Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-01-03
The Newly Elected Sheriff Installed
The Recent Action Of the Legis-
lature Ignored.
A New Phase OF AGAiTs-The Old Office
ClOsed on the New SheriT-Cros-
bj's Death Grip.
Continuation or the Investigation by
the Congressional Committee
CrOsby's Bond.
The Investigating Committee AZ iOuraed
20 Seel In Jackson on Monday
More Complication.

NICkSBURG, January 2.-1 esteruaN
| the beard Of supervisors issued an ordel
/ to Sheriff Crosby to appear before then
! on MonGay and show cause why his bono
should not have been declared iDsuffi
cient.
Yesterday Supervisor Lehman accept
/ go FlannaRen's bond, and issued to him
/ his certificate of election as sheriff o.
| Warren county, elected at the election
/ held on last Thursday, though the leg
| islature at its late called session had re
/ pealed the act allowing special elections
! In such cases. Flanagan lsst night de
/ manded the keys of the Office, which
/ Crosby refused to deliver, and Flanna
1 gan took p Dssession Of q room in the
/ courthouse and opened the Cflice a
! sheriff.
The legislative investigating commit
| tee will adjourn from here this afternoon
! to Jackson, where the legislature reas
/ sembles on Monday. The action o
/ Flanagan in assuming the office o
/ sheriff will doubtless complicate the
| matter very much.
THE INVESTIGATION RESUMED.
/ Edward 5. Butts, cashier Of the Vicks
/ burg bank, vas the first witness bsfOr,
/ the congressional committee this morn
! ing, and testified that he returned from
/ New Orleans December 9Th; next morn
heard the alarm sounded; went tC
the bank, got gun, and hurried TO The
courthouse, where he found forty or ifty
men with arms and under orders; Colo
mel Baird took command, and marched
out the GrOve-stTeet road; saw some ne
grOes on the opposite hill skirmishiug
with a few mounted whites; the former
were soon dispersed, and he returned L
the courthouse with the command with
out firing q shot. His description of thu
fighting on the various roads did no
differ materially from those already re
ported; ne only knew of three negTOe:
being killed, and one white man.
To Mr.. Hurlbut-Did not see Hogan:
company during the fight; it was from
Snyder's Bluff, twelve miles out.
To Mr.. O'Brien-FiTst heard the III.
NOR of the intended attack from Gene
raj FurlOng; laughed at him about it
Furlong advised barricsding the road!
with cotton bales, as Crosby's card haC
produced great excitement among the
negroes; first saw CrosOy's card while OF
the train at Jackson; his friends there
told him Governor Ames could teach
you all a lesson; General Packer AND
Colonel Lee came on the train with him
he impression prevailed at Jackson thai
the militia would be called out and Cros,
by reinstated; no hostility on the par
OF the whites of Vicks0uTg toward the
negroes as a class; the whites had ST.
ways assisted him building churches, etc
when called on; all the trouble was
caused by the cOlOred officials overwing
fhnfr tho manila harn h od n
idea of depTiving the negroes of any
civil or political rights; there was much
excitement in the city, on the morning
Of the fight, among the women and
children; Democrats and Republicans
and a Il the people of the better class, in.
cluding ministers and aged men, were
in ranks, among them DIR. Harper, aged
seventy, nephew of General Winfield
Scott; previous to the fight, never saw
any riOtOus demonstrations on the part
of the whites; am a member of the
taxpayers league; at the August
election two colOred men we're elected
school visitors; there was no opposition
10 tiIeIr taxing Jne1I<seats; the tax-pay-
e's' league had at one time mum bert
six hundred; there was no politics in it;
colOred men could join it; five taX-pay-
ers had been appointed on committee
by the league to examine the books oi
Chsncery Clerk Davenport, about a year
since; when the committee entered
the Office and told Davenport what they
had come for, he said no tax-pay yers
league committee should examine his
books; we showed him the tax receipts
and asked 10 be allowed to compare
them with the books; he again refused
saying, 81 don't represent you or any o.
your crowd-l know who was elected
by, and they will sustain me;n Chancel'
| lOr Hill was presenss out did not inter.
pose, and we left; the whites pay nine
Iy-nine per cent. of the taxes; between
IOur and five hundred colCred children
attend the public schools; in the tax,
payers league the only questions in re.
gari TO holding office were: "Is he hon-
est?" lis he competent"
To Mr.. CongeT-Knew a colOred fam
lily named Montgomery; they were not
the second largest taxpayers; our eXpe-
Tience with Republican officials is that
they are neither ca; able nor fiji
to hold office don't know
what the color line is; have
several times vOt, d for negroes for high
offices with some capacity and honesty ;
would support one as well as a white.
To Mr.. Speer-Our bank makes no
discrimination Oh account of color;
since the freeGmen'6 bank bursted We
keep the accounts of a great many nc
groes. Davenport is now under several
indictments for malafeasance in office
all books showing taxes, warrants and
allowances are in his custody, some OF
which are reported missing
T. DtrHf arhfhfEz.4 ha 20 ro
ceipts of an estate for which the bank
was agent, the taxes on which, IN 1869,
We're twenty seven dollars aud forty
cents on a valuation OF ninety-three
hundred dollars, and tax receipt on
the same for 1873, in which The taxes
were one hundred and eighty-siX dol aTs
and eighty cents on a valuation Ofseven-
ty-four hundred dollars. 1t is thought
that the increase in taxes was caused 10y
the reckless extravaganza OF county off
cials, and the taxpayers league grew out
OF this state of affairs. During the time
mentioned the taxes have been mainly
levied by blacks and paid by whites.
To Mr.. Conger-A portion of the diff.
ference IN the tax receipts shown was
caused by taxes not being levied In
1863. He was then examined in
} NCAeNA~ ~ gu ~ NAAC ClBEtlllC lleAuE III
the tax receipts, and reiterated that
they were the result Of reckless extrava.
gsnce.
To Mr.. Speer-The League knew one
instance where Crosby, while treasurer
had funded one warrant twice, and
other similar charges were made, and
/ this was the reason the League objected
to his handling the taxes without 6
good bond; the poarhouse cost eight
/ thousand dollars and is probably worth
/ three thousand.
To Mr.. Woodruff is a pIo.
nSunced Republican, though not an act.
i've politician; Davenport, in speaking
Of the party he represented, meant tbs
Republican party; Davenport seemed tc
think the books of the office were his
own properly.
To Mr.. O'Brien-Thinks the inten.
ton Of the negroes on the day of the
fight was to reinstste Crosby and plum,
der at will.
To MI. Williams-H my family had
been in the country / would have left
them there and come in and Joined the
whites here as the best means Of defend