Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-09-02
NO. 40

this tiVef, and ~ IN o state OIL G8nstfHGttbh'
A private correspondence from Mexico
IF lie anth July, announces TINT notwith-
standing The reports prevailing about the
settlement Oh lie affair with fueaian.
there Is alinast Il positive certainty That
as yet nothlng has been concluded. The
difficulty in The negotiation, il Is said
grows out OF Tie ridiculous p~tetenfions of
The Yueatanese. II is reported that 6bDO
men are 10 be despatched 10 JaIapa, for
the purpose of forming a camp there.
There Is every ground 10 believe that
thes troops nre destined TO act in The Pc.
nInstIla.-ptr.
Argoc1ots MtHbAR =~Ihe Selma Free
Press Of tho 1pth, contains the particulars
Of one 'fths Mos. Shocking murders Of
which we hays lately head. They ore
rs follows .-&
One If lie most painful duties We
ever performed, is now b"tote us--ln re-
eording The melancholy and tfagieal ,nur-.
der IN this colnty, on the 1lth inst, If
Mrs. Mary Ann Chapman, wife IF Mr..
Joseph Ehsptnhn; md daughter Of The,
late Col, Barnard JohnsHn. The cifeuni
stances attending this most unfortunate
and heart tending occurrence are thus
detailed to us by q friend -
"Dufing her husbands absence from
home she was by some means entIced by
the negroes into d totn.felA, about 100 ~
200 yards from the house, and there mut<
dered by sfs Of tlistt,, by means Of n fopo
thrown over her hehk IN Il running moose!
After being thus sifspsled, she was carried
TO the opposite side Of Tic fisld--dragged
over the fence 40 violently as 10 leave
some of her bnir torn out upon tho rails
and thence taken SOME 20 yards further
into / thickes, ahI tie todY there conceal.
ed under The HstA fnf fotten pieces of All
old log. This occmtea, ii is supposed,
b4twtsn 10 and II o'clock In the morning.
Mr.. Ct thme home ab5uf usual dinhFf
time. and, en1niring ff mfs. Chapman,
told that sht haa gone ID visit some OF tho
neighbofs. He consequently experienced
but little uneaslhsss hfsut her absence.
though thinking i. d little strange, ut The
same time, that she should ride an animal
Of which she bhd ushall5 been afraid. He
awaited her fsthfn until dark, when shs
not appearing, lie bfdetsd his horse and
thought he would ride ovef to Mrs. New.
nan's her annt, whom he lind heard her
say she intended visiting. Not finding
her there, br n hny Of tie neighbour
houses where He vent, he became alarmed
suspsctipg that all was mot right. pfotn.
ring the assisiapts Of his htkrbes search
was made That night. ind b, the following
day-when she vas found In the situation
above stated. The horse he was told she
had ridden, was also fodtfd in n thickes
brains knocked out by n large piece Of
timber.
Mrs. Cfidpfhan was III the 23d year Of
hor age, and has left Il husbap nd, two
brothers and thrse smalf children, tile
youngest an infant Of SIN n%onths) to NOUN
her loss. In this ltreparabls loss, n wide
breach has been made in the bosbn OF her
friends and relatiged, which lime cannot
ehase, nor memory forget
Much excitement, we understand, was
produced by tho CIRCUMSTANCES ;Zand ut
a meeting Of SOME 400 or 500 citizens,
The question wns submitted whether Tho
negroes should DO butnt upon tAe spo. Of
the murder Much to their credit, how.
ever, il was agreed thst tie Law should BIO
permitted to take ito tourse-Aand ths me-.
groes were accordingly committed To Jail
on Tuesday last. TIE principal in tho
tragedy snys that he killed his former
master in another State, ind was run of
10 this"
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