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WEEKLY CONSTITUTION.
VOLUME XIV.
TUESDAY MOBXTNXx, OCTOBER IS, 1881.
PRICE 5 CEXTS.
HUDSON???S HANGING.
THE END OF THE TERRELL COUN
TY TRAGEDY.
???The Triple Murder of lost Aagut???The Arreit and
Conviction of the Criminal???HI* Execution in
Oaw.cn Jon Yesterday???The 8ccnca and
the Crowds Around the Qallow*.
Special dispatch to the Constitution.
Dawson, October M.???The readers of The
Constitution doubtless remember the details of the
.awful murder committed in Terrell county on the
lGth of August, when Frank Hudson, colored, bru
tally murdered Mr David Lee, Mrs I-ee and a negro
girl on Mr Lee'* plnntatlon. It will be remembered,
ji]*o, that Hudson nftcrwiird* confessed he commit
ted these diabolical murders for the pnrpose of
robbing Mr Lee's house. The murderer was
promptly arrested, and after narrowly escaping
lynch law, was incarcerated here, and Judge Hood
held a special term of Terrell court on the 13th of
, Jseptethljer, for the puri>ose of trying
Hudson. The prisoner lmd a !Wr trial
and wa?? ably defended by five excellent lawyers,
???appointee.??? l>y the court, and was found guilty and
.sentenced to be hung on to-day. No new tiiul was
thought of in hi* cat aa.liis guilt was conclusively
???established and admitted by himself.
The doomed felon, since his conviction, has pass-
-ed thj time with apparent indifference as to his ap-
proncliing fate. This morning he begun to realize
that his time on earth was short, but he appeared
???calm. At 12 o???clock to-day hojwas brought out of
Jail by Sheriff Roberts and was carried to the
gallows, which had liecn erected in an old Held in
the southeastern limit* of Dawson. The military
company here, with forty-eight men in rank, acted
.as guard. Arriving at the gallows, Hudson
???slickly stepped from the wagon on which he rode
from Jail, utid after shaking hand* with several ac-
-quaintances he calmly ascended the scaffold. He
seemed greatly concerned about what should lic-
-corae of his body, ns his family bad informed the
sheriff that they would have nothing to
-<lo with it, but his friend's did finally
???ngrcc to have his body decently buried.
He publicly acknowledged his guilt and the justice
-of his sentence and hoped that he had been for
given. He sang a few minutes, knelt In prayer and
when he arose the sheriff pinioned his limbs and
the black tap was adjusted. At twenty minutes jinst
-one, the drop fell and for a moment his body
.seemed convulsed and then became still. Ills neck
svus not broken by the fall, but he died of strangu
lation. In ten minutes his pulse ceased and at tliir-
.teen minutes his heart stopped beating.
In tifleen minutes from the time he
fell the attending physicians, I)rs Cheatham and
Kendrick, pronounced life extinct. At 1:43 the
laxly was cut down and taken in charge by his
friends.
Everything parsed off quietly and in order, not
withstanding the immense crowd present, six thous-
jind persons. Terrell county was organized twenty-
five years ago, and tills was the lirst execution that
has ever occurred in this county.
TIlESTOIty OP TUP. MURDER.
About dusk on the hub of lust August Frank Hud-
??? soil, a trilling, worthless negro preacher, called at
the house of Mr David M Lee, a highly respected,
wealthy farmer of Terrell county, and solicited
???votk. Mr Lee tolil Frank that if he was in earnest
nbout wanting work he would employ him. Be
fore they agreed upon the price the negro called
Mr Lee's attention to a (ire in the woods
near the house (which he had built as a decoy) and
offens 1 his assistance to put it out. Almut the time
they teach ed the scene of the conflagration the ne
gro struck Mr Lee on the tact of the head with a-
heavy fence rail, killing him instantly. After rob
bing him of what little money he had on his tier-
son. he extinguished the Homes and returned to the
house, where he met Mrt Lee, who inquired anx
iously about her lmsbaml. On being told that Jie
???was still watching the tire, but would behome' very
.soon, she started to meethiin. As she passed Frank
on the porch he picked up an ux anil struck her
'-on the back of the head with the sharp edge,'split
ting it wide open to the shoulders. 11c then went
into tin- house, where he met a negro servant
girl about Ifi years old, who he struck
over the head with an ax and left on the floor for
-dead. Then going in the kitchen he found the
???cook, a negro woman near GO years old, asleep. He.
fearing he might wake her robbing the house, made
her sleep eternal by braining her with the ax. On
his way to Mr. Lee???s room, where he knew the
money he was in search of was kept, lie noticed that
the servant girl thnt he had left there for dead a
few moments before was missing. After a long
.search he found her under her mistress' lxAl, where
.she hud managed to crawl and conceal herself. He
-dragged her from her hiding place, and, as he
thought, heat the life out of her with his little
liatehet, which had already done such
bloody work. He then calmly, proceeded
to break open trunks, drawers, etc, until ho found
the money he was looking for, an amount some
where between 5650 and 5700. After leaving the
fortune at "Dahlonega,??? the land of gold. Unsuc
cessful in what is now Lumpkin county, and hear
ing of Mr Cobb???s ???better luck.??? he went to Chero
kee, arriving there in debt, without
money, . tools, or provisions, to commence
work .with, but he found a friend
and benefactor in the person of Major Wiley|Petty,
a fine old fashioned gentleman, still living upon,
and owning a large plantation, adjoining what Is
now known as the ???Cobb lot??? Fitted out with
provisions aud means by this liberal hearted Geor
gian. Mr Paseoe, (an experienced English miner),
leased about ten acres of land from the Leonaids,
placing thereon a little wooden five stamp "pound
ing mill,??? contracting with the Leonards to bring
on a little stream of water known as '???Hurricane
creek,??? and keep it on for a stipulated
sum per year. That the Leonards
???acted well their part??? is evidenced
by tlie fact that the ditch is now, after a lapse of
forty years, in tolerably good condition. Mr. l'as-
coc was soon enabled, from the earning* of his lit
tle mill, to buy the property and add other territory
to it, which he did, and dying a few years Inter,
left a handsome fortune in money and laads, to be
divided among bis brothers and sisters, of whom
Samuel Paseoe now lives on a portion of the largo
plantation. About this time tire Cherokee coun
try, embracing, what are now called, Cherokee,
Lumpkin, Itawson and other counties, was
surveyed by the slate engineers and
divided into lots, the sections where gold was known
to be found being divided into forty-acre lots, the
whole put into a lottery' and drawn by the citizens
of Georgia. Many of those who suddenly found
themselves possessed of a forty-acre lot in an uii
known section of the country, placed no value
thereon, and (mid no immediate attention thereto.
