Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-24

An IlI.ssarred Raid Of the yelled
Horsemen and she Terrible
Results,
Two whites and Five Negroes Killed
-ThrfIlfng Particulars.

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The steamer Louisville, which arrived
yesterday afternoon, en- route from st.
Louis to New Orleans, brought the news
of bloody and most unfortunate affair
which occurred at Tiptonville, Obion
county, Tennessee, one hundred and
sixty miles above Memphis, last Saturday
night.
The principal actor in this sanguinary
drama was q Mr.. Jones-William Jones,
If we are not Mistaken citizen some
fifty years old, who is o merchant and
planter at Tiptonville, and who has al
ways stood fair and honerably before the
community. he is q Southern man, we
will premise, aud his sons we're all in
the Confederate army.
Mr.. Jones has had some negroes, the
most of them his former slaves, working
his place near Tiptonville. They are
represented as very quiet, we'll behaved
and industrious, but, like all the negroes
these times, they kept arms, though not
for the purpose of intimidating anybody
Last week some time, Mr.. Jones learned
that an attempt would probably be made
to dissrm the negroes, and as they had
been at all times orderly and peaceable,
be resolved TO put them on the defensive,
and notified them accordingly. Sunday
night he got word that an attack was i'm
minent, so he went down to the cabins,
aud had the negroes prepare themselves
for an emergency. 1t came about eight
o'clock.
The unwelcome visitors stood not upon
ceremony, but pushed open the door and
entered unexpectedly, and six of them,
rushing forward with faces masked and
pistols drawn, opened an indiscriminate
fire upon the inmates. The negroes
were well disciplined, and returned
solid volley. This sent the masquerading
party Keeling through the door. The fire
was kept up, and as they fell back CROSS
FIRE was opened on them by the negroes
in the other cabin. In few seconds the
place was cleared, and they left one OF
their number dead and two others NOR
tally wounded. The name of the young
man killed was Robert Dickinson. He
lived seven miles off across the Kentucky
line, and was most respectfully connected.
He was about twenty years old. One of
those MORALLY wounded was his cousin,
B spj amin Becham, from the same neigh
borhood and about the same sge.
The body of the man killed was not re-
moved, but was on the ground Monday,
awaiting an inquest Tne wounded were
we'll known to Mr.. Jones, and he was
greatly surprised to find on unmssking
them who they were.. One of them told
him with his dying breath that he was
msled into the scrape.
| A young man named Albert Nall, a
son of Hon. r. G. Nall, formerly mem
Der of the Legislature, was in the cabin
at the time. but he had gone there as
| peacemaker, and took no part in the
shooting.
The negroes had been subject to va
rious annoyance and prosecutions for
two years past, and Mr.. Jones felt it to be
his duty to place them on the defensive;
and we learn that he told the Sheriff, to
whom he surrendered the following day,
that the negroes would have submitted to
whipping, haugiDgup, or whatever indig-
mites might have been repeated, as usual,
had he not been present.
The excitement of the neighborhood
on Sunday was intense, and the whole
country focked to the place. Those
who participated in the affair, number
| ing altogether about forty-it was ascer.
tanned from the wounded-of course,
| were present, bpt nobody could tell who
| they were. Mr.. Jones remained at his
house until Sunday night, when he &C.
quesced in the advice of his friends and
left in company with Deputy Sheriff.
Monday morning they got on the Louis
vile, twenty miles below Tiptonvilie.
He is here, We understand, in custody of
| an officer, waiting for the excitement 10
subside. He will return at a proper time
and submit to fair trial.
LATER.
The officers who arrested the six ne
groes Sunday saw them OF to the woods
to escape the mob. Monday afternoon
thew started with their prisoners to Troy,
twenty-five miles distant, to put them in
Jail. They proceeded on the road twelve
miles, and stopped after dark at Rev. j.
Blackshears for rest and refresh
meut They had been at the house
but short time, when party OF men on
horseback overlook them, seiEed the Pc
groes, and LED them opt for execution.
The guard earnestly INTERCEPTED for one
of them. and that one only wss saved.
The five others were shot down without
ceremony or delay, and then the avengers
were satisfied, and returned. They wore
no disguise, aud are we'll known. The
officers than went on to Troy, arriving
about one clock at night, and put the
remaining prisoner in the county Jail.
One Of the wounded young men has
died, and Mr.. Beckhap will hardly live.