The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-09-03

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FIRING WAS COMMENCED
by the blacks. In the darkness no harm was done
The old muskets shot too high. The whites re-
turned the salute with shotguns and three negroes
fell dead. The blacks retreated unanimously The
bodies oil the blacks were founu at daylight and
buried. No whites were injured.
TWO CHURCHES WERE BURNED
during the melee. 1t is not known by which party
this was DONE but citizens say that the building
! OF the whites was fired by the negroes as they
were 1rea upon ana Just before Inc running ana
prevent the negroes from returning there, aud to
force out such as might be lurking in the house
and cause the death OF the party they mad attacked
Though the attacking negroes ned when fired on
like a frightened mob the report is they threaten
another attack, and say they intend this time Kill
ing women and children. Assaults were expected
last night, both at Wacoochee and Salem Near the
latter place. the coiored people held large meet
ing on Thursday afternoon. Those in salem. how
ever, manifested great CONSERVATION when the
news OF the WacOochee fight was received there.
THE WHITES AIMING.
Several orders lor shotguns for Salcmites were
filed In this city Yesterday.
Salem last night and goodly number at Dover.
The people in Lee generally are alive to the situa
ton.
The best people Of the South are becoming more
convinced every day OF the necessity OF making
men VINO delude the poor ignorant blacks and in
cite them to insurrection and bloodshed. The
safety Of their wives and children, they think, de-
mands It, The leaders alone are to blame. The
negroes would be quiet and law-abding were it
not Tor these designing, black hearted creatures
who desire TO force a war or races in order tnat
United states troops may be brought to Alabama
and they hope by their aid TO ride to power. The
Caucasian race has, In all history, compelled
all who opposed them to yield, and 1t grows
stronger physically ana mentally with the CEN
turiss. Indignation Is not so great against the
who arouse all the brutal passions OF an ignorant
race. Some OF these leaders who counsel arson
and murder Will, doubtless, Oe found swinging to
q tree some fine morning Human endurance can
not suffer the lives OF mothers, wives, sisters,
relatives and children to be imperiled by scOun-
drels that they may retain authority and money.
WARNING.
HurtviIle Russell county Ala, threatened to sack
that village ana Kill the whites and were firing
pistols notorious white radical, named Bill Tur.
ner who is trying to get into office by negro votes
came out with his gun and took sides with the
whites, saying, Damn the office; Pm going with
my color when there's fight"
We do not voucn Tor the truth OF the above; but
hope for the sake OF the white blood in his VEINS
Coored people had better take warning now
for they will find to their sorrow that II they array
themselves as race against the white people OF
their white-skinned allies Will desert them and
Join their own color, or they Will leave them to do
their own fighting.
Blacks and Whites Participate in the
Execution OF Three Negroes in Missis-
sippi.
On the 10th ult., at BrockbOven Miss, the resi-
dcnce Of Mrs. Nj. L. Burnley widow, living alone
with four daughters, was entered by three negroes
and fearful outrage perpetrated, which is thus
described by a republican paper. the Br0ckhoven
C1tizen:-
Mrs. Burnley and her eldest daughter, most
modest refined and very intellectual young lady,
who graduated with the highest hon0rs OF her
class year ago, were sleeping together, when
her mothers neck, frantic with lear, and
cried ont that person was ase in the
at first Impulse Pulse thought h her W daughter sr
only frightened in her dreams, and put
her hand OUT to quiet her; In l, moment tSs Two
OF the two ladies', and at the same time the dread
lul voice OF Anthony Grant, well known desperate
burglar, who sometimes turks in this community,
ana who formerly lived here, but Tor long time
evading the officers Tor former crimes. spoke forth
patting the cheek and neck OF Mrs. Burnley with
the cold, heavy barrel OF a pistol and proceeded,
he'll where have sent thousands OF Others"
AT first Mrs. Burnley hoped that the rascals
might be satisfied with theft and robbery, and
when they asked where her money was she at
told them where what she had in the house
could be found, which was secured by the third
negro, whose entire part OF the plot seemed to be
TO do the rooblng, and who then called her
liar and demanded TO know where the
remainder OF ner money was. Mrs. Burn
ley piteously implored them that she and
her innocent family had never done them any
harm, and that they were welcome to everything
they wanted in the house, and also to the two
horses she had at the stable but to please let her
aone Rnt The hard hearted wretcnes we're nn
moved from their helIish purpose. And then
ensued painful struggle OF rapacious lust and
horror and innocence too horrible to relate.
The mother with seifsacritclng devotion, which
mothers alone can exhibit in the grandest sublim-
ty under such perils nothing daunted at the pistol
at her temples IN the hands OF villain, threw her.
sell by desperate struggle as protection across
the form OF her daughter. Vexed at the effective
opposition made by such heroic EFFORTS OF Mrs. Burn
ley to save her child, the 1endS with a sudden
WITH treat Violence from the s bed TO- the moor and
choked her nearly senseless, and then committed
that most dreadful and heinOus crime which
shocks the heart OF a civilized community worse
than murder. Mrs. Burnley. finding herself free
for a moment and her daughter still in the violent
clutches OF Anthony Grant, escaped through
the window and raised an alarm which caused all
three OF the negroes to disappear In sudden haste.
While Anthony Grant and Slas Johnson were en-
gagged in the attack OH ladies, Dick Cooper. the
third negro, was entirely engaged in search OF
money and vauables from the ground floor TO the
garnet. They TOOK of the small amount oil money
about the house and a trunk of vauables, the
trunk being found rihed the next morning about
hall a mile from the house.
Mrs. Burnley's residence was on the edge OF
the town. on the Meadville road, where the local
male person being three hundred yards distant,
and 1t was fifteen or twenty minutes alter the ne.
groes had fed before any OF the nephbors reached
the scene OF action and near daylight before July
organized force went IN pursuit.
Early sunday morning the most intense excite.
ment ever known in the history of Brookhaven
prevailed among the citizens. Horror, lndigna-
ton and revenge filed the bosoms OF the most dis
passionate natures Nearly every citizen In the
place colored ana white, capable or carrying
arms, secured the country for miles around but
without deriving any Information or the wary
wretches. Toward Johnson was arrested under
strong suspicious circumstances, his voice AMI
outlines OF person very much resembling one of
the party that so cruelty treated Mrs. Burnley
But as 1t was known that Sas Johnson regu.
larry belongs to the trio OF bandits headed by An.
thOny Grant, Howard johnson was lodged In Jail
to await some further developments.
How terribly this outrage was avenged by the
MIssissippians Will be seen from the following
which we find in the Brandon Republican of the
9th ult.
The news OF the terrible outrage committed by
three dirty, greasy l0athsome and desperate ne
groea, at BroOkhaven, on the morning OF the 10th
Inst upon the person OF Mrs. Burnley and her
lovely daughter, new ike lightning flash to the
whole surrounding country, caused the blood to
boil In every manly heart and every true man to