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4 bf the thickly grown bushes), It was not them occupied, and Henry Berry, believing it had been recently made by one of his pursuers, who would shortly return to it, ensconsced himself in 1t, while Boss made @ blind for niinseif a short distance off, covering the road. But a few minutes after They had placed themselves in their respective positions the report of a gun was heard from Henry’s hiding place, and when Boss, who watted to hear a word from his cluef or an auswerlng shot from an enemy, cautiously approached the spou Renry Berry Lowery lay on his back, with one barrel of his shotguo discharged ana his nose, ‘forehead and the WHOLE FRONT OP HIS HEAD BLOWN OF, The broken ramrod and the missing wiper showed he had been trying to draw a loaa from his ‘gun. Boss drew the body mto a thicket, and noti- fled hig companions, who straightway buried him where, in all human probability, the eye of man Will see him never. Tous perished this remarkabie man, and his deatn marks the dissolution of this most formidable body of desperadoes. The large sum of money he (Was @aid to be in possession of 13 also lost to the country, for no member of the band, not even Boss nor his wife, knew the whereabouts of his treasure chest, The remaining outlaws have made ‘diligent search, but as yet have had their iabor for their pains, Henry Berry was said to have had @ wood deal of money, besides his share of ‘tne proceeds of the Lumberton Bank, from which Bome thirty thousand dollars were taken. It appears to have been his habit of appropriating to his own THR LION'S SHARE OF ALL MONEY taken, giving his subjects the other booty. But to resume the story of my life among the out- laws. A litle after dark on tne evening of the day met andrew Strong and Steve Lowery lreturned to Henry Berry’s house, in pursuance of his wife’s Invitation, to spend the night there. The dogs (of ‘which she now has two, having sent the third to Andrew Strong’s house since the shooting of Boss) giving warning of my approach, she appeared at ‘the door, and, having driven her guardians away, ‘welcomed me with, “I WAS THINKIN’ YOU WAS SKEERED TO COMB.” She had prepared a supper of stewed chicken for ame, for which, however, I had no appetite. It was not Beasoned with either salt or pepper. Indeed, in mone of the houses of the mulattoes here have I found any pepper, and nothing appears to be saltea ‘but the bacon, from which enough could be spared po bountifully supply all the other viands. The rn bread, the standing dish at every meal in very house, served up hot, was, to my notion, a most horrible compound—watery, doughey and Rasteless. Their ‘‘wheat bread,” which has always been provided for me when my entertainers dis- eovered I could not swallow the corn bread, 1s simply baked unleavened flour and water. CORN BREAD AND CHEESE. \ Next to corn bread, the great sustainer of life in ‘BouMetown 1s cheese, of which all eat enor- qmously, cutting off of a half or quarter standing on the table pieces as large as one’s fist, and carving it into devourable portions on their plates. The youngest scion of the nouse of Lowery (Henry Berry branch), one year and two months old, has constantly an immense piece In his hands, which he nibbles at continually, or whenever he was not ‘taking his proper mammarial nourishment. Cotlee ean be nad at every house, but at Steve Lowery’s @lone have I found sugar. A very black, thin mo- lasses, and sometimes honey, is used to sweeten it, | ‘The use of milk in coffee appears to be unknown. After supper Rhody showed me THE HOLES MADE BY THE BULLETS hat had entered the house im the many Truitiess atvacks upon her husband. There were Bix Or seven Of them, most of them about the door opposite the woods. A coffee mill with a bullet hole Ahrougn its sides stood where it had received the Shot; and the nail on which had hung a small look- ing-glass that was shivered by a rifle ball was Bhown me. These observations, with incidents of the “war” rather volubly related by the Queen of the region, occupied about an hony, at the end of which I expressed a desire to retire, asking, with Some misgivings, where she proposed locating me. She said ~ I SHOULD SLEEP IN THE BED, ‘while she would make a couch tor herself, help and family on the floor, s Except the occasional crying of ‘the cnild,” a3 Shey always call their babies, tho frequent barking ol the dogs, the cry of the owls and the placing of ‘additional coverings on my bed once in the night, nothing disturbed my slumoers, and I slept as securely in my feather bed in this log cabin of the greatest outlaw of the nineteenth century as in the cr Of 01a en0es and 6 paddle for stirring ap “mash’’ there was nothing, left, And here, sitting about on the barrels, Steve ted me the history of John Saun- Gers, the detective, and his end:— STEVE LOWERY'S STORY OF THE DEED. “About thé middie of 1869 Saunders came down here to teach school; he boarded around among the colored peopie and always said he was @ republi- can. For several months after he came he made no effort to make our acquaintance, though he often Met us in the roads and would bid us the time of day very pleasantly, and he would tell the colored People about here that we outlaws had been driven to the swamps against our will. After he had been here about four or five months he said he had au- thority to organize Masonic lodges, and he told us all about Masonry. We had heard before there was such a society, whose memuers STOOD BY EACH OTHER THROUGH THICK AND THIN, but we did not know anything avout it, scarcely. He told us (1 mean the colored men who were not oug- laws, for he didn’t know us yet, except to speak to ns) the Masons had started over a thousand years ago, and that from tnat time until this only one man ever broke his oath and refused to help another Mason, and that that man had been killed. He started a lodge, and charged two or three dollars to get in, and two dollars besides for a chart that nad all the figures on it used in Masonry. A heap of our people joined it, and they would come and tell us outlaws what @good thing it would be for us. Tney said if we were Masons, and any other Mason would come to hunt us, or if we were arrested and the jury or the judge were Masons, ali we had to do to get clear was to give them a sign, and they wouldn’t trouble us any more, SAUNDBRS HAD A MIGHTY SLICK TONGUE, and could talk like @ preacher, When the colored people told us so much about him and the Masons we went to see him, and after that we were mighty thick with him until the fall of 1870. None of us jomed the Masons, but we believed what he sald, and that he ‘Was the best friend we had. He finally offered to get us out of this country down South, if we would pay him forit, and trust him, and