New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-09-29
THE NEW REBELLION.
TEXAS.
SOME UNPUBLISHED FACTS.

the close OF the war; asking Tor q Government
position, said, that in certain town in Texas
was a detachment of United States cOlOred sol
diers, but said he with an air of boasting),
they are being killed off at the rate of one day
and nobody can tell who kills them. ,,
No. ,. About the time of the New Orleans
massacre, a Southern man called on me TO ask
donation of books. Said he was "recOn-
" structedp and worked four hundred negroes,
who did we'll; but he must give them school,
or they would leave. He said the New Orleans
trouble was the result of the demand for suf-
frage for the negroes, and that, if this demand
was persevered in, the Poor Whites mot he
he was their friend) would murder them all.
No. g. A gentleman who was member of the
New Orleans loyal Convention, and who brought
good letters said that, finding his life unsafe
in New Orleans, he hired plantation on the
Red River, expended nearly hundred thousand
dollars in stock and labor, but his neighbors,
learning that lie treated his negroes az men,
ordered him to leave. AS he did not go at
once they burned his buildings, killed one of
his hands, and he only escaped with life--a
beggar
No. 4. Mr.. -, from Georgia, who brought
letters from Gov. Bullock, Gen. Howard &c.
says he was an old planter, owned over ninety
negroes, and that the freedmen now work faith
fully when they could get any pay. He had
been twice fred on for speaking for them, and
was driven from the State. He knew OF many
murders with, in some cases, barbarOus mutha-
tons of women as well as men.
No. 5. Mr.. -, also from Georgia, with his
brother in United States Government employ.
His brother was stabbed by Rebel officer He
aided the United States Marshal in taking the
would be murderer but the civil authorities lib
Grated him in few days. Afterward this Rebel
officer for more than q week put up at hotel
near him, and he was notified by the servants
that at night he lay near the house behind the
trees and shrubbery fully armed. This gentle
man says he knows that one hundred and sixty
loyal men have been killed in a county near
where he lived, and since the war.
All of these were residents of the South
through the war 1 could give many other facts
which satisfy me that there is less freedom at
the South now than during the existence of
Slavery, or of the war. W. 4. w.
LETTER IRON AN ARMY ofFrcER-MURDERs
NEAR SULPHUR sPRINGs-AhMED DES-
PERADoEs SECURING EASTERN TEXAs-A
REIGN OF TERROR
An army officer sends the following to The
6istb, GeEasl Republican:
LsaL CHis A. NgRNoS. a. H. H. OeafraI!
have the honor % report that on Saturday the 3Oth
day OF August vas attacked In Bots dArc Bottom by
party OF armed men, Numbering at least 90 and some ctl-
lens saw rs These men headed by Cullen Baker we'll.
known desperate. pursued with whip and spur
cral milcs Ia my farm, where escaped them Not md
ing me they heat one gro and ordered all the freedmen
of Of my place. They told the freedmen 90 gather
their own crop, that they should not gather my
portion that they must get off u the place
inside Of days. and go back 10 their
old masters, some good Southern man They told
the white people on tue place that they Intended getting
me- II they had % come 10 Paris and take OUT that
they intended TO shoot into mince meat; that should
not live IN this country that should not raise crop
year. Girn Baker says he Intends attending to
the bureau business 10 this country He commands no
less than 10 armed villains, among whom IL Jack English
The atternamed desperate Is now lying aronRd Z. h.
Lees house. kill hni These I'm aud 20 out
negroes aud Union men; that they viii XII the Union men,
aud leading negroes, or drive them from the country
and disarm aud dsnOun all HE negroes There Was pot
made UP I'LL me In BOs dare button. They had run
TO Inform them when was coming. They had four
stands for Cullen Baker, the cold boOded nssassin
is big man N this country. notwithstanding u Is
kGowH fact that he bus murdered men, women, and eb
dren Ia this STATE anu the proclamation oil ie Governor
OF the State stands la the Court house offering reward
ofsiOOo for his body Most respectfully 10 w., = p,o.v
For time past the Eastern portion of the State
has been infested by number OF bands OF reckless out
laws, whose principal occupation seems 70 be to XIII de-
feseless and unonendng Union men aud industrious ne
bob Ife. ~ "BicRerstsff' and BAKER" whose names
have bccome terror 10 law aud order loving people
that these dcspefadOS fcd
encouragedby large number Of the people tlroughout
tue country and the authorities arc Oled
ON tie I4th OF August last party OF these despera
does whipped negro woman about nve miles from sui
phur Springs Hopkins County aud sent INTO the post oi
QUITE protect her she would be killed Capt Toman,
6lh Cavalry commanding po,' sent frst sergeant Ea
this taking place the desperadoes placed themselves
IL n %Sd ,6s as the @ creary
Miller and the negro boy The horses OF the party be-
coming frightened either threw their riders, or ran away
with them, and while Private Miller lay wounded one of
these ends walked up and shot him through the head
say that Bckerstafr and his men had done the work"
One the soldiers VINO had been thrown from his horse
and had crawled into thicket. the man walk 10
Miller and shoot him through the head with the remark:
90 Take that you DID Yankee son OF b-h."
On the 10Th Of August man rode through Sulphur
shot negro standing In the door Capt Tolman imne,
daiey ordered detail Of TO patrol the streets and
disari every citizen who found wearing revolver
man by the OF Grisson was requested To deliver
The corporal In charge OF the patrol tried TO reason with
him, saying II was the order Of Capt. Tolman lie re-
order, he was not going TO obey 1t, and II
they undertook to take 1t away from him
turned % his men aud said. Men, We have our
orders am going TO take that revover-do not sec ne
should have take ii by fierce If he did give it mp
Grisson then drew revolver and derringer cooked
them, and the act OF shooting she corporal when
OF the men who saw what about 20 take place
shot him with his carbne killing him almost instantly
the excitement and tanning the fame called upon the
citizens JON them, and they would kill the last YAM
kee 10 the place and burn their bodies up In their
quarters"
About miles from Sulphur Springs is the little post OF
Pilot Grove, commanded by Lieut. j. H. Sands. 9th |
Cavalry OF natures noblemen and u true son Of
Mars. Ills post consists OF himself A. A. Surgeon Saun
ders, aud about An old citizen visited him. took
him ASIDE and having received pledge OF secrecy as to
his name informed him OF the condition OF the post OF
Sulphur Springs, aud told HIM the last OF them might be
killed He Immediately sent for Dr. Saunders directed
him 10 prepare for action aud to accompany him 10 Sui
phur Springs Lieut. Vernon, 4th Cavalry, aud Lieut..
Leheruy Of the 18th Infantry Glanced To be at that
D.Ith h..fn IL