Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1879 — Page 5

POLITICAL MURDERS.

Shall they be Punished, or Shall the Murderers be Rewarded ? . ———●——— .¶ The matters published in this sheet are non-political. The report made of the Yazoo murders by Captain Dixon While he was a Democrat, and of his own murder by Barksdale because he ceased to be a Democrat and undertook to oppose that party in Mississippi, is made by a special reporter sent by the Chicago Times, a paper that has no Republican proclivities. The man who made the report is a Democrat, and the report made for an independent Democratic paper. It cannot therefore be said to come from a Republican standpoint. The report of the Chisolm murders and the matter connected therewith are from the pen of Mrs. Chisolm, who simply writes down the facts as they occurred. The object in publishing these facts at this time is to arouse such a sentiment and demand for justice and good government as will make itself felt throughout the Nation, and secure a cessation of political murders in the South which are now a disgrace to civilization. These murders are being committed in the interest of the men who attempted to destroy the government by secession. They are committed to intimidate and silence the men who maintained the Union, and are opposed to secession. That the people may know the extent and enormity of these crimes, the facts contained in these columns are published.

AN UNPUNISHED CRIME.

Vn. Chiseli) Tells her Own Story—A Detailed Narrative, Written by Mia Ciaholm Herself—Methods by which , a Father and His Children were Brutally Murdered for Political Reasons. 0 A story ro as widely a sad, since tbs X~EMPF.fi COUNTY COUNT BAS JUST FOUND HENRY J. COLLY ' “NOT GUILTY.’' ■aw York Triteoe of aspirate- 90, The fellowiag ia a eaiuuta account given at ■ tka cfemaastauoeo which lad on ta and a(tended tba great crime committed ia gen per oeuoty, Mississippi, on April ». IW7— two run and* half ago. It waa written by lira. W. W. Cniaohu hereelf at a time when bar tailing ‘ health made bar fear that aha* might not live ta relate three facts ia court. With the lata so-called trial at Henry J. Gully aS Da Kalh, the public baa already been made acquainted. The jury returned a verdie*. of “not guilty,” after beiug oat lesa than a half bear. Mrs. Chisolm’s startling and vivid narrative will be read with peculiar interest in the light of recent events. ' MRS CHISOLM'S NA RRAT ITS. On Sunday. April 23, 1877, my husband want to Mobile to tmn«act some business with bis merchant. On Thnraday afternoon he returned home. Our children ware jnat ready te go oat it to the woods to gather fern# and monies, my daughter Cornelia intending to build a fernery .In the parlor fireplace- How well I remember my bu*banrt 1 * entering the front door of the family sitting-room where Mrs. White. Mrs. MeLanaban and I then were! In the parlor aat Cornelia on the piano-etooL her gloves and handkerchief lying by bar aide. Clay and Cornelia finally drove off ia the baggy with the Cttv b«y horses that were their pride. When dinner waa finished my husband placed on the table a box. aatiag to me: “There ia something for you.” Opening It a beautiful jewel sparkled and scintillated before my eyes. Ones more at the twilight supper, we all came together. How gladly Johnnie helped to tell oi what the children saw ia the woods, of how they el imbed the steep bills and descended into the deep gorge* 1 Angela never guarded a happier home than that After sapper waa ever my bneband and tba children went oat on the front porch, la a law momenta a mulatto tna, sailed “Dee* Hampton, appeared in the fiall tight. He was see of the farm laborers, and waa oa horseback. Near behind him came aaother horea, saddled aod bridled, bat ridrrhtf. Before halting from a brisk, hard gallop, be seemed te be under excitement, and te taflk as it to himself. Be

told: "They ’bare got him at last. 1 ' Directly my bneband came te me in the dralngroeea end reW there wee an nnueoal dfrturbaaee about Geliyh star* He did not knew whet, bat said be beard eome rauuai talking about somebody having bran shot. Getting no aotftfeetiea as te whet bad really happened, end knowing that in any event it was net fiksiy he would got any onset information, rm fcoabanil, being tired free* bis journey, jraed for a hgbt and hate, after which he went Aflfted- The children went iota tbe parlor to -rtftar music Suddenly at tee bate door I beard a vfafeat knocking, and west ta the door. The eookft Woiee aaid, “Open the tetor, quick.” Said L “What ia tee matterf* She replied, “Old Jehn Geliy ft deed. Some era abet sad robbed him, taking hft hat aod boot*”—eddmg— “»mi has wife and family went to him re fie lay in Horrified, J turned and went to my bnebeed. That pear mac, I mast here add. wb# ted teen iwraeoaed unprepared to meet hft God, end had teen robbed, was for leog years my haeheadft seamy. 2 irue aod again be bod planned and almost executed his murder, rad when he had atone tiaie beard that Mr. bad died, be earned hft aool rad aaid' be ought to have beeo dead sad 4 d long tea Bat when 1 told my hnabrad of hft murder, he wm et tm horn hed. When I told bidr his wife aod daaubters had gone to him ta Uw/oed, be aaid: “Weil, poor old Gully tee been ated men, bnt sorely net wane thee the wretch Who coal d do such a crime to that.” At bedtime Cornelia was afraid to go to her room, and 1 went with he* and Jehanie, at ter request, slept with her bemuse ate wae re mate afraid. Oa Friday end Saturday nothing but ttegreai crime was talked at, end on Sutoiday Gully’s body woe takes to a country church, behind white he was to be buried. That BeUmi*y my dragster and I went to Celaori Griffin’# to visit, I noticed a blank fate re tba ladies’ free* but tfagr were very «SKttrtt«ass?tJ ‘ lB * laughing way to Oevert, of rat fa eta teafoaatif; o*Fshltek :

