Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-01-28
Results Of the "Peculiar Iusti.
tutiOns,' as taken from one
DAVIS EXchaugea.

Results OF the ssPeculiar Iusti-
days Exchanges.
The advocates of the system of inyolun-
tary servitude constantly claim that the
Slave States are more free from heinous
crime than the Free States. Clippings
from one days exchanges, furnish some
proof of the contrary of this assertion. A
correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
gives the following:
LOUISVILLE, Jan. %
have Just learned of terrible tragedy
which occurred in Marion county, Kentucky,
on Thursday yesterday
Mr.. Van Cleave, a wealthy farmer liv-
ing in that county, hogged his negro wo-
man severely when the husband of the
women (also slave belonging to Mr.. Van
Cleave) became very angry, and used in
sulting language to bis master, whereupou
the master ordered him to be tied up and
whipped also, but while they were taking
of his coat to tie him be drew a butcher
knife and killed Henry Van Cleave, the
son, on the spot, and mortally wounded
Daniel Thompson.
The negro has been arrested, and is now
in Jail. The officers had great difficulty in
restraining, the people from taking the
negro and hanging him on the spot
The same paper gives q detailed account
of the murder of little girl of six years
at Flowerence, about twenty miles FROM
Covington, Kentucky. The daughter of
Mr.. Bryant was found in well with her
head crushed, her skull emptied of brains
which were scattered around the top of tho
well. A negro slave of Mr.. Marcus was
suspected of the crime and he finally con-
fessed that he first committed q beastly
outrage upon the child, then beat out her
brains, throwing her body into the WE'LL
The people proposed to hang the negro on
the spot, but were at length induced to
hand him over to the law.
The st. Louis News gives case of slave
fiogging in that city which in barbarity
seldom has parallel.
A party of ladies was assembled in the
lecture room of Tabernacle Church. Their
attention was attracted by the sound of
blows which the ladies concluded, were
caused by some one whipping horse.-
The blows were very violent, and continu-
for two hours without intermission from
the basement of Peters house, next door
to the church. The witnesses named went
to the fence, and looked through the
cracks, and there saw Mrs. Peters Ia large
powerful woman,) with a raw-hide in her
hand, lashing naked girl, (slaye girD
whose hands were tied behind her, and
who was lying upon the ground. Mrs.
Peters foot was upon the girls neck, and
she was laying on the lashes with all her
force. She then grew tired, and called her
husbands brother, John Peters, and by her
directions, he whipped the girl in the same
manner for nearly two hours. Tho wit
nesses stated that the stripes on her back
could not be counted, they were so mauy,
and that her back and shoulders were like
mass of raw flesh. The blood was stream
ing from her. She uttered no sound but
low moan, and they supposed from that
circumstance that she was gagged. After
the whipping ceased, John Peters stopped
down to unite the girls hands, and had
great difficulty in doing so, because they
were tied so tightly. The girl did not rise
instantly, and appeared to be numbed.-
Mr.. Peters commenced lashing her again,
to make her rise quicker.
A slave in Gates county, N. c., murder
ed widow lady, Mrs. Holland, then pur-
sued Mr.. Jones and killed him, and af-
ter being shot at twice and hit, and pur-
sued by an armed party into swamp, he
was overpowered and shot. The whole
country was alarmed and people turned out
in great numbers, and rallied for mutual de-
fence, supposing that an insurection had
broken OUT Cleveland Herald