Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-12-05

a few thousand dollars. The reluctance to re-
deem their promises upon presentation, and
only in the neD silrer coin, which is virtually
a deprecated coin, is the main reason Illinois
will not receive the notes of her own banks in
payment of their grain and provisions sold in
our market, but must have gold or Missouri
bank notes.
DIABoLIcAI OUTRAGE NEAR MAYsv11LE-RApI
AND LYNcuIHG.-0ne of the most horrible out
RACES of the kind was committed in the town
of Manchester, Adams county, o.. about twelve
miles above this city, on Sunday morning last at
2 o'clock. A free negro named Bill effected his
ientrance into the house of Mr. Morris (who
was at the time absent in CincinnatD by lifting
out the sash of a back-room window He
CROPPED his way in the dark to the next ROOM
where Mrs. Morris was asleep, and reached her
bedside before she awoke. She enquired fthe
INTRUDER was her husband, but upon the negros
lreplying yes, she screamed and sprang out Of
bed Bill caught at her throat, and missing it,
his thumb entered her mouth, which he clutch
led so violently as TO fracture her jawbone; he
then choked her until she was insensible, and
after ettccting his hellish purpose of rayishing
her, escaped from the house, went home and to
bed with his own colored wife His wife inqui-
ring why he painted SO remarkably, he tried to
divert her attention by saying that he had run
all the way from the river, where he had been
hard at work pumping out flat boat
ghTS. motifs screams having alarmed the neigh
b9is. they rushed In quick succession, and learn
ed of the outrage by the appearance of things.
Mrs NJ. S tongue and throat Were so swollen and
she was so far exhausted, that she could not
speak until she received medical assistance She
then gave those present to understand that she
Ibid not know who the villain was, but in the
struggle she had scratched his face in such
manner as to certainly identify him. The cir
Ecumstances pointed out the negro, and the
fact that he had twice before committed or at
tempted rape, once in Ironton and afterwards in
Rockville Ohio, determined the exaspcrated
crowd to go Immediately to his house. They
found him in bed, with his face badly scratched
and bleeding, just as described by his VICTIM
They took him forthwith, before day, to Man
chester Island, an island in the Ohio river, Just
above the towns where they hung him up to
tree, but the rope breaking he revived He then
been hung up again but for the interposition of
some of the less excited in the crowd. whose
counsel prevailed, and the negro was according
ly taken 70 West Union, lodged in jail, and
chained to prevent his escape.
During Monday night, Mr.. Morris reached
home from Cincinnati. On Tuesday morning,
a crowd of 80 men, with John Dougherty, "a
brother of Mrs. Norris at their head left Man
chester for the county seat, where they broke
iopen the Jail, bursting the locks with hammers
/ and axes. On reaching the room where the
negro was, Daugherty with one blow from nm
cleave the negroes skull but the arm of the infu-
rated u.an was caught, and the negro saved for
n different death.
At the time, the Adams county Court of Com
mon Pleas was in session, attended by probably
1000 persons, who We're deeply interested in the
trial of the Irishnan Migan, who murdered
old man Senter and his wife about year ago
The mob spirit spread so rapidly that it was
proposed to the Manchester crowd to wait a lit
tie, and if the Court should not sentence Mill
gan to be hung, the mob would then hang both
together. But the Manchester crowd were in
tent upon completing the work they had un-
dertaken, and being Joined by several hundred
men, took the negro Bill back to Manchester,
and over to the Island, where they hung him
upon the limb of a tree some % feet high. On
his way from jail, and even under his gallows.
the negro cursed and swore terribly and vowed
if he should get off alivehe would kill Mrs Nor
ris at sight After hanging until he was dead.
his body was cut down, and, with the chain
still fastened to him, deposited in n box, and
buried on the Island
At West Union the jailor was absent when
the attack was made on the Jail But the Sher.
id of the county rushed into the jail with gun in
hand, and attempted to prevent the resene OF
the prisoner. The gun was wrenched from him
and his power dehed.
The law tof Ohio Furnishes rape by cenffne-
ment in the penitentiary for twenty-one years.
In Kentucky, rape BY negro upon n white yo.
ion of some we have seen from the neighbor.
hood, that if the law Of Ohio had punished with
e death, the mob would not have taken the negro
ron the Jail TO hang him the second time
Mrs. Morris is lying very III, and it is quite
doubtful whether she viii recover from the bru.
tai treatment she received at the negro's hands
The Negroes own wife was so shocked with the
horror of his crime, and his repeated yillainies
ofthe kind, that she did not even beg the crowd
to spare his life afagssiiis KY. Eagle 2sh
Loss OF THE ScHoosER CnERoxKr-Fr Pas
sESeEss AID ALL TIE GREw DRowSED-Ws
learn from the Captain of the Jones. which mr.
rived yesterday, that during the blow of Frida,
last, the schooner Cherokee. belonging to E. !
j, Garfield of thiscity, went down with all hand.
lon board, off Freescil. ON the East side of In,
lake. She hadon board five passengers and th,
crew, consisting of nine persons Including tn,
Captain The body OF the Captain was washe.
ashore near Freesoil The Cherokee was loaded
with lumber and was on her way from Mainsts,
J ito this port There was no insurance on her