The New York Herald Newspaper, September 4, 1875, Page 3

. maintained. T. py THE GEORGIA NEGROES, os An Official Histcry of the Seditious Movement. FEARS OF FEDERAL INTERFERENCR, o1a Letters from Ex-Congressman Speer and Ex-Governor Conley to a Ringleader. eatin: * INTERVIEWS WITH PRISONERS. The Grievance Stated by Two Colored Men. SaNpERsviLLE, August 31, 1875, In support of the view that Cordy Harris and others could make revelations damaging to the republican party, it {6 alleged that Mr. Wilson, United States Commissioner at Savannah, asked for @ private interview with Harris, and as show. ing that Harris, or Morris, his immediate prin- ctpal, has in the past been in communication with prominent republicans in office in this State during Governor Bullock's timo and in Congress, the following letters and papers have been furnished me, The first bears date May 28, 1872, and is from Thomas J. Speer, then arepublican member of Congress, to ‘General’ Morris, in answer to an appeal from bim to have mar- tial law proclaimed in Jones, Twiggs and Wilkinson counties, iu which matter Mr. Speer refuses to stir. The letter reads :—- THE LETTERS. Forry-Secoxp Coxannss, Unirep States House of Rernesextatives, Wasmixcton, D. O., May 28, 1872, ‘ont favor of the 23d inst, has been received nis carefully noted, Yon continue writing me for martial law to be proclaimed in Jones, Twi; at en f nes Om are. iwhite or colored) who m fo Inclined to think that you don't know the effect of martial law. If your request was granted thers would simply be a squad of feds ‘al soldiers stationed somewhere In clamoring ately take control of them by feeding them and giving them whiskey, and, judging the fiiture by the past, you would be peep beri your midst than without them, Our here say that it {s about time that you colored people oe ‘le to take care of yourselves if you ever intend to do ft. They say that you have boon seven years, and if you gannot get slong without contin help they lon't know what is to become o! 5 ‘Yootorday we had up the Ku Kinx bill in the House on its assage, and more than twenty republicans voted against it. tis for the interest of your people. Ps er camanseernsnte 1 have voted repeatedly for 5. 1 give your people here aad still you do you Ifyou aro @ 4 1 take it for granted that you are—you ‘done all that I cau do. Respectfall eee ee IOMAS J. SPEER, Another letter of an earlier date from Speer to Har- re convey® the idea that the latter has been asking Congress to do something which staggers Mr. Speer. What the request was does not appear. The letter reads: — * Wasminctom, D. 0., April 4, 1872, Mr. Monnis:— DEAR Sin—Yonr favor of the 234 ult., together with ac- mpanying petition, has been received and contents noted. What ron nud petidioners ask for tx itmposaible to be accom- ished. Such a thing has not nor cannot be done in the United States. Ifyou could only be here and investigate the question for yourself you would see how ho) is, and also the utter absurdity and tot of your request. Why, sir, thore is no man or fot of mi the national Congress who conld do anything on the Yat you indicat im Congre: eine omething $8 any ma must asl ople than any member, of Congress cannot do that which {gan impossibility. Re- IOMAS J. SPEER. Iso aletter of about this timo from Hon, Benjamin Conley, now Postmaster at Atlanta, Ga., who was for ashort time Governor of Georgia, after Gov- ernor Bullock resigned and lett the State, to Morris, spectfully, There i stating he was then ont of office, and consequently could not remove a justice of the peace whose deposition Morris demanded. This letter reads:— oraght@urTss Ge, March 28, 1673. Mr, Josren Mornis, Gordon, Ga. * ‘Dean Sin—Yonr letter, dated March 25, addrossed to me nt Atlanta and sent to me at this place, came to hand this morniug. I am not now the Governor of the State. | An elec- tion was held in December, at which timo M . Smith was clected Governor, who was sworn in. on the 12th day of January Jast, since which time I have beon living at this Inco, which, 1 presume, in the reason why yont other letters fave failed to reach me and remain unanswored. Teannot do anything for you in regard to having Mr. Thorp removed as Justice of the peace. You will have to write to Governor Smith, but Lexpect 18 will dono good for to write to lim, ae Ido not think he would pay any a fention to your com; You will have to upon the Judge of the Suj Court to see that Justice is done In your dase, and T would advise you to go and see him when the court meets in your county and tell him all about the zase, and Ihave no doubt but that he will see your rights TfL could asaint you in any way I would gladly duit, but as Tam no longer in power can only give you my advice in the matter. If you are acqnainted with Hon. Bamuel Good, of Wilkinson county, I would mggont that you tee lim and got him to look after the matter, as Ihave no Goubt but thar he will do all that be ean for you. Tam sorry that it is not in my power to render the ansint- ce that you desire, If L was the Govornor I would exam- e inte the charges which you make and aoe that you was protected in your person and property. The colored people Df the state will have a hard time of it, I fear, but they Biuet bene with it the best they cans, perhaps there may A better day coming for them soon, If you wish to write me bain direct your letter to me at Atwnata instead of Atlanta, T shail be it ie time, Yours rei fits BENJAMIN CONL! So far these letters simply show that in 1872 Morris was a man to be propitiated, a power among the col- pred population, but a document of much later date ro- reals him asin correspondence with the War Depart- mont, the following copy of aletter to Secretary Bel- kuap having been found among his papers :-— Comrany ©, Grant Gaurp [Guano], Wan Drragraent. To Hon, BELKNAP :— . J. Secatary and selectod Joseph tain of any and we rent him to The State Department to Receive commission Gov. and Give Bonds for the ‘Arms and Equipment and Sir I have bining [been] at his office for space of4 dare hence and cannot Receive and Get any commission tom him so I repeal (appeal) United State Department. JOSEPH MORRIS, En passant, it may be remarked that the “Mr. Wil- liam president’ bere mentioned is a colored man named F. C. Williams who has been teaching the negroes to write. A specimen of his penmanship is before me and with a very little additional practice he wonld write almost a copperplate hand, The sentiments contained in the scrap are worthy of preservation, thus:— Why is Kissing Your sweetheart like eaten soup with a Fork hecause it take to long to get enoff So Boys I tnink it is Y foolish Idy iden} of Kissing Your Sweetheart. We the tndersizned agree to pay F.C. Wil Five Dollars for Bien lesson in the art of penmanship (and) Grammiar And then the Professor writes ‘'King” and ‘King- flom’’ all over that and the other side of the sheot wit! all the persistence of Traddles drawing skeletons on his slate, in “David Copperfield.” To recur to the documents shown me, 80 far, they re- late to Mori but there are other papers of a very re- cent date showing Morris in correspondence ‘with Cordy Harris, There aro two letters, both asking for money and referring toa mass meeting soun to come off, and reading thus:— Jon 284 1875 —I_ Received your kind Express Communication All Right but Sir I Wil say to you plense to send me more Dollars your Convension Will_be Verry Emportan please to send iten a private letter I will Get it I have Fi vited Genoral p R Rivers from Aiken County South arolin: With 2000 Mens with Arms I will send you the minutos Right away your convension Will hold tog days containing \Od county, “Very Rempocttalyy JOSEPH MORRIS ‘aynesboro Burke County Ga. ly 2d 1875 Yon. Mr, Conpra Harny Drar St Mr. Connta Hannts DEAR Stn please to send me word as soon as you Receive the Minnter Ihave envited 19d County to be mt ‘ond me $900 Dollars fiore as at yur Convension Wick ae possible to Waynesboro Ga to Hon Josep Monais. CORDY WARRIS’ STATEMENT, On questioning Cordy Harris npon the ree of his intance with Morris, he stated the following: first I knew of Morrie was a meeting we was to in Sandersville last June. The white folks said we oing to take the town, and I got up and told them come up to hear Morris; thathe had sent word to have the Court House, and no wheel was to tol! on the road that day, and the Sheriff was to sweep ont the room and ali be ready. Then when he heard about the white people he nover come, and I heard ho bad a meeting outside town, and Jerry Simons was mado chairman of the county. 