Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-19
WASHINGTON.
"OficiaI" Accounts from Louisiana.
The Intervention of Federal Troops
Ordered.
A Radical Special.


NEW YORK, April 18-A Times special
from New Orleans about the hostilities in
Grant parish says not single colorad man
was killed until all had surrendered to the
whites who were fighting them, when over
one hundred were shot down. 1t is under
stood another lot was burned to death in
the courthouse. After the butchery, the
whites scattered in every direction, few Of
them going to their homes. Many left for
the Texas border in hopes of escaping the
consequences of their crime. The State
troops on arriving at the scene of hOstilties
buried over sixty bodies of colOred men.
The Federal troops cannot proceed for
want of transportation.
p, Report of Marshal Packard.
WASHINGTON, April 1S-Attorney Gen
eral Williams has received a dispatch from
United States Marshal Packard, dated New
Orle ans, 18th inst, IN which he soys that
Deputy Marshal De Klyne has returned
from Colfax where he arrived on the Tues
day following the collision of Sunday last,
and found the place almost deserted except
by women. He buried the remains of sixty
colored men found on the field. The dis
patch continues!
1t is reported that subsequent to the
burning of the courthouse thirty-four
colored mens previously made prisoners,
were taken to the river bank by couples
and there shot and thrown overheard. 1t
is also reported that colored men were shoe
in the adjacent woods where their bodies
are still lying. He found also twelve
wounded, some certainly MORALLY. The
colored men present composed posse,
which under the direction of Sheriff Shaw,
(white) appointed by Gov. Kellogg, had
taken possession of the courthouse and
were still holding it. Nash, formerly
Sheriff by the appointment of Warmoth,
e and superseded by Shaw, led the whites.
From credilabe information there ap
peared to have been no loss on the part Of
the colored men until after their surrender,
when they were butchered without mercy,
after the massacre in the courthouse, from
which they were elected by setting fire to
the building. Sheriff Shaw is missing and
he is supposed to have been killed. My
Deputy found it impossible TO make an
arrest without the presence Of United
States troops. Armed bodies of whites are
sill securing the country. The assalants
had in their possession a six pound cannon
taken, or as some alleged, loaned from the
Red river steamer, John r. Moore.
Marshal Packard closes his dispatch BY
saying: When the circumstances of this
massacre are fully knownit will be found
TO be only equalled by that of Fort Pillow.
Report of District Attorney.
"a Attorney General Williams to-day re-
ceiped the following:
Netu Orleans, April 17.-Deputy Mar
shat Dekyne has returned from ,Colfax.
He arrived there the day after the maSsa-
ere. The details are horrible. The Dem
ocrats (whites) Of Grant parish attempted
to Dust the incumbent parish officers by
force and failed, the sheriff protecting the
officers with colored posse. Several days
afterwards recruits from other parishes, to
the number of 800, came to the assistance
of the assailants, when they demanded the
Surrender of the colored people. This was
rsfGsei. An attack was made and the ne
groes were driveninto the Courthouse. The
Courthouse was fred and the negroes
Slang tered as they left the burning build
ing after resistance ceased. Sixty-tive ne
gtOes, terribly mutilated, were found dead
near the ruins of tie Courthouse Thirty
are known TO have been taken prisoners
and said to have been shot after tie sunen-
der ana thrown into the river. Two of the
assAilants were wounded. The slaughter is