we had made some of our arrangements te leave when we found him ou, “In the meantime, early in the spring, he found the white people more powerfully down on him, and to save his Life from them he had to tell what he was after, and to jointhe Ku Kiux. That summer we often knew of his being with some of the people we thought were Ku Klux, but ne told us they were ac- cusing him of making Masons of us, and he professed to be very much afraid of them. “Finally we heard through some friends that we had among the white men that Saunders was one of the leaders of the Ku Klux, and we set ourselves to watch him sharp, and finally we found, proven be- Yond all doubt, that he was the commander of a party of Ku Klux, who, with sheepskins on their faces, ' ‘ DRAGGED AT MIDNIGHT FROM THEIR BEDS Sim Oxendine, Bart McClain, Jim Dial and Silas Deane, and shot Floyd Oxendine, taking them all to Moss Neck, and whipping some and tying others up by the taumbs. The next day Saunders was driven to John Taylor’s house in Taylor’s wagon, and hid away from us, for somebody told him we had tound him out, “In November (I think 1370) we found that Saunders was living in this place. Call this a camp? Why, it is a whiskey still! You say that the Lowerys are helping the United States government in BREAKING UP ILLIOIT WHISKEY STILLS, for that was what we did here. They had every- thing ready to begin work again on Monday morn- ing. They had been making corn whiskey here on this spot foy months. The meal for it was ground at William McNeil’s mill, where Archie McNeil worked, and the still was John Taylor's, The pa- pers call this Saunders’ camp; you see it is a whis- key camp. “well, one Sunday soon after I found this place, we outlaws, andaheap of men that nad been hunted by the Ku Kiux, came here aiter Saunders. shell, 1 ate four, the remainder being devoured by the three outlaws. In addition to the eggs we had some GINGER CAKE, QHERSE AND WRETCHED WHISKEY. After dinner Iwas taken to McNetl’s mill, near Moss Neck, the place where that make (Malcolm) Sanderson was killed, and where, within a few yards of the former, one of his murderers, Jonn Taylor, was subsequently punished, The place was pointed out to me, and the story of their respective deaths told by Andrew Strong, . WHERE MAKE SANDERSON AND JOHN TAYLOR WERE KILLED. In September, 1870, Andrew, who up to that time had been charged with no offence, and was thea working at his bome, was called up from his bed at about eleven in the night Dy a party of over twenty men, who said they wanted him to go aloug with them @ little ways. When he had drossed and gone out to the party he found they haa another man (Make Sanderson) with them. After they had gone abont a mile one of the party. MoNell, turned to Andrew and said, ‘You'll never see morning again,” and upon his prisoner asking why and what he had done was answered that he was a d—d nigger and a spy for the Lowerys and so was Sanderson, and they had determined to kill them all, On the road to Moss Neck they were met by Jonn Taylor, to whom the prisoners made & strong and passionate appeal for mercy, to which he repiied, “ if all the mulatto blood in the country Was in you two and @ movement of my foot would send you to hellI would make it,” Soon after the prisoners were ted together and led to a secluded Spot about a mile from Moss Neck, where they were to die, Sanderson asked for time to pray, which, after some consultation, was given him. In the midst of his supplivations for pardon ne was in- terrupted by a blow from a pistol and told to hurry up and not to pray 80 loud, as GOD WOULD HEAR HIM ANYHOW. When he had finished they were taken to @ proper distance from their captors to be shot at, when Andrew, who had been working at his bonds ever since they were put on him, broke them suddenly and rushed for the Woods, followed by the shots of his enemies, Make Sanderson’s body was found the next morning near MeoNeil’s mililpond riddied with bullets, It was sald he was standing on a plank over the race, and at the first fire fell into the water sull alive, and crawling out on the land below was shot on the ground where his mangled body was found. For this murder John Taylor was arrested, but held to bali in the sum of $500, When H. B, Lowery heard this he remarked:—“We mulatices must carry out our own laws: I will kill John Taylor,” and on the morning of January 14, 1871, with a company of soidters within 200 yards of him, he and Boss Strong rose from the road, a hundred yards from where Sanderson had been killed tne fall before, and at a distance of less than ten yards shot the top of his head off. AN OUTLAW CONCERT. After Andrew had told me this history and had shown me where Sanderson and Taylor wero killed, and where Henry Berry and Boss were ambushed, we returned to the store, where for ® couple of hours in a back room Steve and Andrew “picked” the banjo, played on the violin and sang negro melodies to an appreciative nd enthusiastic audience. Steve sings very well, and the peculiar airs with which he was accom: panied on the banjo were novel and exceedingly pleasant. A LODGING PAID FOR. When we finally left Moss Néck 1t was for the pur- pose of finding a place for me to spend the night. About three miles up the railroad we came to the residence of Tom Chavis, a well-to-do muniatto, Where Sieve engaged lodgings for me, telling them to give me a good supper and allow me to retire to bed immediately after, forI was “clean done worrled out,” and he would pay the bill; and, fixing a point to meet me the next day, the outlaws strode away’ toward the swamps. PRIVATE LEITERS AND DES- We got here a little bit before night and there were only three men here, all named Smith, sons of the Man who owns the land. We stationed our guards about the camp, a good many of. them tn that blind I showed you 150 yards back, and others all through the woods, 80 that we would nov be surprisea, About half an hour after we were stationed we CAPTURED THREB OF THE M’NBIL BOYS, who came to the still to geton @ littie spree, and after that we saw nobody until nearly morning. I was stationed about a hundred yards from the camp and fifty trom the other boys. Our prisoners were under guard at the still. “About daylight I heard some one coming, and enlightened North. The next moruing, after a breakfast on the same chicken we had tried the night before, with a guide furnished by the friends of the outiaws, I started on horsevack for the New Bridge. Ou ihe way | passed the ‘Devil’s Den,”’ a desolate wild spot in the Back Swamp, where js said to be one of the hiding piaces Of Wie bandits. An account of a visit I afterwaras made to this den with Steve Lowery will appear hereafter. Near the New Bridge we came upon Andrew and Steve lying beside an immense Gre in the road, A