Among this class was a widow lady in indigent cir
cumstances, eking out an existence on a little one
mule farm. But the lady, Mrs. Mary G. Franklin,
was surprised one week by offers to purchase
her little unknown forty-acre lot from ten or twelve
different persons, and becoming excited herself
over the interest others felt in her lottery prize,
she mounted her little mule, and nftcr a two days???
ride, saw for the first time the much sought nfter
Cherokee lot. She saw. also, a score of men hard a
work with pick, shovel and hammer, hand mortars
and pans, on and in the vicinity of a ledge of rocks,
panning out her gold and puying no tributes.
These were soon dispersed, a trusty man left in
charge, and Mrs Franklin returned ior her family,
which she quickly brought, mid immediately set to
work pounding and panning, as she laid seen the
others do.
By the richness of the ore, with the facilities of
convenient waters for washing, Mrs Franklin was
soon abje to erect n rude stamp mill on the waters
of the Etowaii river which ran through her lot. A
thorough business woman, everything was done
under her immediate personal supervision and the
proceeds of her mill enabled her to owp her own
labor and to add by purchase many other lots on
the line of the veins that run through her original
one. She built an elegant mansion ou one of the
most beautiful sites, commandingan extensive view
of the lilue Kidgc os well os of iter large plantation^
then worked by her own numerous slaves. Mr*
Franklin educated her children to become states
men and gave them professions, some of them be
coming noted as public men. By a happy coinci
dence a young man by the name of McDonald
drew a lot adjoining Mrs Franklin???s and which
proved equally rich. McDonald married one of
Mrs Franklin's daughters, made his fortune from
his mine and subsequently became governor of the
state.
These several properties now make a whole of
some thirty-two lots and have at last been united by
the efforts of the writer, extending through
.some eight year* of herd work, paring the last six
months I have made forty-three trips from the
mines to New York, Washington, D C, Macon, Sa
vannah and Atlanta, in all of which places some of
the persons lived owning interests it\, the properly
stock of .some company that had been formed ou it,
or held some claim or lien, imagined' or real, all of
which have been bought up by me for men living
in Pennsylvania, who have bought it to work it,
and who have thoroughly exploited the mine,using
for this. purpose the best skill that they
could employ,mid best machinery of modem times.
As a result they have found a very extensive placer
mine extending nearly four miles in length, and
about a half mile in width, with plenty of conven
iences???water for sluicing. Also several quartz
veins running the entire length of the property,
with an average width of eight feet, some of them
assaying from ten dollars to eighty dollars per ton.
A hornblende slate vein, three hundred feet wide,
every inch of it gold-bearing, with au average
value of three and a half dollars
per ton. With a mill dam five feet and two Inches
high they have over one thousand horse water
power for the reduction of ores. With more ore in
sight than any mine in the west can show they pro
pose to put up a three hundred stamp mill with all
the necessary apparatus for separating the ores
which are nearly all sulphuretsand termed refrac
tory. The concentrated sulphurets average two
hundred and thirty dollars per ton andean betreat-
THE FACTORY HORROR.
A SCENE OF WILD DESPERATION
AND DESPAIR.
The Burning of Lxndersberger???i Mill in Philadelphia???
How the Fire Originated-Its Progress Through
the Building???The Terror of the Panic-
Stricken Operatives???The Damage.
Philadelphia, October 13.???The fire at Landers-
berger???s mill last night, which was so disastrous to
life and property, originated in the finishing rooms
on the second fioor, and spread upwards through
the'building with amazing rapidity.
About 45 of the hands, 12 ol whom were girls,
were at work on this floor, but a majority were en
gaged in the spinning department on the.upper floor.
The wooden stairways at either end ol the building
were soon ablaze. The bridge connecting
the building with another mill was
shut off from apuroafch by fire-proof
doors, and In the absence of fire escapes a
panic Distantly ensued among the men and women
confined within the building. ??? They rushed to the
windows crying frantically to the crowd to save
them. It was proposed by the crowd to form
squares in the street and catch the men and girls ns
they leaped out, but before anything could be done
a young woman leaped from the fifth story. It
seemed that every bone In her body was broken
for she never breathed again after this
The Imprisoned people seemed to become fren
zied, and, although the crowd outside sought
to encourage them by shouting that help
would speedily be there, they began jumping from
the windows like sheep. A man, apparently bereft
of reason, flung himself headlong tot he street and
while his body was still in the air others followed.
Now a mau, then a woman or half grown girl, until
lit a few minutes eleven human beings, one and all
uneonseious with fractured skulls and broken
limbs were being carried by tender hands to a
neighboring saloon, on the floor of which body,
after body was laid in a row until vehicles
were procured to convey them to the hospitals.
