl was so badly injured that sh'
was unable to leave her bed for two weeks
Another case is that Of
Rebecca Ann Bloom, who was ravishe6
on the night of the I'd Of May. She wa
in bed with her husband, when five mer
broke open the door and came into hel
house. They professed to have authority
to arrest Mr.. Bloom, and threatened tc
take him to the station-house unless he
should pay them a forfeit of twenty-five
dollars. Not having the money, he went
out to raise it, and while absent one Of the
men assaulted the wife and threatened Il
kill her if she did not let him do as he
wished. Brandishing his knife. and
swearing she must submit to his wishes,
he accomplished his brutal purpose.
Another case is that Of Lucy Tibbs. A
party Of seven men broke into her house
on Tuesday night, and demanded to know
where her husband was. She had with
her two little children Of the ages Of Eve
and two years. respectively. She i'm
plored them not to do anything to her, as
she was just there with her "two little
children" While the others Of the party
were plundering the house, one man
threatened to kill her If she did not submit
to his wishes; and although another man.
discovering her situation, interfered, and
told him TO let that woman alone-that
she was not in a situation for doing that,
the brute did not desist, but succeeded In
violating her person in the presence of the
other six men. She was obliged to SUBJ
nit, as the house was full Of men, and she
thought they would kill her. as they lad
stabbed a woman the previous night in her
neighborhood.
On Wednesday morning. in open day,
two men came into the room Of Harriet
Armor. One Of them by the name OF
Dunn. living on South street, under the
pretext of hunting Tor arms, entered and
barred the door, and both Of them violated
her. This outrage was attended with cir
cumstances of too disgusting and shocking
q character to be mentioned except by
the most distant allusion.
The New York Tribune attempted to
make hool-hOosing capital out of the visit
Of P. B. Randolph, special agent of
Louisiana colored schools, to the Presi-
dent. Mr.. Randolph is himself a colored
man. He replies to Horaee's shifting
paragraph in a letter, in the course of
which he says: Andrew Johnson led the
list Of those in favor of the Thiob orsdel