The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-08-01
BATTLE or THE BUzzARDs.
smithites on the Rampage Mass
Meeting on the Bluff.
Judge Lewis on the Brownsville
SWindle.'


We know our readers are pretty. vel
posted concerning the split that took place
in the radical party at the late Brownsville
Convention, but we cannot refrain from pub.
fishing the following rich account of the
wind up at Memphis last Monday night.
We quote from the Appeal.
Yesterday evening, as twiIiglts shades
were Frightening into night, little while
after old Sol had sank to rest in the wilds
of Arkansas, a band of music, consisting Of
a big buck niger and base drum,
another with a fife and a third with clario
net, mounted the pile of lumber near the
tanks On the bluff, and commenced ulaying
F" Meet me by moonlight alone" it was not
/ long before it had attracted around tia
crowd OF loafIng Steamboat darkies, deck
hands, mackerels, aud wharf rats of every
I color and description, who were anxious to
know what the music betokened Their
] inquiries, addressed to the three sable
worthless constituting the band could elicit
nothing but gTunt. Mystery has a eharn
about it, and in this instance It worked as it
always does, and caused the crowd, unable to
! find out anything definite, t. 20 to surmising /;
and all son t. of rumors were soon rife. Az
/ at once little shirt-tail darky came tearing
through the crowd, and rushing up to the
Il q
| Z" Who? whOY asked the crowd eagerly.
Whar he?" gasped the drummer and
wiPing his face with is coat TAIL again
asked Whar he y. Aighf r yelled the
little nig, and pointing with his finger at a
something which was approaching from the
direction of Madison street, with a slow and
majestic tread, said "dar dey !" " Free
cheers for de hOnable Barber Lewis Z" then
/ yelled the drummer, and commenced bang
ing the base drum with frightful energy.
q Free cheers for de hoDable Ginral Sniff II
/ yelled the ffer, and commenced to blow
/ with redoubled shrillness f" Free cheers
for Capt Ham Carter = roared the clarionet
man, and then all three commenced to play
See, the conquering hero comes" The
crowd Of niggers, loafers and scalawags that
I had gathered by this time, was quite numer-
Gus, and he ring the names of the three
great champions of enc wing of the great
| scalawag party approach, set up most ire
mendous cheering and yelling amid which
the something Gimly seen through the
mists of the night, arrived close enough rc
let the crowd see that it vast qcas-the
immortal Gen. Sniff, the immortaler Bar
bour, Lewis, and the. immortalest Capt
Carter-the trio of Moseses that are to lead
the Smith wing OF the bust-up party into
the land of promise. They were received
with open arms, aud mounted the woOdpilC
the band playing Niger in the w God
pile and the crowd cheering. We have
not the space or time to tell what was said OF
done after they mounted the woodpile, bu
of ali the clissin and abusing and showing
up" that any set of scalawags ever got, the
so called Brownsville Convention, which
went back on the Smith wing of sealawag
cry, did catch it Beaumont and Num- anC
Fitch had their full share of Isl No quar-
7 Fels are so bitter, no feuds so deadly, NJ
I wars so fierce as those waged between mem
bers of the same family. And the way
that these buzzards did 90 for each Othel
was perfectly delightful to every decent mar
who happened to hear it. We stayed anC
listened for awhile, and heard Judge Lewi
give Beaumont raking down after hi
usual felicitOUs style, in which, though b.
said he never INDUCED in personalities, Ia,
called him everything but gentlsman
About that time, becoming sick at tai
stomach at something we saw approachin.
with reporters note book in his hand, W.
incontinently fed We can stand anything
but that.