Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-08-10

Taken From HIS Hotel and whipped

raIken From HIS Hotel and whipped.
For a month or more past, CORES
pondent named J. L. Barbour, hailing |
from Hartford, Conr., has been travelling |
through this part of the country, snd wri.
ting to papers throughout the North. Dur.
ing the late campaign he was the com
panion of Gen. Stokes, the late and de.
feated candidate for Governar, and cor
responded With the State Journal under
the nom de plume of "Charter Oak" His
letters as a general thing were very OBJ
jectionable, and Gov. Senter, on one Occa'
sion, took the gentleman TO task for what
he had written, and stated in one Of his
speeches that if he did not quit SANDER
ing him he would have him whipped.
The Governor here dismissed him, and
probably never thought OF him
since. About half.pAst ten o'clock
on Sunday night last, while this corre-
spondent was in his room at the City.
Hotel, some one stepped up to the bar and
asked If Barbour was in, saying that Mr..
Stone desired to zee him. A waiter was
sent up, and Barbour made his appearance
in the countingroom, when he was app
preached by several boys, and asked to
to take q walk. He looked upon this
proposition apparently with some degree
of suspicion, and refused TO accept the
offer. Several of the lads, of whom there
we're some ten or fifteen present, grabbed
him, and forced him to the door, and
were proceeding up the Square in the
direction of the suspension bridge, when
Barbour took hold of a lamp post and held
firmly thereto, determined TO make stand
at all hazards. Some of his followers, who
we're armed with small walking canes, ther
made an onslaught upon the person Of ths
correspondent and laid it on thick. Wha
were the intentions Of the lads when they
first started with their victim, or wha
caused them to assault him, we do no
know, and the whole affair in this respec
is mystery. When they were engaged in
applying the rattan freely, several by.
ISLANDERS pleaded for the man, thus causing
the youngsters to desist, and Barbour brok'
loose and ran to the hotel and retired K
his room.
The affair altogether was so quietly dom
as not even to attract the attention OF tn
clerk at the hotel, who was the only at
tachee of the house up at the time. ID
noticed a number of boys in the room
some of whom helped themselves to water
but he thought they were just returning
from church, and paid no attention to thei
movements.
Mr.. Barbour stated to his friends duripI
the day that he was badly injured ant
bruised, and that one of the gang attempt
ed to cut him with knife, and showed
hole in his coat where an incision ha'
been made with the knife, and also that thu
instruments used must have been some
thing like loaded whips, but an eye witnes
who was seated at his door, nearly oppo
site where the affair occurred, tells us tina
nothing but small canes were useC
Mr.. Barbour received some money from
one of his friends, and left the city las
evening on the Louisville train, and o
course will have something hard 10 Fay
about Nashville and her people.
We can form no idea of the cause of thi
chastisement, and therefore not being ap
prised of any good reason for the assault
we are constrained to condemn such con.
duct on general principles. If the CORE
! spondent had written anything rejecting
upon the character Of the young gentlemen
who made the assault, they could have
adopted another mode to have Satisfied
their wounded honors, and saved the city
form the bad name which he will be sure
10 give it.
This view of the case is written on the
supposilion that the assault was made by
enemies, but inasmuch as no one seems Il
know who composed the party who called
FOR him, it might be probable that th'
whole thing was concocted by himself to
make a raise in order to get out of town
If this be the true version of the affair, ht
has succeeded admirably.