1 went after Morris, and when I got up with him I ‘bused him for the way he don fot coming up, and be said be would be arres’, th white people would put him in jail; then I eays, wasn't {tas well you ag us; we come up there and you waan’t there, and we might had trouble with the white folks on your account. Then | asked him what to be done how, and he says nothing, that things was ont of fix; but 'l hear he had « meeting that day, and Jerry Simons was made chairman of the county.’ Reroxter—Now, Cordy, don't you think Morris signed your name to that letter urging the companies to kill the whites? You know you abused him for run- ning off ; now, didn’t he put that letter off on your Corvy-—Yes, 1 "bused him, but Tdon't know who wrote that letter, Morris might have wrote it (and the assumed @ peculiar expression, one of ; but (after # pause) L don't know. Looks like stunned of Simons hero referred to is also in jail hore. He isa dumpy, black fellow, with rolling, glittering tyes, and in answer to my request for information as Vo his connection with the disturbanco answered rather teluctantly ax follow “T never was inno military company, thairman of Washington county, Morris appinted me and toll me to see that money to print the minutes, that's what he called them, waa taken up and aent on! tL never sent no He said it was to print the minutes. | have them printed and then they would be ere and be signed by the clerk and ordinary I was the the Governor, I am a Methodist preacher. I work about by the day and don’t go out at night, unless it is meeting might, but go to bed after duty. Duty is family prayers. In April or May I went to Waynesboro ‘and saw colored people drilling there, dressed gome in white, some in cominon clothes, just like I goton. I saw some colored man come to Sandersville with » red feather in his hat." \—What do you think about politics, Jerry ? Sent (after much arging)—If de law permits 'em, i mua’ be all right, The law don'tdo wrong If it is according to law there is no harm. Reroater—I mean about voting; what do you think of it; does it do you any good or the colored people any good’? ‘Jarnt—Well, | think {f 18 ts ‘cording to law, I don't see ne harm. What do you understand the Civil Righta what does it mean? ‘Iuxny—I think it means to give one man same rights asanother. J havn't thought about it much, Reronter—Now, Jerry, whi the resson the white people and the colored people can’t live together in Peace? Do the white people oppress the colored people, or are there bad laws, or what js the trouble? Jexny-—No bad laws as 1 know of. The white people take no advantage, not yet, of the colored people. Revontex—Do you think they will f Jxnat—If the colored people think s0, they never told me.I never heard ’em say so, Jerry then retired within the booger 4 colored view of Civil Rights there js thi scrap taken from a prisoner :— T hope thas the white will not be offende of the Privilice of tho sivel Rite Bill for they will make ten dollar were they dont make but one now. Another communication throws light upon the view taken by the negroes of the Civil Rights act, and also explains what Cordy Harris meant by saying, “No wheel was to roll on the road’? on the day appointed for the speechifying by Morris, It is in the shape of a lr ter from Morris to the Sheriff of this county, ordering him to keep tho roads clear of all vehicles for the pas- sage of the intended colored procession of July last, to sweep out the Court House ready for the mass meeting, &c,, and reads thus:— Rupe Marx, Sherif You comand to hav. cort house sweped and all clennd for as meeting on Saturday July 24 1873 fur Republican party Ines, As one is upon a dingy al vers and, his staf chairmans exteutiv commit. in Sandersville orga and rom No. 13 8 + in my Hands to let ., hle staf andexien- nd General Morris aud Ir, JOSEPH MORRIS, Charman of sntd company from Burke County. To Mr, Rups Mayen, Sherif, Gu, July 19, 1875, Waynes bdorow, Burke County, Georgia. And in full hope of the Shertff meeting bim with the keys Cordy Harris approached this place on the mornin, of the 24th of last month, mounted, and at the head ot column of blacks made’ up of divers companies, and marched to tho sound ,of a number of drums. The Sherif, having one company of cavalry and one of in- fantry as a posse to render harmless the intended mass meeting, it was not held, A LAWYHR’S VIEWS. In secking to ascertain the facts of the recent excite- ment here I was fortunate enough to obtain some views which may shed light upon the troubled question of the races South, as also to present a clear account of tho rise and progress of thé negro military movement until the authorities began to take legal steps to forestall danger and arrest those charged with turbulent and eriminal intentions. When the first apprehension was felt the law officer for the Stato in this section was ab: sont, and, under directions from the Judge of the Cir- cult Court and as acting Solicitor General, or District Attorney, Colonel William H. Wylly, a citizen of this place, vindicated the civil authority. From his state- ments a clear and connected account was obtained in the following intervie Revortex—Will you state, Colonel Wylly, the rise of these troubles? Colonel Writy—The first evidence we had here look- ing toward trouble with the negroes was a letter Drought 10 Sandersville on Thursday, August 19, pur- porting to have been written by Cordy Harris, a promi- Dent nogro preacher in this county, directed to Jerry ‘Waters, Captain of Zion Hope Company, and Harrison Tucker, Captain of Buckeye Company, hegro military organizations on the line between Johnson, Washington and Laurens counties, directing those companies to commence a general massacre of the whites on the 20th of August and an appropria- tion of thoir roperty, and appointing No. 1, Central Railroad,; as a place of general rendezvous for a large armed insurgent force. 1 allude to the letter so extensively published and known as the Cordy Harris letter. Upon the citizens learning the contents of the letter the excitement became general and intense, They had been excited before by rumors floating through the country, traceable to no authentic source, conveying the impression that perhaps trouble was brewing between the races in this section of Goor- gis, and also by singular movements of large bodies of Hegroes singularly uniformed and obeying the orders of one Ciodee Morris, a Burke county negro, who repre- sented himself as a ‘‘general messenger” in his orders. RrrorreR—What was that uniform and the gencral appearance of these bodies of men? Colonel Wyi1y—The uniform was a light blue jacket, white pants, with a blue stripe of about one inch wide down the outside seam of the pants; hat with a red feather, and a white sash with the two ends reaching the ground, The first known of this uniform by the citizens of this section of Georgia was the congregation at this placo—Sanderaville—of a large assemblage of n uniformed, ropresenting nineteen counties, who came here by the orders of Morris, on the 24th day of July last. They marched in order from Tennille, the railroad station, a distance of three miles from San- dersville, with martial music, Morris leading them. Ravonten—What was the purpose of this ineeting? Colonel Wruuy—We have never been able clearly to understand the pur; The reports of the nogroes are coutradictory, orris deserted them before they reached Sandorsville, and the objects never were de- clared by him or any one supposed to know. Some ne- gro reports say it was for the purpose of forming them- solves into a political organization for the next Presi- dential campaign; others, that it was for the purpose of demanding from the whites their equal rights. Rurort#r—Was any explanation given of this phrase, “their equal rights?” Colonel WriLr—Again, there were contradictory re- ports from the negroes a3 to what they meant by ‘their equal rights” or “civil mghts.’”’ Some stated in private conversations with the whites that it meant all the rights and privileges guaranteod to them by the Civil Rights bill as it passed Congress; others, that it meant a demand upon the whites for a division of the landed property of this country, claiming that it was govern- ment land, and they were entitled to forty acres cach of it, Terortra-—Previous to this mecting of July 24 had there been any other apprehension upon the part of the whites? Colonel Writy—Some little, from the fact that du ing the first and middle of the year the negroes simul- taneously rushed into military organizations and com- menced drilling, and these military meetings and drills were secret and held generally at the close of some re- ligious meoting and after the women had beon dismissed and sent home, This looked strange to tho white peo- ple, and then dark threats and insinuations, made irom time to time by drunken or angry negroes, cansed some suspicion that they meant no good to the peace of society. However, these apprehensions were not so grave as to occasion any serious fears, and were gradu- ally being lost sight of until the finding of the Cordy Harris Jetter. Rrvorter—Will you state what took place after that event? Colonel Wy11.y—Upon consultation with some of the Prominent citizens of this place I had warrants issued on the Saturday following the finding of the letter for the parties mentioned In it, being then Acting Solicitor General of the Middle Circuit, On Monday Jerry Waters, Harrison Tucker and Jake Moorman, known in the letter as Brother Jake, were arrested and brought to Sandersville Jail that afernoon, and confined in separate cells, My iden was that the parties should be put upon their defence, to ascertain the fet whether this letter was a forgery, as was at first supposed by many of us, and afford them an opportunity of clear- ing themselves from the charge of isurrectionary in- tentions, if that could be done, and if not that they should suffer the penalty for so atrocious a@ design, affecting, a8 of society—developments showing the extent and certainty of an intention upon the part of a large or- ganization to enter into this insurrection, and that, after all, the letter was not a hoax—and I, hav! reason to believe in the truth of the information given me in regard to the organization, on Tuesday went to the home of Judge Herschel V. Johneon to seek his ad- vice in the premises, knowing that if there was truth at all in the matter it was a terrible crisis, Under his di- rection arrests continued apd the excitement increased among blacks and whites. Confession being made by @ number of prisoners on Wednesday, | deomed it gxpe- dient to telegraph the Governor, putting hin in posses- sion of such facts as I had tn relation to insurrec- tion, and asking him to order out the organized militia staf from . Your devoted of the county to protect the prisoners from in- jury in case an attempt ‘should be — made in that direction, and also to prevent their liberation, although 1 apprehended no attempt upon the part of the citizens of this part of the State to violate the laws, On the contrary, they had given every evi- dence of the atmost zeal in preserving the pence and maintaining the supremacy of the laws. In answer to my telegram the Governor ordered out the two com: panies in this county, commanded respectively by Cap. tains Tarbutton and Peacock, to act ax a guard for tho prisoners, under the orders of the Sheriff. Arrests con. Uuuned on Thursday and Friday, and on Saturday His Excellency the Governor came to Sandersville. Revonten—Did His Excellency visit Sandersville in compliance with a request to that effect from you? Colonel WyLiy—No, sir; he came on his own motion, appreciating the gravity of the sitnation from the tele grams Lsent him, he having directed me to keep iin Jully informed over the wires, which I did, Revoxten—-What action was taken by him upon his arrival? Colonel Wriiy—He looked into the evidence and directed me to go on a8 L had commenced, having im- mediately, upon his arrival, delivered wn address to the peopic of Sandersville replete with sage advice to whites and blacks. He stated that he should maintain the supremacy of the laws at all bazarde, and that every Iaw-abiding citizen within the limits of Georgia should “be protected as long as he Was Governor in the enjoyment of their great personal rights; that the poor man should sleep in his cabin with as much salety as if he were surrounded with serried ranks oi bayonets. He spoke in the highest terms of the law-abiding spirit displayed by the citi He zens of this and adjoining counties. in this crisis alno said that there should be a fair. tria doubifally guilty must go free, and that none but. those convicted on the ciearest evidence should sw there was no murder like « judicial murder tinder the forms of law, “Those who were convicved heed expect no mercy from the Jaw, These views, L believe, are entertained by the citizens of this section. Reronten—Have you any information as to disturb- ances in any other county similar to that of which you bave just spoken ? Colonel WyLiy—I unders d from members of the it did, the general interests | for Judge of Probate in Georgia), and then sent up to | Bar with whom 1 am in correspondence, as well as from | | cement the crumbling ranks of the extreme ‘wing of the | republican party. j less stirred up by t the public prints and from the confessions of prisoners, that the counties of Jefferson, Burke, Johnson, Lau- rens and Wilkinson have had their disturbances’ from this move on the part of the negroes, and that in some of the counties they have made extensive arrests. Rrronten—| will now ask you, Colonel Wylly, if it is your conviction that there was any plot to massacre t! Whites und divide thelr property as indicated to ter attributed to Cordy Harris? Colonel Wriay—I am ajawyer, sir, and speak from the evidence before me. I should doubt the evidence of my own senses if} should doubt the existence of a plot on the part of the negroes in this section, or a part of them, rather, to massacre the whites and enforce their agrarian law. Who are guilty of this out of the number arrested is not for ine to say, but a matter for Judicial investigation, , 1 am satised that tbe mass of ‘the rank and file were not in possession of the full Secreta of the organization, but that they were sworn to obey all orders of their officers blindly, no matter what those orders might be. They knew, however, that the organization was for the purpose of commencing some Oftensive movement against the whites. The officers L believe to have been in full possession of tho entire an of operations, and that they were terribly in earnost fa'their design, Revonten—What cause do you assign for so sudden and bloody-minded an organtzation as you state thie to Colonel Wyity—Well, air, to commence, I do not be- Neve that the originators of these organizations had such designs as have been developed by recent di closures. My opinion is that political leaders high in po- sition first attempted the organization of the negroes at the South for their own purposes, but that the ne who is sadly ignorant, went beyohd the original de: and became rather a Jacobin in his ideas. 