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toget our living peaceably and we must taxe i from others, We don’t kill anyoody but the Ka Klux.” A steady moral decline and growing atrocity bas been remarked of Henry Berry Lowery, but be has committed no outrages on women and no arsons. His confidence and sense of lonely and desperate Itidependence have pecome moré marked. A cool, grim, murderous humor nas gained upon bim, and he w a trifle’ fond of his distinction. Frequent exhibitions of magnanimity distinguish his Dioody course and he has learned to arrogate “to himseif a protectorate over the interests of the mmulattoes, which they return by @ sort of hero-worship. There 13 nol, probably, @ negro in Scufietown who would betray him, and bis prowess 18 @ household word im every black family in sea- board Carolina. His consistent ana UNFLINCHING METHOD OF WARFARB has gained him awe among the whites, amount ing nearly to respect, and by a certain in- tegrity in word anda periormance he has come to deat with all the community as an absolute and yet not wilful dictator. Like the ratuesnake of theswamps, he sends warning before he kills, and only in robbery 1s remorseless and sudden. The family 1s divided in verdict upon his conduct, Patrick, Sinclair and Purdy, who are Methodists, Bpeak pretty much in these terms (quoted trom Patrick Lowery, who is a preacher):— “My brother Harry had provocation—the game all of us had—when they killed my old father. But he has got to be a oad mun, and | pray tne Lord to re- move him from this world, if he'll only repent first.'’ AN ANTE-BELLUM EPISODE. A good deal of the above ts probably decettful. ‘The current opinion of Scuilletown ts as follows, in the language of an aged colored woman at Shoe Heel-— “Massta," she sald, “Henry Berry Lowery atn’t gwyng to kill nobody but them that wants to Kill him. He’s just a paying these white people back tor Killing his old father, brother and cousins, His ole mother I knew right well, and she says, ‘My boys al’nt doing right, but 1 can’t help it; I can only jiss pray for em. They wan't a brought up to do all this misery and lead this yer Kind of life.’ Massta,” resumed Aunt Phorbe, “this used to be a drefful hard couutry for pore niggers. Do you see my teeth up yer, Massta ?)" ‘The old woman drew her lip back with her tinger and showed the empty gum, with ONLY A TOOTH AT EACH SIDE, “My massta—his name's MacQueen (or Mac- Quade)—knocked ’em all out wid an oak stick. God Knows 1 worked for him wid ali my mignt; but, you see, he was a keepin’ black women and nis wile gwine to leave him, he wanted me to say she had black men, and I’d adied trst! He whipped me and beat me, and at lass he struck me wid a Stick over de mouf, and, Massta, I jess put my haad up to catch de blood and all ae teef dropped in de palm of my hand, hb, diss was a hard country, and Henry Berry Lowery’s jess a payin’ em back He's only a payin’ ’em back! I's better days for de brack people now. Massta, he’s Jess de king 0? dis country.” ‘This is a perfectly Uteral version of a Christian old woman’s talk. Bandit and robver as he ts, and Diooastained with many murders, this Lowrey's crimes scarcely take relief irom tne blotched back- ground of an intolerant social condition, where the image of God was outraged by slavery through two hundred years of bleediug, suffering and submit- Ung. The black Nemesis ts up, playing the Ku Klux for himself, and for many a coming generation the housewives of North Carolina will frighten the chil- dren with tales ef Lowery's band. Still, the fellow 18 a cold-blooded, malignant, murderous being, without defenders even among repubiicans, MURDER OF SHERIFF REUBEN KING. The first great crime sacceeding the killing of Brant Harris was committed in the mottve of house robbery upon a highly esteemed old cluzen of ad- vanced years, the Sherif! of Robeson county, Reuven King. This happened on the night of Janu- ary 23, 1869, Henry Berry Lowery has since said that he had Mo intention of accomplishing the death of this gen- tleman, but that, being poor and aware that King hada quantity of money in his posseasion, “the boys” wanted to rob him, and had no notion of put- ting him out ‘of the world. Aiter being shot King lngered till the 13th of March, and his ante-mortem Statements, added to the contession of Henderson Oxendine, one of the robbers, give us a complete history of the tragedy. Lowery alleges that no ‘whipped George Applewnhite, the negro who fred tne fatal shot; but this may be mere cunning, and, besides, the bandits” have charged the crime upon John Dial, the State's witness. The ruMians, hearing that King was possessed of constderable money, came