When the firemen were able to enter the kuildiug
they found on the third Hoot* the bodies of two
females, burned almost to a crisp, and a ntaii badly
??? ??? * * * ??? ' ??? ??? ??? li
he was not ready for trial, having been on the case
only about ten days; that the defense would be the
insanity of the prisoner, and thnt the
wound was not necessarily mortal
n->??t was not the cause of the president???s death,
Also that lie has failed to get the names of certain
witnesses from the prisoner, and that he expects to
s|iow by witnesses in New York and Chicago
hereditary insanity in the family; that
E W 'Guiteau, father of the accused,
wu& n monomaniac on the. subject of religion,
ite also expected to show that death was the result
eft malpractice on the part of the principal physi
cians. He asked an order for witnesses, forty-four
in number. Mr Sooville said, acting under
instructions of his client he had eu deavorod toget
him suitable counsel, being himself not familiar
with criminal practice, and had applied to Emory
Storrs, of Chicago, who had declined; also to RT
Memo, who feared that he could not attend. He
had written to General Butler but had not yet heard
from him. It was important that the prisoner
should be properly defended, and he asked that if
General Butler should decline that the prisoner be
allowed to select counsel.
The argument Ju the question of jurisdiction
'.???ns set down for the thirtieth iust, and the trial for
November 7th.
I After leaving the court-room Ouitcau was taken
up stairs, and a large crowd gathered about the west
portico, the prisoner being drawn to the cast part of
the building. The crowd made a rush to that point,
but about half past twelve o'clock the prisoner was
quietly walked through the basement, and through
the center of the building wherein carriage was
???valtiiig, and taken back to jait.
Wm Stevenson Johnson, of Chicago, law partner
of Emory Storrs, has arrived in the city for the pur-
??? Hisc of biking part in the defense of Guiteau.
f While Guiteau was being arraigned a large sized
nap approached some of the officers of the
??????ourt | and asked for the loan of a pistol.
His inquiries causing suspicion he was
K ken ; to police hoadqunrters where he
ve his name as George II Betlmrd and showed a
diploma as a lawyer, issued to him June 27, in Co
lumbus, Ohio. He said that he fought in Garfield's
-egiment, and showed two gun-shot wounds in his
legs and a bayonet wound in the side of the head
which he said he received at the battle of Shiloh.
He has been doing clerical work for a lawyer in
???this city. He heard that Guiteau was to be arraign-
FIGHTINC FOR A BRIDE.
scorched and dead. Before they could searcl
further, the fourth floor, with its heavy machinery,
came crashing through, and they barely escaped
with their live*. The firemen were compelled then
to desist in their labors, because the floors had
gone through to the ground, and the machinery,
minperamU" en iw U a dozen* were*mangiK VM$??** ??** intend f a ???bull dog??? pistol
gether in an unrecognizable mass, which was seeth- ??? md shoot him at the city hall. He took his diplo-
ing ami sending out columns of steam ascold water i ma with him to insure getting into the court room
was poured upon it. Seven persons an; known ??? , . evidently been
lie dead aud twenty-three Injured, mostly young as a memoer ot tne Dar. Lie naa evidently oteu
women. * drinking.
The victims were carried off in all directions,
some to their homes, some to houses close by, and
others to various hospitals, so that the exact lium-
l??cr cannot yet be stated. Physicians say that near
ly everv one of the eases admitted to St Marv???s hos
pital will result fatally. The total number of deaths
will probably exceed twenty???there being ten dead
lxxlies in the ruius. Had the fire occurred in day
light. ftillv 400 people would have been compelled
to light for life with the flames.
Within an hour the flames were brought under
control, leaving the walls standing, but the inside
entirely gutted out. The loss in property will
amount to 505,000, to oft'set which there is an insn-
(??)icc of 530,000. Some of the workmen attribute
tnC origin of the fire to sparks from the electric light
falling amoug the waste. Others attribute the sud
den spread to the influence of the over-heated
wirc^. The same milfgras burned in 1R77.
Two bodies have been recovered this morning
from the ruins.
Cn to noon to-day the uumber of dead bodies re
ited the seen??
learned the me
inadequate. The
lire was that already advanced???the electric light,
District Attorney Graham said to-day, in res|| 1t<_ . ???
the tire at Landertierger???s mill, lastuight, wot Mg uiuny
owner of the mill can bo indicted forman.-hun-diA,
for neglect ov refusa. to put up fire osccim'a!
house he remembered thnt tills servant girl came to j ed here qr shipped. The property has been bought
niter being struck over the head with an ax, and to very low, but the parties buying have taken all
???guard against all i>o$siblc accidents he went back
to where Mr Lee was lying dead and mutilated the
???corpse fearfully by beating it with a fence rail. The
murderer then walked about six miles to the house
??I his father-in-law, where he slept all night and to
whom he gave a part of the money, and told of the
???crime lie had just committed. Unfortunately for
Lite murderer, in bentiug the negro girl with the ax
most of the blows fell on her head, and a few
hours after he left the house she recovered
-consciousness, and managed to crawl, with both of
her shoulder-blades broken and divers wounds
About her head and shoulders, to the nearest neigh
bor???s. six miles distant, where she told of Hudson's
bloody night's work. A hue and cry was immedi
ately raised and the murderer soon canglit.
Two different attempts were made to mob him.
one at Dawson and one _at Albany, near where he
was captured. He confessed and gave in substance
the tale of his crimes as above, lie said
his sole object for the murder was money. Mr and
Sirs Lee had both been kind to him. He was tried,
convicted and sentenced at the next term of the
-court, and to-day was the time ap<minted for him
to shake off this mortal coil from the end of a
rope.