tprtjiTfi.fr*? iiiTKr'ge boos use ffK?dPstat they to mte W m te that time sad maka the toeoiiug of GeHy the exanae ter killing a man they hared. Qmr aha -nnU mmi ka aalj./LJ amJ aafl O.LI. )»iR kißd » \MU* ***** [Bosh w»a to ha there on th*t°pertieal»r evening to kill Oullv on his wav home from town. I asked if Mr. G.iffin saw the latter, and teld hrr it waa "trange tliev did not show 11,3 atranga Mr. ttn»h would go to a strange oonntrv and announce himaelt an areas’!*, when he went there in diatrees and wanted friends; 1 strange that he should advertise hundreds of miles away that he would arrive on a particular time, find Gully to a particular plaoe, and be ready to kilt him; do ** rifle bj*>wketa ot everything save the letter, and let that remain. But she could not be convinced baconse she *u prejudiced by her foaling* -We went home, aod I told Cornelia Twaa glad we went, M teat goaaip was important to be known—that impossible ae it area to he true, I feared that it would work trouble for Captain Rush. ioSffi S&ST ,K d .»£ B 2'‘fi' 4*l was coming. I want In at the gate and aaw * ipe of the men looking at our houae closely. They sated aa they had often done before a riot, and they were filled with whisky. I went into the house. Direotly my husband came in. I remember this so g«f. for it was bis last coming home. AH the family wei e there, ail it being >m**Hv eoolfhkM a bright wopd fire. 1 Dlwoed a large easy chair for my bu.bemi ana mid, “tea have been visiting.” ’Well,” he replied, “I hope you enjoyed yourselves.” I then related the gossip, and asked him what he thought of that for news He replied te«r He thoagbt the whole waa a bare falsehood. Said he, “Rush ia not. nor has ha bean within MO miles of here for four months,” and then added, “I had a talk with ‘Jim’ Gaily jqst now, sad be expressed feelings of warm friendship for me; told me his father and he had always been among my heat friends at heart, even when bis Uncle John waa moat my enemy. Golly then west an te any that aoine hot-beaded fools had baas fools enough to say I bad some knowledge of bis Uncle John’s death, ‘hot,* said he, *we all knew better.’ ‘Well,’ I replied, ‘of course yon do. You know well that lawlessness te not my style. It will all he well understood, hot at the same time. I presume, if I had bora murdered on the highway, no doubt some of my friends might have attributed it ta Gaily or Ids friend*.’ ” “Jim” Gully then begged Mr. Chisolm to remember that ha and hi*father wore hU friends IreFled to Mr. Cbteolm: “I don’t believe there it a Golly of tliem all who te out your deadly foe, and aa to Christianity, the lives they have led and the times they have mobbed jour boose, ought te satisfy 30 u about it all. 1 remember when you were in a manner dead with asthma, and tbe Knklux earns ip a body—how my calling to the negroes frightened them, a* they did not know how many brothers you had helping to nurse yon, and that early next morning ‘Phil.’ Gully-ceme in with bte prefossiooa of friendship, begging me to take you to Mis bouse tar a week to eat watermelons, right in the center of the Kcklux bnuot, and that afterward wa learned that they had pat on their hidroua diaguUee at John Gully’s and taken supper there, and after riding that they went to ‘Phil.’ Gully’s and ate breakfast before day, and left the disguises in his care.” I farther said: “I would not let them deceive wtf” rood* Chisolm’s arrest.