SCUFFLETOWN AL FRESCO. A more picturesque sceue can scarcely be imagined; on the left @ dark, thickiy shrubbed Wamp, long festoousof moss hanging from aud binding together the gums and cypresses; on the right a heavy growth o1 pitch pines, with the bark removed from their butts; in front the deep (and | here wide) chaune! of the Lumber River, with the remains of what has once beea a bridge, and inthe | Joregrouad by @ blazing fire two of the robbers of tue swamps reclining on the ground with their six guns and otner equipments of war lying by them, Alter both nad shaken hands with me and prof- fered me a drink of whiskey, they started my guide homeward, and prepared to cross ide stream, Long azo, when this bridge was built, It was known as | the “New Bridge,” and stil retains the name, though there is but slight vestige of any bridge left. Upon Anarew’s remarking 1t would be @ pity to ake me wade the stream when | was uot used to ii, Sieve proposed that if Andrew would ‘tote” the guns over he would HE WOULD “TOTE’ ME, to which Andrew gave a ready asse@™ He Bouldering the gnas, I got upon @ log and | then upon Sieve’s back, with my arms about his neck, aud he carried me through the ‘water about eighty yards, av umes being up to his knees, and lauded me dry on the other side, where Andrew followed us directly with the guns. Steve @aid [ Was no! as heavy as nis “turn,” and as I weigh but115 pounis I guess be told tue trath, Here Andrew asked me to carry one of hie guns, | and, as I was Not in @ situation to deciine, gave me his lightest shot gun. He void me I must keep up with them, for with this guo in my hands I would not be permitted to (all penind them, Our destination was Moss Neck, where | able a man as there is in North Carolina. The paper | dme’s confession, and kept him until Thursday, directly up walked Saunders, his head hanging down, and his gun, a@ double-barrelled shot gun, slung under his left arm. I slipped out from my blind and said, ‘Halt; he sald, ‘Lowerys ! Lowerys | nothing,’ and made a motion with his right hand towards his gun, Said J, ‘God damn you, none of that; PUT YOUR EANDS ABOVE YOUR HEAD OR I'LL BLOW YOU TO HELL,’ and I went up to him with both hammers of my gun cocked, took off his gun, unbuckled his belt of pis- tols, and took him to (he camp, where the rest of the outlaws joined us, and released our other prisoners, “Here we searched Saunders, and found on hima paper issned by the Ku Klux, containing the names of forty-eight colored men who were to be killed; among them were Sinclair and Patrick Lowery, my brothers, and James Oxendine, as gooa and peace- was signed by Saunders, his full name, John 0, Saunders, and Sandy Mclatyre, with ‘Join Taylor, witness,’ I wish 1 had that paper yet to show you; but when I killed Saunders I buried it, and {t is rotted long ago, 1 reckon. “Well, we (ook him away from there over to near where his body was found, alter Henderson Oxen. You NEVER SAW ANYBODY BEG FOR HIS LIFE a3 HE pID. He offered, if we would let him go, to join us and kill anybody we told him to, He said we might brmg any other prisoner there and he would kill him for us if we only would let him live, and he confessed to naving joined the Ku Klux and told us who the rest of them were. He did beg powertully for life, but we couldn’t let nim go, and the only privilege we gave him was to allow him to write a letter to his wife, which we malied for him after- ward. We asked him why some of the Masons didn’t come tosave him, and he admitted ne had no right to make Masons. Atlaston Thursday we drew lots to see which of us should finish him, and itfelitome. So1 bound up his eyes and tied him with his back toa tree and gave him an hour in which to pray; but i reckon he found the time too long, for he said, ‘VOR GOD'S SAKE, STEVE, PUT ME OUT OF THIS SUSPENSE,’ and 1 emptied both barrels of buckshot into his heart, and afterward Andrew Strong buried him,” 1 wanted to mai some letters some private despatches to the te.egraph office at Wilmington, and they wanted to SEND THEIR MESEAGE TO THE HERALD, We heard the train cast cuming when we were about a mile from the station, and ran the whole distance from there. They would not go up tothe train, nor would they let me go until I promisea them solemnly, with my'hand op my heart, that | would not go off in it, and would hand their despaten, as weil as my own, to the conductor. From Moss Neck, with a young map who had been taken prisoner by the outlaws, when they cap- tured the detective Saunders, but who now appeared to be on very good terms with them, we went down the railroad about @ mile aad then half a mile south intoa “bay,” where Saunders’ “camp” had Deen lucated, THE SCENE OF SAUNDERS’ MURDER. Steve leading and Andrew in the rear from the railroad, we wound about the most crooked, cir- cuitous path that can be imagined, until we came ‘to a spot Where the bushes were more thickly cover- ing the ground than elsewhere, “Here,” said Steve, “was my blind when we were laying for Saunders; that thicket was full of our men; @nd fifty yards nearer the camp—‘‘here is where I jaid myséif when Saunders came up and wire I arrested him.’ A hundred yards more and we reached the camp, and A LONELY PLUTONIAN-LOOKING SPOT it was, A root tweaty feet square, supported by four corner posts, covered some dozen of empty barrels and some paris of machinery used im the Matillation Of Whiskey. Besides these and @ valr and send | At theend of this horrible story Andrew spoke up: “Steve, was I here that night you captured him?’ to wnich Steve answered, ‘No; and the same question to the young man with us, who had been one of those captured that Sunday nignt, re- ceived the same answer, “All I haa to do with it,’’ said Andrew, ‘was that 1 buried him, People won’t find fault with a man for burying another yvhen he is aead, will they? I declare to God that was all I had to do with the Saunders afair,” which Steve confirmed in strong language, From this desolate spot we returned to Moss Neck, where 1 ME THOMAS LOWERY, another of the outlaws, and upon whose head is set & price of $5,000. Tom Lowery 1s five feet ten inches high, strongiy built, with o lighter complexion than steve, but darker than Henry Berry. He bas rather regular features, & high forehead and tue brightest eyes of the three outlaws I met. He has a short, biack beard, and straight, black hair, and is more refinea in his appearance than Steve or Andrew Strong. He was armed precisely as they, Witharife and two shotguns and a belt full of revolvers. He said he had heard of my presence in the neighborhood and was glad to see me, It being now about one o'clock we were ali natu- rally hungry, 80 Steve bought @ couple dozen of eggs from # woman near by, who bolied them for him, and we went into the store at Moss Neck