down from Scumetown nd hia in a thicket near bis nouse, which was two miles south of Lumberton. There they built a fre to warm themselves, and, being only partly armed, they cut bludgeons from the swamp and trimmed them. Dial remarked, “The old Sheriff may resist us !” “It he does,’ exclaimed Boss Strong, ‘we'll kill him 1" ‘They blackened their faces to disguise their iden- tity and race more securely, and then, to the num- ber of eight or nine, moved, With tne stealth of In. dians, up to the dweiling of the hale old gentleman. Sheriff King was reading the report of a recent Baptist Convention beside his fireplace. In another part of the room—the parlor—Edward Ward, one of his neighbors, who had come to pass the night, was reading a book. Suddenly the door was pushed open and A ROW OF BLACKENED, HIDEOUS FACES Qppeared over the thresnold, while a gun barrel was pointed at King, and an imperative voice said:— “surrender !? The man Ward satasif paralyzed, The Sherif, roused at the summons from his book, scarcely un- derstood the situation, By a fatal, instinctive move- ment he leaped up and seized the menacing fire- arm and bent it down toward the floor. Henry Berry Lowery, the hoider oi it, struggled at the butt and bent it up again, and in the wrestle the piece was discharged into the parior floor, burning and scarring the boards there. By tnis time the close- ness of the eucounter and the Sheriff's stiff and powerful hold upon the gun hada brought nis body @round so that his back was toward the open door, At this instant a pistol, at close quarters, was fined into the old man’s head from benind, and he fell to the floor in agony. The robbers immediately, and without snow of resistance, fred at Edward Ward and felled him witn a wound whicn lasted for months, “The females of the family rushed in and stood horrified spectators of tne misery of the two men. The blackened and excited faces of the robbers struck them with additional terror, “Water!” gasped the bieeding Sherif; “1 am burning up! For God's sake give me some water |” “God damn you!” cried one of the villains, “what dia you fight for? “YOU SHAN'T HAVE WATER !? It was a scene of indescribabie bloodiness—the Screaming Women, menaced by the resolute ropbers; the groaning victims, the disguised faces of the fienas and their lust for plunder paramount. No wonder that Henry Berry Lowery, ashamed of the a threatens to shoot any man who says he took purt in the performance. After a Jittle time one of the women was allowed to go and get water, while the rest were locked up under guard.. Then the robbers ransacked the house, opened trunk after trunk and took some of them out in the yard to investigate their contents, ‘They finally made their escape laden with plunder, and it was not untii Jonn Dial pointed out the place where they bad cut clubs in the swamp and built the fire that the whole matter was exposed, Dial has now been in jail at Whitesviile two years, ‘Two of the persons concerned in this murder ba’ been condemned and escaped, two are in jail and one was hanged. THE ONLY BANDIT HANGED. » Henderson Oxendine was finally arrested at the house of his brother-in-law, George Appliewhite, the hegro, while waiting for Mrs. Applewhite to be con- fined, The authorities, aware of the condiuon of the culprit’s sister, stayed around the house all ight and got in at daylight, supposing Applewhite to be there, ‘hey at once arrested Henderson Oxen- dine and Pop Oxendine. “he persons named as present at the murder of Sherif King, in 1869, were John Dial, Stephen Lowery, George Applewhite, Hen- Gerson Oxendine and Calvin Oxendine. These at Jeass were in the custody of the officers at one Miye. While Heuty Berry Lowery, Boas Stroma amd NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET. LAND OF TH E LOWERYS. Map of the Seat of War in North Carolina---Scene of the Exploits of the Outlaws. _. ALFOROSVILLE Bs SAMRSONS BRIDGE’ » +K HOE HEEL #Z 4-FLORAL COLLEGE WAKALA REFERENCES TO PLACES INDICATED BY LETTERS ON THE MAP. A—Henry Berry Lowery's Oabla. B—George Applewhite’s. C—George Dial’s, D—Zach McLaughlin's. E—Patrick Lowery’s. + F—Barnes Killed, December, 1864, + G—Brant Harris Killed, February, 1865. + H—Norment Killed, March, 1870. 4+ K—King Killed, January, 1869. + [—Inman Killed, April, 1871. + M—Outlaw Applewhite Shot, April, 1871, + N—Zach McLaughlin Killed, 1871. + O—Detective Sanders Killed, November, 1870, Twenty-eight Lives Lost in the War on Both Sides. + P—Davis Killed, October, 1870. 