The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-09-03
TRE NEGRO WAR,
4 nisfsry OF the Louisian ma TrouaIe.
How IL Originated, and who Car
ried il On.-A Regiment Of White
Militia Recruited.

ried il On.-A Regiment Of Whit.
Militia Recruited.
SHREVEPORT, La, Sept l.-Major A. F
Stepenson, of Dc Soto parish, who arrived
here today, furnished the following ac
count Of the Cousha.ta troubles, which is
| no 16uB; sabs santiallY correct i seems
| t-at IN Red River parish, where the negroes
are largely in excess of the whites, usaci
apprehension and alarm has been ielt by
The latter, on account of a threatened out
breai ofnegtocs, instigatsd, as was 5eliev-
] ed by iLdgarsen, Dewess, TwitcheA, howell,
Willis, Holland, and others. The lives Of
several respectable white citizens OF the
/ parish had been threatened by the negroes,
and few days ago Mr.. Williams, respecta-
/ ble citizen of the Third ward, of Red River
/ parish, was assaulted by two notorious
and desperate negroes, near Brownsville,
in the lower edge of the parish, he
having been fired at By them with doutle
barreled shot guns. On last Thursday night
small party of white men went TO the
! calins of these negroes, with view of ar
resting and .rdglng them in jail, when they
were fred upon from the cabin, and cne Cf
them Instantly killed. The negroes then
attempted to run to the woods, when they
we're 10th shot and Instantly killed by the
partJ a:tet1p ting the arrest. r v,
On the uext day, Friday, q large body
Of negroes, between three and four hunl-
red ia number, assembled near Brownsville,
swearing vengeance against the whole white
race, and declaring 5hey u J;ad not leave a
white man, wou.anr or child alive in the
parish. This created great apprehension
aud excitement at Couahatta, aud through
out he surrounding )uutry, aud on Friday
night the rJa Is leajin, into town were
pieke! d. Two young men, Mr.. Joe Dick
son add Mr.. Pickers, who were on one Of
the posts, halted a negro, who was coming
INTO town, with q sack of buckshst. He
paid no attention to the summons to halt,
and ran off into the darkness, being fired
at by Cne # the parties, without effec',
however. 'rhey Immediately went into
town to report what had occurred, aud We're
returning to their post, when they Uera ac
costcd in tue streets OF Coushatta by Homer
Twitchcll aud two notorious negro des-
peradoeS, Andrew Ba>ley and Bob Smith,
all of who's, wsle armed. They lad few
moments conversation wish thet, ~. of Il
vio.eut nature and had turned round to pro-.
ceel TO their post, when they were fired
rpon. TWICE hy t!iis armed party from the
rear, and without warnins.' dickson WE
dangerously if not mortally wounded, by
the fire lie now lies u very critical con
dition. Nj. Pickene escaped unhurt. The
firing party than ran off, Ba>lcy aud Smith
escaping altogether, and Twitch.li e. the
ti:-,- being. ~
That night and tue next morning, F. S.
EJgaltU Uom.r j. Twitchcll, r. \.
Dewes, W. F Howell, C. Holland aud NJ.
negroes, were arrested, and placed under
;.uarI. All of the pcrty who held Office
rten voluntarily teudrre1 and wrote oct
their re-ignations, and they, with the others,
voluntarily proposed, ifa guard was furnish.
ed them to Shreveport, they would leave
the State to return no more. This was at
otic" asseuteI to, and the prisoners reques
TED Mr.. John Carr u reliable nnI trust
&o-thy citizen present, to take charge Of
the guard, for their protection. On SunUay
aaoraing at clock, Mr.. Carr, with a Guard
Of about lG men, starscd wkh the above
named prisoners, except the negroes who
were released.
Not long afterward, party of be.Waen
40 and 80 men, supposed to be all Texans,
who had cv.,:e into Coushatta, started IN
pursuit wi,h'the avowed purposes of lynch
ing the prlschers. Later in the day Mr..
Carr was arTrised of this fact, and pu. h,s
horses, and tho Of the prisoners to ,lfe
top of their speed, to avoid being cvertaken
While nearing the IIu tcLinson plantation,
on Fed river some 80 miles below Streve-
port, with a view of crossing there and
destroying the fat boat to prevent furthe.
pursuit, he was overtaken by the pursuing
party, his guards overpowered, and the
prisoners taken away from him, and three
Of them, EJsarton, Twitchel and Dewes,
sh5t on the spot. The other three, lowell,
Holland, .2G Willis, We're carried back a
short distance to near Wards store, and
there shot. The citizens in the neiyhbor-
hood assembled yesterday morning., and
buried the Parties ~ho had been Killed, the
first three iu the graveyard near Uutch:n-
sons pfahtati and the last three on the
s9at where they had been killed, neal
Wards store. %, <
NV ORLEANS, La, Septeme er 1.-The
govefhor has called out an extra regiment
of state mill to be composed of picked
white men. The orders were issued some
days, ago, in view Of arpreLended white
league slsturbances, and the entire absence
oI Unitsd States troops from the state
Recruiting has beeh quietly -eing on, and
1t is stated Il number of ex soldiers of both
Irmies have volunteered. This regiment
viii be added to the Longstreet brigade,
and oc used mainly to keep down disturb
ances in and around the city.
" New ORLEANS, La, Sept 1.-THE fol-
lowing is fromReputlican partieea sources;
Dispatches received in New Orleans by
State Senator VI. Ii. Twitchell, brother of
one of the TersoEs killed in the GoGshatta
troubles, state explicitly, that tie only
cause of the occurrence was a white league
movement, to run out of the State, or kill
all the Republican leaders IN tue parish of
Red River, which, by the returns Ct all the
returning boards, went largely Republican
at the last election, AMI also to prever:
organization Of the republican, voters Of thai
parish. .iorthe coming campaign. At tile