The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-01-06
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DOMESTIC NEWS.
mississippi luvestiSatiOn.

V1cxsRURG, Januarp 5.-The commit
tee met at $3.50. Henry Mossey was the
first witness examined. He detailed the
meeting between DR.. Hunt, Col. Miller
and Owens men, which did not differ
materially from the evidence Of those
gentlemen. He did not see any colored
men fire; saw three dead negroes after
the fight; just before the August election
had been stopped on Washington street
bv ffty or sixty citizens and asked who
he WAS going to vote for; told them tins
was free country and would vote rs he
pleased; Marshal Butcher came out
and released me. lie also testified he had
been afraid to come in to vote, and a.
ways carried arms was then armed with
loaded pistol.
Mr.. Speer-Did you bring it to shoot
the Committee, if asked improper que>-
tions?
WilHsms-If so, its time to fire. He
then stated that had ne voted the Demo
cratic ticket, he would have been charged
with voting the Republican ticket.
Dennis Bailey, colorcd, tes-
titled that he lived six miles
out on the Jackson road; had joined
! Owens party about seven o'clock on the
morning ofthe fight, and described meet
ina, the whites substantially the same aS
Owens, and that he fled through the cane
and briars to his home after the hrlnS
began: knew of three of their men beng
killed. He also testified that Crosby
order to come in was read ut Mt. Albion
church the day before BY Preacher Mel
son Mills, whose order was for all TO
come, and il was their duty I"
come: he was armed with a revolver:
had heard there was trouble between
whites and blacks, and thought 1t was
the duty Of the blacks to stand together;
always voted the Republican ticket be
cause all the Others voted it, and it was
according to the instructions of the lead
ing men; some of the colOrcd men votod
the Democratic ticket; there was only
one white man who voted the Republi-
can ticket he denied also, that the blacks
had any idea of causing any violence IN
Nicksburg.
Emily Boyd, colored, swore she lived
eight miles out on the jackson road; she
was at Church the day before with her
! husband; heard Il card read in Church
. the dav before the fight, for all coiorcd
men to come in to Salicate Crosby; the
colored men got together the next morn
ing. her husband among them; her huS-
band was killed on Thursday, she went
and got his body and took it home, and
saw three other dead bodies.
To Mr.. Speer-Sampson Fawrin read
the notice at the Church; Governor
Ames and Crosby's names were signed to
it; he said he would ring the Church
bell at daylight for all to meet.
Lomia Bangs, colored, testified that be-
tween the hours Of ten and eleven, on
the day of the fight, five white men
came 10 her house, three and halt
miles out on Jackson road, after firing
had ceased and called my husband out;
told him to hold the horses; two of them
dIsmounted and asked my son, aged
eighteen, if there were any arms he told
them that there was Il pistol IN the loft;
one of them got it down and the other
/ stru, k at my son with gun; Lamcr ran
out of the house and they after him; he
fired two shots; those men soon came
back and told my husband
to slip out and then one of them shot
him through the neck, killing him in
stantlv; my son and husband were named
Robert; have six more children, the
Youngest six months old; after shooting
INV husband the men left; ! went to look
for NV son and found him fifty yards
down the hill, living dead by the side of
log; he had been shot in the back and
breast; don't know who these men were;
NV husband and son had been at home
Mi day; they said that if they stayed ut
home nobody would trouble them.
To Mr.. Speer-Iic heard the cofored
men read Crosby's card the day before
on the road; it said for ali to come in;
think Governor AmeS name was to 1t.
William Woods, colored, was the next
witness, but he informed the committee
IN advance that he would not swear to
tell all he knew, as he did not feel safe in
doing So.
The only point of interest in his tcsti-
mony was that his house had been
searched three times for needle gun, and
AS u matter of prudence had afterwards
| given it up; that he had heard threats
against him, but none had ever attempt
ed to hurt him.
He having declined TO answer qucs-
tion as to threats, the room was closed
and he was'examined privately for few
moments. when the doors were opened.
Mr.. Conger said the Committee had no
/ titled Woods that his testimony. even in
secret, would be published at Washing
ton and sent all over the country, and
that " Gods lad again declined to testify.
Charles Smith, colored, WAS then
examined. The principal point
in his evidence was that halt
keg of powder had been
taken from his house by DR.. Price and
Others; the history of this keg consumed
the remainder OF the session, the witness
declining to give its history, and limiting
at danger 10 himself if he told who
bought it and sent il to his house. His
evidence was very contradictory.
At half past five the committee ad-
journed.
Indignation ut Springfield. Illinois.