4- Q—Taylor Killed—‘‘Make” Sanderson Killed, January, 1871. + R—H. B. Lowery’s Cousins Killed, 1864. : -++ S—The McLains Killed, 1871. + T—The McNeills and Archie Brown Killed, August, 1871. + U—Oxendines Whipped. + V—Joe Thompson's Slave Killed, 1866, + W —Ben Betha Killed, 1871. + Y—Wiregrass Landing. + Z—Henry Revels Killed, 1871. + &—Allan Lowery and Son Murdered, 1866. @—Mr. Carlisle Killed, 1868, nnn others, also present, were at large. Steve Lowery and George Applewhite were condemned to be hanged, when, prematurely, the majority of the pris- oners, among them tne condemned, dug their way out of the prison. . When Henderson Oxendine was hanged there were about thirty-five persons present in the small Jall yard, but the tree tops overlooking the enclosure were filled with whites and negroes. The gallows was of the rudest construction, built against the high picket fence of the jail, with a trap, which was held up by a rope passing over the short beam and secured behind the upright joist by a wooden clamp, So that it could be severed by the blow of a hatchet. Oxendine’s mother came to the jail tne morning of the execution and condoled with her boy. He was athin-jawed, columnar-necked, wild, whitish mu- latto, with ears set back like a keen dog’s, a good forehead, piercing, almost staring round eyes, witn dark, barbaric lights in them, a nose eminent for its alert nostril, and a longish, pear bottomed chin, set with thin, dirtyish beard, and a mouth of African suggestion. Pride and stoicism were in his expres- sion, and, negro-like, he sung a couple of hymas on the gallows out of the Baptist collection. His executioner was a Northern rough, namea Marden, or Marsden, a waif from somewhere, who resembled a@ sailor’s boarding house runner, and was of lower estate than the Lowerys. This ts one of the beings who has rung himself in on the peo- ple of Robeson county, ostensibly as a detective, He pinioned Oxendine and then severed the sup porting rope with the hatchet. No attempt at res- cue was made. THE MURDER OF OWEN C. NORMENT. The first murder gommitted in cold blood for re- venge was upon the person of Owen C. Norment, who lived four miles from the hut of Henry Berry Lowery and eight miles from Red Banks station. His house was also three miles from Alfordsville, on the road to Lumberton, and not far from the dweil- ing of @ white desperado called Zach McLaughlin. Aaron Swamp, a feeder of Back Swamp, was near Norment’s house. This murder was committea by Zach McLaughlin, by order of Henry Berry Lowery, who, with his command, was posted near. It was the first white man killed by the gang since 1864, @ lapse of more tnan five years. Norment was an overbéaring ex-slavcholder, who had shot @ man dead at Charlotte, N, C., for calling him a liar, and had been tried for it and acquitted. He had very black hair, whiskers and eyes, and weighed about one hundred and sixty-five pounds, His offence was raising the people against the Low- erys, charging robberies to them and threatening them, Hearing loud noises, as of the stirring up of domestic animals, the rattling of wagon chains, &c., outside of his house, Norment waiked out in the dusk of a Saturday evening and asked wno was Present, Hearing somebody moving in the dusk, he called for his wife to give him his gun. Almost IMMEDIATELY A GUN WAS FIRED only ten feet from Norment and he was shattered in the lower members and elsewhere with shot and ball, He fell instantly, and being removed to the house, a servant was despatched for a physician. Dr. Dick obeyed the summons, and being driven ina mule buggy by one Bridgers, they were greeted, ono mile from Norment’s house, with a discharge ot fire- arms, whitch killed the mule and forced the driver and the doctor to take to the wouds. The same nignt Archie Graham, a neighbor, was shot and danger- ousiy wounded, and alsd Ben MacMillan, another obnoxious personage. The house of a Mr. Jack- son, oa the Ellgabeth road, was also fired into and his dog killed, The robbers held carnival that night and reeumed the reign of terror. Norment’s leg was afaputated, but the doctor was nervous, as the wounds were fatal, for he died on Monday morning, thirty-six hours after being suot, leaving a wife and three cnildren. MURDER OF JOE TMOMVSON’S SLAVE. The Lowerys had once becn slavehoiders, and Heury Berry always refers (0 pee full blacks 93 “niggers.” A good while prior to the time of the killing of Norment the Lowery gang shot dead a Negro belonging to one Joe Thompson, who lived at Ashpole Swamp, sixteen miles from Lumberton, ana was a neighbor of Henry Berry Lowery. The band nad robbed Thompson’s house of bedclothing, &c., and, thinking of some story relative to their doings which the negro had told, they shot him dead at his own shanty. Then they ordered Thomp" son’s driver to gear up the family carrinve and drive them