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that their names were enrolled, and that they would
be lynched without mercy if any attempts at revenge
were made. 'On Friday, Dee. 11, about 100 men
arrived at New Albany, a large town in the ex-
treme south of Indiana, on i,he Ohio river, opposite
Louisville, and waiting till the next morning, at
three o'clock attacked the gaol, seized some of the
guards, and effected an entrance. The Sheriff, who
refused to deliver up the keys, was wounded, but
the premises being searched, they were disco.
vered in a drawer. A warder was com-
pelled to point out the cells of the RENos, who
were taken out and hanged to a post near the
prison ; then SI3ION ItENO and CHARLES ANDERSON
were in a similar way executed, the former fought
desperately, knocking down two or three of the
Vigilance men ; the latter begged but was refused
time for prayer. Indeed the lynchers had no time
to spare, for they feared even to delay for the full ac-
complishment of their purpose, which was to hang
another man confined on a charge of murder, and
they left the gaol, having only carried into effect
their main object. The people of Seymour assert the
impossibility of obtaining justice and suppressing
conspiracies against their lives and fortunes, ex-
cept by counter conspiracies such as that by which
the RENO gang was destroyed. The thieving ramifi-
cations are so considerable, and have such a tend-
ency to grow, that they defeat justice not only by
intimidation but by the security given in the assur-
ance that one of the confederates cannot fail to be
enrolled on the jury, whose business it is to hold
out against other jurors to the end. Finding by re-
peated trial that their readiest method was to oppose
to the robbers even a more audacious mode of pro-
cedure than their own, they took the unjustifiable
measures we have recorded. While joining in the
condemnation so general in the United States of
these proceedings, we wish the position to be under-
stood in Europe. Through Lynch law, California,
from a pandemonium, was erected into one of the
most orderly States of the Union ; through Lynch
law all the great mining States and Territories be-
tween the Missouri and the Pacific are gradually
undergoing the process already completed in Cali-
fornia, and although nothing, theoretically, can jus-
tify such a system, an overwhelming practical ne-
cessity may enforce its adoption. When we con-
sider the phase through which the United States has
passed, that of a civil war which raged over so
many States, followed by the disbandment of
masses of soldiers trained to rapine and bloodshed, it
must be confessed that never before did any coun-
try more quickly settle down into peace and
order. That it could wholly do so, however, is
beyond the bounds of possibility. Hence, the
growth of such bands as that of the RENOS at
Seymour, the Ku-Klux Klan, the Knights of
the White Camellia, the Arkansas and Tennessee
Militia, which, after all, are but counter-organi-
zations, and the revival of these Vigilance Com-
mittees. While, then, agreeing to the full
in the sentiments expressed by the Philadelphia
Ledger, we maintain the force of what the people
of Seymour urge, and the fact that, instead of show-
ing the lawlessness of the citizens of the Union,
these exceptional cases but prove the truth of the
general rule, that no nation under such circum-
stances ever before showed a finer example of order.'
" Mob law, Lynch law," says the Ledger, " or any
extra judicial law, here, is always wrong and dan-
gerous, and especially dangerous to those who re-
sort to it, as well as to those in authority who con-
nive at it or give occasion for it. An unorganized
mob is always undiscriminating, blind, heartless,
brutal, and cruel, eager only for victims, and utterly
reckless as to justice. A mob organized under 'the
Lynch code may be less blind, less brutal, less cruel,
but it is no more to be trusted with the adminis-
tration of justice than the other, and the mere ex-
istence of it is a reproach to the community where
it exists, as well as a disgrace to the law, the courts,
and the authorities. The next most dangerous thing
is an unjust judge, who makes use of his high office
to do things which brings the law and the courts
into contempt and distrust. The parties, however,
who are ultimately responsible are the people them-
selves, for in this country they make the laws, they
choose the judges, and they create the public senti-
ment, which either enforces the law and insures the
goal conduct of the judges, or else encourages such
acts as nullify the law, and make the judges reck-
less and dangerous." The affair as regards FRANK
RENO and CHARLES ANDERSON is likely to give rise
to a diplomatic correspondence, although the United
States are blameless in the matter, and can do no
more than express regret that Indiana was unable to
protect prisoners against so sudden, and by it
unexpected, an attack ; and as there can be no doubt
that both men were deeply implicated in a conspi-
racy which struck at the very roots of society, their
fate cannot excite any great amount of commise-
ration.—Anglo-A inerican 7 lines.

One of the most telling bits of satire is this ex-
, tract from an American paper :—" The Renos and their
fellow victims belonged to a gang that robbed express
companies without being directors. If they had been di-
rectors, theirs would have been a capital opportunity ;
it was, it became a capital offence."
General Grant started from Boston, on the 18th
Dec., and will go thence to Philadelphia and Baltimore,
reaching Washington in season to be roasted for the as-
sembled multitude on the 4th of March.
A new company named the Burleigh tunnel and
mining company, has been organized at Fitchburg with a
capital of 5120,000, for the purpose of silver mining in
Colorado with the Burleigli rock drill.
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Births.
COCKBURN —On tha 2d inst., at 9, Scarsdale Villas, Ken-
sington, the wife of Frederick Cockburn, Esq., of a
daughter.
ROWSELL —On the 29th ult., at 43, Cathcart-road, West
Brompton, the wife of W. Rowsell, barrister-at-law, of
a daughter.

Marriages.
GREEN—ITERBERT —On the 29th ult., at Our Lady's
Church, St. John's-wood, John Philip
Green, of the Mid-
dle Temple, barrister and of Bombay, to Theresa, the
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second daughter of J. R. Herbert, Esq., Royal Acade-
mician.

HILL
TUCKER —On the Ist inst., at Combo Down, near
Bath, James Ledger Hill, of Ogle Castle, Northumber-
land, and of Southampton, to Mary, third daughter of
W. 11. Tucker, of Trowbridge, Wilts.