CEORGIA COLD.
the risk and spent their money freely, but with care,
in thoroughly investigating the mines, and they
could hardly set a price on it that would be too
high: but they do not want to sell any portion of it.
The Ontario mining company of Utah declares a
monthly dividend payable to-day, October 1.3, of
575,000???a total of 53,81)0.000 in six years. These
gentlemen of Pennsylvania have a better mine than
the Ontario. A H Moore
A ROMANTIC CASE.
The Working l'p of the Great Franklin Mlne-.Vn In
teresting Narrative.
Editors Constitution : I notice in the Macon
Telegraph and Messenger an article credited to the
Baltimore Sun, and in The Constitution one
taken from the Marietta Journal, the incorrectness
-of which, and my knowledge of your care to be
correct in all matters of news that you give through
A Wealthy Frenclimnn Lose* lltn Property Daring the
War of Secession and Now Sacs for Damages.
New York, October 13.???In the suit of Michael
Feulenheune to recover 5200,000 from the Un ited
States government, and which has been referred to
United States Commissioner Shields, the plain-
tiff lias just given his testimony Feulenheune
came to this country in 1817, from
Westhoff, Strasburg, France, and in
the beginning of the rebellion resided in Charleston.
South Carolina. Though he had not renounced his
allegiance to France, he was drafted in
the confederate army. On his ???cross examina
tion. Feulenheune said that previous
to Julv 15th, 1801, he lived at Pelviaa
Point Mount. Morris Island, South Carolina, where
he had twenty-seven slaves, llis house was located
near a confederate fort which had been evacuated.
The union forces were on the northern extremity
of the island aud the confederates to the southward.
He rented slaves to die union forces to build in
trenchments, About the middle of July in
the year mentioned he was aroused by the dis
charge of heavy guns and found that the monitor
lying out on the ocean was shelling the island. The
exploding shells set fire to his house, in which, be
sides furniture, had paintings and other works of
?.>0.000. and he and his wife were
A Story that will Serve an a Banin for a Dime Novel
Mansfield, Pa, October 14???Miss Alien, the sev-
entecn-ycar-old daughter of a well known resident
of this village, lias for a year i>ast kept company
wilh George Clark, and the courtship resulted in an
engagement. Of late the girl???s parents have shown
much opposition to the match, and Clark was for
bidden the house, but he met Miss Allen in public
places, and frequently meetings were arranged at
the house of a mutual friend. At length
the couple determined to get married
ill spite of the parents??? objections. The
affair was arranged by Miss Kate Beach,
and was carried out by the couple assisted by Miss
Beach and George Morrison, a young law student.
One day last week Miss Allen attended the county
fair with her mother. On a pretense of going for a
CRIME IN CARROLL
A BRACE
OF MURDERERS
VICTED.
A Heavy Criminal Docket, That has In Its Diet Sev
eral Sensations???The Conviction of Two Mur
derers???A History of the Crimes for
Which They are to Pay Penalty.
Carrollton, October 14.???The present session of
the superior court is making a reconi which will be
a memorable one. The juries seem determined to
execute the law no matter how severe the penalty
or where the blow may fall.
Two young white men now in jail have ghastly
visions of the gallows dancing before their eyes.
These are the only murder eases tried so far but
there are four or five others for trial.
List Monday the jury iu the ease ot The State
against James E Ilanvey, zhnrged with the murder
of Arthur MeMullen in July lust, brought in a ver
dict of guilty without recommendation, the sen
tence of which will lie death. Last night at at 10
o???elock the jury in the case of The State against
William I, Moon, for the murder of John B Ward in
January last, returned the same verdict.
The facts in the Ilrnvey case have already been
detailed in The Constitution. The testimony iu
the Moou case was voluminous and conflicting, but
the theory of the state, us sustained by its witnesses
and which must have been the one accepted by the
jury, was as follows:
On the morning of the 4th of January lost, about
10 o???clock, Willinm L Moou purchased from L C
Mandeville. a merchant of ihis place, n double-bar
relled shot-gun, alsq powder.undsquirrell and buck
shot. Later In the day he was met by a Mr Burns,
who accosted him about the gun. ???Yes,??? he re
plied, ???1 am going to kill a rabbit with it,??? Mr
Burns remarked: ???It???s too late to rabbit hunt, the
snow is all gone,??? to whieh Mr Moon again replied:
???I know where I can find one rabbit I can kill,???
and passed on. Shortly afterward, Moon and
William Wallace were together at a grocery. Moon
said: ???I am going to kill John Ward before
three days. Do you see that old double-barrelled
shot gun yonder? I bought it for that very busi
ness, and, by God, I am going to use it.???
Henry Aiken swore that he met Moou on the road
and Moon said, ???I am going to kill a buck, and John
Ward is the d???n rascal.???
J M Stephens swore that on the 4th of January
last, between sundown and dark, he (witness) and
John Ward went to the house of Jessie Robinson,
abouj three miles cast of Carrollton. Moon and
Eliza Robinson were in front of the house near the
gate; when within about thirty steps of them Moon
threw a double-barreled shotgun from his shoulder,
presented it, and demanded their names; witness
answered, ???Stephens and Ward.??? Moon replied,
???All right, your friend.??? They advanced, witness
being iu front. Moon again presented his gun on
Ward aud with an oath exclaimed, ???I
will kill you.??? Ward sprang forward and
seized the gun when Moon demand
ed. ???Turn my gnu loose.??? Ward asked, ???Is it
loaded???? Moon repeated his demand and Wanl
repeated his question. Moon then replied, ???No, it
ain???t loaded, turn it loose.??? Ward asked. ???If I turn
it loose, will you let me alone???? Moon answered,
???Yes.??? Ward then walked away, and was in the
act of stepping over ,l fence, about fifteen paces off,
when Moou tired upon him, thirteen buckshot and
a quantity of small shot entering the iiiy, breaking
GUITEAU IN COURT,
art. to the value of
obliged to seek safety in flight.
