The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1842-06-23

81 cannsIss gisss this sLsleh q Eh0ssI
hoIrlhls suaciuFs:
They acre hGss ssrn pfoSling ahenl
he ssrees during he night IN rsfi'es o.
lsom 10 10, sometimes slifuded y .
police earg. shd someliGnes on hoEsebsek.
II hey nss aay q those shsy seEs look
ing far n The suesls. lhsy pri - end q
lhsm 81 once. BY getting their Ihroais and
Ihrewing their dead bodies into he cart.
~hieh look ihsn esi oi he cily. u thry
did not meet ihem Ia ma streets. ihey
wouid Izke lhen oui of their houses. 10
Iwo instances respectable prisons we're
killed 10 presence ~ their families, Mhiis
sitting in entries. In olhst cases. shsn
ihsg had 40 cart. they irslled The b"d'es
on he srnnnd wiih The Lssso. alter thslr
horses. In Others. Ihey Plseed ihslf
victims on lhsir horses alive, and took
lhrm about . mile out Of The rity, and
there despsiehed Ihsn and threw tbsir
bodlrs into diIehss and pits. sometimes
leaving them in the open fields. Sams
xere taken alive On the Bauarks rod there
despatched; bu, n. ne that heard VI were
TAKEN 10 lhe pulice.
On the morning Of The 18Th. The heads
Of lwo persons acre found hanging IN The
principal public besf market. having had
blue ribbons drawn through The nos'Ills.
and lhey were continued there until nine
O'cInck.
Neilher The police nor any Of The COZ.
eminent suihonii.s took The lesst notice
of these arts which acre afterwards
commi,led in open day. end on all classes
of clrz,ns. fl0m some Of The stal,hiesl
meIchaI 4 dawn TO The poorest mechanics.
On The 18Th. a respectable lawyer was
killed by ihtm in his own office. siinaitd
in ,he public square. in front 81 The Police
Office. while wiring At his desk, about
2 o'clock ia the afternoon.
Many Of these ssssssinsiions were
acts OF private vengeance; and there Is nN
knowing 10 what lengths hey might have
gone. even among themselves. had u mol
bern knosn that some had bern killed
besides Fsdrralisls. One. a barber, was
killed by rival of HE. and also caIiman,
who had been employed IN The work him
sell. Then. aud not ull then, did the 10.
lice make an eliaIt 10 stay the hand ol
violence. .-...s -... z.. ..z.
Gov. Rosas al length issued decree,
sIecurg surprise snj Indignation. rersnr.
ing The Police. and ordering Them 10 PM
an instant stop To The cour.e uf Persecu.
lion. All The prrp,rty Of the " savage
UniiaTians. however, which is large 10
town and country. had tetn coniscaIed Tor
The use OF The Governmenl.
\ Even The Washington Globe admits
that Mr.. Van Buren,, on retiring from
ufiice, LEI. national debt fnr the Wings
10 pay of amounting 10 % 900.
Keeping this admission ia mind. LEI Us
revert 10 the condition Of the Treasury
when Mr.. Van Buren, sent into Office.
On The 4,h Of M.rrh,. 1897. the day oil
his Inauguration. he found money on
hand, including tie fourth inslsl,nenl oil
the surplus revenue 10 the States. which
was withheld from them and appropriated
10 ihe ordinary uses Of the Treasury,
amounting TO sis. 100000. In addition
IN this, he renewed Irom stuck Of The
Unued States Bank $4,000, 900. making
a total Of SEQ. 600. 900 Now, as be com.
menced with this large sum aud ended
i.h q debt OF s5.GO0.O0O. u is mani
fest that. if he had begun with nothing
(lhe present Administrators began with
millions worse than noihIng.l he would
have left behind national debt Of between
,h,r,y and forty mi honsl III.
| Nj. Van Buien expended about eight
millions . year over snd above The sccru.
ing revenue; slihough the revenue. during
hls term. included the proceeds of the
public lsnl., which are now cut Of. and
lmposi duties ., the rsis Of about forty
psr cent which are now much reduced
by the operation nf The compromise act.
tfihe people sish to know how such an
enormous smnunt Of money vas swal'
lowed up during Mr.. Van Bmen's Adj
minisiFa.iop. they have bu. TO read the
many astounding reports recently made
by the Congressional Committees Of in
vssliga,ion. Louisville Journal.
| FRATERNAL ATTACHMENT.
| Under this CAPTION the Editor Of the
| Rochester Democrai relates the following
interesting incident
| I'VE were casually thrown in com.
pany with an interesting Young man. no.
long since, who had hern wishing hi,
brother in the city ii n. Yurk. fnr the