The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-09
California;.

Inc STATE oil society IN CAtlIOrnia seems from
the following to be growing orse. This is the
region from which slavery was excluded, for
the sake of law, order morality, industry, pro-
gress and freedom. In contempt ofall the grave
SELECTIONS that were made, the Immediate adj
mission Of California rs a State was insisted on,
to protect her from the horrors of anarchy
And behold, she is worse off than before. Is
there any pretence of the late Compromise
measures, which the events Of the brief period
since have not utterly crushed!
CASES OF LYNCH LAw.-The Sacramento
Transcript gives the following account of a
murder, and the prompt lynching OF the perpe-
tratDr:
SIr B. informs US that he left Weavervle on
Saturday week, crossing the dividing ridge OF
the western slope. When Mr. B. arrived at
Shasta City or Readings Springs, he there
learned the particulars of a most horrid murder
that had been committed the night before, about
ten miles from that place. 1t appears that two
persons who were in the same mess, had some
slight dispute when one of them seized gun
and shot the other, the ball taking effect in the
left breast, from which he died instantly When
shot, the victim made leap, the blood gushed
forth and he fell dead. As soon as the deed had
been committed, the murderer started to rum
but he was pursued and captured without much
difficulty.
The assembage took him at once to the
Springs, ten miles distant. A court Of the peo-
pie was formed on Sunday Judge appointed
witnesses examined-and the murderer show
ed all the clemency he could have obtained in
legal tribunal The jury were cut but few
minutes, when they returned with verdict of
guilty, and he was sentenced to be hung that
afternoon at O'Clock.
The fellow acknowledged his guilt and seemed
to have no regret at the termination of things
He sat down to dinner, eat a very hearty meal
and even called for and partook of desert
The hour of execution having arrived, he was
taken to the place designated, where u raised
platform had been constructed. The rope was
placed around his neck, and he was called
on to address the crowd if he had anything TO
say.
The murderer simply responded by saying that
it was the result Of drinking, and warned Others
from partaking too freely; that the only regret
was that he did not have time to writ to his wife,
and with sudden leap he raised himself, the
platform fell, his neck broke, and he was ushered
into eternity. As he did not wait for the plat
form to be knocked from under him, ne may be
said to have been his own executioner.
LYxcHISG is stated that fellow who has
81 400 deposited with an auctioneer in this city,
was recently taken up at rancho on the Mokul-
umne for stealing stock. Judge Lynch pre-
sided, and the jury were equally divided-six
for whipping and dix for hanging him. Finally,
they agreed to whip him, and lle was informed
that il they ever found him in the State after.
ward, they would hang him.
A correspondent of the Placer Times writes
as follows from the town of Eliza:
"Tbe next day after my arrival here, went
to the Butte mountains when we whipped two
men fifty lhsbes each with a five-ta cat, for
horse-stealing. After the whipping, they had
twenty-four hours to leave the country in. One
of them left, the other went to his hut and had
some unnecessary talk next night we went to
his hut to hang him, but he had the wisdom TO
leave before we got there. la two or three days
after that, | witnessed another interesting scene
they caught one Of the accomplces of the last
mentioned hombrc, and took him to the bank of
the river to hang him. He made three leaps
and jumped into the strcnm--25 pistols were
discharged without effect and the prisoner was
about to escape, when the owner of the only
rife on the ground observed very coolly, that il
the company wished, he could kill the man he
WAN W iic thc Jail tHttitu Vie baCk
of the mans head, and he sunk dead. Three
days ago, while ] was in the mountains they
hang two Chinese for killing whitepeople. Yes.
terday another man was hung for murder, and /,
man logged for stealing money. Curious times
will yet be seen in this country; thief has q
small chance. ! have seen paper with SOC
names on it, and any one, and all Of those men
AT moments warning, mount their horses and
90 where the complainant states, and if they are
satisfied that the accused is guilty, they are cure
to hang him to the first tree think people
will get honest here in due time. Judge Lyncb's
officers are to he found in almost every tent, and
when some id thief advocates the cause OF
any Of their men who have been hung have
seen pistols drawn in a second, and the men
told il they did not like it that their lends had
been hung, that they would shoot them d---n
Quick land they will do it, too. There is no
doubt but that every man caught and proven 20
he thief, will be hung Immediately"
FrRE-The Calhoun saw mill, at George.
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