The New York Herald Newspaper, March 11, 1872, Page 5

SWAMP ANGELS, _ Parther Murders by the Lowery Outlaws. & Comparison with Osceola and the Seminoles. ALIVE OR DEAD. High Rewards for the Capture or King of the Bandits. ‘THRILLING STORIES OF THE SWAMP WAR Oold-Blooded Assassinations, Sudden Murders, Ooo! Robberies, Ruthless Retaliation and Footpad Generosity. eee THE FEUD WITH THE M’NEILLS. the Fight at Wiregrass Landing. Lewery’s Wonderful Escape and Deadly Stratagem. PEARFUL DEATH OF SANDERS, THE SPY. Tortured for Three Days, Bruised, Bled, Pol- soned aud Finally Shot. ROMANCE OUTDONE BY FACTS How the Success of the Gang Demoral- izes Young Scutlletown. THE STATE POWERLESS. Will the Federal Government Interfere ? , WILMINGTON, N. O., March 2, 1872, ‘The astounding feature of the Lowery band 1s that they have so long baflled detection and para- lysed the public spirit and citizen resistance of @arolina, Living upon the border of the North Btate, they ave passed, in their excesses, the boun- Gary line, aud some of the murders have been done g@imost within hearing of South Carolina, Yet, ‘when the State proposed a vigorous campaign ‘against them, and the militia and volunteers wero walled out, a mere handful responded, aud two ©ompantes of regular United States troops were “@nally withdrawn pecause an equal number of e@itizens would not operate with them. Adjutant General Gorham stigmatized the militiain a news paper letter, and said that the regulars, men and e@fficers, obeyed orders and showed cool professional pluck. This campaign was made at the worst sea- won of the year, the heat and miasma rising and the ‘woods and swamps covered with thick, concealing ‘Wegetation, Twenty-eight volunteers enlisted fcr this igno- mminious campaign under Captain Wishart, ‘ine flower of the country,” most of them grown to motive years since tho close of the rebellion. They Were spruce young fellows, fond of a drink and a spree, and 1 am enabled to present some picture of ‘teem from Captain Wisharv’s diary. A GLIMPSE OF THE SWAMP WAR. Tous run four of Wishart’s excerpts:— SATURDAY, August 5.—Mliitia ordered to Lumber- ton; a pretty sight! Negrocs, mulattoes, whites—all ink, without arms, ammunition or anything, only money enough tu get whiskey. LaTex IN Avuaust.—Two of my men ¢runk; One losi his boots, one bis pistol * * and the pilot ‘was drunk * * The red bugs and yellow files would Kill an elephant * *, SaTunpay, October 29, 1871.—Henry Berry, Steve, Andrew and Boss were at Bear Swamp Academy jay at public speaking on educational purposes, had two double-barrelled shotguns apiece. They tured old J. P. Sinclair, who outlawed them, TER IN THE HuNT.—Andrew Strong was seen Saturday, October —,at-——. Complained of belong early worn out. THE LOWERYS AND THE FLORIDA SEMINOLES. As there isa cry for United States interference in the Lowery war, it may be timely to advert toa war held ina similar country in the era of Jackson and Van Buren. THE SEMINOLES “were originaliy Creeks from Georgia. They nam- bered in Florida 1,594 men, and of all sexes and ‘ges 3,899, exclusive of 156 negro men, escaped wlaves, To subdue these Seminoles took a campaign of five years and cost $19,500,000, besides the pay of the regular army anda losses snstained by settlers from Indian ravages. Above twenty thousand yol- teers were calicd out. Osceola, the Seminole brave most distinguished, ‘was thirty-two years of age when tne war broke . @ut; Nat Turner was thirty-one; Henry Lerry Lowery was eigiiteen. Osceola was half white, and his English name was Powell, the same with the Florida assassin of Secretary Seward, who was re- marked to resemble an Indian when he was hanged @t Washington, in 1865, Tue Seminoles brought Anto the field 1,650 Indians aud 269 arms-pearing megroes. Persons familiar with the Horida war trace resemblances between Henry Berry Lowory and the Seminole chief catled Coacooche, or Wild at. Both young men, they made war a predatory pastime, grew merry with excitement, were crucliy active, and they both ridiculed and laughed at tae goldiery foundering in the mud and water to over- take them. ~ ATSITUDE OF THE CAROLINA NEGROES TOWARDS THR OUTLAWS. Im passive allies the Lowerys are nearly as well befriended as the Seminoles, for all ScuMetown wishes them at least no ill, When the troops pur. ued the scoundrels they could hear a peculiar bark ike that of a cur precede them, and die away In the @istance, the mulatto’s warning nove passed irom shanty to shanty to put Lowery on the qui vire, If Soldiery or armed men are on the railway train a movement among the negro train hands will be ob- served as the locomotive approaches the stations of BeuMetown. What happeus in Wilmington to- night will be in the knowledge of the outlaws within af- teen hours, It is this prescient, omnisctent, unac- countable apprehension and intelligence of the Lowery which has stricken the community infested with a dumb terror. The negroes generally in the State show adherence to these colored murderers. The Legislature passed a vill. ratified by the Gov- ernor February 8, 1872, offering a reward of $19,000 for Henry Berry Lowery, and $5,000 for each of the following men:—stepnen Lowery, Boss Strong, Andrew Strong, George Applewhite and Thomas Lowery, 1 was proclaimod as follows:— Now, therefore, 1, Tod R. Caldwell, Governor of the State of North Carolina, by virtue of the authority in mo vested by said act above recited, uo assne this my proclamation offering the following rewards in addition to those heretofore oiterod to ‘bo Paid in currency to the party or parties who shall apprehend ana deliver, dead or alive, any of the poo poh hereinafter named 'to the Sherlif of Rove county. ‘This reward, in addition to a smal) reward offered Broviously by the Stare and another by the county, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 1), 1872-TRIPLE SHEET, brings the price of the band up to bout seventy-five thousand dollars. The attitude of THE BLACK LEGISLATORS ‘was ominous, When the question came up of offering an enlarged reward for these out. laws several republicans, chiefly black members, voted against it, It finally passea by 74 to 18, Cawthorn,; colored, and Fletcher, colored, made speeches advocating it, Mills proposed to increase the reward even more, which Mabson, colored op- posed, Page, colored, offered an amendment to the effect that the reward was not to be considered open for thirty days, and meantime the outlaws be per- mitted to leave the State. Tals was rejected. The yeas ane nays were called. The following persons, among others, avout half of whom were colored, voted against offeriug the reward:—Bryan, Burns, Carson, Hargrove, Heeton, Johnston, Marler, Page, Smith, Reaves and York. This excerpt shows that Lo'y- ery’s popularity is not confined to the negroes of Robeson county, but is considerable throughout the State. He interrupted an educational meetung some time ago with his whole armed band, and de- Mmanded the proceedings of the Legislature to be Tead. The State Adjutant General, Gorham, stigma- Uzed the SouMetonians im his report as deceitful and In collusion with the Lowerys. AFRICAN CHARMS FOR THB BAND, The superstition of