The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-08-14
TROUBLE Ar AUSTIN, MISS
The City Surrounded by re.
&rOeS.
They are Charged Upon and
EkOuE0ll

They are Charged Upon and
Rented.
Memphis, August 1l.-Maio-
Chalmers, of fernando, has lust ar
rived here for the purpose of char
tering boat to take men to the as
sistance of the whites in Austin,
Mississippi. He saysa courier from
Maj. Woodson, of Austin, reached
fernando at daylight, stating that
the town was surrounded by about
1000 negroes, aud asking for help.
About two hundred men from Her.
nando and vicinity will be here at
O'Clock, and in company with vol
unteers from this city, will start at
o'clock for Austin. DIR. Smith.
who was the unfortunate cause of
the troubles there, reached here last
night. Some three weeks since he
was attacked in the streets of Aus
tin by negro and drawing q pistol
fired, but missed him and killed q
little negro girl standing by, which
eXasperated the negroes to such an
extent that they collected a mob and
took DIR. Smith to the woods to
hang him, which they would have
done but for the entreaties of May
or WoOdson and the doctors wife.
Since that time he has been O vol
untary inmate of the Jail, to pre-
vent being mobbed, until last Fri
day when some friends came and
took him to fernando, on learning
which the negroes collected in large
numbers and notified the mayor that
unless DIR. Smith was brought back
and put in Jail they would burn the
! town.
| THE WHITES AND BLACKS.
Helena, Ark, Aug. 11.-At II
O'Clock last night three ladies and
two gentlemen arrived here from
Austin, Miss, in skiff, and report
considerable fighting. Late yester-
day evening the commander of the
post dispatched a scout of % men
on the road to Caldwell station, on
the Mississippi & Tennessee rail
road and captured q picket of 20
! negroes who were stationed about
two miles from there and brought
| them as prisoners and disarmed
them. One of them, as they were
being put into the court house yard,
tried to make his escape, when he
was fired upon and killed, and in
the melee:which ensued another me-
gro was wounded, but not fatally.
Later in the evening a large body
of negroes advanced from the south
and attacked the town, driving in
the white skirnishers to the court
house, where the main body of the
whites were stationed. A charge
was made by the whites and the ne
groes repulsed with the loss of sew
eral killed and wounded. Fighting
was going on when the informants
| left, and they were fired upon as
they crossed over to Ship island.
AID FOB AUSTIN.
Memphis, Aug. 1I.-TeIegrsms
are being received from the vicinity
of Austin, asking for men, arms and
ammunition, stating that unless the
whites, who are surrounded in the
court house, are speedily relieved,
they will be forced to surrender or
be captured. The steamer A. J.
White has been chartered, to leave
at O'Clock, aud will carry q large
number of men well armed.
THE NEGROES CHARGED.
Another special to the Appeal
says the negroes surrounding Aus
tin were charged this morning by
q body of mounted whites, who
killed four or five and captured 20.
The blacks number about 700, the
whites have about 200.
The negro hands on the planta-
tons opposite on the Arkaneas side
are arming and marching ON Austin
in large numbers.