The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-10-08
THE TRIBUNE.
AHoRRIBLE RECORD.
beymosts Friends Still Insulting and
Numbering Union Men.

We have a letter from well known
and reliable gentlemen, from Craighea
county, who informs lis that on the god
OF August Capt Edwards "a Union sol
der from Illinois. who was organizing
the MALTA in Green county was going
from one house to another was s-bu,h
whacked. and shot through the arm
and Ia the body near the shoulder, sup
posed to be moftally wounded No ply
slcE.n would go to see him, and he was
treated as an outlaw by the rebels Of
that country.
The Fort Smith New Era says;
A United States officer from the post
near this city on his way North per
stage was grossly insulted the other day,
by violent rebel, ut the first mail sta
ton from this place, and for no other
reason than being a officer wearing d
uniform respected throughout the civil
lzed world, except by set Of scoundrels
that ought to have been hung long ago
The Memphis Post OF the 18th records
the following;
SOLDIER MURDERED BY THE KU KLUN.
A man name Finely member of the
Third Colored Infantry went over to
Marion Ark, to work. On Sunday last
three men led him into an alteration,
and assaulted him because lla wa rad
lcal On the following day he received
his pay-some twenty five dollars-for
his work and started to return to Mem
phis, He was however watched and
pursued by the KuKlu IN their uniform
and masks. When near the Mississippi
river the assassins surrounded and shot
the man but left him as he fell PROSTATE
in his blood Parties have since found
his body on the bank OF the river They
have the money taken from his peck
and send us word that his widow can have
it by calling for it. SO dies like dog "a
Union soldier at the hands of rebel as
sassins, the SUI porters Of Seymour ana
Blair. Such will be the fate oihundreds
in the South if that ticket succeeds.
The next we clip from the Louisville
Democrat Of Yesterday;
We regret exceedingly to hear of still
urther disturbance in the interior Of the
tate. These freuqent violent and fatal
oHisions are disgracetul to our people
nd calculated to bring upon US full
lare OF opp obrium.
1t appears that on Sunday night a
arty of~reguiators In Pulaski county
art ID out upon the war path with the
vowed determination Of executing sum
lary yengence on white man and Il
agro. -Thelr purpose coming to the
nowledga Of other parties, it was deter
rned to checkmate it. An opposition
ang was accordingly organized who
laced them elves in ambush on the
,adside. When the regulators approach
they fred into them killing one man
nj severely wounding three others.
N OUTRAGE BY GEORGIA DEMOCRATS.
We are informed that about ten days
go Joseph w Gift. II. &. from South
rn Georgia, while riding in the cars
the Atlantic and Gulf railroad, with
u.s. brother was treated IN a manner
hi h shows conclusivesy tina &c. speech
not tolerated in that section Of the
Olntry.
When the train stopped at Yaldasta
own OF one III JUS nd inhabitants.
iI-tant fro Il Say ,anah 40
NE hundred AMI twenty miles, a
age crowd surrounded the cars AMI
ome fifteen or t.Teafy ri i1as, a.m3l
nth heavy sticks, entered the car with
he aruvai purpose OF taxing tsien o4!
nlflynching item.
i'h.y were ollv nrevente from doing
his BY the urgent entreatIe> OF several
raEiaent IN ~, one Of whom WAS an
rga;nent Of these g2ntiamln wa. tha5
h, Buys must NJ do it be,,lI,e it wauid
niare the party and town The crowd
outside becam ing weary of waiting for
he sport to cDm neaCe, hootel m yelled
Bring the id Il ,di:a! oat' AMI
again the rou CHS seemed determined Ia
accomplish their purpose but were again
met by the same objections on the part
of their friends and after heaplng all
maubet Of insult> o. taem offensive gen
ticmen who We're quietly passing through
their town, reluc lily relinquished
their purpose and lel5 tue ran.
This town Va!dosta enjoys an unanvi-
able notoriety as the scene Of * u klux
monstralation last Apri whenl a band Of
f ty or fl Y a me zen first placed Gig :
teen pounds of powder under the Court
house where DIR. Cliff was about to ad-
dress Republican meeting and when by
accident the Internal plot was discovered
just III season to prevent their drunken
tool from firing the train and hurting
three hundred people INTO eternity, the
meeting was broken NJ by violence, and
the mob touk and held the town al night
threatening to asaaSSinate prominent
Republican, and rendering 1t necessary
TO send for military aid belyrc the inset
ing could proceed
Several persons prominent actors in
the April affair and now under bonds OF
$4,000 each for their participation in the
same were leaders in the recent attack.
d. Hall Rice, of Savannah after max
ing a republican speech III that town
recently in that town was drummer out
OF that place, and his brother, L ).
Revenue Assessor, was forced to leave
acomm ttec waiting upon the prop aetor
of,5he hotel and iorbidding him to harbor
such id radical any longer.
New tfoRK, Sept. 39;-An Atlanta
special says: \ call having been pub
li,hed last week for a Republican ee,ing
it was answered by a convention at War
rcnton. The republicans assembled there
with the view of holding peaceabIe
political meeting \ considerable mum
Der of loyal men from the neighborine
towns arrived at Warrenton by the train
to attend the meeting. They were met
by the sheriff and a committee OF citizens
who advised them not to enter the town
The sheriff told them that the citizens OF
the town were determined there should
be no meeting. He added that he had
counseled with them and tried to pacify
them and to induce them to allow The
meeting to be held but that his advice
had been in vain. The republicans thef
went to colored church outside of the
town and held their meeting. When tht
speakers were nearly through news wa:
received from credible sources that tte
citizens were organizing in the town ant
drilling. in military tactics, preparatory
to an attack. The republicans We're al
vised to fly to the woods to avoid a seri
Gus riot and probable loss of life They
accordingly fled in all directions but the
colored people are dreadfully alarmed