1 also belie’ that {t was the Intention of the origmators to got up & conilict in order to make political capital out of the out- rages which might result from auch conflict, and thus The negroes themselves show thatin their conversations. RevorteER—My question was directed rather toward the negroes Ulemselves; have they any grievances inciting them to deeds of Violence and agrarianism ? Colonel Wyiix—None under God's heavens th know of in this section of the State. Old prejudic were rapidly disappearing, the negroes were prosper: ous, and ovcry indication pointed to their future ad- vaneement, Many of the prisoners im this instance are men of property. The whites were tearning to look with more confidence upon the negro raco, and to all | appearance that feeling was reciprocated by the blacks. Rxronter—What effect, if any, has the passage of the Civil Rights act had upon the colored population ? Colonel Wrty—Bad ofect, for the reason that the negroes do not understand the nature or provisions of the Civil Rights act, they looking upon it as a law passed by their friends, the republicans, and conferring upon them the most’ extensive rights and privileges, political, civil “and social, Or, in other words, thoy jook upon itas a jaw made by’ the ropublican party, bestowing upon them the right of entrée into the social circle, the right to divide property with the whites, the right to do as they please, regardless of State laws. Thoy consider that that act ‘of Congress places them in | &@ position above the white man of the South, and thas the white man has no right—personal, civil or political— which they by law are bound to ‘respect. One old negro, very intelligent for his race, gave as his under- | standing of the Civil Rights act every known principle | of Jaw and government, and wound up by saying that one of its provisions was that you shouldn't use ob- scene or profane langnogo in the prosence of a female. I give you this instance as an illustration of what a negro’s idea of the Civil Rights act is, EVORTER—What ts the industrial condition of the colored race, #0 far as it comes under your obser- vation? Colonel Writr—The older negroes, those trained in ante-bellum times, work, a8 a general rule, well, and aro thriving. The younger generation are thriftless, ignorant, and not educated to a high standard of morality; have a very poor appreciation of moral ideas, and are looked upon by the older ones as drones. RevorteK—What is your judgment, Colonel Wylly, as to the future of the races ¥ Colonel Wr1n1y—I do not think that it will be possible for the races to continue to live together in peace where they aro as nearly equal in numerical strength as they are in this section much longer if these commotions continue, The more excitable classes of both races | will certainly bring on a conflict at some unfortunate | time in the future. While L deeply deplore such a fact, still 1t stares me in the face and Iam bound to recog- nize {ts existence. These commotions, however, would not ocour so frequently or be of such’ magnitude if it were not for political intriguers who antagonize the Taces, A COLORED MAN'S VIEWS. Happening to fall in with a colored man of this town, whom I shall call Peter, I asked him his opinion on the topic of the day in this section, the recent apprehended insurrection, He was very shy at Art, bat after an evident struggle, in which his desire to disburden him- self contended with a resolve to say nothing, finally consented to touch upon the all-engrossing theme. Many were the hints, however, of white folks “twissing (twisting) the colored people about so,” before he finally plucked up heart of grace and said Dere ain’t nothing in all this yer, Its jis’ a plan to cow de colored people down, De fus’ beginning was we had a meoting here, de biggest that tho colored prone have had since Governor Bullock was Governor. never see 80 many colored folks together here sinco we had the three days’ voting in Governor Bullock’s time, They had three drums and was going to have a meeting in Sandersville, but the white folks said it was a ‘tempt to do sich and—you ask me for my opinion, and I’se going to give same as I would to anybody. Reronter—That's all right; go on. PereR—seems like the white poople can’t’ bear to see the colored eople have any ‘quality; seems like they ain't willing to live under the same law; dat it almost ixills ’em for the colored people to have any rights. Revoxter—But how about this meeting ? Prrex—De meeting wasn’t held then; some sald there would be trouble; dey come up the road to town; but the meeting wasn’t held. Reronter—You say that they had three drums; were there any arms or uniforms? Perrr—No, sah; dere was no arms; dey had a uni- form, a blue jacket, the ekal rights jacket they called it; the colored folks had it from Governor Bullock’s time; some of them had feathers in their hats; some had red feathers, some black and some white. sri what do you think of all this busi- ness PrTen—You ask me for my ’pinion, and I jes? like’s I give it to anybody. I’m a man what vs talks out right and has my ’pinion. Iam a radical man, dat's the truth, I was from the fus’ start, and I 'spec to dio one. Somehow I likes dat way. And I tell you the colored people never had no sueb idea of killing the white people and risingup. Dere is no truth in it. It's jus’ the white — dav’s jealous, *Pears like thoy don’t ‘want to give tho colored people any rights. White man come to Sandersville and get drunk and holler and noth- ing done; but a colored man do it, and a pissol (pisto!) to his head and march him to the guard house, hite man get drunk and cuss about and say “damn niggers,” and #le marshal (constable) don’t touch him; jus’ get in his buggy or on his horse or mule | and go out of town, and cuss the Marshal, “God damn, goto hell.” Colored man can’t do dat. Snatch him up quick! Colored people don’t like all that; dere ought to be the same law for all; give a man the same rights. | The colored people are going to have a meeting to go way—to emigrate, This is the meanest, worsost county | in this State. They don’t want the colored people to | have any Fights *Pears like you can’t get jestice, Go into court, It goes agin you. I hada 'count of $119, and brought up my proofand put in the 'countand I never did see any of it, Dat was in the Burean. Reronten—So the Freedmen’s Bureau treated you ne better than the white people? Perer (after a pause and then with a laugh, as ifhe had made a facetious discovery)—Dat’s so, I never seo any of it. FVORTER—How are the colored peoplo getting along? Are they making money? Prrer—Somo 18 doing fus' rate; others not so well. in'ral dey isn’t doin’ so well as in Governor Bul- lock's time. Some is making right sharp, Rerorter—What do you think of all this troubie? Peter—You mean all this drilling and mustering and Boing about? Keronten—About these trials? Perer—Dere ain't no truth in it, Blacks never had ‘an idea, never, of all sich, Never wanted mo trouble, Some of ‘em may have made false steps; I doesn’t say they hasn't, Dey may hang some of ‘em gitting up things, and turning some of ‘em about, and a-using them; may poison some, but there ain’t nothing, white man, Very cunning; you know dat. Turn and turn and wis’ (twist) about, and dere they get you. (Convict) Revorter—Now what do you think will be the end of all these commotions ? Pxrex—Die drilling and mustering and all? Rerroaten—Yes. Perxr—Blood, Rerortex—Do you mean bloodshed between the white and colored rac Prren—Yes, dere will be blood spil'. He said this with great frankness, as in fact he had ive it May do it, | two or three days afterward whether he had heard any: manifested throughout after overcoming his tirst disin- clination, and with an apparently firm belicf in the truth of what he said. On inquiry it appeared that he is a plain, ordinary, hard-working’ negro of no particu- lar notability in his neighborhood or race, A KNOW-NOTHING NEGRO, » Another black man of about the same calibre seemed tho local excitement, and could only know how al! the trouble arose. He say that he didn’ remarked “[ don’t understand it. I never heard the colored people speak injurious words against the white people and I go about a good deal. Some of them may have been talking too big.’ Reroxter—Don't you suppose some shrewd colored man has been making money out of the colored people by making big promises? Biack Mas—Money is at the bottom of it, I shouldn't be surprised. Search the thing out to the bottom and Jay you find money there. Phi ‘oKnTER—How are the colored people getting along? Hack Max—Some of 'em is doing right sharp, | others again not so well, They spend too much for iskey; that’s what's ruining them. Why, some days, sir, they take in $100 for whixkey at (w | roads store) from the colored people and the | es. They can’t stand that, Them as take proper # 4 doing well, There (and he pointed) is an that got a good place; he went in big after the war ani got broke, butis coming up; he will come out, though, right smart bent yet. I’ve got a place of four acres, bought a year ago last July. 1 paid $850 for it—pretty | severoand some said 1 wouldn't pay for it, but if live till Christmas Pll show ‘em what Ekin de. 1 paid all but ‘bout $90. There is no one but myself and my wife and my sister’s son, She went off in tho raid custody to-day, The other insurrectionary cases have been continued to the regular term of the Court. The prisoners arrested in Johnson county will be tried ata special term, Monday next. Judge Johnson's course is highly commended. The State was represented by Attorney General Hammond and Salem Dutaker, and the defendant by ex-Attorney Geneaal Akerman, CHARLEY ROSS. FOURTH DAY OF THE TRIAL OF WESTERVELT— SUPERINTENDENT WALLING UNDER A SEVERB ORDEAL—A RIGID AND LONG CROSS-EXAMINA~ TION—A DULL SESSION—DETECTIVE KING'S AND CAPTAIN HEDDEN'S TESTIMONY. Prinapenputa, Sept. 3, 18° To-day's sesston of the Court of Quarter Sessions, in the trial of William Westervelt, was almost a profitless’ one. From ten o'clock until after three Superintend- ent Walling was upon the witness stand, undergoing the cross-examination of Mr. Ford. The Superintendent’s mannor was easy and deliberate, He impressed every one as being a conscientious witness. Westervelt very frequently scribbled notes on scraps of paper, which he handed over to his counsel. These were evidently suggestfons which the lawyer made use of, The court room was excessively crowded all day, in spite of the almost unendurable heat. The jury looked somewhat refreshed, having been allowed to go to their homes last night for the first time since the beginning of tho trial. “GIL! MOSITER. “Gil Mosher, the elder brother of the dead kidnap- per, was seen in Court to-day, It is said that he will be called by the District Attorney. If ho does testify truthfully his evidence will throw a great deal of light on the inside history of this case, “STILL! PRISONERS. The proposition made by Westervelt to Superintendent Walling that he would agree to “turn up’? Dougiass, but would not give Mosher » was one of the sub- fects taken up during the cross-examination, The wit- ness had said that he hesitated to agree to this, because he knew the publication of Douglass’ arrest would frighten off Mosher and prevent his arrest. Mr. Ford asked the Superintendent ff it would be necessary to publish such an arrest. The witness answered that he would be obliged to take him immediately before a | magistrate. Mr. Ford—Have you no such things as “still” pris- oners in New York? Mr, Walling—No; we had oneo, but not now. Mr. Ford—Thero was a “still” prisoner tn this city, L know, about the 13th of April. (Referring to the caso of this prisoner, who laid in jail without arraignment from that time. } | Mr. Walling—I recollect holding a prisoner twenty- four hours not long ago without sending him before a magistrate, and I was neavily fod for it. THE SUPERINTENDENT'S CROSS-EXAMINATION, Below isthe essential portion of Mr. Walling’s cross- oxamination:—My suspicion was first directed to Mosher and Douglass in connection with this ab- | duction {n tho latter part of July; it was first men- tioned to me by Captain Hedden; I spoke to the Captain a few days afterward on the subject, in consequence of the former interview; he said an officer of bis sus- pected these men of having some connection with it; this was at the first Interview; he said he would make further inquiries and let me know; he didn’t know whother there was anything int or not; I asked him thing; he told me that Mosher and Douglass wero sux- | pected, and that he would send other parties, who | gave him the information, to see me;_ he | stated that OMicer Doyle, of the |’ Thir. | teenth precinet, gave him’ the ‘information; Otficer Doyle said he got his information trom | old Gil Mosher, the brother of Bill Mosher, who suspected thein of haying abducted Charley Ross; | those are the parties that came to seo me one or two | days after this interview; [can’t fix the exact time; I can’t tell whether it was ’in July or August; I directed the officer to endeavor to locate Mosher and Clark if asible and find out their whereabouts, and requested Jlocher’s assistanco—that Is, Gil Mosher's assistance; I did not give Gil Mosher directions to arrest them; he had no power to arrest anybody; he was to assist me | by endeavoring to find out their whereaboutsy | he was not to report tome, but to Officer Doyle, with | whom he was acting; I saw him several times subso- | quently, and requested him to accompany Ofliccr Doyle | to Philadelphia and Baltimore searching for these par- | ties; thoy afterward visited Camden; I requested him, | if possible, to procure any of the handwriting of Mosher and Douglass, Mosher’s espocially; I requested him likewise to accompany a party on 4 steam launch in search of Mosher and Douglass; I think that was in | September, but [ am not pe. at least as late as tho latter part of September; my attention was. first called to Westervelt, I think, by Officer and Mosher; they ‘told me that Gil had given Wostorvelt a'letter to Witham Mosher, that Gil had written, requesting an answer where he, Gil Mosher, could see his brother William, as he wished to see hit ‘on some business; Iunderstood they had handed him this letter, but am not sure on that point; they told mid they never received any answer to it, nor heard a reply to it; Mr. Westervelt informed me where Mosher and Douglass had been living just previons to the abdue- tion; he informed me long before the killing; two or more months previous to the killing he told ‘me they | had been living in Philadeiphia; it was a voluntary | statement; under the agreement we had previously mado that was no part of the assistance he was to render me; previous to his telling mo this story I had no intimation that ho knew where they had been living; he was the only one I obtained this infurmation from, but that was after they had moved from Philadelphia; I think my first’ interview with him was after they had moved from Philadelphia, but ho did not give me that information until long after the first interview; I did not at any interview ask him where they had lived; Westorvelt informed me of tho names under which Mosher and Douglass went in this eity; he told me the name his brother-in-law lived under when he told me thoy had lived in this city; at