The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-09-19
Horrible Negro Outrage.
ON the Uniontown Pa, G, MUS of Liberty.

[From the Uniontown Pa, G, MUS of Liberty.1
We have heardof several attempts by negroes
to commit outrages upon white women in
this county, but have said nothing about them,
because we were not furnished with particulars,
but the one we now relate is entirely reliable,
having received the information from Mr.. John
c. Craft himself, who is wealthy and respec-
BILE citizen of Redstone township in this county,
On Friday last, after dinner, Mr.. Craft and his
sons went out into the fields to work, and the
hired girl went to a ncghbor's house, leaving
Mrs. Craft, a lady ffty-ar gears of age, alone
gro man entered the room where Mrs. Craft
was, and violently seized her, declaring his he'll
lish purpose in the plainest and most vulgar
language, and handling her in the most brutal
and savage manner of which he was capable
tearing her clothes nearly Off her cap off, and
the hair out of her head, choked her severely
and bruised her neck and arms very much.
lie finally relaxed his hold with one hand
which gave her partial liberty, and she succeed
in getting hold of a butcher knife and stabbing
him with it in the left hip, which caused him to
release her and she made her escape and ran to
the field to call her husband and sons, who in
company with their ncighbors, hunted the neigh
borhood for several days but could not sue
ceed in capturing the villain or hearing anything
of him. He was rather small negro, very
black, and had very large lips, and was dressed
in a gray roundabout and black hat. He swore
several times that this was their day, and they
intended to make good use of it, and also that
he had been told to go to that house and do just
as he pleased. Hopes arc entertained that he
may be discovered by the wound in the left hip,
as the blood ran upon the floor before he got out
of the house.
A reward of fifty dollars is offered by Mr..
Craft for the apprehension of the scoundrel.
The following is Mr.. Crafts advertisement,
cut from the same paper:
$50 Rcran!-I will pay fifty dollars reward
for the body (dead or alivc) of the negro man
who committed the assault upon my wife in Red
stone township, on Friday, the 10Th ult. He
was a small man, very black, and with very
thick lips, dressed in grey roundabout and
black hat Has wound in the left side or hip,
inflicted with butcher knife by my wife during
the fray. JoHN q. CRAFT.
This negro is probably one of the recent run
aways, or ''freedmen," from the South. They
have been taught by the Abolitionists to expect
the largest liberty in the North, and, according
ly, when they come, they proceed to exercise
their fancied rights in the manner above desert
bed Within the last two years there have
been very frequent outragcs of this kind COM
mitted by negroes, owing to the fact that the
negro population of the North has been greatly
increased within that time. If the Abolition
lists succeed in their scheme of lilcrating and
letting loose upon us the whole four millions of
Southern slaves, these insutfarabc outrages will
become so frequent that we shall he compelled
to declare war of extermnation against the
brutal and beastly blacks, whom their friends,
the Republicans, desire to raise to an equality
with the white race. The white race must and
will defend itself, in whatever manner may be
necessary, against these atrocious results OF
Black Republicanism. IF war OF races be-
comes necessary, in order to protect our wives
and daughters from these hellish ourages, and
our laboring men from the runous competition
of the hortlcs of negroes coming among us, it will
be resorted to, and then-good bye, black man,
and farewell negro equality advocates.
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An old man aged one hundred and five, ma
med Galot, and residing in Paris, recently pre-
sentcd himself at the Ministry of War to re-
ceiyc an allowance from the State. He was
accompanied by his wife, aged one hundred and
three, both enjoying excellent health and not
appearing to have any intention of dying. The
old man had served nine years under Louis
XVI. and in part of the wars of the Republic