this gang of outlaws has veen Suggested as a mode of affrighting them. When Henderson Oxendine was hanged there were found in his coat pockets @ piece of human bone, appar- ently taken from tae human hand, and a quantity of mixed herbs, Being interrogated as to whether their many bloody deeds had not given the surviv- ing bandits visions of ghosts and fears of being haunted by thelr dead, the wife or one of them confessed that, althoagh never hesitating in deter- mination, both Henry Berry and Tom Lowery and Andrew Strong were often blue and mentally uncasy. At this the county newspaper of Ropeson—a very complete and sprightly local paper, edited by a clergyman named MacDiermid—printed a local about the discovery of spiritual artillery, baneful drags, withcraft, &c., intended to be read by the Lowerys, and to fill them with apprehension. ‘These outlaws take the newspapers cally, and some time ago, in hunting over the deserted snanty of Lowery, a copy of the Robesonian was found, with the endorsement torn from the wrapper, and then carried to the publishing ofice and the address was there identified. The person implicated confessed that Henry Berry Lowery gave him the money and ordered him to subscribe vicariously. WHERE DO THEY GET ARMS? The Lowerys probably procure their improved arms—the breech-loaders especially—through some of the more avaricious. country merchants, ana are made to pay heavy rates with the money tiiey have got by robbery. They have depieted the whole re- gion round Scuftietown of guns and pistols. In one cage @ waite family slept on their arms and waiked with them continually; but one Sunday, releasing vigilance, left their guns for a few moments on the piazza, when the Lowery band, lying ta wateb, Fushed up between thei and thelr arms and drove the men to the woods, INCIDENTS OF OUTLAWRY. April 29, 1871, Henry B, Lower} and Boss Strong weat to a house in Richmond county and took two mules and @ wagon out of a citizeu's barn, filled the Wagon with corn and drove In style to Scuiiletown, where the corn was equally distributed. Having no use for horses and ventcles they returned the eam the same day to the owner. May 3, 1871, Henry B, and Steve Lowery and Boss and Andrew Strong went on a robbing excursion to the house of Nr. Parnell, near Scumietown, The tales of the family fled to the woods, the females were bolied away in a retired apartment, and the house despotled. The bandits waited all night for the males to come home, and threatened to kill tem if they inopportunely arrived. One day in October, 1871, & Mr. McNeill was out im the woods hunting coons with a fine dog which velonged to him. As the darkness came on he heard what seemed to be human footsteps around the tree he was watching. Filled with the supersti- tion of Lowery’s band he made haste to get home. Next morning, sure enough, as he sat at Monbeck station, Henry Berry Lowery’ appeared, armed like @ pirate, double-barrelled shot gun, Spencer carbine and five revolvers in his belt, but cool as a cucum- ber. He bad a dead coon over his shoulder, “Mr, McNeill,” he said, ‘'as your dog treed this coon, ‘I thonght tt no more than right to bring 1 to you. I wish you would lend me that dog to coon a little on my own account.’ “No,” said McNeill, “I can’t spare that dog, but I have got another one at home which I might lend Ou. “Oh 1 cried Lowery, “never mind. I guess I can get along without it” And he walked off as ae- murely as an honest neighbor, To show this out- law’s fearlessness, 1t may be instanced that when he went to the house of one McKinsley, near Ked Bank, he pulled off his whole belt of arms and then threw them down on the piazza while he ordered the family to prepare him a meal in a remote apart- ment and partook of It there, The ling white families remaining in Scumie- wn are the McNetii’s, Ed. Smith, Alek McIntyre, lok ra William Kelly, Jonn McNair and the and the Tyners. Tne ablest leader against Lowery has been J. Nicholas MacLain, who has been obliged, neverthe- less, to leave the country aad goto Georgia. Re 4s & lightcomplexioned man, sallow, wiry and beardless. EDITORIAL COURAGE. Mr. James, local editor of tne Wilmington Jour- nal, received a letter from a brother eaitor at Lum- berton atier the safe robocry in February, 1872, to this effect:— All the able-bodied men in town have gone west in pursuit of the outlaws. it is needless to say that I start east by the first train, Olix Oxendine, commonly called Dick, keeps a bar at Lumberton, unable to have any repose ut Scuftietown. His father was the ‘“best-to-do” negro in that settlement, and was for a time County Com- missioner, with a salary of $3 a day. ‘The Lowerys have not always been a peaceful family, even prior to the war, and it 1s related that Jonn Quince Lowery killed @ relative about 1863, and was branded for it in the hand at Lumberton. Several of these outlaws have been acquitted be- fore the Courts. Applewhite was condemned, but broke jatl, a8 did Steve Lowery. Tom Lowery was in Lumberton jail when Henderson Oxendine was hanged in the jail yard, Applewhite been a slave at Goldsboro, and, although a black man, he married a nearly white Oxendine girl. Andrew Strung married aaa Berry Lowery’s sister, ifIam correctly informed. Tom Lowery married a girl of Souffietown named Wilkins, and Steve Lowery married an Oxendine. THE DEATH OF APPLEWQITE, It appears to be well established that Applewhito ts elther dead or laid up from sertous wonnas re- ceived in & combat with the militia, near Red Bank, ‘a Octubder, 1970. He was fired upon and pur- sued, and the bloody tracks im the leaves d bushes showed where he had stopped to rest nd supper. His little daughter tola the Sheriff and posse that he had been hit in the mouth, neck and breast and could not articulate, and that he re- peatediy fainted. His mulatto wife dressed his wounds with spiris of turpentine, and the misera- ble man had then to return to the swamp. Soon after this he was surrounded in Lowery’s cabin, and had to escape as best he might by the aid of the band, in the darkness before the dawn. ; IN THE SWAMPS these outlaws live on little Island-like patches, bur- rowing under brush, and at one place it was found that they had constructed a commodious cabin, They seldom move at night except to do robberies, and take advantage of the darkness to slip into the huts of their relatives and befrienders, LOWERY’S CABIN, The home of Lowery 1s now deserted, and its log walis and doors show tne marks of bullets, shot and balls fired trom the woods and swamps, ‘There are two doors on the sides, opposite each other, and a 5 was at one time concealed in the floor, the hinges bidden or mortisea beneata, nis trap afforded admission to @& sort of mine or covered way, which ran under the surface avout sixty yards to the swamp. This passage way was filied up several months ago, and the house is no longer tenable by the bandits, Here Lowery was surrounded in May, 1871, by Sheriff MacMillan, George Wisehart and’a posse of nine fn all, put, after some exchange of shots, Lowery pulled out a small false closet or buttery by the chimney, acting ay aconceaied door, and ie crept off with his entiro party. THE FIGHT AT