Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-05-20
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OUTRAGE IN TExAs.-On the 18th of Feb
ruary, Lieut.. Barton, of the LIST infantry, q.
5. army, was under arrest for one of those
offences which makes the names and deeds
of petty military t~yrants a stencil in the nos
trils. According to a letter written by Jacob
Street, and published in the San Antonio
Texan
about 3 o'clock, P. NJ, on the 9th Feb,
as MI. Joseph Haid was leaving the post of
Fort MckaVett by the mail car for San
Antonio, he stepped into the quarters occupi-
ed by the band of the 1st infantry, to bid
good bye to some of the men, with whom he
had been acquainted, when he was insulted
by Corporal Damme, of the band and on
returning the insult by a blow of his fist on
the corporaPs head he was seized and brought
before Lieut.. Barton, who ordered him to be
taken and tied to a tree in front of the guard
house, and in presence of the passengers in
the mail car and nearly all the soldiers of the
post, the lieutenant ordered the guard to tear
his upper clothing and shirt off him, which
order was accordingly obeyed.
lie then ordered two soldiers with mule
teamster whips to commence fogging him,
which wasdone, giving him a hundred lashes,
laceratlng his back and breast in a dreadful
manner, and then leaving him suspended to
OAS wv WIN VIE DlOUu Ir1CklGu OOWQ MS
legs. This m litary tyrant was himself ar.
med with a whip, and whenever, during the
process of fagellation, the soldiers did not. in
his opinion, strike with their whole strength,
then his whip descended on the heads and
backs of the poor fellows ordered to inflict
this wanton outrage"
THE MURDERER's FATE.-Simon Dillon was
tried in Bowling Green, Indiana, a few days
N on n pro &C o-- -: IT,
years previous, and acquitted for the want
of evidence, to prove his positive guilt. Facts
were given, however, that convinced all who
heard them that he was q murderer. After
his acquital he quaffed deep of the "damming
draught," and left the place for his home,
some miles distant, of which he was the sole
occupant. His %neighbors knew nothing OF
him until one day last week, their attention
was arrested by the blaze of light from his
burning house. They reached the place just
in time to hear the cries of the wretched man
who persisted in the flames. The murderer
had met his fate.
DEATH OF MISS NJ. G. CALHoUN.-We re.
greet to learn the death of this lady
Departed this life, on Saturday, the I'd
inst, at the residence of her brother, Col.
William L.. Calhoun, in Abbeville District,
Martha Cornelia Calhoun, in the 31st wear OF
her age.
"The deceased was the youngest daughter
OF Mrs. Floride Calhoun and the late John
Z. Calhoun. Her death was very sudden anG
unexpected to her friends but she met her
fate with that calm and resigned spirit which
characterizes the death of the true christian,
She was a communicate of the Episcopal
Church, and we cannot doubt is now reali.
zlng the reward OF a well spent life.
A FAMINE.-Great distress is said to pre
vail IN parts of Russell, Va, and adioinin,
counties in Kentucky, owing to the scarcit1
and high price of provisions. There is bn
very little grain or meat in that section +
be purchased at any price and while man,
families are in a destitute condition as 70
CARDS food, some are actually in a state bor
dering on starvation. A public meeting wa
held at jamestown last week, to devise som
plan oy which the necessities of the sufferer
could be relieved, and liberal donations ver
made, with the view of sending to Nashvill
for provisions.
The Rogersyille, Tenn, times saws tbs
thre are many people on Clinch, north
that place, In an actual starving conditio,
and that one family of a woman and ~
children have died from starvation. This
terrible in this hitherto plentiful country h,
we fear the end is not yet. There never ",
such scarcity since the country was settle
both for man and beast. Would it not he W.
to adopt the admonitions of a corresponde
aweek or two ago, asking our merchants q
J to send off produce for a time ? The sqpp
is not greater than the demand.