The next morning .we rose at the usnal time, and before we were done dressing auuie one called at the gate which waa near the front of the house. As there were noeervauta in the room, Mr. Chisolm stepped to the door aod re reived a. note sent by Mr Hopper, telling him lie waa under arrest, and that the offioers would be at nor bun«e in kfrw minutes to arrest him, and also -Mewt” Hopper, Mr, Gilmer and “Charlie” Rosenbaum. Io one thought I took it all in. I oan’t see why I understood it so well. I turned to my bus buna and said, “Fw tfaer, this means your death. 1 will order a horse while yon driuk a cap of oofie* and then taka what money yoa have in the lioooe and go to the end of all the railroads." “No,” said he, "I will not go. I have no oanae to go. ’ 1 told him he need not have cause in his conscience, but, said I, "they have got together and cursed and drank whisky till they think, being assembled. it ia a good time to ‘clean aat the radicals.’ and you know bow often they have met to kfll you." But he nhfeoied. I again begged him, bat be said: “Emily, listen. Can’t yon see if 1 were to take iright and ran off, even my fi iends might wonder at itt No, let me alone. I wilt at least lenve my children an untarnished name. I' will demand an investigation to-day, have it over and be done with H. I one easily prove my innocence. They cannot prove guilt which does not exist.” In the meantime I bad ordered the serving man to bring the beat horse ready for riding, bad shown Mr. Hopper's note to Cornelia, aud little Johnnie, who were'jo et. getting up, and bad taken trom where money woo kept about 1000 and given it to Mr. Cbiaolm. LkWe Johnnie turned polo and said: “Mother, I am atraid they will kill father.” I told them 1 bod urged him to leave, and Cornelia at onoe begged I would “jnat make papa go.* I went tohim with the money and bo took about $5. saying that was enough. I now believe ho thought ho would be kill, d and robued. All this took about fifteen minutes, in tbo meantime I bad ordered breakfaet pot aa tba table, when ap rode tbo old, ignorant aud ►tepid sheriff, who waa elected by the Deaaeerats because be had no ambition of bte own, and would readily be made a tool of b» party. Ho was accompanied by Mr. Hopper and George Hampton. The sheriff, Sinclair sad Hampton rede on either aide. I stepped ta the front porch aod told lay husboad. Mo oomo oat and said, “Good morning gentlemen, will you aligbtf” Of course they alighted. When they went ia Mr. CbUolm ated, “Wbat is tba meaning of this early oalif ’ Tbo aborifi replied that bo uad oomo to arrest kirn, bat hoped bo would not lay aav blame on him. My busbeud asked os wbat grounds and oa wbat authority. He said la a ooufured manner, “Oa the ooeoaation of knowing something of Gaily a death.” “The* te a pretty tale,” said Mr. Cbteolm. In the meant! meTbe child - ros bad all oomo around. Mr. Cbteolm was of foaad a paper whieh ha tote, sad looking at it aaw Covert, of Meridian, waa the man who had sworn to all the necessary falsehoods, aod bad attached ae witnesses the nameo ot my boa bonds personal friend* some of whom nvod a distance away, and among them Charles Rosenbaum** father, to testify to bis son’s guilt of a crime of which he-knew him to bo innocent. Afterward wa found these pretended witnesses had newer thought of sate a thing, or heard one word of the matter more than that Goßy waa killed.

temro AT THE HOUSE. .My boatend read Cevert’a name, aed exclaimed to surprise that te thought Covert bad tetter may at home and mind bis own business. . I turned to the two men, uad aaid to Sineiair ibat he himerifknew that if my huahued submined te would be marderod. fifeciair arid te hoped not. 1 turned ta Mr. Cbieeim and acid. “G«» OO yrar borae and go away.” He said, “I demand hutent preliminary trial, and to star fa m*™* boua* guarded by yourself or aey boMtohfame* Do yoa agree to that!” Sm- * oon me; whom do you wuntf” M.v husband aaggeeted Tbomw Bemota* Emory Key, “At? Kate and M* r Boaenrraeteedi^ i farintad h *' r no mtttrmar,lh “Idttleßißy’’ tbTaftmir dITCtC perafttenUy and positively refoaed. Mew, all fife* were pemperata, mom Mr. Boseatemm. Mr. Chisolm the* feeling uneaav about Mr. Gilmer and “Charlie” Roam team, told a aara to rid*one of our horses to Booob* and tell them wbat was going on: that if they were aran opportunity to dmaim them all for; and far wttt to ora brae* wfamUmywoold *u an immediate tavesttaatios and try to end the matter peaesfolly. Tft tfara turned to Clark sHfrfl. Uaymog nephew, and told him ta mount (the liaraa L ted ordered out. “G* a ***• »°y ** “"•her and taUnfil met to he airaft, for my safety, wheMl

SUPPLEMENT.

7tate «>L7!ri amaof S kSt They know Clark sod the hens ha ffEMtttfa*. ted monies aat they pointed tte.tel Ptetote ’t him, aed demanded “Chfeeim’* wm* He aide oat, hooping their gtuw aod pistols leveled te him. Ia the meantime the bona# was filling.up with the better ai«aa of mmi araond town. Mr. MfiLellan came in smiling and *ftid: ‘‘Here I you 'alVavs are wejeejjjh hot donWy ce wfam. sre irom giving Uie direction* io about and kill him before you know it lathe hollow taeo frym the country butd arrived- aod wore In oar yard. I waa earpnaod to see them ©ou»0 from so many directions They all reported themselves as happening in. tied ail were Democrat* W« got get Biaelatr to doanvthing,andaptea te Mr. Hampton, saying: “Yoa are a moderate man. Go and see them sad **k them dbat they Ore there for, so xpiar our houae and nuder each eircumstanoea.” Be went, and retain tag said there werea good many men there, but they were very quiei I afterward lea rued, hat not from him, that whpn be went they threw ap their gone and were about to fire on him, when e<>me oi them ated, “That is Hump ton, don’t kih him” He then want to Virgil Gully and asked what they intended to dp. He replied: “ Just whatever my nnele Henry says,’’ and added that bis node ‘‘ ordered things toot dpr. and whomever he said kill weald be killed, and whomever he directed them to opera weald bo left alive.” This, Mr. Hampton, who ia notoriously timid and/earfal, did not tell are. or I believe { might yat bars saved ’my husband. I walked te the door and told Mr. Ghisolm te come into the bouse, and reminded him that ha bad guns in (he house.