WIREGRASS LANDING, A few months later than this, In the autamn sea- gon, he performed an escape of almost incredible audacity, There were twenty-three soldiers ata spot called Wiregrass Landing, and as they Jooked up the narrow cuaunel of the Lumber River they saw Henry Berry Lowery paddling a small, flat-bot- tomed scow, bts pelt of arms unbuckied and thrown jn the bottom of the boat. Instanuly the whole party opened fire, when Lowery, with the agility of a yerTaphDy threw him- self into the water on the remote side of the scow, ulted it up Uke @ floating parapet, aud reaching in, side successfully for his weapons, aimed and firea as coolly as if he were attne head of his band on solid ground, In this position he actually wounded two oi the men and put the whole posse to flight. Sheri? MacMillan vouches for the iiteral truth of this statement. ‘A GENERAL JAIL DELIVERY, Some of the jail breakings of this ery neve been remarkable, May 10, 1871, Henry Berry Lowery and four other men ean appeared in Lumberton jail, where Tom Lowery and Pop Oxendine were heavily ironed. The rescuers bored with augers around the staples of three doors, and also bored around the irons fastened in the floor, when all the party went forth nonchalantly. MURDER OF GILES TNMAN, Mr. Inman was neediessiy killed while bringing up reinforcements to Sheriff! MacMillan, Inman was © youth of eighteen or twenty, and a resoiute spirit to cleanse the county of its marauders, Tho Sheri! of the county had surrounded Henry Berry Lowery’s house and had shown the whtte feather, with a large part of his posse; and, therefore, there was a sturdy cry for the reserves, Asin the ballad of Horatio, ‘Thore behind cried, “Forward 1 And those {0 front'erlea, "Back Lowery, meantime, had secretly and like a snake Slipped out of his cabin, and he panted for blood, ‘Throwing himself down tn the bushes near the paty, only 600 yardp Jrom ily house, whero the white Duaters lay in force, he ordered nis band to pick off the advancing 4 sertatim. His own carbine brought down Gi instantly. At the same instant Roderick Thompson, another vol mortally wounded by Boss £e7, was badly Renee MURDER OF MURDOCH AND HUGH MACLAIN. The murder of the two brothers, Murdoch ana Hage MacLain, was achieved while they rode to- gether along the public road in an open buggy, and accomplished after long and cool deliberation. They had several times approached the dwelling of thera young men, and rattled chains and stirred up the domestic fowls and animals, out Murdoch was too dent to come out. He was a superb specimen of ns pees a ‘ pashersuiny r capanle ck now! merit in a neg! accom) with humility, and atthe murder of Alien Lowery by the neighborhood he was second 1o command, As he was riding slong Henry Berry Lowery fro ‘biiad” at the ere le and at close quarters snapped his gun, Murdocn reached for bis arms, which he carried with Was soleiy revenge, In killing nry Berry Jawan. shen the blood of one of the highest youth- ful spirita in that region, but one, unfortunately, whose record against the cojored race was long and hard and dark, MURDER OF HECTOR AND A. T, MACNRILL AND WIL LIAM BROWN. The murders of Hector MacNeill, A. MacMillan and William Brown happened in the sammer of 1870, Within signt of a large camp of troops and al- recy Laon. the raiiroaa track near Buie’s station. It been deemed sagacious to make prisoner the wile of Henry Berry Lowery and to deposit her and her children in Lumoerton Jall as an accom- Plice of the outlaw chiel, Filled with rage at this act Lowery and his gang made thelr way rapidiy across the swampy country- and, throwing themselves down behind some de- cayed railway tier, walted like panthers for the sol, diery to appear, They came, leading the mulatto woman and her children, jocular and unsuspecting. Suddenly there were a series of reports of firearms, and the three Fertons named wera down on the track moaning 10 he anguish of mortal wounds. The woman and children were left standing on the track and the rest of the escort party ran away more or 1ess in- jured with buckshot, Berry Barnes was shot In the ad and Aleck Brown in the ankle, The troops fired the coms riddled the woods with ball, but the creatures of the swamp were nowhere to be seen, and the woods resumed their melancholy and silence. The three victims belonged to the best families of whites in that region, and their sum- mary fate filled the whole country side with the pall of woe and terror. Society seemed to have be- come disrupied, the law without avail, and ven- geance without call or reach of God or man. I talked on this matter with two of the intimate white neighbors of the Lowerys—viz,, MacNeill and McLeod. MacNeillis a@ little, thick set, aged ae with hard, twinkling eyes and homespun jothes, “T think [ ought to have some sympathy,’ he said; “I have been robbed time and again, my wife and daughter shot at my threshola, my son-in-law, ‘lay- lor Wulard, and his family returned upon my bands for support and my seas banished irom tueir coun- try on penalty of death.” “They have robbed me,’? said McLeod, ‘of above three thousand dollars, compel me to give them food and set it out on iny table for them, and when my wife said the other day to Heary Berry Lowery Arne he had impoverished us, he answered cool- “Well, I always know where to come when I want anything,’ “They took my watch,” resumed McLeod, ‘and stopped me the other day aud seized my pockct- book. Lowery 1ooked over its contents and satd, ‘Sixteen dollars, 1s that your whole pile? Well, I won't take tat.’ “I have no desire to see any vengeance done to them,” concluded McLeod, “if they will only leave the country and never return, 1 say let them go, for reaily this band looks like as if it would never be caught and never give us any peace.’ THE MURDER Ol DANIEL AND MACNEILL WLEOD. In Moore county, a night’s ride from Scuitictown, & party of disguised men killed Daniel and MacNeill McLeod and staboed two women anda boy. The motive was apparen'ly robbery, as the victims were supposed to have been in receipt of a larze sum of money, and, as a horse and bug@y had been stolen the previons night near Shoe Heel, the act was sup- posed te have been committed by Lowery's band. ‘The perpetrators o/ the act were never discovered but a negro neighbor of the McLeods was shot dead by the citizens on suspicion of having been a spy of tie Lowerys. It is not that oear this band is charge- able With the stime. ‘fhe story of John Taylor's death was partly re- cited in a previous letter, but as a crime, aud not merely as a codicil to the death of “Make"’ Sander- son, it deserves repetition. THE MURDER OF JOHN TAYLOR, January 14, 1871, Henry Berry Lowery murdered Jehu Taylor, the most de;ermmed and uncompro- mising Or his pursuers, at Moss Neck, on the mill dam, within two hundred yards of soldters on guard at the railway staticn. The outlaws had Previously robbed Taylor, threatened him, and sent im word that he should be ktled on sight, ‘Taylor had spent the previcus night with his father-in-law, WHitam (©. Macweill, who lived a short way {rom the depot, Saturday morn- ing, at eight o'clock, he started with Malcolm D. MacNeill toward the depot