Year: 1863

COLUMBUS, KY, March 10, 1858.


Before this reaches you I suppose you
will have had different accounts Of the
tragedy here, but as was an eyewitness
10 the greater portion of it, send you q
version Of my own experience and what I
saw Of it. At the Columbus House yester-
day morning between four and five clock,
I was awakened from ny sleep BY the door
opening from one Of the rooms into the
hall where wss obliged to sleep, as the
rooms had been all taken previous to my
arrival at the house. A man advanced to
my bedside and placed his hand upon me,
but expecting mischief 1 was prepared for
| him. and presented a revolver to his face,
and told him in a significant way that if
he moved l would blow his brains out"
He straightened himself back, and drew
myself back toward the head Of the bed
ane got up, still keeping nay revolver upon
him. I stepped back a few steps and
knocked at the landlords door, and called
TO him, supposing up to that time that he
was drunk and intended to rob me- The
landlord soon made his appearance, and
stepped a-ittle 20 the front of me at my
left. The man, who during all this time
/ stood apparently with clenched fists and
| QEdWu up 70 Allh pAdAk wv u
us, and we lodged into his room, where
the landlady and two children were sleep
! ing. The curtains being drawn, could
not distinguish one from the other, in the
scuffie which then ensued between the
landlord and the stranger, and I passed
out Of an opposite door into another hall,
and then through passage which led to
third hail. when l entered the room Of a
friend by the name of Talman, and told
him to get up, as the landlord was having
fight, and that wanted a light On
herring the screams Of n woman, who
cried murder at the top Of her voice, I ran
back 20 assist, when ] met two men in the
second hall, in front of the landlords
room. Here I got a better view Of the
mysterious person who was SO bent on
mischief, by the aid Of a dim light, burning
in the hall.


Hewas Q tall, athletic, large-boned man,
60 nervous in his step that Ireadily knew
him to be my foe, and on seeing me. again,
in very excited, strange speech, he said:
I {" Here he is, and sprang toward me again,
with q weapon in his hand, which fan
cied . long knife. E9J 5EE 1lE
retracod my steps as fast as possible,
and as got into the halifrom the narrow
passage which led to the hall which I had
Just left, turned and gave him a shot
when he groaned out, Oh, and knew
had hit him.


In turning to 60 ahead again I slipped,
and the fellow being under such headway,
passed by me and l gave him the second
shot when quite near me before rising to
my feet, after which ] fred the third just
as he was going down stairs at the end Of
the haH.


I then passed into Talman's room, and
Immediately heard two pistol shots out
/ into the hall Hearing this, and the con-
tinuous groans and scTeamsOf the wound
ed who had come in contact with this
fend, ] went back and passed into the hall
where had slept.


While dressing myself heard the guards
below, who soon made their appearance up
stairs and found the man near the head Of
the stairs with a large-sized pocket knife
in his hand who stood in defiance Of them
ALL -


lie stood like a giant, armed, and froth-
/ ed at the mouth, like madman as he was.


He met their steel and pressed the whole
guard back to the other end of the hall,
where he was shot three times and bay
onet run through him and broken of, and
still he fought them. He had wounded two
/ Of the guard with his knife when another
bayonet pinned him to the floor, which
soon put an end to this terrible man.


On investigation it was found that the
/ landlord and landlady, Mr.. and Mrs. Ca
sey, were both very severely cut up, and
are in a very dangerous condition. Mrs.
Casey waslcut In aboiIt forty places Be
side these who were the most dangerously
wounded, were Dr. Reese Kendall, Sur
geon Of the ID Illinois Cavalry, wounded
IN the abdomen, and a Lieutenant OF the
sd Indiana, shot twice in the back by a
revOlver-one shot taking effect, it is
thought, in the lungs. Mrs. Simons, for
merly landlady of the house, received q
slight wound while attempting TO enter the
room Of Mrs. Casey.


Three or four rooms were entere by The
assassin or assassins, and some were stab
bed in bed.


On account Of the excitement, and a
number leaving the hotel that morning,
the number and names Of the wounded
could not be obtained, but there were at
least dozen who felt the assassin's steel.


Two ladies made their escape by jump





hastened the guards to the rescue Of the
house A jury was called to hear testi-
mony, and to decide the case, and rendered
verdict Of insanity. But there is great
suspicion that more than one was engaged
IN the iendish work, which seems quite
certain, if we credit the report of one man
who says he saw man with knife in his
hand pass down the back stairs, as the
man who pursued me ran down the FROM
stairs


The whole work was done in about ave
minutes, which seems not very credible tC
have been done by one man in so short 9


time The man the guards killed wai


named JepthaiT. Boggerss and lived il
Dresden, Wickly county, Tennessee. H
was q slaTe0wner, and was here hunting
. niggers.n There has been talk here abou
, the cause of his insanity, bat if he is
i. brother Of Han" as Che Bible declare
Jeplha to be- wpuldnit the keeping of hi
nepheWs in bondage be sufficient cause
There are a great number of secesh-look
: ing men here, and are coming in daily
: Many of them are drinking loafers, Of tn
1 toughest cast, and infest all The doggerie
Of the town. This, together with the mud


which is knee-deep anywhere, makes Go
lumbus very disagreeable place for mel
Yous people.


: The Rat Market at Vieksburg.


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inform us that two months since at time