The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-10-16
suspicies. Characters i'm the South. /.

nv DehhettsViito, D u, on the 10th inst. d
father and son, named Hitchings, the father n
Engiishman, were arrested on suspicion q,
| being incendiary characters. The populace
! was about to hang them to the pearest tree
but it was decreed hest to try them bv a iury
| of citizens. In their truIks was found AN In .
voice from the Hartford Firearms COMPANY
for $500 worth OF guns, revolvers. bowie
knives, cartridges, caps, &c, which had been
| shipped TO Floral College, N. O., by express -
Another invoice from the same house for 5000
worth of pistols and holsters was found
These had been sent by express to Whining.
| ton, N. c., and thence to Cheraw, s. q. A
correspondent Of the Charleston Mercorv
writing from Cheraw, says:
The two Hitchings are father and son-the
former between fifty and sixty years of age
the latter, perhaps. about twenty. The elder
Hilchings is an Engiishman, was natnraIizsd
In 1888, and has lived mostly in the StaIs ot
New York. He came to Reh1n, in Monigome
county, in North Carolina, about 1856, where
he has resided since. He was there al and he :
fore the date of some of the above letter. and
1t is known that when he first came. and aver
since, he has lived in great poverty. His con.
duct was SO bad at Pekin, as a negro trader
that he was severely whipped by the citlzens
OF that place some eighteen mon tbs or two
years ago. After that he left his family al that
place and put up a small wagon makers sbop
at Floral College, and at the time of his ar
rest was about putting up another little shon
OF the same kind, at Clio. in Marlboro, lis
trict, in this Safe. 1t is well known. both At
Pekin and at Floral College, that he HAD no
ostehsloie means to pay tor any part of these
invoices. The lot of arms and ammunitiou
SHIPPED to this place has not come to hand
Upon going to our post.office I found a letter
10 MS address from the Agent of Adams Ex.
press company at Florence. notifying hun
tnat there were goods for him in the Office
there; but the express charges are too small
10 cover sucn a Consignment as the invoice
you'd imply. The package or packages at
florence nave been sent for, and will BE-
brought mere Tomorrow night
The oply explanation Hitchinps offers fs
that ne mas d son whose occu patton is ~ escort
em'grah Is from st. Louis, or some other point
Ia Mtssohrl, across the plains to Sante Fe,
New Mexico, &c, and that the arms and am.
munition were intended for him. A strauge
and improbable story, when it is remembered
that II Inc goods were here, perhaps the short
est ana most expeditions route would be to
snip tnem back, by New York, to ST. Louis
The old man assumes to be as deaf and as stoi
cal as old John Brown, bat his son sho VS.
great concern, and appears to be in great trep-
ioalon. IL was gratifying to note the cool
uGd determined purpose OF those charge with
the Investigation, to act prudentiy but firmly
in the matter, and not hastily aud without due
deliberation. Whatever the re- ults arrived at
may De, Justice VIII be done, though the law
bs for time dethroned. Clio Is near he spot
marked in Marlboro District on old John
Browns maps. This is a significant fact
An aoolIti0nist named Bagiey, near Union
town, Perry county, Ala, was appreaended on
the night Of the 1st of October, on a public
road, and whipped by individuals in disguise,
for having uttered the following language in
the presence of a respectable citizen:
'1f the Union is dissolved and a civil war
ensues will be damned if do not 90 North.
shoulder my musket and fight against the
South; there is no one here that 1 care a damn
about any way, except my wife, and can very
conveniently carry her with me. MY folks
are all North, and will be damned to h-lIif
l don't fight against the South as long as there
Is any necessity tor it.''
Afterwards public meeting of the citizens
Of Uniontowu was held, and the chastisement
Of Bagley cordially approved.