The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-03-10
Riot in Jacksonville, Fla.

ldSV, IudS u IlOO OCCuTTCu III ludV plaCc
on Monday night, the 22l inst, be-
tween the United States troops aud
the colored people of the place. The
Mercury and Woridinn relates the
occurrence thus:
We have heard many and various
statements in relation to said distur.
bance. Previous feelings existing
between the two parties was, as is
always the case, the cause Of the
ecu limitation in little Il ,ht." s'ln
this INSTANCES" aud the only one that
has here happened, FROM the evidence
wo have seen aud read, wc are com
PEELED to conclude that the colored
people, MT rs y IN .Ss, bnt few dis
! satisfied aud dis:Huctcd ones, eager
for and determined Oh rcvebgo for
| former Insults, were the arurcasors.
It is the Instinct Of the soldier, when
an ncmcd force approaches the camp
or bivun %, to know SHY it comaa, and
t. ferret the thing to it4 depths
promptly anh. With viqor. From tie
Evidence Of Corporal WilliAm Kien-
! EaIdt, this instinct WAS called into
Play on TIE above spoken of night.
H. stated before tho 1niiitary invest
CATION that he was ordered to proceed
! toward, or to tho city, and arrest all
enlisted mcu who were absent without
leave that when he arrived at tho
bridge hc saw a large body of lnen on
shc other side Of the creek, he halted
the guard, aud with ouc man proceed :
cd acroas the bridge. The armed
! force advanced; no orded them to
halt, when they fired upon him and
his companion, wounding the latter
mortally. Whether or not the ire was
returned is not stated. The corporal
and guard assisted the wounded man
to tho hospital, aud after which he
reported the circumstance to the
Adiutant. The troops were then
assembled, and marched to the scene
Of disturbance. Had the armed no.
grocs been found still at the bridge,
threatening, or undertaking to take
the lives of the soldiers indiScrimi-
nately, action, and serious action, up
on the part Of the troops would have
been ju.tiii ,blc. Bat it was ceriainly
not right, far from il, to proceed to
the city for the purpose of making a
general attack upon the race upon
innocent as well rs guilty, if guilty
there were at that time within its
limits.
The Qlartcrmastor Sergeant If the
troops stated before tho commission,
that, az he was ,iding to camp from
the city, where he had been on public
business, he heard two shots fired, ope
passing his head, but short di3tance !;
and that he saw number of negroes
crouched in the bushes on either side
of the road. When the soldiers found
that the enemy were not in the vicini
ty of the place where they were re-
ported to have been, it strikes us, as
an old soldier Of Confederate memory,
that they should either have remained
there ia force or posted pickcts and
returned to Damp, under orders, un-
less they had seen the retrcating foe,
then pursuit would have been the
first and proper impulse. When a
soldier, wc would have protected one
of our comrades from any and all
enccoachment, and been eager in
avcnging him on any who had caused
him Injury or loss Of life-but would
have done go in the proper way meet
ing the perpetrator in the right way,
at the right time, and in the right
place.
a friend has furnished US with the
annexed extract from Jacksonville,
Fla, dated February 9Th, which
gives another version to tho affair:
We hud a battle with fatal results
hsre on tho night Of the 22d, between
the United States troops and the nc
groes, in which there were about O.
hundred shots exchanged, and one
soldier and one negro killed, and
several negroes wounded. The white
citizens had nothiag whatever to do
with the affair. Ihore was one Van.
kec atranyor wounded by stray bull
let from the soldiers. The affair
grow out of suudry "bcatings" inAict-
ed upon the negroes by struggling
soldiers, which were not rodresasd by
the officers in command. Think that
the officers were to blame for not tax
lug measures to correct the evil in :
hioted upon the negroes, pursuing
them and firing upon them through
the streets Of the cisy, regardless Of
the consequences to tho unofending
oitizens. All seems quiet now, but
the affair is being investigated by the
civil fnnc:ionsries, and probably will
be BY the military.
How Man MADE Forty Tuou-
SAND DoLLARs.--A gentleman from
Hartford, Connecticut, who is report.
cd to be quite wealthy, but who gon-
orally gives no indication of that fact
in his dress, recently made $40 600
in New York City in the following
manner:
"Hc was attending the monthly a ,to-
tion sales Of coal in New York city.
and made the first offer. The coal
dealers and others present, thinking
from his appearance that he could rot
want over fifty tons, did not bid