Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12

ed. ne aJtack was lnduS Ior TIE puT- |
pose of reinstating Crosby, The Sheriff
who was requested to resign because
he had not given any bond.
The negroes in the country are re-
ported burning dwellings and gin
houses.
NEGROES REFUSED AT ALL POINTS
VICKsBURG, Dec Engagements
took place this morning between the
whites and negroes on the various
routes leading into the city. The
negroes were repulsed and routed at
all po nts. with the loss OF eighteen or
twenty killed and the same number
wounded Thirty or forty prisoners
were captured and lodged in jail.
CASUALTIES OF THE WHITES.
One white, Oliver Brown. of Sny-
der's Bluffs, was killed. Policeman
Benton was wounded and George
Bachelor accidentally SHOT through
the foot.
STILL UNDER ARMS.
The citizens are still under arms,
and the roads pieketed. The excite
ment is subsiding.
vIcKsBURG NEGROES NOT ENGAGED.
The town negroes took no part in
the difficulty whatever.
ORIGIN OF THE TROUBLE.
VIcKsBURG. Miss, Dee. There
has been for some time trouble brew
ing between the Tax payers Associa-
ton and citizens and the county offie-
ials. The Sheriff was acting without
legal bond, and the board Of super
visors refused to order a new one,
though the time for paying taxes had
arr we'd.
Two or three other officials were
und 9r indictment for forgery and en-
bezzlement; and the citizens, despair
ing of any relief from partisan courts,
last Wednesday held meeting, aud
in body proceeded to the court- house
to demand the resignation of the
sh riff, chancery clerk. treasurer. and
coroner. All fed except Sheriff Crosby !
IN grO) and he signed his resignation
Saturday card appeared on the
streets signed Crosby" calling on all
he citizens of Warren county, Re-
publicans, white and black, to come to
his aid and support him in his position
Crosby, publicly and through the
papers, denied the authorship of the
card; yet this morning armed bodies
of negroes appeared, advancing on the
city from six different roads.
THE FIGHTING. |,
The alarm was sounded about o
O'Clock, and the citizens gathered
cn maSSe, armed Immediately, and ad
vanced TO meet the negroes.
o. the Baldwin's ferry road negroes
were met just outside the city, on
Grove street, about two hundred
strong. The commander of the citi-
zens warned the negroes to dispense,
but they refused, and immediately
firing commenced on both sides. The
negroes retreated about a mile, and
aga n made a stand in the old breast
works and a house, but were soon
routed. The loss in this engagement
Was one citizen, Oliver Brown. killed,
and about twelve or fifteen negroes
killed, several wounded, and about
tNCuty ptieOuCiS.
On Halls ferry road, about $50
negroes were found aud routed, after
a short engagement, with several kill |
cd and wounded.
STATEMENTS BY CAPTURED NEGROES.
Andrew Owens, the negro who COM
mauded the negroes on the Baldwin's
ferry road. was captured and commit
ted to jail. In an interview with a
Herald reporter, Owens said he was
ordered by Sheriff Crosby to come to
the city tod ~ with all the armed men
he could get together.
Alex. Stackh0u>e. from Newton,
one of the captured negroes, says the
order for all the negroes to come TO
Wick burg this morning was read in
church Sunday.
Crosby, who is under guard at the
court house, denies that he gave such
orders.
DEPREDATIONs REPORTED.
1t is reported this evening that
negroes are committing depredations
in the country.
ALL THE ROADS PIChETED.
The intense excitement that prevail
ed this morning has subsidized to a great
degree, yet m4ny citizens are under
arms, and all the roads picketed.
PUBLIC MEETING LAST NIGHT.
At public meeting this evening the
following was adopted:
Resolved. That. while we are fully
satisfied that Peter Crosby has caused
armed negroes to march on the city.
and should therefore be held mainly !
responsible for all the blood that has
been shed we recommend all good |
citizens to abstain from inflicting any
personal violence upon him, and that '
we use still further efforts to have him |
removed from Office in some legal !
manner.
ACTION OF GOVERNOR AMES.
The latest evidence, just received, ;
renders it alb olutely certain that Gov {
ernor Ames and his Attorney-G General, Z
George Z. Harr $. melted and advised J
the iuvas on of the city by the negroes
to-diy. THIS evidence has been land i
before the ablest lawyers of the city, a