VOLUME 3.
[From the Daily Post of ThurwUy ]
THE MEMPHIS RIOT.
Fight Between (he Police ami
the V cgroc"-- A snail Its I pirn A
Murderol l noHen«tlii|{Kln< li»
-•Origin of (lie OlMnrbitncc—
.4ll the Colored Nehool-hoii««e*
and Burned—ll<»n-
MeHof~ltlaek« I>CHlroycd--.nore
f the armed citizens would d:s
perse. The Mayor accordingly ordered
them to return to their homes. Many re
tired, but many more remained. The
Sheriff kept a hundred men under arms
last night at the Greenlaw ltlock. Early
in the morning Gen. Stoneman ordered
an officer, with fifty men, to patrol the
streets; and that a guard be put around
the Fort to keep the colored soldiers from
being connected with the disturbance.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
A colored woman, while walking along
Main str«et, near the corner of Main
and Exchange, was shot down by a drun
ken mam.
A negro who came ia from the country
ma shot off hie horse and the horse
stolen.
The body of a colored soldier who was
kiiied the day before, lay daring the fore
noon on Mulberry street. It was repeat
edly spit upon, kicked and cursed by ruf
fianly boya. This soldier after behig kill
ed by a gun shot and several pistol shots,
hid been cut ia the breast several times
with a knife.
Two white ladies made affidavit before
General Kuukie that B*L Picket, (cohx*
ed,) who wm dragged oat of bit bouse
AMERICAN CITIZEN.
and killed, in South Memphis, had just
returned from his day's work, and had
had no connection whatever with the dis
turbance. Olher affidavits were made
before the General, identifying some who
had killed peaceal le negroes. He will
give the whole affair x thorough investi-
gation.
In the afternoon the rioters sot fire to
the house, near the end of Causey, which
has been occupied by 11. N. Kankin, (col
ored,) for a colored school. Mr. Kankin
has had about two hundred pupils in at
tendance. He himself was struck with
a whip at the corner of Union and Sec
ond streets. The ruffian irttempted to
draw his revolver to shoot him, but was
prevented by another citizen*
Several more houses in South Memphis
were burnt during the afternoon, and dor -
ing the whole evening the sky in that di
rection was luiil with flames. There
were incendiary fires also on Madison and
Shelby streets.
Early iu the evening there was sharp
firing out on De Soto street. A nesro
hoy of twelve or thirteen years was killed-
A neirro woman from the country was
deliberately shot on Shelby street It is
supposed mortally.
[Fronithi* Dully Post of Frldiy ]
The riot was kept up all cdnesday
nij-ht. Crowds of armed citizens were
gathered at the corners. Many were half
drunk. The great feat of the roughs,
was the burning of the colored school
houses, churches and homes. They seem
to have acted in concert, and to have car
ried out a progjainme which had been
previously arranged. This-is shown by
the clean sweep which was made of every
building used for a colored school or place
of worship by the colored people, but
most strongly by the conduct of the riot
ers on the burning of the Collins Chapel.
This colored church stands on Washing
ton street, and cost 87,000.
After getting this well under the con
trol of the flames, the leader of the des
peradoes called upon them to "fall in,"
which was done in a style which would
have reflected credit upon any military
organization, and proceeded to a black
smith shop on Alabama Rull
Hun, which, as it bclongod to a peacea
ble black man, was burned. We have
received the names of quite a number
who shared the glories of this part of the
field, but whether they participated in
setting the fires in other parts of the city
we do not know.
The Colored Raptist Church on Main
street near Overton, was burned This
was of brick, and the oldest colored church
in the city. It was owned by the colored
people.
The colored church on Poplar street
was burned; also the Lincoln Chapel,on
Union st. This belonged to the Ameri
can Missionary Association, and cost one
thousand dollars. It was insured for 800
dollars.
Kvery colored church was burned.
The colored schools were kept in the
barracks formerly occupied by the Pro
vost Guard. Those were all burned.
Loud and repeated threats were made
by the rioters that when they had des
troyed the colored sohool-houses they
would kill the teachers. The threats
were so violent, and the rioters having
shown themselves capable of any brutal
ity, it was deemed prudent that they
should go north They all left for Cairo
on the St. Louis packet. Many of the
officers on duty here sent their wives awuv
with these ladies.
An attempt was made to burn Colwell's
Hall near the corner of Gayoso and Third
streets. This hall belongs to a wealthy
and influential colored man, from whom it
takes its name, and is the most frequent
ly used by the colored people for public
meetiuge.
A house near Mr. Rankin's school- 1
house, which was burnt on Tuesday, was
fired during the night. A colored girl,
seventeen ya»rs of age, named IJachel
Hatchcll, who had been a scholar of Mr.