TWEXTT akmep hex Arrasn. • Binoia<r was just rstavteax Ires a talk wHh “Jerry” Wutktns, who, I may any bare, want and came throe tomes, and each time BinoUir bastened to biro, nod then same back aod told Mr. Chisolm: ’’They aay your guard must he increased, red they say you rente bo saro you are safe." Where “they” had boon hid Ido not know, but there had been a good many men around Gully’s atom and whisky shop. As Mr. Chisolm started to walk the little distance across the yard to the front door, there suddenly appeared te the gate, I suppose, twenty or more armed men—with large double-barreled gnuo. Sticking tbo guns’ mo axles over tee i cling, many of them took bold with one band. My husband was completely taken by surprise. Ha had on a small talma, and raising bis hand suddenly be threw hack one earner, red mashing oat tbo other; took hold of one of too gate pickets and oalled: “Sinclair, what does this mean! What have yon brought this aat of oowsrdly Kaklax scoundrels here with their guna fort I tb'mght you had gnarda enough.” Said he to the men: “You wuy kill me; I verily believe you will before night; but mark you, I go down with my colors firing, red so mo of vou bite tba daft first.” I aaw them growl like hungry tiger-wolves for bis blood, and 1 think that they would have shot, him at onqe hut that they, wan whiting for orders, and no doubt the orders were te get Mr. Gilmer aod “Charlie” Rosenbaum there first, and then get nil in their power ot onoe. Binolair said, “Follow him right in the bouse.” This they did, holding their guns in their hands aud seating themselves. Old “Black Bob” Moselv came io. He was a brother-in-law of Dr. Fox, being Mrs. Fox’s brother. My husband. knowing that his oharooter waa aa black re hie free, red his nature aa reagh as big whole visage, determined te see if he noted not piece him whore be would bo ashamed to go to the full length of bio wicked heart. He sanl: “Moaely, Siuolair told mo to select guards: will you bo one! Not to keep me from getting away, for I did not aeek to leave when I had -the ehanoe; but to pretoot toe from harm!” Moaely stopped aa bo was entering the room and said bo did not know about that. My husband acid, “Just do aa I did for yon onoe when they wore about to mob you and I saved voo, tolling them they oould not while I lived.” I walked *up close to him and looked ap ia his foos, while waiting an answer. He hesitated a little, aod said, “I ore stay threegh the day, but when night comes I will have to go home.” I replied I had brand several any the same thing. Moaely finally came te And constituted himself an especial guard, till the first smell 0 t blood, when, like the wtefiab ooward he is, be mabed to one praafraie victim after soother- My husband asked Sinclair what hia house was filled with tease men for, and reminded him that be had selected a guard. Biuelair said: “These are guards, too. Judge, they are getting pretty unereT; they want the guards increased again.” Watkins redo off oowu the Jackson rood, and in aboht half an hour returned with a large body of tpen. They seemed to ride te squads or ootn panics, each company ten or fifteen feet apart from others. Each man earned a gn«, and each company hod; a leader. They came around to our house, surrounded the outside pickets, came into the houae, lot and in tbo yard, and then surrounded the house on all aides—entering the parlor, my owa room, the front porohee, and other nlaoeo. Siocltersaid, “Judge, they aavyou mask goto jail.* My husband replied, “Great God, Siuolair, who ia sher.ff, this roobf” To which bo made no reply. Mr. Okianim. easing Dr, Stennia, oalled to him that bo vfiaboi to apeak to him. When fiteaniaoamo te, Mr. Chisolm asked him wbat all tbianeaaa Btennis replied bo did not know mash shoot it. P Tkxrao JUDOS CHISOLM TO Jin. Io tbo meantime Mr. Chisolm stood te tb« door. Cornelia with one hand op bis shoulder, while I was on tee other side hK£ bis Wi Johnnie waa standing by, and Ctay »bd W iilie were aa clore as ibey oould gri bl hind, on every aide stood the creatnrea-demona te human shape—whose looks of hideous siu would frighten fiend* All tee so-called gnarda of my poor hmband’a selection were frightened .’‘" .’“r ■»'«>« »r. FoL.!!,. ffiS’iXaS, lS. lu cte J****^ 1 * * "kno w-ootUng. ” Mr. Ckiooha than ashed him if that was teq mual oourae qf procedare whpn a man wag ir&mtte'JSj-.Lnzizsz; Golly red baked him. “Gullv, what i. the *W**k are the words verbatim. Mr. Chisolm looked him feU te the face with a contemptuous air. I ated, “Well, father, thafi* ha*tl talk io your own house ” My poor laswiSMra-aS

