The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-02-09

W lately Published an account of the mur-
der Of freedmen in North Carolina, of which
no cognizance was taken either by the local
or United States authorities. According TO
a letter from Elizabeth city, N. C., published
in the New York Pos, the same terrible con.
dition of affairs continues there. The letter
is dated January 20, and says:
Last Sunday night the row dies shot a col.
ored man about mile out from town, They
proceeded to the Camden ferry and called
tor the boat the man came; and, while
crossing the narrow river, was asked, els
that VIM. Kinney He replied in the
affirmative. Pop went the pistol; some dozen
or fifteen shots were fired. and one ball passed
through the body near the kidaevs. Not
much is said about il, and | do not learn
whether 1t is likely TO prove fatal or not
What surprises me most, is the Indifference
on the part of the citizens generally. They
take no more notice, apparently. Of these
outrages and murders, than If so many dogs
had been bruised and shot at The persons
who commit these acts are seen the next day
minghng with the people on the streets and
IN the shops, rs though nothing unusual had
happened. / could not have believed, with
out seeing it, that any people who call them
selves christians could exhibit such hardn.ss
OF heart, even for the bad treatment of dumb
beasts, much less human creatures
In Mississippi the condition of the unfortu.
nate freedmen is lamentabe A corre.pop
dent Of the Memphis Post writing from
Vicksburg, Jan. Is, says:
Capt Matthews, of the sixty-six United
States colored infantry, for some time on duty
IN the southern part of this State. but now in
this place, reports that last mouth an old ne.
gro man, sent by his late master and present
employer on an errand scme miles from home,
was arrested by about fifty of the State mill.
tia, and logged and stamped upon till his
breast-bone was broken, FOR being away from
home. He offered to prove that he had been
sent on proper errand by white people. but
the militia Lieutenant would hear nothing.
The same month United States soldier,
with pass, was beset in the streets OF town
by armed white men, his buttons cut off, and
ewas ordered TO leave town in an hour
on pain of death.
On the same night party of a dozen or
more white citizens went to building occu
pied as a colored school house, broke il open
and gave the teacher till next morning to
leave the place. This teacher was a eolored
man and had permission to teach from a pro-
vost marshal.
About the holidays company Of militia
patroled the country and gave the negroes a
general logging, whether at home attending
to business, or absent On one plantation a
woman was literally cut in pieces. On another
plantation a woman was badly beaten the
same night, the owner of the plantation. also
militlaman, present and engaged in the
affair. On third place, still another woman
was fogged by the chivalrous militia, and has
since disappeared.
The following night the lieutenant and his
chivalry coniscated two ponies of a black
man, who showed them a bill of sale for
them, telling him that negroes were not al
lowed any property larger than chicken.