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Show Mississippi IavesMuatiouM. Vicksburg, G. It ib reported that a witness before the Mississippi legislative leg-islative investigatingcommiuee gave evidence that some of the colored oflicials of Warren county had been indicted for forgery and embezze-meut embezze-meut and would have been tried but lor tho breaking up of the circuit court by the arrest and forced investigation inves-tigation of Sheriff Crosby. It was also stated that the colored people did not anticipate trouble with the tax leaguers and were not prepared for it; that the whites first began the firing on the 7th of December after the blacks hadretreated; that many of the colored men went to the city, expecting expect-ing that the co'ored militia were to be organized; others did not know wuat, -in ta ut -i ried their women and children; that half ot them were not armed, and a large majority turned back when they learned that difficulty was apprehended. appre-hended. The w tn ess estimated the number of blacks killed at 50 to 75 and two whites, with very few wounded. |