He and his wife took refuge in the woods near
Tnppahannock. where they remained two days
-.0.1 ...i,... .in- >., i . ,u- .. . without food. He further testified that bis pn>
jour columns to tin. public, leads me to this attempt joirtv was confiscated bv General Gilmore, of the
to give you the exact faets relating to one of the ??? ???
must extensive gold mining operations ever under
taken i:i this country.
It has not been the wish of the parties connected
with this enterprise to parade their business or
names before the public, the fact of their
beiug able within themselves to carry out
their plans as arranged by their business manager,
making it eutirely unnecessary that they should be
???advertised.
About the year 1833 the father of Howell Cobb
worked a gold mine in the second district, third
section, of Cherokee county, Georgia, making it pay
so well that many miners and prospectors were at
tracted to this immediate neighborhood, among
them an Englishman by the name of Johu Paseoe,
-who had come from the mother country to seek his
union army, and 530,000 he had deposited in the
Farmer???s Exchange hank, besides 54,000 in
gold and 570,000 in currency, were
taken from him by men whom
he believed to be union soldiers, deserters from
General Butler???s army, though dressed in confed
erate uniform. The case will come tip for another
hearing next week. Feulenheune seeks to recover
uuder the French-American treaty.
Something llujrc.
Dalton Citizen.
The Atlanta Constitution's exposition issue of
last week was something huge. It was the largest
paper ever printed in the southern states, and
probably the largest ever printed in America. The
white paper used in this one edition weighed over
8.000 pounds, or more than four tons. If the eylin
Where lie Amlilco and Cronehe* tuaPtrlai
Washington; October 14???Tlie star rdsite cases
were agnin taken up, but owing to the apse nee of
the associate counsel- for (be government,u au ad
journment was asked by the prosecuting attorney,
and after some discussion a jiostponement for two
weeks was taken.
After the star route cases were disposed of it be
came known in the court-room that the arraign
ment of Guiteau was actually to take place to-day,
so most of the spectators remained and a very in
tense feeling of curiosity atnl interest was mani
fested. There was no unusual display of
the police force in or about the
court room, although there were a large
number of detectives present, but not in uniform.
For over half an hour business was suspended
awaiting the introduction of the prisoner. At a
quarter past eleven MrScoville 1 , counsel for the pris
oner, entered and ;tooka sent at the lawyers??? table,
and immediately after the doors of the witnesses
room were opened and gave entrance to Marshal
Henry and two deputy marshals, having
between them, hustling along, the bowed
and cowering figure of the man
for whom they made way to' seat him beside his
counsel. Then one of the guards unlocked the
handcuffs, giving the prisoner use of his hands,
which he continued, however, to hold as if that was
their usual position. Guiteau looked
broken in health aud uncared for in
person. His head is closely cropped hut his
cheek and chin whiskers are worn thick but not
long. His dark elothes were rusty and shabby,
and his whole person presented a miserably neg
leeted appearance.
After the excitement attending his entrance had
subsided, District-Attorney Corkhill arose and ad
dressing the judge said: ???The grand jury of the
District of Columbia has indicted Charles f Guiteau
for the murder of James A Garfield. The prisoner
is in court. I ask that he lie arraigned and required
to plead to the indictment.???
The prisoner was ordered to stand up, and in a
languid manner obeyed.
Clerk??????Is your name Charles J Guiteau????
The prisoner assented by a nod to the clerk.
The clerk then proceeded to read the
indictment, the prisoner standing up
with his head most of the time inclined
to the right shoulder, his eyes half closed or wholly
so, his hands crossed over his stomach as if they
still wore handcuffs, and his general air that of sickly
inditlerence. The reading occupied nearly half an
hour, and during all that time Guiteau hardly
changed his attitude or bearing, and rarely opened
his eyes. He did not manifest the slightest degree
of interest in the scene in whieh he was the chief
actor, and but for an occasional slight movement,
might be supposed to be asleep iu a standing atti
tude.
Upon the conclusion of reading the indictment
the clerk, addressing the prisoner, said: ???What say
you to the indictment; guilty or not guilty????
The prisoner, in place of response, fumbled in his
waistcoat pocket and drew out a soiled aud crum
pled scrap of paper.
District Attorney (imperatively)???Enter your plea
of guilty.
Prisoner???I enter a plea of not guilty, if your
honor please, and I desire to make a statement to
the court at some other time???it would not be ap
propriate just now.
???Sit down!???
The prisoner thereupon took his seat.
District Attorney???In this case I ask that tlie trial
be set for next Monday morning peremptorily. The
government is ready for trial now.
