Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-09-18

Horrors of Slayciy; or 'Shricks'
for Freedom.

Horrors of Slayciy; or 'Shrieks'
for Freedom.
In Lexington, Missouri, some weeks since,
a slave woman was beng whipped by
man, employed for the purpose, when her
husband, excited by her walls and emoans
rushed to her assistance. The slave whip
per was slightly cut in the arm during the
alteration, and the slave was at once tried
by committee for the offence. After
mock trial the Judge made the following
announcement.
sYour Committee have decided that the
boy shall receive one thousand lashes on
his bare back, two hundred to be admins
tered this evening, (if he can bear it and
the remainder eight hundred from time to
time, as in the judgment of the Committee
his physical nature can bear up under it.
Also, we advise that Committee Of three
physicians be appointed TO superintend the
operation, and three citizens be chosen to
whip him. Also, that the person whose
arm was cut by the slave have the privil-
eye of giving him the last two hundred
lashes." A.
. This monstrous sentence was carried out
in the presence of county Judge and
about four hundred Border Ruffians. The
whipping commenced, but before a dozen
lashes had been administered, the slave fell
to the floor, bleeding and writhing i'll ago
ny. The STAKEHOLDER struck the harder,
and ordered him to~get up. The physi-
clans interfersd and felt his pulse, and de-
.claired that he could never stand such lash
es. Some one cried out :s.s9sS zyet, to
come," and the whipping was resumed
Lash upon lash was inflicted, until one
hundred had been given, when his whole
back, from the top of bis shoulders down
to his very feet, was mass of blood and
mangled flesh.- Lyons Republican,. =,
This inhumane butchery of fellow beings,
by inches, is only one of the many mon
strous wrongs, incident to the system Of
slavery which the Buchanan party are now
endeavoring by all sorts of falsehood and
deception, to fasten upon Kansrs and our
free Territories generally; and which the
Republican party, with its noble standard
bearers, Fremont and Dayton, is endeayor-
ing to prevent The extention or non-eN-
tension of Slavery is now the issue before
people, and the only issue. sa,z= izzd sii
Terrible Disaster at Cape Nav.
5alWe find in the 2 Philadelphia Bulletin of
Sept. 6, the particulars of the burning of
the Mount Vernon Hotel at Cape Island,
watering place on the coast of New Jer-
sey, ON Friday night last, September 9Th.
The hotel was of mammoth size; capable
when completed of accommodating twen-
one hundred guests Its cost was $685.
600, and it was ystoecupied in 1853. 1t
was four stories in height, with four tow
ers at the corners, each five stories IN
height with large tower SIX stories high
in the centre of the front. The entire
structure, both outside and upon the court
yard, was surrounded by wooden piazzas
that extended from the ground to the roof,
with floors at each story. The wing was
q quarter of mile in length, and the front
covered nearly an equal extent of ground,
The dining room, whichwas 425 feet long
and so feet in width, was capable of ac-
commodating 5000 persons. There were
432 rooms in the building. 1t was claimed
that the Mount Vernon Was the largest ho-
tel in the world. .-e 3, .sssssq9 ID
There was a tank in the centre tower of
the wing of the Mount Vernon capable of
holding twenty thousand gallons of water.
The water was forced into it BY means of a
steam engine. 20
The furniture of the hotel belonged to
Messrs. Cain d Foster. 1t was valued at
1000, upon which there was no insur-
ance. The hotel pecuniary loss by thecon-
flagration will not fall shert of $l5O,OOO..
At the time of the fire there were not
guests in the house, the season being over.i
Mr.. Philip Cain Sen., one of the lessees,
IS years of age; his son Andrew, 20 years
old, his daughters Martha and Sarah, 16
and 13, together with Mrs. Atherton, a
widow, 35. years Of age, who acted as.
house-keepers, all perished in the flames.
Philip Cain, Jr, the only remaining one of
the family, escaped by leaping from win
dow of the second story, but badly byrned.
The charred remains of Cain were found
next morning. t-a,alE III .z.Ill-a,lf
Plot against the
Union. In 3o .sI-.r I.,.,
The remarkable and singular intelligenes
given few days since by a Washington
of the New Orleans Dalta,r
to the effect that Gov. Wise, of Virginia,
with other Southern fire-eaters, with the
of General Pierce, and por-
ton of the Cabinet, were preparing for
a comp d etat at Washington in the event
of Col. Fremont's election, is one of the
most curious and important political reye-
lations that has vet been made during this
The correspondent of the New
Orleans Dalta-whose name has been CIV
en- us-is the friend and confidential agent
of Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War, the
author and engineer of the atrocious
policy of the administration in relation to
is, the determination to make
Kansas a Slave State-not by the popular
Tote, untrameled and uncontrolled in any
way, but by the military power of the gov
and at the cannon,s mouth. 1t
seems highly probable from Governor
Wise's willingness to act with this m,vs-
nent that he begins to fear the triumph
IF Fremont, and that his prophecy, in