The yagfoterttt ni*lSl?rete“* k^ n th«!T.r t !te ; Md b* sasjgfeg-aas era who surrounded bis father. Olay bald. “I will not ask atejfc tofsroopa |N»«tet lik» yon told Clay to get aaother. Mr. CUotefik sobl. '‘l dealt»appose l ore o*nry it.” They relied g? t tel^vapd,^ particular ones desired. I «vow at teat draftjlgM#rd wars to he tbkaa toGjillv’safore, ami tbs qpt,fipe(pliiii)pebtMttbff I told them-inrey things, hut I ftenaniliffr MuU eiMB my hpahMld turned to me w»ih tvMHW*, '"ba% ttum«l' he j* rUid guna red Started off. 1 *a* not roiaclf then. top jzz vua wouhi , be l toth i * , kem H, ipBOSeOtW^Qd wa* *9 ayregteg tete to. net a God of merry; toatsmoa oqr firs* parents broke the jid rsrib go witb me, don’t leave: m*” I replied: “Wa wdl all go, not one of os will, ever fotapke Whs* a ptctorri A man. in distinctive sepaatetou from tea orereL by which he was aurtttu tided, a crowd to wbioh thoro were ban dttbU—at legte 3W or 3RJ men, and I think there might have been 400-33, armed with glbring gun* tbair shot poaches on, teeirooutilb uwx-ea expressing all their had paasioos, and bating turn the more because thfif- remembered hoar often he had furnished them money, to that thev were teen largely his debtors te dolJw™. •“v oent*—this one m*n with hi* wifo bolding one bead, bis only daughter the other, little Jobuoio with, one band on his father’s wnat, the other oq mine. Clay leading, Willie teoee by, and MoLellan, the ope friend, oluee hr my attic with bis gpn.

tiWAIUUTAh The jail stood a abort distance ip front of opr bfltwe, across a grpMt oommon. When about halfway to the iatl Mr. Chisolm turned to me and amd, “ Jnat look, i* not teat Ilk* them!” I looked, and men were aominsc on a rap from ovary ooiat, and I afterward Joaroed that many of teem had been in the lob hanging and whipping two negroes—“Doe” Hampton and George Foe—eot to the death, but to elicit from them * repetition of the. ward* of the eaob aocudug Mr, Chisolm ot orime. Arriving at tliej ul we entered by the front door—the only one on the first floor—and passing through the hall, we reached the steps of the stairway leading to the prison proper. At these steps Sinclair told me to go beck. I followed on, pushing my way. Again, and yet once more on oar war. he tnrnad aud said,. “Mr* Chisolm, it I were vou I would not oouie up here,” I; only war«d my hand for him to get out ot my war, Wo entered the jail. The door at the bean «f tee stairway and the one at the toot bad iron bam oraeaing In squares set in about the middleof tbo door. These doors were closed to us, but free ot scores to the mob. The tenor part of the building was one large room. Dowu through the center were* let of dungeons made, I have bean told, of two thicknesses ot stoat puncheons, with a huge nail to every square inch. In one of these, which wee grated in the door, te the center, waa • lunatic negro boy, who looked at Cornelia and kept repeating to himself, “The pretty, lady, pretty lady.” In another, what was called a cage, made of great Iron bars, with beams above, below and oa all aide* was a negro mao. who had beeo accused of an affront to some of the noble men of Kemper county. He was ehaiaed in this place and an. iron bar plaoed ever the door with an extra look. With Iqnatioa -and accused criminals my prood, gifted husband was thus thruat, with hia wife by Ilia aid* They marched my husband, far up in the prison. I gave hiua a chair. Cornelia, recovering her strength, came and aat close by him. Somehow I got a obair and aat close to bun, with Cornelia oa the other aide, while the boy* and Mr. McLellan stood near. John Overstreet and “Bob” Moaely came aa near aa they oould. Bote act down. Mg. Cbiaolm kept trying to draw from.those, nearest him, whs happened toaeetn leader* what the end of it all V* ttPMtoto* close in fmotrof Mr. Chisolm, and to answer to crone word of Overafreet’* Mr. MoL»U** said: “For every ooe you lull to-day tore wUI die hereafter. In Overstreet, who sa-mt* Him among ten most determined, ray husband bad iaetMoe way struck a latentaeatimeut of shame bv snlling ea him for* gnard. He bad a gun in mm tstotes. it may bring, shoot ten death at other*” Overstreet tees angrily aadds “1* • trS ' A ** h * * ssswsced. Bo**’ And, be was too muck of a geatiemma Mf* fcr lie be wouhi ntTaeThe wooTd net weed ;tfho. bed be Xias’.K TALK nr TWIMSi ’ v vEL'hti 2T* put there JoTul anyone of toll kito that I hoped there a httle, she «nbl, “Why do yes t«*t my papa iErs.rvne:SS lelten, the gallant, brave old Beotohmao, velunteered hia noble life, if needed, to stand in defense ofthe right, beforeTeknewhehad beard of the uprbtfey of the mob. Many of the meb entorad tee jail. Mr. Chiaolm eafled for “PbiL" Gully. He o*ae in, and aa little Cornelia said, before she knew what he waa goteg to do, took her hand. It was lying over her lap, while the ether hand held her kaodker•bief to her eye* Mr. Chisolm. Cornelia and s?ea=§l

