Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-08-04
Richmond, Tue sday, August 4,
SCENES IN uIssI,.,IppI

RSlchmOnu, Tue iu1y. August n.
SCENES IN MISSISSIPPI
We lay before readers, further extracts from scvc
Scenes in Mississippi We recommend cspccialv 70
their attention the articles from the New Orleans Advcr-
User, about the Gamblers of Vcksburg, and from the
Clinton Gazette, about the Z" Horrible Conspisacy" of
the last calculated TO excite
sympathy. We feel no charity foe those who are
stirring the ignorant slaves nutiny plumber and
murder II the danger from those wrctcies only to
,hc arrested by rigor beyond the law then
process must BIZ cmployedut not in the of the
Gamblers Bad rs they are; drcadfd as IS their trade
the danger not sweeping but the ordinary process
OF the law may reach them in their villlny The lives
ornnoccnt men, women, and children, hanging
upon the turn of die, the throw of card-But i'm the
of the Insurreconist, II The be imminent as
To require the most summary application of remedy
us popui surcn,a Ter Yet even in their case the
rule must with the for it, We fervcnty
trust that as the danger which originally threatened
the greatest mischief, is conicsscdly past, the
law alone may now be employed for punishment,
prevention.
The State of Mississippi TO have been latterly
cursed by species of Bandtt who almost un.
known 10 the other States According the accounts
(which have been published of them the Condotcri of
Italy were scarcely worse than they were. Murrcl,
-,ie head Of his almost equal t Abuliino
land Ills Bandit,i fhs man, who is confined in the
Iententiay OF Tennessee said 20 have banded oge-
ther set of daring wretches for almost every species
mischief; for stealing, kidnapping of negroes u-
= surrection, forging and countericng, gambling &c
Caiaiinc troop at Rome could not have been H.
crntious, they drawn by the pencil of Sausi--
We had heard of Virgil "A. Stewards pamphlet, in 1884
descriptive of Murre and his plans-but we had never
SCENT. The last lyncburg Vrgnian gives Sketch of
it--and although 1T may be considerably exaggerated
yet there appear about it many of the linea
truth We shall the most interesting portion of the
Sketch OF the H. Virgnian and leave it readers
Judge Tor themselves 1t is calculated to put our
guard, against the Banditti of the West. If of
them are yet here, they may comeand We ought to be
the alert
"While, however. Murrcl was daily loading his soul
with crimes of this characters he medtating
scheme of viainy, on the most extensive scale, and
which, had IT been only partially successful, have
consequences.
bolical scheme nothing less than Scribe Iusurrcc-
ton, To be the 2th of December 1895
in all the slayehoding States and Territories from Mary
land 10 Louisiana For the purpose of preparing for
this great stroke he had travelled first to New Orleans
thence, ria Cincinnati, to Lexington, (Ky thence to
Richmond, Va; thence to Charleston Milledgeve
Savannah and Augusta; from which place he returned
TO Williamson county Tennessee his native place.
lac calls it, his sold stamping ground"-lIc says
" In all the route only robbed eleven men but
preached some 1,e sermons, and scattered coun
teIieit United States paper among my brethren
Fortunately, however, his of iniquity was about
TO be terminated at least for Mr.. Stewart,
after obtaining from him full confession of the yillanies
which had signalized his career, and development of
his future plans, succeeded in bringing him. if full
Justice at least TO temporary punishment And il is TO
be hoped, should he survive his present confinement
and be permitted again TO go abroad in the world that
his footsteps will be logged and his nianauyrcs yigan
ly watched by every community which may be cursed
with his presence Mr.. Stewart also succeeded in OBJ
tanning from Nurrel partial list Of his conederates in
the different sayc-holdng Siatcs Murrel rcmaSng
handing 1t to him, that .here is paper enough TO
make proper list but when you come up to my house
complete
DO until then, as you Will not travel any, until you 90
with me few trips and learn the routes there il
not near all the this list but there is no more
paper TO write on want you to be with at New Or
CLEANS the night that the negroes their
wages intend to head tho company that attacks that
city myself. | feel ambition demosi the city
which defended from the ravages of the British ar
my, by the great Gen Jackson When we first read
the pamphlet giving the detail of Murrels infamous ca
disposed to look upon do the bio
graphes OF villains generally, with 'many grains
owanee as to his list OF confederacs we had no
nj WINS ard
deed that many of the upon il had living
representatives.. But examining it, find that fsoo of
the Mississippi incendaries, Cotton aud Hunter)
accuracy of the remainder The number of these con-
iederates amounted in Tennessee, TO Oh Mississippi
~; Arkansas 30; Kentucky, %; Missouri, tweny-se-
ven (among the number in Missouri is the celebrated
Stephen W. Foreman who months ago appre-
endcd "a the head of extensive gang of counterfeit
ers;) Alabama, 25; Georgia, 81 South Carolina 80;
North Carolina, ~; Virginia, 81; Maryland, %; Fori-
da, l6; Louisiana, 3D. 1ransicnts who avel from
place to place, % among whom is the renowned Phelps
who was some months ago apprehended in Mississippi
as highway robber, and shot in attempt escape
from j1Il-Aaking grand total this incomplete list
m aoO 1T is to be regretted that this list is further de-
fclen in emitting the christian and places of re-
sidence of these ncendiuries We those in Vir-
gina, none of whom, however, do recognize: X.
Carlson, A. Beoach, J. Kerkmon, three Merits, w.
Carnes, ID Hawkes., J. Ferines G.. Derom, s. Walker,
four Mathiscs, l.. Wiseman, S. Washorn, r. Hume, +.
Henderson, 4. Cockburn, w. Mibourn"
We have received Communication from an "Obser-
yer, (PcytonshnTg Post Ohcc)-enclosng very copous
extracts from the infamous sheet of Human Rights"
We put 1t frankly to tho "Obscrver," (who trust
IS no emssary of the Fanacs) whether had not BET.
ter mt once publish Extra Edition of the detesabc
paper itself We have given already general sunnia-
ry of the movements of the Fanatcs-and expect we
shall haye to give more upon them But there is such
maxim IN the first grammar learnt, asEst Blodus
an rstus--Ihers are bounds IN all things.