The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-08-15
KENTUCKY.
Terrible Fight at Frankfort and
Lexington.
The Blacks Attack the Whites
! TWO White Men Killed and Others
Wounded.

Especial Dispatch to the Enquirer.
FRANKFoRT, KY, August AFTER
the polls were closed here this evening,
the negroes, who had been very insult
ing and threatening during the day,
made an attack upon the whites with
pistols and bricks. from which q gener
al fight began. Two white men were
killed instantly, and a number wounded !;
the exact number has not been ascertain
ed. Some four or five negroes were
wounded, but none seriously. The
blacks far outnumbered the whites, hav-
ing assembled at the polls with view
to creating disturbance. The white
men were exceedingly quiet, and fore,
bore TO encourage any trouble. MIR.
w. D. Gilmore, late a citizen Of LeXing-
ton, and clerk in the Auditors office,
was shot through the breast and instant
ly killed. He was using every endeavor
to quiet the negroes and keep down a
disturbance when the fatal shot reached
him. Mr.. Silas Bishop, a poor man
and quiet citizen, was also shot through
the breast, and died at once
The conduct of the negroes, under
bad advice from white leaders, has been
low, defiant and outrageous beyond ex-
preston. The community is much in
censed. Several negroes have been ar.
rested, and are now in Jail, but it is be-
leved that several of the ring leaders
have escaped. The State troops have
been ordered out, and the city is now
comparatively quiet After the riot
about seventy-fiye negroes marched in
a body down Market street yelling and
defying the whites, but at this time there
is not a negro to be seen, and no further
fighting is expected. The vote has not
been announced, owing to the great eX-
element occasoned by the riot, but it is
understood that the Radicals have car
ried the town by about so majority
They anticipated about 500.
LEXINGTON, Ky, August 7.--TLe elec'
ton to day has been hotly contested
The Radicals carry the city by 655 ma
ljority. This is the majority of Good
loe, Radical candidate for the Legisla
ture, over Price, Democratic The to
tai vote of the county has not yet beer
ascertained, but enough is known tc
give Goodloe Rad. at least 200 major
ity, and there has been large falling
off of the Democratic vote of the coun-
ty and the city has been largely coloni
zed by negroes from other counties
The election passed off quietly until tht
closing of the polls at o'clock p. NJ.
when negro in a crowd Of at least l.,
500 in the Court house Square discharg
ed pistol, when general panic ensued
and the crowd, consisting almost alto
gether of negroes, broke in all direc
tions, and that part of the crowd whicl
rushed into an upper street drew thei
pistols and commenced firing upon al
white persons. A general firing ensued
in which about one hundred shots wer
fired indiscriminately. Two negroe
were mortally wounded at distanc
from the place where the shooting oc
Cured, and several persons were woun
ded. The exact extent Of the casual
ties cannot now be learned. The Cour
House bell was rung, as the signal 70
= the State Guard to assemble, which the
, did in five minutes, forming in Cheap
side in a few moments The Unite
States troops stationed here also march
. !. ed into Cheapside, and the officer CON
' manding was asked by Captain Her
bricks of the State Guard his purpose
He replied that it was to disperse th
crowd, and was informed that the Stat
Guard was assembled under orders an
: were not to be DISPERSED Both force
!, then proceeded to load and stood col
:, fronting each other and a collision {
,, State and Federal troops seemed imm
= nent, when the United States troop
: countermarched and retired.