Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1849-07-14

Long TO be whipped and driven out OF lie
hinch with his Regulators
appointed to carry it into effect! lie could
hardly contain himself for Joy for now,
extreme his pitiess malignity
might choose to indulge himself in, he had
no fear Of afterclaps OF questioning. The
meeting had been mers form at any rate.
But these 'formalties' are allpowerful
everywhere unsettled and elementary as
was the condition of society here, this ruff
fan leader or ruffians felt the necessity of
acting under their sanction, though he hlm-
self had dictated X. He would and could
have consummatod his purposes without IT;
but the fain, life and conscience within him
by species Of logic peculiar to itself
felt relieved of the gtievous responsibility
OF such crime, IN the sense OF particIpat-
ting with many others. Many a man has
gone TO the devil in crowd, who would
have been horrl6ed at undertaking the
Journey alone.
1t was the third day after this meeting.
Jack, during all these prosecutions, had
deporLed himself with The most stolid in.
difference. Avoiding all intercourse with
even more assiduity than usual, and was in
great measure ignorant Of the inevitable
notorioty he was enjoying. He had heard
something Of the charge with which his
character had been assailed, but attributed
them all to the jealous enmity he had in-
Cured at the shooting match. lie could
understand perfectly how one man could
bate another who had beat him in shooting,
and thought it natural enough; but he
could not understand how that hallcd might
be meanly and despeiutely yindictiye, and
therefore gave himself no uneasiness about
it. He was only anxious that his wife
should not hear and be annoyed by any
of these things, and preserved his usual
cheerfulness OF demeanor.
He had just returned from hunting, and
laying aside his accoutrements, partook Of
a simple meal her neathousewifery had pre-
pared for him; then stretching himself
upon the Buffalo robe on the floor romped
with his two rosycheeked boys, who roll.
Cd over his great body and gamboled aud
screamed IN rlotous joy around him e; but
mother wanted some water from the branch,
and the frolic must be gwen over while
Jack would 90 and bring it. So jumping
up, he left the little folk pouting willully
as they looked after him from the door,
and started. The stream was only about
q hundred yards from the house, and the
path leading to il was through dense high
thicke.. /! was against Jacks religion
ever to leave his house without gun but
the wife, whom he loved above all the uni
verse of sentiment and every thing else,
was in hurry for the water, and the dis
tance was 80 short,-eo he sprang gaily
out with the vessel in his hand, leaving the
rife behind. The water had boon dipped
up, and he was returning along the narrow
path closely bordered by brush, when he
felt light tap on each shoulder, and his
career strangely impeded. lie had just
time 10 perceive that lasso had been
thrown over him, which would confne his
arms. when he saw himself suddenly sur.
rounded, and was rushed upon by a number
ofmen. lie instantly recognized the voice
of ilinch, shouting down with him Drag
him down - as the men who had hold
Of the lasso about his body jerked at is Vi
olently in the effort 10 throw him. All
his tremendous strength was put forth in
one conyulsive effort, which would have
freed him, bu. the Internal moose had fallen
true, and bound his arms. rs it was, he
dragged the six stout men Who held i. of.
ter his frantic bounds nearly to his own
door, before he was prostrated, aud then it
was by heavy blow dealt him over the
head with the butt Of d gun. The last OBJ
jects which met his eyes as he sank down,
were the Mortified faces of his two children
and wife looking on, upon hin
The blow deprived him of his senses for
some time, and when he recovered he found
himself half stripped, and lashed to tree
a short distance from the house-Hinch in
front Of him, with q knotted rope in his
hand, his wife on the ground wailing aud
clinging with piteous entreaty round the
knees, his children weeping by
her, and outside this group circle OF men
with guns in their hands. That fearful a.
Weakening was a new birth to Jack Long
His eye took in everything at ono glance.
4 shudder, like that Of an oak rlfting TO its
core, sprang along his norves, and seemed
to pass out at his feet and through his fin
gers, leaving him as rigid as marble; and
when the blows of the hideous mocking
devil before him fell upon his white flesh,
making it welt III purple ridges, or spout
dull black currents, ho felt them no mere
than the dead Intel Of his door would have
done; aud the agony of that poor wife,
shrilIng frantic echo to every harsh slash
ing sound, seemed TO have no moro effect
upon his ear than it had upon the tree above
them, which shook its green leaves to the
self same cadence they had held yesterday
in tho breeze. His wide open eyes were
glancing calmly and scrutnizingly into the
faces of the men who stood around-those
features are never to be forgotten for
while Hinch lays on the stripes with all his
fIrio,ia strenuth hlasDhemintr as they fall