to meet the train. Henry Berry Lowery and two others suddenly rose up from the swamp beside the dam, and Henry Berry fired a shot gun turec feet from Taylor's head, sending the whole charge through his head and temples, blow- ing off part of the skull, and fragment of the brain fell into the milldam and floated down agatnst the bank with the current. Steve ide almost in- stanuy fired at Malcolm MacNeill, Henry Berry Lowery ran out of the swamp, seized the quivering body of Taylor by the legs and robbed it of $50 The troops at the depot rushed u spot where the outlaws disappeared into the swamp and fired, and tae same evening the Lumberton muilttta took to the swamps, twenty-five in number, and stayed out all night. Not finding anything tne people began to advocate bloodhounds as the only Way of tacking up the desperadoes. THE MURDER OF JOHN SANDERS. No crime kaown to modern society presenta such dark, medieval features as the kiliny of Sanders, & detective police officer irom Boston and a native of Nova Scotia. It was the concluding portion of @ career of wild adventire, and to this day the people of Robeson county turn pale at tne bloody reminiscence. Sanders was one of several men who have sought to obtain the large reward offered for these dutlaws, dead or alive, in @ sum in gross equal to a nand- some little fortune, and he was accredited by the Sheriff of New Hanover county to three or tour white republicans of Scutletown. Sanders appears to have been desticute of honor; bus his scheme of capturing these men was a shrewd one. Aware that they were anxious to leave the swamps and get safely out of the United states to Mexico, or, at least, to the frontier country, he proposed to show them the way, assume to be their protector and friend, aud ultimately to give them up on the road py arranging, beforehand, to have thea intercepted at some port in South Caroltpa or Georgia. Atthe time Henry Berry Lowery fathomed this design and siew Sai. ders tor nl¥ treachery a wagon had been prepared and packed, and the outlaws had fully agreed to blip o1f, escorting their movables and families under cover of the woods and broken country. ‘Lo bind them to his confidence by extraordinary means Sanders prostitated the rites of Masonry and ORGANIZED MASONIC LODGES in the Scuiietown region while leaching a sinall neyro school in that vicinity. He spent eighteen months of persevering cunning to win the sceptical hearts of the bandits, but became himself corrupted by their females, and reck- Jess of speech and association. Being suspected and looked upon with an evil eye for living among the muiattoes and teaching them, Sanders also Joined the Ku Klux to appease the white population, ‘and, 1t is rumored, was concerned in several night enterprises, whippings and vigils. Here we have the perfection of Goviin reality—a man sworn into Masonry and, also, the Invisible Empire, for the purpose of bringing a band of outiaws to justice, Sanders was a sioop-shouldered, thin-visaged, hook-nosed man, Wita a broad, sharp forenead; he had keeness of apprehension and undoubted bold- ness. He died as he had lived, im mystery, aud out of the sight or reach of pitying man, and there is reason to belleve that his fale was to be attributed to the want of caution of some of ue county au- vnorities who had learned his purposes. SANDERS’ CAPTURE BY THE LOWERYS. In the middte of December, 1870, Saniers estab- lished @ camp in a “bay” near Moss Neck, cluse by the house of William 0, MacNeill. Sanders was & loose talker, and bad informed many persons of hts object, and ‘MacNeii's sons visited him in his secret camp and gave bim advice and informauon. Ac- cording to the statement of one of the MacNeill boys, made before he was warned out of the country, there was a rendezvous of several of the neighbors called at Sanders’ camp on Sunday, November 20, 1870, Some of the young men got to the camp at four o'clock In the aiternoon, but MacNeill did not arrive until seven o'clock, AS he walked down toward the “bay”? the young men slipped up to him aad, with ghastly faces, wilspered that they were all surrounded and that to move would be certain death, covered, as they all were, by the shot guns and pistols of their besiegers, The impetuous MacNeill reached his hand toward his pistol, when four men rose up in the bushes close beside him— namely, Henry Berry Lowery, Stephen Lowery, Georgo Applewhite and Boss Strong, Henr; rry Lowery advanced, with a cool, flend- ish look, and took MacNeill’s repeater from its case, and told him to make himseif at home that night, for he would be detained. MacNeill, disarmed, joined the other prisoners around the outiaw’s hag, fire, After duak Henry Berry Lowery led MacNeill off from the camp Into the swamp and said:— “God damn your soul, I want you to tell moe where Sanders is. He is expected nere, If you don’t tell me where he is and why he don’t conic I will Kill you dead, I intend to kill you anyhow by I get Sanders, You bad better own right up Not obtaining anything from MacNeill, the outlaw walked lim back to the fire, and, after a litte time, Steve Lowery took MacNeil! out for a like purpose. Steve Lowery (old MacNeill that if he did not make a clean breast of his Knowledge of Sanders Henry Berry Lowery would make the whole gang ridul nim, Steve showed MacNeill a pack of caras wh he had purchased at te Scotch fair, afew miles Trom Shoe Heel, and remarked, “We boys go any+ where, and THE WHOLR COUNTRY BELONGS TO US.’ Young MacNeill testities that all that night mes- sengers Were sent out to confer with invisible per- #0n8, Whose voices were heard on the rond siae, ‘These posted sentinels and the ontlaw leaders in camp kept up communication all mght Jong, apd toward daylight the bandits grew very impatient and threatened their prisoners. many times, At early dawn, steve Lowery bell ‘d, the detained prisoners heard his voice cry, “Halt!” and neard several other voices belonging. to persons not seen in the camp. Almost immediately the voice of Ranaent the detective, was heard, saying, “1 sur- Henry Berry Lowery, George Applewhite and Henderson Oxendine now ran out and the com- mand was heard to take the prisoner on to the Back Swamp, Jo @ few moments Henry Berry is brother Stephen returned, saying, have got the buck we wanted.’