Mr Seoville asked to read a statement, and pro
ceeded to read one by the defendant to the effect
that he has no money or means and that in his de-
rciative of .???-Clark, where the marrriage eere-
was performed by the Rev E E
Morris, of Maiiiexburg. The same afternoon the
.newly-muirlcd couple came to this village to make
j iTiingeniL-iits to gu-on a wedding trip. While they;
were at the depot in the evening,- aud just before
Vne arrival of the train whieh >was to take them
awe Mr Allen put in an appearance, and lifter at-
Jlig to whip Clark,-lie marched his daughter
: anil locked her up. The bridegroom,
legal advice, petitioned for a writ
habeas corpus, and Associate Judge
$
Hewn issued the writ! Meanwhile a large crowd
fil???d surrounded Mr Allen???s house and threatened
t,.- rescue the imprisoned bride. At midnight the
??? /mug husband appeared with a deputy sheriff and
the writ. Allen refused to admit them, fearing the
crowd outside, but the paper was read and then
passed through the bliuds. On the day fixed for a
return to be made to tlie writ, AUeu asked for a
postponement until Sunday, and while making ar
rangements for this Clark went to a hotel near
bv where his wife had been left and attempted to
speak with her, but her father, returning, inter
fered, and the young bride was hurried into a
wagon and driven oil???. She rose in the wagon,
however, and waved her handkerchief at her
husband. She was kept concealed until Friday
evening, when, by a settlement between young Clark
and Allen, she was allowed to go with her hus
baud. Early in the evening people began to sus
pect that something had occurred or was about to
occur. Watching Clark, they saw him drive up to
Allen???s residence about 10 o???clock, and when he re
turned a few minutes later he had his wife with
him. Thewwere met by a crowd of citizens who un
hitched till horse and drew the wagon through tlie
streets, headed by the college brass band. Cannon
and guus were fired and a general jubilation was
indulged in. At the residence of Clark???s father the
crowd offered their congratulations, filing past the
happy pair, who were stationed iu the parlor. The
self-invited guests were then handsomely treated at
the hands of the elder Clark.
A WRETCH LYNCHED.
i? is V *V? 1 fense it is necessary for him to have witnesses from a
rolled in a continuous line, it would have passed: . , , . .. ... .. ...
bevfod Chicago before it had finished its work. distance, also one made by himsc-lf te the effect tha
A South Carolina Ravbher Sent on a Journey.
Special dispatch to Tlie Constitution.
Columbia, S C. October 13.???This morning be
tween 1 and 2 o???clock, Jack Williams, colored, who
lind been sentenced to the penitentiary for life for
committing rape, was taken from the Orangeburg
jail by a mob and hanged to a tree until he was
dead. The crime for which Williams was lynched,
was committed several months ago, and was of the
most atrocious character, the victim
being Jejinie Hughes, a little white girl
not quite eleven years old, living with her parents
in that section of Orangeburg county. The trial
took plaee last Saturday. The testimony for tlie
proseeutiou was overwhelming, and tlie details of
the crime were perhaps the most revolting ever
recorded iu a court of justice. The vast audience,
whieh occupied the committee room seemed actu
ally subdued aud rendered mute by the terrible
consequence of the crime to the poor innocent
little victim, who in obedience to the
laws of the state, was compelled to tell her heart
rending store to the world.
The defense offered no testimony, and after an
ingenious argument by the counsel for the prisoner
and a clear and comprehensive charge from the
judge, the case was given to the jury, who, after
three hours??? deliberatiou.retumed the following re
markable verdict: ???We find the. prisoner. Jack
Williams, guilty, but recommend him to the mercy
of the court.??? Under the laws of the state
this verdict reduced the punishment for the crime
from death to imprisonment for life at hard labor iu
the penitentiary.
The verdict caused great indignation among all
classes, and there were many threats of lynching,
but better counsel prevailed, however, ana averted
such a proceeding for a time at least. On Wednes
day afternoon the prisoner was again brought into
court, sentenced to imprisonment for life and re
manded to the jail to await transportation - to file
penitentiary^ The town station-house of Orange
burg is the jail building on the first floor. Tlie state
S risoners are confined in the cells on the second
oor. This morning shortly after midnight a po
liceman arrested a drunken mail in the streets and
took him to the jail. When the jailer opened the,
door for the reception of the offender some thirty-
five or forty masked men suddenly rushed in the
door, overpowered the jailer and the policeman and
took forcible possession of the jail keys, and pro
ceeded direct to Williams???s cell. In less time than
it takes to write these lines the rape fiend was drag
ged out of the building, silently conveyed to a point
near the river, about half a mile distant, where one
end of a stout piece of rope was made fast around
his neck. The other end was thrown over a limb of
a stout oak tree, and almost i i the twinkling of an
eye the miserable wretch was dangling between
heaven and earth. After w nie their work accom
plished, the lynchers quie tly d spersed iu different
a irectious.
the thigh bone just Delow the joint. Wanl died
next day. Moon was immediately arrested and
placed in jail. He was put upon trial for murder
on Tuesday morning last, and last night, after an
absence of an hour and a half tlie jury returned
with a verdict as before mentioned.
Moon had evinced the liveliest interest in every
movement during his trial. He evidently realized
his desperate situation. Occasionally his eyes
would till with tears, and it was with an evident
struggle that he could contain himself. He had
but little idea that the jury would return the harsh
verdict they did. When it was read a look of most
unutterable anguish spread over his face whicli
was but an index of the harrowiugs of his soul.
The fountains of his tears seemed dried aud lie sat
transfixed. When reluming to the jail he reeled
like a drunken mau and leaned heavily on his
guards.. He is thoroughly unnerved. He was
placed in the same cell with Hanvey.
Hanvey during his trial exhibited a most stoical
indifference, and passes much of his time in utter
ing imprecations upon those who had anything to
do with his conviction. He declares that he will
never be hung. lie is about twenty-live years old,
of fine physique, weighing perhaps 105 pounds.
Moon is perhaps thirty, of slender build and weighs
probably 130 pounds.
1 visited them to-night in their ceil, and found
them upon a pallet. They arose as I entered and
greeted me cordially. To my question as to how
they were getting on, Ilanvey replied:
???Oh,I am getting along pretty well: I don???t know
how Dock (Moon) is feeling, though."