to eat them, which work we accomplished by cutting them in halves with our knives, sprinkling course salt on then and gulping down each half its PATCHES. A Peep Into the Inner Life of Journalism— Strugales to Achieve a Great End, The inner iife of @ great dally journal is seldom revealed to a public anxious alone for results, In this instance, that a full appreciation may be gainea of the difficulties and dangers which the corre- spondents of the HERALD meet with daily in the performance of their duties, we lay before our readers a string of lettera and despatches which, read between the lines of the letters just preceding, will evince the devotion and determination neces- sary to achieve a success in journaliam. The worker on & great paper consents to a complete merging of his personality in its columns, content with the knowledge of having performed a service to civilization untrumpeted, and looking for per- sonal recognition only to the paper that commands his services. The documents will explain them- selves, and will not be the least interesting in the pages of this “‘strange, eventful history.”” DIFFICULTIES IN WILMINGTON. WILMINGTON, N. C., March 20, 1872. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Inreply to my letter sent Henderson by special messenger I have received his correspondence, Vogether with his personal note, whicn I enclose. My difficulties here are very great, and I am com. pelled to be on the qui vive always and to consult all posaible expedients of information, The train from Robeson county arrives late in the afternoon, and it is necessarily late at night before I can ob- tain data from passengers, conductor, &c., upon which to predicate my despatches. Ihave informed Henderson, in order to keep his spirits up to the necessary point, that if he shall need money urgently I will let him have some upon, the HERALD’s accotnt. Very respectfully, EB. CUTHBERT, THE CAPTURED CORRESPONDENT’S NOTE, SCUFFLETOWN, ROBESON Co., N.C, March 19, 1872, } To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Ihave been among the outlaws of this county for five days and propose remaining several days longer. They appear to place perfect confidence in me, and are pleased with ihe opportunity given them of getting their histories before the people. They have taken me through the swamps, shown me how they lived, carried me across the streams on their shoulders and promise to take me blind- folded to one of their secret hiding places, I en- close my first instalment of information. If you are satisfied with if, and the composition 1s satisfac. tory, you will not hesitate to advance me enough money to enable me toreach New York. A Balti- more or before reaching Washington, on my way here, I lost my pocketbook—whether stolen or not have no idea—as I discovered at Washington. Knowing no one there to whom I cared to apply I pawned my watch for $50 and came on. Now! have enough of tha: left to pay my expenses back as far as Washington, and I would be obliged to you if you would send me $75 or $100 to Washington immediately on the receipt of this. In about three days I will send you my second letter, and if you will send the money as requested to Wash- ington I will be in New York on ‘Wednesday (27) when we can make any further arrangements that may be necessary. If you care for any more references as to character than I you before, Rev. Mr. Sheaden, of Rahway, N. J., lives near you, and you may apply to him for infor- maton. The fact is 1 cannot possibly get further than ‘Washington without sume money. Please direct to me, care of Senator Jobn Scott, He has not seen me since I was a boy, but he will know me, Give, if you please, my full name, which I write a3 your obedieut servant, A. BOYD HENDERSON. THE FIRST LETTER- FEARS POR HIS FATE WILMINGTON, N, O., March 22, 1872. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Enclosed is Henderson's correspondence received by this evening’s mail, Ihave no information re- garding Henderson not already communicated to you by telegraph. If he shail fail to effect his escape on Monday | shall certainiy feel very serious appre- hensions as to his fate, Very respectfully, E, CUTHBERT, THE DANGER THICKENING—SUSPRCTED AS A SPY. WILMINGTON, N, ©., Match 22, 1872, [Private despatch to the New York Herald.) Note from Henderson states he is in great dan- ger. He has been searched and his revolver taken from him by the outlaws, who now regard him aga spy end fear that he may chloroform them. He sends information not to be published, as 1t might Dost him his life, that both Boss Strong and Henry Berry Lowery are dead. If not «illed sooner, he expecta to escape Monday. Wul start report in about two hours. E. OUTHBERT, ESCAPED!—ESCAPED!—PUBLISH ALL. WILMINGTON, N. 0., Maroh 25, 1872. (Private deapatoh to the New York Herald.) Henderson has arrived safe; he starts for New York this evening, Publish at once deaths of Henry Berry Lowery and Boss Strong, as I reported. Will atart despatches in about two hours, E, CUTHBERT. COMMENTS BY THE CHIVALRY. How the Southern Press Regard the Lowery Outlaws and Herald EnterpriseEverybody in General and Nobody in Particular to Blame. If anything were wanting to show the hopeless state of ignorance of their own country which pre- vails in certain portions of the South it will be found mirrored ia the following “elegant extracts” from some of their journals, 1t would be impossible to classify thelr stupidities and blind bloodthirstiness which always manages to strike the wrong man and blame a simple eftect to the wrong cause, probably the lost one, We commence with # well informed (?) journal in the Palmetto State, which in turn quotes from another equally well-posted in the same State. ‘The casual observer will be charmed to observe that itis President Grant who is to blame all through, The first paper has for its motto, “To thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day tnou Canst not then be false to any man,” Let us see how this glorious selfishness justifies itself: ~ GRANT, NOT ROBESON COWARDICE, TO BLAME, {From the Keowee Courier, Walhalla, 8, 0., Maren 22) are: Lowgry, THE OUTLAW, Nor Deap.