home, which he did, and they leii ihe vehicle not far from Henry Berry Lowery's house. This Must have been apout at the close of the war, for the driver narrates that three United States desert- ers or escaped prisoners were then with the mulatto robbers, THE PATE OF ZACH M’LAUGHLIN. Thts Zach McLaughlin, who 1s alleged to have in- filcted the mortal wound upon Mr. Norment, met With @ fate justly deserved. He was a native of Scotland, and dne of a low, sensual, heathenish type of white men, who consorted with mulattoes and Spent his tow energies in seducing mulatto girls and women, Having laid out in the swamps with the Strongs, Lowerys and Applewhite, he picked up an almost equally renegade white by the name of Biggs, when, one evening, the twain met ata mulatto shanty upon an identical object—namely, a mulatto syren. As they quitted the place to go home, McLaughlin, who was drinking deeply of vil- lanous liquor, said to Biggs, with an oath:— “Pl kill you right here unless you join with me and rob the smokehouses and shanties of some of these freedmen. We want you with our crowd, and you've got to come or die.”” Biggs sgys in his statement that ne went, out of the fear of death, and helped in the robberies of that night, but privately made up bis mind to eacape from McLaughlin or to kill him. 7 McLaughlin finaliy grew very drunk, and insisted upon building @ fire at a place in the swamp and resting there, These two men were now quite sep- arated from other compantonship, and when the fire was lighted McLaughlin, who possessed a mo- nopoly of the arms, compelled Biggs to sleep between himself ana the burning brands, while ho, mean- time, bent akimbo over the burning blaze ana dozed. Biggs began to test the siceping outcast by rolling and moving, and finally by jostling McLaugh. lin. Remembering his description of his pistols, and tn particular one pistol, which was described as NEVER MISSING FIRE, Biggs managea to pull it from the sheath in McLaugblin’s belt. With this he shot the white outiaw through and through and then | slipped away into the swamp to see if he moved, The drunken beast belng perfectly dead, Biggs made his way to Lumberton and reiated the story. Search was made, and on the spot of ground indicated, beside the extinguished fire, the | bloody carcass of McLaughlin was discovered, Just previous to this affalr—November 9, 1871—McLangh- lin and Tom Lowery haa escaped from Lumberton jail by availing themselves of a loose iron bar and wrenching the grates off the jail windows. Biggs received $400 for his two shots into McLaughiin’s body, He has figured in a subordl- nate degree since that time as a volunteer to cap- ture the outlaw chief, McLaughlin was altogether a meaner specimen of mankind than the Strongs and Lowerys, " THE MURDER OF STEVE DAVIS, On the 3d of October, 1870, the Lowery band of outlaws appeared at the nouse of Angus Leach, near Floral College (female), and proceeded to seize a large quantity of native brandy, distilled there for the fruit-growing nelghbors—some say branay designed to evade the revenue laws. Lowery’s band was alert and fond of strong drink, aud they seized all the available vessels at hand—kegs, pitchers, pots and measures—to trans. port the liquor, Unwilling to despoil without in. hip with a gan stock, disabling him, and a negro man, showing some solicitude for the fuid prop. erty, they tied up, whipped him with a wagon trace and silt his ears with a penknife. The liquor which they did not remove they destroyed before the United States revenue oMcer cuuld find it. Next night the persons who had placed their fruit, &c., for distillation at this place, started in pursuit Of the fugitives, They found the whole party, very drunk, at George Applewhite’s, between Red Banks and Plumer’s station. Applewhite was an alert, thick-lippea, deep-browed, woolly -headed African, witn a steadfast, brutal expression. Firing into the house the outlaws rushed out, well armed and spotling for a fight, The neighbors wounded nearly every man of tne party. Boss Strong was shot in the forehead, Henderson Oxendine im the arm and George Applewhite in the thigh. Steve 0. Vavis, of Moore county, a fine young Man and brave as youth dare be, rushed ahead or the party and forced the fighting in the swampy edge of the fleld where the outlaws were. Henry Berry Lowery took deltberate sight upon him and shot him through the back of the head. He fell dead. THE MURDER OF CARLISLE, TI possess no data upon the murder of a Mr. Car- lsle, who appears to have been killed in the early, part of tne open and announced warfare, except the record that some of the bobtall fotlowers of Lowery’s band were accused of the