Rankin's was sick in this house, and on
running out WHS knocked down, shot and
thrown into the fire. Her body lay ip the
ashes yesterday morning burned to a crisp,
excepting her head and shoulders. Some
one had kindly thrown a shawl over this
horrid spectacle. Coroner Erickson, on
making inquest upon the body, found the
report true that she was shot before being
,thrown iLto the fire
The Botanico Medical College, on Beal
street, io which oolored schools have bean
yept, wa» set on fire, but it was put out
by «ome teachers who stay in the build
ing.
A grocery kept by an old colored man
in Sooth Memphis was broken into and
robbed and he killed in his bed. He
was to be seen lying in bed ia jostthe
posture ia which he was killed yesterday
morning.
A Urge number of the bouses in South
"Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end,dare to do ou. duty as we understand it"—A LTNOOL*
BIITLEK, BtJTLER COUNTY. PA.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1866.
Meuiphis occupied by the blacks and
some in other parts ol the city were burn
ed. JS'o effort was made to stay the
flames. In one case four negroes were
fastened up iu a house and the house set
on fire.
A colored man on Alabama street, in
forms us that his house was broken into
and about two hundred dollars in money
taken, and he beaten over the head ; and
the same party broke into his neighbor's
house, killed him, locked the wife and
children in the house, set it on fire and
burned it down.
A colored woman named Rhoda Jacobs,
while lying in bed with her child at her
home in South Memphis, was shot in the
breast. •
John Mason (colored) was shot in the
bead while iu h's house in the same
neighborhood. His'money was then de
manded of his wife She replied that
they had none. The house was then
searched and everything of any value ta
ken. Indeed, robbing seems to have
been as mucn the object of the rioters *s
negro killing. One negro was asked if he
had any arms, and on his answering that
he had not, a pistol was placed at his
bead and his money demanded. Twen
ty-eight dollars was taken out of a trunk
broken into in the house ot Reeky Pleas
ant. in South Memphis.
We -heard the particulars of the rib
bing of from ten to twelve negroes, from
the parties themselves. The sums taken
ran from the most trifling up to three
hundred dollars. One said he wits or
dered by a policeman on the corner of
Real and DeSoto streets to give up his
money and his weapons.
A colored man, living in the northern
portion of the town, sayß they entered his
hfluse on pretense of searching for arms,
and killed his mother, an old colored wo
man, iu her bed.
Two or three negroes were shot in
Chelsea.
Six or seven houses occupied by ne
groes were burned on Echols street.
A building, now private property, but
formerly belouging to the Government,
was burned on Gayoso, east of DeSoto
street.
The grocery at 51 Causey street, be
longing to a colored man, was entered
and robbed of half of its contents.
Rob Church, colored, was shot in his
saloon, on DeSoto street.
A colored man named Cook, a porter
in a store on Main street, was shot near
the corner of Main and Exchange streets.
A wolored boy on Main street had his
brains beaten out.
A shot was fired at a negro man who
was quietly looking through the grating
in front of the billiard saloon in tho Gay
oso House. The ball missed him, and
passed in close proximity to two ol the
players.
The body of a negro who had been
shot, lay in the morning at the corner of
Hernando and Real streets.
An attempt was made to fire every
Gov. building in town. Iu ono that was
burned it is said that an immense amount
of Quartermaster's stores were destroyed.
The carnival of blood and fire contin
ued the whole night. The sky was con
tinually lit up, sometimes by one, and a
gain by several fires in different parts of
the city, at a time. Crowds of armed
rioters were moviug up and down the
streets, firing, shooting and threatening
negro sand Union meu. The Post was
repeatedly threatened with violence.—
Friends inform us that at one time a
crowd up main street,seemed to have been
fully determined that the "damned Yan
kee-nigger sympathizing I'ott" should be
wiped out, aud that they were the ones
to do it. The only call we received, how
ever, from these lovers of a free press,
were from two ruffians who fired at the
building, and ran with all their might.—
No damage was done.
The rioters sepmed determined to re
peat tho tragedy last night by attacking
the teachers of colored schools, the col
ored ministers and Yankees generally.
Yesterday morning found the city
quietly dozing after the long night's ex
citement. South Memphis was nearly
deserted. Dead bodies of negroes were
found here and there in the streets. The
violence during the night had been alto-"
gether confined to the whites. Indeed,
it is said that firemen can be indentified
who were riding about town on horses be
longing to the Fire Department, and who
fired some of the houses. It is charged,
too, that numbers of the police joined the
rioters.
