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.