The Manitowoc Pilot

Mutiny of Colored Troops.
From the San Antonio (Texas) Herald, April 10.
About noon yesterday our city was thrown into great excitement by the rumor that the United States colored troops stationed at San Pedro springs had mutinied and killed several of their officers, and also that the war had been carried into Africa, many of the negroes were killed. There had been hurrying to and fro among the military stationed in that city, and they were soon off at the double quick. The rumors continued growing in number and varying in details, until there was no way of getting at the truth without going to the seat of war, and we went. We found one officer-lieutenant Griffin, we understood the name to be-lying mortally wounded, his head split with a sabre; another wounded in the hand; while the negro sergeant who had struck the blow with the sabre was lying dead on the spot where he fell. From citizens living in that vicinity, we learn that this sergeant had protested before the officer of the day, lieutenant Griffin, against the tying up by the thumbs of some of his company, and that the officer had ordered him to his quarters, which order he refused to obey, threatening to report to general Merritt. Whether the officer then attempted to shoot or not, we could not learn, but immediately the sergeant drew his sabre and cut. Another officer then shot the sergeant through the head, while the latter officer was wounded in the head by still another soldier; in the meantime the whole camp was alive, and numbers of bullets went whistling through the air. The dash and boldness of the senior officer present is said and believed to have done much toward quieting down the mutiny, which at one time indicated an indiscriminate massacre of the officers in camp. General Merritt was very energetic in examining into the cause and ascertaining who were the instigators.