???I am not feeling so well,??? Moou responded. ???I
have been having so much trouble of late and my
mind has been worried and bothered so.???
???What do you think of your prospects, Ilanvey????
???I don???t hardly know. I suppose my lawyers arc
trying to get a new trial. Yon know a mau never
gives up hope till he dies."
???What of yonrs. Moon????
???1 don???t know what can be d me. I don???t know
what my lawyers expect to do.???
???What do you do during the day????
To this Moon made no response. Hanvey replied:
???I walk about over the for exercise aud read.
I am reading up on history now.???
Hanvey talks freely, and occasionally smiles.
Moon???s eyes were swollen and he sjoike only in an
swer to direct questions and then m monosyllables
merely. They will be sentenced to-morrow.
Solicitor-General Reid lias received many compli-
meuts for his management of the cases, as well as
foritis efficiency generally.
draw his motion to admit of that being 'lone, but
Mr. Edmunds insisted on his motion taking prece
dence.
Mr. I???endlcton thereupon refused to withdraw hU
motion, whieh, at 2:55 r M, was carried, and the
senate ndjouraed until to-morrow.
On tlie reassembling of the senate. Mr Pendleton
withdrew his objection to considering the resolution
contemplating the election of Mr Davis as president
pro tern.
Mr Jones, of Florida, opposed the resolution. Ho
said that before the resolution . was submitted to a
vote he wished to reiterate the protest which he
had once made here on this subject by denying the
power of the senate to do this thing. It was said
that this question was no longer open; that a pre
cedent had ocen established in the
forty-fourth congress Uy whieh the right of tho
senate to choose at will its presiding officer had been
affirmed. He hoped that tho ac.tiou of the senate
would not be regarded as a precedent. Congress by
an act of 17".t2 had declared that the presiding officer
of the senate should succeed in certain contingen
eies to the ofliee of president of the United States.
He contended that the president pro
tern having once been elected, the
constitution fixed the tenure of his office.
A more unwise precedent had never been establish
ed by the senate than that which declared that that
body should have power, in case of anVthing un
fortunate happening to the present incumbent of
the presidential office, to enter into a contest fo
the presidency of the United Suites.
The vote was then taken on Mr Logan???s resolu
tion, and it was adopted???yeas 30, nays 34. Mr Da
vis, of Illinois, refrained from voting, and Mr Bay
ard, when his name was called, said: ???I propose
to withhold my vote. I have never obtained office
by my vote, and never shall retain it by my vote. I
am glad the question is taken up to-day.???
Mr Davis, of Illinois, was then escorted to the
chair by Messrs Bayard aud Anthony, respective
democratic and republican candidates for the same
office.
On taking the chair Mr Davis said:
Senators: The honor just conferred comes, ns the
seat which I now occupy in this body did, without
anv expectation on my part. If it carried any party
obligations, I should be constrained to decline this
high compliment. I do not accept it as a
tribute to any personal merit, but
rather as a recognition of the independent
position which I have long occupied in the politics
of the country. I am profoundly gratified for . this
mark of confidence, and it shall be my endeavor,
so itlwill bejmy duty, to administer the trust with irn-
K rtiality, and with entire firmness. Not having
eu trained in parliamentary practice, I shall
t>eg the indulgence of the senate in this respect, and
I nope for generous co-operation on all sides.
On motion of Mr Logan, a committee, consisting
of Messrs Bayard and Logan, was appointed by the
clinir U> wait upon the president and announce to
him the election of Mr Davis, of Illinois, as presi
dent pro tcm.
The following nominations were then received:
Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, envoy extraordinary
andmiuister plenipotentiary of the United States
to Spain.
Walker Blaine, of Maine, third assistant secretary
of state.
Mark S Brewer, of Michigan, consul general of the
United States to Berlin.
Alexander Jourdan, of Pennsylvania, consul at
Algiers.
Edmund Johnson, of New Jersey, consul at i???ic-
tou.
Arthur II Harrison, of New Jersey, consul at San
tander.
Winfield Scott Bird, of Alabama, consul at La-
gtmyra.
Robert Y Holly, of Vermont, consul at Burbadoes.
James W Siler, of Indiana, consul at Capetown.
Henry i??? Lasar, of Missouri, consul at l???ort Stanley.
De.Vlvn S Alexander, of Indiana, fifth auditor of
the treasury.
Benjamin P Davis, of Massachusetts, deputy fourth
auditor of tlie treasury.
Jacob H EUi, of New Hampshire, auditor of the
treasury for the post otliee department
Robert F Cowell, of Minnesota, deputy auditor of
the treasury for the post office department
Thomas M Broadwater, of Mississippi, collector of
customs for the district of Vicksburg, Miss.
William Gouvener Morris, of California, collector
of customs for tlie district of Alaska.
Washington, October 15???In the senate to-day
Mr Morgan, of Alabama, introduced a resolution
authorizing the printing aud distribution to mem
bers of the senate 2,500 copies of the consular report
recently issued by the department of state on the
cotton goods trade of the world. Referred.
The senate went into executive session.
Among the nominations sent to the senate to-day
was the following: 1> Newton Thompson, attorney
of the United States for the western district of Lou
isiana.
When the doors were opened the senate adjourned
until Monday.
