Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-10-26

called out for a white to go with him to make
peace. | volunteered, and be said, stop tao
democrats firing." There was about corpo
rails guard of them ouly lett. | said:
Democrats, reserve your fire while l &c
with Mr.. Bowen" and they strictly obeyed
me. walked arm-in arm with Bowen into
the ranks of the negroes. [ here wish to rem
der fun Justice to Mr.. Bowo, and, therefore,
though | have no doubt of his original respon
sibillty (lhat is merely my opiDion), yet the fact
is he did eudeavor to stop the negroes renew
ing the attack. The effort was for some mlnu
ties crowned with complete success, but sud-
denly Cyrus Galliard, an inceDdIary negro,
pushiog Mr.. Bswen and myself aside, called
out to the negroes, Mister Bowens We can
listen to you COW Come 90, boys; we We got
'em, now let's kill the sons Of b. aud,
rushing past Us, he melted them to recon,
mence; aud [ solemDly swear that they hred
again % the whites without provocatlon, aud
without shot being first fired BY thcm.. ;,
Just then |, the messenger OF peace, invited
into their rauks by their leader, q. Z. Bowen.
heard ucgro say, "Shoot that son OF -.
| Jumped behind piue tree as heard bang,
bang, bang behind me. then behind swamp
cyprus, and then sprang from tree to tree tor
about 200 yards back to the Vestry, the negroes
all turulng their guns on me. On my arrival
| said to the whites. who, without returning
the fire, were 10 shelter behind the "vestry,
that 1t only remained Tor them to deteod them
selves. They tried to do 80 ior moment; but
the fain of shot was too hot to be met with
halt dozen pistols AZ Two hundred yards
range, and the few Of US who remained sullenly
retired to CaiDhoy. There The boys and uu-
armed men took the boat to town. About
T. -, tc 10
women and children, and We passed fearful
night When not on picket duty we were
nursing the wounded; the night was very cold
and the previous day being Warm We were all
without uvercoas, aud wheu morning and re
Inducements camc we thank,d cur God for pro-
tecting us from the 800 armed demons who we
momeDtariIy expected to attack u; but they
gluttcd themselves with bloody feast of cruelty
on the poor wounded and children who fell into
their hands. The following are few OF the
victims: Oid Mr.. Simons, decreplt man of
seventy, took refuge iDside the vestry, but the
devils must have dragged him out, chopped
him with au axe, broke, by beating, almost all
his bones and then shot him, while lying on
the ground, with musket Tor we found below
him on the sill to the vestry door aud 10 the
ground the holes made by the buckshot. As
We picked him up the broken bones grated to-
gethcr, though he was at the time twelve hours
dead
Mr. Whitaker met with worse fate, for he
was brought 10 alive, suffering teariuly FROM
buckshot through his stomach, aud huge hacks
OF flesh taken out of him by an axe or Ratchet.
&. G.. Bowen telrgraphed that a negro namcd
Lachicottc was the first mao killed. He may
have been, but he first shot poor Whitaker Ia
Northern mau am told.) This got from the
nan who killed him and from all who saw it.
AS Lachcotte shot Whitaker this mau shot
him through the breast. Lachicotte was the
only negro killed that | can hear of.
DAILY vas also left on the ground wounded
His head was hacked 10 five places when found
Poor Walter Gradick, a mere boy, had his
eye gouged out and was cruelty beaten and
wounded.
The papers have doubtless given you full ac
counts of the other casualties, aud 1t Is sutfl-
cient for me to say that not single wounded
prisoner left 90 the gruuod can survive the
brutaties shown him after falling into the
hands OF the negroes. They stole coats, boots
and hats from both dead and dying i
1t may now be asked why do not | take legal
ueasulcs against Cyrus Galllard to bring him
10 account. | shall do SO; but with no other
effect, know than 10 turn negro hate on my
self, tor, hrst, the republican trlal JuSt'ces VIII
throw all obstacles in my Way; when l say re-
publican mean by it always Carolina repuoll-
can, for you know my Northern education pre-
vepts my holding any rrejudic against bona
tide republican of the North-thun Bowen has
complete control of the SESSIONS, and the
officer BuIz is too well known for
you to doubt the iutity OF my effort.
And now that these demons are rendering 1t
unsafe for a man to 60 armed even through the
country Chamberlain orders the whites to dis
arm, aud calls tor the United States troops to
enforce his order and at the same time arms
he negro militia to murder US. My wife and
all the ladies are in the greatest excitement
The neerocs 10 our parish are most threaten
Ing, and while they out number us twenty TO
one We are ordered to dlsband our organizations
for deeuce and to disarm. Yours truly,
G.. R. w.
RECEPTION AT THE WHITE HoUsE.-The re-
cepton last evening was OF the most informal
Of bo 1utlias uho attended,