—Henry Berry owery, the notorious North Varolina outlay, is not ead, as reported a few days since, It is indeed a matter of'wonder that this bandit and his gang of marauders have been allowed to carry on their de- redattons in as populous @ section of country as beson county, North Carolina, for so many years. The Edgefield Advertiser says upon this subject:— * He ry Lowery, a8 most people is the infamous and audacious negro know, outlaw of Robeson county, North Carolina, For three years the murders, robberies, plun- past dering and dark crimes of ail kinds of Lowery and his have been # subject of wonder and of horror to country at large. Compared to the bloody ferocity and insane brutality of Lowery and his pg the alleged Ku Klux doings in our own State ave been deeds of gentleness and mercy. Lowery is a ‘loyal’ man and ‘gs into the hands of the Tadical party. His vicums, therefore, have been the respectanle white people of ‘North Qarolina, It has been reported for a week past that this brutal negro outlaw had been killed by his own brother, but, unfortunately, the report turns out to be untrue and Lowery sul lives to muraer and plunder, And while he thus murders and plunders in Robeson county the citizens of Sampson, the adjoining copay. are being arrested right and left, branded as Ku Kiux for re- fusing io become partisans of Grant. The hypoo- Tisy of the Grant government in its treatment of the South is more apparent in Sampson county, North Carolina, than even in Union county, South Caro- lina, where a peli of terror now prevails. Federal soldiers torment and disorganize this good and peaceable county, arrest its prominent citizens with- ‘Ont cause, and throw women and children intoa state of profound consternation, while Henry Berry Lowery and his bioodthirsty gang go at large in Robeson county, murdering and robbing with im- punity, And ‘the best governinent the worid ever saw’ looks on complacently and thinks it ts all right because it is unreconstructed revels who are thus Killed and outraged, As regards Lowery lhim- self, we deeply regret to learn that he still lives,’? Georgia shares our wonder that the old North State cannot crush three desperadocs, It is indebted to the Wilmington Journal for its nows (?) oa the point; but its brutal recommendation—to im- prison the HERALD correspondent—ts all its own, SAVE US FROM INTELLIGENCE, {From the Savannah Wi) Daily Repubitcan, March 22.) THe NortH CAROLINA SWAMP ANGELS.—The Wilmington Journal of Wednesday has the fol- lowing:— Stephen Lowery and Andrew Strong were at Moss Neck ay a8 the train om the Wilmington, Chariotte and utherford Railroad passed that polot. Neither Tom Lowery por Henderson, the HERALD correspondent, were there, nor could anything’ be learned of their movements. How these members of the Lowery gang, for whom large rewards have been offered, can appear in public ani stroll around railroad stations at Pleasure, without somebody capturing the rascals, puzzles our comprenension. It would be well to put the Lowerys and Henderson in the same jail. They are not alias brutal as our Georgian friend. The paper below Named combats the idea of Mc Diarmid, the satutly eaitor of the Rovesonian, for which oasis in the red desert we are thankful, It isvery odd, however, that the Wilmington daily should never think of finding out for itself what is doing only sixty miles awa; THE HBRALD CORRESPONDENT SHOULD BE ALONE, (From the Wilmington (N. C.) Dally Journal, darch 22, Ler THE OvTLAWSs.—There 1s nothing of any particu- lar importance from the seat of war in Kobeson county. The Robesonian of yesterday's date men- tions repeated assertions of the death of Henry Berry Lowery. It 1s said that he was killed by his brother, Tom Lowery, and that some of the brains of the ontlaw leader may be seen spattered on the wall of a rib on ‘rom Lowery’s premises, The Rovesonian also states that Mr. Henderson, the New York HERALD reporter, now with the gang, has been outlawed oy a Board of Magistrates, and that a posse is now in pursuit of him; but we are glad to notice in another article, and for which the press was stopped, that the report of the out- lawry is untrue. We would regret exceedingly to know that any sach step had been taken, as no d could possibly resuit therefrom. Mr. Hender- son 18, undoubtediy, a recognizea newspaper corre- spondent, and is merely seeking material for his per, and whether his report should be true or not 6 as regards the ee of Robeson county it might be hard to establish a complicity on his part the gang of outlaws. OUR CORRESPONDENT SEEN AT MOSS NECK, ‘From the same journal, Marcn 23.) Mr. A. B, Henderson, the HERALD correspondent, appeared yesterday at Moss Neck as the train passed that point. He was apparently alone, alshough he stated that the outlaws wero near at hard, and had forbade hinfto leave them yet. He spoke as though he was now really in fear of them, they having searched him and taken his pistol from him immediately on his return to them from Lum- berton, They appear to entertain suspicions in re- gard to his business among them, and seemed to Tear particularly that he Lain a9 atiempt to stupefy them with chloroform should he entertain any idea of effecting their capture. He stated that he had promised to go with them once more to visit some of their old haunts that-he had not yet seen, when they are to release Lim aud he will return again to civilized life, “ . ‘That they have given up all serious idea of captur- ing the outlaws will be seen from the following, The Star evidently thinks it more profitable to detali the movements of our correspondents. See how we generously help them to news:— A FEATHER IN HIS CAP. [From the Wilmington Star, March 22.) No news of importance from the “seat of war.” When the train passed Moss Neck yesterd: Andrew Strong and Stephen Lowery were stili there, but Henderson had gone off somewhere tn company with Tom Lowery. Nothing as yet as to the whereabouts of Henry Berry. We learn that the HERALD correspondent, Henderson, had the dis- Uungatshed honor of riding home from charcb with Henry Berry's wife on Sunday last, which will be juite @ “featner in his cap’’ when he returns to his ome. and will be a very respectabie item in his forthcoming bistory oi events among the ‘Swamp Angels.” ‘The subdjoined clipping will give a fair 1aea of how the news which the HERALD correspondents go on the ground to gather is picked upin fragments down there:— REPORTS, RUMORS, HINTS, INNUENDOES. ‘From the same paper.) Nothing further, confirmatory or otherwise, in re- gard to the reported killing of Boss Strong has as yet peen received, though itis still the impression wmong © great many on the line of the road that ne was certainly killed. There is a rumor to the eflect that Hepry Berry Lowery has ieit the county, he having previously disguised himself with false whis- kers, &c., 80 that his most intimate friends and as sociates Would not know him. It 16 also re} that Stephen Lowery, who has the reputation of being really the most bratal and bloodthirsty of the AD} 1now in com audio place of his brother fledty jerry. We give these rumors for what ee are Worth, in no wise vouching for their correctness, If there shoula be any trath in them the fact woula ount for aber memnssy of the gan bein, With ‘Heity Berry's favorite weapons in their posses- gion, a3 is reported to be the case, Then, too, if Boss Strong has in reality been sent to the ‘nappy