Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-10-09
Uulitiral.
A HORRIBLE RECORD.
sevmour,s Friends still Insultfng ana
Numbering Union Men.

GOVERNMENT OFFICERS BUsHwHACKED.
The Little Rock ARK. } Republican says
We have letter from well-known ana
reliable gentleman, from Craighead county,
who informs ms that on the Goth OF August,
Can't. Edwards. a Union soldier, from III
nois. who was organizing the militia In
Green county, while going from one mouse
to another, was ''bushwhacked, anu snot
through the arm and in the body near the
shoulder, supposed to be MORALLY wounded.
No physician would go to see MN, anu ne
was treated as an outlaw by the rebels of
that county.
The Fort Smith New Era says:
! A United States officer from the post near
this city, on his way North per stage, was
grossly insulted the other day, by violent
rebel, at the first mail station from TINS
place. and for no other reason than being
an officer wearing a uniform respected
throughout the civilized world, except by
set of scoundrels that ought to have been
hung long ago.
The Memphis Post of the 18th records
| the following:
SOLDIER MURDERED BY THE KU-KLUx.
A man named Finley, member OF the
| Third Colored Infantry, went over to Ma
rion, Ark, some time since to work. On
Sunday last three men led him into an al
tercation. and assaulted him because he
was a radical. On the following day he
received his pay-some seventy-tive dollars
for his work and started to return to
Memphis He was, however, watched and
pursued by eight Ku-Klux, IN their uni
forms and masks. When near the Mlssls-
sippi river the assasslns surrounded ana
shot him, but left him as he fell, PROSTATE
j in his blood. Parties have since found his
/ body on the bank of the river. They have
the money taken from his pockets, ana
send us word that his widow can have 1t
| by calling for it. So dies like dog
| Union soldier, at the hands of rebel assas-
sins, the supporters of Seymour and Blair.
! Such will be the fate of hundreds of Union
soldiers in the South if that ticket succeeds.
| The annexed we clip from the Louisville
| Democrat of yesterday:
CIVIL wAR-A PARTY OF REGULATORS AM
| BUsCADEp-oSE MAN KILLED AND THREE
/ WOUNDED.
| We regret exceedingly to hear of still
/ further disturbances i'll the interior OF the
/ State. These frequent violent and fatal
collisions are disgraceful to our people,
and calculated to bring upon us full share
of oprobrium.
! 1t appears that on Saturday night par
/ ty of regulators in Pulaski county started
| out upon the war path, with the ayowed
/ determination of executing summary ven
| geance upon white man and n negro. -
Their purpose coming to the knowledge OF
other parties, it was determined TO check
mate it. An opposition gang was accord
ingly organized, who placed themselves i'll
ambush on the roadside. When the reg
ulators approached, they fired into them,
killing che man and severely woundlng
three others.
The Washington Chronicle, of Monday,
brings us still another:
AN OUTAGE BY GEORGIA DEMOCRATS.
We are informed that, about ten days
ago, Joseph W. Cliff, NJ. c. from Southern
Georgia, while riding in the cars on the
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, with his broth
er, was treated III a manner which shows
conclusively thai free speech Is not tole-
rated in that section of the state.
Whsn the train stopped Mt Naldosta, a
town of one thousand inhabitants, distant
about one hundred and twenty miles from
Savannah, a large crowd surrounded the
cars, and some fifteen or twenty rufians,
armed with heavy sticks, entered the car
with the avowed purpose of taking the
brothers out and lynching them.
They were only prevented from doing
this by the urgent entreaties OF several
prominent men, one Of whom was an elect
or on the democratic ticket. The argu-
ment used by these gentlemen was. that
the boys mustn't do it because il would
injure the party and town y The crowd
outside, becoming weary of waiting for the
sport to commence, hooted and yelled,
Bring the id radical out !" and again
the roughs seemed determined to accom-
plish their purpose. but were again met by
the same objections on the part Of their
friends and after heaping all manner of
insults and vile abuse on the inoffensive
gentlemen who were quietly passing
through their town, reluctantly rellnqulsh-
ed their purpose and left the train.
This town of Valdosta enjoys an unenvi-
able notoriety as the scene offs Ku-Klux de-
monstration last April, when a band of
forty or fifty armed men first placed eigh-
teen pounds of powder under the Court
house where DIR. Cliff was about to address
a Republican meeting, and when, by acct
dent, the internal plot was discovered just
in season to prevent their drunken tool
from firing the train and hurting three hun
bred people into eternity, the meeting was
broken up by violence, and mob took and
held the town all night, threatening to as
sassinate prominent Republicans, and rem
dering it necessary to send for military aid
before the meeting could pr coed.
Several persons, prominent actors in the
April affair, and now under bonds for S10,-
900 each for their participation in the |
same, were leaders in the recent attack
The New YORK CITIZEN. of our
prominent weekly contemporaries has !
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