Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-10
A CURIoUs CLUE.
The Ku-KIux on a New Trail.

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A CURIOUS CLUB. 8E
The Ku-KluX on q New Trail.
The following amusing account is.
copied from late number of the Cincin-
natl Gazette; w
Net long since an organization was
started near Crab Orchard, Ky, for the
suppression of laZiGess and drunkenness.
| The Khan" as it was called, was said
! to be made up Of both Union men snd
! rebels, the Union men pFepondsTsting,
and their object was to regulate the labor
and manners of their county. II q fell
| low was found lOafing st a crossroads
grocery too much, he was notified to
stop it, or ne would be flogged within an
| inch OF his life; if fellow was drinking
| too much, ne received notice to clew up,
I or take threshing; if a man neglected
his family, or run after other women, 3
| threat of rope or 8 rawhide generally
] brought him to s realizing sense of his
DUTY. These men, in the administration
of their Justice, were perfectly impartial,
/ thresbing rebels and Union men alike,
and falling utterly to discriminate on &C
count of color. When the doings Of the
band were reported to the military au-
! thorities at Lexington, they refused to
! interfere with them, and an officer eX-
pressed himself so highly pleased with
! the operations of the gang that he de-
| clared, if be knew the chief, he would
invite him to Lexington.
This Z" KHAN, y however, hsve either
enlarged their sphere of action, or be
come incorporated into the famous Ku-
Klux, if the following stories are to be
relied on:
A gentleman who lives near Camp
| Dick Robinson, being informed that q
! party of armed horsemen were sppTOaoh-
| ing his house, took his gun and went up
| the road, where he got into a wagon-bed
| sitting by the roadside, when what was
! bis horror to see six big fellows with shot
guns pull up within ten feet of him, and
| begin discussing the best plan Of taking
! him out OF his house and hanging him.
| Ii was finally resolved that he had too
| many dogs, negroes and guns to be at
tackled, and so they went Off to fad
more defsnceless victim-nUcb, how
ever, to the relief of the man in the
wagOn-bed
A party of men is reported to hsve
entered NichOiasyille and took out OF
| negro's house a woman whom they sup
posed to be a white woman living with
| negroes; hut upon investigation the WO-
| man was found TO be only faded Ken
Iuckisn, her mother being mulattO, bat
she being nearly as white as any one.
| This Khan whipped two negroes the same
night for some offence or other with
which they were eharged.
The other night party o! ten men,
armed with shotguns, entered Niger
| town, on the subui bs OF Lexington, but
did no further harm than going through
the town and terribly frightening the
negroes. When the matter was reported
on Saturday, the Bureau made light OF
it, telling the negroes that they were un-
necessarily alarmsd, and that he did not
believe there was g Bu-Klu within fifty
miles of Lexington. On last night, hOg-
ever, affairs assumed g more threatening
aspect, and the upper part of the town
was in an uprosr sll night long. As Mr..
- was returning from neighbor's, 2
short distance from town, to his home in
the city, he was stopped about IL O'Clock
near the trestie work of the COViugtOG
Railroad by two armed men, who ssked
him where he was going, and on telling
them, they inquired if he knew where
the Bureau was, and on receiving q reply
in the negative, they inquired If he knew
where Gen. Bri.bin and Col. Johnston
lived? He said he did not, when une Of
them told him he would have to go with
them.
While he wes talking with these men,
| q large body OF mounted men, armed
/ with guns and pistols, came down of
/ the road aud gathered in the rsvine. Ii
was proposed by one that they should SO
over the gUlch, where some negroes
were singing and praying in church,
and breSk up the meeting. Mr.. -,
seeing no one was noticing him, slipped
away, and running down the road, told
a black man to run to the church and
notify the negroes OF their danger. Tie
man did so, the lights were put out, and
| the negroes fled terror. strieken to their
homes.
Mr.. ran on into town, and not
knowing where any of the officers lived,
gave the alarm at the barracks OF Com
pauy D, 81 u. S. Infantry, and the Ser
geant, putting the men under arms, sent
for the officers. Capt. Butler formed his
company in the barracks, and several
citizens and the officers went out to re-
cOnnoiter. A body of negroes who had
hastily armed themselves, marched out
to the gulch where the regulators were
reported to be, but found no one. An
old negro who saw the party, says that
when the negro church broke up so pre-
cipitately, they mounted their horses and
rode up the bill into the Versailles pike,
going in the direction of Versailles snd
Midway. Mr.. - and several other
persons who saw the band, say il mum
bered not less than fifty men, and was
well mounted aud armed.
The men were not masked, but none OF
them were recognized, all seeming to be
strangers in these parts. Mr., --- was
soldier in the Union army, and served
ia Capt. MilwaTd's company. He seems
to be reliable msD, and Is said to have
been good soldier. While talking with
the regulators, they asked him if he had
been in the army, and he told them he
had served in John MOrgan's command,
fearing they would hang him IL be said
he had been Union soldier. The mill
tary authorities are setively tracing the
matter up, and the regulators will have
to be not only sharp but lucky il they do
not get caught and severely punished.
Large Haul Of CounterfeIters.
The Cleveland (OhiO) EUeniHg Nel0s Of
Thursday, says: .-........
For some time past the county Of Ash
tabuls has been infested with y gang OF
eouuteTfeiters, who have been carrying
on operations upon an extensive scale
| The matter was taken hold of in earnest
| by the officers OF the Government in this
city, and the case has been carefully
worked up, resulting ia the arrest on
| Tuesday and Wednesday of six persons.
! Their Dames are Mason Baker, VIM. g.
! Sharp, Milo Thornton, George A. Lock
| wood, Dwight Faulkner and Mrs. Wood
worth. The three first named were
brought to this city yesterday evening,
and the other three today.
! Pending their examinations, which
will take place soon, they were disposed
of IS follows Lockwood and Faulkner
we're released upon their own recogniz-
auce iupthe sum Of $1,000 each, and Mrs.
odworth $500. Thornton, Baker and
Sharp were committed to jail in default
of bail, which was fixed At SO 900 in the
case Of Thornton, and $500 each for Be-
ker and Sharp.
The worthless money has been pro-
cured from the Eastern msnufactur-
ers," and these parties are charged with
q showing it. Thornton, whose bail is
the highest, is the alleged principal in