The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-12-12
Fighting Going on Between the
Whites and Blacks.
The Mob In Possession or the
Sheriff7s Person and the
Court House.
Four Negroes Killed and q Large
Number Wounded.
The Negroes Reported to be
Burning Dwellings and Gin
Houses in the Country.

NEW ORLEANS, December 7.-The
following telegram was received at
General Emory's headquarters to-day !:
JACKSON, Miss, Dec. 7, 1874.
To Major L. P. Platt, Adjutant General De-
partment of the Gulf, New Orleans:
Adjutant General Packer reports to
Governor Ames from Vicksburg by
telegraph, that riot and fighting be-
gan at O'Clock this morning; that
the militia are powerless to maintain
order; that the mob has possession of
the sheriff's person, and holds the
court house with an armed force. The
extent of the fighting is not yet
known. ARTHUR ALLYN,
Captain 9Th Infantry.
The following is special to the
Bulletin:
VICKsBURG, MISSISSIPPI, |
November Z, 1874, l2l5 p. M. !
Our citizens were called under arms
at three o'clock this morning. The
negroes advanced on the city in three
anu tIIS ttttaSh
on the Cherry street outskirts.
They were driven back with Il loss of
four killed and quite number
wounded. One citizen was slightly
wounded. The negroes are now adj
vancilg ON the Warrentun road, and
another conflict is momentarily ex-
pect,d.
A 1prcal from Vicksburg says seven
hundred negroes attacked the city this
morning on three roads. They were
driven hack by the citizens with II loss
of twenty-five killed and wounded.
The attack was made for the purpose
of reinstating Crosby, sheriff, who was
requested to resign because he had not
given any bond. The negroes in the
country are reported to be burning
dwellings and gin houses.
Engagements took place this morn
ing between the whites and negroes
Oh the various roads leading to the city.
The negroes were repulsed at all points
with the loss of eighteen or twenty
killed, the same numbe wounded, and
thirty or forty captured and lodged in
Jail. One man named Brown, of Snod-
grass Bluff, was killed, policeman Bur-
ton wounded, and George Batchellor
accidentally shot through the foot.
The excitement is subsiding. The town
negroes took no part in the difficulty
whatever.
There has been for some time trOu-
BILE brewing between the taxpayers as
sociation of citizens and the county
officials. Thesheriff was acting without
a legal bond, and the board of super
visOrs refused to order new one,
though the time for paying the attach.
ment taxes had arrived. Two or three
other officials were under indictments
for forgery and embezzlenent, and the
citizens, despairing of any relief from
partisan courts, last Wednesday held
meeting, and in body proceeded to
the court house to demand the resigna-
ton of the sheriff. The chancery clerk,
treasurer and coroner all fled, except
Sheriff Crosby, negro, who sighed his
resignation.
On Saturday card appeared on the
streets signed by Crosby, calling on all
the citizens of Warren county, repub-
licans, black and white, to come to
his aid aud support him in his posi-
ton. Crosby publicly and through
the papers denied authorship of the
card, yet this morning armed bodies Of
negroes appeared, advancing on the
city from six different roads.
The alarm was sounded about nine
o'clock, and the citizens gathered Ell
masse, armed, and Immediately ad-
vanced to meet the negroes at the ferry
road. The negroes were met just out
side of the city, on Grove street, about
two hundred strong. The commander
of the citizens warned the negroes to
disperse, but they refused, and imme-
diately firing commenced on both sides.
The negroes retreated about mile and
again made a stand in the old breast
works and q house, but were soon
routed. The loss In this fight was one
citizen, Oliver Brown, killed, and
about twelve or fifteen negroes killed,
several wounded, and about twenty
prisoners.
On the Hall ferry road, about $50
negroes were found and routed after a
short engagement, with several killed
and wounded. Andrew Owens, a ne
gro, who commanded the negroes on
the Baldwin's ferry road, was cap
tured and committed to Jail. In an
interview with a Herald reporter,
Owens said he was ordered by Sheriff