The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-09-25
Tho Riot In Georgia-AccoHnts from
rho Georgia Papers.
From the Macon journal.

enc =. no might oppose tneiH. LINUS Placeu
NON their guard, the citizens of the little
,5aCe made the necessary arrangements
FIR self.protection.
IN Saturday morning, Pierce, John Muir
INV ftbe recently-clected Radical sheriff of
nnnChcrtv county,, and man named Put
NV left Albany with motley force of
a-med negroes, and took the Camilla road.
They gathered recruits at every plantation,
until the entire force mustered about three
hundred.
when they reached point about three
miles from Camilla the sheriff and several
r;.;7ens met them. The sheriff of Mitchell
county read Governor Bullock's proclama-
ton forbidding such armed parades, and
made them speech, telling them not to
enter the town with their arms that they
ought to stack them, and then they could
90 on to the courthouse and have their
meeting in peace.
To this they replied they had come for
fight, and would not stack their guns. They
marched on. Another party of citizens
met them near the town, and gave them the
same advice, and with the same result.
Pierce and Murphy, who were IN buggy,
headed ne motley crowd as 1t entered the
town.
T.ney had wagon, in which was g band
Consisting Of drums, flies, and other instru-
ments. This band was playing when the
whole party marched up to the courthouse.
Ii was now ! o'clock ?. NJ.
At this iuncture of affairs a man by the
name of Johns went up to the band-wagon
and ordered it to stop playing. lie was
very much under the influence of liquor,
and was alone but man by the name of
Naples was standing .r him.
While Johns was there he accidentally
discharged his gun, but the contents did
not hit any one. In al instant volley
from the whole party of negroes was fired
at Johns and Naples. The former was rid
died. and thought to be mortally wounded,
and the latter shot all over with small shot.
Now a force of about twenty citizens
onened fire upon the crowd, which instant
IL broke and fled towards the woods, Pierce,
Murphy, and Putney in the lead. Pierce
and Murphy left their buggy. The whole
baggage train Of Pierce's army was captured
on the spot. Pierce received a shot through
the leg at the first fire, but was not wound
ed bad enough to prevent him from leading
Of! in the retreat.
Pursuit was then commenced, and con-
,inued for eight miles, until darkness put
an end to the bloody carnage. Eight miles
from Camilla John Murphy was captured
and knocked down with the butt of gun.
He would have been killed on the spot had
he not proved himself member of a noble
Order to which he is a disgrace. Upon this
his wounds were dressed and he was pro-
tectcd from further harm.
~, 1,N, DUN yyn
killed-nine in number. They were de-
Gently buried at Camilla on Sunday.
1t is impossible to tell the whole num-
Der of killed and wounded. One man in
the fight says he counted many dead bodies
in the woods. At least fifty were wounded.
Nearly all the negroes killed belonged in
Albany. Up to yesterday morning i've
wounded negroes had arrived in Albany,
and many others were missing. The last
heard from Pierce he was still missing.
The citizens of Camilla captured nearly
all the arms, and the entire baggage train,
the band, and other equipments belonging
10 the invading army.
The defeat was signal and complete. 1t
was a fight between twenty white men and
three hundred negroes marshalled by their
laYor!tc leaders.
Pierce, Murphy, and Putney are all scala
ways and carpet-baggers, who came into
tie country since the war.
From The Macon Telegraph.
The casualties, as far as known, are nine
negroes (who were in the band-wagon)
killed, and about thirty to forty negroes
wounded, all very slightly with buckshot.
There is o great deal Of excitement here
among the negroes, as great many Of them
had friends and relatives who went to Ca
milla and have not returned.
The atfray is most lamentable, and is due
solely to the villainous Vaccinations, arts,
and contrivances of the worthless white
scamps who stirred up and led those ne
groes to acts of lawlessness, menace, and in
sulting bravado, which could possibly have
ended in no other way. 1t is true the firing
seems to have been commenced by drunken
white man, who, in contempt, or for the pur-
pose Of intimidation, discharged his shot
gun into the ground. But it is impossible,
III the then temper of the negroes, who went
into town armed, in spite of all remon-
strances, to have fuss, that they should
have missed what they went to seek any
five minutes in the hour.
The white people of Camilla clearly cx-
-
fairly begged these lawless whites and ne
grocs not 10 persist in their evil purposes.
They most earnestly ard persistently urged
these men to respect the law and the Go
vcrnOr's proclamation and stack their arms
before they came into the village, assuring
them that if they would come unarmed
they should have full liberty to occupy the
courthouse and speak and hear as much
as they pleased. But TO come in that man
ncr was 10 invite disturbance. The an
swer Was, "lhat is what we come for"
and that they would enter town regardless Of
consequences. \ wild and furious yell Of
defiance was the response to all temperate
and well-meant circumstances from the
leading citizens Of Camilla who met these
armed and furious desperadoes mile from
that peaceful village.
The people of Camilla, in word, did all
they could to prevent an outbreak, and the
negroes went there TO have one. The event
which led 10 the collision Immediately upon
their entering town only forestalled for
minute or two some other tritie which would
inevitably have lighted the fire. A volley
Q! hundred muskets answered the dis
charge downwards Of the drunken mans
shotgun. Three citizens were severely
wounded, and several others more slightly.
IN second twenty bystanders poured into
'Ae crowd Of negroes yolley Of buckshot,
anu the wretChed affair was over.
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