1 he senate in executive session to-day confirmed
the nomination of Noah C McFarland, of Kansas,to
be commissioner of the generalland office; James
W .Siler, of Indiana, United States consul
at Capetown, and a large number of postmasters,
among which were John D Finney, of Vicksburg;
Miss George K Foote, of Jackson, Tenn;
John D Lewis, Pulaski, Tenn; John C
Degress, of Austin, Texas; Henry D Johnson, of
Houston, Texas; llenry M Ryan, of Corsicana,
Texas; Amos A Whessen, of Dallas, Texas:
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Williams, as assistant
adjutant general, to be colonel and assistant adju- ,
tant general; Major Thomas M Vincent, assistant
adjutant general, to be lieutenant colonel
and assistant adjutant general; Captain Van
Bttren Hubbard, assistant surgeon, to be major and
surgeon; Major Cyrus B Comstock, corps???of engi
neers, to be Ueutenant-coloucl of engineers: Caj*-
tuin James W Cuyler, corps of engineers, to be ma
jor of engineers, and n large number of other army ???
promotions.
THE SENATE
GEORGIA CROP NEWS.
What Texas Ha* Nat Gat.
Sparta Ishmaelite.
Texas and Georgia have different ways of encour
aging immigration. Texas receives, peihaps. a hun
dred immigrants where Georgia gets one. You see,
Texas doesn???t setm to have any "watch dogs of the
treasury.???
Electtoa of Davbl Davis a* President l???to Tcm.
Washington, October 10.???The assembling of the
special session of the senate was witnessed by a large
number of persons, who as early as 11 o???clock, filled
the galleries to their utmost capacity. The desk
formerly occupied by Senator Burnside was taste-
uily draped witli black, while several bouquets or
namented the desks of prominent senators. Sena-
tors-elect Aldrich, Lapham and Miller occupied
seats upon the floor on the republican side.
The senate was called to order by Mr Harris,
who, after prayer by Chaplain Bullock,
who alluded in feeling manner to
the deaths of President Garfield, Senator Burnside
and Secretary Burch, said:
???I have been requested by a number of senators
of both sides of the chamber to call the senate to
order.
???If there be no objection I will call the senate to
order, that we may proceed with its business.
???The senate will please come to order and the
clerk will rejiort to the senate the message of tlie
president convening this session of the senate.???
The president???s proclamation having been read,
Mr. Pendleton moved the adoption of the following
resolution:
???That Thomas F. Bayard, senator from the state
of Delaware, is hereby chosen president pro tem of
the senate.???
On taking the chair Mr Bayard, after acknowl
edging the honor paid him, said:
We are all painfully mindful of the unusual cir
cumstances under which we meet and of the na
tional bereavement which has caused this special
session of the senate. May it not be hoped that
touched by a sense of common sorrow and chas
tened by grief that penetrates every
household in one great family of states, our
proceedings may be marked by a spirit of conces
sion and harmony and a generous consideration for
the mutual differences of opinion only and soften
ing of partisan asperities???asperities and high intent
to perform our duties in a manner responsible to
the demands of the occasion and best interests of
the common country. With such hopes und in such
spirit I now assume und shall endeavor to perform
the duties of the high position to which your favor
has assigned me.
At the conclusion of Mr Bayard,s speech Mr Ed
munds moved that the credentialsof NW Aldrich,
of Rhode Island, be placed on file, and that the
oath of office be administered to him.
Mr Pendleton, in order to give the committee an
opp irtunityto examine the credentials of thesena
tors from Rhode Island and New York, moved that
the senate adjourn.
Mr. Hoar called Mr. Pendleton's attention to the
fact that it was customary to inform the executive
branch of the government that the Senate was or
ganized.
Mr. Pendleton expressed his willingness to with-
Average crops in Jackson county.
Thomas county will save a good pea crop.
The cotton crop of Marion county is a good one.
Tiie cotton crop of Carroll county is a good one.
Caterpillars are injuring the cotton crop in Cobb
county.
Tiie cotton crop is nearly gathered in Laurens
county.
Dooly and Lee counties will make a little over
half crops.
Mu B II Summers, of Coweta, lias a good crop of
sugar cane.
TiiEeotton crop of Rockdale county will reach
about half a cron.
Large quantities of crab grass hay are being saved
in Hancock county.
More hay has been gathered in Laurens county
this, year than ever before.
Farmers in Gordon county are preparing to sow
a large oat and wheat crop.
Wilkes county has not been so well off in a corn
crop as it now is in five years.
More hay and peanuts are being saved in Rock
dale this year than ever before.
Judge Garrison, of Gillsville, will get five and a
half bales of cotton from six acres of land.
Captain Samuel Beall, of Stewart county, has a
two year old hog which weighs 400 pounds.
The fences of Georgia cost annually one million
eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
There is a greater saving of forage this year in
Murray county than has ever been known ior
ears."
Mr S Foster, of Talbot county, will exhibit in
Atlanta white peas, white -bread coni, and prolific
cotton.
Mr Joseph Scogin, of Baldwin county, is devot
ing much attention to the raising and improvement
o{ stock.
Mr J E Allen, of Spalding county, has two liogs-
that will weigh 250 pounds each. He raises all of
his own stock.
SIessrs Schneider & Starowski. of Hawkinsville,
made over 1,100 gallons of pure wine on their viue-
vard this season. They hud four acres iu cultiva
tion in grapes.
Mp. A J Lane, of Bibb county, upon sixty acres of
swamp land, has this year raised, in addition to
his com crop, 200,000 pounds of Bermuda hay: it sells
readtlv at 520 per ton. In addition to his hay he has
enough com to ran the product of each acre up to
550, and this without the aid of fertilizers.
Mp. B F Parsons, of Pulaski county, cultivated
this vear seven tv acres in com and will gather seven
hundred bushels. He cultivated ninety acres in
cotton and will make between forty and fifty bales.???
He has good crops of com, potatoes and peas. He
plows his land deep early in the spring; It retains
moisture from the rains.
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