crime, One “Snoemaker John,” not proven guilty of the mur- der of Mr. Carlisle, received a sentence of ten years in the State Penitentiary March 1, 1871, for burglary. He appeared to be glad of the opportunity to go safely to jail and to escape, on the one hand, the mob, and on tne olner the Lowery gang. DAL! BAKER. In the fall of 1866 Dantel, or “Dal? Raker was shot in the leg while near Scuffletown, and his leg had to be amputated, Several other shootings occurred about this time, and the war now being well understood, the citizens, volunteers, militia and two companies of United States troops started in to make @ set compaign against the outlaws. Here some atrocities were committed properly belonging to this narrative. Among the crimes of the Lowery band must be placed in legitimate context some of the more pre- cipitate crimes committed against the mulattoes of Scurietown by their white neighbors. Eight negroes have been killed by the whites episodically in the hunts for the Lowerys. Ste Wns, THE MURDER OF BEN. BETHA, ~*~. Ben Betha was a full-blooded negro and a violent radical republican among his color, and he was used by the republican politicians to disseminate their doctrines and keep the color in Scuffetown united in yote and sentiment, He was what is called @ praying politician, apt to be frenzied and loud in prayer and to exhort wildly, ana he has cunning enough to ring politics and the wrongs of the colored people into his prayers, so that he might have been said to pray the whole ticket, Last winter tne democrats, having full possession of the county, and the Ku Klux going barefacea ana ‘undisguisedly through Samson, Richmond and the adjoming counties, it was resolved to make an ex- ample of this praying negro. The Coroner of the county, Robert Chaaflo, got a party ostensiply to hunt for Lowery, he beingthe pretextfor all Ku Ktux operations in Robeson, and it is alleged that some members of the party came out of Battery A, United States artillery, then posted in and about ScuMmetown, THE ROBESON COUNTY KU KLUX seldom wore disguises, the Lowery pretext covering all their operations, With eighteen young men they started towards Ben Beth: ind the propost- tion was then sprung to take nim out and Kill him that night. Alarmed at this Chaafin, the Mac. Queens and some of the more prudent turned back, atraid of Judge Russell’s bench warrants, Malcolm ten men, marched up to Ben Betha’s door between twelve and one o’ciock, and, rapping there, sald to the negro as he appeared: — “Come out nere! We want you,” ‘The darky seemed aware by their resolute faces that his hour, long threatened, nad come, and he turned about and said to his wife—‘Ole woman, I specs they’s gwine to Kill me, Mebbe I'll never come back no mo’.”” “Go and get your hat!” was the next order, and then the negro was lifted out of the shanty, and for one quarter of a mile there was no sign of bis well known ‘foot tracks. The fact was that he had been lifted on a@ horse and ridden of a quarter of @ mile, so a3 to hide bis traces, The tracks reappeared after a certain dis- tance, and the negro was never more heard of after that night, but was found dead, shot through and through. Judge Rassell called upon the Grand Jury to indict every man of this party; but the Grand Jury, with that proverbial Southern Justice manifested towards the negro, IGNORED THE BILL, and then the Judge, with almost extra judicial severity, put his written protest on the records of the Court, and denounced the action of the Grand Jury as outrageous, He then issued his bench war- rant, and outlawed every man concerned in the killing of Betna, and they all ran out of the coun- try. Malcom MacNiell went to Baltimorc, where he is aclerk in a store, and his brother has fed to Mississippi, This happened only a few months ago. ‘Ihe negro waiter in the hotel at Lumberton sald tome in the presence of several white men of the town:— . “They say they go up to Soumetown to hunt Lowery; but I never knew them to go there without killing some\nnocent person.’ THE MURDER OF HENRY RBVELS. The murder_of Henry Revels, a mulatto boy, is @Mother cise in point One night Dr. Smih, who resides north of enmetene, it settle. ment atid said be nad been shot at on the road by somebody. Dr. Smith was a brother of Colonel Smith, the democratic Treasurer of the county, and also & merchant at Shoe Heel. Putting theif heada together the Shoe Heelers concluded that the fellow was Henry Revels, a likely mulatto, who nad be- come a leading republican and was somewhat saucy around that region. He had been brought up by Hugh Johnson and made a body servant, 80 that he had @ better appearance and more intelligence than the ordinary ran of ScuMetowners, Fitteen oF sixtéén men on horseback and in buggies, started out from Shoe Heel and rode six miles off, to Johnson's place, and took young Revels by force out of the house, telling him not to open his mouth. They carried him to the vicinity of Floral College, where resided the Rey. Mr. Coble, chaplain on the occasion of the killing of old Allan Lowery. There Revels was shot dead and his car. cass thrown behind a woodpile. The negroes found the carcass and calied up the reverend divine to identify it, Coble, by this time not anxious to fall into the hands of Judge Russell, had the Coroner cited, but before a jury could be summoned some person concerned in the muraer took’ the body and hid itin a mudhole, where the negroes again dis- covered it and thé inquest was heid. Warrants were Issued for these Ku Klux, and put in the hands of John MacNiell, of Smith township, the constable there, but he failed to do his duty, and all the parties ran away, THE OXENDINES SHOT AND WHIPPBD. This MacNiell, although a constable and head of the militia in his township, was personally con- cerned in the outrage on the Oxendines. Hearing that Tom Lowery, one of the outlaws, was dead, and wishing to prove it and discover the body, per- haps for the purpose of getting tne reward, it was resolved to pay the Oxendines a visit. They went Aiguing pain, they struck old AMMA’ Leach ovcR he | MacNjell now took cqmmand, and, ah He head oc | yo the mause Of Jegse Oxendume, gqn of Jobm whe up, but the man's weight broke the limb. They hung him to a second limb, but the sapling bens toward the ground. Then they put the around his neck so that the ends hung over, ead two men pulled tt each way until grew black in the face, Nearly at the same time they shot another of the Oxenaines, at gate post, through botn hands. but they could not in the outrage went out of the county for a while unt the thing blew over. In this brutal way the bunt for Heury Berry Lowery goes on, and the peo- ple who cannot catch him revenge themselves upom his netghbors, Maicolm—would nave been fully investuzated nad 1# not been for the fact that Tom Russell, & brother @& the republican Juage Rusaell, was one of the party who murdered him, and the Judge .et the sulject drop om that account. Make Sanderson was @ matatto of such lignt skin that before the war he emjoyed the general privileges of whites. He married a sister of Henderson Oxendine, who was atterwaras banged at Lumberton, Sanderson's wife being also the daughter of John Oxendine, whe was @ half brother of old Allen Lowery, father of the Lowery gang. There appears to have been nothing charged against Make Sarderson except his reir’ tonsbip ov marriage to the Lowery family. It w generally asserted that he was @ harmiess man, “bossed” by*his wife. On one of the periodical fuule raids for Henry Berry Lowery the militia, ow the volunteers, amoung whom was Murdoch Mac- Lain, John Taylor, the Purselis, Tom Russell and others, arrested Make Sanderson and Andrew Strong, and, tying their wrists together so tightly that the blood came, marchea them to the house ef Mr. Inman, @ republican, and father of the boy a& verwards KILLED, BY THE LOWEERYS. At Inman’s they got a plough line, and, tying the two more securely, then marched the pair te Jonn Taylor’s, who lived about two miles from Meas Neck, As John Taylor had gone over to the Rouse of his father-in-law, William C. MacNiell, the marck was continued to that point, and here, in the dusk, the party stopped tn MacNiell’s lane, sending mes sages to and [ro until dark. The object of this was to keep the crime within the circie and not put the’ MacNielis in danger of Henry Berry Lowery’s ven- geance. While the negroes were tlea together An- drew Strong, certain that he was going to be shot, gave bis penknife to Ben Strickland, another negra, and told him to give it to his wife, because it was allthatho hadin the world, and he shoaid never see her again. This latter point came out as cir cumstantlal evidence, because afterwards Jobm Taylor attempted to deny that he ever had Anarew Strong in custody when he was brougat before wae Courc for the murder of Make Sanderson. ’ At dark both negroes were brought up to Williant’ 0. MacNiell’s yard, and all the party of capturers took fooa on the piazza, and white there Joha Taylor, a black-eyed, black-haired, bearded, rese- late man and the most determined hunter tnat ever started against the Lowerys, walked ont of we house apon the plasza. Both the negroes fell om their knees and held up their hands, bound as. they were, and cried:— “O, Mr. Taylor, save mylife! Save my life” 4 KU KLUX NERO. Taylor drew back, with