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DAILY COMMERCIAL.MONDAY, MAY 7, 1866.S. N. Pike has gone to Chicago to see Crosby’s open home. It ia expected now that Mr. Pike will rebuild his opera house.lTHE MEMPHIS MOBsol-one*was began by a iiarty of negroe diers, and resulted in the death of | white mao and tbat of seven negroes,A Bloody Attack upon Negroes.• besides the wounding of several oiti-i zgds and quite a number of negroes.*-* i The origin of the fight, .as we arc in-p___ niJ I formed, was a disturbance among the_ egr 2J Years 0 negr0 soldiers who have just been paidBeaten to Death by the Patriots.It is now proposed to revive the grade of General, which grade was created for Washhtotojc, and to promote Gen. Gxast.The' ig admitting Colorado as a State, was submitted to the President, for hi# signature, last Friday. It is thought that he will veto itThe Senate Committee on Commerce has reported a bill appropriating $100,000 for tine erection of a Court House, a Custom House and Postoffice at St. Paul.[From the Memphis Argus (local) May 2.]A riot occurred in South Memphisyesterday, beginning about 5i P. M. It began by two policemen going to ar-reat a man who sold liquor in SoothMemphis. Tbe negro soldiers who were yesterday mustered out of service, and had been patronizing theoff and were drinking very freely, who commenced a free nght near the old Morris cemetery among themselves. Policeman Carrol and three others of the force were standing on the corner of Main street and walked toward the rowdy blacks but without interfering in any way. After passing the bridge on South street, they turned to retrace their steps, when the negroes com-menced brick-batting the officers, and not content with this, also fired two or1Idrinking saloon, charged the two po-^0eifC* °?e‘ /}L°n'three pistol shots. On this the officers up Main street and down Second, col-, retQrifed the firelected about fifteen of his comrades, [Frora the M«mpUi8 D*iiy ^osi (Radical, who went down to rescue their com- May 2.]panion, but were again repulsed by the negro force. The police then sent back to the station-house to get the police)Count Gubowski, quite a celebrated political literary character for years at Washington, died last Friday evening. He was about sixty years of age, and was sick about a fortnight with typhoid fever.In another oolumn will be found the latest particulars of the Memphis riots, taken from the Memphis papers. They all go to confirm the first account we had by telegraph. Of course, an attempt is made to show that the fault is entirely with the colored people, but this cannot be shown. People know that the fault was not theirs.Malta erinneyaace.Since the elose of the rebellion a large number of suits have been commenced by rebels and rebel sympathizers against United States officers for making what is called “ arbitrary arrests. ” A special from Washington states that a Committee of Conference having agreed on the amendments of the Habeas Corpus Act, it has passed both Houses, and only awaits the signature of the President to become a law. It protects every officer of the Federal Govern-ment, who, acting under orders, mtfde what is known as w arbitrary arrests ” during the war. It also removes all suits brought by aggrieved parties against such offioers from the State Courts to the Federal Court, as has been before stated. It transfers over 2,000 of that kind of cases from the Kentucky local courts to the United States Court. The bill provides that the production of a telegram or order by an officer for such an arrest is sufficient for his defense in the suitforce of the city. Capt. Garrett took all the force and proceeded down Second to Beale, thence to the left to De Soto, thence down that to South street.There the melee began in earnest.Some five or six policemen and citizens were shot—two or three said to be killed and several wounded.When the police reached the Southstreet bridge, about one hundred orone hundred and fifty negro soldiersand white men from this part of thecity—mostly of the lowest class—werescattered in every direction, behindhouses, fences and ravines, opened anirregular but destructive fire upon thepolice and citizens indiscriminately.The police and those of the citizenswho were armed returned the fire, butwere for a time forced to retire beforetbe hot fire of the negroes. Aftersome time they rallied and charged thebridge about two squares east of Main,on South street. This they carriedand forced the negroes and their whiteallies to fall beyond the Mississippiand Tennessee Railroad Depot. Thenolice here made a stand, but the ne- . ,. ,groes flanked them and came very near '“»*t0 arm themselves and put downString them off from town. The po- Ithe ”lt;*r°cs, ,G|neM Stoneman, how-!ice by this time, under the command ! over, established a patrol and disarmedT m,,* pju the citizens who were crowdin^to theSERIOUS DISTURBANCE IN SOUTH MEMPHIS—FIGHT BETWEEN THE POLICE AND THE NEGROES—ASSAULT UPON AND MURDER OF UNOFFENDING BLACKS.Yesterday, late in the afternoon, a most serious disturbance occurred in South Memphis. The cause of the difficulty we could not clearly ascertain. One version is, that some discharged colored soldiers, who were drunk, seeing a policeman near by, fell upon him and killed him. The police, joined with some eitizenB, arc said then to have made an indiscriminate attack upon the negroes in that neighborhood. Another version is, that a Jew peddler was robbed of his pack by the negroes, and that the collision occurred while the policemen were searching for theods.However