The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-12-10
They are Net by the Tax Payers and
Driven Back with Terrible
Slaughter.
A Lesson 40 PImnderIng officials,
Their Enstiga10rs and
hackers


the negroes TO rendezvous at certain point
for the purpose of marching on the city
and reinstating Peter Crosby in the Sher
if 8 office, and that the negroes wer,
gathering that afternoon at Hickory
Tree, Bovina and other points. Their,
have been so many rumors, however, tina
very few placed any credenee in this We
the citizens put men on the watch to give
warning of the first appearance of the
enemy.
About three o'clock yesterday morning
an alarm was sounded from the cour
house, and many citizens fastened to tha
point, but as there was no immediate dan
ger, retired to their homes. About five
o'clock the alarm was again sounded, anC
the citizen soldiery again gathered in small
numbers. About nine o'clock, however,
the courthouse and fire bells rang out g
general alarm, and from mouth to mouth
from one to another-all over the city,
went the intelligence that the negroes in
armed bodies were advancing on the city
in several directions. In every street.
from almost every house, armed men
hurried to the court house, and in half
an hour a company Of about one hundred
men, under command of Col. Horace
Miller, marched out Grove street, and
met the negroes inside the city, alta bridge
near Point Lookout, under command of
Andrew Owens. Col. Miller ordered a
halt, and himself rode forward and adj
vised the negroes to disperse. He warned
them that they were violating the law,
and unless they dispersed to their homes
the consequences might be severe. Owens
replied that he Was there, with his follow
ers, in response to orders from Crosby,
and would only dispense at Crosby's or
| ders. Owens was then permitted to visit
| Crosby, who was under guard at the
court house, and returned to his men with
orders from Crosby to retire to their
homes. This they apparently consented
to do, but as the whites were retiring to
their command, the negroes defiantlv an
nounced that they had come there for
fight, and they intended to have it. Fir
ing then commenced on both sides, the
negroes fleeing after the first few rounds,
followed up by the citizens with a desul-
tory fire. Six on seven negroes were
killed in this skirmisll. about as many
wounded, and fifteen or twenty taken
prisoners. This body of 'sinvnders" hav-
ing been dispersed, Col. Miller's COM
mand returned TO the court house.
A little past ten o'clock a heavy body
of armed negroes was reported on the
Jackson road, near the Pemberton mon
ument, and detachment of the citizen
soldiery was dispatched thither, and there
the most sanguinary engagement of the
day occurred. The negroes were encoun-
tered, strongly entrenched in the old fed
eral breastworks, Just under the brow of
the hill Immediately this side Of the Penn
berton monument. The citizens opened
skirmish fire upon them, which was kept
up for more than half an hour, without
any effect on either side. While this
skirmishing was going on. G. plain John
Hogan, with several white men from the
the neighborhood of Snyder's Bluff, en-
route for the city. came up on the oppo-
site side of the hill, and were fred upon
from an ambush Mr. Oliver Brown. a
son-in-law of Mr.. SNYDER, was shot
through the head, and almost instantly
killed. Captain Hogan's company and
The citizens then made a terrific charge
upon the negroes, who took refuge in a
canebreak, after a short and bloody fight.
About twenty-five of the poor dupes and
wretches were killed and wounded here.
After their first volley upon Capt. Ho-
gan's company they fired wildly, and
though their loss was heavy, no other
casualty was reported on the side Of the
whites
About the same time that the troops
were sent out the jackson road, another
detachment Of two companies was sent
out Cherry street to meet body Of ne
groes approaching from that direction.
m Io1n j. In
force just south of the city. and while
one company advanced in front, the 9th
er made a detour to the right, and a
third company (which had gone out the
Yazoo Valley road and made the half
circuit around the city, came up on the
left flank, and with yell the three COM
panies charged the negroes, after few
shots scampering as fast as their legs
could carry them. They were followed
by the cavalry for some distance, and ut |
terly routed.
Numerous different bodies of negroes /
were dispersed to other roads by the cav
alry. and by half past eleven o'clock |
scouts reporteA the negroes routed from
all their positions. A piece of artillery /
was out, but its big mouthed talk was
not required to convince the negroes that
it was bad day to capture the city.
There were reports in the afternoon /
that the negroes in retiring to the country |
were depredating and burning houses, I
but nothing authentic could be heard.
Intense excitement prevailed ia the |
city during the morning, and business OF
every kind was entirely suspend d. The
gun and ammunition stores We're besleged /
for arms, and were about the only houses +
open. At dark the citizens had retired .
to their homes, only a sufficient Eumber 1
being still under arms T. guard the +
city.
After leaving the Jail, the Herald rep /
went to the court house 10 /
question Crosby.
Reporter-s'Crosby Anderson Overs
has lust informed me that you ordered
him to come to the city to-day with all
the armed men he could get.
Crosby-''I did nothing of the kind.
have ordered no one to come TO the city,
armed or unarmed. This n1ornlng1 told
him 10 take his men home, anddast night
I went out to Ben Aliens, and told him
to stop any negroes coming to the city to-
iay. heard yesterday that the negroes
we're coming to-day, and | tried to pre-
ventit."
Crosby then said that he supposed that
the gathering grew out of the card purpor-
ling to come from him. and circulated on
Reporter-.'I see you deny the card,
and that its authorship is charged to Car
LOGO.
Crosby-"Yes, but Cardozo did not
write it. / think it was written by a col
,,od r,,nr, II, the. r.f4ica Of the Secretary of