i 'ton-^^TheTke bandtede of little enemie* I replied. “Ye* end you also know test although yoa are bore to warder my iesband, he bee hem Mod to yes to every wav foe fifteen years; and aq fire***, toJaffa* fiMgjr tom nates*** to 1 would let tore Gal IV replied, “I know a» that.” and for ease be could ndk control his demoniac countenance, it he di.l hia tonga* I then asked him Whet evidence they pretended to have! He, without beeketiei, replied nose bat that of a very trifling negro, who said that he toek io be Boeb coining cotof our gate. He was speaking to me, and I replied mat aa I felt, 2nd sail. “My husband wai in Mobile Wednesday night.” He answered he knew that “Then,* said fc “how dare you talk of men coming out of our goto et such a time,' and, if ‘Haaf Bosh, was tear* what did it pi n qif* - t rii -arriColonel Hu» i*a nephew to the GoHv* end son-in-t»w to ‘PbriV,’ and while Mr. Chisolm end •PMU’ Gnlly had fnrteer conversation, he seated himself by my aid* I turned to him and asked him if he would tell me their pretended evidence. He said, “Yen, there w *a none but the word of a very trifling negro, whose word be would not believe on oath.” I asked it be me hi* MW* He replied, “Certainly. 'Dee' Hampton.* Remember, be wa* «ally’a hired servant, and waa early to tee day to Mm reevani’e taaiisato our yard. a»d »»de no aumpuuiieatinne, but I aunpoae wm there from eunasity. Hutl ttmn went on to **V teat the mulatto (“Dee” Hampton) said fae ’tbeugbt be aaw e men, and teat be did- not one him seine from war gato, but be looked as if he had some from that way." “And,” said I, “on that, wbiob I* nothing, and false at the outset, beoaoae Bate to to Arbeoto* and date #aJ* wa* teat night “Dee” Hampton could bare seen no joq • join k nob %o wnedne * man who ha* furnished yoa money frees ten* totime beeauae you .ateed tt Aud," said I, “ftcarcely one man it here but he has broken hia bread, borrowed file money, made it oee venient to sleep in hie bed*, and sought every, kindness at ids head*” Said I. •TV Arab «f tee drerrt would refuse to a tab a man whose salt be had tasted,” They paa*e<l away, and I felt tee tide of tee ctrwrgU was drawing nigh. The wretobe* rot team were placed aromid tbff jail with their guns to their band. I believed our only, chance was to fight ft out. My husband hod taken no refreshments all day, aud my servant* L knew had prepared a good dinner, thin king we would stay at the house and have friends with a* I told Mr. Chisolm wbat 1 intended to do. He approved it. I then sterol my Httle girl to M wire Johnnie aud Willie te tee bouse rote to get some' tegs of ammunition and % pot of ooffoe and some food, aud to direct tba servants to bring e bed«te*d, maltreat, pillows end cover, for if bass father stayed at the jail teat night, we would stay and watch for hie safety. This waadone. save that they threatened to kill the negro woman if she brought the bed. fern* blankets were hroaght io, aud under team we Übi tee auamumtieu Cerueli* brought.

