New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-11
TIE MISSISSIPPI ELECTION.

QUOT AT ,fARIps-sFvErAI WHITE MEN KILLED BY
coInrrp MEy-PARuCUIAGs OF TIE AFFRAY.
NrRIDrAN. Miss. Nov. lO-The Marion troubles
have produced no new developments since Tuesday
night except the arrest Of ONE negro. After lapse
of two days and conversation with forty or fifty
different participants. recaptulation OF the whole
affair in brief. is as follows:
On Tuesday last while the State election was
going ON at Marion, this comfy, Joseph Barnett,
an aged white man, having just voted. was IN
suited by a negro at the polls. Burnett raised his
arm TO resent il with blow some say he drew
stick on the negro. but, before he could strike,
another negro, named Francis Johnson. shot
him with pistol in tho neck,
cutting the jugular win and killing
him almost instantly. George Johnson, tcolorcd),
formerly a slave Of Burnett. ran up TO defend his
old master and was shot by negro, from the ei-
fects OF which he died to-day. General shooting
among the negroes begun. The whites
were all unarmed. Jefferson Scgars (whte)
was killed by negro named SAINT
uel Gillespie Vincent Segars was wounded and
is expected TO die. The negroes rushed upon Alex
ander Harvey, the Democratic candidate for County
Assessor. who was standing fifty yards away
from the scene and he was killed bya shot through
the head Francis Johnson shot him in the face al
ter he was dead. James Hodges (whtcl was
wounded in the knee and Levy Moore (white) was
wounded in the hand. The negroes who did the
shooting were Gillespie, Francis Johnson, Allen and
Rurwell Brown and Martin Malone Marion was
not their voting-placs they were from another
precinct William Vance (whiteJ, Republican, rs
said 10 have given the negroes the word to begin
firing. AS soon as the news reached Meridian, six
miles distant Sheriff X. l.. Henderson, with posse
of seventy-Gve men, repaired to the scene. Inc
negroes had all departed. A party of twenty
men went tO the house of Edward Vance (Whltel
with warrants OF arrest, and demanded the sur
render OF its occupants. They were rcpIlou To DS
Vance insultngy. -.
being shot. BY o'clock in the afternoon reliol
came and the sheriff with his men surrounded the
house. The Sheriff called out to the inmates
to surrender. white flag was presented
at the front door and the Sheriff met
the bearer on halfway ground. On the promise
that the Sheriff would protect Vance and all III inc
house should they surrender, il was agreed on ne
Sheriff drove in his buggy up TO the gate to take
in the prisoner. William Vance aud his mon
gathered about the yard antlcipating no Dan, dan
ger. John Vance az that moment was seen
in STOPPING attitude behind the corner
of the stables near by, with gun leyellcd at inc
posse. bnt before he could fire he was shot
aud killed At the same instant, while A..
g. Warren, of the posse, was pledging
protection TO the females of Vance's family,
he was shot through the head by SomeaThS ahS
we're slightly wounded. Edward Vance escaped.
Several negroes were seen to fire on the posse from
the house and run of. No negroes were known 10
to be sSS Wounded. % William VII nj Vance Was was brOgshi
to Meridian si By the sheriff in the ,odgs5 Gns
IN Jail No harm was offered him. Young Edward
Vance. boy of seventeen, was captured, but was
allowed to remain at home without molestati%cn. %
Yesterday party of fifteen men went, under the
direction of the Sheriff, in search of Edward Vance
Continaed On Pinh PAGE.