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Show The War of Kaces. On Sunday one of the negro hands on board the Creole, running to Biloxi, Miss., began be-gan to sing a number of songs in which the words "rebels" and '"traitors" were used; the song being intended to illustrate the manner in which the Confederates ran when Butler came, and how the negro regiments whipped the rebels. The mate ordered him to .stop it; the negro cursed him; a passenger pas-senger struck the negro, who cut at him with a razor, and immediately three shots were fired by purties unknown, un-known, killing two negroes who stood near the one who did the shooting, and who was arrested. The Picayune says of the affair : ''Though we deeply deplore the tragedy, we must regard it as the legitimate consequence of the ideas with whirh the negroes hare been imbued. Some of them ceem to think they can with impunity insult ladies and gentlemen, and rarely lose an opportunity of being insolent." Courier-Journal. |