Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1841-11-04
rram sAe N.,tehitoele. R-raia.
HORRORS ON THE ARKANSAS fRoSrn

iOKNOKS On 1 Hi Arkansas rhONtit-H.
Some Texas maraud rs lat.iy crossed
over the hue into Lnusiana and To k lsr :
ibc pass sson Of cltizen IN The parst
al Cnd,lo. After they had carried him
into the l'erntnry OF Texas. il was pro-
pused 10 bury him alive. With this IN
tention, a grave was then dag-the ua-
fortunate man being witness u their
movements. He stood helpless, counting
each shovel full of earth, rs the quick
termination ,f his life, surround. d by u
gang Of ,iesparadoss. ready To crush him
b Ira:n the clod, and from whose sentence
escape was death. OSerpowered with
the frig h,lul fate before him, he bounded
i,om his Keepers. and rushed into m adj
cent ,hicktt bu. before his steps had
measured many pieces over the earth,
heavy yolley Of musketry brought hinlio
the grouud, aud there he lay u lieirss
corpse, victim III the insecurity vi our
ooider protection.
His body. afier being cut W, was hung
upon tho brauchts Of the neghburiug
trees, there To meet the gaze of the trav-
ell,.r, and tell him Of power that knows
nothing Of the bounds Of law. ar OF humun
authority; hui, like the bowling BEASTS Of
the wild rntss, would snap the fragile
cnrds oi life, il interest unce stirred up the
fatal ire Of their wrath upon him whose
voice dare rise against their iniquitles,
| The tlecrnsi d man, VII s.. name was
l,oatrighi, hnd thus off,nd' d item: he
had, with 9th, rs Of his l.llow-cltiz' ms, Dr.
clared himsel! openly 10 b. opposed /"
ih,m: and, as might have been expected
in u country like ours, where, from the
sparsenass of frontier population. the ave
nues Ia the wrath of banditil are wide
open, the unio,iunair man had To forfeit
his IL. MS "A ransom for b alienation 10
lhir authority. The cit zcns "i cur Dor
der country have witnessed these men,
under tn, II mo of R gnat"rs and Mode.
rsiots committing in he territory Ol Tex
| Us som. of the M 81 taibarous crueltes
oi the 13,h century.
The couniry on our bord r, towards
tn Sd d, gre.' of la,tud,', IS the princi
pal scene Of action and II is but n few
wears ago tina, an Am rican who had
shipp, d from New Otl'ans in on" OF thtir
towns la,g.. Ass 'riment al grweri nd
dry sruo WIS routed out, and his goods
f'rribIy taken off 10y The gang. Nothing
ever done about II, anu the net IS nov
aim 81 forgotten, Awhile ag', one oi
the caltains Of the r, gulators, aud a man
that was with him. ". r. shot III villnec
Of the n"ln5 of L"ganslort. TIE cap
tain aud the person with him had not l'ng
hren gone from tn store where They hn,.
been u,akin1 II purchas-, VIXEN n dis
charge OF muskels WAS heard by III s'ot-
he. per. H.. rushed Out. aud soon dlscov.
ered the tw" At $ lying on the & oand
there was no one near. ann he WIS ,eii /"
cnt ct,He The eaus uf th,ir drath. Ex
aunninp infinitely the place around, 1t WIS
rot loug , fore h. dis oyereh pn the earth,
h-uoa,A two fdlen lrrrs, the impress If
FIVE or S X mtn; nnd il thus appears thai
th' s" twu uten had been shot without in
timatlum, and with the NJ ST co',l de!rrmi-
nation. In view of their ep"rmiiies, we
mot wond, why Bnatiigh,, ar any 9TH
er American citizen. should not have ex-
pressed thrir dissatisfaction. But we stall
not s EEK arguments 10 prove what the
bare facts .vInce and We call upon tn"
i,ien,'s of this man aud the ciiiz Us gene
rally, To bring this act befnre the Govern
ment, srd let il claim III ir attention
the subj is one cei tainly that ought to
demand lis hgh' ST consideration.