raw Pißsr MuniNtß. I forgot to state above that the “Dee'’ Hemnton evidence wai obtained offer tbo mob colJtetod. The ra«oala hung and whtopte both him ami George Fox. I also forgot to write that Hull replied to one of nay eoestiona that be “did not believe my hnsband had any more te do with Wiling John Gully than he himself Had.” When nor-children went to.the boose I told them to putihe most valuable things awav in the large closet* for they would sack tee bona* John Oreretrneb saM, “You mistake ne, ma’am, we are not bad eoaugh for that.” 1 aai'l. “R'lbhing ia not worse than murder, and I thought after eoming. *you’ had aenarated vourself from them, ami it was ao longer ‘we’.” He said. “When I go with a crowd I spy ‘we’.” Before this we were sitting down, end nil to oneegnns began to fire. I jumped np and aried, “They have killed GHmer and Charlie.” I knew it wae about time for them to com* Mr. ChUolra said, “Yee, just murdered because they are Repnblioana; poor boys.” He turned end said, “Do vou think this a nice proceeding!” I acid, “Yea, ft is ‘Reform. , Moaely ran out and joined the mob that was doing the shooting. I called my husband’s attention to the fact, sod teld him that, this might let him know wlmt to expect. When the firing wa* over “Charlie” Rosenbanm came in. I never aaw a man look so still and quiet. He walked no to the window and stooped. Mr. Cbiaolm said, “Where ia GilmerT' “Dead,” said Charlie, “tee worst shot man I ever saw.” The outside mob who were coming in and oat all the time, called Sinclair. He went to them aod vetorned, and told Mr. MoLeiiaa to pat down bft gun aud some down stairs, saying, “Tliev want yon.” Mr. MoLellan refused, saying, “Why should I come out there unarmed among that crowd?* He knew they were then, or a pert of them, around Mr. Gilmer’s warm bleeding body, Sinclair said, “Do you resist the lawt” Mr. MvLeilan asked, “Islt Hwt No, I never break or resist law.” Ho tamed- to Clay, and hauding him his gun, said, “Take ogre of it.” I nqw thiuk he went . oat.' so that if they determined to kfil him, ft should not be in our preeqno* Mr. Gbieoltu •rod to me. “lerite you would toke Johnnie end WilUe and go to the house and see. to tee watering sad feeding of the horses; they may be the means at saving me yet.” I went te Johnnie, calling Willie god tolling him. what 4 hia father said. fl*id h* “Mother, I don’t want to go.” “But,” I said, “father wants you to go.” “I know, mother, bub I ran out and fed the beraea when I went with Siaav.” I said: “But ;you did pot water them, poor thing*, and they are our only bop*" Poor boy; tbe lMt words he ever spoke to his mother were: “Mother, it *SSSSB t'sr&'J s trirofc SSAnow' I did net sek him what, but thoagbt he meant Whan I afterward learned—that there F»* aa agreement to spare the rest if they did not unite to save my husband. j A'W.SAKSttLtfci S wanting to be aw*v from my teUdreo. I had te«»» tee ydhito fewmiautoswhen I **^.* M " ** *5» toroi fidl, and*it. seamed tome there were fifteen or twenty men lTdfars 1 men ran ap. and one pat bis gnn to him end fired agate and atapped back. Two others •topped forward and took hi* bat by the prow* hands to a beckoning manner, and others began to gather hastily. AH I reach the jail. Goa of tee demons teat test this man alter be waa down waa~ *3>aa* Mogray and who proved to fe Ift MoLellan. was ■her knees before tee window, with her little teftofed “tog* So h the window J^nft^d •tedaldAywararol u* not to approach the window. Them wa*e.dere gully. I first told - WiUtt U>m ttftfe teraT L PSg.b^w<SS eome over to him and kill him-** I now foel sore they would any of my husband's children—-

