Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-17
A DEATH sCENEIN MISSISSIPPI.

Tue Examiner gives n thrilling account OF the
execution of Jefferson Gray, for shooting Robert
Alternately, in Tontotoc County, Mississippi:
"With a general burrah and shooting, the
crowd marched their victim off Immediately to
the woods. About halfway from the Town of Red
Land they halted at a hickory tree, a, the roadside
tied a rope abound the prisoners neck, and threw
the other end of the rope over a limb of the tree.
They then gave him a few minutes to say his
prayers and speak what he had to say. lie first
called for a drink of water, which being given to
him, he said they had one end Of the rope around
his neck and the other thrown over the limb, but,
as there was a God in heaven and a hell below, he
was innocent of the charge against him.. Some
one then cried out, "IIang him up; he is deter
mined to die with a lie in his mouth. A motion
was made to swing him up, when he cried out to
hold on, and he would confess and tell the whole
truth. A little time was given him. lie then con-
fessed that he shot acknowledgement some difficult
ty had occurred between Alternately, Jones and
himself-that he went 10 Alternately in the field
and attacked him on the subject.
Alternately, having no gin, acknowledged him
self in Gray's ~power-turned his back to walk off,
when he shot him in the back. After he had fired
the gun. Alternately exclaimed, lyon have killed
me Gray, but | am going to heaven" lie further
stated that no one else was implicated in the
murder but himself that his wife was a good
woman, and he hoped she would be taken care
of; that Alternately was a good man, and he be-
lieved was gone to heaven as for himself, he
could see the flames ofhell blazing under his feet
like dried broom sage. He then prayed awhile,
and called for some one TO pray for him.
WhereupOn Major Steel, by request of the COM
pany, prayed a very solemn and fervent prayer
for the spiritual welfare of the prisoner, and for
the sanction of Heaven upon their proceedings
the most respectable order and silence being
observed by the crowd during the prayer. Some
other remarkes were then made by the prisoner,
mingled with prayers, &c, lie then called up the
brothers present OF the man he had murdered, and
desired to shake hands and bid them farewell.
They all--bcing three or four, we believe-came
up and gave him their hands.
Here, or during the intervals of these proceed
ings. a contribution was made up by the company
present of$200, for the benefit of the prisoners
wife and child, who were about TO be left a
widow and orphan. After which the prisoner
was mounted upon q horse, a handkerchief tied
over his eyes, made to stand on his feet upon tho
horse, the rope frightened over the limb, the horse
led out from under, and the unfortunate victim Of
the terrible Vengeance of an outraged community
left to swing and culver between heaven and
earth, az if unfit for either.
THEODORE PARKER ON THE MONEY CRIsIs.-In
a sermon preached by this eccentric reverend in
Boston on Sunday last, the following passage &C.
CURED
SIN the town of Somewhere lives Mr.. Many.
girls. He is a toilsome mechant, his wife a hard
working housekeeper. Once they were poor, now
ruinously rich. They have seven daughters,
whom they train up in utter idleuess. They are
all do-noihings. They spend much money, but
not in works of humanity, not even in elegant
accomplishments. in painting, dancing, music
ana the like, so paying in spiritual beauty what
they take in material means. They never read
nor sing, they are know-nothings, and only walk
in vain show, as useless as a ghO st, and az igno'
rent as the block on which their bonnets are made,
"On the other side of the way, Hon Mr.. Many
boys has seven sons, who are the exact match OF
the merchants daugbters-rich, idle, some of them
dissolute-debauchery coming before their beard
all useless, earning nothing, spending much and
wasting more. Their only labor is to kill time,
and in summer they emigrate from pond to pond,
and from lake to lake, having a fshing-line with a
worm at one end and a fool at The other. These
are the first families in Somewhere. Their idle.
ness is counted pleasure. Six of these sons will
marry, and five perhaps, of Mr.. Manygirls daugh-
tiers. and what families the will found, to live on
the toll of their grandfather's bones, until q COM
mercial crisis, or the wear and tear of time has dis
sipated their fortune, they are forced, reluctantly,
to toll !"
Now, these seven ladies' las the newspapers
call the poor things, so insignificant and HOPELESS
are not only idle, earn nothing, but they consume
much. What a load of finery is on their shoulders
and heads and necks. Mr.. Manygirls hires many
men and women to wait on his daughters idlenees,
and these servants are withdrawn from the pro-
ductiye work of the shop or the farm, and set to
the unproductive work of nursing these seven
great grown-up babies.