Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-08-25
KENTUCKY.
The Color Line on the Dark and Bloody
GrOund-The Negroes and Whites
at War Ia Lancaster.
Particulars Of the Bloody Business of
Saturday United States Troops
Called into Service.
Personal Affair at MOnterey-BOth Par
ties Resist the UfIicers-A Red
Hot Time Of Il.

LOUISVILLE, August 23.-The C0ltr-
ieT-Joug7ldi has the following special
kilograms:
STANFORD, KY, August 81 am
Just in from Lancaster. Two hundred
militia arrived here at half-past five
this morning, and camped in the public
square. The negroes all scattered last
night, and the whites disbanded. All is
quiet. A white man named Ward,
who was in the house of Sellers with
the negroes, was shot. Only one negro
was killed. There were eighteen Of
them in the house that was burned, and
all would have been killed, except that
the United States troops protected them,
and they escaped under cover of the
Federal guns. A white man named
Foley, of Crab Orchard, belonging to
the Kennedy party, was killed yester-
day. Only one house was burned.
Sellers's house would not have been
burned if the negroes had not fortified
themselves therein. Sellers himself
was not in his house, but was
said to be in the camp OF the United
States soldiers, but there is no immedi-
ate danger Of further trouble. The
blacks are greatly demoralized. The
wounded are doing well, and DR.. Bur-
dett is doing well also, with Mr.. Yeaks
and the child, all of whom were wound
ed, as before stated. Nearly all the cit
izens have left town for the country, but
many will return home to-day and to-
morrow. The intervention of the FEEDER
al troops was brought about by Hon. r.
NJ. Bradley, circuit Judge pro tenn, who
got the sheriff to take forty United
States soldiers and protect the people.
This was on Tuesday last. The soldiers
got to the courthouse just as the blacks
were marching toward it, and the blacks
then retreated. But for this timely Or
der much more blood would have been
shed before this. Had the soldiers been
permitted to act as cOnservators Of the
peace under the sheriff but little damage
would have been done. Why they were
Withdrawn is not known, but it is said
that the commanding officer at Louis
vile ordered it. The foregoing may be
relied upon, and it contains all news up
to eleven o'clock tonight Of any inn
portance.
SECOND DISPATCH.
DANvILLE, KY, August 23.-From a
gentleman who went to LaLcaste yes
terday and returned to-day get the fol-
lowing account of last nights proceed
ings: At about seven O'Clock party of
Wnlt6 Dltu ndu lut uSEIOc5
in SelleTs's house, with the intention Of
capturing or killing them. The United
States soldiers who have been stationed
at Lancaster then came up town, at the
request of ToWn-Marshal Miller, and the
commander had conference with the
leader Of the whites and also with Mil
Ter, on the conclusion of which it was
agreed that if the negroes would come
out and surrender no violence would be
done to them, and they would be pro-
tected by the troops. The captain of the
troops then marched his men in front OF
Sellers's premises and waved his white
handkerchief as q flag of truce. The
negroes, may be not understanding this
demonstration, fired on the soldiers,
Notwithstanding the flag of truce,
when the soldiers broke and ran
to the public square and there
fired a volley, which seemed directed
rather toward body of white men than
toward the negroes, who had fired on
them. AT this time, Foley, William
Kennedy's barkeeper, was killed. 1t is
not charged that the soldiers killed
Foley, but it is known that at this time
he received his death wound. In few
minutes Sellers's house was set on fire by
means OF fire-balls. Nothing is known of
SelleTs's whereabouts or his participation
in these proceedings. Neither was E.
B. Kennedy known to have taken any
active part. -Four negroes were killed
altogether. Two of them were turned
in Sellers's house. Tom Shanks, OF the
party opposed to Sellers, was pulled out of
Sellers's house by one Ware, white man,
He also saved SelleTs's parlor furniture.
One negro was killed in Hon. Geo. w.
Dunlap's garden, which is not far from
Sellers's residence When found this
morning, his face had been nearly eaten
off by rats. A good many persons, not
residents of Garrard county, are known
and reported to have been engaged in
these disorderly proceedings.
THIRD DISPATCH.