? Lowery then turned to Malcolm Mac- Neill and said, “God damn you, I have a great mind to kill you right here. Lo w have kiled ou before, “You have been hunting me for years. ‘ou are young, stout and healthy, Lowever, and I don't want to take your blood, I hate to interfere with you and your people; but you have already done so much to have me hanged or shot that it would ve right I should kill yourignt here. I will let you go this time, however; put you make yonreelt scarce in this country. Your folks may p that shel at Moss Neck; bus you won’t know when your time has come. ‘Get out of uns country mighty quick, Your father may stay here it he wants to, but TELL HIM TO WALK A CHALK LIN’? Young MacNeil then retired, covered with the ride ot bis unappeasable foe, and he los’ no time ip obeying commands and quitung the country. San- ders, whose voice he rec , Was mever seen in by Mortal eyes except by the outlaws. early a month alter the arrest of Sanders, and on the testimony of the people detained at his camp by the Lowerys, three persons were arrested as accomplices 10 the murder and charged with being epndians of the road and entrappers of the unfor- juuate Sanders. These were Dick Oxendine, who now keeps a@ barruom at Lumberton, Jobn iP son and Robert Ransom, The end of the unfortunate Sanders was related by Henderson Oxendine, one of the outlaws, prior to execution, anu 1s fully confirmed by Heury Berry Lowery himself, who said:—‘‘fae efiicleacy and moraé ol my command compelled me to kill ders, We all pitied uim, but if [ haan’t kised nim I Would have had no right vo Kill John Taylor or any vf the rest? . They marched Sanders to @ secret camp on a smal islana in Back Swamp, near tue residence of the late Zach T. Onwndier, and proceeded. forth- With, with devilish maliguity, to torture bim, by firing volleys over bis head, bruising him with gun- stocks and cluos, and dally by administering doses of arsenic to him and OPBNING HIS VEINS WITH A PENKNIFE, 2 days, or until Thursday, these hor- rible wretches surrounded thetr white victim, their dull biue eyes caluly enjoying his agonies, and he reminded every hour that escape or mercy were hopeless. Human or savage nature, happily, scldom presents a picture 60 atrocious as one decoyed and disappointed man guarded tn che wild swamps of Carolina, but almost withio sound of Christian fire. sides, looking into inevitable and violent death after days of pain. The victim’s fortitude and philosephy earned the respect of his murderers, and before carrying his sentence mto execution they permitted him to write a farewell letier to his Injared wife and family, whica they postea by mail with @ sort of grim ‘and military ooservance of justice, The object of keeping Sanders ullve tor the etter part of a week tas not been explained— whetner due to divided counsels, love of persecut- ing him wile still alive, or the desire to wrest information from hin, ide had reason to lament that he ever leit iis residence and associations in enlixhtened New Engisnd, to die thus miserably tu the swamps -of the Pedee region, among the human moccasins tuat tafested it. On Tharsday night the outlaws told Sanders that his tine had come, aud they blindfolded nis eyes and tied him to a tree. He made afew words of a prayer and gave a signal, and at once sceve Lowery, the darkest Indian of the group, EMPTIED BOTH BARRELS OF HIS SHOT GUN Into the heipless wretch. Alter the hanging of Oxendine, a party of twenty. five soldiers and citizens, led by Mayor Thomas and Lieutenants Horne and Simpson, toliowed the direc- tions given by Oxendine, and, without diticulty, found the camp where Sanders had been confined, It was in the densest part of the swamps, and scat- tered around were tle spade used for digging the grave and some cooking ulensils, They proceeded to search for the remains, and found them decenuly wrapped in a@ blanket, and de- posited face up, with the hands folded in a dignified manner, and the daugerreotype of THE MURDERED MAN'S WIFE reverently placed upon his breast. These cool particularities aud deliberations make the tra- gedy even more heinous by the awe which they in- spire, If 18 murder with the appearance of gove- reignty and martia: right, The occurrence will frighten the rising geueration of Carolina for the century to come, THE ANARCHY CAUSED BY THE LOWERYS. One looks tn vain for any other cause of tuts fate- ful and scandalous state of asfatrs in an old ana sedate part of Norih Carolina than the anomalous tact of a large free negro se.lemeat 10 a period of slavery, and the shiftiess, predatory and insolent dominion of afew tamilies in it of corrupted and savage blood, which could be tamed with auificuity and never quite subjugated, Freedom tel with al- most tropical heat aud spontaneity upon this settie- ment and wariied ty active life the Lowery vipers, who proudly essayed to compete in military quall- ties with the late siavenolders and Contederate sol- qiery. Party politics has only availed to intensily, prolong and dgulfy this strife, wile meantime murders reach the score and the robberies are in- humerable, Euough can be gaia on the side of the Lowerys to give them acrifie of an apology, but tue conditvioa of things 13 now such that all’ classes of the population are interested tn the death and over- throw of these scoundrels, who are worse than Ku Kux—they are Apaches. They are turning the heads of the colored people and prompting negro imitators, and THE VERY CHILDREN OF SUFFLETOWN are growing up barbarians with the just for plan- der and rapine. Thore 1s 11ttle to choose betiveen the politictans of the rival parties. Tue undousted existence of Ku Kiuxism—now perished atterly and = without mourners or apologisis—has made the republicans taxe the part oi the Lowery gang a3 & hecessary re- action and return of resistance, But the Lowery feud vegan in 1803, beiore the Confederacy was suppressed, and proceeded eatirely from causes in- separaple from the war. ‘The leader of tne gang, and, indeed, all associated with it, have shown a ferocity, a premeditaiion aad an insolence frightful to understand and destructive of all example and order. ‘Ine State and county authorities have doue their best aud accompjished noting. The despera- ton and confidence of the outiaws 18 greater than ever. They tear nothing and terrify all. Can Congress or the President permit the colored peuple of the South to be longer debauctied by this spectacle of a few me. of color deiying a State? SAD DEATH OF A STOCK BROKER, From Wealth to Poverty—The Reealt of Frequenting the Gaming Table. For the last fifteen years Mr. Benjamin Lyman Millard, a gentieman of education and Ane business quaiifications, has lived in this city, a portion of which time he was bookkeeper in the banking house of the Messrs. Matthew Morgan’s Sons, William street. Subsequently leaving thas firm, Mr. Millard became a stock broker in Broad street, aud by strict attention to business accumulated ‘a handsome fortune. At a later period, unfortunately for Mr. Millard, he became fascinated with the gaming table, which he frequented too often for his own ood, loss of fortune and friends of former years ing the result, With lis pecuniary distress came failing health, and for some time past Mv. Millard has been liable to die at almost any moment, Shortly nefore twelve o'clock on Friday night he was found bleeding in front of Mclintyre’s restaurant, 1,164 Broadway, and taken inside, where he sat down and died in a few moments afterwards trom hemorrhage of the lungs. As Mr, Millard lay dead on the floor several sporting men wio came in recognized him as a man who had often fre- quented @ neighboring gambling hell and invested hts money in the game of “faro,”’ The sports said de- ceased was reckless and bet heavily, and doubtiess that 19 the way in which $60,000 has slipped turough his hands during the last two years. Several of Mr. Millard’s friends yesterday called at the Coro- ner’s office and thelr writcen statements were lakeit by Deputy Coromer Cushman, which developed no new or iunportant facts, In possession of deceased \was found about $12 in money, a few smait articles and a letter, the following of which isa copy. The letter shows to what desperate straits Mr, Millard had become reduced financially :— New York, March 7, 1872, Colonel W. R. VeRMInyE :— DEAR Sin—I havo been unfortunate tn the loss of over fifty thonsand dollars during the past two years ani redueed to extreme poverty and destitution, ~ and grief have very much snjured my health, now and hope 8000 to obtain a situation Ployment whereby Tean earn a living and get along again. want to aak of, you asslatance to the amount of B20 oF $10, which if you will be kind enough to grant I shail ever feel grateful to you, and I trust tt will not be long before I shail be tn better circumstances again. Very respect air, B. L. MILLARD. There was also another letier of similar import found in possession of deceased, but notin an en- velope, and for whom it was intended did not appear. Phe body of Mr. Millard was sent to the Morgue, where Dr. Cushman will make @ post-mortem ex. amination, and alter the Inqnest the remains will be taken to Connecticut, the place of his birth, for interment, Deceased has left a family and many respeciable and wealthy friends in this city, RIVER THIEVES CAPTURED, Two Hundred and Seventy Dollars’ Worth of Silk Stolen from a Wharf, On the night of Saturday, the 2d inst., a watch- man on pier 46, East Kiver, noticed two men prowl. ing avout the dock, whereon was stored a large quantity of teas and silks which had that day been discharged from the ship Birdstone. At first the watchman thought they were employés on some of the vessels lying near, and therefore did not dis+ turb them. Very soon, however, he noticed thei take up a@ chest of tea and start off with it. He called to them, when they dropped the tea and caught up @ case Of slik, Valued at $270, which they carriea to the end of the wharf and threw into a small boat, The watchman ran after them, but only reached the edge of the pier just to see the boat contaming the two men and thelr plunder disappear in the dark. ness, Information was given to tie police, on the aivength of which Officers Jotm J. Doyle and Patrick Lawier, of the Twenty-fourth precinct—police boat—Saturday last, arrested William Wilson and ‘Thomas Fay, two notorious river thieves, who were esterday taken before Judge Dowhiug, at the Tombs eae Gear, 4nd committed in deiauit of $1,000 cb, VIRGINIA VENGEANCE, | Another Murder by a Southern Aristocrat. JEALOUSY, HATRED AND MALIUE. Carson Shoots Clinebell at a Croquet Party in Greenville. 4 HANDSOME BELLE IN THE CASE. The Lady Receiving and Car- rying Slander. Excitement and Screeming of the Females—Car- son’s Determination to Kill—He Leaves the Party and Despatches His Vic- tim the Instant He Dismounts from His Horse. The Trial, Court and Audience in Staunton. FIRST DAY’S PROCEEDINGS. STAUNTON, Va, March 4, 1872. Even in this comparatively thinly populatea and Modestly inclined region the assassin’s pistol nas been heard, and the soil, unstained with human blood since the close of the rebellion, has been damped by the gore of an innocent victim. Unitike the great cities of the North, where muraers are committed and horrors datly perpetrated of such character that the wildest imagination shrinks from their contemplation, and without which the journals of your city would seem to be devoid of interest, we are peacefut in our habits, and a tragedy such a6 the present, occurring amtd society of the most respectable order, has created the most mtense ex- citement, which, frum the day it was chronicled, has not subsided im the slightest degree. Our fathers in the flesh at Richmond occastonally treat us to @ farce in the Legislature, and sometimes the “gemmen’ afterwards deadly combat, selecting a distance from each other beyond the range of their pistols, and gallanuy charge at tho sun or the moon, according to the time of meeting, then shake hands and swear eternal friendship. This, of course, would be barm- wound aboat four inches; tore open his snirt the wound; remained with niu antl his death; died 1m some five or tea minuves alter receiving the wound; BAW CLINEBELL BEFORE HE WAS SHOT; be passed me on bis Way up the road; he was riding a c jolt; KNOW it was a colt, for it shied and seemed frightened when he passed me; spoke to bim and he bowed to me; saW nolitog aniisnai in his manuer; having been Lnvited vo join the croquet party I jomed them at Mrs. Gravam’s, where they assembled; the rest of the party starved some titty yards ahead ot ; the party consisted of David Zuomerman, John Wilson, Rovert Palmer and iwy- sell, accompanied by Misses Hutchison, susan Graham, Anna Smith aad Kosa Graiam; do aot kuow when Carson joined the party; he passed me at Mrs, Graham’s ‘in company with Mr. iiten; banded him a croquet ball aud asked Dim to carry 1t; did not see the parties before | heard the report Ol the pistol; after Carson glanced at me ne fired as quickly a3 ne couid raise and pull the trigger; they were distant about twenty-five or thirty fect, Carson jast inside a pair of bars, Ciuevell on the opposite side of tne road from Carson; saw nothing in B14 hand; did not know why Clinebell was ta Greenville; ne tives southwest of Greenville, and was going towards home on lis usual road. (By Balawin)—Carson and Fitch were not with the party when they first started; joined tnem atter- wards; there was no intrusion in Carson thus joie ing the party, being ACQUAINTED WITH ALL THE YOUNG LADIRY and on terms of social intercourse with them; I was near negate to Mr. Hiser’s lane when Clinenetl Passed me; did not see him dismount; had already dismounted wuen I saw him alter | heard the re- port of the pistol; don’t suppose his imtention was to Join the croquet party; tnougat oe Was op lis way ho:ne; do not Know Whebber he Was acquainted with the young ladies or sob; don’t Know where the rest of the party were; whea 1 neard the repors of the pistol Carson seemed to lave just through; saw no one with him; [| was with Miss Rosa Graham; Clinevell was a large man, would weigh about two hundred pounds; regarded hun a9 @ Man of uncommon streagth; He Was young, abons twenly years oid; he was & much stronger man than Carson, and would not have had mach didt- culty in overcoming Carsoa In a Laud to hand fight; Carson, 1 suppose, 13 about the same age, rather slender and spare, igus about 130 or 140 pounds EVIDENCE OF JOHN WILSON, Jonn Wilson being introduced, (estifed—f was Present ai the shooting ; on the evening of the ist Of September | went witha party from Greenville to @ Heid of Mrs, Graham’s near that place to play croquet; the party consisted of four couple—Mr, Zimmerman and Miss Hutcaison were in front, Mr. Patmer and Miss smith followed, myself and Miss Sue Granam next, aud dliss Rosa Graham aud Dr Gilbam beuind ; when 1 got to the bara where we Were to leave the turnpike, while f was aselsting Miss Gratam over the bars, the prisoner, Mr, Carson and Mr. Fitch came up, and | think Uarson assiased Miss Graham in crossing; { nad onty gone a tow yards when | heard a voice calling to Carson, swy- ing, “Charley, 1 want to Lave a Little settlement witht! you this evening ;’ on turuimgl saw