The true Democrat., 1855-09-11
The Murdered" Americans.


 persons at distance would be induced to be lieve that there had been wholesale saughte of Americans here, who had been fired upor while peaceably walking the streets or attend ing to their duties, by desperate, bloody foreign CTS who had no provocation for such deeds.-- After reading in the Journal how volley afte volley to the extent of several hundred dis charges were fired at defenceless Americans and that the streets were running with the blood, one would be surprised to learn that dur ing the entire riots, both up and down town only four Americans a0ere killed! Yet such i the fact. Their namcs were Graham, Rhodes Hudson and Watkins.
 Watkins was killed on Green street, and wa! the only American killed in the upper part O. the city. We can learn no particulars as to his death or who he was. He was wounded Mon day and carried to the hospital, where he dieo Tuesday night. He was very poor, not ever having change of clothes in which he could be bnried. Rhodes, Graham and Hudson were killed in the Eighth Ward Graham, who was first killed, fell while pursuing three Irishmen (who had been attacked by Americans while walking quietly along the street, and throwing stones at them Rhodes, the next one killed was advised of the intended attack on the Irish for, only short time before it occurred he ad- vlsed some of his friends in that neighborhood to shut up their stores. Hudson, as proved by one ot the Journals own witnesses, was run nlng about m state of wild excitement with a revolver m one hand and bowie knive in the other; and, as we have shown, aud are prepared to prove by reliable witnesses, was murdered by his own friends, who took him to be ar lrshman, and did not discover their mistake until he fell dead.
 | .t oIn- -l,iIl ,f, ,,b; ol, nal has been striving so hard to manufacture g mountain The Americans killed were victims of their own wicked folly, and we have vet tc hear any one thing tending to show that in theil deaths the community has suffered any loss, ol that they ever did anything to make them de serving of public sympathy
 But the public should know the character 0! the men the Journal and its alias are endeavor- ln9 to manufacture into martyrs and they caL then judge II they were ornaments to society or were calculated to do credit to any party with which they acted
 Graham was a man of bad character, who had been guilty of previous riotous conduct. fol which he had to answer in court. Some time since he was arrested for robbing house of ill- fame on the plank-road, and the stolen proper ty was found in his possession. Believing it to have been his first offence, and in consideration of his youth and promises of good behavior for the future, Judge Joyes merely held him to bail in the sum of s 900 for his good behavior.
 R|toles was a man of violent temper, and of such character that his neghbors would hold no intercourse with him. He had been "indef- nltely suspended" (which was tantamount to eXpulslon) from Boone Lodge, I. 0. o. F., for bad conduct. lie treated his wife so badly that she was driven away from him, and for several months previous to his death they had not been hvlns together He refused to pay her physi- clan'S 0llls incurred after their separation, dis owned her as his wife, and only two or three days before his death forbade the physician, who had been called to visit her during sick ness, from longer attending her. But, abused and matreated as she has been with the holy devotion characteristic of her sex, forgetting ali his faults Mrs Rhodes now seeks to remove the cloud that surrounds his memory. She is re- presented as being a worthy lady, and her wo- manly devotion cannot fail to excite admiration.
 Hudson, wEo was murdered by his own friends, and not killed by the Irish, as has been sta'ed, was man of notoriously bld character. We see 1t stated that he was recently released from the Indiana penitentiary, where he had been sentenced to serve a term for stealing, and Ut the time he was killed an indictment for felony Was hanging over .--L0uisvile Co,a- ier
 The iseI.uted Murderer of Helen .yevett.
 The New Haven Palladium gives the follow ing sketch of the life of Richard Parmalee Rob- inson, subsequent to the murder of Helen Jew cit:
 His trial commenced upon the 5th of June and resulted in his uc .uitAl on the 11th Ac- counts of tile v;ctorils of Sam Houston (snce < personal friend of Robuson) then filled the pa- perS, and Robinson reading continually about IeXas resolved to go there immediately after his acquitta which he fully expected. After his discharge he visited his home in Durham in this State, and in few days went to Missis- sippi, and thence shortly to Texas. His name was Richard Parmalee Robinson, his middle name being that of his mothers family. He dropped the Robinson to avoid notoretv on his journey, and the name of Parmalee becoming identified with his subsequent business transac- tlons, he was afterwards unable 10 resume the name of Robinson conveniently, though he wished to do so, and never denied his identity
 The Indians were source of constant an noyance to the settlers, aAd during a skirmish with them he received two shots in his right arm, which disabled it forever From this cir cumstance a foolish report arose that the hand ttat killed Ellen Jewett had withered He was at first trader, then studied law, and for ': long time held the office of clerk of the distrjc court
 At the time of his death he was proprietor o a line oi stages from Nacogdoches to Alexandria La. He had for eight years past contract tc carry the U. 5. mail, and last year got it renew. ed. He Was married, and had one son. Foi a few years past he has annually visited his mother at the North, and last summer he spent several weeks in this city with his wife, recruit. ing from severe illness His father died few years ago. The deatL of his brother, James V. Robinson, who lived with him in Texas, occur red from fever last winter Robinson was at that time given up by his physicians, but recov- cred, though never fully. His sisters are still living at the North.
 Various accounts have been published of his gloomy wanderings and violent death, all o1 which were erroneous He has often been con- founded, also, with person of the same name ill Halifax He has lived for the last eighteen years in Nacogdoches, Texas, where he had a large property. His death occurred in Louisville while on his way to Washington. His health has been feeble for some time. Since his ac- quittal he has endeavorey to lead such life as might atone for the errors of the past, though he has always denied any knowledge of the crime of which he was accused. The constant anathemas of the press have been a source oi great unhappiness to him, but he gave no indi. cations of .hese tortures of guilty conscience of which he is said to be the victim