The Winchester appeal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1856-1856, 1856-04-05

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the truth following recital we have
the privilege Of referring those who
feel interested to two OF our most re.
spectacle and reliable merchants who
were passengers on the boat at the
time. From their statement we learn
that the bill offered by Jones to the bar.
Der was not counterfeit bill, but was
$40 on the bank of West Tennessee.
Mr.. Stevens never having seen the
bill, told The barber not to take it, and
he was accordingly paid in other mon
cy. After settling with the barber,
Jones walked forward, and took seat
near the stove. In the midst of gen.
eral conversation that sprung up in re.
gard TO drinking, Stevens made use of
the expression that liquor would de-
grade any man, and said "tor an ex.
ample. look at that young man" point
ing to Jones. A few moments after
he walked into the Office, where he was
followed by Jones, who rendered him
in payment for his passage, two bills
on the bank Of West Tennessee. Cap
tain Stevens remarked that he would
not take such money; that he believed
it to be either counterfeit or spurious,
and that Jones knew it. Upon this
Jones called him a damned liar and
scoundrel, and continued his abuse I'M
til Stevens put him out of the Office
and social hall, when he was shot.
The story published yesterday morn.
ing corroboratcs what followed until
he was taken below when there is
this difference. He was taken abaft
the shaft, and dashed to a stancheon.
The rope was passed round his abdo-
men, and wound around him, even to
his neck, where it was drawn very
tight. 1t was then carried round his
head and mouth and drawn so tight
as to stretch his mouth very much and
cut the corners until they blcd.--
While in this position, a man who
said he had lived in California and had
help hang fifty men, and that he had
hing them as low as for five dollars,
remarked that if they would give him
chance he would dispose Of Jones
for great deal less. In the mean
time lady went below and seeing
Jones in his painfulposition exclaimed,
for Gods sake gentlemen, do not
treat a human being in this manner
At her solicitation he was released
from his torturing position, and firmly
dashed to an arm chair, and the chair
made fast to the stancheon. He told
them that he had done wrong, and
asked themt to put him in jailand let him
stand his trial, and that if the law
hung him, he was willing to die. He
was then left in this secure position,
with the intention on the part of the
officers to deliver him up to the hands
OF the officers Of justice at Hickman.
Aft a short time the man who had
boosted Of having hung SO many in,
California, and friend Of his were
missed, and a few minutes atterward
n splash heard. On going below it
was aScertained that the ropes that
that bomb the chair to the stancheon
had been cut, and Jones and the chair
We're both missing. His fate can be
easily surmised There is also a diff
ference in the report as regards the
reply Of he officers at Carlo, when re-
quested TO a him into custody, after
learning the facts Of the case they an
swered thai if gwen up to them they
would hang him to The nearest tree.
The officers ofthe boat upon thisrefus.
ed to give him up to them.
We have now given part nSanber
two Of the story, Take it all in all
its bearings it has been a horrid trag-
edy from beginning to end, and the
whole can be traced to the cause of
liquor. There are few men who, un-
der the same circumstances, could
have kept cool, or allayed the excite.
ment that such an event would have
naturally produced. We can only
pity the poor unfortunate wretch who
thus brought destruction upon him,
and can, in charity ascfibe his act to
that curse of the human race--liquor.
Mr.. FLLMoRE,--The Kingston Ten.
Gazette, a democratic paper, in its
impression Of the 18th inst, speaks of
Mr.. Fillmore as follows:
With reference to Mr. Fillmore as a
man, it is undoubtedly the best nomi.
nation the party could have made
While he occupied the Presidential
chair he hre,c off all sectionalism and
administered the government in accord
ance with The provisions and spirit of
the constitution, dealing out equal hand
ed justice TO the North and to the South.
lie exhibited his nationality by a warm
and manly support of the Compromise