hunting grounds of his fathers’ the number of this notorious gang of desperadoes will nave been re- duced to three, viz.:—Stephen Lowery, Tom Lowery and Andrew Lage 3 George Apple- white, reported to have been killed some time during the early part of but who subsequently made his among the gang, afterwards Oise and his whereabdats or probable fate ha: been ciouded in mystery. Some wink that he left the county, as Henry Berry is now ri ‘ted wo have done, While others entertain the opti last year, kiiled In some btawi among the members of toe gang. Again we drop on a refreshing sample of the chiyairic, bloodthirsty blindness, The paper from which we take the following sports for its motto the phrase “Free and unshackled,” which is & capital one for all such uncaged, ranting lunatics, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, Floundering round from error to misstatement, the ‘Wolflah editor applauds what never happeneds— AN UNENVIABLE NOTORIETY. {From tne Roanoke News, Weldon, N. 0., March 23.) THE LOWERYS AND HERALD CORRESPONDENT. The ig which we clip from the Norfolk Journal, will be & source of congratulation on the part of those who can do no less than feel sensibly the Injustice of the Derpetrated by the Hane ALD on the good people of North Carolina. Heuder- son bas attempted an unenviadle notoriety by pul- ting himself with these desperadoes, and from all Appearances woula make the impression tnat the members o! this gang are unjustly persecuted, and that the whole people of North Carolina are but little more advanced in civilization than the forest Indians. We can oaly hope this consummate {ool and interloper may be severely dealt with;— WILMINGTON, March 21, J! The reports from the Lowery dutiaws are ve: in orn peg ata at ed, an wel iu] feveral weeks A. B. ernn, the rf dent oF tae EW YORK HERALD who bas been with the outlaws several 1 bjeok of interviewing them for that ‘said to have been outlawed by a ea county and his arrest ordered. It ts not fs rg he will be detained by the authorities of that count Ah! we knew we wonld find tt, Tne Weokee Courter and the Edgeville Advertiser laid all the blame on Grant. It is now the turn of the radical, He says the shame resta on the Ku Kinx Legisia- ture. Is this really so? and has his ragged, chicken-stealing highness of tne invincible empire really got a Legislature of his own? We think not. Howthese partisans rave! Say itis Grant, Ku Klux, black, white or mulatto, but let the terrible outlaws alone is the horror cry all round. THR KU KLUX LEGISLATURE. (From the Carolina Era, Raleigh, N. 0., March 23— trl- week! : THE LOWERY GANG. The Ku Klux sheets have beén rampant and brandishing their tomahawks at the Governor of North Carol charging him with the responsi- Buy of all the ropberies and murders perpetrated ry tl beson county outlaws; they procisim him gui it duty for not making strenuous ei ) negiegt of lento these bandits and cutthroal The burden of this fear responsibillt} does not rest with the Governor. He has done in bis power to put an end to the outrages of Henry y Lowery and his gang. Upon whom then does the blame rest? It rests upon the Ku Klux Legis- lature, who deprived the Governor of some of his paw and repealed tae beat features of the Militia law of the State. The strictly partisan le; tion of that body has crippled the Executive and fastened the gang of outlaws upon the county which they fest ‘The Governor has visited Robeson county nimself, conferred with the civil authorities and citizens as to the best means to accomplisn the extinction of the desperadoes, and promptly seconded the sug- gestions and line of procedure wnich was made by the citizens at that time. 1 was through his efforts that federal troops were sent to Robeson. So con- tracved has been the power and authority of the Governor by the Ku Klux Legisiature, that had the entire army of convicts in the Penitentiary broken out, the Governor had not authority to offer one cent reward for their apprehension until they had led the bounds of the State. Wao hag done this? © Ku Klux Legislature. They abolisned every effective feature of the Militia jaw and now tne Militia cannot be organized, They have taken away so much authority from the Governor that he is powerless to adopt effective Measures to capture the Lowery or any other gang of outlaws who may be a curse upon tho State. Who ts to blame for all this? Again we repeat, the Ku Klux Remislasuee, All the robbertes that have been committed, the cold-blooded murders that cry toheaven for vengeance, the agonized families whose homes have been made desolate, the awful terror and gloom which now pervade the doomed county which has fallen a prey to the merciless banditt! whose hands are reeking with the best blood of her citdzens—these, all these horrors might have been ended and would had not tho Ku Kinx lature weakened the Governor of the State. Are not the laws of North Qarolina despised/now for their inefiiciency and weakness when, by the acta of the Ku Kiux Legislature, a band o! cut- throats are allowed to slaughter and overawe an entire community without opposition. The demo- cratic press asks, Who i3 to blame? Now, they know. Their own Ku Klux Legislature. . The “Boys,’’ as they are termed. Sitting snugly under his own piltch-pine tree a Tarboro’ editor lucubrates as pelow on tne de- plorable cowardice of Robeson county, It would. probably be worth while journeying to Tartown once to observe him “smile with pliy” on his be- nighted white brethren in the southern part of the State shivering before three niggers. He certainly admits that he “talks very bold” because he is out of dafiger, and we are fain to believe nim since he sticks at vhe head of his paper, “Iama Southern man of Southern principles,” culled from, the many odd sayings of Jef Dgyis of vaiorous, petticoas memory. He shows his intelligence, however, by quoting in another part of the paper from a HERALD editorial on the same subject: — A SOUTHERN SMILE OF PITY, (From. the Tarboro’ (N. C.) Southerner, March 21.) ~-& VaLianr Sar.