this same time he informed me where the horse and wagon had been stabled; he gave me this information of where they had lived, under what names they went and where they had stabled the horse and wagon some time before the kill- twas the first information of these things that ad; whether it was the first the police of this city had | I don’t know; he agreed at the third or fourth inter. view to furnish me with information to assist mo in arresting Mosher and Douglass; it was no part of that agreement that he should arrest them; he was to give me such information as he could; he didn’t desire to be known; in his own manner he was to let me know what he learned and give me what informa- tion he could as to their whereabouts, which would assist us in having them arrested; I was depending in a measure to get information trom him, but not entirely; I had other parties looking for information; I knew whero ho lived; I had his house watched, and he knew it, and he told me it was of no use, they wouldn’t come thera; that was not the timo when he said that if I suspected bim or was having him watched he would have nothing todo with it; that was another ocoasion and had nothing to do with his house; | Je | | accord. | for the woman's presence of mind. I withdrew tho watch after a considerable time of watching; they wouldn’t come there if they knew the house was watched; I withdrew the watch because I knew it was no use; Westervelt told me that they knew his house was watched and they wouldn't come there; | never knew positively of the whereabouts of Mosher | and Douglass after the abduction of this child; the first that I heard after the abduction of the child of their | rendezvous was that there was a place in New Yorkcity | where Mosher and Douglass had met; I think it was the Oth of October; I made efforts to arrest them there, and the reason, I suppose, was that I had the place watched, and Weatervelt accused me of having watched him, and 1 withdrew the watch; I was satisied that Westerrelt and they had met there; 1 had officers looking for them at that time, and Westervelt iS then — endeavorin, to find out the where. abouts of the child, Instead of the immedi; pursuit of the two men; he promised me to do that; bi came to me and told mo that he would not give away Mosher, but that he would give me Douglass, prior to this time; I said “Very well, wait a few days; about a week after that I saw bim and told him that I would | consent to take Douglass without the other party if he could give me information where to get hiiu; he told mg atall the times that he would have to wait for the to communicate with him; he was to meet with Douglass, and see if he could meet him at some future time and give me information of it; at that time J told him to wnit, because I wanted to get both, and when he said he wonld get Douglass I wanted to think of it; L did not know that if I could get one I could get both; from his information I did not know that they went in pairs; he said Douglass gave him information, and that Bill wouldn't show up when they came to the city; ifone was arrested and pubiished it would interfere with the arrest of others, | CHARLES M, STRINDERGRR, | Charles H. Steinberger deposed that he kept a beer | saloon at No. 74 Mott street, New York, whither hoe had removed from TL about the middle of June, 1874; he had known Westervelt for three yeurs; he first’ saw him in his saloon about June, 1874, with Mosher and Douglass; he next saw the three there in July, and the third occasion, when the three were together there, was in September; Westervelt was already there On this occasion, as he frequently w and the other two came in afterwards; about ten minutes; part of Un sitting down in the back par’ pi was during this. month; Westervelt was first, and the two others came in to the three remained about ten min they took a drink and talked awht 5 the next gether; utes; on these uccasions Mosher aud Douglase generally wen away first and Westervelt atter staying long August Westerveit wrote a letter and left i with wit. | “e, telling lim to give it to either M Douglass if they came for it; they did not and witness returned it about three days after; when Westervelt camo back he told witness he had been up the river ona clambake; witness had a conversation (Sherman's march) and dicd in Savannah, We all | Wil the Rrccnvraing: seth ives ate | work—I work, my wife works, de boy ks. I got | y Witness continued :—fle told me, “1 out ina good place for $30 a year, and we ex’ snatch things baldheaded. 1 will pay out about Christmas and then take up another four acres, MORE TRIALS NEXT WEEK. . Avovsta, Sept. 3, 1875, The jury in the Cordy Harris caso returned a verdict ofnot guilty and the prisoner was discharged from contidentially that I can make from $10,000 to $ but by doing so | would have to. give somebody a which would cend them to State Prison for ten years for life,” This conclided witness’ direct examination. | (On cross-examination witness said that Mosher and | Douglass were in his piace twice before he knew who they wero; he was told by f. A. Hartman, an intunato friend of Westervelt, who the. men were; Bill Mosher, he said, had done five years’ time in State Prison; wit- | being t | now taking stock, with the object of dissolving. | th hess first saw the mon in his place about the mid: flo of June, 1874; after he was told who the men were his Suspicions were aroused, and he took memorandu ms of their future — appearances. Mr. Ford = ques- tioned the witness rigidly as to why he made these memoranda At the conclusion of nis ero s-ex- amination Mr, Hagert asked witness when he first teard of the alleged connection of Mosher an¢ Douglass with theabduction, He answered, “On the second vistt to to the jprom: A spirited di seus. etween the District Attorney an hich Mr. Ford applied the adjective 6! t's manner of asking a question, A fure 1s Honor finally counsel, to Mr. Hag ther war of words tuok place, and overruled Mr. Ford’s objections. ANEW YORK DETECTIVE. Officer Richard King, of the New York detectiver po- pe lice, deposed that he knew Mosher, but not Dong mas 5 had a conversation with Westervelt last January: he asked me how I made out at Port Jefferson; 1 told him I did. not find Washington Morris and that he knew nothing about the child; Westervelt satd be must, a8 ho was very intimate with Mosher and Douglass;'1 vo him that] thought he knew something about it; her sa he would not give his brot not care for Douglass; I asked him why he did vot arrest Douglass the might he was with him at tho Van Dyke House; he said Douglass was watching him «il the tine, Tho rest of the witness’ testimony was not inter- esting, and the court adjourned until Monday mo ening, after calling Police Captain Henry Headen, whosestesti- mouy will then be heard. NEW YORK CITY. John Sloan, aged sixty-one years, recetved a ‘severe | wound on the hand by being bitten by a dog in Vesey” street, Patrick Hamald, aged forty-seven years, of N:o, 195 | avenue D, was knocked down by a wagon yesterctay in First avenue and had his jaw broken. William Robertson, twenty-four years, of 2£0. 