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patient, and returning about bed time I found an armed sentinel guarding the foot of the street, and I learned the shocking intelligence of Dickson's death, and that the town was in arms, endeavoring to capture all the negroes implicated in the killing -- It seems that a squad of negroes, composed of Gabe -- Lewis -- Sam -- Charles -- our old negro named Booker -- & some others, had armed themselves with loaded shot guns, and were marching about the town in open defiance-; knowing that the Marshal was after Gabe, they assumed this attitude of armed defiance of the law-; instigated to this made course, no doubt, by the influence of whisky--

Jesse Dickson had gone to church with his sweetheart Ruth Innes-; some one went to the church and informed him of what was going on-; he hastily left the church, and gathered up such as squad as he could, to assis him in the arrest of the negroes -- there were some 1/2 dozen of the citizens that/hastily assembled, with such poor weapons as they could pick up-; they were all, I believe, rusty and ineffective-; I do not think that more than one or two shot went off from the party -- No sooner had they gotten to-gether than the negroes came in sight, marching down the side walk in military order-; passed by the Seegar & Nathans' stores, & Malone's Drug Store-; just after passing the drug store, they were ordered to halt, by the Marshal, who was pursuing them-; they waited until they got in the shade of an oak-, wheeled and shot a volley into their pursuers-;