Carson with both hands uader bis Coat tau ; he drew @ pistol aud commenced firing; the first attempt tne pistol snapped ; he fired twice aiterwurd ag quickly a3 @ man could raise the bammer and draw we triguer, auc retreated some distauce from the road, holding lus’ pistol presented towerd the direc Uon of Chnevell; atter tie fist fire Miss Graiam ran toward Carson; Clinevell spoke in the manner of one frignu Lo another; i did not oe 2 anything dn iis bianner indicating anger or ysentment; £ did not see Cunepell until etter he spose; when £ turaed he ‘3 in the act of dismouuting; he then stood, Wilh lis back to his hor and the relas in his rigot hand or over his righe arm, hear the op- posite side oi the road from we bars; be had notiiaAg i his Nand; the lates called out not meet in hans ulter the pistol snapped; i think tts call was made by Miss Grataw between the soap and the exolosion; we were distant ten or twenty paces jvom Carson; the parties were, 1 think, twemy to twenty-five teet apart; do nut rememvoer whea I saw Carson and Clineveil last together before the shoovurs; a Very few seconds ela 1 between tne calling out of Ciiaebeil and the shoo CLINERELL WAS IN GREENVILLE less piay were if not that the pernicious practice is likely to be imitated by others more determined in their efforts at extermination, who would not, like Tennyson’s hero, ‘aim the moon,” nor accept the Interpretation of chivalry in wie same sense, THE MURDERER AND HIS VICTIM, ‘That the erime should have been committed at the tme and manner it did was suflicient to create a lively interest, apart from the social stanalng of the parties concerned. Charies C. Carson, the murderer, is a young man, of about twenty years of age, member of a famliy of the highest respectability, formerly of Augusta county. He is tall, has a fine personal appearance and a commanding and polished manner, of good address, intelligent and ready in conversation, Wears side whiskers and a slight mustache, aud Was considered by all who Knew him asa youth | likely to make his mark fa whatever position fate might consign him, His victim, D. B. Clinebell, was of about the same height, much more muscular, Immensly atrong, and les3 prepossessing in appearance, bat well educated and extremely sensitive; capable of reseung to the utmost any discourtoay cr ungontlomanly conduct or invidious language. Clinebeil possessed a re- markably clear intellect, however, and it was thought he was studying for the law, thongi at the time of nis death he was engaged alternately at an academy and managing his father’s farm affairs, THE HERO OF THR CROQUET PARTY. On the 2ist of September last, Carson and several others, including a company of ladies, haa made up a croquet party in Greeaville, a small viliage about twelve miles from this place, ou the Lexington road. Several gentlemen of prominence were in the fiell, and tne ladies had began the game. Suddenly Carson left the party and rushed toward a side road down which Clinebell was proceeding on horseback, Arriving opposite the croquet party, and being known to a Miss Graham and several others on the ground, the horseman dismounted and was stand- ing at the side of his horse, when he hexrd the report of a pistol, and iustantly afterwards found he was wounded in the arm, Turning immediately in the direction 1rom whence the report came he saw Carsou with a pistol in his right hand and a small cloud of smoke rising above his head, but before he could spring out of the road another shot was fired and he fel, dying shortly afterwards, Such is a brief résumé of the first act in the drama. A VIRGINIA BELLE LMPLICATED. Carson was arrested, and after much dificnity and waste of time he was lully committed here for trial. The cise had considerable signilicance, inas- much as it was hinted that the young lady above referred to was the agent, however uacon:ciousiy, through whom the trouble originated, and who | conveyed to Carson certain statemen's which she had beard from Clinebell in confidencs refiveting unfavorably on Carson, his fluruug, bad temper aud ungentiemanly conduct. The Augusta county Court House is an old- fasnioned, odd-looking building, desplie the efforts of modern architecture to remodel and beautily tt. It is roomy, however, and, uolike many buildings devoted to such purposes Iu Virginia and Mary- land, the acoustic arr: ents are excellent, and | one need not strain bis aural faculties to an un- pleasant degree in order to hear what 1s golug on. GREAT EXCITEMENT AT THE TRIAL. This morning the Court House was crowded with @ fashionabie and highly Intelligent audience ione beiore the me forthe opening of the trial whlch was to determine whether or not Charies Carson Was or Was not to pay the extreme penalty for the murder of young Clinebell, and which is likely to be entered on te records as one of the most remark- able trials of the State, Tae Court was opened by Judge Mendren at ten o'clock. The Commonwealth was represented by Captata James Baumgardner, and the defence by Messrs. Baldwin, Cochran, smith and Eider. Judge Huyle W. Sheppey had been employed tor the prosecution, but was not present, being detained in Baltimore by sickness. So great is the excilemeut manilesied throughout this place that the jury had to be summoned irom another part of the county. As the trial proceeded the interest of the spectators visibly increased, and before twelve o'clock the house was IIterally jammed, | the galleries were filled aud every available space was ocenpied, It Was Imposstbie to Keep the crowd bi aud late this evening tie enclosure for the Har was filled, the crowd pushing up ciose benind tue prisoner, counsel and reporters. THR PRISONER AND THE JURY, At half-past eleven o'clock the prisoner entered the court room, and took his seat Just pelind his coun- sel. The prisoner was then atralgned, and the ine dictment read. A jury of twenty-four having been summoned and examined one by one, the (ollowing twelve meny were selected, viz.:—Silas Barger, Giaeon KR. Baurchart, Samuel KR. Bell, Same! Braneman, St. Clair Coyner, A. G. Fulton, Join W, Hopewel, Hiram Hulman, Robb G. Leckie, J. A. Fawver, Charles 5, Patterson, lienry A, Paimer. The indictment was M read, and the prisoner pleaded “Not guilty.” The witnesses for the Com- monwealth were then called and sworn, At the re- quest of the counsel for the prisoner the witnesses for the Commonwealth were separated. TESTIMONY OF DR. GILILAM, Dr. Giiham, the first witness for the Common- Wealth, was then called to the stand and testified a foilows:—I Was present when Clinebell was sit was on my way trom Greenville to play croquet wit! a party of young ladies and gentiemen, 1 @ field belonging to Mrs, Gratiam, a short distance from Greenville; was accompanied by Misa iosa Granam; as we were Walking aiong the road, some dt behind the rest of the party, 1 heard the report pistol; looked up aud saw Carson with a pistol in his right hand, standing tustde of @ pair of bats S leading from the road into the fleld; he ha She pe tol pointed toward Ciinebell; Tran forwar oo = cried out, “Don't shoot)? Carson gianced 10 mi direction and then turned oof head one ry AY Jineb og standing Will Bit