Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-12-19
Outrages in Conway County.
The People Of EcWisburg Organ
ized for Defense.
HTuraCrs in IIle Southwest.

From every gusrter Of unhappy Ar
kansas from which we are in receipt al
news, the reports show 3 most deploTs.
be state OF Affairs. The militia, com
posed Of negroes and the very lowest
order Of whites, led by men who are ths
very scum Of the cath, convicted felOns.
thieves sud murdereTs, are holding q c7l.
nival Of brutal outrage hld cruel Cppres-
sion That SURPRISES belief. We have gl-
ready lGId bsfore cur readers details Cf
UphsU's conduct In Augusta and that
neigub0ThOod, sud by late arrivals We
are Sble 70 give q few more details Of the
doi8gs Of other gsnrs, II anything, more
deTiiish even than Upham'z, ia the so-
joining regions and 10 the extreme South
western portion Of the State.
10 Conway county, which our special
dispatch of yesterday morning informed
Ne, had bsen placed under martial law, &
nan named Matthews, at the head Of 3
band O~tnegFoes Is marau5iGg ana laying
waste The Country Srcund Lswisburg,
and hss committed several most inhl-
man and unprovoked murders. On sat
urday, two weeks ago, to-day, be and MS
band murdered in cod blood, on the high
rasd near lsHlsEuIg, TWO men Dsmtd
Robert Perry and Thos. H0oDeT-the lat
1Er seventy years Old. The ciTcurl
stances, SIS we learn by 4 gentle
man direct from Lswis5u-g, were. neary
As follows: Perry, ia company with Az
ether maD named jackson, Wss driving
z wagon loaded with cotton into Lewis.
blTE, and when near the town they were
0Yertsksn by MettbeEs and bis gang
and tSken from their teams. 4 squad Of
negroes was ordered by Matthews to
lake Perry 70 one side Of the read AID
another squad 10 take jackson ia an
other diTectior, and II they you'd not
tell what they knew shout tSe hu-kiIiX
10 xiii them. By some means JsCksUn
made bis escape, and gave the siarm to
the citizsnsO Of lie Eisburg, 53msof whoa,
sitter several hours, rescued the spot, to
find Perry lying ia 3 thicket BY the
roadside, wounded terribly about t1e
head. apparently BY blows from tae
6 gun shot wound. Hs was st.ii siive,
and survived lorg enough TO give toe
names Of The negroes who had shot and
best him,
Matthews, il appears, a= s0ca ~ Ills
men could z the hcTses !ocsa from tue
wagon, and piuodes the body o. Perry,
went with his whole Gang 70 tia tOrse
0f az SgeG anu ilErG man named IhGS.
Hooper, S86 t00E him prisoner. They
.PiGadered the house end then left, csr-
ryi1g Keeper OF with them mounted
bareback on = mule, with his feet lashed
under the mules belly. The next mOIn-
ing his dead body YVES found 10 the rosu
between Springfield and Portland. 4
gun had apparently been placed ct the
back Of his neck and dlsohsrgsd the
lOsd tearing lis head almost completely
Oft his shoulders.
Meanwhile the citizens, under the
gu!dsncs Of the Sheriff, who is e Rail
cal, and who originally ssDs MetJae rs
Gus on Hl5 numbering expedition, t.re
organized for license and ~ last accounts
quiet had been restored.
In the Southwest, ipsSeFier county,
= " General" CltteTsoS, sikh q militia
.0Tc5 from the adjoining cJuuti5s ~ Pike,
Scott and Polk, has been rsiding 5e5weeu
BeilsvEie and P~arsciif2, nuvdeTieg
men, women Snd children, iudiscrim D
itely. About the nrst OF tais Ecnta ne
md hi7 men mCrdeTed eight Dsa q
Point, and robbed theif premises.
Since then he has Committed nnmb5Tiess
DULrages, but the region il e O remote that
We have not been able to obtain Euth 81
iC Information as TO how matters sts0d.
MeanEhils sill the United 5tstes
authorities stand idiE b. end allow 5hese
utamiss 10 c0ntiuus A? Shsil the country
,e converted into q h0Wllng wilderness, 1
Is pe3pie murdered or driven ewGy and
heir property taken from them, C1lv 10
the hates and satisfy tne desire
or pluodeT OF these W~Eetcne5 who eEil
themselves " the loyal men men EiUh |
ghom 10 be loyal " is bat 3 esyA0Dym
license 10 gFstify every vile passion |
bat jass the scum OF the esTtb, It0s
esp We shsiissc.