his foot half raised,.as iS abvoat to kick them, and he said, bitterly :— “If all the mulatto blood in this country was tr you two, and with one Kick I cowd kick it oat, B would send you all to hell together witn my foot.” ‘The negroes were then taken across MacNelll’s dam, where John Taylor, witnin a few weeks wag to fall gead with the roof of his head shot off, an® marched to the woods north of Moss Neck station, about one mille, until the party reached a sort of wila deli in the lonely country. John Taylor did not accompany the party, but the two Mac- Nellis cid, and also Murdoch MacLain, Tom Rassell, some of the Purselils, aad Johm Paterson, of Richmond county. Andrew Strong, who afterwards related these inote dents to his lawyer, says that bimself and Make Sanderson were now made to stand up togé and asked If they had anything to say, because ! Tina now got to die;and with this their hats were puilé”i down over their eyes with an ostentation of pity. Mgrdoch MacLani, who sppeared to be.tne captain, then erled ont:— “The shooting party will be Nos. 1, 2and.3. Step: out? ; Andrew Strong asserts that No. 2was “Sandy’™ MacNeill, drother-inlaw of Jonn Taylor. Make Sanderson, who appeared perfectly resigned, aske® if they would give him time to pray. aftera litde conference the answer was:—Yes, you may pray.” Strong says that Make Sanderson wnen fell on hig knees and made the most wonderful prayer that he ever heard in bis life, the woods ringing with his loud, frenzied utterances as he spoke of his wife and children, apd finally, negro fashion, he became so earnest that one of the fellows, who had a tower wrapped around his head—as had the majoritp— stepped up and hit Sanderson with the butt of a pistol, saying, “Shut up, you damned nigger! You shan’t make. any such nolse as this if you‘are going to be shot [!? -AFTER THE PRAYER there was some little delay among the assassins, Some of them were evidently growing fright ened between the prospects of vengeance from Sanderson’s connections and Judge Russells Court. This interval Andrew Strong improved to loosen, little by littie, the rope which tied& nis wrists to Sanderson’s, and suddenly getting hig hand ont he rushed into the woods and ran like a deer. They riddled the woods with buckshot and baly, but never saw nim again until he appeared against John Taylor and others in the Court at Lumberton. ‘The remaining negro, who exhibited no desire to Tun, being a weak fellow, without much stamina, was taken back to the mill dam by MacNiell’s house, for the party had lost spirits and feared that tae other negro would inform upon them. Here, tt ts said, they consulted with John Taylor, who sata that Indecision would do no good, and that now the negro had better be killed, since his compantom ‘would spread tne tidings. ; For two days Make Sanderson was not seem. John Taylor and all the vand denied having en- countered him at all. Anegro found him below the mill tail, in the swampy place behind the mill, shot in the abdomen with a great quantity of buckshot, and then agaim shot in the back of the neck, In sach close quarters that his hatr wad pyrned as by tho fasn of a pistol, ‘The man looked as if hé had first been shot and them endeavored to grope his way UB oyt of the water, fox } she palms of his hands and fingers Were torn. The, body was deposited in MaoNiell’s mili and them hastMy buried, but the Magistrase of Lumberton, Parson Sinclair, had it distuterred and the inquese held. The verdict was, “Shot by parties unknows to the jury.’ » Magistrate Sinclair issued warrants for the leadere in this affair, and sent them to prison without ball; but Judge Russell, notwithstanding the high natare of his offence, released John Taylor ona bona of $500, supposealy because Tom Russell was ia the bagi Berry Lowery heard that John Tay- Jor was out on, $600 ball, and that this was consid= ered security enough for the murder of his relative, he satd— MWELL, 1 WILL KILL JOUN TAYLOR; there is no law for us mulattoes,”” ‘Three weeks afterwards, as John Taylor crossed the mill dam, coming down from the house of Bip father-in-law to the station, the gang of outiaws rose from tho swamp within thirty yards of the place where Sanderson had been kilied, and Henry Berry Lowery shot the skull and bratns out ot Tay. Jor and then robbed him of his pocketbook, Thus . perished a man brave, zealous, active and a good » citizen to all but negroes, whom, with the old. fashioned contempt of siaveholders, he regarded, im the language of Judge Taney, as “without rignts that white men wero pound to respect.” Here my letter exceeds bounds, and I will try te finish up the bloody recapitulation in one mo-~ MY GIG,