The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-10
AFTER THE BATTLE.

The Quiet After the storm-The Military
Resting Behind the Barricades, While
the Citizens diriHnIy Inspect the Battle
FieId-AT utterfngs, Like Distant Thunder,
Still Heard-The Dead and Wound ed-Tlle
Lost Records.
CINCINNATI, O., April l.
To night has been very quiet. When
the smallest nucleus of a crowd APP
peared anywhere within sight of the barri-
cades the soldiers ordered the people to
move on andin every instance the order was
promptly obeyed. Young Getz, who was
shot by accident in the afternoon, was
still alive but in a dying condition at
A. NJ. An order has been issued for the
attendance to-day at the funeral of Cap
tain Desmond. Each regiment is OF
dered to detail one company to report at
Z a. III. Colonel Hunt will command.
Generals Anderson and Ryan and Adju-
tant Gage are requested to attend to re-
present the staff. The city is patrOlled
by members of the Grand Army of the
Republic in addition to the police force.
There have been several arrests of drunken
men and the police closed saloons at mid
night. The smouIdering fire in the Re
cOTder's Office broke out tonight but was
soon extinguished.
DEAD AND DYING.
Since the last report four additional
deaths have occurred at the hospital,
Fred Beckenhors, Leroy SimOns, Chas.
Miller and Andrew Nichols. The exact
number of dead and wounded Will proba-
bly, never be ascertained, on account of
many of the wounded being carried away
by friends, but the number killed out
right or dying at the hospital up to mid
night last night is forty-one, as shown
by city undertakers and hospital records
and such information from those taken
home as could be had, and the number of
wounded compiled from the same source
is 12O. There are probably half as many
more wounded and not reported.
STILL INDIGNANT.
There are two factions producing the
disturbances. The first, and now much
the more prominent, is composed wholly
of the vicious class proper, who aim only
at ruin, destruction and pillage, who have
seized on the occasion for that purpose.
The other is now largely of the German
element, whose only object is to deal
summary Justice on the unhung muir
derers. They are still indignant at the
failure of Friday nights attempt, and
from them will come future trouble in
that line after the military departs, if it
comes at all. Even the women are vim
dictiye. Said one to-day: ''Wait till the
soldiers go away and yOu'n see. Right
is right, and we will hang those fellows
vet"
DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS.
The chief topic of conversation among
the lawyers who walked about the ruined
Courthouse was the effect upon all legal
business of this destruction of records.
AS to real estate titles not much more
than Inconvenience is expected, as many
deed records were saved; and besides an
abstract company has copy of abstracts
of all titles which, with deeds in posses
sion of individuals, keep the chain of
titles clear. The greatest inconvenience
| and loss will result from the loss of Origi-
nal vouchers in the cases of estates, as
sigumentS and trusts in the Probate
Court.
How to collect the June taxes is a
problem not yet solved. The commits
! sioners have asked to be present when
| the treasurer opens his safe. This is be-
| cause there is no means of determining
! how much money he has there belonging
to the county. The destruction of rec
! OrdS of civil suits, while causing incOn-
! venienCe, will clear up many tangled nd
! tedious cases, and probably not be an I'M
mitigated disaster.
WARLIKE.
During the day the scenes about the
| Jail and Courthouse were strikingly like
! those Witnessed in war times. BarriCades
! were constantly lined with guns, lying
ever ready at any instant for service
/ Within the lines on Sycamore street
| stood five pieces of artillery with artillery
men on guard. On the sidewalks were
! soldiers off duty, sitting down or
stretched on blankets asleep, with KNAPP
sacks for pillows. There was none of
| the rollcking hUmOr usually seen in
! militia corps, but the tone was that of
soldiers after a hard-fought battle. The
| general conversation was in low tones.
A considerable number of citizens
| mingled with the soldiers, talking quietly
or looking at the signs of mob violence at
the Jail or Courthouse, or on the De Bolt
| building, where so many bullet marks are
visible. The Jail Office is still in the con
fused condition in which the mob left it.
Great beams and timberS, used as props
to the broken doors, are still in place.
Sight-seerS occasionally wandered
| through the ruins of the Court house,
but the tOppliug inner walls, hanging
| iron iOists and stair ratings, as well
as uncertain floors, made that
too VenturesOme for most visitors. Pho
tographerS and artists were taking views
and sketches of the ruins. People out
| side uIU not gather IN CrOWuS near Jnt
barricadeS. Something in the suggest
i've readiness of those pTOtruding guns
and an uncomfortable uncertainty whcth
er they might not be fired upon an insult.
fiCient prOvocation, took away all interest
to mere sightseCrS. The people did not
like to see a squad collected anywhere il
sight of the soldiers and the police re
quest to 'mOve on was always prompt
ly Obeycd.
FEEDING SOLDIERS.
The subsistence of the troops at the jai
was comparatively easy, though the first
meal taken by the Fourteenth Regiment
was very unsatisfactory. 1t was served
Sunday morning by placing on the SIDE
walk barrel of bread, baskets of bOileC
beef and milk cans filled with coffee. The
only table was the sidewalk and the only
tableware was lineup for each man
Since then they have been fed ut Il res
taurant within the lines. 1t was observed
with unfavOrable comment that one o
the several saloons within the lines was
open and doing an excellent business.
Change of Climate Prescribed.
CINCINNATI, O., March 81.
Tom Campbell, the lawyer who SaveC
Bcrner's neck, has been very warmly in
vited to make himself scarce in Cincin
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