it may have been brought on, a large number of negroes were soon exchanging shots with an equally large bod^ of citizens and policemen. It was estimated that three thousand citizens were un the ground at one time. The excitement ran high, and spread throughout the city. The Sheriff and Mayor called upon the cit-gooof Captain Garrett and Lieut. Riley had exhausted all their ammunition, and seeing the armed force flanking them, started to retreat up Main street, but just as they arrived opposite Morins Cemetery, there being an embankmentscene of the disturbance. ^Negroes who knew nothing of the riot were, in several cases in different parts of the city, beaten to death or shot down in cold blood. The colored people fled! and a hedge on the west side of Main, streets. W c saw large crowd of ' the negroes having succeeded in male- citizens, at the corner of Jefferson anding their flank movement, fired a volley into the retreating force of police andArrival of Mrs. Jeff. Davis— Am Interview wltn Her Usstantf.Fortress Monroe, May Mrs.Jefferson Davis was permitted to have an interview with her husband, in the presence of one of the officers of the garrison, at half fast eight o’clock yesterday morning. All her baggage was moved inside the fort last evening. Since her arrival she has made her home at the residence of Dr. Cooper, st sur$eon. Mrs. Davis is constant-y receiving letters of advice and inquiry from all parts of the countiy. She has secured the services of Messrs. Chas. O’Connor and Geo. Shea, of New York, in whose hands the case of her husband rests.citizens, several men falling at the shot of the negroes, but one of our reporters who was on the ground, having been slightly wounded at South streetMain streets, shooting at a passing gro. Another crowd near Dy got hold of a negro boy of fourteen or fif-ly, if not quite, beat It is a wonder that notteen, and nearl him to death.more whites lost their lives by theBridge,~took no time to see how many shooting along the streets. _were able to get away. The police Henry Dunn, Engineer of EnginethAfpw shnfs tonk No. 3, is said to have been killed.charged again, and the few shots took cffect, some dozen falling at the fire. Two negroes who had been captured, in attempting to make their escape, not far from the intersection of Shelby and Union streets, were shot down, but it was hard to tell who shot them, as they were between friends and foes. Tbe negroes pressed the retreating column of policemen as far as the Second Presbyterian Church, on Beale and Main streets.Policeman Slattcrly is said to have been wounded. It is reported that two policemen wero killed and several wounded. It is also reported that fifteen negroes wero killed, and many more bruised and wounded. The following arrests of negroes were made for connection with the disturbance: Jim. Posey, Jim. Has hey, Joe. Brown, Alfred Turner, Andy Mills, Dan. Lofton, Peter Johnson, Solomon Pickett,f?Reply ef JeK Davis tea Tender ef sympathy from Serth Carolina*Washington, May 5.—The following letter appears in the Southern papers :Fotbjess Moaraos, April 22,1866. Mrs. J. K. Kyle, Fayetteville, N. C.:Tin Aik W «nA%r-T ilt aIn this melee there were some three janl^ a afterward died. W cor four policemen wohnded; among j re^re, “ear some of those _ ar-them wereJames Flinn and Mr. Slat-! res,«lt;* were, after being taken into terly. The last named gentleman and j custody, nearly beaten into a jelly. n « our reporter were wounded by the same I saw one with his head covered with shot, in the charge over South street ] gashes, bruises, and blood, discharged bridge. Mr. S. was shot through the !trom the station-house, there being nc thigh—only a flesh wound. Henry j f£0“nd f'wmplaint against him. Lei Dunn, engineer on fire engine No. 3.1 tLe,1‘»w be vindicated, and justice be was mortally wounded and has since i meted out on whomsoever it may fall died. It is thought Mr. Flinn will die. j Some si* or eight negroes were killed and several wounded. Two of the About six o’clock yesterday evening killed are now at the police station officers O’Niel, Stephens, a citizen house. uamed James Finn, and two other po-As our reporter was passing down 1 icemen, whose names wc were unank Causey street, there appeared to be to learn, were called upon by several much excitement, as well as at all other j ciazens to suppress a fight, then io parts of the city, from Adams down : ’ progress, between a white boy and a ne-but in passing through Causey, there gro soldier, on the bridge in South was much sympathy manifested i'or the street, between Main and Causej? negroes. Some of the lower class went j streets. On coming up to the scene oi so far as to curse the posse comitatm j the disturbance, a large number oi the[From the Memphis Commercial, 2d.] THE 0KIU1N OF THE AFFAIR.who were following the police, and j comrades of the negro gathered aboul wished them, with the policemen, in j the police, and swore that he should the infernal regions. Many of the j not be arrested, at the same time mar white citizens—but none that could be j of them drawing their revolvers an____________5cal|ed respectable—-joined with the! threatening to slioot any us—n of a negroes, and assisted them in their | b—h that might try it.” The officers, maneuvering. Some of them conduc-! however, expressed a determination to ted the flank movement from the fort j perform their duty, and undertook tc to the ambuscade on Main, opposite I arrest him. The negroes gathered^ * « 1 1 • . « / V .« ” 1 !• v
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