Although the city was generally quiet,
the assaults aod robbery of negroes con
tinued. A colored man named Louis
Bennett, who bad just oome on a boat
from Mound City, was asked on the levee
whers he was from. lie replied that he
was from Mound City. They called him
a "smoked Yankee," robbed him of his
watch and money, broke his arm, beat him
over the head, and kicked him off.
Rob't Jones (colored) had just come
in from the country, and was standing on
the corner of Ilgal and Causey streets in
the forenoon. A man, appearing to be a
policeman, took his pistol and twenty
nine dollars in mnncy, and. ns he turned
to leave, thrust a knife into his back, un
der the shoulder blade. Another, stand
iuf, by, known to be a policeman, made
no arrest of the robber.
A colored man named Rob, who works
at Mr. Odell's livery stable, was stoned
as he was passing the Engine House near
the corner of Adams and Main streets.—
He hastened to get out of the way, and
was shot in the leg.
A negro was shot in the knee near the
corner of Howard's Row and the levee.
This was doao by a well-known individ
ual for the sake of amusement, and was
laughed at by the citizens who saw it.
A large number of armed men from
the country arrived on the morning train.
They hoped to have a hand iu putting
down a great negro insuirection. Very
general quiet was, however, maintained.
The following notice was published in
the afternoon as a result of a meeting of
a nunibcr of the citizens :
TO TITE PUBLIC.
At meeting of the citizens of Mem
phis, held this day, W. R. Greenlaw was
appo : nted Chairman, and R. C. Rrinkley,
Secretary. The following resolutions
were unanimously passed :
Resolved, That he Mayor of the City,
with the Sheriff of the County, together
with the chairman of this meeting, be
authorized to summon a force of citizens
of sufficient number to act in connection
with the military, placed at the disposal
of the Mayor by Gen. Stoneman, which,
together, shall constitute a patrol for the
protection of tbeeity, to serve such time
as the Mayor, Sheriff and Chairman of the
meeting shall direct.
liesohetl, That our mayor he request
ed to close all liquor saloons till further
orders.
Retained, That the Chairman, J. 11.
McMahon, S. P. Walker and R. C. Rrink
ley, be requested to wait upon Gen.
Stoaeman, and inform him of the pro
ceedings of this meeting.
W. R. GREENLAW, Ch'n
11. C. BRINKI.EY, Sec'y.
The above proceedings have my cor
dial approbation, and arc published for
the information of tho citizens.
JOHN PARK, Mayor.
Memphis, May .'Jd, 1880.
IIEADQR'S DEP'T OF TENN, 1
MEMPHIS, May 3d. }
To the Mayor, City Council, and all Civil
Officers of the county of Shelby anil
the City of Memphis :
GENTLEMEN: Circumstances compel
the undersigned to interfere with the
civil affairs of tho city of Memphis.
It is forbidden for any person, without
authority from theso headquarters, to as
enible together any posse, armed or un
armed, whito or colored. This docs not
include tho police force of the city, and
will not as long as they can be relied
upon as preservers of the peace.
I am, gentleman,
Yory respectfully,
Your obed't servant
GEO. STONEMAN, Maj.-Gcn. Comd'g.
The order of Gen. Stoneman gave great
satisfaction.
A strong patrol was placed in the city
in tho evening. There were a few pistol
shots in various parts, and more especi
ally frequent over toward the Charleston
depot, but no general disturbance.
During the afternoon a large number of
drays, loaded with furniture an I house
hold goods from South Mempels, passed
up Main street. Everybody seemed to
be getting away in anticipation of another
house-burning by the rioters last night,
which, wo arc happy to say did not oc
cur.
TICKUNH.—Lord Erskinc, when at
the bar, was retained for a lady named
Tickle, against whom an action for libel
had been brought. On the trial he com
menced his address to tho court thus :
"Tickle, my client, the defendant, my
lord." The audience, amused with the
oddity of the speech were almost driven
into hysterics by tho judge's replying :
"Tickle her yourself, Harry."
—" Pompey, why am de River James
like lager beer?"
Dun'o, d'you ? give's 'um up.
'• 'Kase it ruus into tho Dutch Gap !
Yah ! yah!"
—A gift which ia prompted by a jgen
erous feeling is far moro valuable and ac
ceptable than many rich offerings from a
renctant hand.
—Tho firr? mau that "struck ile"—
Jonah.
Hon. Geo. V. Lawrence on the Pres
ident.
The Impediment to Ilitrinonj'--
Tho Strength of tliel'iilon Piir
can mafce
light of—a window paat*
—What comes after cheese? Moose.
| —Success with the ladies is like viij-
I '' n playing—a groat deal dopcaL ou thq
I beau-iog.