Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-01-26
sIx White LadiesviOiateh ny the Negro Militia i'm Crittendeu County Last Week.

From the Memphis Avahhche is'h-i
 We recoil in very terror and sickness Of heart from what we have to write. Gladly would we believe that the sad, blood cnrdlng tale we're but the fancy of an aarmis'--the creation of u diseased imagination. But the truth, in justice to outraged virtue and for the information of a civilized world, mus, be told. We have read and written so many sickenng tales from Arkansas of late that the very name has become d synonym for an earthly hcii, anu we arc assured by truthful c,tlzens that the reports concerning outrases aDd oppression m Arkansas as published Tn lhls journal have not been exaggerated Tn the aggregate, but have fallen far sh' Tt oi the whole story Gladly would we hear that it was all mlstake that the people in our sister State were engaged in peace iul pursuits, protected. under the law., 'n lie and property anf secure from aw'ess ness. raplue and lust, but no such pleasing picture can be truthiully drawn.
 In lrittenden county, Arkansas, not many miles from Memphis, lives loyal man named Tate Galloway. He is loyal in a truly partisan sense, and at last cleo tio, voted the Radical ticket Last frl- day, the 10th instant. two negro milit,a men and fifteen year old negro boy went to the house ot this Galloway aud at once arrested him. After placing the boy over h.m us a guard, they seized his Vile aud her sister and violated ther persons Tn the l.f... I T hata xrnc in tho house at the time small boy named Jim McGehee, but he was intimdated info silence by the pistols and threats of the negroes. Having sat'a,ed their beast ly lusts, they stripped and diessecs them selves in Mir. Cal,oways clothes They then asked Mrs Galloway for hymn book. She told them that they codld take what they pleased, but she would give them nothing. They replied With brutal ieers and oaths that they intended to s.ng hymn over her dead body, and were about to perpetraie further violen' e when some white militia came along aud released Mir Galloway, at the same tune giving him gun and telling him to avense himself upon the destroyers of hls wIie's purity But to the disgrace of man kind. and Galloway in particular, he stood taipely by and made ID effort to slay the brutes, who grinned at him, wearing his own clothes.
 The white iu;lit;a then arrested the ne. ..1es ard tonk thcn of toward Marion 1 Galloway Is oUndcnued and acnolnocd by all h;s ncighbegs for uot set2lig tho wea pons of lle nesre boy guarding hlm in the first place. and preventing the awful crimes committed On his household lie is Radical oi the exticmest t. pc, 1t Is said but We cannot find iu that tact pal i nation for the deeds of the rar:shers. oi entertain any less sympathy and gr ei over their ru.ued peace and happiness.
 Four other rap,s have been committed upon white women near Marion within few days The full particulars have noi reached us, lut we have convincing as surances from persons who know, Ilia' these outra2es have been committed. and that the feudish perpetrators go at large unpuuished, and are stll depredaiing uii- restrained upon the terror stricken people One hundred and fifty of the cavalry un- der command of General Urham have gone to Mississippi county on apunderins expedition but the infantry highwaymen r, main to further harrass and distress tn, 1 people of Crittenden county.