Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-22
RICHMOND
The Municipal Squabble-A Spunky
Letter from GOV. Walker to Gen.
CsnnbV.

SsAhOts
RICHMOND, March 2O.-AH quiet to-
night. Mayor Eilison's police are in pos
session of the city. Mayor Cahoons force
of forty men are still in their stationhouse,
around which a large crowd of blacks
were gathered all day. Gov. Walker has
sent a reply to Gen. Canby's letter, in
which the Governor quotes the acts of
Congress on the subject to show that
Candy had no shadow of authority for in
terfering in the municipal affairs unless
called on by the Legislature or State au-
thorities, nor has he any authority in the
orders issued by the President or Sec
rotary of War. He says it is
clear from letter written by Gen. Candy
TO Mayor Cahoon, on the 18th, that Candy
had determined to protect Cahoon in ex-
ercising the functions of the Office which,
under the laws of the State, be did not and
could not hold. The Governor says, as
the chief executive of the State, he will see
its laws faithfully performed, and when he
finds the power of the State inadequate, he
will call in the aid of the United States.
He contends that, in municipal difference
in New York, neither Gen. Candy nor any
other military officer would have interfered,
nor should it be done in Virginia, a State
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Union with any other.
An appended letter from Mayor Ellison
states that Gen. Candy, on the night of the
18th, said he would get Cahoon's friends to
| advise him to withdraw his men from the
stationhouse, and Ellison should discharge
his special police and take possession the
next day. Gen. Candy himself took pos
| session.
| gIfduiyI,f KRiOs.-Ona Man X ilIed.
RICHMOND, March 20 Midnight A
dense crowd of blacks have been standing
all day around Cahoon's headquarters. At
| the Third street Stationhouse they SO
blockaded up the streets thai tonight May
or Ellison determined to clear them away
at IL o'clock. He sent force of men there
! who proceeded to clear Jefferson street.
| They were fred on by negroes, and Richard
| Bush, member of the special force, in
stantly killed, and Capt. VIM. Knox
wounded. The Ellison police then fired on
the crowd, who, after resisting the attack,
we're driven off. The negroes carried their
| dead and wounded, if there were any, with
them. The police succeeded in clearing
the street, and at this time all is quiet.
Bush's body was taken to the City Hall.
Later Details.
| RICHMOND. March 2I.-The attack upon
Mayor Ellison's police last night proved to
be more formidable than was at first sup
posed. The negroes assaled them with
bricks, and at the same time they opened
fire and wounded several. Detective
Knox was struck with a brick after he was
wounded, and he supposed that he shot
and killed the negro who threw it.
From all sources of information it is post
lively ascertained that three negroes were
killed outright in the encounter and
several wounded
In the early portion of the night the ne
groes in the vicinity of Cahoon's Fort,
stoned Ellison's police when they COM
menced to light the gas lamps of the city,
and from that time they were riotous in
their demonstrations until the collision
took place. A visit to the scene of en-
counter at midnight found all still and
quiet, and not a living soul could be seen,
and the lights had generally been extin-
guished in the residences.
All Quiet OH the James.
RICHMOND, March q, p. M,-Afiairs
are quiet to-day In last nights skirmisf
only one colored man was injured, he wa'
| shot in the shoulder. Mr.. Ellison has en-
fire control of the city. Mr.. Cahoon hai
only half dozen men in the Third Station
house. and there appears no further danger
of a conflict. The mob around the Third
Stationhouse has dispensed.
Latcst-AnOIher Scrimmaac.
RICHMOND Midnight, March 21.-Thi
evening Ben. Scott one of Mayor Ca
hoon's colored special police force, wa
captured by EIison's police. 1t was II
front of his house that Bush, the specia
policeman, was killed last night, and al
} ex-policeman having Scott in charge, nea
the City Hall where Bushs body wa
hing, an excited crowd rushed on Scot
5 and commenced firing, shooting him IN tn
5 hand. The police, after a short fight, bea
the crowd off and succeeded in lodging
l Scott safely in the City Hall.
Canby's Reply TO walker.
In Gen. Canbys reply to Gov. Walker
letter, he says he concurs fully in the Gov
errors statement of constitutional an
: State laws in relation to the employment
of the military arm of the Government
against domestic violence, but says his II
structions from the President and Secretar
$ of War relate to especial cases. He pre-
= poses TO submit correspondence to- th