—lIf is scarcely possible to imagine to what & condition of fear and cowardice the Low- ery gang of outlaws have reduced the men in the region where they live aad have a being. : M course, living away from the scene of danger, we can talk very bold; but, nevertheless, we can- not refrain from from expressing the beltef that the whole reason for the non-capture of these murder- ers arises from the veriest cowardice on the part of the male population in that section. ‘The last accounts irom the actions of the outlaws are to the effect'that a few days since, “when the train on the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Ratiroad arrived at Moss Neck depot, the passen; gers (probably at least a aozen men) were regale ‘With a sigut Of two of the gang of outlaws, Stephen Lowery and Andrew Strong. They nad with them aga prisoner of war @ correspondent of tho NEw York HERALD. Farther particulars from the Wilmington papers indicate that either fear or policy combined, placed the whole party, outlaws and passengers, upon the very best footing, as the ontlaws, two in number, mixed promiscuousiy in the crowd of men, and even gave to the conductor certain telegrams to be forwarded, of which this one is a specimen:— ‘We have captured your correspondent, A. B. Henderson; will not burt bim, but will keep hima week, ' Boss is not . bis STEPHEN ® LOWERY, mark, his ANDREW » STRONG, mark. This man Henderson 1s reported as having “slung across his shoulders a long backwoods rifle belong- ing to one of the outlaws, and was escorted wher- ever he went by Stephen Lowery and Andrew Strong.” we Tust confess that the reading of such state. ments filis us with the utmost astonishment, The fact that two men, however desperate and well armed, upon whose heads rested a reward of $30,000, could thus intimidate and browbeat a large Dumber of men is not the leasi Wonderful of the ones of these desperadoes. e public must smile with pity at the cowardice of these valiant “passengers” wio thus quietly and tamely permitted themselves to become the game and sport of two negro outlaws. IMPORTANT TO RALEIGH. {From the Raleigh (N. C.) Daily News, March 22.) Mr. eee the correspondent of the New York HERALD for Virginia and this state, will take tne place of Mr. Henderson, who has been captured by the Lowerys. ‘A SENSIBLE TENNESSEE PAPER, From the Columbia (Tenn.), Herald March =! ‘rom & ras description of Lowery, the famous North Carolina outlaw, and his desperate band, pwblished in Monday’s New York HERALD, we make the following interesting extracts :— It then copies the first HERALD letter on the Scufe flevown bandits, If all the other papers fe hay- quoted had done the same they would have spared their readers much solemn nonsense, \4 MURMUR FROM MORMONDOM, The Salt Lake sheet Is ill-natured, but it adver- tises the HERALD for all that, and in its own small ‘way, Without ever being asked, In return we do it similar service and think it owes us something when the balance Is struck. [From the Salt Lake Herald, March 19.) A New Yor«k HeRacp correspondent, it 18 sata, bas been captured by the Lowery gang of robbers in North Carolina, Probaply tis report is only a HERALD advertisement. We close our extracts for tae present with one from St. Louls. It recognizes HERALD enterprise, and we have nodoubt it will be glad to learn that our daring correspondent, although returned, did not come home in @ box, {From the Tri- Weekly Dispatch, St. Louis, March 22.) A CORRESPONDENT IN LIMBO, A correspondent of tne NEw York HERALD went down to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp to interview the Lowery gang, and now they are interviewing nim, The coolness of the vagabonds ts refreshing. He was escorted to the railroad station by two of the gang, Where he was permitted to forward @ message to the HERALD and to the wile of his bosom, which was signed by Stephen Lowery and W. H, Strong, and said:—‘‘We have captured your correspondent; wiil not hurt him, jut will keep him a week.” @The enterprise of the Biren tremendous. One commissioner in the eart of Africa, hunting up Livingstone, and another in the core of ScuMetown swamp, hunting up Boss Lowery. When the Iiberated Bohemian once more ‘reaches civilization we may expect photographs of the Interesuny Lowery family, and the touching story of their lives, of their birth, parentage and education, with the last dying speeches and confessions ot those who were hang and those who accidentally died in their beds, &c., &¢., and of how they never cut @ throat or scuttled a henroost, except-on com- mn, Unless, indeed (which is not improv: the gentie Lowerys send the interviewer back in a box, and then, which wiliseli just as well, or perhaps beiter, the HERALD can give us his bio graphy instead of the Lowerys. THE JAPS IN JERSEY. Leading business men of Newark anticipate a visit frou the mechanical and scientific corps ot the pul able), ese Emm! .» They will be mi guesia: onthe city sea oe shown the Peonanioat wonders \ of the American Sirmingbam. | ‘the explosion. PAST, PRESENT AND PROSPECTIVE. Speech of Senator Wilson on the Position and Prospects of the Republican Party, ADMINISTRATION OF GRAN, New BRUNSWIOK, March 26, 1872, In this pleasanteat of New Jersey towns the re publican and democratio parties are about equally matched, It is, undoubtedly, tor this reason thas the local leaders of the former, suck as are loyal te its time-honored traditions and to the present ad Ministration of the national government, are early astir with preparations for the coming political , Which 13 to determine who shall adorn the dential chair for the next four years, Senator Wilson arrived here late this afternoon, from his home in New England, dusty and travel- Worn; but after a few hours of retirement, reat and refreshment at the house of his friend, Professor 8. W. Atherton, ne appeared, looking fresh, genial ‘and handsome, and even young, but for pis smooth, allvery crown of honorable age, before AN IMMENSE AUDIENOE in Grear’s Hall, who received bim with enthusiastic @ppiause, Phe crowd was very great, composed of the most respectable citizens of the town, Senator WILSON was iutroduced by the Chairman of the meeting, Mr, K. T, B, Spader, and comuisised his adaress, the subject of which was “The Present Position and Prospects of the Republican Party,” by saying that in the providence of God it was some times vouchsafed to faithful men to give an impulse’ $o human affairs and to confer lasting benefits upom mankind, ‘To achieve such far-reaching results there must be a comprehensive conception of rHB panne OF THE TIMES ‘ and a fearless, unshrinking and unswerving devo- tion to the duties o& the hour. Seldom has it been prea to any body of mento accomplish resulls so reaching a8 have been accomplished by the Tepubiican party of the United States during the past twelve years. It was brought into beiag SIXTEEN YEARS AGO ~ asa national organization, to resist the extension of tximan slavery and overthrow the dominatl: influences of slave power. Defeated in its first forts it submitted to the wiil of the nation, Ligne to its higher and better’ sentiments, and 1860 Pad Abraham Lincola President of the United THE SLAVE POWER, that tor sixty yeara had dictated the policy of the nation, at once raised the banners of rebellion, plunged the nation into a civil war, slew 350,000 of our sons and imposed upon he people a debt that Will burden their industries fOr years. The di Was imposed upon the republican pariy to suppress ari @ series of legislative and