New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-10-31
THE NEW REBELLION
KENTUCKY.
RECORD or A MONTH.
lPROM OUR sPkCIAL CORRESPONDENT

(PROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
LOUISVILLE Oct a. 1872
In the Counties of Trigg, Ballard, Hickmon
Fulton McCracken. Graves Marshall and Calowa.
armed and masked bands of men, known "a Regul.,o
Lynchmen. and Ku-Klux, exercise unlimited swav !,
nearly every part Of the district and IN several place. %
tho Jackson Purchase the coored population has amo.
entirely disappeared many of them having settled on N.
northern bank Of the Ohio, because they have hoo.
threatened whipped, and shot by these bands IL
to conceive OF the misery thus inflicted these uoo
coored people, who without means have been cultIy,,
Ing farms shares and now lose either the fruits q,
their labor their lives White Union have sufereJ
also, IN the employ Of the Government in tha
Freedmen's Bureau and officers or the United States
Courts and Internal Revenue Department. have been
stoned shot at and have suffered every description q
insult, aud IN many instances while performing their
duty barely escaped with their lives. "''''
Daring tho month of September five Freedmen wer.
murdered In this State, should say that number al
murders came to my notice ana II i highly probable
that some occurred Of which AIN not advised On ~
night of Aug 20 two white men III Concord entered
house OF negro family and in cold blood. without provo
cation murdered fOir OF IT'S Inmates. These murderers
Sunday Aug 49, Carlisle, colOred boy II years CID
was deliberately she and killed by white man. IL tins
case the civil authorities discharged the murderer tie
plea OF accidental shooting In Frankfort on The Isl
day OF September young cO0red woman was matTcated
in the most outrageous manner by policeman her arm
being broken three places. No proyva'On was given
by the girl and the officer did not even claim that he
acting in the discharge Of hls duty AS policeman.
The Freedme's Church at Germantown, Mason County.
was burned on Sept g. by party OF white men. II Is
believed that this as done 20 prevent the cClorod peo
pie OF that from holding school there Ia IKE
County two discharged Union soldiers (whc) were 10
Gently taken from cir homes and badly whipped by an
armed party OF Rebels styling Themselves tx. h. X "
Many Union OF the County have been warned Z,
leave their homes, they would be killed. On sept. 5.
near Lebanon KY, rape committed upon colOrcf
women An employee Of the Bureau while IN Cadi1, N
sent o. Was assaulted by six eight mer. who beat b
with their fists, kicked nin &c. &c, ard he wac 0 sed
M leave the town In hours suffer tie Consequence
and not return on pain of being hanged TINS lna vas
There for the purpose OF organizing school Tor dmen
,I.o. tf,bf nF - {.
entered tie residence OF two cOOIeG m,n neat stanford
Nv and ordered them out threatening 10 bang 'aeA
one Of the colored men, sefcefCnfe, kled one 81 hs
gsne and wounded two more after which hc escaped
9reedmens school house n Rock Sppne KY ".s burned
h. abnut SO returned Rebel soldiers abOut Aux = ir
might euuncrate Outrages OF = inildcf ypt-elorsA
10 mn column but only speak OF some OF q. worst %
LOT tbe coDle living in where law alh oief lrs-
vaii know something or life in Kcntueh&-io t.t i..J
napers IN this state do not publish these na,tsgs