170 Railroad avenue, Jerse, y, and Wilham Hudson, of No. 28 Broome street, ach an arin broken “by fall- ing throngh a hatehy No, 394 ‘Greenwich street yesterday afternoon while skylarking. They werestaken lo their respective resic friends, BROOKLYN. Sergeant Edward Riely has been appointed captain of the Eleventh precinct, Officer Slattery has.beem pro- moted to the sergeantcy, Inspector of Buildings Henry McLaughlin, who was stabbed by Henry Jeffers on last Sunday, is now be- lieved to be on a fair way toward recovery Mary Bowen, three years of age, daughter ofJobn J. Bowen, of No, 980 Lafayette avenue, was fatally burned yesterday by her clothes catching fire at a bonfire. Captain Thomas Cornell, of the Eleventh precinct po- lice, who sent in his resignation to the Board of Com- missioners, was appointed telegraph operator in place of Louis Ebel, removed. Frank Bittner, sixteen years. of age, residing at No. 288 Johnson avenue, beat his mother till she became in- sensible on Thursday night. He was arraigned before Semler yesterday, but tho mother would not tes- inat her hopeful son, Henry Willington, the young man who attempted to commit suicide by shooting himsolf and cutting his throat at his place of residence, No, 73 Hamilton street, on Thursday afternoon, was alive last night, though ho cannot, the doctors say, recover. STATEN ISLAND. Fishermen are having very poor luck this seasor in the waters around Staten Island. On Monday morning next about 4,600 children-will | turn out throughout Richmond county, on tho oecasion of the reopening of the public schools, after a nine weeks’ vacation. Belcher Hildebrandt, a saloon keeper on the Rich- mond turnpike, New Brighton, was held to bail in April | lust inthe sum of $6,000, to answer before the Grand Jury on the charge of arson in setting his saloon on fire, but was soon after surrendered by his bondsmen, and his bail was reduced to $3,000, Mr. Carl Siete, a cigar | | manufacturer of Ne' Brighton, becoming: his surety. Hildebrandt slipped his bail yesterday and fied to parts unknown—it is supposed to Europe—and left Mr, Sietzo to settle the matter with the authorities as best he can, There camo near being an accident, on the Staten Island Raflroad on Thursday afternoon, While tho train from Clifton Landing at four o'clock was running at a good rate of speed botwoen the Court House and the New Dorp stations the engineer, Mr. Benton Wilber, discovered a woman signalling the train with her handkerchief, Ho immediately whistled down brakes, and succeeded in stopping the train when within a tow feet of a two-horse truck wagon, standing at the side of the track, with the wheel near enough to be struck by the locomotive, A German was sitting in the wagon stupid with liquor. The conductor went up to him and asked what he was doing there, but could got no reply. | Itas supposed that the horses, having no guklance, got out of the wagon road and upon the traok of their own The man would probably have been killed but FATAL John Smith, aged twenty-fite years, while sleeping early yesterday morning on the roof of No. 793 Wash- ington street, a five story building, fell into the yard | and was instantly killed: Martin Froitag fell from the roof of No. 125 Broome street yesterday into the yard of No, 25 Willet street and was killed. Mrs, Ann Riley foll from a second story window at No. 480 Degraw street, Brooklyn, on. Thursday night, while asleep, and was sevorely injured, She was taken to St, Peter's Hospital. SUICIDE IN A CELL. Bella Jones, aged twenty-five years, of No. 166 Thompson street, a prisoner in the Fifteenth Precinct station, was found atan early hour yesterday morning by Doorman Flynn hanging from the ventilator over the door of the cell by some of her olothing which sho had torn into strips. She was instantly ent down and Dr. Dow was sent for, but on his arrival he pronounced | her dead, FUNERAL OF DAVID M. HENRIQUEZ, The funeral of Mr. David M. Henriqnex took place yesterday from his late residence, No. 71 Madison ave- nue. Mr. Henriquez was one of the oldest members of the Old Guard, and that organization attended the fu- neral in a body. A number of the employés of the Department of Taxes and Assessments were also pres- ent, The remains were enclosed in a handsome silver mounted rosewood casket A PARTNER ROBS THE FIRM. A short time ago Stengel’s leather factory, at No, 325 Academy street, Newark, was robbed of hides to the value of £2,500, Tho police have kept the matter se- cret in order to discover the burglar, as they consid- ered publicity, would defeat their aim, a eventually been found in the person of A. G. Stengel, one of the members of the firm, his object, he states, cause the dissolution of the firm. The tirm is A SISTER OF CHARITY'S DEATH. Sister Mary Assissium, one of the Sisters in charge of the St. Joseph's Hospital at Paterson, died in that insti- tution about half-past three o'clock yesterday morning. For the past five years she has been one of the rhost un- tiring and devoted nurses at the hospital, being found at all times at her post, gent to the sick, A requiem mass will be eung at nine o'clock this morning in the hospital chapel, She was but thirty-three years old. UNIVERSALISM IN NEW JERSEY. Tho State Convention of Universalists in New Jersey met at Hightstown, and continued two days in session, Rev. Dr. Forrester, of Newark, preached the occasional sermon, A sermon was preached on the evening pre, vious by Rev, Phebe A. Hanaford. ot Jersey City. cers were elected early in the session, for 1875:—David 1, Holden, of Jersey City, President; Charles M. Nor. ton, of Hightstown, Vice Prosident; Rev. Phebe A. Hana- ford, of Jersey City, Secretary; Jobn H. Fairchild, of | Newark, Treasurer; Jacob Birdsall, KR. Norton, of Hightstown, Trustees for James T. 'Hengh, Mrs. A. KE. Hitchcock, orrester, Delegates to the General Cony ¥, of Hightstown, preacher of F, Hiteh Hanaford, State Missionary Committee; A. Munaford, F. Hiteheock, David Tappan, , Committee on Fellowship, Ordination and David L, asional sermon; A. P, Rev, Pho! of Rahway Disciplme, CONTEST OVER A WILL. ‘tho contest over the will of the lato Stephon K. J., was brought before the City, yesterday. County Jorolemon, af Kearney, » 8’ Court, at Jerse: deceased to be exhumed, and held thereon a post- | mortem examination, assisted by Drs. Bird and Doug- lass. They found all the organs im a healthy condition, | except a clot of blood at the base of the brain, ewuséd by the bursting of a vein, This produced apoplexy, which was the cause of Mr. Jerolemon’s death = The fwet-that A showed that the trouble Jnage Hoffman then de and it will be admitted to te to-day before gate MeCague, By this Mrs, Stoddard, sister of deceased, is shut out share in the will, which is to be administered y the wife of the late Mr. Jerolemon, ‘The property amounts to $100,000. eo mitral veins were ossif had existed for some time, cided that the will was val —_— in-law away, but he did j nd kindly administering | om. | of Waretown, | jon Stott testified that he caused the body of the | 3 SIN MURDERERS HANGED. A Memorable Scene at Fort Smith Yesterday. Terrible Tragedies in the In- jan Country. One of the Murderers Conyiciel by His Own Confession, Lirtie F Ark., The six men hung to-day at Fort s Sept. 8, 1875. pith were sen fenced at the last term of the Federal Court, There | were eight sentenced at the same time, but one was killed afterward while attempting to escape, and the sentence of the other was commuted to ime Prisonmens for life. Tho names of the men who were hung were James Ht. Moora, white; Daniel H. Evans, white; Samuel W. Fooy, quar- ter Cheroke moker Man-Killer, full blood Cherokees Bdmund Campbell, colored, and John Whattington, white. The gallows was crected inside the walls of the old fort. The platform was fourteen feet by titteen feet, and ten. feet six ine bove the ground. All the sia persons were launched into eternity at the same time, al Fi and his doputies superintended tha ext on, The gailows was erected close up toand in front of an old pentagon shaped building. Just over the trap was a strong rope beam framed on posts and Sirrnly braced. The six men were placed in line stand. img side by side, IISTORY OF THR MURDERS. Whittington’s erime was as brutal and cowardly as ‘his countenance was savage and bloodthirsty, Op Sunday, Febrnary 7, 1 while returning from across Red River with a near neighbor named Johy J. Turner, he suddenly struck him a ter- H rifle blow with a hes club, knocking him senseless from his