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458    DOUGLASS' MONTHLY.    MAY, 1861.
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whipping, for the next day the captain and son were seized and conveyed to the town of Jefferson and taken before a Vigilance Committee and examined.  The cook belonging to another vessel then lying in that vicinity, testified that he had heard both the prisoners say that they were Republicans, and that if they had an opportunity would vote for Mr. Lincoln.  This evidence was deemed sufficient, and the old man, upwards of 54 years, and his son, were taken in front of the Court House, stripped to the waist, and having been securely tied to a tree, twenty-five lashes were administered to each with heavy leather thongs, amid the cheers and laughter of the mob.  After lying in jail fourteen days, they were finally allowed to depart.  Captain Ryder is a native of Maine, and he does not contemplate another visit there, at least not till the secession troubles are settled.

INHUMAN TREATMENT OF AMERICAN SEAMEN.

In January last the Indian Queen arrived at St. Mark's, Florida, from Aspinwall, for a cargo of cotton.  The first and second officers were taken down with Chagres fever, and were sent ashore to the Marine Hospital, a building belonging to the U.S. Government, costing $20,000.  After the return of the physician, who had been a delegate to the Secession Convention, they were told that the State had seceeded, and were accordingly turned out of the Hospital, and charged $30 for expenses while there sick.  These officers had paid Hospital dues for twenty two years, and this was the first time that they ever had occasion to receive any benefit from the institution, established by Government, but supported by seamen.  The physician said he thought it well for the Southern States to remain in the Union so long as they had the Government in their hands; but, as they had now lost control of it, they would break up the Union.  The Indian Queen lay about half a mile from land, though some ten miles below the town, and had in her crew seven colored seamen.  A plot was formed to take these out of the ship and sell them into slavery; but the conspirators were overheard at their midnight meeting, and the captain was immediately informed of the danger that threatened his crew.  The captain hired the only steamboat in the place, and by daylight had the ship towed over the bar outside, some five miles from shore, and beyond the jurisdiction of Florida.  The first officer reports that a few days after the Secession Ordinance passed, a resident remarked that he thought the North was right and the South wrong; whereupon he was seized, stripped and whipped, and started North on a train with directions to run him out of the country.

HANGING A MICHIGAN MAN.

About a year since, (says the Grand Rapids Eagle.) a young man named John Nott, left that city for the South.  A gentleman who knew him well, and worked with him in Vicksburgh and vicinity, has just returned to that place, bringing the information that the young man was a Republican, and so expressed himself in that locality, for which free expression of opinion he was lynched and hung in January last.  He says that a band of Southern cut-throats, who made lynching and mobbing their principal business, took him when partially intoxicated, and therefore less cautious in regard to the utterance of his sentiments than on other occasions, and carried him over the river into Louisiana, and there hung him as they would a dog, to a tree, until he was dead.

SIB RANKIN HUNG--A LITTLE.

The Salisbury (N.C.) Watchman says that Sib Rankin, a free man of color, got into an altercation with another free negro on Sunday, the 17th ult., and in the midst of the disturbance between them, Mr. P. Williamson, a magistrate interfered and struck Sib with a stick, for which he struck Mr. Williamson, and then fled.  He was pursued and overtaken, but refused to be taken, and threatened to kill any one who should approach him.  But Sib was taken and led away to trial before the Intendant, Mr. John I. Shaver, who ordered
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his committal, unless he gave bail in a bond of $200 for his appearance at the next Court.  Failing to give bail, the officer was taking him to jail, when a mob interferred and took him from the officer and led him away to hang him.  Sib was asked which he would prefer, 500 lashes or hanging; he replied he would rather be killed than take the lashes.--The rope was immediately placed around his neck, and he was drawn up to the limb of a tree.  After hanging for some time, some of the leaders relented, and Sib was cut down, bleeding freely at the nose and ears.  Sib is represented to be worth $2,000, honestly acquired, and bears a good characer in that locality.

$1,200 WORTH HUNG.

W. C. Moore of Sumner Co, Tenn, was attacked with a knife by one of his slaves, a few days ago, and received two terrible wounds, one on the throat, and the other on the chin.  Mr. Saunders and the father of Mr. Moore came to his rescue, when the negro turned upon the former and commenced cutting him, and then upon the latter, cutting his throat from ear to ear, killing him instantly.  The alarm having been given, the people in the vicinity hastened to the bloody scene, and it was necessary to shoot the negro three times before the knife could be got from him.  He was then taken and hung immediately.

WHIPPING A WOMAN TO DEATH.

We learn that Mr. Jacob Patten, who lives in the south-western part of Missouri, whipped one of his slaves, a negro woman, to death, on Saturday, the 7th ult.  After the negro was buried, suspicions of foul play caused her to be taken up.  A coroner's inquest was held, and it was evident from the condition of the body that she had met her death as above stated.  Patten was arrested, and gave bail in the amount of $2,500 to appear at Circuit Court.

A DUEL.