shi val Garson, woo. wee in the Heid, some twenty-five or when Carson fired Clinebell Jace, staggered forward OT0 thirty feet distant; when, 8 arin before his and fey when. 1 saw Carson again he was thirty of uty yards back m the Held; Lam a doctor, made an examination; found a wound in leit arin, ond anotber in jeit breast, bear the nipple; probed | Im a lever to Carson; U and we started just as school was tet out; Ulla was upon ius road home; le lives two or tliee nules from Greenville; don't remember sec.ng Pitch after heartag sound: have not seea Carson and Otinevell together often of late, since Carson letarned irom Buliimore; from the bars you cant see down the (to Greeaville more than haift Way, but by looking across the fence you can see the churcite TRSTIMONY OF OMARLES FITCH, Was preseut at the shooting; Carson and mysolt walked up street togetier und reached a pair of bars eatering Mrs. Gratiu: fieli; Clinebell came up OD & Colt, and the Colt sided across the road, and he called out to Carson, saving, “i want to have @ hitue settioment with you this evening; 1 walked on, and tea looked around and saw Carson wit a pistol ms hand and Cunebeli wih his hand on his bridie; I moved away wiica L saw the platol and cailea out, “LOOK out, boys,” Carson fred once, then qnickty again, and Cline. belt stepped forward, staggered, and foll on the side of the road next Carson; I then went to Clinevel!, and Dr. Gina arrived at about the same time; we examimed Clinepell for the wounds and thea carried him into the fteid, where he soon died; saw Carson in confectionery store in Greenville; spoke to him and asked himit he would go witn us (0 play croquet; We first caught up Witt Dr. Gilbuin and Rosa Graham; they were hot Jar attend of us; Koew Clinebell was going vo school in Gresaville, and thought the setdement he mentioned Was some business affair between them; knew of no ill feellug beuveen them; don’t remember who was wearest to Uarsoa—Clinebetl or 1; Ciunebeil Was across the road; nis clothes were taken Of when they washed and dressed the corpse; dO not Know Whether anyuody searched bis pockets before I did or not; Uns was about eleven o’ClOck Ul Light, tho cole fouewed whan wo toox Cunebvell home, TESTIMONY OF MISS ANNIE S3tITH. Miss Annie Smit sworn—\Vas prescut, and next tothe drst couple, Miss Ifuicheson and Mr. Zam merman; patty started from Greenville, don’t know what time in the evening; no sciwolvoy staried with us; I heard the first fire and saw Mr. Clinebell fall; saw Carson with a pistol in his anand; saw my cousin, Miss S. Graham run toward him; only re, mained a very few moments. ROSA GRAHAM ON THE STAND. Miss Rosa Graham said she was with the croquet party, with Dr. Gilnam; the rest of the party were ahead; Clmebell passed usin the road between tie bars and Hiser’s lane, on worseback, In a tros; heard toe first pistol; then Knew lor the first time of the dimticulty; could not see Mr. Carson; Clinebett was on the opposite side of the road; knew Mr, Fitch and Mr, Carson were gotng with the party; I saw a croquet pall in Carson's daud; Carson was acquainted with the young ladies; associuted with them; Clinebell had no acquatmtance with me: 1 knew Carson aud Cliluebell were not good Iriends, THE DELICATE POINT. Here the counsel for the defence desired to’ ask Miss Graham as lo the relations existing between her end the prisoner; whether they did not occupy tho relation of persons engaged to be married—with a view of introducing testimony to show that Uline- Dell, Stung by some imiugined or real aifront from Miss Grahaw, Had threatened to attack Carson in her presence. Atter some debate tne Court per- mitted tie question. The sileuce of death reigued inthe Court House while the couasel for the de- asked the dviieate question, so framed that 16 mugut be answered With a monosyilable. Ib was @ time before the veautifal girl, who Was so situation, could re- spond on account of her sobbing, and then, drytag her tears, she looked steadily af the Senior couused end di ded. IF THAT QUESTION WAS ¥ NECESSARY tome cise. He replied that fe certainly thoughe su. Si wed her head tu wésent and suak her face in her hands, She kuew from otuer parties besides: Carson that le and Ciimebeu ere not good friends; that she had made unfavorable mention of Ciinevall at Clue dell had brought & rand given ition tua person to delkver to it was alter that thayh rd of the wufriendiiness the partics; Carson had sid ta bis letter that he regretted Jetter irom Carson 10 } the knowledge of her opinion of Cliuebell contained in that letter coming to the Saowledge of the Cline bel) family. 3 TESTIMONY, Miss Su Graham testided—Was with the croquet party; just atter I had ed through (he bars f heard Cimebe peak to carson; told fim he wisned to have @ setuement Witt atv that evening; Walked ona few steps and heard the pistol shot; turned and ran towards Carson; he repeated tue fire belore 1 reacaed fim; took hold of itt. and asked nun Why ge had doue it, and fe satt he did itin sel defence, and that Clinebdeii Was carcying @ pistol for him; as Clinebelt spoke I tarned aud saw hue and then walked on; all the ladies were scred pose i did so too; was very much frighteved, suppose I screamed when Lt { the snot and Carson about to shoot again; dil not know Cline was killed wauil t leit tae id: L know that 0: said What I have told you, wev acerluin § may be about other thing’ that occurred; L was tne inst Who reached him after be t Wilson was walking Wilt me, and Mr. Ca sted me over the bars; he was tn a pleasant on hum PARYIES BEFORE. as present al the i tue evening of tie croquet party; Oarsoa was standing on the pore ol Mr, Patier’s store; Ulinebe de by; spoke to Carson as ue passed; did not hear Carson’s reply; Clinevell passed on and bitched bls horse In tte hitchiy yard; tour other men were proseat on the trot mt ther tee who they were: the treet do hot. know 2 the eroquet party Was atthat ume; school had just let out fov ine evening; Know 1t Was before the croquet party had gone out, for my tacle, D. 8. Zimmerman, hac tt sisted on my going along, but 1 had refused wo (0, and he had just passed down “he sireet. THE INTENT OF CARSON TO Kilt, CLINGBILL. shington Jackson (colored) cestified— Know both air, Carson and Or. Clinebell; have heard Uar- son say he would Kul Climevell i ie Lyed 80 long; he sald so in August of last year at Mr. Carsous home place; salt Mat he did oot jike Clnebell; that Cunevell had Whipped btu, and be would kul him i he lived; e be revenged om him; had &@ Wk With Carsou one day at dinner tine; i es; he then said that Clineveil had been talking in a rough manner to him, and that he would aot put up with it any ; It Was three weeks pe.ore I told old Mr, r sgced"’ my memory, and [ fold Dim what Carsoa tad sald; belore Carson talked to me at the stable J did not Know anytiing avout (he disagreement ((uss) between then. licre the Commonweaith Attoracy stated that he Was through With the examination tn ehief, except agto What Was found on Clinebell’s body; that he Had many other witnesses whom ne would intros dace a8 reouiling testimony should 1 prove Deves- saly, flere the Court adourned morrow. Oil ten OrEloCK to-