Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-10-12

DOrerS, 80, IarNl IlaUuS IoiII Soo w :" z
per month, and found, servants from 81
to $40 per month, and found; cooks tron
$50 to $50.
The Louisiana Vigilance Committee.
The Attapas Register, of the 24,h ult. says
1t was brought to the Governors motto
that three of the victims of the Vigilants Lat
died from the severity Of the brutal whipping
inflicted upon them, that one had been sho
and stabbed, that number of other deaf
bodies had been found in the prairies, ant
that women and children were dying in th
prairies, whose fathers, husbands and brother
have been driver from their homes by til,
Yigilants A sad catalogue of crimes ar'
these, indeed, to be perpetrated in civilizet
community And to cap the climax of au
dacity, it is said that Judge Simon has bee,
notified not to attempt to hold court in tht
Parish of Vermillion. It is with much diff
Guilty that we are able to credit this last, .fol
it seems to usincredible that men of the least
intelligence can be so infatuated as to hop
to he able to trample the courts of the Slut,
under foot, unless they are prepared to cal
the climax of their lawless deeds by the crime
of treason, the highest crime known to the
laws of any State, and to attempt a revolu-
tion Of the government.
The Planters Banner, of the same date,
says:
The Vigilance Committee have publicly
whipped nearly seventy citizens of their par,
ishes in the heat of such passion as is ex-
hibited only by q wild and infuriated mob,
without judge or jury, and have ordered them
to leave the State in FIVE days or suffer the
penalty Of death by the hands of the same
company. And we were credibly informed
that heavy vote of the committee but not q
majority, was given in favor of hanging, instead
of whipping, the proposed company.
But this is not all. DR.. Wagner, citizen
of the parish of Verlnillion, is now in this
place under the most painful and bumiliating
circumstances. He is known by several Of
our citizens, who vouch for him as an upright,
honest man. He is Justice Of the Peace
and Coroner of his parish, and has never been
connected with either the Vigilance Commit
tees or the organized opposers of these COM
mittees.
By request of q citizen Of his parish, he
copied, in plain hand, the resolutions which
we last week published in the Banner, and
eudeavored to execute the law as directed by
the District Attorney and his superior officers.
For this he was forciLly taken from his
boarding house at night, carried quarter Of
mile into the prairie, tied and beaten un-
mercifully with the lashes and even butts OF
their whips across the spine aud ribs, break
inc one of his ribs and cndangering his life by
heavy o!ows across the spine, and then order
ing him to leave the State in five days or
suffer the death penalty at their hands.
At the general whipping Of the opposers of
tie Vigilance Committee in the parish OF
Lafayette, it was reported that one Of tho
party, to avoid being whipped, blew his brains
out. Since that event, it has been discovered
that the death wound was not selfiniicted,
but that be was sho: by an enemy. Three
others have died from the effects Of the whip
ping they received, and one other was at the
point of death at Orclo ,sas few days ago.
Among those who have died, was Q young
man by the name of Singleton, a clerk in
store at Breaux Bridge. He was known to
be an estimable young man, and had nothing
to do with opposing the Vigilan's, he being a
locker on at their proceedings.
The Echo, Of the Parish of Lafayette de-
tends the Vlgilants strenuousty and elaborate
ly. As the principal c~use of the formation
of the Committee, and an incentive to its
violent deeds, itpresents the following picture:
For several years, in that portion OF our
Parish commonly known by the name OF
Cote Gelce, larceny, incendiarism and crime
in all its most hideous forms, stalked in md
day defiance. Recourse to the tribunals OF
the country, though surrounded and aided ny
able officers, had become farce, through the
instrumentality of patented witnesses and
jurors. Cattle were stolen snd driven away
IN flocks from that section Of our country, IN
open day and with impunity; cotton crops
were stolen from the gins; gins we're burnt j
cribs full of corn were reduced to ashes, and
the poor but honest lsborer, who, by the
sweat Of his days labor: had earned tue NOR
row's bread for his family, could not leave his
hoe, his plough or his harness in the field at
night, but that in the morning the same were
missing; stores were burglariously plundered
at unsuspecting hours of night, and the per-
petrators of these deeds still travelled our
highways, and mixed in usual crowds with
bold front, whilst the victim of his depreda'
tions in vain had recourse to law to redress
his wrongs.
The Echo concludes its article thus:
The impression that none but poor men
have been driven from the country, is veiy
erroneous of those who were first driver
away by the regular action Of the Committee
the majority were men Of means; OF those
whom the Vigilance Committees were forced
to expel. we can name some whom we know
to possess considerable property: Great sym
pathy is excited in some parts of the country
in favor OF those who have been lett widowed