The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-09-25
Texas News.

the Vigilance Committee found Green
Hcrndon and his servant girl guilty Of
burning that town, and they were hung
on the night of the 25th ult.
The Tyler (Smith county, Reporter, of
the 2Sth ult., says: Fine rains have fall
len at this place during the past week.
New feelings seem to animate the people,
The rains, though too late to affect tho
much injured cotton crop, will do much
good by rcviving vegetation, which Will
improve the condition of our stock before
the winter sets in" -
The Marshall Republican, Of the LIST
inst, says an infantry and cavalry COM
pany have been organized in that place
The same paper says: "The rain seems
to have set in in earnest Day after day
it continues to pour down in torrents. If
it continues thus, VIC will soon have navi-
CATION. With a heavy crop of trlrnips,
and rich fall and winter pastures, our
planters may be able to get along until
another crop is made; although with the
realization of the best prospects, the times
are bound to be hard such times as have
never before been felt in Texas since an
nexation."
The report that man was taken out
of jail at GiImer, in Upshur county, and
hung in the vicinity Of that town, by a
mob, turns out to be true. The hanging
took place on the 18th ultimo. The mans
name was Morrison. He had been lodged
in the Upsher county jail, charged with
stealing negro woman from Mr.. Farris,
near Pittsburg Upshur county. After he
was placed in Jail, seventy-fvc citizens of
the counties of Wood, Hopkins and Titus
made their appearance, called meeting
of the citizens Of Gilmer, and demanded
that Morrison should be delivered up to
them. A.public meeting was convened to
consider its propricty. A. q. Wright was
called to the chair, and r. W. Ford ap-
pointed Secretary. Hon. Jonathan Rus
sell, in behalf of the sevcnty-fvc, cX-
planned the object of the meeting. It is
alleged that Morrison had been engaged
in melting the negroes to insurrection in
the above counties. We presume the
people were satisfied of his guilt for he
was given up and hung. We expect he
was dcpraved, bad man.
The Quitman Herald says of him:
+" Morrison, from what We eau clela,:.~;Ssics ela,:., was
about twcnty-eight years Of age, rather
small in form and of fair complexion. He
was married to his wife in Indiana, but
removed to this State from Kansas, (where
he was participant in the troubles with
the Freesoil party) and first settled in
Montague county. Ho had been living
in Winnsborough in this county for sew
eral months, and was well-digger by
trade. Lately he had abandoned his wife
and had been working in the ncighbor-
hood of Pittsburg in Upshur county. He
confessed decoying off the negro, and also
to stealing watch and other articles of
value, which were found as he directed
The Galveston. Civilian has received a
letter from Capt. w. s. Taylor, who has
command of patrol company, in Mont
gomery county, giving some of the cir
cumstances which led to the suspicion
that property was in danger in that coun-
ty about the lst ult.
The negroes on the plantation of Judge
Goldthwaite and many others have con-
fessed, without compulson, and apart from
each other, that four white men were en-
camped in the San Jacinto bottom pre-
vious to that time, and had frequent in
terviews with the slaves. The white men
did not give their names, and the negroes
all say that they never before saw them
in the country. These men promised a
large number of white men to assist the
negroes, and told them to burn the town
of Montgomery, at night, steal the money
they could; and promised to aid them in
escaping to free territory, or Mexico.
There seems to be doubt that such white
men were concealed in the thicket and
Capt. Taylor thinks their object was to
steal negroes, burn, and plumber, and
leave the impression that abolitionists
were at the bottom of the work. This,
the Civilian thinks, has been the case in
most other counties where those troubles
have been experienced. Kidnappers and
robbers have been the main instigators of
the outrages