The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-21

The Memphis Avalanche OF Tuesday says:
We recoil in very terror and sickness of heart
from what we have TO write. Gladly would we
believe that the sad, hood-curdling tale were but
the fancy of an alarmlst-the creation of a dis
eased imagination. But the truth, ia Justice to
outraged virtue and for the information of a civil
lied world, must be told. We have read and
written so many sickeniDg tales from Arkansas of
late that The very name has become q synonym
for an earthly hell, and we are assured by trathful
citizens that the reports concerning outrages and
oppression In Arkansas, as Published in this Jour-
nal, have not been exaggerated 10 the aggregate,
but have fallen far short of the whole story.
Gladly would we hear that it was all a mistake
and that the people in our sister State were en-.
gaged IN peaceful pursuits, protected under the
laws in life and property and secure from awless-
ness, rapine and lust, but no such pleasing pic-
ture can be truthfuly drawn.
In Crittenden county. Arkansas, not many miles
from Memphis, lives loyal man named Tate Cal
iowsy. He ia loyal in q truly partisan sense, and
at the last election voted the Radical ticket. Last
Friday. the 10Th inst, two negro mIlitismen aud
fifteeD-year.old negro boy went to the house of
this Galloway and at once arrested him. After
placing the boy over him as a guard. they seized
his wife and her sister and violated their persons
in the house before his eyes. There was in the
house at the time q small boy named Jim Niece
bee, but he ives intimidated into silence by the
pistols and threats of the negroes. Having
satiated their besstly lusts, they stripped and
dressed themselves in Mr.. Cslloway's clothes.
They then asked Mrs. Galloway for hymn book
She told them that they could take what they
pleased, but she would give them nothing.
They replied with brutal jeers and oaths that
they intended TO sing hymn over her dead body,
and were about TO perpetrate further violence
when some white militia came along and released
Mr.. Galloway, at the same time giving him gun
and telling MIN 70 avenge himself upon the de-
sIroyeTs OF bis wife's purity. But to the disgrace
of msnkird and Galloway in particular, he stood
tsmely by and made no effort to Stay the brutea
who erinned at him, wearing his own clothes.
The white militia then arrested the negroes and
took them of toward Marion. Galloway Is con-
demned and denounced by all bis Deghoors for
not Selling the weapons of the negro BOY guard
ing him IN the first place, aud preventing the awful
crimes committed on his household. He is a
Radical of the EXTREMIST type, it is said, but we
cannot find In that fact palston for the deeds of
the ravishers, or entertain any less sympathy and
grief over their ruined peace and happiness.
-Four other rapes have been committed upon
white women near Marion within few days. The
full particulars have not reached US, but we have
convincing assurances from persons who know,
that these outrages have been committed. and that
the fendisb perpetrators go at large unpublished,
and are still depredating unrestrained upon the
terror stricken people. One hundred and fifty of
the cavalry under command of General Upham
have gone 10 Mississippi county on plundering
expedition, but the infantry bighwaymen remain
10 further harass and distress the people of Crit
tenden county.
report comes across the river that the three
citizens mentioned in our last issue as having been
spirited away. we're designed for execution, and
that two Of them were put TO death at or near
place called French Bayou. The names Of the
victimes were Harvey, nephew of Gen. Harvey,
and Mr.. ekipp. They were hung up several
times to ext0rt confessions from them, but nothing
was ELECTED, and finally they were made way with
IN a summary manner. The third man was after
ward seen at Oceola, and it was supposed that ne
had escaped. the general correctness of this
port is not doubted, although we are not able to
give full particulars.