A duel was recently fought at Fort McCrea, Florida, between St. Clair Morgan, a young South Carolinian, and Mr. Storrs, a young Alabamian, late a midshipman, U. S. N.  Twenty steps were paced off, and at the first fire Morgan fell dangerously wounded, the heavy ball of the Sharp's rifle having entered his right groin and ranged through and out of the back part of the thigh.  The cause of the duel was as to the possession of a bright mulatto girl.  This Morgan was the man who fired into the Star of the West, the vessel that attempted to re-enforce Fort Sumter some weeks ago.

WILLIAM TELL--FOR THE FUN OF IT.

According to the American Georgian, while Green Clifton was crossing the square, Abraham Dudley, standing before one of the bar rooms, offered to bet whiskey for the crowd that he could shoot a hole through Clifton's hat without touching a hair on his head.  The bet being taken, he drew a pistol and fired at him, but fortunately missed him.  The ball struck Mr. Gillis's foot who was sitting in his office in the range of the pistol, but being too far spent, did no injury.

SHIPPED TO A MORE CONGENIAL CLIMATE.

The Columbia (S. C.) Guardian contains the following:--'We are informed that an individual who has been living in Anderson village for the past fifteen years, first as a shoemaker, then as a dentist, and who stood fair in the community, having been discovered to be an Abolitionist, and one by his own confession, was taken charge of on Monday by the citizens, and shipped yesterday to a more congenial climate.  His wife and family accompanied him.'

BEATING A SISTER WITH A BOARD.

A day or two ago, John Wilson, living in the forks of East Grand River, Mo., maliciously and willfully beat and bruised in a terrible manner his sister, an orphan girl about 17 years old, who is under his care and protection.  Her shoulders and back were literally covered with bruises, leaving at least fifty marks of the clap-board used by the brother in the brutal act.
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PUTTING SIX BULLETTS INTO A BROTHER-IN-LAW.

Dr. Williamson, residing near Napoleonville, La., was murdered on the evening of the 13th ult. by two of his wife's brothers, who resided with him.  The Dr. had been attending a patient, accompanied with one of his slaves, when the brothers rushed upon him, and discharged six barrels of a revolver, the Dr. falling, bathed in blood.  The negro fled, and when the noise of the firing attracted the attention of the household, Dr. Williamson was found stretched on the earth in the agonies of death, having received four balls in different parts of his body.  The brothers were arrested.

ANOTHER FRATRICIDE.

At Union Springs, Alabama a few days ago, Augustus Paulk, after breakfasting with his brother, Thomas A. Paulk, at the residence of their mother, left the house, and returning shortly afterward with a double-barreled gun, and entering a room in which Thos. was quietly conversing with another brother, said, 'You have threatened to kill me; I will kill you first,' and, leveling his piece, fired, killing the former instantly.  The murderer and his wife then fled and effected his escape.  The two brothers had previously quarreled.  It is stated that no less than three out of six brothers have come to an untimely end.

HANGING IN TEXAS.

The Fort Wayne (Texas) Chief says:--'On the 17th inst. was found the body of a man by the name of Wm. H. Crawford, suspended to a pecan tree, about three-quarters of a mile from town.  A large number of persons visited the body during the day.  At a meeting of the citizens the same evening, strong evidence was adduced proving him to have been an Abolitionist.  The meeting indorsed the party who hung him.'

A DOSE OF PISTOL BALLS.

A difficulty occurred last Saturday between John M. Andrews and George W. Sturman, in which Andrews was unfortunately shot and killed.  They had had a difficulty previously, and met that day to attend a law suit pending between them.  A quarrel arose, during which Andrews shot at Sturman, who, in turn, fired on Andrews, his ball taking effect in the breast.  Andrews died in a few hours.  Sturman is under arrest, and they both reside in Charlton Co., Mo.

A NEIGHBORLY STABBING.

G. W. Winn of Clinton County, Mo., was stabbed by Columbus Jones, a neighbor of his, a few days ago, which resulted in his death.  An altercation took place between them on the present troubles of our country, which brought on the affray, and it ended in the melancholy manner stated.

A CASE OF FRATRICIDE.

John Ellitt of Gentry Co., Mo., a short time ago, went to the house of his brother, H. Ellitt, and calling him out, stabbed him to the heart.  It was supposed that the act was committed under an attack of insanity.

A NOSE BLOWN OFF.
 
In Memphis, Tenn., recently, a man named David Banks shot a negro woman's nose off, while trying to kill a white woman.  His punishment consisted in depositing $50 with a magistrate as security for his appearance at court.  The woman he tried to kill was fined $10 for being disorderly, and the negro gets not a dime nor even a flogging for having her nose blown off.

SHOT BY A RUMSELLER.

The Louisville Democrat of the 28th regrets to chronicle a distressing homicide that recently occurred at the Six-Mile House, on the Bardstown turnpike.  George Hikes was shot, and almost instantly expired, by Wesley Owens, the keeper of the house.  Owens, some time since, killed John Gatton and Bill 'Alligator,' in self-defense.  The deceased was about 27 years of age, and leaves a wife.

EATEN UP BY BUZZARDS.

A runaway negro girl was found dead near Farmville, Va., a few weeks ago, nearly eaten up by buzzards.
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