Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-12-06

neck, could only gasp out, am weak, Doc
tor; I can scarcely stand.n Whilst he stood
in this position the savages were striking into
his back and neck with their cntlasses, and
! DR.. Gerard could feel the rebound of the
blows. At.last the unfortunate gentleman
relaxed his hold of, the. Doctor, and sunk
down literally hacked to pieces. !.
While the sGustos and other gentlemen
were in the Court House his Honor displayed
the utmost abncgation, of self and only
thought ofsthe safety of those. with him.
Addressing Mr.. Price, he said, You are q
man of their own color, will you undertake
to address them; asking what it is they want? /?
If IL is my life they wantI am prepared to
yield it up and save you all" Mr.. Price OBJ
served thathe feared the mob would have no
consideration for him. The Baron then said,
";Lct us all 90 out then, Or l will 60 OUT
balls and brickbats showering thick at the
time. Mr.. Hitehins dissuaded them, -obsery-
ing that it would be certain destru ction, for
each one who ever appeared at.the windows
was at once made 2 mark for twenty bullets.
The Rev. Mr. Harschel, knocked down on
his knees, in vain sued for mercy and offered
ransom; the. blows fell thick upon him until
he was laid low and aoAile the heart get beat
a saUage cut etlt has tongue and held it up in
triumph. , Cheer after cheer rang through tho
fiendish bandafter each new act of atrocity.
(, MIR. Cooke, sSthe Clerk of the Peace,, was
pushed understhe floor BY q faithful black
servant boy, and remained the whole night
in mud puddle undor it formed by hogs,
Lying there, be could Just SEQ through lie
.intervals,of thspillars the feet of the rioters
as they went b, and hear eof them boast
that they had chopped him to pieces. His
unfortunate brother had probably been mis-
taken for him, and he owed his safety to that
circumstance, which, prevented further search
after him.. T.ha next morning his faithful
preseryer end companion watched the, ,oppor-
tunity and led, him to the woods, where he
remained conceded until the military arrived
from Kingston, 60 ~. e.,-.-sSe ,,:e 80.
DR.. Major was; iled over the railing at Mr..
Marchalleck's, and that gentleman summoned
by the rebels TO come, and take charge of
him and lock him up out OF harms way. 4
! While Mr.. Cooke lay concealed under, the
house he heard Sdistinctly each dreadful act
Of ofmurier, and could tell the victim by the ex.a :
clamations of the mob. He heard the dying
groans of Mr.. Price, who lay with his entrails
protruding, Aapag been ripped open By ~o-
men. .sae RI
The Custos g0t hold of a sword and sold
his life dearly. The mob jointed his fingers,
leaving them hai,giag by some small teguanentS,
and laughingly da,l9led tlsm about aciM The
jeer, f" No,o you icrte no more lies to tile Queen
against u.s."
Mr.. Brooks Cooke, being felled by blow,
rolled down the Court House hill at the back,
and when he recovered his senses, found that
he owed his life to the care Of black man,
who had checked his fall, and stood watching
over and protecting him..
The rebels took every article out Of Mr..
Alberga's residence, not leaving his family
even stitch {of clothing. They also went
roundaeSyfng aof tribut tions, 'aone5-g md
g00ds from tIi5 sCores the boy
I cannot, in single letter, trace the insur-
rection through the different towrsand settle.
ments of the island. A perfect reign of ter
ror prevailed everywhere. The most dread
ful rumors were everywhere prevalent. The
work of plumber and murder went on for sey.
eral days, almost without hindranee, for there
was no concert of action among the whites,
and it was impossible for the inhabitants Of
one village to communicate with those of an
other, the roads being everywhere held and
guarded by the insurgents. But On the 18th
the troops sent for by the Baron arrived from
Spanish Town at Morant Bay. Immediate
measures were taken to put down the insur-
gents.
From Morant Bay the troops were march
ed toward the interior, where the rebel forces
were assembled. OF course they had no
regular organization, nothing that could be
called an army; but throughout the parish
they, had established camps, where they
gathered stores Of provisions plundered from
the whites. Their war cry was death to the
white man, and the atrocities they practiccd
upon the defcnceless citizens were beyond all
description. -
The presence of the military put an end
to those outrages, and seemed to quell the
spirit of the rebels. The first insurgent
taken prisoners were tried and Immediately
hung. These summary measures had the
effect to induce great numbers to throw away
their arms and surrender themselves, at the
same time asking for protection against the
military and their own friends. Most of them
wersat once handed over to the magistrates.
Wherever the troops marched the rebels dis
persed at once, and arresting, and Furnishing,
rather than fighting, became the duty of the
military.
George Gordon, mulatto man, Paul and
Moses Boyle, negroes, old Buie the Captain
General" and some eight or ten Of the other
master spirits Of the insurrection, were the
first to suffer death, by hanging, in expatia-
ton of their hellsh crime.
/. The Jamica Standard, Of the Goth Oct.,
saws 1t may not be altogether uninterest-
inc to your readers to know that slightly
over one thousand datk-skinned rebels have
been hanged and shot in the parish Of st.
Thomas in the East up to date; and it is not
at all unlikely that ere the different courts
martial close their sittings there. will, be far
over two thousand who will have paid the
penalty Of their vile attempt to e1terminate
the white races OF. this island. And it is even
said by some tina. ten thousand Of the insur-
rectonists will suffer death before the Court
closes its sessions. ..-.,.,-...
There is one continual scene of hanging
day by day, and it becomes a matter for con-.
sideration, whether the burial of so many peo.
pie, packed, as heard . blue jacket say,
d like sardines," in the town, is not likely to
produce some serious epidemic here-already