executive acts ‘aeatroyed slavery and overthrew the slave power. When that work was achieved, In the hour of victory its trustea and great leader fell by THE WEAPON OF THE ASSASSIN. His successor, inspired by seifish ambition, songht to snatch from the nation the fruits of its immense sacrifices. For four years he struggled to arrest the needed legislation and to defeat the men who had carried the country through the fire and blood of civil war. In that time of trial the nation instinet- ively turaed to ils GREAT CAPTAIN and made him President of the United States. He did not seek that high position, -but that oign posi- tion sought him, For more than three years he bas administered the governient. He has been true to the ideas, principiea, policy and traditions and bis- tory of the repubiican party, ‘ ‘HIS FOREIGN POLIOY has commanded and now commands the approval of this nation and the respect of all nations The fourteenth and fii amendments, and the lation authorized by them, received his untfalter! supportyand he has striven by treaties witn fol Powers and by the enforcement of the domestic laws of the countey to protect American citizens @& home and abi HIS INDIAN POLICY, : originated by himself, has saved to the nation mifl- lions of dollars, bas impressed and ts imp itself upon the perishing races, and is sanctiot by reseien by justice aud by the spirit of Ohrist- Janity. y HIS FINANCIAL POLICY, by which $300,000,000 of the national dept have been extinguished, the credit of the country lime proved ond the business interests strengthened, commands the confidence of the nation and exe torts the admiration of financial men the world over, The great measures of PRESIDENT GRANT'S ADMINISTRATION are vastly stronger to-day than tue republican party of the Uniled States, Nearly all the measures of hi administration command the confidence of the country and receive little opposition or oriti THE COMING CONVENTION. A convention is to be held in Philadelpnia early in June to nominate a candidate, and popular indi- cauons are that General Grant will receive its unanimous support. But whatever those indica- tions may be, any one has a right to be a candidate an that convention and every republican has a right to support whom he pleases, There are those who pay that it will be controlied more or less by office olders. NEARLY ALL THE OPPOSITION to the present administration is founded, not in ideas, principles or public policy, but grows out of the ambition of mere personal prelerences and the distribution of governmental patronage The administration is tue weakest where there is the most patronage and where ofilce holders are most influential. In sections of the country where they are few is the most unity, and taere the ad- ministration receives the most unanimous support, Whoever is nominated at Philadeiphia—whether it be Generai Grant or any other Dagehetaiaee: une questionably receive the support o! THREE AND A HALF MILLIONS OF REPUBLICANS: There 18 to be @ convention in conference held at Cincinnati. Itistobe hoped vhat moderate coun- sels wili perge. and that those who are brought together there will see it cleariy to be their duty to continue to act. with the republican party. In we past, Measured by the most exalted standards, that party has been true to tne country, to the rights of man, and has carried THE BANNER OF CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION in America, It is a liberal and progressive organiza. tion. While it adheres to ils great policy of the past and remains trae to its traditions, it acce the vital issues of the times us tuey arise and 18 brave enough to confess its mistakes gud to correct its own errors, The ume for conciliation, tor moder- ate counsels, for magnanimity, has come, and It is to be hoped that patriotic counsels will prevail ana that the republican party will go Into the next Presidential election united and come out of it vic~ torious, and that it wiil, in the future, as in the be true to the country and the popular rights, a that it will continue to hold the reins of govern- ment until ity ideas of patriotism, freedom, justice, humanity, development and improvement will be the accepted ideas of the nation. Senator Wilson was frequently applauded, After tue delivery of his speech he immediately started for Washingtoa by the eleven o’clock train. A DISHONEST SERVANT, Mathilde McArdle, @ domestic, was arrested yester- day by Detective Nobie, of the Sixteenth precinct, upon complaint of nh J. Collis, of 335 Weat Nineteenth street, charged with stealing a quantity of clothng from her valued at $45. The officer up- on searching the prisoner in the stauon house found thirty-three pawn Uickets in her posession, representing different articles of redafaee and cloth- ing. She denied the charge before Justice Cox at a on Market yesterday, but was locked up for tria! A JERSEY GUILLOTINE, Fright/ul Occurrence at, Waverly. A tramp, supposed to be John W. Pratt, of New York, met a horrible fateon the New Jersey Rail- road, near Waverly, yesterday morning. About seven o'clock the engineer of tne Washington through train observed some dark object lying across the track. He supposed it to be a Newfound. land dog, but on_ closer examination it proved engine a8 to be @ man, He reversed the quickly as possible, but not in time to save the stranger irom an appalling fate. His head ‘was severed from his body aod the body itaelf man- gied and mutilated beyond recognition, He was taken to Newark and placed in the dead house there, As near as could be judged deceased was about forty years of age. He had black, thick hatr and black mustaches. In his pocket was an illus trated certificate of membership ot the ‘Marine’? Temperance Society of the city of New York, dated March 18, 1872, in Which was incorporated the name of John W, Pravt. eS _ ———______- A MAN SKINNED ) ALIVE IN TRENTON, An awful accident happened in the wire mill yesterday to an employé named Bernard McLaugh lin, who resides in Second street. MgZaughitn was duty round the vats, and. deiig lame in one foie stunted and fell into one of the vats of polling copeeee. The whole of his body was covered With the Aaming poison. He was conveyed to his home and attended by a physician, who pro- nounced the case hopeless, Tne skin of tne iil- ptarred man was totally peeled off, and he suffered. excruciating tortures, THE BXPLOSION AT TRENTON, The jury was engaged yesterday in investigating ‘the cause of the terrible boiler explosion on Friday night at the rolling mill, It was shown by a num- ber of experts that the boliers were aged New York and had been patched; uae tro ai that could be gathered, the yalve was open, and the water rushing 10, eae, st lier was hot, caused ‘as OUC consid verdict at the Ume o1 te latest pardioutars, by