sggmmm V fed. I tnroed to hhn nwd eahi, “Yon are toteaken.” I eoarea reuid get through the crowd. At tbefeotof tee staTre I met n mtip eoming down, who slid to aa* Art© right up." 1 replied, “I to» going.” <do not knew whti he wa* 1 eaemefi to mv*aN to soe then and gad the featnrro of “Bill” Hopper in mv mind, bat I have since been told be was shut up iu *esge upstairs with Alexander aad “Nevri” Hopper. I then met ‘•Cbevlie” Metetrey. He toM me to “go right up." There won not a negro man ia town whs, much as tliev were kept down, could net have made him stood aod teak* a whipping. There wee one who tried it oooe for fha. he said, and toll Heß wry to stand until be limbered the switch, nod te would teen do the work pnetfcNy. Mr. €bta»im found ft out, and made the negro quit. Yet 1 this reptile hod jn’ned several at > hear send <-«r house, and sow ordered me wbat to do! The movement was fur metoiaM tbe rest and all be butchered together. Meßurey was teen (in his wav fr an ax. f passed ea upward wirii muei) diflionlty to tbo second step from tee top Johnnie held the port at the door nearest tbe looks, Cornelia the middle. nodJoha Over* Brest tbe eenter, above Corned*’* head. 1 see ft all sew re the*, i bear her eiteee* word: •‘ Go took ; don’t kill mv papa; think of wbat he has done for you. Obi have yea a# heart* ne sou Ist I toil yam papa never did anything bat good.” And Johnnie add herself both said to Gvererrnnt, “Yea. are a guard, shoot,” “ I oan’t,” said an. “ they will shoot ro*” i rew Clay phasing book and forte from where the guns were to where Us father was, taking them, m 1 have since learned, to his position. AH this time Gotland, who drew the load* rat ot tbe guns, ana has since for the service bron elected magetrate, and who was a guard, aod Wallace Morrison, who haseinm manned Gully’s daughter, aod who wa*(toother gaard, were siti ing iwreiag heck in oimire aa easy as if tbev bad been at their usual haunts of vie* I saw teem things, it seeius, in a moment. I turned from time to time to there*b. 1 think fifty at teem mast have knoekadma ta one aide aod shot peat me. There were two fiend*. If poseihfe more devilish ra their Wmkn than the average, win stood one stop tieiow me »nd an egeb Side; teey seepiod U»4o the ehoar ing and pro top ting. THE MOB XSOUWP Ttm Colonel Hull ran haetdv up. Seeing me te heaatated. “Wba*,” wtbl L rear coovereation vrithmej nitnowr He then turned tod said. “Come dowu, man; H Loan off nl so red* qy-.. Jftyw* e»«ne np : wirh lift I said, “Qp back; bare rep not drnah ido“d snwftfr fita-«aa 4toi Berk. I **y-” He sKM , sa»nja*£ si*^ fired. The fair frees nf my childr n urvvr for one mearent turned arid-, the liWl altoody miming in lUww frro Cpraalfrft. Roaser stood at the door ballootog for aa ax. “Udi” Gtillyeamenp with a long-handled a» rad Midforey with a abort one, and returned again - Fite a heavy piece of iron. I fold him to g* hmtt Haaaid, ‘No, I want rawing* I had mv hvard pu led onoe; I mean so b*ve revenge." Sail thev kept on oeming. and foiling back after filing, to have their plaoea taken by other* Beery J. Gully fired one shot-—or rptber oee gnn—with two barrel* and there was a bey neatly with another, and lie fined that before leaving hi* plaoe. “Bui” Gu’ly fired, and then came'another sneak, whom,l caught hold of a# 1 did the others, aud he dropnedJiia bead. I s*jd: “You had better stop fire.” He dropped hia eyes aod said; “You ; had just about a* wall bosh. It Iwm on offioer you might get me to go baak. but I alius obey order* I am a private and am acting under ardari * ” * bejjeve these are hjs words verb* bm. This fellow fired almost fa Johnnie’# lave, and, be it remembered, each one fired two barrels, and the great broad stairway wis all the time crowded, and at un time did the firing, the chopping er tee pleading sees* Another came. I held him with both hands till be wrenched himself free, exclaiming ae he did so, “Go away, d ,<£* l Roroer by the arm with whioh he held the ax, with which he was chopping out the look. I said to hint, “Stop, I implore you by tbe God who made you and before whom you have so •oon to appear to atop. I beg you bv tbo mother wh<> here yon, by tbe thought of y«nr wife and .children, don’t do thi* d«»d. Have you not a wife and children!’’ “Ye*” he said, “and ao bad Mr. Gully.” “Well," said l. “will the morder of an innocent nun give John Gully’a wife a husband, or John Gnllv’s children a fathert” Cornelia, thinking he was. began to plecd to him in person, wlien he said: “Go back, d n you, or IT Wow ypor d- n brains out.” Well, lam glad he got hie rewortl so soon. Some on* who was just positing me away to shoot, eaidt “Would yon shoot a woman!” “Yra. d n her: Twill shoot anybody who geta ia my way." I don’t record hi* profane words because thev are pfeeeant, but because lie used them. All this time be held a reserved gnn. The crowd behind began ta grew liar a moment thinner—when Rosser began to rave nnd curse them re a set oi co ward* who were afraid of one man. The dramas oat aide fired ail at onto, singly, or re it happened. It aeorned as if they were under pledge to shook for some came half-way up, and flnqg. tamed. Tbe exes were catting around the iron bar- Overstreet for a moment, and only for a moment, haraS hia hold and sprang back. I wa* trying to draw theufaor, bnt it was nothing—and tbo whole protection of m.r bn*bond's life at the moment wa# Johnnie rad Cornelia. Whso Oreretreet sprang bate, it was a fetal movement Johnnie was at the lock-side ot te* d«or. Roarer’* straegth outdid Johnnie’s, and fired both barrel* Ido not know whether asSseks&KS rats (trip of*i»oo.ltl»r nUb 'aa^argatasftSitt tide of wretohes had dnje to top «F know, bft y QUng forteead aod bft right gboolder and anp wete ag*m«t the door, and Overstreet had ones more pressed against it so that only the time it took Booeer to fire bft gun wm it open. 1 ran my hand through the miserable grates of the door and patted hia ahonbtor, and «m on theft end rubbed lift free, field* If “Johaeto, mv praebms darling son, go bate; the reset lead will kiU ye*” He only eaemered by * trader look.

urn* mama* mun t ja iniurw m»4 tan around behind the« or«»er of *«** with biHL saying: “Bad Johnnie, stay hero, { will bold where you were holding, yon will be kill■«4* Cor, r l^ £ J Hl ‘l Qp*mm "«*e now who were holding the door end she w«, broken down, the streams of blood ran nine from her f u oe Lfe ofbr^“ >n frsMß tb ® striking of Sts fail ins:, end the rn»h from the ontsHp wae in£S»*?£usr m,’KS.^sa 5 5?a%5 aHw^ssawS A, harms: escaped from Cloy, ran back just as Rosser had leveled tn* gun at my hue band, and cried out, "Ob, my fat h<-r, ’■ and raehiae betwoea them atood op in hie spirit of eolt-aacrifloe, and Ko^. r - «» WUO demoniacal apirit be had maufeated all dav, stock the gao to Johann heart and fired both leads into it, the load gos&ssns&iagg §£s&L t St3&& el r ijspjSSe ®t bands through the grates of the door, and r2S&3 . ?, , fl “ r Diwoiiif uk •. Mr noml il aitd chafed it to restore her to animat ion. Alivaav did o»f know. of * the err, X