horse. Rapidly dismounting, the murderer made sure of his work by cutting his victiin’s throat from ear to ear and gashing up other parts of his body ina ghastly manner, Te then ed the dead man’s pocket of $105, and while proceeding to hide the | body in the brosh ‘Turner's young son, eighteen years of age, suddenly came upon the scene like an apparte Won. Whittington fled terror stricken, with the avenge ing son in pursuit. The boy's horse, after a chase of our miles, gave out; but he har raised the alarm, an¢ Whittington was captured shortly after he had recrossed the river. He was brought to this city, and, afer being confined in jail four months, was tried and found guilty and condemned to death. DANIED EVANS, who was next sentenced, was a youth scarcely twenty. one years of age, light ‘haired, slightly but well built, and ‘with the air of a desperado, It was in evidence that Evans, young as he was, had been a highwaymaw for three years. He was of the Murrell type, robbing travellers, and then murdering them, he prin- ciple that'“dead men tell no tales.” The particular crime for which ho suffered was the murder of a young man named William R, Seabolt, with whom ho wai travelling {rom Denison, Texas. The two were seen to ether four miles from Eufala, Cherokee Nation, the 30th of last November, A week thereafter the body of Seabolt. was found and ideptiied by & patch which he wore over his left eye, ang by a memorandum book found on his person, contain- ing his name and those of his family. After the dis- covery of the crime the murderer had the audacity ta return to the settlement riding the horse and wearing the hat, boots and spurs of his victim, It was th circumstances that convicted him. ‘Throughout trial he preserved a careless. de or and laughed im the Judge's face during the delivery. of the solemn sentence. Evans’ mother now lives in Bosque county, Texas, and her family are said to be quite respectable, The crime for which EDWARD CAMPBELL was executed was ofa peculiarly atrocious character, and, though he was but twenty years of age, showed him to be a murderer of the most. brutal type. G bell was a full-blooded negro, and +a ative of the “Choctaw Nation. His father had been ensaged in si difflenlty with one Lawson Ross, on account of a trans. action in which Campbell claimed Ross had injured him. For this reason considerable enmity has grown up bo: tween the two families, On the night of tho 13th of February last Edward npbell, together — with his brother Sam, fourteen years of age, and Frank Butler, a half-brother, went to the house of Ross’ and murdered ‘him in his bed, and then ontraged and killed a young girl who waa living at the Ross house, Both Butler and Campbell were found guilty of murder; but last July the former, in attempting to escape, was’ shot dead, Campbell re= ceived his sentence wit manifesting any emotion, JA was a professional hors hwayman and mur derer, He was twenty-eight’ years old, over six feet high, of po' I build, keen and desperate. He was a | native of Johnson county, Mo., and belonged to a re- spectable family. About 'a year ago Moore, with a confederate named Hunton, went down into Washington county, Arkansas, and stole four horses from Charles Cox, a farmer Cox collected a crowd of his ne thieves through the Ind were overtaken on a little desperate tight en: and Captain Irwin cured and lodged in ighbors and ‘pursued the n Territory. The fugitives eck near Red River, anda hn Spiney was instantly killed iously hurt, but the thieves were i, Subsequently Hunton es. caped, but was pursued into the Indian Territory and killed, After a long and tedious trial Moore was found gnilty of the murder of Spiney and condemned to death, | During his incarceration his wife came to see him often, | taking his two children with her to the jail His mother, seventy-nine years old, also visited “him and tried to comfort him in his last moments. Moore was @ thoroughly abandoned character. It is said that | killed tive men during his wild career, Undoubte: the punishment was well deserved. Of the six cutthroats who were swung into eternity to day SMORER MAN-KILLER was, doubtless, the most caiculating and bloodthirsty. Though a youth in age he was an old man in sin. He was nineteen years old, but had awite and child. Ha was a full-blooded Cherokwe Indian, with dull, sleepy, expressionless eyes, low reclining forehead, thick black hair, heavy-featire pock-marked and bearing alook of intense meanne: asionally his eyes shot @ diabolical glance at the Juc for a moment would less condition. He a number of othe aman than a st his bloody, merei i sentially a coward, always killing by assassination and | mutilating his victims. ' On the Ist of September, 1 William Short ont hunting, and while followin | country road was met by Smoker, who requested the privilege of looking at the gun, As soon as he had takea edb He thought and delighted to langh the gun im his hand he steppe three paces and, lenly bringing it to bis shoulder, shot down Shortin | h ny at the puygh the: er conld not speak English, and and sentence were translated for him. SAMUEL FooY, | This case was the most curious of all those who died a felon’s death at Fort Smith to-day. In. January, 1872, Jolin Emmett Naif lett. Leavenworth, Kansas, for | Talequat, I. T., where he opened a school im | February, He taight till July, at the end of whic month he was paul $200 by the trustees, Tt appear that on the 16th of July he’ left Talequat and. started down the Illinois River in the direction of the salt works, The night of July 17 he spont af | the house of ©. RB. Stevenson, United Stator Deputy Marshal, who married Fi sister, Sam Fooy staid all night at enson’s also, and left next morning iu company with Naf Naft wi | never seen afterwards, though his relatives and frien used the utmost diligence to find out the cause of his mysterious disappearance. In. the summer of 1873 a 1 amed Bill Roach while hunting on the Ilinots vor discovered a skeleton ander a high bla! near the discovery created considerable excitement, eleton could not be identified and was in & ito remain where , incited by curiosity to go ont and look at the bones, discovered a lot of tora paper and a mutilated book under the edge of a rock Taking the book to a neighbor's it was the ily leaf contained, in plain Gerinan text, ‘ Emmott Leavenworth, Kan= Below this inseription was the following quotation from Horac Pallida nw Panpe * wane pulant pe abernas regumane theres, thorongh search a number of other papers were found seattered about, which fully Jdentitied. ths skeleton as tha af The skull being examined it had been shot from the rear, the ain and lodging in the bonea iscovertes led to intene exei uit, and the most seare! ad had been last seen in Fooy’s company, and suspicion was naturally directed toward) him; bat there Was no evidence upon which to b an arrest. Finally a circumstance happened throngh which it wart aled that Fooy was, in fact, the murderer, It ape pears that he had an abandoned woman for a mistress, and in one of his weak moments he contided his dread: ful secret to her, She keptit faithfully tor a while, but in the course of ime sho and her lover fell ont, and she | divulged tt. Fo ap: | peared that hy the murder to j one Beattie, a brother-in-law, His confos | stons to both — these parties were so similar in every — respect. and were given in shel | truthful detail as vo establish his guilt beyond all manues | ofdonbt, He had narrated to them how he committed the deed, his robbery of the and the secreting of the book and papers under the rock, and his rapid thght from the bloody scene. It was upon these admissions that he was convicted, and there is not one who board the evidence at the trial who is not convinced that Fooy was tho murderer of the ill-fated school teacher frou Kansas,