Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-28
BATTLE OF THE BUzzARDs.
on the Rampage
Mass Meeting on the Bluff.
Judge Lewis on the Browns
willie SSvindIe."

Yesterday evening, as twilight's shades
were frightening into night, q little
while after old Sol had sank to rest in
the wilds Of Arkansas, a band Of music,
consisting of big buck niger and base
drum, another with fife and a third
with elariOnet, mounted the pile of
lumber near the tanks on the bluff, and
commenced playing "Meet me by moon
light alone" It was not long before it had
attracted around it 8 crowd Of loafing
steamboat dsrkies, deck hands, macker-
els, and wharf rats of every color and
description, who were anxious 10 know
what the music betOkened. Their in
quiries, addressed to the three sable
worthless constituting the band, could
elicit nothing but grunt. Mystery has
q charm about it, and in this instance ii
worked as it always does, and caused
the crowd, unable to find out anything
definite, to go to surmising; and all sorts
Of TumOrs were soon rife. All at once a
little shirt-tsil darby came tearing
through the crowd, and rushing up to the
drummer shouted, "Dey's a cOmiu' ~
Who =? who ?n asked the crowd eagerly.
Whar he ?' gssped the drummer, and
Wiping his face with his eoat-tail, again
asked, "Whar he ?" "Aigh" yelled
the little mig, and pointing with his fin
ger st something which was approach
ing from the direction Of Madison street,
with slow ard majestic tread, said,
" dar deyW Free cheers for de hona-
bic Barber Lewis ~ then yelled the
drummer, and commenced banging the
bass drum with frightful energy. I" Free
cheers for de honable GinIal Sniff ~
yelled the fifer, and commenced to blow
with redOubled shriilness. Free cheers
for Capt. Ham Carter!" reared the clsr-
ionet man, and then all three COM
nenced 10 play See, the coDqueriDg he
70 comes" The crowd Of njggeTs, l0afers
and sealaWags that had gathered by this
time, was quite numerous, and hearing
the names of the three great champions
of one wing OF the great scalawag party
approach, set up most tremendous
cheering and yelling; amid which the
- something dimly seen through the
mists of the night, arrived close enough
| to let the crowd see that it vast tCds-
The immortal Gen. Sniff, the immortaler
Barbour 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 prom
| ice. They we're received with open arms,
and mounted the woodpils-the band
playing " Niger in the Woodpile" and
| the crowd cheering. We have not the
| space or time to tell what was said or
| done after they mounted the WOodpile,
| but of all the cus8iR and abusing and
showing up" that any set Of scala
ways ever got, the so-3alIed Brownsville
Convention, which went back on the
Smith wing Of scalawagery, did catch
it! Beaumont and Num- and Fitch had
their full share OF it! Noqusrrels are SC
bitter, no feuds so deadly, no wars
so fierce ss those wsged between mem.
bers OF the came family. And the way
that these buzzards did go for each Other
was perfectly delightful to every deceni
man who happened to hear it. We
stayed and listened for awhile, anC
heard Judge Lewis give Beaumont &
raking down after his usual felieitOui
style, in which, though he said he nevel
INDUCED in personalities, he called hin
everything but a gentleman. AbOu
that time, becoming sick at the stomach
at something we saw approaching will
a reporters note book in his hand, VI
incontinently fled. We can stand any
thing but that.